Aether Racing

Aether Racing may refer to any of the following World Event quests in game to celebrate the discovery of Velious:

• Aether Racing: Butcherblock Mountains
• Aether Racing: Lavastorm
• Aether Racing: Tenebrous Tangle

New Tracks

• Aether Racing: Antonica
• Aether Racing: Commonlands
• Aether Racing: Thundering Steppes (L50)

The first week of each month there is a City Festival event that takes place. Each month this festival is in a different major city in the game. As of the April 1st 2011 festival in Qeynos (technically in Antonica) there is a new Aether Racing track located in Antonica. (It is unclear if this trent will continue as we move on to other city festivals, but players have high hopes that it will. We will know for sure come May 1st at the Gorwyn city festiva.)

Notes

So...it turns out that the gnomes are horribly, terribly jealous of the "meat solution" to flying mounts found in Velious and they're working furiously to come up with a tinkering substitution instead. Thus, the debut of "Aether Racing", Tuesday, March 1st 2011!

The tinkerers have cobbled together a rattling, wheezing deathtrap of a flying machine, and they want YOU to test it for them! (They're not stupid enough to test it themselves.) So they've disguised their guinea pig flying program as a set of air racing courses that they've sprinkled throughout Norrath. You can go to either Lavastorm, Butcherblock, or Tenebrous Tangle to join in on the racing action and prizes *are* awarded for good times as incentive for pushing their rattletraps as hard as they'll go.

Race course signup NPCs are close enough to globe or wizard spire zone-in positions that *any* level of character can participate in these races, despite the courses being set in zones that are normally too difficult for some folks.

Prizes include:

• Cool new titles that show how awesome you are at racing.
• The ability to toodle around the zone in the racer that you used...as long as you beat the course time when racing. (This goes away when you zone or log out.)
• A new mount to use after you complete the Velious flying mount quests! (This is a permanent object and can be used after you complete the Gryphon quests in Velious.)
• There are 5 permanent appearance mounts to win, and one purple bonus mount given out by Guides. So far, the maximum amount of permanent mounts that can be won from racing is 4. One for completing a course 5 times, up to three courses (3 mounts in total), and another one will become available after a lot of races. Number of races is unknown but might be close to 100 races. The 4th one was won in Lavastorm. Not known if possible in other locations too. If anyone get all 5 mounts, please update this info properly.
• Gray C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Dark C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Blue C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Green C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Red C.R.A.S.H. Pad

There are hazards and boons as you race so you need to study courses to get the best times, high-score lists, and more. Come check it out!

This event is for Tuesday, March 1st ONLY. (Although if you like it, we might fine-tune it and attach it to Tinkerfest in the future. Just let us know!)