Celestia

The Story

Long ago, the Astral Wizards of Celestia created powerful magic using the energy of the stars, the moon, and the sun. The sorceress Morganthe, a Queen of the Shadow Web, wanted the secrets of the Celestian magic at all costs. The Celestians refused her, so she raised a dark army and sent it against Celestia. After decades of battle, the Astral Wizards realized their world would fall. They summoned the Storm Titan to defeat Morganthe's legions and to take their world to a place of safety.

But the titan betrayed the Celestians by sinking their world beneath the waves along with Morganthe's invading forces. Realizing they were doomed, the Celestians raised mighty domes to protect some of their treasured city from the waves, though it was too late! They perished along with Morganthe's invading army. Celestia was lost to the Spiral, its Spiral Door closed forever.

Centuries later, a new spiral door opened to a deep underwater world and was forced to be sealed. A team of brave explorers from the Spiral Geographic Society, led by Sir Thurston Plunkett, re-discovered Celestia. They landed with an air-ship and built exploratory undersea domes to explore Celestia's ruins. Plunkett and his fellow explorers soon realized that Celestia was now inhabited by a strange new culture... the Crustacean Empire. Unfortunately, the explorers did not come alone to Celestia. Morganthe's followers, the Shadow Weavers, stand ready to take Celestia's magic for their queen.

After receiving the Spiral Geographic Society's distress call, headmaster Merle Ambrose of the Ravenwood School for Magic seeks any young wizards brave enough to journey to the undersea world of Celestia and discover the secrets of its lost magic.

Entering Celestia

To enter Celestia you need to complete The Final Countdown in Dragonspyre. you will get a message from Merle Ambrose telling that you can now go to Celestia, although, when the world of Celestia re-entered the spiral, it was only destined for the strongest players to continue on to help save and defend it. You have to be level 48 or higher to enter the underwater world of Celestia.

Map

Locations

• Celestia Base Camp
• Survey Camp
• The Grotto
• The Floating Lands
• Stormriven
• Stormriven Hall
• District of the Stars
• Science Center
• The Crustacean Empire
• Trial of Spheres
• The Chancel
• The Lunarium

NPCS

Albert Cavanaugh	Aleta Masterson	Archytas	Avery Templeton
Bartholomew Swann	Buxley Turtleton	Charlotte Heath	Chief Mah-ke Moa
Clarence Cavendish	Coruscade	Dalton Prescott	Deirdre Parker
Edith Benchley	Edward Kitchen	Eloise Merryweather	Emperor Pontius
Engineer Montgomery	Grace Conrad	Hamish Willoughby	Harley
Humphrey Thatcher	Kimba Kalla	Kono Kala	Llewella Corey
Odgen Peake	Prospector Zeke	Pierce Stanson	Piper Melville
Quentin Chamberlain	Raleigh Waterson	Ronald Walsh	Rupert Flemming
Rutherford West	Sir Thurston Plunkett	Terrence Walpole	The Archivist
Thorton Lewis	Thule Landshaper	Tom Sanderson	Tupa Taua
Wellington Fanshawe

Creatures

Creatures in Celestia

Reading the Celestian Language

Like in Grizzleheim, the strange markings found on many Celestian walls and artefacts actually represent English letters.

For example, this sample reads "Our passage is in the stars". A key to Celestian Writing can be found in the list of worlds of the Spiral in the Chantry in the District of the Stars, in which each world of the Spiral (at the time when Celestia came out) is present with its name in Celestian writing under it; this world list allows one to figure out which Celestian symbol corresponds to which letter in English. Some examples of where one can find interesting Celestian writing are in Stormriven, where the tunnel on the ground floor contains three messages (and the collapsed tunnel contains another), and on the pillars in Base Camp that hold the portals to the District of the Stars, the Portico, and the Chancel.

Other Notes

In the quest Recover the Ring, Shelus Gruffheart now says, 'Hey there, esteemed wizard. I collect unique and rare relics from all over the Spiral. I was supposed to find a bloodstone ring for a young lady in Celestia, but the ghosts have it.'

The quest Recover the Ring was not changed during the update in june 2010 but in a previous update before it.

Also, the quest from Mr. Rowley in Hyde park includes retrieving a watch from Celestia.

An Urgent Message

When the player defeats the Shadow Weavers in Dragonspyre, a message is shown: "Mayday! Mayday! We are under attack! This is Sir Thruston Plunket, leader of the Spiral Geographic Society! Our survey has landed on Celestia and the Shadow Weavers have found us! Send help immediately! The Umbra Queen has returned! It is the work of Mor..." the message is cut off.