Planeswalker/Igniting
Igniting (also "triggering", "flaring" or "ascension") refers to the spark's ignition, that is the process by which a sapient creature activates their latent spark and thus becomes a planeswalker. Usually, the ignition is triggered by a powerful, emotionally-affecting, perspective-altering life event, often a near death experience.[1]
First planeswalk
As an effect of the ignition, the newly-ignited planeswalker planeswalks away for their first time: they are pulled to the Blind Eternities and then come back appearing to a random plane, and afterwards realizing their new traveling powers.
List of all explained ignitions:
Planeswalker | Ignited on | Planeswalked to | Ignition's cause |
---|---|---|---|
Ajani Goldmane | Naya | Jund | Realizing the death of his brother |
Arlinn Kord | Innistrad | Unknown | Realizing she transformed into a werewolf and had killed an angel |
Calix | Theros | Unknown | Frustration about his inability to fulfill his purpose of following Elspeth Tirel. |
Chandra Nalaar | Kaladesh | Regatha | Striking against her executioner with pyromancy |
Dack Fayden | Fiora | Unknown | Witnessing his friend being killed by rival mages |
Dakkon Blackblade | Dominaria | — | The planeswalker Geyadrone Dihada ignited his spark. |
Daretti | Fiora | Unknown | Being crippled by the explosion of one of his constructs |
Domri Rade | Ravnica | Naya | Being buried alive as part of a Gruul ritual |
Elspeth Tirel | A phyrexianized plane | Theros | Fleeing from the Phyrexians |
Eskil | Dominaria | Unknown | Splashed by the blood of the corrupted angel Trine. |
Freyalise | Dominaria | Unknown | Mortally wounded by Jason Carthalion. |
Gideon Jura | Theros | Bant | Realizing the death of his irregulars through his own hubris |
Huatli | Ixalan | Kaladesh (uncompleted) | Under furious attack by Angrath |
Jace Beleren | Vryn | Ravnica | Accidental planeswalk after being memory wiped |
Jared Carthalion | Dominaria | Unknown | Crushed by crumbling monoliths confronting Ravidel |
Jaya Ballard | Dominaria | Elsewhere on Dominaria | Hit by Jodah's mirror |
Jeska | Dominaria | Unknown | Being split from Karona with the Mirari |
Karn (1st time) | Dominaria | — | Acquiring Urza's spark |
Karn (2nd time) | New Phyrexia | — | Acquiring Venser's spark |
Kiora | Zendikar | Unknown | Being swallowed by a big sea serpent |
Liliana Vess | Dominaria | Innistrad | Turning to black mana to restrain her undead brother Josu |
Narset | Tarkir | Pulled back to Tarkir | Learning the truth about Tarkir's past |
Nicol Bolas | Dominaria | Meditation Plane | Rage and envy against Ugin |
Nissa Revane | Zendikar | Lorwyn | Witnessing Emrakul's sealed presence |
Ob Nixilis (1st time) | A plane of eternal war | Unknown | Realizing the futility of life and mono-planar ambitions |
Ob Nixilis (2nd time) | Zendikar | Unknown | Siphoning the power of the hedrons into himself. |
Oko | Unknown | Unknown | Subjected to magical procedures designed to suppress his powers. |
Ral Zarek | Ravnica | Unidentified plane | Being stabbed and finding out his lover was betraying him. |
Rowan and Will Kenrith | Eldraine | Unknown | Learning the truth about their birth mother. |
Sarkhan Vol | Tarkir | Unknown | Channeling the spirit of an ancient dragon |
Samut | Amonkhet | Theros | Experiencing euphoria and joy after being thanked by Hazoret |
Sifa Grent | Grixis | Unknown | Tortured by Malfegor. |
Sorin Markov | Innistrad | Unknown | Becoming a vampire |
Tacenda Verlasen | Innistrad | Unknown | Defeating her sister Willia, and absorbing the Bog Entity.[2] |
Teferi (2nd time) | Dominaria | Unknown | Restoring of a Powerstone made by Jhoira. |
Tezzeret | Esper | Grixis | Being attacked by guards after learning that the Codex Etherium was empty. |
Teyo Verada | Gobakhan | Ravnica | Being buried alive. |
Tibalt | Innistrad | Unknown | Feeling all the pain he had inflicted on others in his life |
Ugin | Dominaria | Meditation Plane | Realizing his twin brother doesn't love him and is trying to manipulate him. |
Urza | Dominaria | Unknown | Enduring the Sylex Blast and being resurrected through the Might- and Weakstone |
Vivien Reid | Skalla | Unknown | Seeing her world destroyed by Nicol Bolas |
Vraska | Ravnica | A swamp on a dark plane. A tomb with no way out. | Being severely beaten by Azorius prison guards. |
Vronos | Innistrad | Esper | Having his face scarred by werewolves |
References
- ↑ Doug Beyer (August 4, 2015). "Spark Ignition". A Voice for Vorthos. Tumblr.
- ↑ Brandon Sanderson (2018). "Children of the Nameless". Wizards of the Coast.