The Sixth Vertex is an ancient underground shrine built to serve as the Sixth and final Corner of the Machine.
Fictional History[]
Early History[]
A long time ago, a race of super-ancient beings built the Sixth and final Vertex of the Machine beneath Easter Island (the exact geological status of it at the time is unclear), and presumably carved the moai statues scattered around what became the island, explaining their somewhat odd looks.
Napoléon Bonaparte attempted to locate basalt statues guarding a Vertex in Egypt, unaware that the shrine he was looking for was on Rapa Nui.
In the course of various parties researching the locations of the Sixth Vertex, Carnivore and Diane Cassidy, and Wolf and Mao discovered its location on Easter Island. The Commander-in-Chief's In Extremis Force/China alliance made their own plans to secure the site for themselves during the Return of the Dark Sun, and so Mao had China bribe the Chilean government for unrestricted access to Easter Island through several payments publicly believed to be aid relief funds.
Members of the Japanese Blood Brotherhood discovered the existence of the inverted pyramid within the Easter Island Vertex. During the autumnal equinox, they performed a ceremony there with a second Capstone, which nullified the power of the Tartarus sunspot.
The Six Sacred Stones[]
A diagram of Easter Island with the locations of the moai statues was included in Wizard's notes, suggesting he had considered the island relevant to the Dark Sun mission. However, Wizard had crossed it out, believing he was wrong.
The Five Greatest Warriors[]
As soon as Carnivore and his team got their hands on the sixth Pillar, they made their way to Easter Island.
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As the final Pillar was set in the Vertex, the inverted pyramid activated, firing a beam of light which struck the Earth's core, accompanied by the light beam from the other five Vertices, causing a series of harmonic waves that repelled the Dark Sun.
The One Impossible Labyrinth[]
Years later, after averting the Omega Event, Jack returned to the Sixth Vertex beneath Easter Island and ventured down into the chasm to recover the Sixth Pillar.
Features[]
The Greatest Shrine of All[]
The cavern is shaped like a funnel, and there is are spikes lined around it which hides the safe route, which is transcribed onto the plaque describing each vertex. At the bottom of the 'funnel' is the abyss and an outlying ledge which leads to the inverted pyramid, and contains a battlement at the edge of the spiked zone.
Inverted Pyramid[]
Like every other Vertex, there is the inverted pyramid of the Machine, set above a seemingly bottomless chasm.
Trivia[]
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