The Keeper is the "righteous" fighter, and will be focused primarily on combat and helping team mates. They are a melee class specialising in two-handed edged weapons, and will fall just above the adventurer in terms of damage output.

The Keeper is seen as more of the old-style knight, in the Templar mould. In shining armour, he uses his massive sword to smite evil (or good). He burns with the zealous fervour of knowing that it is in his right to combat enemies.

Nano-wise, the Keeper will have a number of different lines, most of which will be auras. There will be few direct-cast nanos, and none that are cast in battle. Lines of nanos will be anti-snare, anti-root (reducing the duration of such nanos), damage increasing auras, ams/dms buffing auras, and attack absorbing auras. The Keeper only has beneficial auras, no debuff auras.

Additionally, the Keeper will have a special attack called ‘Righteous Fury’ for clan and ‘Unhallowed Fury’ for Omni-Tek. This will be enabled via a self-only buff. This attack is much like a fast attack (one of the special attacks in Anarchy Online), but it will inflict additional damage against enemies in the Shadowlands. The power of the attack will increase with the level of the Keeper. If Keepers become neutral, they lose the ability to use Righteous/Unhallowed Fury. Unhallowed Fury is weaker than Righteous Fury, but acts as a life tap for the Omni-Tek Keeper.

Story-wise, they are seen as the front-line fighters that have been directly recruited by the Redeemed and Unredeemed to fight in the Shadowlands. The Keeper has a high affinity with the Shadowlands and the primary groups there. Thus, the Keeper cannot start as a Neutral character, but must begin as either an Omni-Tek or clan character.

The information on this page was provided by Funcom on the official Anarchy Online site.