Tomorrow’s Ash
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0.1.0

Ashmorrow wakes

The realm exists, the site is live, and the classless system is inert on purpose.

The first thing to say about this release is what it does not do: it does not make the realm classless. Not yet.

What it does is establish that the realm exists, that it builds from a public repository, and that the system which will make it different has a place to live.

Realm

  • Ashmorrow is named and registered. The realm runs on AzerothCore for the 3.3.5a client, build 12340, pinned to an exact upstream commit rather than tracking a moving branch.
  • The classless module is installed and inert. It compiles, registers itself, and returns early from every hook while Classless.Enable is 0. Dropping it into a stock realm changes nothing — which is exactly what makes it safe to develop against upstream.
  • No modifications to the server's source code. Phase 0 research established that spell ownership is not class-gated in the core at all, so the whole system can be built as a module plus data.

Website

  • This site. Landing page, realm status, armory, rankings, wiki and patch notes.
  • Account registration and sign-in, writing directly to the realm's login server using the same SRP6 credential format the game client uses. No reversible copy of your password is stored anywhere.
  • Password reset by single-use email link, with rate limiting on every account endpoint.
  • The armory reads builds, not classes. Where a normal armory prints "Fire Mage", this one shows the distribution of skill points across ability trees and derives a title from its shape. Until the classless system is live there are no points to show, so it says so rather than inventing them.
  • Realm status probes the login and world servers directly over TCP, so it can tell the difference between "the realm is down" and "the realm is restarting".

Known limitations

  • The classless system is not live. Ashmorrow currently plays as a standard realm.
  • The armory's build display has nothing to display yet, and says so on every character page.
  • The "deepest builds" ranking is empty for the same reason.
  • The chassis question — the hidden class underneath every character — is unresolved, and it is the biggest open design decision on the project.

Next

Phase 1: a broker NPC that teaches deliberately off-class abilities, and a careful inventory of what each one drags in with it. A warrior casting Fireball is a five-minute change. Knowing exactly which spells that change quietly brings along is the actual work.