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Miscellaneous

This list contains names and descriptions of various events, organisations and other things related to the world of Argaia. Those details were read or heard throughout articles and interviews.

Collection of Ashes

  • Across the entirety of Argaia, the Phoenixborn cry out in anguish. People of the cities tremble in fear, and those scholars who still remember Alibrimbor’s fateful prophecy, wring their hands in trepidation. The time for talk has ended. There is no quarter left for philosophy or ideals. Deep inside each of Argaia’s protectors, the Phoenix spreads its wings and its cinders flare. It will be denied no longer.
  • “Not breeding, not morality, nor purity of spirit shall deliver the children of the Phoenix from madness and bloodshed. They shall rage against each other, consume one another, and their hunger will not be assuaged until but a single remaining survivor arises as a true Phoenix, and mounting the throne of God, rules over this world, the next, and all the realms that lie in-between.” - Alibrimbor
  • Era, starting around 3 years after the Great Cleansing, where Phoenixborn are compelled to hunt each other to claim ultimate godhood. (Conflicting information)
  • Was used as the name for the last official tournament, also known as War of Ashes?
  • “Now is the time of the Collection of Ashes, when Phoenixborn must battle Phoenixborn until only one remains to inherit a newborn world.” (Unattributed quote)
  • “War is upon us. One Phoenixborn will rise above the rest, and all others will fall to ashes.”[1]
  • Thirty years in the past from this era put us into the Chimera era. (Conflicting information)
  • This war is set 40 years after the start of the Great Cleansing. (Conflicting information)
  • This is something new for everybody. War between humans is stuff of legends. Nobody has seen this before. It had been multiple and multiple generations since it had happened. It is very scary.

Gatekeepers

Great Cleansing

  • Ages after the Red Rains. Also known as the Great War.
  • The Great Cleansing was born from the fear of the evolution of Chimera. They were getting smarter, some were sentient, could speak and were gaining strength fast. When they started organizing and creating communities, that is when the Vermillion Council created the “Watchmen protocol”. All those creatures needed to die. So the Council called forth all Phoenixborn known in existence and each of them chose, or were appointed, a place to watch.
  • This refers to the era where Phoenixborn band together to eradicate the Chimera menace.

Iron Couriers

  • (No details available beside the name).

Magic Realms

  • In an interview, Isaac Vega said there is lore about where Ashes magic came from. Those realms are refered as Ceremonial, Charm, Illusion, Natural, Divine, Sympathy, Time.
  • We know nothing about them except that Ceremonial is the original magic type.

Red Rains

  • The Red Rains swept over the world of Argaia, poisoning the creatures that dwelt there, and from these rains the Chimera were born. Some believe it is possible to resurrect the power of the Chimera using Red Raindrops, dark and powerful artifacts, fossilized essence of the terror that once swept over the world.
  • "Though long years have passed and no humans live who bore witness, there is not a child upon this rock who does not know the story of the horrifying Red Rains. So you understand then when I tell you that as those first new drops fell, there was a psychic shockwave of panic that swept across Argaia, like nothing ever witnessed before." - Darius, Terminal Amurai

Sealed Age

  • More than 100 years long, since Coal Roarkwin was born during its second century.

Vermillion Council

  • The council has a very long history, one that existed way before the Phoenixborn. The main reason for its existence was to preserve human life. For a long time, when all cities were cut off from each other, the council was their only connection to the outside world. Their army, the Amurai, tried battling the Chimera but they were not able to keep up. That’s when they turn to the Phoenixborn. During the Great Cleansing, they were messengers, medics and healers, keepers of pieces of history. Doing good to help human society continue. But eventually, once the Great Cleansing was over, they were starting to no longer have a use. The Vermillion Council is seen as a respected old, religious-like kind of organization that helped during a time but that is no longer needed. They have been a little bit cast aside by some cities that want to do their own thing because things are good now. The council wants to push against that. They don’t want war. And the Collection of Ashes is seen as they way back in.
  • Now, a secretive organization dedicated to the study of the Phoenixborn. They are behind the summoning books. They are gathering data on these characters and spells and creating those books. The objective is to recreate these spells so they, as regular people, can utilize them.
  • Was responsible for the training of the Amurai. But it stopped decades ago.
  • Offices, schools and hospitals abroad are being shuttered, except for the university of Sunhold.
  • Motto: “Peace, Prosperity and Protection!”
  • They tried to document the Chimera but there was so much variation, it proved to be an impossible task.
  • “The source of a scholar’s study reveals much. And yet the Council, ever fawning over the Phoenixborn they fear are replacing them, never bothered with oversight or discretion when it came to the records they shared. They think Umberend will see them as allies, when all he could ever see them as is meat upon a carcass.” - Darius, Terminal Amurai

War Within

  • This event represented the internal struggle of an unnamed Phoenixborn, and how they wanted to approach the war that they would soon be a part of.
  • Through a series of tournaments hosted by local game stores, players had the opportunity to determine the looks and abilities of an unnamed Phoenixborn. The forces of Light and Dark in the world of Argaia are brought to bear against each other and at the center of this conflict stood the enigmatic Phoenixborn named Sembali Grimtongue.
  • The approaching war was the Collection of Ashes.

Footnotes
1: Legacy Organized Play poster tagline.

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