Sword Art Online RPG

Kayaba Akihiko: The lead developer of NerveGear, full dive technology and Sword Art Online. Kayaba always dreamed of his floating steel castle in the sky, and that's what Aincrad was based on. When SAO launched, Kayaba made it so that no one can logout. The only way to leave the game was clear floor 100's final boss. And anyone that dies in the game, when their HP reaches 0, will have their avatars deleted and the NerveGear fry the users brain.

Agil: Agil, also known as Andrew Gilbert Mills in the real world, is a 27 year old bulky African-American man with a brown goatee and brown eyes. He is bald and wears two silver earrings on his left ear. In the real world he owns a café called Dicey Café and he typically uses a two handed large axe weapons. Agil is a very friendly and helpful person who is always looking out for others. He is also trustworthy and reliable, shown when he defended the beta testers against Kibaou and helped players on lower floors. He also can be a leader on the battlefield and will help his comrades and friends no matter the cost. Although Agil acted as though he only cared about making money, he actually is a big softy in using all his money to help lower leveled players acquire better gear.

Silica: Silica, also known as Ayano Keiko in the real world, has light brown hair tied into two tails by red ribbons, as well as two red ring baubles. Like her hair, Keiko's eyes in the real world are light brown; however, her SAO avatar had red eyes. Silica is very kind, bright, cheerful, and supportive of her friends. She also has the beast tamer skill, allowing her to acquire a tamed beast that becomes her companion. As such she developed a deep attachment to her tamed monster named Pina, a blue bodied soft pale blue feathers and is a Feathered Little Dragon.

Kibaou: Kibaou is a short yet solidly built man with sienna, spiky (cactus-styled) hair. He also has a small sienna goatee and brown eyes and wears a scale mail armor with a rather large one-handed sword on his back. During the early days of SAO, he openly speaks out his dislike of former beta testers. Blaming the early deaths of players who died on floor one on the beta testers. Blaming them for withholding information, taking the easy quests and keeping the easy hunting spots to themselves. As time goes on, he eventually becomes more power hungry. He originally will find the Aincrad Liberation Squad, and leads his guild in the early days of SAO to clear the floors.

Lisbeth: Lisbeth, also known as Shinozaki Rika in real life. Rika has brown hair in the real world and she used to have brown hair in the early days of Sword Art Online, until she later customized it to pink with a white hairpin. Lisbeth is a very friendly person that can get along with just about everyone she meets. She is hardworking and takes great pride in her abilities as a blacksmith. She will become very defensive and aggressive if someone were to challenge her pride as a blacksmith. Lisbeth is very teasing as well.

Thinker: Thinker has umber-brown, wavy hair and brown eyes. In Sword Art Online, Thinker wore a teal trench coat, white gloves and gray trousers. Thinker desired to help those in need. During his time in SAO, he spent most of his time spreading information and resources equally among as many players as possible in order for them to use that mutual aid to clear the death game. He is in charge of the popular net gaming information site: «MMO Today». He will become the guild master of the Aincrad Liberation Force, the largest guild in all of Aincrad.

Yulier: She serves as a vice commander for the Aincrad Liberation Force. She was devoted to aiding Thinker with his duties. Yulier is a woman of tall stature who has long, silver hair tied up in a ponytail which give off an impression of intelligence, has sky-blue eyes that shine intensely and a sharp, well-featured face. She wears an iron-gray cape on her body, under which she wears a dark green coat with leggings well-fitted for her thighs - the uniform of the Aincrad Liberation Force. She carries a shortsword on the right side of her waist and a curled up whip on her left. She also has gold earrings. Her voice is that of a composed, elegant alto. Yulier is a person who is loyal to her guild's leader, Thinker, and cares for him greatly.

Klein: In both Sword Art Online and the real world, Klein wore a red bandana that held up his hair and was tied around his forehead. In Sword Art Online, he had spiky reddish hair, but he has brownish hair in the real world. He also had a hooked nose, a slight beard on his cheeks and chin making him look like a wandering samurai or a bandit. Originally, Klein is a new player. Klein is one of the friendliest people in the series and sets the mood when he is around. He never holds grudges against others and is always ready to lend a helping hand. He cares deeply for his friends and always wants to be by their side fighting alongside them when they are in danger even to the point of getting angry. He gets angry when people get into situations that can get them killed since he wants to protect as many people as he can. Klein is a very loyal person, Klein is also a "bachelor" and is shown trying to get together with various women.

Mahokl: Mahokl has a small frame, wears glasses with a swirly texture resembling that of a classic manga series. Her hair is bright brown and in braids. When working in her shop as a craftsman, she has been seen wearing a blue denim apron and thick leather gloves. She will open a shop on floor 3, called Mahokl Atelier with her woodcrafting skill in making furniture.

Ryufior: Ryufior is an impulsive person, who can easily become furious. Such as when he recklessly tried to enhance his weapon after failing once, and later threatened the blacksmith who attempted the enhancements, while brandishing his sword, instead of taking some time to relax and purchasing or providing extra materials to boost his chances of success. He was only able to calm down after his friends suggested completing the «Secret Medicine of the Forest» again. Ryufior wore a full suit of metal armour and a large, three-horned helmet. He was armed with an «Anneal Blade», until it was sold due to multiple enhancement failures.

Ceba: Ceba had wanted to be an artist since she was a child. She had graduated from high school and decided to go to art school, but unwillingly became trapped in Sword Art Online. She has skin tone hair with bangs, light brown eyes and red rimmed glasses. She has the beast taming skill, and had tamed a wolf monster she named Yodare.

Zash: ash is generally friendly and protective toward his companions, though he can be distant with those he doesn't know well. This is partially as to what happened in the real world, where he ignored someone asking for help and its been haunting him ever since. And every since hes been wanting to help people and protect those around him to make up for what he did. He is an horrible judge of character, always having problem in understanding others. Peoples preferring to keep their distance like Musoh and Stina seem to make him almost paranoid—to the point where he refuses to let them out of his sight until they have proven themselves to him. That said, once they have done so, he always apologizes for his behavior. Zash is not a morning person at all—whether in real life or in the game—a flaw he is still trying to overcome. He uses a two handed sword as a weapon. Zash is a university student, with a light orange hair, with a grey green color eyes.

Musou: Musou has an easy-going personality and softens the atmosphere at parties, but his true intentions are difficult to understand. He is a seasoned gamer who has mastered the mechanics of numerous titles, a background that has instilled in him habits highly effective for tackling bosses. Although he at first comes across as being just a troll and a womanizer, he is actually far more astute than he appears. He prefers to take the time to analyze a boss's move set from a distance before taking action. Possessing keen powers of observation, once he has sized up his opponent, he immediately dives into the fray to deal massive damage. He is also a terrifyingly effective duelist despite using a two handed two headed axe as his weapon of choice. Musou is in his thirties, as well seems to have trouble getting along with younger people—something he readily admits. He wears a tan color trench coat with black gloves, and open heeled shoes. He has a darker green hair that has past the shoulder length bangs that frame his face.

Sasha: Sasha is a protective and caring person who is willing to take in young players, who are lost and unwilling to fight. Sasha is a young woman with brown hair and green eyes. She wears rimless, oval glasses. In Sword Art Online, Sasha wears a long navy blue dress with a white collar. After the start of SAO she works hard to earn money to buy a church building to use as her orphanage and safe shelter for the children stuck in the game and those that lost the will to fight.

Kairos: Kairos is a charismatic leader and strategic tactician, however, despite having natural born leader qualities, he actually prefers to pass down orders and follow alongside someone in a vice leader or vice commander position. He is both skilled in both swordplay and command, inspiring teammates to reach their full potential for their leader. Kairos is in his mid twenties, a late year college student and is on the thin side. As he had to skip several meals to save up money to buy the hardware to even use the NerveGear.

Arne: Cals older brother by a few years. He decided to play SAO under the request of his younger brother Cal in order to bond reconnect with his younger brother, even though Arne does not play video games. Arne is a bit more tan and with more defined muscles unlike his brother. Unlike his brother he prefers to use a two handed great sword. Arne is also a lot more serious than his brother Cal and comes off as a bit cold hearted.

Vorax Ironclad: A burly and resilient tank with a deep love for blacksmithing. Vorax is often seen wielding a massive shield and an equally imposing sword in full plate armor, protecting allies with unwavering determination. Vorax is quite the muscular man, standing at about six feet talk, with a brown beard and hair. Some would say his arms and chest are the size of tree trunks.

Ryker Flameheart: A fiery-tempered spear user. After the launch of SAO he found a way to dye his hair to red and some barber NPC's that allowed him to change his hair style to be more in a upward setting like a flame.

Rick Hennessey: Rick is dressed in a crossed suit, gray, in a very formal style. He wears black leather gloves. He has gray hair, combed back, and also has a mustache. He has blue eyes and a monocle on his left eye. He wears a gray English hat. He is the AI that is in charge of documenting and recording all players in what skills the acquire, what level the skills are at. He resides in the hidden Aincrad Library, and he has a fascination with greek mythology.

Master Tanaka: Unlike most other Administrator AI's that are suppose to be teachers for various other weapon types to allow players, Tanaka only specializes in katana swordsmanship, which also includes Wakizashi weapons as well. Of which he actually really enjoys. His dojo is on floor 10, his appearance is that of a middle aged man with a few scars on his arms and some grey hair forming. He has a relaxed posture, and has a friendly rivalry with his fellow AI Beatrice.

Beatrice: Also known as Mistress Beatrice is a teacher AI like Tanaka. She teaches those who use single handed swords, two handed long swords, claymores, and other sword like weapons such as those. She has a bit of a strange habit, she often has her male students train totally shirtless and her female students train without a shirt but a sports bra. She claims its to build character, to not allow her students from being embarrassed by the body. In reality she just wants to see her students shirtless and sweaty. And her facial expression confirms it all with how she drools with a flushed face. Her rivalry with Tanaka is simply finding the best student possible to raising the strongest swordsman of their sword class and type.

Grimjaw: A big burly man with muscles the size of tree trunks and the tallest and largest of the administrative AI's model. He teaches those who use heavy armor, two handed hammers axes and large and heavy shields. He believes that if the body is strong the weapon is strong. As such his quests that he gives out are the most physically challenging. Gimjaw also has the authority to provide his students that use two handed weapons, a skill to allow them to use two handed weapons as a one handed weapon if their strength stat is high enough. Allowing his students to wield heavy axes and hammers, along with tower shields as well.

Aldric: While not a teacher for weapons, he teaches potions and crystal crafting. On the surface he challenges his students. His upmost respect to give is when he can argue with a student who challenges his teachings and findings of alchemy. He resides on floor 14, inside the campus.

Nikki: One of the teacher AI's, she focuses on a more unique type of weapons. Such as battle fans known as Tessen, Kusarigamas, Kamas, Kusari-fundo, Chigiriki, Kyoketsu-shoge. She has the appearance of a middle to older aged teenager. Often wearing a form of training gi that exposes much of her legs. Her dojo resides on floor 10, much like Master Tanaka does. She has a more calm and positive attitude, often cheering her students on and encouraging them.

Mogami: Much like with Nikki and Tanaka, Mogami resides on floor 10, training players in traditional Japanese weaponry. His range of weaponry consists of: Chokuto, Naginata, Kabutowari, Kanabo, Sasumata, and Tekko-kagi. Much with Tanaka hes patient with his students, as his weapons aren't exactly easy to learn and master. Though hes not as energetic as someone like Nikki, as hes about in his late thirties to early forties.

Vafeam Duskgrip: A brown haired dwarf with a beard that goes nearly all the way down to his boots. Much like with Aldric, he teaches black smiting at the campus on floor 14. Similar to Aldric as well, he can be quite loud and can be start fights with his students. However, his way of fighting is more aggressive and comes out of anger in one aspect. Vafeam cannot stand seeing aspiring black smiths disrespect their forge hammers, anvils, furnaces, materials their working with, or the weapons they are making or working with. Quite often as well, if Vafeam sees such disrespect, hes often known to use his own forging hammer to smack his students on the head. Quite hard as well. As Vafeam is a dwarf, he does not mind people making fun of his height, often playing along with it as well and laughing at such jokes as well.

Iori: Originally, Iori's avatar was male during the beta. But after Kayaba makes all players look like their real life selves, her real self will be revealed to be a girl. Though upbeat and positive, she has a tendency to forget the needs of others in her pursuit of perfection. This has always caused her to be somewhat difficult for her to forge meaningful friendships. She has tan like color hair, and her preferred weapon of choice is a single handed sword with a one handed shield in the other.

Cal: Former Beta Tester, and one of the best players during the beta test. He is calm, but with a slight detached air. During the beta, he devoted his time to helping SAO newbies, in order to help himself learn how to teach. As such when the launch of SAO arrived, he wanted his brother to play with him and teach him how to play as well. His preferred weapon of choice is a rapier, often wearing purple and white color armor much like his own hair.

Wyzeman: Collage student who became quite obsessed with reading and discovering SAO's lore. While normally careful and thoughtful, he is highly susceptible to flattery. More than anything, it's his knowledge that helps him survive game. He is tall, with light black hair and glasses with his preferred weapons being a one handed maces and one handed shields.

Argo: Argo, also known as Argo the Rat, is a former beta tester and one of the few info brokers of SAO. Meaning she sells information about quests, monster spawns, chest locations, item locations. Basically anything that requires information to know about, Argo buys the information, the map data, and sells it back to other players for a price. At first she uses daggers before using Tekko-Kagi which are claw like weapons. Argo is a nimble-looking player who has brown eyes[ and curly golden-brown hair. She wears full-body cloth and leather armor, a hooded cloak and also has whiskers on her face, which were originally a mark from a quest, but now a makeup of her choice.

Elixer: Also known as the mad alchemist, he was the only player during the beta to reach a max level crafting skill in the potion making crafting skill. However, in doing so, hes gone a bit mad. Constantly mumbling to himself about potions and ingredients when to focused on his craft. As hes discovered that manually crafting potions yields better and more interesting results than letting the games system craft for him.

Saayu: Saayu had shoulder length blonde hair with a triangular hair clip and orange eyes, her prefer weapon is a two-handed sword. She has a cheerful personality and is usually the heart of any party shes part of. Much like with Wyzemen, shes a college student. And Much like Wyzemen she made her avatar to look exactly like her real world self.

Diavel: Diavel had a bronze armor set on his chest, shoulders, arms, and shins, with a large longsword on his left waist, and a kite shield on his back. He had blue hair with long bangs and blue eyes. His clothes under the armor were also blue. Diavel was a strong and natural leader, having led the raiding group with tactics, resulting with almost no casualties and inspiring fellow players to clear the death game with his speech of determination. However, his personality had a darker side as he secretly tried to use the situation to his own advantage.

Azuki: Being a former beta tester, she is quite skilled. Her weapon of choice are daggers and throwing knifes, but during her time in the beta when she reached floor 10 and being one of the few players to climb up past floor eight, she discovered and invented her own way of fighting. A style in fighting that the game system doesn't officially recognize though highly expensive. She discovered she can use talismans to give her allies short temporary buffs. During the beta she wore a battle kimono she acquired after doing quests in the hidden kitsune villages around floor 10. Her hair is a pretty red like that of fire.

Stina: Stina has a quiet personality, always addressing people politely when conversing with someone. Stina, originally is an exchange student in a university from Sweden. Due to someone who she was in a party with, in the beta test that started following her around, Stina became uncomfortable around men. She wears a dark brown lightly armored top and gloves. Light grey shorts, and dark brown boots. Her hair color is a light skin stone and she has two small twin tails tied on the top of her head. Her preferred weapon is a two handed hammer.

Stella: During the Beta Stella, along with her friend and sidekick Foxglove, recorded themselves playing SAO. Specifically they lured in unsuspecting players into traps and killed them. However, after SAO launched and death became permeant, its unknown if she will continue being a player killer. She is beautiful and charismatic, she has countless admirers despite her beta footage antics. Her preferred weapon is a large two handed great sword. She wears mostly dark clothing, with her hair in a pony tail with her hair color being almost black.

Foxglove: A girl who travels alongside Stella, who she is absolutely obsessed with. She would do anything for her companion without a moment's hesitation. She is shorter than Stella, wearing colored armor that matches her hair. Her hair color being a split between pink and black, with red strips. She wears a red hearted black outlined eyepatch over her right eye, with the heart being fractured. Her preferred weapon of choice is a two handed hammer weapon.

Syndra: Syndra was one of the best player blacksmiths during the beta. Her physique is that of a tomboy. Originally, she designed her character to have more softer feminine features and tried to make her character look more like an elf, however after everyone's avatar was forced to look like their real world selves she was forced to get use to her tomboy physique. In the real world, she works in a metal working factory, and she hates how muscular she gotten. Often being jealous of other girls, both players and NPC's of their soft feminine features and bodies. In the real world as well, shes also a workaholic who developed a reliance on carbonated drinks to get her through the day. As such after SAO started and she became stuck in the game, she not only works on her black smiting skill, but also a cooking skill in hopes to remake soda drinks. She has brown hair that goes down to her shoulders, and two different colored eyes, one a light blue and the other a grey color.

Seraphina: During the beta Seraphina was one of the best swordswomen out there. She was also known as The Dancer as a nickname, as she was equal parts graceful and agile in her movements. Her prefer weapon was a named weapon known as White Dragon's Twin Fang, a one handed short sword. A very rare type of weapon, or rather weapons, that actually allows dual wielding but only with another copy of the same weapon.

Loretta: Loretta being a former beta tester was initially excited. However after the launch of SAO she quickly found herself unable to engage in any kind of monsters due to fear. Only able to hunt down animals for food ingredients. As such after launch, she focuses solely on hunting those kinds of animals while also inadvertently increasing her stealth and concealment skill while avoiding monsters, buying and selling ingredient items. In the real world shes a chef, and in order to keep herself busy with being trapped in SAO, she focuses on her cooking skill. Wanting to either buy and open her own restaurant, or to join a guild where she can just remain inside a guilds kitchen. While she does enjoy hearing the stories of those around her, hearing what they have seen and what monsters to face, she simply cant bring herself to join them.

The NerveGear is the main device that allows for full dive technology for video games. The NerveGear intercepts signals in the brain, putting the user into a unconscious state while projecting the game into users dreams via microwaves. The users body is totally unresponsive to the outside the world while this is happening.

Aincrad is what the world of Sword Art Online is called. It consists of one hundred floors stacked on top of each other floating in the sky. The final floor, floor 100, houses the Ruby Palace where the final boss is at. The sun beams through the floors with no shadows being casted by the floors above. One each floor, there is the Labyrinth Tower that connects the current floor that goes upward to the next floor. Each of these towers has what's called a floor boss inside a boss room. In order to ascend to the next floor, the floor boss must be defeated in order for the stairway that continues upwards can be revealed. The floors are set up to be one big circle, or close enough to be a circle. The floors, starting at around floor forty, begin to get smaller in diameter. Floors one through forty have about 9 km diameter, or 65 squared km each. From floors forty one to sixty eight, the average surface area of the floors reaches around 6.5 km in diameter or 33 squared km. Floors sixty nine through ninety five get even smaller. Having a average 4 km in diameter, or a surface area of 13 squared km. Finally the last five floors have a surface area of 9.2 squared km.

In the in game lore of Aincrad, the Labyrinth Towers, these towers are known as Tower of Heaven, and worshipped as objects of faith. It's said that the magic inside the towers were absorbed by the twin goddesses Tornellia and Sevatia's magic, thats how there are monsters inside. It also serves as a pipeline that supplies magical power from its base to the rest of Aincrad, and the pattern, color, and shape of its inner walls change geometrically from floor to floor, depending on the nature of the magical power flowing through that stratum.

Sword Art Online is a RPG game, however unlike many other RPG games, there is no magic of any kind nor is there any kind of archery. All combat is focused around swords, axes, hammers, and other such weapons. SAO has over 2,000 different weapon types in the game.

Sword skills are the main damage dealing method in SAO. By positioning the players weapon the weapons blade will glow a color as the sword skill activates. Other than sword skills, there's a wide variety of other skills that players can learn. These are called either field skills or crafting skills. Field skills can be used anytime anywhere, such as a listening skill, or detection skill. Crafting skills are used for crafting items, such as black smiting, alchemy, weaving and cooking skills. These skills, and the level of the skills, determine how well you can use items and materials for crafting. Other such skills give personal buffs to the players. Unique skills are skills that are not listed anywhere. They are given to players after the exceeded certain hidden requirements. Secret Sword skills are sword skills that are exclusive to certain weapons, specifically named weapons. When a named weapon has reached a certain rarity their exclusive skill will be revealed in their stats. These skills cannot be transferred to any other weapon. Royal Divine skills are the most powerful skills in the game. These skills are custom built by the Cardinal System per each player. The skill to build a Royal Divine Skill is only accessible between floors eighty through eighty nine and these quests and skills are anything but easy to complete.

Potions are primary used for restoring HP. Crystals are one time use items that do a wide variety of effects. From healing status effects to even fully healing a players HP. However, healing and status effect clearing crystals can not be chained together and used again and again, once used the player that received the healing or cleared its status effect cannot use another one until a cool down timer of three minutes passes. Teleportation crystals, teleport the player to a designated settlement on the same floor, this can not teleport a player to a different floor. Corridor crystals work similarly to teleport crystals. However, these crystals can be programed to have a set destination and can open a portal for a large group of players to travel through

Col is the base currency of the game. Monsters upon defeating them grant not only EXP and item drops but also and random number of Col. Quests fall within a few different categories, standard quests, story quests, dungeon quests. Standard quests are quests which are pretty standard and are the most common type of quests. These quests usually have players fight and kill a certain number of enemies on the floor they are given, or collection quests where they have to collect items from monster drops or from the environment themselves. Dungeon quests refers to quests that has the player go into a dungeon on a floor, either to defeat the dungeon boss at the end of the dungeon, find an item, or defeat a certain number of monsters that are inside the dungeon. Story quests are much larger quests, some consists of taking the player through multiple floors in order to complete. However these are also some of the hardest to complete, if the player fails anywhere during the quests, they can no longer continue the quests. Quests can be found via NPC's that give quests and notice boards in each settlements. Quests primarily only reward Col, crafting materials and sometimes weapons and armor pieces. They do not reward EXP.

NPC's, also known as Non Player Controlled characters, populate the settlements on each floor. Most of these NPC's follow a set path, traveling through the streets, moving from one destination to another. Simply filling in the space to make settlements feel more alive. Merchant NPC's operate the merchant stands and stores and crafting stores. NPC's that operate the crafting stores, such as black smiting, and cooking, will sometimes house quests for their specific crafting skill. Story NPC's operate differently, they can interact and talk to players within a slight limited compacity.

Weapons can be enhanced six times using monster material parts or other various crafting materials. Each material enhances a weapon stats to different degrees. The materials found in the lower floors of course enhance stats in small numbers. But as materials are found in the upper floors, those materials increase states by a large amount. This process can only happen a total of eight times, any further enhancements will turn the weapon into what is known as a dead weapon. Dead weapons can not be used as weapons and simply used as decoration. However, if a player does max out the enhancement attempts, the players can now melt a weapon down into metal. Once done so, they can have the metal be forged into the exact same weapon as before with improved stats and is able to be enhanced again, or they can use the metal in combination with another weapon metal to make an entirely new weapon of a different type.

On every floor, there are settlements and safe zones. Within settlements, the NPC's wonder around and where most of the quests are located to be found. On each floor is the main settlement, the biggest settlement with the most NPC's and buildings, and most importantly a teleportation stone in the central courtyard. These teleportation stones are the only way to fast travel between floors, and can only be activate by players reaching the stone for the first time. Once activate all players in the game can use them. While in settlements, and in safe zones of dungeons, a players HP will not be drained. No matter how many attacks and sword skills their bodies take.

These AI's are almost human in how they operate, and fall under two categories. There are those that help run and manage SAO's systems. Such as Rick who manages the Aincrad skill library and whos main job is to record every skill and level of skill every player acquires. Then there are the majorty of the other AI's, whos job it is is to blend in as normal NPC's, their jobs are to run and manage the various sword schools and to create quests to generate sword skills for players. These AI's will never openly admit they are AI's and will only confirm if they are when a player asks or realizes they are.

Unlike the higher floors of Aincrad, the 1st Floor does not have a particular theme or dominant geography. As the starting location of all new players, the great expanse of the 1st Floor is quite diverse. The Town of Beginnings is located on the southern end of the floor and rests over the edge of the floating castle. The metropolis encompasses twenty percent of the floor's surface area and is the focal point of the floor, featuring the teleport gate in the central plaza. The city wall forms a semi-circle to the north. Grasslands surround the Town of Beginnings, and they are populated primarily by boar and wolf-type monsters. Worms, beetles, and wasp-type insect monsters also inhabit the grasslands surrounding the Town of Beginnings. To the northwest of the Town of Beginnings, there is a deep forest region. The northeast is a lake region. Players must pass through either of the two regions before reaching a significantly more dangerous mountainous region containing ruins, valleys, and more difficult monsters.

Tolbana is the second largest town on the 1st Floor, at approximately 200 meters wide. It is the closest town to the 1st Floor Labyrinth, only 30 minutes away from its entrance, and it is the site of the first «1st floor boss strategy conference». The town is lined with large windmills. Tolbana has several bars and restaurants, 3 inns, and a number of NPC houses. Tolbana also has several fountains and an amphitheatre-like meeting place. Its main plaza is known as «Fountain Square».

The 2nd Floor of Aincrad is a savanna realm covered in plains and boulders and roughly the same size as the first floor. The 2nd Floor is divided into a wide-open northern half and a narrow southern half. The floor consists mostly of table-topped mountains, looming over plains, dotted with small caves through which underground rivers run. It is primarily inhabited by large ox-type monsters. To the west of Urbus is a savanna and field region characterized by dangerous buffalo-type monsters roaming about. Beyond the savanna is a wasteland is regarded as dangerous when the floor is opened. There is an exceptionally high towering mountain in the southern edge of the floor, which is a small clearing surrounded by cliffs, a spring, and a lone tree. The main settlement of this floor is Urbus.

The 3rd Floor of Aincrad is a forest-themed floor. Unlike the woods around Horunka on the 1st Floor or the southern area of the 2nd Floor, the 3rd Floor is covered entirely by enormous ancient trees. The southern area of the floor is called the Forest of Wavering Mists, a baffling place choked with thick fog. The labyrinth is located in the northern area of the floor, which is separated from the southern area by mountains. A tiny pass, guarded by a Field Boss, is all that connects the two areas of the floor. The majority of NPC's on this floor are Dark Elfs and Forest Elfs. Both of which are at war with each other. The dark elf and forest elf bases are instanced locations, created temporarily for each party taking on the dark elf or forest elf paths of the Elf War campaign respectively. The dark elf base is located at the south end of the forest, while the forest elf base is located at the north end. The Forest Elf Camp is the key location for a chapter in both sides of the Elf War campaign. The camp disappears and reappears at a random location once someone completes the respective task at the camp.

The 4th Floor of Aincrad used to be a desert canyon-themed floor in the beta version of Sword Art Online, but was turned into a waterway-themed floor in the official service version. In the beta test of Sword Art Online, the entire 4th Floor was a gravelly, reddish-brown land that consisted of a crisscrossing web of narrow, intersecting canyons that were sandy at the bottom and impossible to scale. The players had no choice but to travel through the canyons, and the sand made it significantly hard to traverse, while the complexity of the intersecting canyons made it easy to lose one’s way. Although the terrain was mostly the same in the official version of Sword Art Online, the once sandy cliffs were filled with water and the reddish-brown land was covered in lush greenery. Rovia, the main town on the 4th Floor, is located on the north side of the floor, to the southeast from the stairs that led to the 3rd Floor. Although the city had a rather plain and boring design in the beta test of Sword Art Online, it became a bright white town in the middle of a square lake. As stone-paved roads were replaced with waterways, gondolas were needed to different areas of the town. Some notable land marks, are the Bear Forest, Fallen Elf Hideout, Caldera Lake, Usco Village, Forest Elf Castle, and Yofel Castle.

The 5th Floor of Aincrad is a floor of ruins, with about 30% being natural ground and the rest being mazelike, like a giant dungeon. Karluin is the main settlement is located on top of the ruins covering the southern end of the floor. Mananarena the village is in the center of the floor. It was built in the ruins of an ancient mine, with a mineshaft dungeon at the bottom. Shiyaya, dark elf village is filled with water and greenery, it has a large granite bathtub.

Floor six is the first floor to have a cold climate theme. The ground is in a perpetual winter state. Snow covers the ground and trees with a few snow covered topped mountains. This floor also has the first surprise quest, on one such mountain, upon reaching the top, a surprise quest is triggered. The quest requires the player to defeat an ice drake on top of the mountain. Once defeated the ice melts and reveals a frozen hot springs resort that the player can buy for a cheap price. Some snow fields on this floor can be up to knee height, making traversing and fighting a struggle. However clothing and other such equipment to make traversing and dealing with the cold easier can be found and bought in the settlements stores. Wolves that stalk in forests, and yetis that nest in caves are the common monsters that can be found here. However, Yuki-Onna can be found, both hostile ones and settlements that require a high enough tracking and detection skill to find these settlements. The field boss for this floor is a giant dire wolf. And the floor boss that resides in the tower labyrinth is an Alpha Yeti.

Floor 7 is covered in crop fields, fruit orchards, and cattle fields. Lakes and rivers can be seen weaving through the crop fields populated with fish. As such, spawn areas for monsters are very limited. Most quests on this floor orientate towards collection quests with very few monster hunting quests. This is also where a fair amount of quests that orientate around the cooking skill can be found, allowing players to level up the cooking skill should players wish todo such quests. There is no field boss, however the floor boss inside the Tower Labyrinth is a scarecrow like monster known as The Harvesters Nightmare. Where the field boss inside a dark forest in the middle of the floor, is a tree Ent, known as The Whispering Wood. Seeing the tower labyrinth is more difficult here compared to the rest of the lower floors due to the perpetual fog, seeing it at night is nearly impossible.

Although the 3rd Floor also has woods as its motif, the 8th Floor is much more abundant in its forests and only has a few grasslands and rocky surfaces, while the entire surface of the floor is covered in fathomless water, rendering the surface unwalkable. Players have to use suspended paths, the branches of the humongous trees which spread in all directions or man-made suspension bridges to get around the floor. The trees on this floor are so large that they even touch the underside of the 9th Floor, making it near impossible to ascend over the forest, however, the 8th Floor is one of the few floors where the players can touch the underside of the next floor, if they are good at tree climbing, though it’s still impossible to dig a hole to the next floor. The main settlement of floor 8 is Frieven.

Unlike the floors up to this point, this floor consists of mostly mountains. Villages and Settlements are built either along the slope of mountains, or inside the mountains themselves. The pathways between settlements takes players around the cliff edges and in the tunnels of the mountains. As such flying monsters can be found outside the mountain, and most ground based monsters are inside the tunnels and cavern openings. This floor also has the highest point of raw ore that can be found in the lower floors. This ore is considered to be above average to pretty good for ore found in the lower floors.

Floor 10 is a feudal Japan style floor. The floor is nearly always having cherry blossom petals drift through the wind. The NPC's all wear traditional old Japanese clothing. The guard around town match the same aesthetic. The floor itself is divided into multiple factions being controlled by Shoguns. Some factions are friendly with each other, others not so mcuh. As such, this floor has the most story quests compared to all the lower floors. However, unlike the elven war quest line thats place across multiple floors, all these story quests only allow the players to remain on floor 10. On this floor, there are hidden villages that require a high level of detection and tracking skills to find. In this villages players can find friendly Yoki and mythical creatures and NPC's. Such as a few kitsune clans, blue and red Oni clans that are about the size of humans and simply have red and blue skin with horns. Much like with the Shogun factions, there are quests and story quests in these hidden villages and clans. The field boss is pair of raging red and blue Oni. Unlike the ones in the hidden villages, these ones are massive creatures with wooden clubs. The floor boss inside the tower Labyrinth is a human based model known as The Nameless Samurai, who uses a katana like weapon.

Floor 11's theme is based around dark ages European medieval aesthetic. As such the floor during the day is bit more murky and cloudy. At night theres a gentle fog. The ground has more mud and the forests are more darker and have a lack of vegetation. Monsters have easier time hiding and ambushing due to the darker lighting across the floor. Many settlements are usually enwrapped around walls. The larger settlements have stone walls that go up three to four stories, and smaller ones have wooden walls. This floor is divided into three factions, each with a castle and self proclaimed king of the night. The floor boss inside the tower labyrinth is a stone statue of a legendary knight that has been taken over by a malevolent spirit. Known as The Knight's Shadow. This boss has strong defenses, uses a large long sword and no shield.

Floor 12, also known as the Holy Floor, is a floor based around religion. But only of the in game religion. As such there are two large churches with a large courtyard between the two churches in the center of the floor. These churches being places of worship of the twin goddesses. On this floor, players can learn more in depth lore about the world of Aincrad. How this floating landmass was created, how the Demon King now resides in the Ruby Palace on floor 100. As well, weapons such as longswords, maces, Warhammers both one hand and two handed, tower shields, halberd and poleaxe weapon types can be found here. Many of the quests on this floor revolve around finding holy relics or lost holy records, exterminating monsters and a few story NPC quests revolve around finding more prominent and important relics and objects to the churches in dungeons or that have been stolen. There are also many phrases and conversations that the NPC's can say, talking about floors 80 through 89 about how there's angels and NPC's who are blessed by angels. And they will talk about how those floors are in a constant struggle against floors 90 to 99 against the demon like monsters that inhabit those floors. The floor boss inside the tower labyrinth, is a possessed mutated human, being possessed by a demon.

Floor 13 is a tropical rainforest themed floor. Large trees reach high upwards, with thick vegetation across the ground. There are large rivers and lakes that split the rainforest's coverage. With very few open areas that aren't shadowed by the trees. Most the settlements are elevated, using rope bridges to connect the buildings between the trees. The most prominent land mark, is the giant tree in the center of the floor. This tree's leaves reaches upwards, and if player climb it, can even touch the ceiling that is the bottom of floor 14. This giant tree houses the main settlement of floor 13, and is where most of the quests are located. Monsters on this floor are primarily insect based.

Floor 14's theme is based round a fantasy campus like those from anime, manga and manwha's. This floor has vibrant forests, grasslands, and a few major cities along the edges of the floor. With its most prominent feature being a large campus. The campus can be divided into three areas. Swordsmanship, crafting, and general education. General education is primarily to fill in space for NPC students. Teaching how to read and write in different languages in Aincrad like the elvish language the elves use. The swordsmanship classes are large, the largest areas of the entire campus and are all on the eastern side of the campus. Allowing easily tens to nearly a hundred students to attend each training arena and class. The crafting areas, are also quite large as well, not nearly as large as the training arena's, but large enough for the many crafting stations that are in the class rooms. These classes also inhabit a few towers as a part of the western wing. Many of the quests can be found on the campus itself. Often helping students in gathering monster material and other such materials from nearby forests and plains.

Floor 15 is a much more warmer floor, with two volcanic mountains as the two main notable landmasses, with one large mountain that seems to almost touch the ceiling of floor 16. But within these two volcanic mountains are two hidden dwarven citadels. Out of all the lower floors, these dwarven citadels contain the best NPC blacksmiths a player can find that isn't another player with a black smiting skill. The dwarfs harness the lava the volcanos spew, channeling the glowing orange molten rock through their cities. Using it as not only a source of heat for their forges, but also using the lava to extract molten metal out of. The settlements here are sparse and small. As such, on the surface there are not many quests. However, inside the dwarven citadels the quests are much more varied and abundant. Often having players venture into the mines the dwarfs have dug out, exterminating the monsters that have found their way in there and collecting ore. As well, there are quests that have the players bring items and resources from other floors down to this floor. Finally there are plentiful of quests revolving around black smiting, having players with the black smiting skill to create a number of weapons, armor, shields of various rarity's and stats. The rewards of the quests given to the dwarfs usually have the highest amounts of weapons, armor, shields, ore, meat, and even alcoholic drinks given as quest rewards.

The 22nd Floor of Aincrad is one of the most sparsely populated areas in Aincrad. Although it is one of the lower floors, with around 9 kilometers in diameter, most of the floor's surface is occupied by lakes and forests. Monsters only seldom appear within this floor and even the Labyrinth on this floor had a very mild difficulty. The floor is also known for not having any Field Bosses, unlike most of the other floors. The floor mostly consists of several deep coniferous forests, grass plains and numerous lakes that dot the landscape. The forests and lakes together occupy most of the floor's area, with a humongous lake, with a diameter of about 1 kilometer, existing in the middle of the floor and the floor's Labyrinth being situated on the northern coast of the humongous lake. The floor's terrain is mountainous and hilly with different areas of the floor being connected via raised wooden walkways. The floor posses a beautiful view of the landscape. Coral is the main settlement of floor 22. Located in the southern coast of a giant lake in the middle of the floor. Coral is small to the point that it may even be called a hamlet. Although there are several lakes on this floor, the lake outside of Coral is the only one with a very high difficulty and is also a place where a local fish god, that appears during a fishing event, lives. The northwestern side of the floor includes an area that is sealed off by cliffs and is inaccessible on foot. This is the site for the Witch of the West and the Three Treasures. A witch castle is located within the elliptical sealed off quest area.

The 24th Floor of Aincrad is a limnetic floor mostly covered in water. In style, the floor is quite similar to that of the 61st Floor. The floor is mostly covered in water, with an innumerable amount of isles dotting the landscape that are connected via floating bridges stretching out in all directions. The main settlement, Panareze, is designed as a man-made island in the center of a large lake.

The 25th Floor of Aincrad was a Floor that was exceedingly more difficult than the 24th Floor, possessing abnormally strong monsters, complex topography. The topography of the Floor is as complex as a maze with plenty of pitfall traps throughout the floor leading to poisonous swamps.

The 27th Floor of Aincrad is a floor of perpetual darkness, with very few openings in the exterior of the floor, meaning that no sunlight shines in the floor even during the day. The floor is rich in ore items. The floor is filled with craggy, rocky mountains. Ronbaru is a night elf-theme city, located at the bottom of a wide circular valley of the floor. The town is carved out of one of the rocky mountains that are abundant on the floor. The Labyrinth, like Ronbaru, is also carved out of one of the mountains that are abundant on the floor. Many crystal hexagonal prisms about the size of small houses stretch out from the base of the tower, hazily illuminating the tower with a blue phosphorescence. Shortly after the entrance, the natural cave gives way to a slate-tiled, man-made tunnel.

The 47th Floor of Aincrad is a garden-themed floor and is therefore nicknamed as the «Flower Garden». Most of the floor consists of small grassy hills that are covered in numerous flower patches of various colors. Floria is the main settlement on the 47th Floor. Like the entire floor, it has an abundant amount of flowers growing throughout it. The «Hill of Memories» is a field dungeon located in the northern region of the floor and is the place where Beast Tamers who have lost their Tamed Monster may come to find a Pneuma Flower to revive their fallen pets. The «Forest of Giant Flowers» is a field dungeon located in the northern region of the floor.

The 55th Floor of Aincrad is a geographically varied floor. The geography of the floor is largely inconsistent. While the main settlement is located in an area of hilly grass fields, the Labyrinth is located in an arid and desolate wasteland devoid of any vegetation and riddled with multiple canyons. Meanwhile, the western region of the floor consists of fields that are covered in large amounts of snow and ice, even in early summer. This region is also notable for its mountain ranges that, like the rest of the region, are covered in snow. Granzam, commonly nicknamed as the Steel City, is the main settlement of the floor. An unnamed tiny hamlet is located in the northern corner of the floor and is the place where players can accept the quest to fight X'rphan the White Wyrm. The West Mountain is a field dungeon located in the western region of the floor and is the place where a dragon that produces a high-grade metal spawns.

The 61st Floor of Aincrad is a lake-themed floor which was nicknamed as «Insect Land» due to its abundance in bug-type monsters and was the equivalent of hell for the majority of women. Most of the floor is taken up by a huge lake that, in size, is more like a sea, with only a few small isles dotting the landscape. The two largest islands on the floor are the ones where the main city and another where the Labyrinth are located. All of the islands have a mountainous terrain. The main settlement of the floor, Selmburg, is a castle-city on the 61st Floor located on an island in the middle of the lake.

The 74th Floor of Aincrad is a mostly hilly floor. The floor consists of mountainous terrain and plains. The area around the Labyrinth is mountainous with thick, overgrown forests full of old trees, which are covered in green lichens and have numerous vines dangling from their branches. A meadow of blue flowers grows between the forest closest to the Labyrinth and the Labyrinth itself. The main city of the floor, Kamdet, is located a thirty-minute walk away from the forest around the Labyrinth.