Allure of the unknown was once a fantastic private server, with over 200+ users online at any given time. The reason it's failed was because the original owner sold the server to an unknown buyer, who shortly after, started grabbing known donates like myself and my wife and demanded money. If we refused as donations are supposed to be voluntary, not involuntary, the new owner would ban you, from both the game server and website, to prevent you warning the others. Being a server administrator, they found it quite difficult to stop my warnings regardless, something the owner did not know at the time. The reason the server went to pot, the new owner knew nothing of coding and the most important scripter who made Allure of the Unknown what is was, Solaris, was also banned after they to refused to pay money to the new owner, who found out to late, they banned the one person who kept that shard going. That's why you now see all of his scripts on runup and serve up. Since the new owner had no coding skill what so ever, every time a plugin threw an error, they removed it, which caused other plugins to fail that relied on Solaris works. Auctions, lottery, banking system that they said they turned off for other reasons, was a lie. It was turned off because they removed the plugins since they had no clue how to fix anything. My opinion is they are just starting over so they can use public domain plugins that don't require any coding knowledge. Solaris, if your reading this, you were one of the best scripters I ever known, and are very much missed!

Allure of the Unknown has closed. We are moving to the uo evolution shard to start again. we are inviting all the remaining players to join our new guild called "The Unknown" You can PM me in game - Traveler