Realm of Shadows
Current Administration
Syriac (Ryan Kenward)
Implementor, God of the Realm
Belerik (Wil Loman)
Co-founder & Developer
SMAUG
SMAUG 1.4a Development Team

Realm of Shadows is built on a heavily modified version of SMAUG (Smaug's MUD Administrator's Guide), itself derived from Merc 2.1.

Thoric, Altrag, Blodkai, Narn, Haus
Core SMAUG Authors (Realms of Despair)
Merc 2.1
Merc Development Team
Hatchet, Furey, Kahn
Merc 2.1 Authors

Merc itself was derived from DikuMUD, created at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

DikuMUD
Original DikuMUD Team — University of Copenhagen
Katja Nyboe
[Superwoman]
Tom Madsen
[Stormbringer]
Hans Henrik Staerfeldt
[God]
Michael Seifert
[Papi]
Sebastian Hammer
[Quinn]
Additional Contributions
Michael Curran, Bill Wisner, Mads Haar, Stephan Dahl
Intermud-3 Driver

The I3 Intermud driver was originally written by Fatal Dimensions and ported to SMAUG by Samson of Alsherok. Consolidated for cross-codebase compatibility by Samson of Alsherok. Registered with the US Copyright Office: TX 5-562-404.