ALfheim Online

«ALfheim Online» (アルヴヘイム・オンライン) is the VRMMORPG successor to «Sword Art Online». It is compatible with any version of the FullDive technology. The game features multiple races of fairies, whose goals are to reach the top of the giant tree Yggdrasil in order to meet the Fairy King Oberon. It was said that Oberon will turn the chosen race to ALFs with the ability to fly for unlimited time once this goal is achieved. ALfheim Online usually abbreviated as "ALO".

It is the setting for the Fairy Dance Arc of the series, which covered in the Light Novel volume 3, volume 4, volume 7 (Mother's Rosario)  and volume 8 part 2 (Caliber SS). Instead of the level system that Sword Art Online emphasized, ALfheim Online pursues skill development and encourages killing other players. This kind of system tries to eliminate the enormous gap that exist on a level-based game between new players and old players.

System
The system makes the player choose one of nine races of fairies for his avatar to be, each one with different abilites and afinities toward magic. Unlike Sword Art Online's system, the player apparently will have his game avatar set up randomly, the player just need to input their Avatar names and races. The gender of the Avatar will be the same as the player by default, and the player cannot change it no matter what.

The game is famous for being the first game to allow the player to fly for real. It uses a flight engine to enable the player to fly.

The skills are developed by the player's own abilities and by repeating them over and over, so a player with low level but good skills can match a veteran player almost evenly.

The flight system also consists on player's own ability, it has a "controlled flight" mode in which the players make use of a controler to flight at the cost of just being able to use one hand to fight, but with enough experience and ability the player is able to do "voluntary flight" and with it it can use it's two hands while flying and gains more maneuverability and speed.

Races

 * Cait Sith (ケットシー) : Skilled beast tamers with improved eyesight. They are recognizable through their cat ears and tails.
 * Gnome (ノーム) : Largest fairy race and users of the earth. They are styled in brown.


 * Imp (インプ) : Masters of night, great night vision. They are styled in purple.


 * Leprechaun (レプラコーン) : Blacksmith race, their wings have a mechanical appearance.


 * Puca (プーカ) : Users of music which is used to confuse, attack, or support.


 * Salamander (サラマンダー) : Considered the strongest race in terms of attack, they have superior fire spells and are styled in red.


 * Spriggan (スプリガン) : Masters of illusion and treasure seeking. They are styled in black.


 * Sylph (シルフ) : C onsidered the fastest race and users of wind, they are denoted by the color green regularly.


 * Undine (ウンディーネ) : Healers and masters of water. They are styled in blue.


 * Navigation Pixie (ナビゲーション・ピクシー) : Although not a choice of race, users with a high level can obtain a navigation pixie to lead them from place to place.
 * ALFs: The rumored legendary race with unlimited flight. It is believed that the first of the available starting races in ALfheim Online to reach the top of the World Tree and gain an audience with Fairy King Oberon would be elevated to ALFs and granted the joys of unlimited height and no time limit of flying. Many players are disspointed only to know that this race doesn't exist at all.

Trivia
ALfheim Online
 * ALfheim Online is loosely based on Norse Mythology/Viking Mythology. For example, is the Yggdrasil or rather, The World Tree. In the actual myth, the world tree, Yggdrasil, supported the entire cosmos. Another example is Jotunheimr, actually Jotunheim, in the myth, it is the icy home of the Frost Giants. And of course, "ALfheim" is a reference to "Alfheim" in Norse Mythology, for the land of fairies/light elves.