The Shard (republished)
The Brothers' War ended with the death of Mishra and the ascension of Urza as a planeswalker - an ethereal, godlike being of endless power, with the ability to walk the planes of the Multiverse through the emptiness of the Blind Eternities. Urza, Chief Artificer of Yotia, Protector of the Realm of Argive, became Urza Planeswalker when he poured all his memories into an uncanny bowl-shaped artifact - the Golgothian Sylex - in order to defeat his crazed brother; and by doing so, he sparked a cataclysm that wiped the continent of Argoth off the world and sank the entire plane of Dominaria into a millenium-long ice age. The Thran powerstones that were the reason why the brothers fought so fiercely - the Weakstone and the Mightstone - were lodged within Urza's skull, as his eyes multifaceted eyes. And both stones were the source of his tremendous power, for they contained the essence of a nascent planeswalker of old, who used his lifeforce through the combined stone in order to lock away from Dominaria the hellish spheres of Phyrexia.
But by unleashing the power of the Sylex, Urza did not only "engineered" the Ice Age, but he also locked away the Dominarian nexus of worlds in the Multiverse, trapping everyone inside, and himself outside. No one, not even another planeswalker, could walk in or out of the "Shard Worlds". Dominaria was apparentely safe from everyone, including Urza and the Phyrexians.
Aong the planeswalkers trapped within the Shard was Freyalise, goddess of the elves. Once a child of red mana, Freyalise turned to the green colours of magic when she became a planeswalker. While Urza was the responsible for the beginning of the Ice Age, Freyalise was the one bringing it to an end, when she cast the World Spell with the help of two powerful artifacts: the Reflecting Mirror of the archmage Jodah, and the Ice Cauldron. The World Spelll was a powerful and destructive spell, which ended the Ice Age and brought spring back into the long frozen world of Dominaria. It also - and perhaps unintentionally - repaired the Shard, leaving the Dominarian nexus unguarded - thus allowing the return of Phyrexia, and the return of Urza in their wake. While Freyalise can be blamed on the account of recklessness, for she could have destroyed the world with her spellcasting and, in the end, she allowed the return of Yawgmoth, she also gave Dominaria the chance to live again. Living, as we all know, is not without danger.
But by unleashing the power of the Sylex, Urza did not only "engineered" the Ice Age, but he also locked away the Dominarian nexus of worlds in the Multiverse, trapping everyone inside, and himself outside. No one, not even another planeswalker, could walk in or out of the "Shard Worlds". Dominaria was apparentely safe from everyone, including Urza and the Phyrexians.
Aong the planeswalkers trapped within the Shard was Freyalise, goddess of the elves. Once a child of red mana, Freyalise turned to the green colours of magic when she became a planeswalker. While Urza was the responsible for the beginning of the Ice Age, Freyalise was the one bringing it to an end, when she cast the World Spell with the help of two powerful artifacts: the Reflecting Mirror of the archmage Jodah, and the Ice Cauldron. The World Spelll was a powerful and destructive spell, which ended the Ice Age and brought spring back into the long frozen world of Dominaria. It also - and perhaps unintentionally - repaired the Shard, leaving the Dominarian nexus unguarded - thus allowing the return of Phyrexia, and the return of Urza in their wake. While Freyalise can be blamed on the account of recklessness, for she could have destroyed the world with her spellcasting and, in the end, she allowed the return of Yawgmoth, she also gave Dominaria the chance to live again. Living, as we all know, is not without danger.
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