Broadsword Online Games evidently also performed some maintenance on the Europa and Drachenfels shards today:

We will be taking Europa and Drachenfels for at 3:30 pm ET 8/18/15 for a short hardware update. We do not expect it to be down for more than 1 hour.

Thank you for your patience.

The maintenance window began…roughly seven-and-a-half hours ago, as of this writing, so presumably both shards are now back in operation.