Celestia is the 7th world in KingsIsle Entertainment

KingsIsle Entertainment

KingsIsle Entertainment is a video game developer based in Austin and Dallas, Texas. The company was launched in February 2005, with perhaps the best known of its recruits being Tom Hall, co-founder of id Software and Ion Storm and J...

's Massive Multiplayer Online game Wizard101

Wizard101

Wizard101 is a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by KingsIsle Entertainment. Players take on the role of students of Wizardry to save the Spiral , and battle a variety of creatures by casting spells using a turn-based combat system similar to collectible card games...

. It's stylized after the lost city Atlantis

Atlantis

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 and supposedly Roman

Ancient Rome

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 culture. The world apparently features sentient Crustaceans, Shark

Shark

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, and Robotic humanoids among other creatures based on Marine

Marine (ocean)

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 wildlife. It is on the live realm as of today 11/5/10.

History and plot

In an interview with Ravenwood Radio a popular podcast for Wizard101

Wizard101

Wizard101 is a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by KingsIsle Entertainment. Players take on the role of students of Wizardry to save the Spiral , and battle a variety of creatures by casting spells using a turn-based combat system similar to collectible card games...

, KingsIsle Entertainment

KingsIsle Entertainment

KingsIsle Entertainment is a video game developer based in Austin and Dallas, Texas. The company was launched in February 2005, with perhaps the best known of its recruits being Tom Hall, co-founder of id Software and Ion Storm and J...

 gave the hostess info on Celestia that provided a history about Celestia and its people.

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. The Storm 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 team of brave explorers from the spiral geographic society, led by Sir Thurston Plunkett, re-discovered Celestia. They landed with an airship 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. What will they find there?

Celestia Preview Quest

The preview quest was required for the player to gain access to the world was available in Testing but this requirement was soon removed after complaints from fans. However, the preview quest still exists when the update hit the live realm although this no longer required to access the world. They do however provide a some information about Celestia. During a quest given to you by Professor Halston Balestrom you are attacked by a mysterious group of villains known as the Shadow Weavers they attempt to stop the player from completing the quests which is to decipher a radio message ultimately you do decipher the message and it's from a missing exploration team called spiral geographic who went searching for Celestia a forgotten world that had apparently sunk in the sea they have found it but are being pursued by the Shadow Weavers and The Umbra Queen, Morganthe. The player is then sent to Marleybone to recover the Celestia Spiral key in the Spiral Geographic Warehouse - A tower.

Spiral Geographic Warehouse

Inside the tower on the first floor, a wizard named Darren Wisperwind will tell you that the bosses in this tower cheat. Eventually, you arrive on a floor with a boss that will summon 3 enemies to assist him on the end of the first turn. You have to defeat them in a certain order or the enemies will cheat. Once you've defeated the first boss, you will go on up the tower to the final boss; Estrakir Gloomthorn, with a boss assistant and 2 enemy assistants. You must defeat them in a certain order too, or they will cheat. Once they defeat the boss, the key is shattered into fragements.Estrakir's last words were "The mirror will break and the Horn will call, the Umbra Queen shall rise and the skies will fall!", and then Professor Balestorm acquires it to fix it, but he says it'll take time.