AOS Launch Gifts

Initially there were "early settler" gifts People who upgraded to AOS during a certain time period would receive a random Mini House Deed and a Personal Bless Deed on each character they logged in on. This was only for about a month after a shard got the publish.

Mini House Statue Deed (Blessed) Common Houses -Brick House -Field Stone house -Small Brick House -Large House with Patio -Small Marble Workshop -Small Stone Workshop -Stone and Plaster house -Two-Story Log Cabin -Two-Story Stone and Plaster house -Two-Story Wood and Plaster house -Wooden House Rare Houses -Castle -Keep -Marble with patio -Sandstone with Patio -Small Stone Tower -Thatched Roof Cottage -Tower -Two-story villa -Wood and Plaster house		5,000 Gold for Common House Statues 100,000-1 Million Gold for Rare House Statues*   *Castle, Thatched Roof Cottage, Keep, and Tower are more valuable then other rare mini houses.
Personal Bless Deed (Blessed, of course)		Not valuable to any player except owner. Only the owner may use it to bless items. There may be players who collect these for the sake of it though.

After the very rocky publish the development team decided to give extra gifts for players who stuck it out. There was a lot of feedback from players on the subject and the dev team decided to have two separate gifts. The gifts came with Publish 18 and distribution system was deactivated with publish 19. The first gift would be an item of your choosing from the following list:

You then would choose a message to be placed on your item. All these messages were suggested by players.

On the next page you could choose an additional message to be placed on your item or not:

You then could choose to dye your item a special color not found on dye tubs, or dye it later with a dye tub:

After you had made and confirmed your selections you would end up with an item similar to this (Note: I did not choose a second message to be placed on the boots):

The second gift was a stat or skill increase. You had to decide whether you wanted to increase a single skill by 5 points (very useful for a skill like taming) or if you wanted to increase your stat cap by 5 points. Most players went for the stat increase because with a +25 Stat Increase Scroll you can have a total of 255 stat points.