A Brief Record of the Ordo Archivora Sacrum
A Monastic Order for Ossara
The Order of the Sacred Archives was founded in the late Aetherian period to gather, preserve, and transmit Ossara’s written knowledge. It welcomed scholars of every kind—those who understood that collapse begins not with war, but with forgetting.
Over generations, the Ordo established scriptoriums across the continent, culminating in the High Scriptorum at Eros Talum, said to house the greatest archive in human history. For a time, it was believed impregnable.
That illusion died with the rise of Lord Morgrav. Declaring all unsanctioned knowledge heretical, the Theocracy of Ergalon proscribed the Ordo. Its scriptoriums were destroyed, and in 396 AE, the High Scriptorum burned for nine days. An estimated 96% of the archives were lost.
What remained went underground. The Order dissolved its hierarchy, and its surviving members scattered into cloisters and solitary exile, preserving fragments of culture and memory in secret. There is no master copy. No central sanctuary. Each scribe safeguards only what they know.
Yet the Order survives.
After the purges, one isolated chapter reemerged in Necropolis Lux, naming itself the Broken Quill. It claims continuity with the Ordo’s mission but operates openly under Morgrav’s regime. Though it maintains the appearance of neutrality, its archives are censored, its scribes serve state interests, and its true role as a tool of surveillance is widely suspected.
The true Ordo makes no claim to legitimacy. It does not recruit, govern, or defend its legacy. Its only task is to recover the memory of a world being rewritten—and to protect that memory until the world can remember itself.