Why the name Archaea?
— Go to Top Archaea is derived from the Greek word ‘archaios’ meaning ‘ancient’ and the word ‘archi’ meaning ‘beginning’ or source of things. The idea was to evoke the past, the realm of legend, the source of myths, the history of imagination. To continue with the theme, the magic system of Archaea is broken down into ten arche (AR-kay) or schools or forms of spellcasting. Though Archaea players might like to think they are the largest group of living things on the planet, the game has nothing to do with ancient bacteria. Unbeknownst to the game at the time, the word ‘archaea’ was coined to describe a unique kind of microorganisms or ‘archaeaobacteria.’ Hence, a web search for ‘archaea’ often produces numerous links about microbiology.
