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 ==The Burning Shrine==
 [[File:Grimoire The Burning Shrine.jpg|right|150px]]
-{{quote|They do not simply invade new worlds, they infect them - remaking them in their image, until only Vex remain.|}}
+''"They do not simply invade new worlds, they infect them - remaking them in their image, until only Vex remain."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: The Burning Shrine
+ARENA DESIGNATION: The Burning Shrine<br>
 LOCATION: Fields of Glass, Mercury
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 ''"All power is humbled when weighed against the eternal tide."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Shores of Time
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Shores of Time<br>
 LOCATION: Maat Mons, Venus
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 ''"There used to be life here. Now it's just overgrowth."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Asylum
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Asylum<br>
 LOCATION: Ishtar Sink, Venus
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 ''"Here we fight, for the memory of those who stood. Here we die, for the glory of the Light that never fades."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Twilight Gap
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Twilight Gap<br>
 LOCATION: City Perimeter, Earth
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 ''"The scars of our collapse mark the land. Reminders that all is fragile in the face of time."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: The Rusted Lands
+ARENA DESIGNATION: The Rusted Lands<br>
 LOCATION: Eastern Flood Zone, Earth
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 ''"In the shadows of all that we were, we fight for all we can be."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Exodus Blue
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Exodus Blue<br>
 LOCATION: Cosmodrome, Earth
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 ''"Our greatest enemy is the unknown."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Anomaly
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Anomaly<br>
 LOCATION: Mare Cognitum, Earth's Moon
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 ''"The Earth shines so bright from here."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: First Light
+ARENA DESIGNATION: First Light<br>
 LOCATION: Mare Cognitum, Earth's Moon
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 ''"It's empty for now - like a ghost town. But for how long...and why?"''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Firebase Delphi
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Firebase Delphi<br>
 LOCATION: Eos Chasma, Mars
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 ''"There's no telling the scale of devastation hidden beneath these red sands."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Bastion
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Bastion<br>
 LOCATION: Meridian Bay, Mars
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 ''"Dry as the bones you'll break."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: The Blind Watch
+ARENA DESIGNATION: The Blind Watch<br>
 LOCATION: Meridian Bay, Mars
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 ''"Take not for granted what you cannot see. What it is was not always, and may not ever be."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Pantheon
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Pantheon<br>
 LOCATION: Black Garden, Mars
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 {{quote|Whatever they were after here, it's been lost. We can only hope it was Rasputin that destroyed it and not the Hive.|Lord Shaxx}}
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Skyshock
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Skyshock<br>
 LOCATION: Old Russia, Earth
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 {{quote|Every inch of this place feels wrong... tainted. Makes your Light itch. Just ignore it and keep firing.|Arcite 99-40}}
-ARENA DESIGNATION: The Cauldron
+ARENA DESIGNATION: The Cauldron<br>
 LOCATION: The Dark Side, Moon
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 ''"The Cabal are too structured, too disciplined. Let's show 'em what fun looks like."''
-ARENA DESIGNATION: Black Shield
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Black Shield<br>
 LOCATION: Firebase Thuria, Phobos
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 Nestled against the crumbling facade of a derelict wall on the edge of the European Dead Zone, there are countless stories of the events that left this small village a ghost town. But its eerily quiet streets and nostalgia have made it a favorite of Lord Shaxx.
+{{clear}}
+==Sector 618==
+[[File:Grimoire Sector 618.jpg|right|150px]]
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Sector 618<br>
+LOCATION: Cosmodrome Wall, Earth
+Sector 618 is a recently-established Crucible arena mired in a ruin of the Cosmodrome. Secured by Shaxx and a Redjack fireteam, the space has been converted into an obstacle course for the Guardians, adding balance and navigational challenges to the live-fire proceedings.
+But the firefights of the Crucible aren’t the first that the facility has seen. The battles that shook the walls of Sector 618 belie the simple name, taken from its designation on the Vanguard atlas. It was chosen as an arena because the look of the place reminded Lord Shaxx of the spirit of war. Only Rasputin, who was operational during its height, could have witnessed what transpired here long ago. But the Warmind remains silent about a great many things.
+{{clear}}
+==Bannerfall==
+[[File:Grimoire Bannerfall.jpg|right|150px]]
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Bannerfall<br>
+LOCATION: The Last City, Earth
+Lysander and the Concordant mark the most recent example of a City political factions rising in opposition to the Consensus. This site marks a legendary battle where New Monarchy's Guardians rose to deliver the final blow to the Concordant, unraveling the war effort Lysander sought to bring against the Vanguard.
+Lord Shaxx has commandeered the area not only to commemorate this last stand, but as a reminder of the City's solidarity against those who seek to undermine the extreme efforts and sacrifice we make together to keep our peace.
+{{clear}}
+==Memento==
+[[File:Grimoire Memento.jpg|right|150px]]
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Memento<br>
+LOCATION: European Dead Zone, Earth
+On the outskirts of the European Dead Zone lies a ruin, once a thriving riverside city center. Crucible codename: Memento, the ghost city features resplendent streets and bleeding edge pre-Golden Age architecture— or did, before nature reclaimed it.
+When pressed about the sensibility of maintaining a Crucible arena amidst a sanctioned Dead Zone, Lord Shaxx responded, “Nothing in this world stays dead for long anymore. We need to be ready.”
+{{clear}}
+==Crossroads==
+[[File:Grimoire Crossroads.jpg|right|150px]]
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Crossroads<br>
+LOCATION: The Lost Oasis, Mars
+An active Vex structure on Mars with no Cabal vying to occupy or destroy it is rare. Even rarer is such a facility abandoned by the Vex themselves.
+Detailed analysis of the site estimates three separate ecosystems that the landscape could support, if the area had any wildlife to benefit from it. A Hidden report to Ikora mentioned, “They clove this ruin out of the land, possibly to defend themselves from a long-vanished enemy, or perhaps to isolate the land for experimentation.”
+{{clear}}
+==The Dungeons==
+[[File:Grimoire The Dungeons.jpg|right|150px]]
+{{Quote|Let us take what we can. You just wait. Pretty soon we’ll be holding matches atop Oryx’s throne.|Lord Shaxx}}
+ARENA DESIGNATION: The Dungeons<br>
+LOCATION: Rings of Saturn
+Space-faring Hive vessels contain living components— and like the Hive themselves, are a terrifying amalgam of predator genetics, arcane bio-energetics, and what we must consider as Darkness incarnate. But Lord Shaxx and his Redjacks have proven: even a Hive ship can be tamed.
+{{clear}}
+==The Drifter==
+[[File:Grimoire The Drifter.jpg|right|150px]]
+ARENA DESIGNATION: The Drifter<br>
+LOCATION: Foundling's Gyre, The Reef
+Hive incursions in Reef space are rare, but as with all wounds the Hive inflict, their effects linger.
+“The Drifter” is a Ketch that faced such an infraction. The attack rendered its Servitor inoperable, overwhelming all self-repair subroutines, and so what remains has quietly been added to the graveyard encircling the Reef.
+Lord Shaxx decreed live combat within the layout of such a prominent Fallen ship design would be invaluable, and the Crucible claimed it soon after with no word of disapproval from the shattered Reef.
+{{clear}}
+==Frontier==
+[[File:Grimoire Frontier.jpg|right|150px]]
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Frontier<br>
+LOCATION: City Perimeter, Earth
+This lookout station at the edge of the City's borders was decommissioned in the face of increasing Fallen attacks shortly before the Battle of Twilight Gap.
+Refitting of the station post-battle was moth-balled when Lord Shaxx found that, amongst the dirt, dust, and rusting metal, the station was prime for live fire exercises. The runway layout of Frontier station makes it a perfect course to train for the rising craze of Rift-based assault.
+{{clear}}
+==Vertigo==
+[[File:Grimoire Vertigo.jpg|right|150px]]
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Vertigo<br>
+LOCATION: Caloris Basin, Mercury
+When the Vanguard launched its first waves of exploratory ships to Mercury, it found that the Cabal fascination with the Vex isn’t contained to the warfronts of Mars. The Guardians discovered a small fleet of Cabal dropships hanging in place alongside a collection of unique structures. Their propulsion systems were slaved in sequence to keep the ships there indefinitely. The fate of the Cabal is as mysterious as Vertigo itself— the Guardians detected no catastrophic malfunction, no disease, and no bodies aboard any of the fully-supplied ships.
+As for the structure, upon recent inspection by Lord Shaxx himself, the Crucible Handler sent a recommendation to Commander Zavala and the Speaker: “The verticality will do wonders for new recruits. It’s time to fight."
+{{clear}}
+==Cathedral of Dusk==
+[[File:Grimoire Cathedral of Dusk.jpg|right|150px]]
+{{Quote|The impact of Oryx’s arrival was immediate. He was all full of bluster and noise. We took offense — and that wasn’t all we took.|Lord Shaxx}}
+ARENA DESIGNATION: Cathedral of Dusk<br>
+Dreadnaught, Rings of Saturn
+As soon as the first Guardians penetrated the Dreadnaught, Shaxx's Redjacks launched a boarding party to Oryx's fortress. By war’s end, they'd fought all the way to the ship’s “impossible weapon,” the Dark ordnance that obliterated the Awoken fleet.
+It was there they found what the Warlocks named the “Cathedral of Dusk.” A Hive burial site for— what? A former master of Oryx? Comrade? Lover? It was vile. And obvious that Oryx never expected the Light to reach so deep inside his throne, to such an intimate space. But he didn’t expect a lot of things — like a Guardian training ground atop the husk of his dead ship.
 {{clear}}
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