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Mists Ward 19, Plot 44, Balmung | Fridays 8pm-11:00pm Eastern

Every week, fighters gather at Echo's End Arena to test their might and magic and win the hearts of the crowd. Entry into the fights is open to the public and sign-ups are first come, first serve - they fill up quickly, so be ready to throw your hat into the ring!These spectacles have few limitations, encouraging shows of impressive prowess within the arena ring, which has been fitted with a magitek dampening field to prevent damage to the facility or audience. Otherworldly magic and fantastic fighting both are welcome. The dampening field will preserve the pyrotechnics, while also preserving the life of the fighters to the match's conclusion, with healing staff on-hand to seal up the worst of wounds.Echo's End seeks to provide comfortable seating and an entertaining show for its guests. We have stadium seating on both sides and recommend you bring a friend or five to cheer you on. It is the audience that selects its own fighters for the championship match at the end of the night.Winning in the night's championship fight against the Echo's End house champion awards a prize of 500k gil, as well as fame, as their name will remain forever on our hall of heroes.

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Arena Fight Rules

STANDARD MATCHUP RULESLast revision: Nov 11, 2022Echo's End Arena uses a variant on the well-known "Grindstone" style as the base of our combat rolls. If you are unfamiliar with how this is done, or are curious as to how we manage them, read on.After announcements are finished, the announcer will prompt both fighters to conduct a /random roll, to establish an initiative order. The announcer will then set the timer to 20 minutes.The fighter with the higher initiative roll will go first.Fighter 1 will write out a description of their attack out in the /yell channel, and after posting it, conduct a /random roll.Fighter 2 will then conduct their own /random roll for defense.If Fighter 1's attack roll is higher than Fighter 2's defense roll, Fighter 1 scores a point. If Fighter 2's defense roll is higher, then no points are awarded.Regardless of the outcome, the order now reverses. Fighter 2 will write out the conclusion of the attack - whether they are hit, or dodge - and then write out their counterattack in /yell, and /random roll.Fighter 1 will conduct a /random roll for defense, the rolls will be compared. If the attack roll is higher than the defense roll, Fighter 2 will score a point.This routine will repeat until the 20 minute timer runs out. If the score is tied at the end of regulation, the fight enters a "sudden death" where the next successful hit wins the match.Any additional judgment for ambiguous situations not specified and foreseen here is left to the announcer/battlemaster to rule on at the time they occur.ADDITIONAL RULESThere is a dampening field over the entirety of the arena's interior ring. Both physical and magical attacks consistent with abilities that player heroes might have in the lore, are fully allowed within. However, attacks may not affect anything outside of the ring.Attacks must not maim or kill the defender, nor be emoted as intending to cause this sort of permanent harm. As a defender, you are also responsible for emoting attacks hitting you in a way that does not maim or kill your character.Stalling during a match is not allowed. Fighters will have a maximum of 5 minutes to craft and post their replies. If a fighter exceeds this time limit, they will forfeit.If a successful attack roll is 900 or higher, it is a critical hit, and they will score 2 points instead of 1.While Echo's End staff are allowed to participate in fights, they are ineligible for any gil prizes.By signing up for a fight in Echo's End Arena, you agree to abide by these rules. Failure to abide by the rules may result in forfeiture of your match/prizes and a prohibition on joining future matches.HOUSE CHAMPIONSHIP RULESAt the end of the night, winning fighters from any of the preceding matches of that day will be chosen via a straw poll or obvious consensus from the audience. That fighter will fight against Echo's End's "house champion" as the final bout.The house champion has an inherent +100 bonus to both attack and defense rolls. This does not count towards critical hits; the champion must roll a natural 900 or higher to score a critical hit.In accordance with this increased difficulty, winning against a house champion comes with the gil prize and their adventurer plate recorded on our roster of heroes.

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3/17/23 - Aylim Sheagar

2/10/23 - Leofwynn Warner

12/30/22 - Adis Khuysch

12/16/22 - S'kaya Devalos

11/25/22 - Nuala Moore

10/21/22 - Philaurel Saphielle

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History of Echo's End:
Valabhi Curiosities

The House of Valabhi is an old merchant family of Thavnair dating from the first migration of hyur to the isle. Originally artisans, the first mention of the Valabhis comes from a record of a commissioned set of golden jewelry for the daughter of the satrap at the time. From there, the Valabhis expanded into a number of trade goods, eventually settling as middle-men moving rare and and luxury goods for the upper class of Radz-at-Han and beyond. This was their core business even in the current era, with Valabhi Curiosities spanning all three continents within reach of Thavnair at its peak.Many would say that the Valabhi name is in its waning years, however, as the current head of the family, Dhruva Valabhi, had no siblings nor sired any children of his own, and has been rumored to be in poor health. Many of the Valabhi's businesses interests have been spun off or sold in the last few decades, with Dhruva preferring to keep only what can be more directly controlled by the family itself, which is now limited to a handful of second-cousins and an adopted daughter, Adrianna, who is not ethnically Thavnairian but instead an orphan from the fall of Ala Mhigo.Until the last few years, Valabhi Curiosities dealt in large volume with parties to which Thavnair was neutral, but are now seen as ethically dubious due to the abuses of hard Garlean rule in its most distant provinces. When public sentiment towards the empire soured, VC struggled to realign its business portfolio and opened a new trade branch focused on Eorzea, with Limsa Lominsa as its home port and Adrianna Valabhi at its helm. Ms. Valabhi was seen as a reformer compared to the branches focused on Ilsabard and Hingashi, with a vetted clientele and a stronger stance against selling antiquities of sociopolitical importance and value.When the Garlean Empire seemed to collapse overnight, VC lost contact with its personnel in Ilsabard and were unable to retrieve them or certify whether they were dead or in hiding from the uprising and turmoil. While the problem was not unique to VC, several remaining employees were openly critical of what they perceived to be a lack of responsibility on VC's part. There had already been rumblings of dissatisfaction due to the apparent shift in business ethics that came with Adrianna's appointment to the Eorzean branch, which had turned away business that had been lucrative and reliable for decades.All of these factors resulted in the Hingan branch revolting against its founding company and reforming under its own banner, calling themselves the Silver Fox Concern. They took on much of the remaining business to be had from Ilsabard and Othard that was of a grey ethical interest and focused themselves around the development and proliferation of mechanical technology, including both clockwork and magitek inspirations and research into Allagan artifacts.Things came to a head between the Silver Fox and VC's Eorzean branch when they infiltrated the airship hangar at the Limsan home office during a planned maintenance and damaged a particularly advanced Allagan piloting node called the Danphe that had been in the hands of the Valabhi for generations. At first, VC thought that it had been an technical accident when the node's artifical intelligence did not come back online, but it was later revealed that the Silver Fox had taken it and other experimental designs for a mobile unit, and refined it into a series of automatons designed as all-purpose servants for luxury buyers - butlers, bodyguards, and personal companions. VC began immediately politicking and petitioning governing bodies in the east to return the stolen property.However, when the world became consumed with the apocolyptic event commonly called the Final Days, however, all parties turned from their corporate warring to focus on themselves and their own backyards out of necessity. VC suffered even further humiliating losses when one of their antique storage facilities in Radz-at-Han was afflicted with a blasphemy, which opened the building up to looting and destruction. They shuttered all of their high-end mercantile services for the first time in their history and have yet to reopen.The company is still recovering on the backs of their subsidiary businesses and investments at the time of this writing.