Ladies and gentlemen, we offer you the Spirit of Conquest. We will be rebooting the mud this afternoon to allow the code to go live, and the mud will need to be wizlocked for 30 minutes or so to get the Spirit of Conquest setup properly, as the commands required will lag the entire mud. Fortunately this only needs to occur once, so once the object is properly initialized, we will release the wizlock and the conquest will begin.
The Spirit of Conquest will be available via a quest, and it shouldn't be too terribly difficult to figure out who the quester is. He is not friendly, so be careful.
The Spirit of Conquest enables two things--(1) An expansion of the Rebirth Shop, and (2) A new Conquest System that every player can enjoy, regardless of whether you are reborn.
Because I think discovery is more fun than being told everything, I'll leave it at that. Please see me ingame if you have any problems or issues. Idjit and I have tested this thing quite a bit, but you never know what bugs are lurking. I would be conservative with what equipment you part with over the first week so that the Spirit of Conquest can get some mileage under its belt.