The Arzonus Trivia

In the Arzonus field guide, a few additional tabs are allocated to an assortment of trivia and facts you never knew about Arzonus. Here are some of these trivial notes.

Whilst most civilized societies find the practise illegal and morally questionable, Arzonus legally permits the trade of bounty hunting. In every town is a "Bounty Hunter Hub" where people can sign up for a license to bounty hunt on a legal basis and the agency recieves 20% commission for the best paying clients. This allows general taxation across most places in Arzonus to be low.

The most valuable publication in Arzonus literature is the book of Nightfall; containing several journal extracts and letters from 4000 years worth of war. Because they are so valuable and rare, damaging or mishandling a first edition carries the harshest sentence in respect to the crime; 50 years of external banishment.

Male kitsune are almost incredibly rare to find. Scientists believe that the male to female ratio of the kitsune shifted in the God Wars from a steady one male to every two females to one male to every seventeen females. The reason for this drastic change in breeding is mostly unknown.

Despite numerous attempts from very skilled necromancers, one cannot create an army of the dead using deceased Arzonus werewolves. In nearly all trials, most find the disconnection too much to bear, become neurotic and try to take their own lives.

The most laughed at artifact circulating Arzonus is the "Demi-god's Looking Glass" all who look through it find that it rapidly stimulates skin growth around the eyepiece, cementing it to the watcher's skull, similar growth rapidly and permanently shuts the other eye. Those who look through this object see the world around as a strange land, totally unrelated to the actual context in which they stand. They are almost incapable of talking to the people around them, because they are talking about totally different things. The cognitive dissonance caused by this mismatch can cause egomania. The object is currently believed to be in the hands of one Morbius.

Most believe Arzonus to the be an enlightened and free and of course incredibly powerful society. But there is one dark secret, a journal that has been republished by various nasty people hoping to "spread the truth", it is the only book in Arzonus ever to have been burned en masse by the government. It has only one legible sentence scrawled amid bloodstained pages of ruined ink blots "Humans will always win, and about those other things that can kill humans with ease: run for the f*cking hills. "

Master Maelstrom's apprentice, Maya Sigma, carries and honourary doctorate in medicine. On a regular basis she leaves the city in her human form to assist human doctors across Gielinor.

The Arzonusii are incredibly susceptible to moral paradoxes. Driven by an innate desire to be a source solely of good: ill-decisions can have grievous effects on their psyche.

"Would you steal bread to feed your families?"

The hair of an Arzonusii has the titles of strongest and weakest hair on a hair baring organism simultaneously. It is incredibly strong and tough whilst living, but once cut, it becomes brittle and breaks into dust.

It was several thousand years before an Arzonusii had ever seen a cow. Whilst very common in the human world, cows are practically unheard of in the Arzonus realm. Instead, their main form of cattle are Greyskin Stag, measuring over 6 feet in height and their meat is very nourishing.

Donicus Whitearrow is currently known as one of the finest Arzonusii bounty hunters. Due to direct kitsune heritage, he has impressive agility, resistance to mental tricks and powers and also is unaffacted by neuroses induced by morality normally common for Arzonusii.

Handeath wrote:"Would you steal bread to feed your families?"

Bingo.

The justice system relies on their moral righteousness. If you steal a loaf of bread, you simply are offered work to pay back the debt, and should the employer see your honesty, further work would be offered.

It is strongly advised to not stare into the eyes of an Arzonusii for too long. Most myths believe that to stare into their eyes for too long would steal one's soul. Modern study now insists that this is not the case, but staring too long does have some strange effect on the brain.

Some human experts (who are rumored to have found various canid droppings on their doorsteps after suggesting this) have hypothesized that this rumour was spread by the Arzonusii because they are ashamed of their beta reflex to look away from the humans' stare like a good trained dog.

Drinking the blood of an Arzonusii is said to have the capability of giving one powers for a short while, depending on whose was drunk. This strange biological trait has been used in medicine as an advanced healing aid, as a normal Arzonusii can heal 2.5 times faster from flesh wounds than a human.

Whilst pain, anger and despair can sometimes bring out hidden strengths and resilience thresholds in humans, the Arzonusii's physical prowess is actually lessened under negative emotions.

3mptylord wrote:Whilst pain, anger and despair can sometimes bring out hidden strengths and resilience thresholds in humans, the Arzonusii's physical prowess is actually lessened under negative emotions.

To expand on this;
Fear, Anger and Despair diminish power of physical strength, but not of aura.
Jealousy, Greed and Vengeance diminish the power of aura.

In numerous attempts to neutralize the terror sect of the Shadow Apprentices, details observations of their archives have been taken. It appears they keep a detailed list of every person they have killed. The surnames of Maelstrom and Magnus are present on nearly every list, making those two families the most targetted by assassins, and also the families with the longest surviving records.

The most valuable item on the Summoner's Market is the Spirit Guardian Egg, fetching well immense amounts of money. It can either be hatched into a young guardian and kept as a pet or used as a summoning ingredient for a fully grown Spirit Guardian familiar or Purgatory Guardian familiar.

Quite how one comes to acquire an egg is a mysterious procedure. It appears the fairy rings are sometimes diverted to the Spirit plane, where the Guardians offer an egg as a gift for completing one of their challenges. However, no one is allowed to leave the Spirit plane with memory of it, so it simply appears to the traveller that they passed through as normal and the egg magically appears.

The most undesirable location in Arzonus is the Barren Valley that lies between Lupine and Lycosa. For reasons unknown, the lush valley withered and perished almost overnight and nothing has grown there since. The last thing found alive was a struggling cherry tree sapling, still holding onto life days after the rest of the valley died. The tree, now thousands of years old, grows healthily in Lycosa's most prominent guest house, believed to be a divine symbol in times of death and destruction.

According to the Arzonus census, these are the characters birthdays;
Mentor Pisces (Eve Storm) - January 5th
Fang - January 19th
Tandoca - February 1st
Elder Silver - February 27th
Cheyenne Silver - March 12th
Maya Sigma - April 9th
Donicus Whitearrow - April 14th
Terra Maelstrom - April 22nd
Theta Magnus - May 3rd
Master Maelstrom - June 9th
Kira Sigma - June 15th
Raizahka - July 4th
Master Seeker - July 13th
Master Wisdom - July 29th
Master Valiant - August 3rd
Melissa Majoria - August 14th
Morbius Maelstrom - September 21st
Lance "Rhetorii" Drake - October 30th
Yaanas (technically activation date) - November 1st
Master Embrace - November 5th
Giovanni Magnus - December 24th

The greatest cover-up in modern times is the assault aboard the Obsidian Star. During this time of political unrest, the militia, led by a rogue general, carried out the execution of the scientists presenting their inventions aboard the luxury liner.

Though the exact events of the night are still foggy, three squadrons were reported to have been deployed; one with the purpose to kill the scientists presenting their works to the passengers, another to kill those with aura abilities, and a final naturally being the security team tasked with finding a bounty hunter that threatened to kill Maelstrom aboard the ship.

The aftermath resulted in memories being wiped, a number of death of civillians and the dismissal and banishment of militia soldiers following corrupted commands. Amongst the list of the dead was Maelstrom's first wife and his daughter. Her protectors, who also were aboard, were not seen again since that evening, but there is no evidence to suggest they died.