PHOENIX: SHRINE | LORE HUB | SIDE HUB

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Down a forgotten alley of Malkiz, you find a series of streets that do not seem to belong in a Korthan city. The architecture of the surrounding buildings seem less like the airy and often-fantastic buildings you see elsewhere around you, and instead looks like the slightly artistic take on human architecture found in northern Aeli. It appears haphazardly and suddenly, as if someone picked up a piece of Raktis or Aralen and dropped it here and forgot about it.

As you continue inwards through the misplaced abandoned streets, you come across a domed structure made of marble, barely lit except for a small sunroof. You recognize this place, but it's strange. You thought you were transported far away, but this is the Malkiz library. As you step inside, you find your answer. This was the Malkiz library - an old and decrepit relic stolen away from a moment long ago. Dust litters the floor, and despite its modern light fixtures, it sits dark and lonely in this strange world. You think you see candlelight somewhere deep within labyrinthine hallways full of books, sparsely decorated with grim souveniers. The floor is coated in cracked, glowing igneous rock - you're unsure what type of stone it is, but you can identify the leyline seeping out from in between the cracks.

Distant shadows drift through the forgotten halls of the library, moving when you turn away from them. You would say you're not truly sure that anyone is there, except that one shadow still stands tall.

A massive white raven shedding stone and ley energy hovers in stasis, shattering into a sickly, chthonic light hovers above the center of the dome, unable to spread light to anything past itself. Rings cut into the stone floor encircle the bird, cutting deep into the ground like thin gutters, gently stained a rusty color. The gutters clearly shine with a blue light, pulsing brightly every few seconds. Stone tablets have been jammed in place in some of them, cataloguing the histories of various worlds and predictions of contradicting timelines. When you turn your back, you can hear something turning and twisting below, while pages flutter and tablets grind against each other. Recorded history collected here stops shortly after the end of the Phoenix Incident.

As you approach the stone-still bird, the ground beneath the shrine begins to churn. A great rumbling fills the area, and the gutters cut into the floor begin to descend, one by one, deeper and deeper, into what appears to be an uneven spiral staircase, bright blue cracks etched into its walls. As you descend the steps, you find that the walls are lined with ancient tomes, their names lost to time and stained with blood.

The floor stops suddenly in a final stone slab, blue cracks twisting downwards in its center, culminating in a glowing pit that screams softly, a thousand chanting voices whispering behind it. It's too bright to go any further. You look up, and find that you are far deeper than you previously thought. You slowly walk back up the wavering stone-and-tome stairs, your new surroundings covered in glowing blue cracks and whispers from beyond.

When you make it to the top, the Phoenix's eyes have fixed upon you. They will not stop watching.

This is the shrine of Phoenix, Guardian of History and Knowledge.

Phoenix is deceased. The fallen Guardian Phoenix responds only to blood.
You can only make a sacrifice to one Nskanetian Guardian per month. Use the prompt linked above to make a sacrifice. (Resets first of the month)
Specify the following in the prompt's comments:

YOU WILL NEED A KNIFE:
Battle Sword - Poison Blade - Scarification Kit - Hunting Knife - Philosophic Mercury Knife
(List 1 - Must be in inventory)
If using a Bloodletting Dagger, link the Ixi holding it - it must be equipped to work.

YOU WILL NEED FRESH BLOOD:
(Uploaded Rixixi or Geno owned by you)

Sacrificing blood halves all of a Rixixi's stats.
If a Rixixi's stats are all under 50, or if halving them would reduce any to 0, the Rixixi dies - they are marked as deceased and can no longer be used in the game.

Poison Blade has a 75% chance of deceasing a Rixixi.

Using a geno has a 100% chance of deceasing the geno - genos don't have stats.

Cultists:
100
The floor stops suddenly in a final stone slab, blue cracks twisting downwards in its center, culminating in a glowing pit that screams softly, a thousand chanting voices whispering behind it.

As more sacrifices are made, rewards will be unlocked.
1 Blood Sacrifice = 1 Phoenix Cultist
1 Death = 5 Phoenix Cultists

Both sacrifices will also unlock lore from Phoenix's bank of history!

Rewards unlocked:

Reward previews:

The Obvious Questions:

Why would I want to kill off my Ixi?
Dramatic Plot!

You can revive a deceased Rixixi with the Eternal Life Gem (they will be a Ghost) - you can also turn a living one into a Ghost this way, so this is really just where the Drama part comes in.

During Karma this rewards a massive amount of Karma, outside of Karma it's basically just plot stuff.

Isn't this pretty dark?
Welcome to the chaotic evil side of Rixixi, there's a reason Phoenix was dead on arrival.

If I have one of the blades equipped to my Ixi, can I use them as proof?
Yes, except for the scarification kit - since having that equipped means your Ixi has a scar, not a whole scarification kit hanging around.