Crown Contest

The ten-yearly contest of the Five Lords to drain Dahna, a lie that feeds the Great Astral Spirit.

The Crown Contest is a competition between the Five Lords in Tales of Arise, held every ten years. Each Lord governs one region of Dahna and uses whatever means available to harvest astral energy from the Dahnan people and the planet itself.

Quick Facts

Participants: The Five Lords
Frequency: Every ten years
Method: Spirit cores on Dahnan slaves; energy stored in Master Cores
Prize: The title of Sovereign (a lie)
True purpose: Reassemble the Renas Alma for the Spirit Channeling Ceremony

Facts from the source article.

Background

Most Lords use Dahnans as slave labor by attaching a spirit core to them, which drains their astral energy; the collected energy is stored in the Lord's Master Core, giving them the power to compete with the other Lords. The winner is granted the title of Sovereign and supposedly becomes ruler of Rena, but all of this is a lie: no Lord who won the Contest ever became Sovereign. Instead they were taken to Rena and placed in a tube where all their astral energy was drained. The true purpose of the Contest is for the Great Astral Spirit of Rena to gather astral energy from Dahna for itself and reassemble the Renas Alma, so that the Spirit Channeling Ceremony can be recreated. With the successful creation of the Renas Alma, the Crown Contest is halted.

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