The extract below is from Archemis Cornix’s speech, outside the Jade gates of the Chamber Arcanick on the Chamber’s Founding Day:

“…the Chamber Arcanick was formally part of the Chamber Arcane. However, in its great wisdom, the Chamber Prime has decided that our future lies in the arcanick; those intricate, multifarious and wondrous devices that are now changing our very lives. And so said the Great Chamber, we must establish a new chamber to ensure that we are the vanguard in these exciting and dangerous times. No more shall we fear Irth's fanatical might; nor Xauphinelle; nor the Maw.

With labour, knowledge and excellence we shall investigate and understand the workings of the great – and often terrible – machinery of the ancients so that we may defend our way of life, protect our allies and smite those who would stand against the Union…”

The Chamber Arcane was set up to examine and understand the workings of any ancient (or modern) arcanickal devices discovered (or acquired) by the Chamber Geographick’s archaeologists. The Chamber has an interest in understanding the working of Sanctuary’s gates - in particular, the Great Gate which remains an inactive enigma to this day – as well as developing better Tweenships, weaponry and other such devices that might prove useful in a Multiverse full of the unexpected.

The Chamber Arcanick’s buildings are also notable for containing the Museum of Arcanickal Curiosities.

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Adventure Seeds

• Attendance is down at the Museum of Arcancickal Curiosities and so the curator has laid down a challenge to Sanctuary’s foremost trouble-shooters, trailblazers and loot-seekers: the first person to present a notable item of Arcancickal interest (that is deemed worthy of a place in the museum by the curator) will receive lifetime Fellowship of the Chamber Arcanick and 500 Plates reward.