Post by Jeska, Voice of Eternity on Sept 10, 2015 16:18:18 GMT -8
I figured it would be more convenient to keep this here rather than make people have to go looking for it all the time. Please note that all dates are given in AR (Argivian Reckoning), a dating system that counts the Dominarian years since the birth of the brothers Urza and Mishra in Argive, a former nation of Terisiare. A year on any given plane may not be the same as a year on any other plane, but as the experiences of the planeswalkers are still linear we can assume that the same amount of time passes universally.
Also, as this RP is mainly concerned with events happening AFTER the Great Mending, events that occurred before then can be largely ignored save for certain keynotes which will already be included.
--Timeline--
4505 AR
Also, as this RP is mainly concerned with events happening AFTER the Great Mending, events that occurred before then can be largely ignored save for certain keynotes which will already be included.
--Timeline--
4505 AR
- The Mending occurs.
- Teferi, now without his planeswalker spark after using it up to neutralize a temporal rift over Shiv, sets out to become a mage for the Suq'Ata Empire.
- Jhoira, a nearly-immortal human, feels herself drawn to another immortal, the archmage Jodah, and after the events of the planar crisis presumably begins a relationship with him. Jodah's previous love interest, Jaya Ballard, had long since departed Dominaria and founded Keral Keep on the plane of Regatha.
- Karn disappears after closing the rift over Tolaria, retreating to the core of Mirrodin as he feels the effects of Glistening Oil, the essence of Phyrexia, in his system.
- A half-elf named Radha, whose potential neo-spark was burnt out by Jeska using her body to channel mana and extinguish several rifts, unifies the Keldons and remaining Skyshroud Elves.
- Venser departs Dominaria to explore the multiverse, eventually making landfall on Mirrodin.
- Nissa Revane makes her first walk to Lorwyn, meeting the Gilt-Leaf elves there briefly before the plane shifted into Shadowmoor. She returns home to Zendikar, wanting to learn more of her new abilities and of elves different than her. Her studies abroad lead her to both Mirrodin and Ravnica, with neither experience being pleasant and it sours Nissa on exploring any further; she instead chooses to seek guidance among the Tajuru elves on Zendikar, a tribe much more open than the fearful Joraga tribe she was raised by.
- The Great Aurora that Nissa was witness to on Lorwyn is the last one to occur; Faerie Queen Oona's acts of interference with Lorwyn's natural progression are put to an abrupt end when her memory-vessel, Maralen, gains self-awareness and defies her; ultimately taking her place as ruler of the fae. Oona would normally be immune to the identity-wiping effects of the Great Aurora, but something about the Mending caused this shift to happen earlier than she had expected and "Maralen" was created as a fail-safe; ultimately a mistake that leads to her downfall and the return of Lorwyn back to a normal day/night cycle.
- Liliana Vess, distressed by the reduction in power granted by her spark after the Mending occurs, brokers four deals with demons - Kothophed, Griselbrand, Razaketh, and Belzenlok - to secure her youth and power once again.
- Tezzeret is born on Esper.
- Garruk Wildspeaker is born on an unknown plane.
- Elspeth Tirel is born on an unknown plane dominated by Phyrexians.
- Kytheon Iora is born on Theros.
- Jace Beleren is born on Vryn.
- Kiora is born on Zendikar.
- Chandra Nalaar is born on Kaladesh.
- Tezzeret discovers that the elder dragon Nicol Bolas is the true leader behind the Seekers of Carmot: the group of mages on Esper that was set up to generate conflict against Jund for when the Conflux occurs.
- Tezzeret enacts a coup for control of the Infinite Consortium, an interplanar cabal also led by Nicol Bolas, by killing and replacing several key members of the hierarchy such that only he could communicate with the different active cells.
- Kytheon is arrested for theivery, and catches the attention of the prison warden, Hixus, who offers to teach him the ways of heiromancy.
- Kytheon earns his freedom by helping fight off an attack on the city by harpies. Earning favor with the god Heliod, he is challenged with a task to defeat a titan of Erebos. Upon doing so, he attempts to kill Erebos himself after, but is punished for his hubris by seeing his friends get smote for it. His spark ignites from the trauma and he runs away to Bant, changing his name to Gideon Jura as he tries to start a new life and atone.
- Jace begins his apprenticeship under the sphinx mind-mage Alhammeret.
- Elspeth arrives on Bant and begins training as a knight.
- Jace engages in psychic combat with his mentor, learning of his planeswalker status being kept from him and how he was being used by Alhammeret to perpetuate the war on Vryn for his own gain. He succeeds in ripping apart the mind of his master, but at the cost of most of his memories and the extreme mental trauma triggering an involuntary planeswalk to Ravnica.
- Chandra's village is wiped out, her father killed and her mother driven into hiding; all accused of being pyromancy-practicing rebels. Chandra faces the murderous soldiers responsible and is ultimately forced to surrender, just to also be sentenced to execution. Her spark ignites in response to the immediate threat on her life, scorching all in the nearby vicinity as she planeswalks away to Regatha.
- Jace becomes an agent of the Infinite Consortium on Ravnica, soon tasked with tracking down Chandra and retrieving a Dragon Scroll she stole from the Sanctum of Stars (on Kephalai). He is successful, but not before the scribes of Keral Keep (on Regatha) have created a copy.
- Chandra overthrows the Order of Heliud on Regatha, while Gideon works both with and against her during this time.
- Elspeth is made a knight of Valeron.
- Jace defects from the Infinite Consortium, teaming up with Liliana Vess to depose Tezzeret and wrest control of the cabal from him (with Liliana having forged a plan with the elder dragon Nicol Bolas: giving him back control of the Consortium in exchange for freedom from her demonic pacts)
- Tezzeret has his mind obliterated on Kamigawa, after a multiplanar duel against Jace, and the knowledge required to communicate with the cells of the Infinite Consortium is lost with him. Bolas recovers Tezzeret's still living (though mindless and crippled) body as consolation for Liliana's failure.
- Jace assumes leadership of the Consortium cell on Ravnica, giving it new purpose as the other Ravnican guilds are officially disbanded and undergoing heavy reform. Going through the cell archives, something he reads triggers renewed interest in the Dragon Scroll and he begins to study it.
- Bolas walks to Alara to prepare for the Conflux, and is introduced to another planeswalker named Sarkhan Vol. Sarkhan, having been haunted by draconic whisperings and searching for a worthy dragon to call his master, makes a blood pact of allegiance to Bolas.
- The Conflux begins and the fractured shards of Alara reunite. Bolas, having sewn the seeds of war across every shard for this very event, proceeds to reap energy from the resulting Maelstrom of mana formed at the center of their convergence, thus regaining a majority of the power he had lost after the Mending. Ajani Goldmane proceeds to fight Bolas, eager to settle a score involving the untimely death of his brother and save his home. Ajani banishes Nicol Bolas from Alara by summoning a mirror-copy drawn from Nicol Bolas' soul to fight for him, narrowly preventing Bolas from destroying the newly reborn plane out of his thirst for power.
- The Phyrexian corruption of Mirrodin intensifies, infecting the land and beginning work on the 'compleation' of the planar inhabitants.
- Liliana Vess acquires the Chain Veil from an ancient Onakke temple on Shandalar, as demanded by Kothophed. Garruk, incensed that she had killed one of his beasts in her quest, tracks her to the same temple. Initially overpowering her, she is forced into using the Chain Veil on him - cursing his body to slowly become more demonic, reducing his ability to summon beasts and increasing his desires to kill. Garruk escapes to Ravnica, but his desperate search for a cure to the curse comes up empty and he turns his sights back on tracking Liliana.
- During his search for information on Liliana's trail, Garruk meets with Jace and helps him identify that the Dragon Scroll refers to a location on Zendikar.
- Liliana tests the power of the Chain Veil by successfully assaulting a fortress on Innistrad. Figuring that Kothophed must have known she'd use such a powerful artifact for herself, she leaves to confront him. Sarkhan Vol witnesses her departure and reports these events to Nicol Bolas, who then sends him to Zendikar. A fight ensues as Liliana refuses to relinquish the Chain Veil to her demon master and she annihilates him. She collapses as the tattoos he gave her, a symbol of their contract, start to bleed.
- The archangel Avacyn and the demon Griselbrand disappear into the Helvault on Innistrad, after Griselbrand tricks her into binding both of them within it. Only Avacyn's host of angels and high ranking members of her established religion are witness to this event.
- Chandra appears on Zendikar looking for a ruin sage named Anowon (who is actually a vampire), and with him, searches for the Eye of Ugin. Upon discovering that she has a physical map to the Eye, Anowon attempts to kill Chandra and take it, but is knocked out by the surprise appearance of Sarkhan Vol. Anowon awakens with a blood-hungry madness, leading him to kill and feed from Jace's guide as his team was closely following in Chandra's footsteps. Jace "convinces" Anowon to be his replacement guide after disabling him.
- Impressed with her power to manipulate fire, Sarkhan leads Chandra to the Eye of Ugin, fully intent on sacrificing her there to silence the voices in his head. He fully transforms into a dragon and attacks her shortly before Jace arrives, with Anowon getting locked out of the room. The confluence of these three triggers a reaction in the Zendikar hedrons, causing one to start absorbing their magic. Jace remembers a clue from the Dragon Scroll and has Chandra summon an invisible flame. The resulting blast knocks all three unconscious and weakens the Eldrazi prison.
- Chandra awakens first, waking up Jace and questioning the motives of the one who told her of the scroll in the first place: a shaman-planeswalker called Ramaz. She leaves Zendikar, planning to exact some manner of retribution for being deceived.
- Jace leaves the Eye chamber, heading for Sea Gate at Halimar to inform the sages there of what he found. Plagued by setbacks and not feeling as if anything was gained from having done it, Jace still completes this side trek and departs Zendikar a full two weeks later, though he does not return to Ravnica right away. The Infinite Consortium collapses without his presence.
- Sarkhan awakens last, quickly finding himself having to deal with eldrazi spawn and a taunting dragon spirit, which makes him rethink Nicol Bolas' plan for sending him there and if he'd failed. Blasting off a piece of the magic-absorbing hedron, he takes it with him before he leaves to meet with his master in his so called "Meditation Realm" - a pocket dimension linked to Dominaria.
- Bolas reveals it was his intent to free the Eldrazi, hoping to unlock the work of Ugin and that he had already dealt with Ugin himself some time previously. He also clarified what sort of fate would be in store for Sarkhan if he did fail by showing him the corrupted body of Tezzeret as he was still being "rebuilt".
- Nissa Revane and her Tajuru clan are attacked by Eldrazi, with Sorin Markov arriving in her time of need. He also finds Anowon, freeing him from having been mind controlled by the Eldrazi for 3 months, and commands both of them to lead him to the Eye, having felt the effect caused by Chandra, Jace and Sarkhan being present there earlier.
- Upon arrival at the Eye, Nissa's distrust of vampires results in her going back on her promise to help him reinforce the prison, instead shattering the main hedron entirely and freeing the Eldrazi titans, with the hope that they would leave of their own accord. Sorin leaves for his home of Innistrad out of frustration, figuring Zendikar can suffer for the time being as the titans remain weakened from their imprisonment.
- Gideon Jura tracks Chandra to Zendikar, but gives up in trying to find his way through The Teeth, a perilous mountain range. He recuperates at Fort Keff, only to defend it from attack by a handful of eldrazi broodlings. Upon seeing Emrakul on the horizon, he evacuates everyone and immediately flees, knowing they didn't stand a chance against the monstrosity. He leaves Zendikar to petition the help of other planeswalkers, namely the Infinite Consortium.
- Kiora also flees Zendikar seeking power and gathering ocean inhabitants to defeat the Eldrazi. Her eventual arrival on Theros began with her summoning a tidal wave to get the attention of deep sea dwellers. Other merfolk there took it as a sign that she was an avatar of their god instead, and Kiora never ends up correcting them.
- Nicol Bolas finishes his efforts to restore Tezzeret as his servant, giving him the task of acquiring the secret of Etherium from Crucius the Mad. Ultimately successful, Bolas then sends Tezzeret to Mirrodin, having become aware of the Phyrexian situation spreading on that plane and using him to monitor events and disrupt any emergent leadership.
- Tezzeret encounters Jin-Gitaxis who presents him directly to the corrupted Karn, and Tezzeret establishes himself as one of his lieutenants alongside a corrupted Glissa Sunseeker and the lich-lord Geth.
- Koth encounters Elspeth and Venser in Urborg (A black-mana rich land on Dominaria). He enlists their help in dealing with the phyrexian corruption taking place on Mirrodin. Months later, Tezzeret moves against Glissa and Geth (with the results of the battle still unknown) while Koth and his allies succeed in freeing Karn from his corruption at the cost of Venser willingly giving his life.
- Sorin returns to his homeplane of Innistrad after the fiasco on Zendikar to find that his creation, Avacyn, had gone missing; the humans she was put there to protect were now fighting a losing battle against their predators, leading up to the mutual destruction of both sides.
- Garruk pursues Liliana to Innistrad, intent on having her remove his curse or killing her for inflicting it upon him. He catches up with her at one point, but is rebuked by her undead minions.
- After a few months of searching, Liliana learns of Griselbrand's disappearance into the Helvault and manipulates Thalia, the vault's protector, into destroying it; this act setting both Avacyn and Griselbrand free along with a host of demons.
- Avacyn transforms a number of lycanthropes into Wolfir at Gatstaf Grotto with a wave of epic spells that became known as the Cursemute, fundamentally changing their nature. In exchange, these Wolfir were to pledge themselves as Avacyn's personal guardians of humanity.
- Garruk is also affected by the Cursemute but not completely cured. With renewed clarity, he abandons his quest to find Liliana and instead searches for the source of this great power. Captured in the town of Torbach by one Sir Odric during his investigation of a werewolf-inflicted murder, Garruk is drugged and tied up to be taken to the capital of Thraben and stand trial for the crime (before Avacyn, most likely). The curse progressed in the meantime, restoring his bestial strength and allowing Garruk to eventually break his bonds and escape.
- Clues begin to appear around Ravnica's 10th District, causing Niv-Mizzet to begin extensive research into this Implicit Maze the clues suggest and appoints Ral Zarek as his lead researcher. Jace also begins independent studies of these clues.
- Gideon Jura arrives on Ravnica to find tensions high amid the resurgence of the ten guilds along with an anti-guild resistance movement known as the Gateless. Placing his search for allies on hold, partly due to poor success on that front, he aligns himself with the Boros Legion hoping to enforce some level of peace. The sheer number of people on Ravnica made Zendikar's situation seem like a much smaller matter.
- Jace secretly tracks Ral Zarek to find him meet up with Niv-Mizzet personally. Using his telepathy on the dragon, he finds all of the answers he needs to fill in the gaps of his own research. Having attracted the attention of the dragon while doing it though (as well as the interest of other guilds during his research) his research partner, Kavin, advises him to pull out as things were getting too dangerous. Jace agrees and erases 6 months worth of work from his memory. The machinations of the Rakdos, Gruul and Dimir guilds are what pull him back into it.
- Niv-Mizzet fires Ral for killing too many guild members in the course of his research, and organizes the running of the Maze himself, naming a manufactured Weird as the Izzet runner in his place. Jace discovers the magical construct, Baliff, awakened and bound to the endpoint of the Maze. Baliff explains his purpose is to actualize a new Guildpact if the trial is successfully completed, and to deliver a massively destructive spell if not.
- Having made friends with Emmara Tandris of the Selesnya Conclave three years prior, Jace works to give her the best chance at being her guild's champion for the Maze. Ral, thinking himself slighted by Jace, forces him to reveal the secret of his planeswalking ability to Emmara and threatens to kill him. Jace barely escapes, but the leaked information creates a rift in his relationship with her.
- When Jace arrives at the Maze's End, all of the runners have gathered and are doing battle. Baliff was about to allow the runners to trigger the Supreme Verdict spell, but Jace connects all of their minds together to prevent this. Baliff, realizing he had the necessary perspective to maintain order, deems Jace the champion of the trial and imbues him with the power and authority of the formerly-dissolved Guildpact.
- Emmara meets up later to congratulate Jace, but requests that he wipe her memory of him being a planeswalker and the existence of other worlds, not wanting to keep secrets from her own guild. Jace complies, which also eliminates any romantic inclinations she might have had for him.
- Elesh Norn, the white-aligned praetor of the Machine Orthodoxy, seizes power over the red and black factions of New Phyrexia by slaughtering Sheoldred and Urabrask's forces.
- Koth attempts to assassinate the ascendant Elesh Norn with an incredibly powerful spellbomb, forcing Elspeth to leave New Phyrexia for Theros and believing him dead. Koth actually escapes into the bowels of the furnace layers by merging into the rock and continues to work with the Mirran resistance. Whether Elesh Norn was killed or not is still only speculation.
- The arrival of Elspeth on Theros does not go unnoticed, as she had been here briefly in the past and had made off with a sword of divine origins. Having been healed at a temple to Pharika, Elspeth is inclined to learn more about the gods now and the original owner of her sword. Finding her way to the Temple of Heliod in Akros, he appears to her and tries to kill her. Rebuffing him with her magic, the king of gods ends up being impressed and instead transforms her blade into a uniquely powerful spear, dubbing it Godsend and commanding her come to his main temple in Meletis.
- Xenagos forms a plan, gathering and awakening monsters while manipulating the gods into confrontation by having them fear what might happen if another god claims the Godsend spear for themselves. Kruphix enables the Silence, shutting the gods out of the world to prevent them from causing any further damage in their frenzy for the weapon.
- Elspeth arrives at Meletis and slays a legendary hydra that had been awakened, thus securing her place as champion of the sun god with the people.
- Months pass, and Elspeth explores a relationship with the warrior, Daxos. She leaves Meletis with him, only to return and find the city under siege by minotaurs. Once inside the city, she is informed by Queen Cymede of a captured satyr that had asked for Elspeth by name. She found Xenagos there, chained, and he explained a plan to sweep away the invaders without a fight; by diverting the river while keeping them distracted. King Anax and Elspeth challenge the horde leader to single combat, allowing the plan to succeed.
- During the celebration of their victory, Elspeth and Daxos realize their feelings for each other. Xenagos appears as they sleep though and gives Elspeth a nightmare vision from her past. She strikes out at it and accidentally slays her lover, forcing her to flee from the scene. Xenagos uses further magic to intensify the celebration into unprecedented revelry and ascends to godhood. Heliod becomes wrathful, charging Elspeth with being complicit in his unlawful ascension.
- Cast out, Elspeth takes refuge with the Leonin people and is surprised to reunite with Ajani Goldmane. Swearing to set things right again, Ajani agrees to help and they travel together.
- Needing a boat to travel to the edge of the world and into the gods' home of Nyx, they come upon a disguised Kiora. They get to a sunken city where Kiora reveals her deception, only to have the ocean goddess Thassa appear to do combat with her, while sending Elspeth and Ajani the rest of the way to the shrine at Kruphix's temple.
- Having to pass an ordeal before gaining entry to the realm of gods, Elspeth is given a vision from Erebos of a life that she might have lived and granted her the opportunity to give up her current quest in exchange for a peaceful existence. She refuses, passing the ordeal, and sets to the task of confronting Xenagos to strike down the new god. Elspeth is gravely injured in the battle and offers her life in exchange for setting Daxos free from the Underworld. Ajani would have preferred for both of them escape from Nyx, and manages to get her to back to the Temple of Kruphix before Heliod intercepts them and finishes Elspeth off with her own weapon.
- Daxos technically returns to Theros, just as a zombie without memories.
- Ajani spreads the truth about what happened and begins a movement to turn people away from their belief, reducing the divine influence of the gods. This earns the respect of the other Leonin, and he wears Elspeth's armor to honor her memory.
- Sorin Markov arrives on Tarkir to find Ugin. He discovers that Ugin is long dead, and despairs of saving the multiverse from the Eldrazi.
- Sarkhan Vol, drawn by the voice in his mind, planeswalks to Tarkir and seeks Ugin. Finding out that all of the dragons have been hunted to extinction, Ugin included, he wanders aimlessly. He is joined by Narset, a high ranking monk that knows the way to Ugin's final rest and offers to lead him there. When they arrive, Zurgo Helmsmasher attacks them and kills Narset. Sarkhan enters a time portal through Ugin's remains and arrives in Tarkir's past, around the year 3327 AR, where he alters the plane's timeline by saving Ugin's life (after a duel with Nicol Bolas) with his carried hedron shard. The resulting anomaly forcibly returns him to a modified present-day Tarkir.
- Sorin Markov arrives on this new timeline's Tarkir and releases Ugin from the hedron cocoon. Sorin tells Ugin about the release of the Eldrazi, but Ugin dismisses him and demands that he seek out the lithomancer, Nahiri, first. His reaction implies that Nahiri hasn't been seen for some time and that a falling out between them has occurred.
- Sarkhan Vol reappears in the present, free of his madness, and finds that Tarkir's clans are now ruled by dragonlords. He seeks out Ugin and explains his own role in the release of the Eldrazi, and in saving Ugin's life. He leaves Ugin and meets again with Narset, now a planeswalker with no memory of meeting Sarkhan at all. He also meets Zurgo Helmsmasher once more and learns from him, much to his dismay, that the change to the timeline prevented Sarkhan from ever being born; he exists now as a temporal paradox.
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