How will single-player work exactly?
When you first start you will enter the game as a galley slave. Here you will create your character, and shortly after this a sudden change of events will lead to your character being washed ashore on the on the coast of Zingara. You will have to fight your way through the jungle to reach the city of Tortage, where you will suddenly start seeing other players. From here on you will be able to switch between single and multiplayer. During the day, you’re always multiplayer, but during night you’re all alone. You can switch between the two by sleeping at the inn. Once you reach level 20, you can leave Tortage, and enter the massive MMO world where you’re always multiplayer and where the day and night cycle is dynamic and independent of your actions.
