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Agartha, looking up at the paths and teleport circles

Cultures spread across the globe have mythological centers of power underground, and many specifically part of a Hollow Earth. Agartha (Agartha on Wikipedia) is a specific version of this Hollow Earth concept, developed in the 19th Century.

The three faction versions of the quest that leads a character to Agartha are: Might Makes Right (Templars, Training Day (Illuminati), and Chaos Practice (Dragon). Once the character enters, they see the cutscene shown in the video.

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The Secret World - 08 - Agartha, The Hollow Earth

The uniformed Station Master that explains Agartha to the player character has a mercifully and tastefully succinct number of similarities to the conductor from 2004's The Polar Express

Portals[]

Map

On the main platform, there is a set of three portals: one to each Faction City: Seoul, Brooklyn, and London. And there are two branches, curving around and down.

One branch branches off into two, the Nightmare and Elite versions of instanced dungeons: Polaris, Hell Raised, The Darkness Wars, Ankh, Hell Fallen, Facility, Hell Eternal and Slaughterhouse

The other branch leads to the main game areas, in order of release and their place in the main quest line:

Possibly a Tokyo teleport was added at the end of these sections of the same branch, or another portal was added elsewhere. Please confirm.

Missions[]

Usually characters are only on their way to a mission when they pass through Agartha, but there are a small number of missions that take place there.

In The Angry Earth, earthquakes in Agartha must be stopped, and the solution lies in Egypt.


Corrupted Agartha Event

Gallery[]

The Buzzing[]

Arguably, Agartha is just another manifestation, along with the powers of "The Bees" (the Secret Worlders), the Gaia Engine, and lore honeycombs, of The Buzzing. The Buzzing is a lore collection as well.

Secret Worlders[]

The bees that were one of the first signs of the player character's transformation into power are inextricably linked to the magic of Agartha

In one of the later Tokyo missions, Orochi scientists are seen to be attempting to graft the abilities of the bees to enter Agartha, to mechanical creatures.

"No matter what they promise you, remember the Hive. Remember your brother and sister bees are trapped there. But remember that no matter how monolithic they seem, they cannot catch us all. We are the Swarm. We are growing." - Choose Your Own

Etheric energy is what the Orochi scientists call it

"I might have known your kind would show up sooner rather than later. The etheric wave activity on this island has been spiking off the charts." - Harrison Blake

Stationmaster[]

Yourself

"I suppose one day my services will no longer be required to man the platforms. Modernization encroaches on us all… “Ticket machines,” indeed. Good for addition, I don’t doubt. Always with the correct change. Yet somewhat lacking in the human touch. Hm. Like my thunderous mechanic companions here. Oh, I doff my cap to them, though. For how many centuries they patrolled these stations alone, who can say. I pride myself on punctuality and dedication, but they are the original article. What faces they must have seen. Many gentlemen explorers – ladies, too – have stepped before you into Agartha’s honeyed halls. That pleasant Norwegian chap, for one. Amundsen. Yes, you’re in fine company, fine company indeed. Ah, I vouch a ticket machine wouldn’t tell you that."


Agartha

"You’ll get used to the balmy temperature. It’s for the bees, they prefer it. Their honey is remarkable, though the aftertaste – a little like machine oil. Her Majesty once commented favorably on Agartha to me, “A work of quite miraculous craftsmanship.” I believe to tour it was one of her few joys after Albert passed. Well, try not to approach all this as something unnatural. It may not follow the, ah, accepted theories of the Earth’s consistency. I assure you, though, it is very much a part of our world. Over the years, these halls have expanded and contracted with the growth of the Tree. Like breathing, I expect. Fresh branches find their way to the surface, to many different surfaces. The older growth, further down, leads to other places in other times. Stacked like those Russian dolls that were all the rage in Paris. Why I encountered myself as a young man once. Heh. Heh. Curious thing."


The Secret World

"Topside-speaking, I admit to falling a touch behind the times. Out of date. You understand, though, a massive floramechanical network won’t run itself. One always finds something needing doing down here. I’m certainly more of a groundsman than an engineer. Were we vanished from the world – perish the thought – Agartha would still perpetuate. A golden age without tarnish. Hmm. I say “without tarnish,” but in confidence, troubling events are afoot. Tremors, like a distant thunder. Outpourings of an horrific, black water… I believe it gathers far beneath us in great reservoirs. And yet I haven’t the nerve to put that theorem to the test. Well, listen to me go on about the rot in the Tree of Life! You have so many pressing cloak-and-dagger affairs to see to, up there in the world of man. I shouldn’t think there’s anything to worry about. Not yet."
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