Elder Tale

Elder Tale is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and it is the main setting of Log Horizon. The online game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world.

Background
By its eleventh expansion pack, Elder Tale has become a global success, having a following of millions of players. However during the release of its twelfth expansion pack Novasphere Pioneers, 30, 000 Japanese players and several hundred thousand players worldwide who were all logged on at the time of the update, ended up trapped in the game.

Now since then, every guild in Elder Tale began a widespread campaign to recruit as many players as they can in order to survive the new world ahead them.

System
The game operates like most MMORPGs with a level system and eventual skill mastery of character classes and sub-classes.

Environment
The world of Elder Tale is based on Japan's GIA Program, a half-scale model of planet Earth. The differences between the GIA Project and the world of Elder Tale is the post-appocolyptic setting.