The Five Pillars is a PBBG game where you play the role of a powerful mage controlling your own kingdom. The aim of the game is to develop and expand your kingdom better than any of the other players. You start out with a little patch of land, and your task will be to convert this little country into a huge kingdom.

The Five Pillars is multilingual, which means you can choose from a number of different languages, but still play together with other players from all over the world. Playing the game is absolutely free.

As you create your character, you must choose a magical alignment for it. Five different alignments exist in this world and every one of those has its strengths and weaknesses. You can be a nature mage commanding huge beasts to protect your forests from getting cut down. Perhaps you want to wield the awesome power of the ever raging desert storms into building a powerful empire. You may be interested in the mysteries of the north in the form of elemental magic. Swamps are filled with deadly insects and the practice of dark arts. Or maybe you will be a mountain mage expertising in devastating spells that will crush your enemies?

The available magic alignments are Desert magic, Mountain magic, Swamp magic, Elemental magic or Nature magic. Whichever you choose, it should reflect on the style you like to play.

Turns

The game is using a technique called turns to represent the time. for each turn you use time passes and your land generate taxes, mana and your population grows. The turns can be used to many things, like researching magic, attacking enemies, search for land and many other things. How you use these turns will make the difference in growing into a big country or staying as the underdog you start out as.

For each turn you take a report is posted on the [turn info] page, here you can view how your income is, and what happens to your country.

Magic

The Five Pillars use a powerful magic system. As you use turns researching spells, you grow more experienced and are able to research more complex spells. You also get more powerful in casting the spells you already know.

Units

In The Five Pillars you can get over 70 different monsters/units to join your army. These can be gained in two ways. Either you can recruit the ones that are native for the color you play, or you use magic to summon the more powerful units of either your color or other colors. Remember that it isnt easy to cast a spell that not comes natural in your magic realm.

Start-up

As your mage comes out as a freshman, a good idea is to use the first turns to gain some more experience. This is done by researching spells that you can cast. This is because a more experienced mage can use more complex units and hence performing better in the battlefield. But if you wish going right to battlefield is possible. But in any case building your kingdom is important to ensure your incomes is bigger than the expences, because if you goes bankrupt your kingdom will crumble under your feet.

Aslo be sure that you have buildt enough forts. If you loose all your forts, your kingdom will vanish, and you have to start all over again.