Mirrodin (plane)

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History

Originally created by the golem Karn Planeswalker as the world Argentum. Karn created the plane from an existing but desolate space, using the space as raw materials in the construction of his artificial world.

Karn left one of his creations, Memnarch (a golem created from the Mirari) in control of the plane when he went out to explore the Multiverse. Unfortunately for Argentum, Memnarch was driven mad by Phyrexian oil that Karn accidentally left in Galdroon Palace, Karn's home on the plane. After being infected, Memnarch was a being forever changed and wished to become a planeswalker like its creator. Memnarch transformed Argentum into Mirrodin, essentially a gigantic terrarium with its own food chain and environmental systems, built to supply organisms that could potentially yield sparks. Once Memnarch found such a being, he would take its spark and implant it into himself to achieve planeswalker status.

At some point, mycosynth grew upon the plane, a product of the oil, changing metal to organic material, including Memnarch himself. Soon thereafter, Memnarch discovered blinkmoth serum, or lymph, which greatly diminished his decaying sanity, and he became addicted to the substance. Though Karn wished to intervene, Memnarch blocked him from his own world, thinking in his madness that Karn was already there.

The outer sphere of Mirrodin had a circumference of 1400 kilometers, with a diameter of around 450 kilometers. Mirrodin had five suns (also called moons by some of the plane's inhabitants; it is also notable that each different satellite was regarded with its own folklore by the peoples of Mirrodin), one for each color of mana, though the green sun was absent until late in Mirrodin's history. The names of the moons are: Bringer, the Eye of Doom, Ingle, the Sky Tyrant and Lyese.

Across the surface of Mirrodin, there were five Lacunae, one for each color, in each different landscape on the artificial world.

The Fifth Dawn

Glissa, Bosh, and Slobad and the Kaldra Champion journeyed deep within Mirrodin's core to confront the insidious Memnarch. However, with a single spell, Memnarch seized the avatar and turned it on Glissa and her companions. Kaldra's avatar relentlessly pursued Glissa into the Tangle, destroying everything in its way. Finally, at the Radix, Glissa's destiny became clear. As rage and despair overcame her, Glissa's body called forth a great column of green mana from Mirrodin's core, annihilating the avatar in the process. That mana bcame the fifth sun of Mirrodin. Memnarch was then deactivated by Glissa. Mirrodin was thereafter guarded by Glissa, Slobad and Geth.

Locations on Mirrodin

• Mirrodin's Core
  • Panopticon
• The Glimmervoid
• Mephidross (location of the Black Lacuna)
  • Ish Sah
• Rey-Goor, the Black Bayou
• The Oxidda Chain (location of the Red Lacuna)
  • Kuldotha
• The Quicksilver Sea
  • Lumengrid
  • Medev
  • The Pool of Knowledge (location of the Blue Lacuna)
• The Razor Fields
  • The Cave of Light (location of the White Lacuna)
  • Taj-Nar
• The Tangle
  • The Radix (location of the Green Lacuna)
  • Tel-Jilad

External links

• Planes of Existence: Mirrodin, magicthegathering.com
• (Flash) Planes of the Multiverse: Mirrodin, magicthegathering.com
• Mark Rosewater (March 21, 2011). "Looking in the Mirrodin". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.