Avalon is a product of the meeting of many minds, and their works. Below is a list of some of the inspirational characters who have formed the world of Avalon.
Avalon began as a precursor multi-user game Lands of the Crown (LotC) and was given the name AVALON in October 1989 prior to the Adventure 1989 exhibition. Its gamecode and gamelanguage were conceived and written by Yehuda M Simmons, initially on the BBC Micro Model B, then the Acorn Archimedes A440 and subsequently ported onto Debian Linux in C. It joined the internet in 1994 under the avalon..co..uk and avalon-rpg.com domains based in London. It relocated from London to the United States in 1995 and has been situated by the MAE-EAST hub in Vienna VA for over 20 years.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EARLY YEARS:
David Lucas: 'Meeting Place, the first puzzles, Vantage Point, Morton's Peak, Pool of Life; the original core Avalon locations, quests thereabouts'.
Daniel James: 'Goblin Town, Pangyron, quests in Greeny's Edge, Oakwood End, Astrea's Delta, manor house, the Long Night, Alessandrian locations, Thakria inner east bank, Greenwood forest, Ilmarael ruins, gold puzzles, dozens of abilities/skill ideas, CCC descriptions, quests, and Original Hostplay House!'.
Nich Moore: 'Northwest villages, original central plains and villages, Kristanisti, Pilgrim's Rest, Grey Forest, Abbotswood, eastern villages, landscape across Avalon, 100s of locationverboses'.
Wing Guy and Wing Yu Tang: 'Candescence, many abilities across a dozen skills'.
James McDonnell: 'Trekker's Tower, City of Gabbad, Catacombs. Yabbabadon Quest'.
Pat O'Brien: 'Growing tree descriptions plus fruits, seeds, flora and fauna'.
Peter Amachree: 'Gaurthang, evil quests'.
Shane Connolly: 'Ranger original guild, the Grove Tavern'.
Jae Hicks: 'earliest dreams, Ge Pike and surrounding locations'.
Nostradamus: 'Forest of G'harran, main core curses and blessings in Fatalism'.
Guido Cianfanelli: 'Parrius locations as a city inc Hellespont, Chapman Square'.
Mathew A Toth: 'Novicehood, Chapters, Charming, Faer/Realm Battles, Fanamar, Specs, Rites, Crafting skills, Minas Curunir, Sirens, Assassins, shapeforms, artifacts a-plenty'.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for CONTRIBUTIONS in and out of Avalon:
Michael Gladstone (Brucos), Timothy Kenny (Zheredan), Hani Suleiman (Orthwein), David Austin (Apollo), Julian Davey (Fiorella/Maeve), Malcolm Woods (Galahad/Castigere), David Croft (Elmar/Aldaron II), Peter and Sandy Hrouda (Anskiere and Firian), Mark Ellis (Throthgar), David Ford (Conan), Simon Michaels (Sarik), Neil Mosafi (Belvadere), Sally Robertson (Belit), David Hobson (Sirrus/Magellan), Simon Sacerdoti (Helkarakse/Mephisto I), Michael Jarvis (Brucos), Dave Newell (Garet Jax), John Cunningham (Fangthane/Anarchos), Adam Goodfellow (Elatar), Jon Baber (Archy), Emilio Panayis (Zollrender), Jonathan Picazo (Belgarath/Sebastian), James Russell (Kazaroth), Graham Ross (Urquoth)...
... Ian M Page (Falstaff), Allan Goacher (Gniblik), Paul Fielding (Mephisto II), Paul Clifford (Aragorn), Nic Alderton (Stilton/Morpheus), James Weedon (Jhadin), Eleanor Hettick (Orielle), Lauren Miller (Maud), Sam Kendall (Elmaethor), Brian Rice (Elmak), Joe Patti (Proteus), Charles Tillery (Tukar), Jae Hicks (Gaea/Marianina), Shiela Thomas (Malwen), Mark Storrie (Isildur), Alexis Namdar (Azrael), Peter Evans (Zaphod), Philip Cordrey (Pippin).
By Avalon character on request or because permission has yet to be sought and good manners is free: Tukar for the Battleisle verboses and Knightswood expansion locations; Fatalus for the Oakwood's End Fortress; Katie for the livestock breeding, birthing and many farm animals; Thaelyn for battleisle standing stones, Mt Sapience exterior, shrines and construction verboses; Satsuki for wolf-form and transformation and Brigands Guild.
Finally honourarable mention to Astrea, goddess of wisdom, though we never knew your name...
If, by some dreadful oversight, your name is missing from this list then alert us and we will rectify the omission.
Curious about who did what? Check out HELP WHODID for a little insight.
