Since you're not particularly keen on loading the server, I'm using your copies under AI control.

500 bots have been sent to roam the vast expansures of Aden's world. The AI completely copies your skills, nicknames, stats, equipment, and even your farming style – no manual settings, all data is based on real players' metrics, appearing wherever your character once left a trace 😨
 

I wrote this system a month ago to use it in the future as additional content related to rituals, portals, and catalysts. Remember how you opened portals and participated in rituals? It's all connected to the Dimensional Rift. The world will react to your actions.

My dream and goal is to become a game designer. So I'll be training on our project. I'll try to combine custom additions into a single whole, and of course, I'll base it on the existing L2 lore.

**Dimensional Rift** is an unstable space between dimensions, created as a result of mages' experiments (Tower of Insolence, Giants, forbidden magic). Inside are isolated rooms where monsters constantly spawn. The space "breaks" and restarts. The boundaries between dimensions are thinning. The Rift is no longer contained within dungeons and begins to break through into the world of Aden.

What was once considered a local anomaly – the Dimensional Rift – has begun to spread across the very world of Aden. The reason lies in a series of events known as the Rift Rituals: rituals of breaking the boundaries between worlds, activating portal nodes, using catalysts, and attempts to reach alternate realities. These actions have weakened the fabric of the world, and now rifts appear not only in enclosed spaces but also directly in open locations.

Against this backdrop, two new forms of rift activity have emerged. The first, controlled and relatively safe, is called the **Stable Rift**. The second, wild and unpredictable, is known as the **Unstable Rift**. Both forms are connected to the same force but differ in their degree of stabilization and how deeply the rift's energy has managed to grow into the material world.

**General Rift Lore**

According to ancient knowledge, the Dimensional Rift is not an ordinary place. It is a fracture between layers of reality, a space where the laws of the world lose their stability. Similar anomalies were mentioned in stories about forbidden magical experiments, the legacy of the Giants, and distortions associated with the Tower of Insolence and other ancient structures. Inside the Rift, matter is unstable, time flows differently, and creatures from neighboring dimensions can endlessly break through to the outside.

For a long time, it was believed that rifts could be contained within special zones. But after a series of Rift Rituals, the barrier weakened. Now the rift's energy has begun to seep into key areas of the world. Where the concentration of power is particularly high, distortion hotspots arise, giving birth to portals, waves of creatures, and distorted reflections of living souls.

**The Shadow Clan**

More rumors surround the Shadow than reliable facts. Some believe it is a secret clan formed from survivors of the rift rituals. Others are convinced that they are not people in the usual sense, but imprints of personalities torn from the boundary between life, death, and dimensions. The darkest legend says that the Shadow are born the moment a hero dies near an active rift: their fear, will, memory, and combat instincts do not disappear but leave a shadow in the Rift. If the rift is strong enough, that shadow takes form and returns to Aden.

In practice, the Shadow appear as copies of real characters. They replicate the appearance, movements, and even combat habits of living warriors, as if the rift reads the victim's image and reconstructs it anew. Because of this, many mistake them for bots controlled by an external force, and to a certain extent that is true: the Shadow obey a single coordinating intelligence, popularly called the Alliance. No one knows for sure whether the Alliance is an organization, an artificial intelligence of ancient mechanisms, or the will of the Rift itself, but it is what directs the Shadow and uses them as scouts, executors, and guardians of unstable zones.

**Rift Rituals**

Rift Rituals is the general term for large-scale actions related to opening, stabilizing, or destabilizing inter-dimensional rifts. In the past, such actions were the domain of dimensional priests, researcher mages, and those who sought power beyond the laws of the world. In the present, Rift Rituals have become both a weapon, a source of wealth, and a deadly threat.

Each ritual is an attempt to direct the flow of energy between worlds. But none of them provides complete control. Even a successful ritual leaves a mark: it weakens boundaries, saturates the territory with alien energy, and increases the chance of new rifts appearing. This is why the world is gradually turning into a battlefield – not only between people and monsters but between reality itself and that which is trying to break through it."