Ming-Ken means life.
Introduced during an event over Christmas and New Year's in 2000-2001, there was a great deal of confusion at first about this. At first, there were minions all over various regions of the kingdoms, centred around the Wilderness. A short while later, a temple appeared with even more minions and even more strange things inside. At one point Ming-Ken, Ohaeng, and Kwi-sin went to the various guildmasters and "settled the aethers" that had come from them. The people had no idea what was about to happen.
After this, when people wandered through the temple in the Wilderness, they were randomly asked questions about the alignments. If you answered them correctly, you became devoted and a follower of that alignment. After the event, you simply need to go to the various Shrines and answer the questions. The Ming-Ken temple is in the Islets.
Ming-Ken is all about life. They are not good, light, or anything of the like, but merely specialize in knowing about how to bring life into the world.
For rogues and mages there are no obvious changes for becoming Ming-Ken, apart from the general shortening of aethers on most spells. For poets, your ressurection spell is a five-way, instead of a single target (ie: North, East, South, West of your target). For warriors, instead of your Whirlwind bringing you to 10 vitality, you sacrifice 10% of the power and remain with 10% of your vitality that you started with.
Other Information
- The Ming-Ken Shrine is located in the Islets at coordinates 31, 84.