Masteria

Masteria
Dimension	Maple World
Sub-Area(s)	New Leaf City Crimsonwood
Boss(es)	Gollux
Name (Other Servers)
ChinaMS	克拉齐亚 (Krakia)

For the area where the Demons (Demon Slayer, Demon Avenger, Damien, etc.) come from, see Tynerum.

Masteria is a World Tour continent based on many areas of the world. It takes its name from the many factions and guilds who traveled here to master their fates. After a war which led to the continent sinking into the sea, it has risen again after 1,000 years. Masteria encompasses the towns of New Leaf City, built on the remnants of an ancient town known as Olde Sapp Village, and Crimsonwood, an area containing various mazes and trials for ancient warriors leading to the Keep at the top of the mountain summit, which has now been twisted by mysterious forces. The area is the focus of the Masteria Through Time Blockbuster, though the story in the Blockbuster is vastly different from its original content.

In the GlobalMS 0.40 patch notes, Masteria is described thus:

“Masteria takes its name from the many warriors who came to the continent looking to master their fate and find their destiny. It has mysteriously risen from the sea after a 1000-year absence. This once fabled continent was home to a technologically advanced civilization that used a myriad of techniques for benevolence...before the dark times. There are very few records of the final act which caused the continent to plunge into the sea, and its jewel, Olde Sapp Village to be erased from the Maple World.”

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Towns / Regions

New Leaf City

Main article: New Leaf City

New Leaf City, also known as NLC, is a town built on the remnants of an ancient town known as Olde Sapp Village. It contains many landmarks which are parodies of real-life landmarks, such as a parody of the Statue of Liberty in the background modeled after a Mushroom. You can also access the sub-area MesoGears within the Bigger Ben clocktower.

MesoGears

Main article: MesoGears

The MesoGears is located within the Bigger Ben clocktower in New Leaf City. It contains various chambers and mysteries of what Christopher Crimsonheart left behind after his death.

Crimsonwood

Main article: Crimsonwood

Crimsonwood, also known as the Phantom Forest, is a dark and twisted forest containing a large maze, which leads to the mountains just below Crimsonwood Keep. A group of Raven Ninjas have set up a camp here to complete missions personal to their clan.

Story

Masteria Prequel

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A traveler was called to New Leaf City by Mayor Icebyrd Slimm, where he greeted them and began explaining more about the city. The traveler learned that the city had been built on the ruins of Olde Sapp Village, and that they were on the continent of Masteria, which had sunk into the sea and recently risen after a thousand years. Icebyrd told the traveler that ancient Masteria had been the sight of a great battle which had resulted in the continent's end, and that he had made a deal to raise the continent and create a city where people could fulfill their dreams. The traveler began exploring the city and encountered the resident genius, Professor Foxwit, who had set up a system to monitor activity on the continent. After hearing a cry for help, the traveler entered the Krakian Jungle and rescued a girl named Becky from the Jungle Monkeys attacking her. Becky revealed that she was part of the Masteria Research Team, which had been dispatched to investigate the continent's return under the leadership of Dr. Jang.

Together, the pair began investigating the ruins and discovered that the aboriginal people of Masteria had been the Krakians, who once had a close relationship with outside visitors called the Versalians. In order to learn more about the Versalians, the pair entered the Phantom Forest in search of the Versalians' home in the rocky reaches of Crimsonwood Mountain. There, they were chased by several corrupted monsters before being guided to safety by a mysterious light. At the summit, they discovered Crimsonwood Keep and learned that the Versalian Grandmasters had built the Keep to safeguard an object of great power called the Antellion, which they had used to enhance their strength as guardians and scholars. However, a time of tragedy had roiled the land when the Archdemon Naricain had come in search of the Antellion, which had resulted in a great battle between him and Subani, the Magician of Light. Soon after the mission to the Keep, Becky witnessed the management team of the Masteria Research Laboratory cut down funding for Dr. Jang's operation, believing that her obsession with the myths and fables about the Antellion were leading them nowhere in their research. Nevertheless, Dr. Jang remained committed to her search and ordered her team to gather data about the continent in order to appease upper management while she pursued the legend of the Antellion.Meanwhile, the traveler spoke with Mayor Slimm about what they had learned. Impressed by their dedication to learning the truth, Icebyrd revealed to them that the light of Subani had asked him to build New Leaf City to stop the Archdemon from returning. However, he asked the traveler to keep the information to themselves as they continued uncovering the mystery of Masteria.

Masteria Through Time

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New Leaf City

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Icebyrd Slimm called the traveler to Masteria and asked them to help Sheriff Lita Lawless with several safety issues. After clearing out several monsters on the town outskirts, the traveler learned from Lita that the city was facing many problems, such as terrifying monsters and armed 'Ninjas' in the Phantom Forest. In order to help keep order, the traveler agreed to perform identification check-ins with several new visitors to the town. The traveler first met with a blue-skinned girl named Corine, who revealed that she was a Taru, one of the Krakian tribes of ancient Masteria. She revealed that she had lived in Masteria a thousand years ago and joined the Shadowknights, a master guild of Crimsonwood Keep, under the leadership of Grandmaster Lireni. After Masteria had sunk into the ocean, Corine had managed to escape the disaster and eventually returned to Masteria after its reappearance to learn more about her ancestors.

After the traveler helped clear out some of the monsters destroying the Krakian ruins, Corine asked them to help her traveling companion, a Versalian historian named Elpam Gorlab. Elpam told the traveler that he had crash-landed in Maple World and met Corine, with whom he had been researching the history of the continent. Together, the three entered the Krakian Jungle and began researching the ancient Krakians. The traveler defeated the corrupted Krakians who still roamed the jungle after the fall of the Keep, with Corine discovering that the Krakians had continued on with their barbaric traditions even after losing their sanity. The traveler also helped Elpam with his biological research and discovered that the plants of the Krakian Jungle had leached Naricain's Blood - the substance created by Dr. Jang to corrupt the Krakians and Versalians - with the animals of Masteria consuming those plants and growing corrupted through the predation cycle. They also discovered that Naricain's Blood contained an energy similar to that of the Antellion, as it held a trace mineral common on Versal but absent in Maple World. Further investigation into this mineral revealed that an ore called Lianium was formed from enough quantities of the mineral.

At Corine's request, the traveler spoke with Mayor Slimm about strange people in the western jungle. With Professor Foxwit's help, they discovered that the intruders were searching for something called the "pillar of the world", for which Mayor Slimm hired a mercenary called the Glimmer Man, an interstellar traveler who claimed to be the greatest hitman in the universe. With the Glimmer Man's help, the traveler discovered that the intruders were aliens from the Planet Cerberus who were excavating for Lianium within the foundation of Masteria. After stopping the Cerberusians and gathering high-grade Lianium, the traveler returned to the Glimmer Man and Elpam Gorlab in order to learn more about Versal. The Glimmer Man revealed that Versal was a dead and barren world with unending nights, likening the people who still lived there to pale, hollow specters. He explained that chaos had engulfed Versal, though he refused to speak any further on the matter. Elpam Gorlab revealed that the absence of the Antellion, once the sole sustaining force on Versal, had resulted in Versal's collapse, though the Grandmasters of old had no idea that such a consequence would have happened by removing the Antellion. However, he revealed that despite Grandmaster Numenal's attempts to create a substitute for the Antellion, the realm had fallen into chaos at the hands of a band of anarchists who called themselves the followers of Naricain, for which most - including himself - had left the collapsed world and become nomadic wanderers.

Crimsonwood

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Phantom Forest

At Lita Lawless's request, the traveler returned to Masteria in order to investigate the Phantom Forest. There, they discovered that a relief squad dispatched by Afinas - composed of Riman, Enneth, and a Devata named Garnet - had come to assist them. Together, they met with Corine in order to learn more about the forest. Corine revealed that her allies, the Raven Ninjas, were a group descended from the Shadowknights who had set up a base in the forest. After Corine gave them a letter of introduction, the group entered the forest, which was filled with an oppressive aura of fear, as well as corrupted Krakians and Keep soldiers. Slowly losing their sanity from the forest, the group was attacked by the Headless Horseman, whose terrifying presence kept them all rooted to the spot. However, Garnet was able to use her Devata powers to heal their minds, staving off their fear and allowing them to flee.

Eventually, the group found themselves at the camp of the Raven Ninjas. The camp leader, Taggrin, was initially mistrustful of them until reading Corine's letter, after which he revealed that the Raven Ninjas were descendants of the Shadowknights who hailed from the barrier ocean to the north of Masteria. He explained that the Shadowknights had built a citadel called the Watchtower, where they had retreated after the fall of the Keep. During the fall of the Keep, Grandmaster Lireni - in an act of cowardice - had commissioned a fleet to set sail from Masteria, though the sinking of the continent had destroyed most of the fleet and the Watchtower, along with countless ancient records and artifacts. Following this, the Shadowknights had splitered into various clans over the centuries, with the Raven Ninjas being the last clan that still held to the old code, watching like ravens for Masteria's return, investigating its reappearance, and putting to rest the vengeful spirits in the forest who had fallen in the battle.

After learning that the Masteria Research Team had disappeared some time ago in the Keep, the traveler and the Afinas squad headed to Crimsonwood Mountain, where they found a Nameless Warrior protecting Becky from corrupted monsters. Though Afinas took Becky under their protection, the mysterious warrior refused to join them and instead left to continue his own investigation. Following this, the traveler obtained Lireni's Log from Becky and brought it back to Taggrin. They then began helping him handle the monsters of the Phantom Forest, such as the Headless Horseman - who was once a Versalian named Master Killian. Killian had been in love with the sorceress LeFay until she had been corrupted by Naricain's Blood, after which he had fallen in to a rage, slaughtering enemies and allies alike until Crimsonheart himself had cut him down, after which he had returned as a corrupted entity called the Headless Horseman, riding the horse monster that LeFay had turned into. The traveler learned about a mysterious entity called the Phantom of Naricain, which Taggrin speculated to be a large spirit formed from many smaller spirits of the forest.

Gollux

The traveler was brought to the Phantom Forest by a mysterious Mountain Mumur and led to a woman who called herself the Heart Tree Guardian. The Guardian brought them into a hideout that blocked out the dark energies of the forest and revealed that she sought to defeat a large creature called Gollux, who had once been part of the Heart Tree of Masteria. She explained that the Heart Tree once poured holy blessings upon Masteria until the great war, when a corrupted creature had fused with the tree to create Gollux. As Gollux merely regenerated from Naricain's Blood imbued in the continent, the Guardian hoped to stop the corruption by defeating Gollux and forcing him to keep leeching Naricain's Blood from the land until it disappeared. For this reason, the traveler helped her weaken the corruption by defeating Gollux many times. Soon after, the traveler met with the Afinas relief squad, though the Guardian disappeared upon their arrival. Though Garnet appeared to sense the Guardian's presence, she nevertheless decided against investigating. After the squad left the area, the Guardian removed her wig, revealing herself to be a girl named Hanett, with red eyes and blonde hair just like the other Devatas of Afinas. Though worried about Afinas' presence in the area, Hanett resolved to move on with the corruption weakened, vowing that the tragedy that endless repeated had to be stopped.

Masteria Conclusion / MesoGears

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The Glimmer Man contacted the traveler and asked them to check on the Barricade Brothers, the famous treasure hunters whom he had hired to find Subani's Legacy. In the MesoGears, the traveler met with John Barricade and learned that they had made no progress on finding Subani's Legacy. To help John, the traveler investigated the interior of the MesoGears, fighting past the mysterious monsters and discovering a tombstone that stated "Here lies the Great Guardian Christopher Crimsonheart", signed only with a "V". With the tombstone being unrelated to Subani's Legacy, John asked the traveler to meet with his brother, Jack Barricade, who was investigating Crimsonwood Keep. In the caves of Crimsonwood Mountain, the traveler met with Jack and learned that he had recently escaped from the corrupted army, which had kidnapped him and brought him to the Keep, where he had found the Grandmasters speaking in Versalian about the Antellion. He gave the traveler a sheet of paper on which he had recorded the symbols he had seen in the Grandmaster Hall, which the traveler brought to Elpam Gorlab. Elpam revealed that the symbols were the modern-day script of Versal, and that they part of a larger passage which ordered the acquisition of the 'Noille Nalle' from Crimsonheart's resting place in Olde Sapp Village. Elpam revealed that 'Noille Nalle' meant the 'Star of Night', another word for the Antellion, which had brought great pain to Versal.

After checking in with the Glimmer Man and revealing what they had discovered about Crimsonheart's resting place in the MesoGears, the traveler went back to Jack, who resolved to enter the Keep and investigate. After finding that the entrance was blocked, the traveler spoke with Taggrin and learned that one needed to complete five trials to enter the Keep. The traveler passed the five trials and arrived inside the Keep, where they discovered the Glimmer Man, a woman with blonde hair and red eyes named Yurian, and several Versalian soldiers, as well as a wounded Lukan being propped up by the Nameless Warrior. The Glimmer Man then revealed himself to be a young Versalian man with blond hair and purple eyes named Modryn, the leader of the followers of Naricain. Modryn revealed that thanks to the traveler's information, he had been able to acquire the Antellion fragment in Lukan's possession in order to activate the Dimensional Gate in the Keep, which would allow them to revive Naricain and restore Versal. Just as Modryn activated the Dimensional Gate and summoned the Phantom of Naricain, Cayne - the Afinas Knight dispatched to the Abrup Basin with the traveler - arrived with a legion of Afinas Knights and drove back the creature, just as Modryn and the others fled.

Back outside the Keep, Cayne revealed that Afinas leadership had taken an interest in the Antellion. Lukan then revealed that the Nameless Warrior was named Broad, and that Broad was a descendant of another guild of the Keep called the Bosshunters, many of whom had escaped the great war because they had been away from Masteria during its fall. He also revealed that he had been investigating the history that they had changed after going back in time, and that he had concluded that nothing had changed at all. He then explained that he believed the Antellion itself had been creating illusions to manipulate Dr. Jang into creating the Time Portal by presenting a vision of Naricain, and that it had implanted false memories into him that the traveler had seen inside Professor Foxwit's time portal, all for some unknown purpose. In addition, he revealed that the Antellion had been speaking to him with Naricain and Subani's voice in an effort to return back to Versal.

Having learned this revelation, Cayne told the traveler that his goal had been to contact Subani with the Dimensional Gate, adding that Grandmaster Delgrund was the reason for Subani's importance to Afinas. Promising to contact them soon with more information, Cayne and the Afinas Knights returned back to headquarters. The traveler then met with Mayor Slimm, who revealed the truth behind New Leaf City and explained that Subani's light had shown him a vision of a dark creature with countless arms ruling a world of chaos, and that he had been asked to create the city in order to stop that future from happening, tasking him with remaining silent until the time came. With Subani promising to return when the need was great, the mayor told the traveler that - thought he wondered whether that light was even truly Subani - he believed that the traveler's courage and honor would help them write their own fate.

Trivia

• New Leaf City was introduced in July 2007 as part of the v.40 Update, while Crimsonwood was released in August 2008 as part of the v.59 Update. The Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest was introduced in March 2009 as of the v.66 Update. The original version of the area was left incomplete due to the original team leaving Nexon America, particularly the producer / Game Designer NxProse.
  • There were various expansions that were hinted at which were never released, such as Krakia, Isle of Vigilance, and Versal, a parallel world to Maple World.
• In March 2016, the area became the focus of the Masteria Through Time Blockbuster, which retconned a lot of the lore of Masteria.
  • The Haunted House, also known as the Prendergast Mansion, was also located right outside Crimsonwood's Phantom Forest, until its removal in the same update.
  • Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest's closure in the same update came with an announcement that it would be released later in the year. However, it has yet to return.
  • The area was changed further in the MapleStory: Glory Update in December 2019, completely changing the storyline, map assets, and many of the monsters.
• In most non-GMS servers, Masteria is the name given to Tynerum, the homeland of the demons and the third dimension created by the Overseers.
  • GMS's version of Masteria predates the existence of Tynerum as a whole. When KMS created the idea of the demon homeland, the name "Masteria" was used from GMS, along with many of its assets. As a result, KMS's version of Masteria has many NPCs, maps, and monsters from GMS Masteria, including Ridley, Crimsonwood, and the corrupted guild monsters.
  • Initially upon release in GMS, Crimsonheart Castle was named "Crimsonwood Keep", the same as its original basis, with Tynerum being named as "Masteria".
  • In order to integrate KMS Masteria into GMS, the demon homeland was renamed to Tynerum in the following update to distinguish it from the original GMS Masteria. KMS's Crimsonwood Keep theme dungeon was also renamed to Crimsonheart Castle in order to distinguish it from the pre-existing Crimsonwood Keep in GMS Masteria.
  • After the Glory Update, GMS updated many of the assets for Masteria, primarily in Crimsonwood, leaving Tynerum to have the pre-Glory aesthetic while also removing the Shadow Veil Forest area. A few months later, Gollux, which was originally located in Tynerum, was adapted to instead fit into the lore about Masteria and Phantom Forest.
• While JapanMS never received the original Masteria, it instead had its own version of Crimsonwood, which was located near Aqua Road.
  • Interestingly, this version was the first to introduce a fifth Pirate Boss to the Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest, Nagrom (ヘロン, Heron), who was eventually was added to the GlobalMS version of the Party Quest in February 2014.
  • The JapanMS version briefly existed in ChinaMS and TaiwanMS, but they eventually replaced it with the pre-Glory GMS version of Crimsonwood, which was then removed with Monad in 2022.
  • JapanMS eventually removed this version and replaced it with the release of Tynerum's Shadow Veil Forest area.

Availability

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