Aeria Games, a leading publisher of interactive entertainment, released a major update for Shaiya, the company’s free-to-play fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Hundreds of new quests, monsters and items now appear in Shaiya. Players need more power than ever to face these new challenges. To accommodate these needs, the update increases the level cap to 70, for the first time in Shaiya’s history. Arriving in a free update entitled "Relic of Mystra," the new content for Shaiya represents the most sweeping changes to the game since its launch nearly three years ago.
 
Shaiya is a critically acclaimed free-to-play MMORPG set in a strange and distant fantasy world. Players must take sides in an age-old blood feud between two warring factions: the Union of Fury and the Alliance of Light. With today’s update, the world is now larger than ever before, including: Entirely new areas with new enemies to defeat, exciting quests and new loot to discover. Players test their might against these challenges while utilizing over 150 new character skills and climbing towards the  increased level cap of 70.
 
The unexplored dangers of Canos Ilium and Regnum await players with hundreds of new monsters and challenges, including battles against elemental demi-gods of ice and fire. Players also face new challenges against one another, with a new map added to the game made specifically for Shaiya’s fast-paced Realm vs. Realm combat.
 
For more details about Shaiya and to sign up for a free game account, please visit http://shaiya.aeriagames.com.