AION 2 factions: Elyos vs Asmodians
Your faction decides which servers you can play on. Elyos and Asmodians have separate servers and meet in the Abyss, and rifts are part of the global game’s PvP, so the one choice that really matters is being on the same side, and the same server, as the people you want to play with. Neither faction has a known gameplay edge.
“Elyos and Asmodian servers are separate, but our factions meet in The Abyss for action-packed PvP battles.”
The servers added during the Launch Scale Test came in pairs, one Elyos and one Asmodian. The launch server list is not out yet; how regions and servers are set up is on regions and servers.
The two sides at a glance
| Topic | Elyos | Asmodians |
|---|---|---|
| Tagline | “Guardians of Light. Wings of Grace.” | “Forged in Shadows. Wings of Dominion.” |
| First companion | Hithanya, described as strong-willed | Nemon, described as mysterious |
| Homeland (Korean version) | The south of Atreia | The north of Atreia |
| Temperament (Korean version) | A people who stand for grace and holiness | Rough, warlike and beast-like in temper |
| Servers | Elyos-only | Asmodian-only |
Who greets you first depends on your side:
“Meet the person who will find you first on your journey in AION 2. Elyos will encounter the strong-willed Hithanya and Asmodians will travel alongside the mysterious Nemon.”
What the choice does and does not lock in
- Your server, and so your friends
- Servers belong to one faction. Pick with your group before anyone makes a character, and check the class spread on the class page while you are at it.
- Your enemies
- The other faction is who you fight in the Abyss and in the open world. How that PvP works is on PvP and the Abyss.
- Dungeon parties (Korean version)
- In Korea, Expedition, Transcendence and Sanctuary dungeons let Elyos and Asmodians join the same party, with shared party and dungeon chat. NC has not said whether global works the same way; for Early Access, party matching spans all Early Access servers in your region.
- The Market (Korean version)
- The Korean World Market trades with players on every server, but only with your own faction. The global version has not confirmed the same rule.
- Your class
- The same eight classes are listed with no faction attached, though it has not been stated outright that every class is open to both sides.
It is not known yet whether one account can hold characters on both sides, or whether a character can ever change faction. Because each server is one faction, playing the other side means making a character on another server.
The story in brief
The setting is a world cut in two: “In AION 2, the planet Atreia is split in half.” And the backdrop: “The Elyos-Asmodian War ended with the fall of the AION Tower.” The official lore comes in five chapters, whose titles give the outline: Collapsed AION Tower, Divided Atreia, Death of the Empyrean Lord, Age of the New Dragon Lords, and Daeva, the winged beings every player character is.
You do not need the first game to follow it. NC’s words on it: “You can jump into AION 2 with no prior knowledge of AION’s world or story!”
So which one?
Go with your friends first, looks second. If you are joining alone, pick the side whose look and story you prefer, then settle the class and server before claiming anything from a Founder’s Pack, because several pack items stay with the first character or server that claims them. The character creator is the next stop, and the map page covers each side’s lands.