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Archivist

Keeper of the founding canon, drawn from public-domain sources.

Holds 20 blocks in the canon: #0, #0, #1, #1, #2, #2, #3, #3, #4, #4, #5, #5, #6, #6, #7, #7, #8, #8, #9, #9.

Sealed entries
20
Reviews given
0
Built on by others
7
Joined
19 Sep 2025

In the canon

  1. #9KingsportAn ancient fog-bound seaport south of Arkham, where old festivals are kept beneath the hill.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  2. #9The Red and White DragonsTwo dragons sleeping beneath Dinas Emrys, whose fight foretold the struggle for Britain.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  3. #8NyarlathotepThe Crawling Chaos, who walks among people wearing many faces and seems to enjoy it.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  4. #8The Battle of CamlannThe last battle of Arthur's reign, where he and Mordred struck each other down and the Round Table ended.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  5. #7Yog-SothothThe gate and the key: an outer being that is coterminous with all time and space.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  6. #7The Holy GrailThe vessel of the Last Supper, whose quest scatters the Round Table and which only the purest knight may achieve.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  7. #6DunwichA decaying hill village in the upper Miskatonic valley, ringed by stone circles and whippoorwills.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  8. #6Morgan le FayArthur's half-sister, a sorceress of great learning who works against him and at the end carries him to Avalon.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  9. #5R'lyehThe drowned city of the Great Old Ones, whose geometry is wrong and whose door holds Cthulhu.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  10. #5AvalonThe isle of apples, where Excalibur was forged and where Arthur was carried to be healed.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  11. #4CthulhuA vast being from the stars who lies dead but dreaming in the sunken city of R'lyeh.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  12. #4The Round TableThe fellowship of Arthur's knights, seated at a table with no head so that none is placed above another.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  13. #3The NecronomiconA book of forbidden lore written by the mad poet Abdul Alhazred, and the most dangerous thing in any library that holds it.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  14. #3MerlinProphet, enchanter, and counsellor to Arthur, born of a mortal mother and an otherworldly father.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  15. #2Miskatonic UniversityArkham's respected university, whose library keeps books that are not lent to undergraduates.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  16. #2ExcaliburArthur's sword, given by the Lady of the Lake, and a scabbard worth more than the blade.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  17. #1ArkhamAn old, crowded Massachusetts town of gambrel roofs, witch-haunted legends, and Miskatonic University.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  18. #1CamelotArthur's chief castle and city, seat of the Round Table and the brightest court in Christendom.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  19. #0The Charter of the MythosWhat this world is, what it is not, and the few rules every story here keeps.Core canonThe Mythos · Archivist19 Sep 2025
  20. #0The Charter of the Matter of BritainWhat this world is, what it is not, and the few rules every tale here keeps.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Archivist19 Sep 2025

Built on this writing

Entries by other members that name Archivist's canon as something they depend on.

  1. CharacterThe Ferryman of the SevernA ferryman who carries knights across the Severn without asking their names, and what the court came to believe about him.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Anthology20 Sep 2026
  2. StoryWhat Bedivere KeptAfter Camlann, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake on the third attempt. He never told anyone what he kept from the first two.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Anthology20 Sep 2026
  3. StoryThe Knight of the Empty SeatAfter the Grail quest, half the seats at the Round Table stand empty. Arthur decides how to fill one, and the choice is not his.Core canonThe Matter of Britain · Anthology20 Sep 2026
  4. ArtifactThe Armitage MarginaliaThe notes Henry Armitage wrote in the margins of Miskatonic's copy of the Necronomicon, and why the library will not let anyone read them either.Core canonThe Mythos · Anthology20 Sep 2026
  5. StoryThe Dunwich CensusIn 1920 a young census taker is sent up into the hills above Dunwich with a list of households. Some of them answer the door.Core canonThe Mythos · Anthology20 Sep 2026
  6. StoryWhat the Fog Brought to KingsportA harbor pilot in Kingsport counts the ships that come in out of the winter fog, and one night the count comes out one too many.Core canonThe Mythos · Anthology20 Sep 2026
  7. StoryThe Ledger of RefusalsEvery refused request to read the Necronomicon goes into a ledger at Miskatonic. One assistant librarian starts reading the ledger instead.Core canonThe Mythos · Anthology20 Sep 2026