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A game soaked through with every kind of memory,

a game that now feels like it’s simply become part of my life,

for reasons I don’t even fully understand(?) a game I’ve played almost out of habit for hundreds of hours, thousands of hours, over decades even(!!),

that game is Mabinogi.

“The scenery of Erinn drifts past.

From the moment I first set foot on this land,

to everything that brought me to where I stand now.”

-From the Mabinogi Five Swords Ward scenario

The game you never get tired of, Mabinogi (1) One giant celebration of events



Why is it that I never get tired of Mabinogi?

I really sat and thought about it, and the answer was in my own Mabinogi history all along.



“An endless festival ground”



That’s right—over the past dozen-plus years,

Mabinogi has just kept holding event after event.

For Halloween, it runs the Samhain Festival as a Halloween event,

for Christmas, it opens a Christmas festival,

for Liberation Day, it runs a hanbok event,

when school break comes around, it runs a Pre-Season/Fever Season event,

when the CSAT ends, it runs an event because, well, the CSAT ended,

for Valentine’s, it runs an event that gives out chocolate,

for White Day, it runs an event that gives out candy,

because it’s summer, it runs the Heart-Pounding Island event,

every anniversary, it opens the way to the Mysterious Library and runs an event,

it runs an event because guests came over from MapleStory,

it runs an event because Loopy showed up,

it runs an event because The Kingdom of the Winds hit its 30th anniversary,

it runs an event because the party from <Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End> came all this way,

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Honestly, it really makes me wonder if there’s any other game as sincere about events as Mabinogi.

The way these noisy, festival-like events keep opening up,

the way you can get special items you can only obtain at that moment,

the way an event gives you a goal in the middle of everyday, maybe-even-a-little-boring(?) game life—

I loved all of that, and as a self-proclaimed and universally acknowledged “event maniac,”

thanks to Mabinogi’s nonstop stream of events....I honestly don’t think I’ve even had time to get tired of it.

The game you never get tired of, Mabinogi (2) Just how far have you gone with OC play?



When you talk about Mabinogi, one thing you absolutely can’t leave out is “character styling”.

Once you’ve made a character by customizing the face shape, eyes, nose, mouth, even race exactly to your taste,

there are items for styling them in every possible way—thousands of outfits and shoes, gloves and hats, even wings and tails.





And then, naturalllly, your “OC,” your very own character, starts to come together....

and the moment you start giving that character relationships and a story of their own,

that’s when you become the kind of person who can never quite escape Mabinogi....!

Back when I used to play Mabinogi with friends,

it was genuinely so fun to introduce our OCs with all kinds of settings and just play around like that.





Even now, still here in Erinn, I’m still pouring care into styling each character one by one.

Even if I don’t go to dungeons!

Pretty clothes still have to be worn!ㅋㅋ

-Kitara, the always-cheerful little girl

-Peace, the magic archer who quietly looks after his older sister and younger sibling

-Noie, the grumbly master fisherman

-Ketch, the breadwinner of the family

-I’ve also recreated characters from another game I love, <The Legend of Zelda>, like Ganon or Zelda,

-<Black Butler> characters like Ciel, Lizzy, and Sebastian,

-<Evangelion> characters like Kaworu, Shinji, and Rei,

-and even Tarlach, Ruairi, Goddess Macha, and Goddess Morrighan from the <Mabinogi> mainstream story.



The game you never get tired of, Mabinogi, (3) I’m busy in Erinn today too

“What do you even do when you log into Mabi….?”

“…………I’m seriously busy nonstop though…”



xx years ago, my daily routine was this: the moment I opened my eyes in the morning, I’d “set up a shop in Channel 10 square.”

Back then there was no Auction House, so if you wanted to trade items, you absolutely had to open a shop in the square or around the outside of Dunbarton’s walls.

So the competition for a “good spot” was fierce....(and really, if the spot was good, your items sold better),

and because it was such a brutal system that your shop closed the second you switched channels or logged out,

a lot of people ended up leaving their computers on without shutting them off(!!!) just to keep their shops open.

-Me and my acquaintances absolutely did that!!ㅋㅋ

These days, with the Auction House in Erinn, you might wonder what could possibly still keep me that busy....

From what I hear, the longtime veteran monsters of Erinn usually do daily quests or combat content like Shadow Missions, then become Dunbarton statues and spend their time chatting with acquaintances.

But me,

-I don’t do combat (unless I’m made to)

-and the acquaintances I could chat with aren’t logged in (ugly crying)

so that’s my situation, and yet,

somehow, amazingly enough, the moment I log in I really do keep moving without resting for even a second.

How much so? To the point that I don’t even have enough room to comfortably go meet an acquaintance who finally managed to log in, or even take time to chat(!!).

(.....of course......if an acquaintance rarer than wild ginseng logs in, I drop everything and go...)

<Things I do in Erinn>

-I have to do event quests (I’m an event maniac)

-I have to take care of my homestead too (while also sending out the Pet Expedition to level pets)

-I have to list items on the Auction House too (my dream is to become a great merchant)

-And if there’s still time after all that, I also have to keep pushing through the mainstream story, which is very, very overdue.

By some mechanism unknown to me, the [Finding Sidhe Sneachta Snowman’s Lost Earring] quest (the beginning of G1) has shown up again now,

and anyway, even acquaintances who came back after years have been telling me to please just clear the main story already....

-On top of that, these days only one character per account can participate in events, so logging in on sub-characters on the same account doesn’t really mean much anymore....so whenever I have a spare moment, I’m also participating and leveling up a secondary account under my name.

So no, I really don’t have enough time to become a Dunbarton statue.

Mabinogi, the game you never get tired of,

I’m busy in Erinn today too!ㅎㅎ



I hope Mabinogi, from here on too,

keeps going allll the way until it turns 100 years old.

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