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Archie

Gender	Male
Species	Illager
Status	Unknown (more likely alive)
Aliases	The Arch-Illager (former)
Affiliations	Orb of Dominance (former) Archie's empire (former)
Residence	Woodland Mansion
Allies	Walda Yumi (former)
Enemies	Karl Salah Thord
First appearance	Minecraft Dungeons
Latest appearance	Minecraft 15 anniversary sales promotional video
Actor	Dan Bittner (audiobook)

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The Arch-Illager, also known by his birth name Archie,^[1] is one of the two main antagonists (alongside the Orb of Dominance) of Minecraft Dungeons. He is the founder and leader of an empire of illagers in the game, and is a proxy for the Orb of Dominance to carry out its goals.

Appearance

In the opening cinematic, Archie has ragged and torn clothes and is holding a torch. When he is crowned as the Arch-Illager, he has blue robes that are similar to the evocation robe with a large chain with a ruby on it and a crown with a sapphire and a ruby on it. He also carries a staff to hold the Orb of Dominance. The Arch-Illager is also the only illager to have a horizontal head and a smaller height.

In the arena, the Arch-Illager will appear in the sky above the arena in its "ghost" form and then summon enemies. In "ghost" form, its clothes will glow, and its body will have a purple enchantment glow and special effects.

In the arcade edition, the top of the Arch-Illager's crown lacks a texture, only appearing black.

Personality

As being an illager. Archie seems to have been quite cowardly before he was corrupted by the Orb of Dominance. He often would not run into the face of danger. However, in certain situations, he has the potential to be a strong warrior. He also is shown to have violent tendencies in certain situations, such as when Thord causes him to get exiled, and when Salah causes Smacker to get him thrown out of the village. At one point, he briefly considers executing Walda for her part in Thord’s betrayal.

Biography

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Early life

Archie was born within a woodland mansion under the leadership of Walda, an evoker. His parents died in a patrol when he was young, leaving him orphaned at a young age. Forced to grow up alone, Archie had a rough childhood, hardly having any help from his illager tribe and being the target of harassment from Thord, another evoker his age. Sometime early in his life, he developed ideas that if the illager tribes of the Overworld banded together, they could defeat the heroes that constantly hunted them. Due to being an outsider, the other illagers disregarded his radical beliefs as they went against the common ideology that illagers are power hungry and combative by nature, and that they only follow the strongest illager as their leader. The other illagers believed that if they ever tried to unite, it would just be coup after coup.

Life in exile

Archie’s life takes a turn when he was forcibly brought into the patrol led by Thord, responsible for clearing the nearby monsters. Unexpectedly, a hero named Karl arrived and turned the tide, slaughtering both the undead and illagers. Only Archie and Thord surviving, he blamed the incident on Archie for not helping, even though he was told to stay out of the fight. After they returned to the woodland mansion, Thord reported to Walda of his view of the incident. Thord’s lies push Archie to react by pushing Thord in front of Walda, who fell on purpose and pretended to be in pain. In response, Archie became exiled from the tribe.

After struggling to survive in the wilderness, Archie discovered a village on the squid coast. There the inhabitants proved distrustful of him, save for a villager named Yumi who comes to respect and vouch for him. Thanks to her, he lived in the village for anywhere from a month to a year, until Karl happened upon the town. The village spokesperson, Salah, got the hero’s attention drawn to Archie and quickly threatened to kill him, since he could never feel safe in a village if an illager was there. Yumi fought to let him stay, but she had no choice but to tell Archie to run.

Back on the run, by sheer chance Archie happened upon a mountain, inside discovering the tomb of the Orb of Dominance. Freeing it from the depths, it promised to give Archie anything he could ever want. Repeatedly telling him it was Archie's destiny to rule the world, Archie would unite many illager tribes under his rule, taking the title in the process.

Illager empire

The Orb constructed Highblock Keep as Archie’s home, and gave him six redstone golems to protect him. However, these golems could not last forever, so he'd need a forge to make more, and a mine to gather redstone. The illagers were willing to work for him; at least once the Orb proved that it would not allow anyone to take it from Archie. The Orb insisted they would need to attack the villages of the continent so the militant illagers would "not get bored."

It was a downward spiral, as one thing required another, each more evil than the last. He eventually killed Thord, who attempted to betray him once again. By Archie’s coronation, the illagers had no qualms at his leadership, bowing at him out of respect. Now mad with power, he captures Salah as a prisoner, and tried to convince Yumi to join, who refused. Pleading, Yumi almost broke through the veil, but the Orb, now partially controlling Archie's thoughts, would not let her. With the new title of the Arch-Illager, Archie vowed to make all of the Overworld suffer for taking away the peaceful life he could have had.

Minecraft Dungeons

During his reign, he would collaborate with the witches of the Soggy Swamp to obtain large potion supplies, as well as order the development of the redstone mines to use his villager slaves to mine redstone, and construct the fiery forge to refine the gathered redstone into the Redstone Monstrosity to enforce his rule. Eventually, the Arch-Illager would attempt to betray the Nameless One, launching a raid on the desert temple to try and take his staff to gain the ability to summon the undead army for himself. Each of these plans, however, would be foiled by the heroes.

Eventually, once the heroes reach the Arch-Illager's throne room in Highblock Halls, he summons one last attack as the heroes reach him, before retreating to the Obsidian Pinnacle. After the heroes finally reach him on the highest point of the castle, the Arch-Illager fights the hero(s) himself. After having been heavily wounded, Archie is sucked toward the Orb of Dominance, which proceeds to manifest itself as the Heart of Ender. Once enough damage has been done to the embodiment, the heart of ender dissipates, rendering the Orb of Dominance extremely unstable.

The heroes find the Arch-Illager struggling to contain the Orb of Dominance a few moments before it shatters, knocking Archie down and relieving him of its control. Without the Orb of Dominance to give him power, Archie becomes afraid of the approaching heroes. However, they unexpectedly offer kindness and help him up. Archie then celebrates the destruction of the Orb of Dominance, and by extension the persona of the Arch-Illager, with the heroes.

After the Vengeful Heart of Ender and the Orb of Dominance was destroyed, it's currently unknown what happened to the Arch-Illager afterwards.

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