Arch Mage Tower

History
The Arch Mage Tower was technically the first official building in Fort Serenity, although it was crafted nearly a decade before the town's construction. What started out as a small house roughly 12 miles away from the abandoned outpost became a fortified tower structure in 1992, when the two wood elves (Malessales and Cassira) showed up at the door one morning.

The original house was built with magic by Kjeldtnoir and Qroma after they traveled from Norway to settle in the empty land near California's shoreline (this would have happened sometime in the 1800's). Sparda Embervein discovered the two alchemists during his travels in North America and often visited them for magical assistance, accompanied by Baul Soulgrim and Modeus Soulgrim. In 1981, Modeus remembered the alchemists' location and fled to them for medical aid for his brother after Urizen's encounter with the Embervein family.

In 1992, the house became known as the Arch Mage Tower after Jinnythes Hamunaptra granted the mages' wish to have a tower to house all 64 arch mages that would be with them soon. Within the year, all of the arch mages were under the one roof.

Toward the end of 1992, news of Vergil Embervein's decent into Hell reached the arch mages' ears. As friends of his father, they were eager to lend the demon warlord's son a hand in his search for his father in Hell. They sent Falena'khatu Blitespeak to accompany Vergil and guide him to Sparda's prison, where the two set him free and returned to the Mortal Plane with him (re-uniting with Baul in Italy in 1993).

Urizen and Mundus Negaverse soon discovered the arch mages were behind Sparda's freedom, and began plotting to target the mages. By 1996, the arch mages were proud parents of two children each, and it was all too easy to break power people like the mages when their children were used against them (as Urizen and Mundus were both very notorious for doing so). In 2003, the arch mages were separated and imprisoned in many places within Limbo, until the Cross Division of the USMC came to their rescue in 2010.