Reliquary and Armory Sources
Last updated: August 21, 2026
- Provenance is the spine
- Distinguishing the categories
- Objects with a second life
- Official source
- Related reading
Objects of consequence are split across categories that each answer a different question. Artifacts and empyreal relics cover objects of power. Eternal constructs cover made things with persistence and, often, agency. Sacred tools cover instruments of rite, and appear again in the mining domain. Emblems of society and honor and tributes cover objects that mark standing. Armory and arsenal cover weapons and war material, with named singular items — the Seventh Amulet among them — carrying categories of their own. The Reliquary of the Eternals and the Elysian Arsenal are the volumes.
Provenance is the spine
Object records are dense with relationships: origin, maker, material, holder, era, and frequently a legal claim about possession. This makes them unusually good entry points into the corpus. Pick a relic, follow its links, and you will have crossed lineage, geography, law and craft within four clicks.
Distinguishing the categories
A construct acts; an artifact is used; an emblem signifies; a tribute is given. The four are not degrees of the same thing, and a record placed in one is making that specific claim. Collections group objects that belong together, usually by holder or by rite rather than by type.
Objects with a second life
Some objects appear in the Multimedia Archives as visual work and in the Asset Vault as downloadable material. Those are presentations. The Codex entry remains the definition.
Armory records name materials, and material records name geologies. What a weapon is made of is documented apart from what it is, and both links are usually present.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: Elysian Arsenal — Codex tome. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Artifacts, Relics and the Armory — Following relics, artifacts, constructs and emblems through their Codex records.
- Mechanum and Cyberion Sources — Networks, citadels, vaults, automata and the Datasphere as Codex records.
- History, Law and Faction Sources — Where eras, decrees, sovereigns, orders and concordias are recorded.