Artifacts, Relics and the Armory
Last updated: August 21, 2026
Objects carry a great deal of the Universe's history. The Codex separates them carefully: artifacts and empyreal relics for objects of significance, eternal constructs for the made things that outlast their makers, sacred tools for instruments of rite, emblems of society and honor and tributes for objects that mark standing, and the armory and arsenal for weapons and war material. The Reliquary of the Eternals and the Elysian Arsenal are the curated volumes; individual named objects, such as the Seventh Amulet, may hold categories of their own.
What an object record carries
Provenance is the point. A relic's record tends to connect an origin, a maker or a force, a holder or lineage, an era, and often a law about who may possess it. That is why object pages are such efficient entries into the Universe: pull one thread and you have a people, a period and an institution.
Objects and power
The distinction between an artifact and a construct is not size or age but agency. Constructs act; artifacts are wielded. Emblems and tributes do neither — they signify, and their significance is social rather than magical. Reading a tribute as if it were a relic overstates what the record claims.
Seeing them
Many objects have visual treatment in the Multimedia Archives, and some appear in the Asset Vault as downloadable material. Those are presentations of the record, not additions to it: if an image and an entry disagree on a detail, the Codex entry is the canonical one.
Armory records frequently link to materials and geologies. What a thing is made of is a separate claim from what it does, and both are documented.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: Reliquary of the Eternals — Codex tome. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Magic, Elements and Xdripian Runes — A guide to schools, the spellbook, elemental forces, attributes and rune systems.
- Reliquary and Armory Sources — Codex records for relics, artifacts, constructs, emblems, tributes and war material.
- Visual Art and Exhibitions — Artwork, imagery and curated visual presentations in the archive.