The Black Armory

The Black Armory, or BA for short, was an underground market for powerful weapons and armor. It was run by a man called Arthur, from which firearms could be traded with the materials needed to make them. As the name suggests, it was much like a black market, hidden away from prying eyes, with the entrance being located in a drainage ditch in the foremost anti-Titan trench in Trost's outer gate. 
==Info==
The Black Armory was, for all intents and purposes, a very large gun store. It had roughly twenty to twenty five guns that could be crafted and. purchased along with other magical items that were obtained through long and complicated quests, some of which took even the strongest players months to complete. A full list of all known weapons from the Black Armory can be seen on this wiki's Black Armory Inventory page. According to a study done by the town of Legion, the magical items in the Black Armory accounted for around 7% of the total number of magical items at the time. Along with the main room of the Black Armory, there were separate backrooms in which materials for guns were stored and could be looted but were guarded by Black Armory Guards.
==Origins==
It is unknown when the Black Armory was first introduced, but it is known to be sometime in mid-2019. Former Manager Athuri created and implemented the concept with heavy inspiration from the popular game series Destiny. Athuri has been harshly criticized for taking such liberty with basing his content around a game that had nothing to do with Attack on Titan, which was ultimately its undoing.
==History==
Since the very inception of the Black Armory, there have been conflicting views concerning it. Even the players at the time it was added so upset that one even went so far as to use his Colossal Titan to mount an attack on the Black Armory. He successfully destroyed the entire thing and a new one was built. Over time, as Athuri continued deeper and deeper into his own self indulgent additions to the server, distain for him and his projects only grew. Eventually, tensions mounted, and he supposedly left the server on the 8th of August 2020. Directly following this event, the rest of the staff team immediately began fighting for control of the Black Armory and all the powerful weapons it boasted. The staff team, many members of which already had dislikes and grudges towards others, only needed that little push to descend into chaos, effectively kickstarting the Revolution. This would continue until eventually, between the mayhem it had caused and the sheer stupidity of having features from a game set seven hundred years in the future, the Black Armory was blocked off, the Curator removed, and all items originating from it purged.
==Removal==
On December 12th, 2020, all weapons, armor, and items originating from, directly related to, or even having to do with the Black Armory in any way, were systematically purged in what would come to be known as the infamous Black Armory Purge. The only items from the Black Armory that were not immediately removed were the guns with no other functionality than a gun should realistically have. Magical guns such as the Izanagi's Burden were removed. Additionally, all magical items from the Frontier, and all items from the Moon, from Mars, and from the Menagerie, were
also removed. The decision was both criticized and praised endlessly from many different players on all sides of the debacle, but despite the countless arguments, the Black Armory has not been re-added and will in all likelihood stay removed.
==Memorialization==
Despite the huge effect the Black Armory had on the server, it remains in disuse, likely never to be brought back again. While the Forge in the upcoming update for the Underground might serve a similar purpose, it is highly doubted that it will successfully act as a full replacement. Even attempts to memorialize the Black Armory have been shot down time and time again. At one point, the old entrance had a sign on it reading, "The end of an era". The sign was removed. At another point, a small crack in the barricade was opened revealing a revamped interior seemingly based around the Frontier, but the crack was sealed off. Now, the only evidence the Black Armory ever existed is a small grave near Trost District. It is hidden from the DynMap and located in a completely random spot.
==Gallery==
File:Blackarmoryforge.png|The Forge in the Black Armory viewed after Arthur was removed
File:Blackarmoryentrance.png|The entrance to what was once the Black Armory, now blocked off
File:Blackarmorybackrooms.png|The only known existing image of the backrooms in the Black Armory
File:Blackarmorygrave.png|The tomb of the Black Armory
File:Blackarmorydummy.png|The testing dummy in the Black Armory. Normally, there were no horses