The Champions of The Order

As seen in Alive, there is more to the hierarchy of The Order than has been revealed so far. Today we'll briefly look at some of the insights revealed in that story.

Alive (Short Story)

Presenting: Jalen Cor, novice chronicler from Caliastor. He is a promising young blue mage, on track to become one of the Eyes of The Order.

A quick note: this is set on Tyranix, which is what planeswalkers call the world. However, those who live on the plane know it as Ordren, though they rarely use that word as talking about The Order is generally sufficient. The other plane featured is Acharu, which is the plane that won that Plane Creation Contest.

A Few Quick Notes on Tyranix

This isn't going to be a long entry, just a few notes. I'm working on something a bit meatier, and I hope to have it up on Monday. In the meantime, I could use some input. It has been pointed out to me that Tyranix isn't really a great name for the plane - it's halfway between a real word and a nonsense word. Therefore, I'm thinking of changing the name to a real word. So far, I think my options are: Impero (Latin: To Order), Jussio (Latin: Order), Ordinatio (Latin: Government, Order, Regulation) or Auftrag (German: Order). Input would be appreciated!

Besides that, it was also pointed out that I hadn't actually said anything about the humans that live on Tyranix (or whatever it ends up being called). Therefore, hit the jump for the inside info on humans in The Order!

The History of Tyranix

What follows is a complete history of The Order. You will note that nothing before the First King arrived is detailed, as The Order has destroyed all records of that time. The years are counted from what is considered to be the beginning of the Age of Order (A.O.) Before that is considered the Age of Chaos (A.C.) which is counted backwards. Facts that are unknown in-universe will be in parentheses.

The Geography of Tyranix

Once a lush and vibrant world, Tyranix is now a dead world, with the few surviving people living in the cities of The Order.

The Dead and Dying Races of Tyranix

There have been many victims of The Order's Great Crusade, and many of them have not survived to tell their tales. From the ambitious Vampires to the passionate Flamekin, The Order does not tolerate any dissidence and will go to any lengths to protect itself.

Saints and Sinners of Tyranix

Strong in spirit and muscle, the Rhox are the hammer of The Order. Intelligent and practical, Vedalken have long been the driving force behind The Order's magic. However, all things change in time.

Footsoldiers of the Rebellion

The Order has trampled the rights of many beings on Tyranix, and the time has come for them to rise up and strike back at their oppressors.

Hit the jump to read about the beings that fight on the front lines for the rebellion.

Kithkin, the Peacekeepers of Tyranix

 Sorry it's been so long since I last posted! The contest ended - I didn't win, though the plane that did deserved it! I'm going to post a few more things about Tyranix, then I'll put it up for entry into the Expanded Multiverse.

This time, we see what the Kithkin of Tyranix are like.

Tyranix

Time to collect everything I've written about Tyranix! I'll be cleaning up and slightly modifying some things, so it may be worth it to read again. I'm also taking out some of the game terms as I go to make it read a bit more smoothly.

Plane Creation Contest Bonus Challenges - Champions of Chaos and Scions of New Life

A quick note before I start writing. Due to the lack of entries, the contest is being cut short by two weeks. However, the person running it did post the final two challenges as bonus optional challenges. The first is a repeat of an earlier challenge, telling us to color shift a creature type. The second is a version of another previous challenge, this one to take a seldom used class and incorporate it into the setting (the previous challenge had to do with races - the entry with the Archons and Devils) Having these two challenges occur at the same time actually helps me significantly - I intend to color shift one of the seldom used classes. Read on!

Plane Creation Contest 6 - Heralds of Change

For this challenge, we were tasked with creating a new creature type. This caused me a lot of problems - we've had the prompt for two weeks, and I only decided what I was going to write last night.

Plane Creation Contest 5 - The History of Tyranix

Tyranix was not always the bastion of law and order it is today. The Order teaches that long ago, Tyranix was mired in civil war and anarchy. There was no peace to be found in the world, and it appeared to be doomed to die by fire and war. Then the First King came.

Plane Creation Contest - Prompt 4

iAnd we're back! This time, the challenge is to take a rarely used creature type (from a list they provided) and explain how it fits into your plane. Hit the jump to see what I did!

Plane Creation Contest - Prompt 3

And now we'll be caught up!

For this prompt, we were told to create a civilization that relies on on one of the following spell types: Artifact, Enchantment, Instant or Sorcery. Instead of creating a new civilization, I decided to incorporate one of those into The Order, as there isn't really room for more than one civilization on Tyranix... Or so it would seem on the surface...

Plane Creation Contest - Prompt 2

And we're back, with the second prompt! This time, the prompts were to either colorshift a race or colorshift a class.

I decided to... Well, you'll see on the other side of the break.

Plane Creation Contest - Prompt 1

This is a contest which has been posted on the Wizards of the Coast MTG forums. The rules can be found here, but in essence, they're posting several prompts each week, and anyone participating has to respond to at least one prompt to be entered in that week. At the end of 8 weeks, they'll be picking a winner. Participants must enter at least 5 weeks to be eligible. Now, I've missed the first two weeks, so they technically won't count, but I'll be writing them up anyway as a writing exercise.

Hit the jump for the words!