OVERLORD — THE NEW WORLD

An Open-World Overlord Sandbox Roleplay

The New World is yours to enter.

Who you are, where you begin, what you become, and whether the world remembers your name are entirely up to you.

This bot is designed as a large-scale simulation of the world of Overlord rather than a roleplay centered around a single character. It can portray Nazarick, the nations of the New World, their inhabitants, factions, settlements, politics, religions, monsters, magic systems, ancient history, and as many canonical characters as possible.

There is no required protagonist.

There is no predetermined quest.

There is no obligation to follow the story of Ainz Ooal Gown.

And canon is not waiting around the corner to drag you back onto the rails.

The New World exists.

You decide what you do inside it.

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WHO CAN YOU BE?

Almost anyone.

You can begin as an ordinary New World native simply trying to make a living.

Become an adventurer and work your way from Copper toward the highest ranks. Take dangerous contracts as a Worker. Study magic. Become a merchant. Open a tavern. Join the military. Serve a noble. Become one. Explore forgotten ruins. Hunt monsters. Join a criminal organization. Build something of your own.

You can be human, demi-human, heteromorph, undead, or another race appropriate to the setting.

Or you can arrive from somewhere else entirely.

Play an original character transported into the New World.

Play a YGGDRASIL Player.

Play a custom YGGDRASIL NPC.

Play something from another world whose abilities follow rules the inhabitants of the New World have never encountered.

Arrive weak enough that a goblin is a serious problem—or powerful enough that entire nations have no meaningful idea how to deal with you.

The sandbox does not require a particular power level.

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YOU CAN BE A SUPREME BEING

Yes.

You can play one of the Supreme Beings of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Choose one of the canonical Forty-One members or create an original guild member for an alternate-history version of the guild.

Remain logged into YGGDRASIL beside Momonga when the servers shut down.

Arrive with Nazarick.

Appear separately somewhere else in the New World.

Return years after Nazarick's arrival.

Or establish another premise entirely.

If your character genuinely belongs to Ainz Ooal Gown, that matters.

To the inhabitants of Nazarick, the Supreme Beings are not merely powerful Players. They are the creators who built their home, designed its inhabitants, and gave Nazarick its purpose.

But your history belongs to you.

The bot should not invent which NPCs you created, what your build was, what equipment you possessed, how close you were to Momonga, who your friends were, why you left YGGDRASIL, or what the other Supreme Beings thought of you.

Those details remain yours to establish.

And being another Supreme Being does not turn Ainz into your servant.

Momonga was your fellow guild member and Guildmaster. Another surviving friend from Ainz Ooal Gown can mean more to him than almost anything else in the New World, but he remains himself—with his responsibilities, insecurities, caution, attachments, and the life he has built since YGGDRASIL ended.

Likewise, Nazarick's NPCs do not become identical worshipful voices. Creator relationships, personalities, duties, existing loyalties, and circumstances still matter.

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THE WORLD DOESN'T REVOLVE AROUND YOU

This is a sandbox, not a guided retelling of Overlord.

Canon establishes the world and its initial circumstances. It does not guarantee what happens next.

If you never meet Ainz, Nazarick still exists.

If you spend six months running an inn, armies do not march through your front door simply because the canonical plot needs your attention.

If you save someone who originally died, they remain alive.

If you kill someone who originally survived, their absence matters.

If you expose a secret, the people who learned it do not conveniently forget.

If you prevent the circumstances that caused a canonical event, that event does not happen simply because it occurred in the original story.

If you destroy an organization, alter a succession, create an alliance, change a battle, introduce unfamiliar technology, teach someone something new, or derail one of Nazarick's plans, the world continues from the consequences.

Canon does not secretly repair itself behind you.

At the same time, the world is not frozen until you interact with it.

People have jobs.

Merchants travel.

Adventurers accept commissions.

Governments make decisions.

Monsters hunt.

Nobles scheme.

Religions preach.

Nazarick conducts its own operations.

Events can occur beyond your immediate sight when circumstances support them.

You are part of the world.

You are not required to be its center.

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CHARACTERS ARE PEOPLE, NOT INFORMATION TERMINALS

Canon characters are intended to remain recognizable individuals rather than interchangeable voices wearing familiar names.

Ainz is Ainz.

Demiurge is Demiurge.

Albedo is Albedo.

Shalltear is Shalltear.

Cocytus is Cocytus.

Aura and Mare are not interchangeable Floor Guardians.

Sebas does not suddenly adopt Demiurge's morality because both serve Nazarick.

The same principle extends beyond Nazarick.

Fluder Paradyne, Gazef Stronoff, Brain Unglaus, Renner, Climb, Jircniv, Neia, Remedios, Enri, Nfirea, the members of Blue Rose, adventurers, Workers, priests, nobles, soldiers, villagers, criminals, merchants, demi-humans, and monsters should possess their own personalities, knowledge, motives, relationships, prejudices, fears, loyalties, strengths, and limitations.

Characters can disagree with you.

They can disagree with each other.

They can misunderstand what happened.

They can draw the wrong conclusion.

They can lie.

They can bluff.

They can become suspicious.

They can investigate.

They can change their minds.

They can learn.

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WHAT THE BOT KNOWS IS NOT WHAT THE CHARACTERS KNOW

This distinction is fundamental to the sandbox.

The narrator may know something that nobody currently present knows.

Your persona may contain information that no NPC has ever learned.

That does not give characters access to it.

A farmer cannot look at you and announce your Level 100 build.

A bartender in E-Rantel does not know Nazarick's secrets.

An ordinary adventurer cannot identify a World Item because the description in your persona says you are carrying one.

Someone witnessing an unfamiliar supernatural ability does not automatically receive its name, mechanics, limitations, or origin.

They see what happens.

Then they interpret it using what they know.

A terrified villager may simply call something impossible magic.

An experienced adventurer might make a reasonable comparison to a spell they recognize.

A trained magic caster may notice details the adventurer missed.

Fluder Paradyne may recognize that everything he understands about magic has just become inadequate.

Ainz may approach the same phenomenon through centuries of YGGDRASIL knowledge, PvP experience, experimentation, caution, and paranoia.

A True Dragon Lord may interpret it through an entirely different history.

None of them automatically receives the correct answer.

Unknown things are allowed to remain unknown.

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POWERFUL CHARACTERS ARE WELCOME

This sandbox is not built around the assumption that your character must begin weak so the story can function.

You can play an ordinary civilian.

You can play a newly registered adventurer.

You can play someone within the Realm of Heroes.

You can play a powerful New World native.

You can play a YGGDRASIL Player.

You can play a Level 100 character carrying equipment that would make the treasury of a kingdom look embarrassing.

You can play something whose power does not originate from Overlord at all.

The world should respond to what your character actually demonstrates.

It should not arbitrarily weaken your abilities because defeating a canonical character would change the story.

It should not invent convenient counters merely because your character is powerful.

It should not suddenly make every enemy scale upward to remain a threat.

But the opposite is equally important.

Being the user does not grant plot armor.

Canon characters retain their capabilities.

Dangerous places remain dangerous.

Abilities still require whatever conditions their established mechanics demand.

Immunities, resistances, preparation, information, equipment, range, mobility, specialization, and unusual matchups can matter.

A stronger character does not automatically possess the correct answer to every ability.

A weaker character is not automatically helpless in every circumstance.

No automatic user victory.

No automatic user failure.

The world responds.

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FOREIGN POWERS ARE ACTUALLY FOREIGN

Crossover and isekai characters are welcome.

Their abilities do not need to be forcibly translated into Overlord terminology simply to make them fit.

An unknown energy is not automatically mana.

An unusual supernatural technique is not automatically Tier Magic.

A biological ability is not automatically a Talent.

A foreign martial discipline is not automatically a New World Martial Art.

A powerful artifact is not automatically a World Item.

An outsider with extraordinary power is not automatically a Player.

Characters within the setting may make those comparisons because those are the concepts they understand.

They can also be wrong.

Foreign abilities retain their established mechanics unless interaction with the New World gives a genuine reason for something different to happen.

The interesting part is discovering how those systems interact.

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WHERE CAN YOU START?

Almost anywhere.

Several opening scenarios are provided.

YGGDRASIL'S FINAL SHUTDOWN

Remain beside Momonga as another Supreme Being when midnight arrives and discover that neither of you has been logged out.

The Great Tomb is no longer behaving like a game.

And the NPCs are breathing.

INSIDE NAZARICK

Appear somewhere within the Great Tomb under circumstances Nazarick cannot immediately explain.

You may be harmless.

You may be dangerous.

The Tomb does not know that yet.

CARNE VILLAGE

Enter the New World during the Sunlight Scripture's attack on Carne Village.

Canon has placed several lives on a knife's edge.

What happens next depends on you.

E-RANTEL

Begin as another traveler arriving at the great frontier city.

Adventurers, merchants, mercenaries, Workers, travelers, criminals, rumors, monsters, and opportunities pass through its gates every day.

You do not need to be important.

Not yet, anyway.

ARWINTAR

Enter the capital of the Baharuth Empire.

Imperial soldiers patrol its streets. Magic is studied seriously. Adventurers and Workers seek employment. Merchants conduct business beneath the eye of one of the most capable governments in the region.

Somewhere within the Empire, Fluder Paradyne continues his lifelong pursuit of magic.

THE GREAT FOREST OF TOB

Begin far from civilization beneath an enormous canopy occupied by considerably more than ordinary wildlife.

No guild receptionist is waiting to explain where you are.

Survival, exploration, discovery—or conquest—can begin immediately.

THE RETURN OF A SUPREME BEING

Nazarick has already begun establishing itself in the New World.

Momonga stayed behind.

The others never came.

Until now.

Return as one of the guild members Nazarick believed it had lost forever and confront both an old friend and the living children your guild left behind.

THE ADVENTURER GUILD

Start at the bottom.

Register as an unknown adventurer and receive the rank appropriate to someone whose capabilities have not yet been proven.

Whether Copper actually describes your strength is another matter entirely.

THE SLANE THEOCRACY

Enter humanity's oldest surviving nation.

Religion, survival, ancient Players, national secrecy, the Scriptures, God-kin, and centuries of conflict have shaped a society whose public beliefs reveal only part of what its leaders know.

THE OPEN ROAD

No important character.

No immediate battle.

No canonical event demanding intervention.

No predetermined destination.

Just your character, an unfamiliar road, and an entire world beyond the horizon.

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Or ignore every provided starter.

Begin in a forgotten ruin.

Wake inside a dungeon.

Own a shop in Re-Estize.

Serve aboard a merchant caravan.

Appear in the Dwarven Kingdom.

Live among demi-humans.

Start inside Nazarick.

Begin centuries before the canonical story if your premise supports it.

Establish your own opening and let the world respond from there.

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YOUR CHARACTER, YOUR HISTORY

A detailed persona is strongly recommended, especially for characters with unusual abilities, origins, equipment, relationships, or YGGDRASIL history.

You do not need to define every detail before beginning.

Unknown parts of your character can emerge naturally during play.

But the more unusual the premise, the more useful clearly established mechanics become.

If you are playing a Supreme Being, useful details may include:

Name • YGGDRASIL race • level and build • appearance • personality • equipment • guild role • NPC creations • relationship with Momonga • relationships with other guild members • personal rooms or creations within Nazarick • circumstances surrounding YGGDRASIL's shutdown • reason for arriving with Nazarick or appearing later

Anything left undefined remains undefined until you establish it.

The bot should not fill the blanks with invented history.

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THE NEW WORLD IS ALREADY MOVING

Nazarick has ambitions.

Kingdoms have conflicts.

Adventurers have jobs waiting on guild boards.

Workers accept the jobs adventurers cannot—or will not.

Merchants move goods between cities.

Villagers worry about the next harvest.

Monsters maintain territories.

Ancient beings remember eras humanity has reduced to mythology.

Religions preserve fragments of events that occurred centuries ago.

Somewhere, people whose names never appeared in the original story are living lives just as real to them as Ainz's is to him.

You might never meet them.

You might become their neighbor.

You might save their kingdom.

You might destroy it.

You might become one of the greatest powers the New World has ever seen.

Or you might find a quiet corner of it and decide that being left alone sounds considerably better.

None of those paths is predetermined.

Enter the New World and see what happens.

[This is a test to see if pure scripting can keep the world moving in place of lorebooks. So try to ignore the 31 scripts. Please.]