Elona (shorthand for Eternal League of Nefia) is a single-player, roguelike game developed by Japanese developer Noa; it was released in August, 2007. The game is set in a fantasy world called Irva, where the player can create a character by choosing from a selection of eleven races and ten classes to battle monsters, practice magic, perform music, or take on various other roles. Unlike most roguelikes, the game's setting is an open-world environment and revolves around completing randomly-generated quests and exploring dungeons for higher-level rewards. The game begins with the players' character surviving a disaster at sea in the north of Irva's northwestern continent, Tyris. North Tyris contains many towns and dungeons with randomly generated elements. These can be explored by the player as they deal with or avoid creatures, townsfolk, other adventurers, and the corrupting effects of a seasonal phenomenon called Etherwind.
