Godwars is a level-less player killing/NPC killing mud. God Wars is a derivative of Merc 2.1, which is a derivative of Copper (a later version of DikuMUD). DikuMUD was inspired by AberMUD, which was inspired by MIST, which was based upon MUD. MUD gets the last part of its name from "Dungeon" - a derivative of Zork - which in turn was inspired by ADVENT.