Forgotten Runes is an Ethereum-based NFT and fantasy gaming franchise launched in 2021 with a collection of 10,000 Wizard NFTs.

The ecosystem has since expanded to include additional NFT collections, comics, lore, and the blockchain-based MMORPG Forgotten Runiverse.

In 2026, the Runiverse game was taken offline indefinitely due to financial challenges while the broader Forgotten Runes intellectual property continued to exist. ^[6]​

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Features

On-chain Encoding of Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult

The 10,000 Forgotten Wizards NFT pixels, names, and data were reportedly completely reproducible from on-chain data. Thus explaining how users can retrieve their NFTs forever.

Re-creating a Wizard

The forgotten runes Wizards NFTs incorporated functions that allowed users to re-create their Wizard(s) entirely from on-chain data, by simply running some commands functions, as provided on the website, thus allowing trait changeability.

Use of an IPFS Mirror

The forgotten Runes wizard hosted a mirror of images and data on InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and centralized services. "This is only a mirror and is for the convenience of tools like OpenSea and not a requirement for the provenance or persistence of the Wizards" explained the ecosystem.

Transactions

The transaction performed with the Wizard NFTs can be found since they are stored as data with certain hashes.

Trait Composability

The Forgortten Wizards. identified that NFTs traits, while readable on-chain, are not in STORE, implying that they are not readable by other Smart contracts.

The forgotten runes developed their NFTs with the interest of composing their traits with other smart contracts (such as games), ensuring that the individual traits are readable on-chain.

Wizard's Cult

A collection of 10,000 wizard NFTs is found in Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult. At the center of this vibrant group, affectionately known as the Cult, are these Wizards.

The members of the Cult update social media sites and the unique Book of Lore with new works of art, animations, stories, memes, and lore every day. The Runiverse grows as the Cult produces more and more. The "collaborative legendarium," a decentralized method of world-building, is said to have endless possibilities.

The Wizards

No two Wizards are alike; they are all completely unique. They come in a variety of species, races, and genders. Additionally, every Wizard has a distinctive name. Users can still purchase a Wizard from the secondary market on Forgotten Market, OpenSea, LooksRare, or any NFT marketplace even if the initial launch sale ended in June 2021.

Owners will be permitted to take part in the monumental experiment of decentralized world-building if they join the Cult. This is a ground-breaking method of creating an IP brand that was never actually feasible until the invention of blockchain technology.

Because it is being constructed by a large group of Cult members rather than a single authority, the Runiverse Legendarium wants to be larger than Middle Earth, Westeros, and Hogwarts put together. Additionally, having a Wizard NFT allows you access to a wealth of additional surprises and riches.

NFT Sales

The Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult - a collaborative legendarium NFTs consisting of 10,000 non-familiar Wizard NFTs, fully encoded on-chain, have been traded immensely on the OpenSea NFT marketplace.

The NFTs were sold for a Price floor of 0.71 ETH and have recorded about 4.1k ETH trading volumes upon minting on OpenSea.

Forgotten Runiverse Goes Offline Indefinitely Due to Financial Challenges

On February 27, 2026, the team behind Forgotten Runiverse, a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) built within the Forgotten Runes ecosystem on the Ronin network, announced that the game would be taken offline indefinitely due to financial constraints. ^[6]

In a public statement, the developers said they had made the difficult decision after facing several operational and financial challenges over the preceding months. Although the team had initially overcome many of these obstacles, they concluded that it was no longer financially viable to maintain the game in a live environment.

The team emphasized that the shutdown did not represent the abandonment of the Forgotten Runiverse project. Instead, they stated that their long-term intention was to return to the Runiverse in the future with greater resources and a stronger foundation capable of delivering the experience envisioned for the community. ^[6]

Reflecting on the project’s achievements, the developers noted that the New Foundations Beta and launch period attracted more than 250,000 players, with peak concurrent user counts exceeding 7,000. They described these milestones as evidence of the game’s potential despite the operational challenges that ultimately led to its suspension.

The announcement also acknowledged the support of the Pixels team, thanking them for their collaboration and partnership throughout the development of Forgotten Runiverse. ^[6]

As part of the shutdown process, all game servers were scheduled to go offline at the end of the following day. While the game became inaccessible, the team confirmed that players’ progress and account data would be securely preserved. They stated that updates would be shared if and when there were substantial developments regarding the project’s future.

The developers concluded by thanking players, creators, contributors, and partners for supporting Forgotten Runiverse, describing the shutdown as a pause rather than the end of the project and expressing hope that the game would eventually return. ^[6]