The Pyre Games: Origin

The Pyre Games: Origin, also known simply as Origin, is a prequel game in The Pyre Games series created by bridgemess.

Origin canonically takes place during the early years of The Pyre Games, before massive infrastructure related to the event was established. The games were held in a colosseum within the capital city of Imperia. The early games were not the same fanaticized event as those seen in The Pyre Games: Classic and The Pyre Games: Awakening, being run on a much smaller scale and only publicized to strike fear within the Territory citizens forced to watch.

Following the 10th Pyre Games, the colosseum was retired and the production behind The Pyre Games completely reimagined, slowly becoming the modern Pyre Games format witnessed in the previously mentioned games.

Game Mechanics
Due to the lack of interest by the public in The Pyre Games, the first ten years were fairly simplified.

As the games typically lasted a very short duration during this era, players would never be in the arena long enough to be afflicted by starvation, dehydration and other effects. Peer-to-peer violence was prominent (if not only) mechanism in which players were eliminated.

In Origin, players are trapped within a colosseum and forced to fight to the death until one remains. After a certain amount of time or players left, the explorable area will shrink to encompass only the Pyre.

In-game, players are given only a health bar. Players cannot be inflicted with any status effects other than bleeding and dismemberment.

Sponsors, Crafting, Hunger, Thirst and Heat are not present in Origin.

At the Pyre, only weapons will spawn. Medical aid kits, food and water are unavailable in Origin.

Colosseum Variations
The Colosseum in Origin can have multiple different appearances.

Ending
In Origin, the game only has one mechanism in which it can end.

A lone champion is crowned - the final player standing alive in the Arena.

It is possible for no champion to be crowned, if there is inexplicably no survivor of the games. This is a rare occurrence, and is avoided at all costs.

Trivia

 * Prior to the 09/07/2021 update, Origin was the only game in the series to run multiple games consecutively on the same server.
 * Origin was the first additional game released after the initial release of the game on 05/19/2021, being released 2 weeks later.
 * Origin is the only game in the series to feature both silver (Classic) and golden (Awakening) weapons.