Our goal is fairly simple: To create, operate, and maintain a realistic "virtual" community of towns and cities within the UO gaming environment. Through this goal, PaxLair seeks to add to fellow players' enjoyment of UO and playing together in this multi-verse.

There are various people who have the vision of building a virtual community using the UO gaming environment. It is a challenge as well as extremely fun to work together (having judges, shopkeepers, barmaids, Knights, play actors, and much more--all in a city setting and beyond). The basis of the virtual community is fictional in nature, yet can present aspects found in a real community.

The best way to experience PaxLair is to actually visit the PaxLair Community cities and towns on the Chesapeake shard. Nearly all of the activity of PaxLair actually takes place "in-game" and if you do not visit, you will not get a true feeling of what PaxLair is.

PaxLair rules, laws, and cooperation are based on three tenets: Peace, Neutrality, and Role-playing. Specific rules, guidelines, and laws are then created as needed to provide realism within the community of cities. These Laws apply to all who dwell in and visit PaxLair. However, with the addition of more cities and towns, each location tends to have its own laws. The Viceroy of each city or town has the right to create laws, but not violate any higher level laws of the PaxLair Community.

The several cities of PaxLair have overarching tenets of Peace, Neutrality, and Role-Playing.  All cities are expected to follow these three tenets.  The definition of TENET is an opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization.  The following descriptions of the tenets are extracted from the PaxLair Charter.

PaxLair litterally means "Peace Place".  This name was suggested by Thelorn of The Band, the original guild that started PaxLair in 1998.