Godsend

Godsend
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Characteristics
Origin	Theros
Creator	Heliod
User	Elspeth, Heliod
Status	Destroyed

The Godsend was the swordspear that was wielded by Elspeth Tirel on Theros.

History

Once upon a time, when the God Purphoros raised arms against Heliod, he crafted the Sword of Chaos which was capable of damaging the substance of Nyx. When Heliod and Purphoros clashed, it damaged the celestial resting place of Polukranos, World Eater and the hydra fell to Theros where it was sealed by Nylea and Heliod under the Nessian Forest.

At the moment of the clash, Elspeth had just planeswalked to Theros for the first time. She saw the Sword of Chaos falling from the sky, grasped it and planeswalked away. When she returned to Theros, ten years later, Heliod was angry at her at first. But when the god realized she might be the Champion of the Sun reborn he reforged the sword into the Godsend. Elspeth used her new weapon to defeat the awakened Polukranos.

Journeying into Nyx, Elspeth also defeated Xenagos, stabbing him with Godsend. But as a "reward", Heliod told her that no champion should know more than her god and because she knew and had seen places he didn't know, he stabbed her with the sword-spear, which shattered afterwards. Dying, Elspeth became confined to the Underworld of Erebos. A deathmask was forged for her, using the two jewels of Godsend.

After her escape from the Underworld and her ascension into an Archangel, Elspeth conjured a facsimile of the Sword of Chaos, with a blade cloaked in crackling golden energy.ref name="Divine">K. Arsenault Rivera (March 23, 2023). "March of the Machine - Episode 7: Divine Intervention". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.</ref> Though this new Godsend is implied to lack the god-killing power of the original, Elspeth favors it and considers it reliable, using it to channel her newfound angelic power.

In-game references

Represented in:

• Godsend

See also

• Theros: Godsend, Part I
• Journey into Nyx: Godsend, Part II