Links

Disclaimer: information found on the sites below may be out of date; many sites are of historic/nostalgic interest only. (But not all. Determining which are still useful is left as an exercise for the reader.)

Original source: The Ultimate AA Link Page

Getting started

• The Ancient Anguish website
• To connect, enter ancient.anguish.org port 2222 into your favourite mud/telnet client.
• The Java telnet applet may help - but on the long run, a proper mud client is better.
• Thematic setting of AA
• Catalog's Newbie Guide (updated 2012)
• AA Newbie Research (fails to load 07/2010) (On Archive.org)
• The Newbie's Guide to Ancient Anguish by Celyia (404 07/2010) (On Archive.org)

Tools

• Who's on at the moment
• Finger a player
• How do you rank?
• Read the current AA boards
• Search the board archives
• Vote for AA on Topmudsites
• Troubleshooting your AA connection

Play to optimize

• AA for dummies! - weapon evals, NPC levels, some area maps
• World of AA - has much of the info from AA for dummies in case the above is down
• AAwiki.net - This Wiki
• Rhynst's newbie guide at Proboards - from 2006; some info may be outdated, but much remains useful
• AA forum at Proboards - a place you can post questions and get a variety of responses. Sometimes helpful, sometimes snarky.
• Spootopia - assorted info, some ranger-specific
• Anguish Players - includes lots of data and tips from Popeye/Anthem, Catalog, Mani, and others
• Cosm's Happy Fun Time - lots of assorted info, including how to id potions without id!
• Levek's AA info site - max stats, wolf list, container comparison, evals, etc., and generally the most-current world map
• Spindrifter's eval lists at Blackvelvet's library. (404 07/2010) (On Archive.org)
• KC's Prime Cut of Anguish (404 07/2010) (On Archive.org)
• Ionstar's site with various class and other info
• Iorek's site
• Snowfolk For Science - has assorted info about mining, abilities, heals, etc.
• The Ophidian Order (404 03/2014) (Not on Archive.org, AAwiki mirror)
• GhanimX (404 03/2014) (Not on Archive.org, AAwiki mirror)

Places to go

• Map of Ancient Anguish - The continent maps can now be combined (select "Oerthe" above the map)
• Geography and Townships of Ancient Anguish - An overview of some of the places you know.
• Macl's graphical maps - partial archive from 2005.
• Dmitri's map site - ascii maps of many areas

Classes for power

• Killcrazy's Artificer Guide (now hosted on AA for Dummies! for Killcrazy)
• Moot's stinking hovel - an old shapeshifter information page with time & xp tables, now mirrored and annoying to browse
• Another shapeshifter site - which won't work without flash anymore? Bah. (404 02/2014)
• Sharn's shifter pages
• Blackvelvet's library (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Aristotel's Academy of Mages (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)

Guilds for finding like-minded folk

• Clan of the Black Bear - Levek's site has pictures of guild members and other information.
• The Knight's Library
• Hung's Scythe Picture Page

History to learn

• History of Ancient Anguish - prehistory, Human Era, present "Reign Of Order" by the Truehearts
• The Trueheart noble lineage
• Fir's Canticle archive - featuring AA's finest and best newspaper! Ignore that Dalair Free Press!
• Ricochet's Eldar site with some background information.

Stories to tell

There's plenty of fan fiction in the different libraries inside Ancient Anguish - just ask an artificer for where they can be found, they'll know!

• Scarecrazy-Sarahsa's story
• Petite's story (timeout 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• History of Odessa (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Demetrious's page (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Kushana's story
• Brother MacMurray
• All about Stargirl
• Kurtz's story (404 02/2014) (No Archive.org mirror)
• Origin of Janus
• Leonin's story (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Nizzura's story
• Fir's AA fan fiction collection - including a copy of Bleys's stories.
• Zaria's character picture
• Chichi's character picture (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Tamaryn's Inspired by AA artwork
• Rastamon's - uhm - character picture? ;) (404 02/2014 - No archive.org mirror)
• Tanker's looks
• Earless Drusilla's character page (404 02/2014 - No Oocities or Archive.org mirror)
• AA songs (Fir)

Recreation

• Ancient Anguish forum on Proboards
• Ye olde Ancient Anguish Picture Page
• AA group on Facebook (Pictures! requires free registration)
• Odessa's AA webshots (404 02/2014)
• AA has a tribe on Tribe.net
• And a Livejournal community
• Various contests once arranged, drawing, crosswords...

AA in the news

• Ancient Anguish on Wikipedia - * Answers.com uses it too
• A thesis: Nonverbal Communication in Text Based Virtual Realities - that's muds, and we're mentioned!
• Are we in top 10 on Topmudsites yet? - might vote first
• Mud of the Month on Mudconnect - already three years after it was set out. Check out the history.

People's misc AA sites

• Ancient Anguish Tourism features the AA Praisebook; the signing hasn't worked for a while, but you can still view it for a bit of history. :)
• Mappyr's site has books, feeling lists and an awesome link list we have violently ripped off. (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Blackvelvet's library - not updated anymore, but still hosts e.g. Spindrifter's eval lists and Evergreen's pelt schedule. (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Jerusulum's notes on Ancient Anguish - get quest help from a senator! (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Fir's AA site - various timeless topics, not updated except for the Canticle archive.
• Bigcalm's site (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Thothamon's AA Drippings - a general resource for misc information (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Various stats info (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Kazak's page
• Nijsmirges' site
• Niteowl's site (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• Seraphim's Ancient Research (404 02/2014) (No Oocities mirror, broken Archive.org mirror)
• Siunen's thieving logs
• Untitled's site - some directions, various information. (404 02/2014) (On Archive.org)
• DarkVault of Ancient Anguish (-2002)