The Seven Archives

The seven archives are vast ancient vaults of knowledge and artifacts preserved since the Third Age.  Each is part library, part records room, part storage warehouse, part museum, part scientific repository, and part arcane zoo.  Each archive contains hundreds of separate rooms, including many demi-planes that preserve magical items and creatures from the magic-less time of the Peregrination, in stasis in extra-planar safety.   Science, technology and arcane mysterionomy had progressed to such a height of perfection by the civilisations of the Third Cycle under the leadership of the Council Superb that many things thought impossible were achieved.  During the Perluxion, when both magic and supernatural threats were most powerful, the global leadership had achieved world peace, landed explorers on the moon in the Trimillennial Falcon (a space-sailing flying ship) completely eradicated monsters and monstrous races from the face of Casiphon, and by building the Thousand Towers from near-indestructible Adamantine Obsidian prevented the turning of the cycle and the endings of the Perluxion.   The civilisations that existed in the Third Age preserved their knowledge and creations in cleverly designed repositories known as the Archives.  Though many thousands of archives were built, only seven were even seen after the Great Sundering.  Most were doubtless swallowed in the earth, plunged to the bottom of the sea or inundated by molten rock.   The Archives are all different, though all contain vast ancient and lost wisdom of all sorts, works of art, literature in lost languages, magical artifacts of immense power and even creatures preserved for all time.  The Grey Archive, for example, contained fifteen thousand transcripts of official debates and discussions from the world parliament, preserved specimens of dragons and draconic monsters, arcane tunnelling machines, ceremonial magical weapons and the public libraries of several small communities.

Archive	Known location	Details
Grey	Under Mabag Pachamel Grith	Well explored
Blue	Submerged in the waters in Lake Gyon	Partly explored
Black	Partly buried within a field of basalt in the Hundervorne Moutains	Partly explored
Green	In a glade in the middle of a swamp near Valheldrin	Well explored
Red	On the eastern edge of the deserts of Eyl-Thoul	Partly explored
White	Currently unknown, last located in the Fourth Age	Described as 'hidden by icy mist, locked in moving ice'
Yellow	Currently unknown, last mentioned in the Fifth Age	The door to the library was described as 'smaller than two hands, though the archive itself has tens of thousands of rooms'