Ayenee is the name of a free-form on-line text-based role-playing game originally played using Yahoo! chat rooms but now using internet forums and IRC chat rooms.

The name "Ayenee," is derived from the original phonetic pronunciation of "A&E". This is because the majority of the roleplayers within this particular game convened in the Arts and Entertainment section of Yahoo! Chat.

The beginning of Ayenee as an organized game is subject to much debate within the many communities that has long since splintered from its core, but we know as a fact that it began shortly after January of 1997*, when Yahoo!Chat was first released to the public. Before users were permitted to make their own rooms, the bulk of roleplaying took place in a Yahoo! Chat - Arts and Entertainment public room known as the Vampire Tavern.

* ... contrary to the claims of many who have been around longer - including one member who insists he has participated in Ayenee since 1992!

It is crucial at this point to note that the very nature of a free-form RPG resists structuralization. As a result, highly organized and enforced tabletop and statistic-driven RPG's like Dungeons and Dragons with established rules and a central authority (short of public consensus) has been next to impossible. There was no shortage of trying, however.

The first such attempt, recorded as far back as late 1997, was in the form of an Angelfire website created and maintained under the name "Kellindil." The name "Ayenee" is attributed to one of the members of the Kellindil site by the name of Aglaranna, who would later be given the rights to the site. Later incarnations would be known as the "Ayenee Message Board Community" or AMBC, "Ayenee Is..." and finally exists today as simply www.ayenee.org. Ownership of this community has also been passed from hand to hand quite frequently.

Many other websites, including [www.ayenee.com], followed the example set by the original Kellindil page insofar that they provided a meeting place for the roleplayers and creative minds on Yahoo!Chat not controlled by Yahoo itself. The advantages of this would become evident soon enough.

Interestingly, the name "Ayenee" has stuck even despite the fact that Yahoo has changed the title of the "Arts and Entertainment" section of the chatroom listings to "Entertainment and Art." Yet another name "Eyanee" came about from the change of the chatroom listings. This made two rp realms Ayenee and Eyanee for users to move around in and rp.

Since the removal of the Yahoo user rooms, as of late May and early July, due to legal problems covered in many news articles, the roleplayers based Ayenee have long since taken up the "Role Playing Games (RPG)" chatrooms in the Games listing, or the "Japanese Anime" rooms in the Entertainment and Art listing.

Others have moved on to other systems and games, while others have gone to other hobbies entirely.

Because of problems within the Yahoo!Chat system involving belligerent users, lack of technical support, and an infestation of "bots" (commercially created chat room scripts programmed to solicit pay-for-pornography websites), very few dedicated roleplayers are still found in the system today, and are often found in the websites and forum communities from whence they came.

*Some things not mentioned above**

It is important to note here, that Ayenee was an offshoot of Tenaria, which at one time was only known as Yahoo teen rp. It was not until 1997 when Blake Hardman named, and Copyrighted the realm of Tenaria ( which was in Yahoo's teen section) that there was any real order to the yahoo roleplay worlds. Order followed very quickly afterwards, with Blake Hardman, and Kyle and Micha starting Red Tide Inc. Which was the first official Tenaria, roleplay website. Still to get to the meet of the issue the author of this particular article has missed some key information... ( and despite what he says, Tenaria hosted the oldest incantation of the vampire tavern)

The world of Yahoo rp, also known as Yahen.. was seperated into sections.. Tenaria (teen) had a medievil base, No tech was allowed, and was the oldest of all the realms.. Ayenee (a&e) was the next largest, had a semi medievil set up, but did allow tech.. even gundams at one point. It was the third oldest realm. The realm of Eden (romance) was a compilation of three different realms, Jacmus, Jacmus Prime(this is the same as Jacmus but had a nifty new name), Romantica(which happened to be the second oldest realm) and Eden.. The youngest upstart realm to have been in The world of yahen was Eceincs (science) but it never did really go anywhere.

There are some reports that Tenaria is a part of Ayenee, this is infact false. They were a part of the same world "yahen" but it is important to remember that Tenaria was the first.

Many of the older roleplayers in Ayenee, do not want to admit the fact they came from Teen, their basis for this being a bad break up.. if you will.. with the realm they started in.

Also, since the yahoo chat room debauchle, most of the dedicated roleplayers that used Yahoo has a base for their rp, have decided it simply is not worth it anymore. There are a few dedicated players out there, most of which have found themselves left with out a chat to roleplay in, so they are left with the evil cousin of chatroom rp.. Forum based Rp. And while there will be no mention of the realm in this article, as it is not pertinent.. There is a roleplay realm out there that still uses a chat medium, and hosts many roleplayers from ayenee, tenaria, eden, jacmus and just about any other yahen rp.


(verifiable by):http://www.angelfire.com/vt/RedTideInc
http://Tenariarpg.tk
http://www.angelfire.com/vt2/trainingcamp
http://www.eniasni.com