Decamillennial
| Decamillennial | |||||
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| The Broken Guildpact | |||||
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| Era | Rift Era | ||||
| Date | 4483 AR (10,000 ZC) | ||||
| Location | Vitu-Ghazi, Ravnica | ||||
| Sets | Ravnica: City of Guilds | ||||
| Storyline Sources | Ravnica[1] | ||||
| Affiliations | Azorius, Boros, Dimir, Golgari, Gruul, Izzet, Orzhov, Rakdos, Selesnya, Simic | ||||
| Characters | Agrus Kos, Bell Borca, Bayul, Biracazir, Chorus of the Conclave, Feather, Fonn Zunich, Jarad vod Savo, Mat'Selesnya, Savra vod Savo, Szadek | ||||
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The Decamillennial, also called the Broken Guildpact[2], was the ten-thousand-year anniversary of the signing of the Guildpact on the plane of Ravnica.
Description
On the day of the Decamillennial, the Selesnyan leaders — Mat'Selesnya and the Chorus of the Conclave — prepared to perform the convocation, a sacred ritual intended to bless the entire plane and offer forgiveness of sins, renewing the spiritual bonds between Ravnica and the Guildpact. The Chorus, made up primarily of dryads, also included three non-dryad members, among them Bayul, each linked to the Chorus through magical gems embedded in their foreheads.
However, beneath the surface, betrayal and ambition brewed. Savra, a rising power among the Golgari, sought to steal Bayul’s gem to join the Chorus herself, using it as a means to seize influence over another guild. Bayul ultimately passed his gem to his ledev guardian Fonn Zunich before dying, but the conspiracy was already in motion.
As the ceremony unfolded, hidden threats emerged. Members of the Boros Legion were revealed to be Lupul, shapeshifters and violent infiltrators connected to deeper conspiracies. Fonn and her allies narrowly escaped their attack, only to face an even greater threat: the quietmen, necromantically crafted ghost-warriors secretly produced by Savra herself. She had mixed her quietmen among the Selesnyans and infected the roots of Vitu-Ghazi, the great City-Tree, with necrotic filaments. Manipulating the dryads' trust, Savra had positioned herself to step into the Chorus as the Golgari’s representative once a place opened — by force, if necessary.
The true architect of chaos, however, was revealed in the heart of Vitu-Ghazi: Szadek, the ancient vampire and master of House Dimir, the secretive “tenth guild” long thought a myth. Savra’s ally turned on her in an instant, snapping her neck and killing the dryads of the Chorus that were linked with her in absolute harmony. With the quietmen under his command, Szadek tore open Vitu-Ghazi, exposing the dormant form of Mat'Selesnya, the parun of the Selesnya Conclave and the elemental embodiment of the Ravnica’s power. Szadek began feeding on Mat'Selesnya, threatening to unravel the magical contract that had kept Ravnica’s guilds in balance for millennia.
In the desperate battle that followed, Jarad vod Savo, Savra’s brother, seized Savra’s staff with Svogthir's skull mounted atop it, using its power to control Szadek's Lupul minions and turn them against their master. Fonn, regaining Bayul’s gem, first tried to place the gem on herself, but when that failed, she placed it on her mortally wounded wolf, Biracazir. With the infusion of new life force, the Chorus’s song was revitalized, Mat'Selesnya’s energy was reawakened. Waves of the world soul'd cleansing power destroyed the shapeshifters and left Szadek a charred and half-eaten husk, though it failed to kill him. Ever the lawkeeper, Agrus Kos stepped forward to formally arrest the vampire — an arrest that, paradoxically, fulfilled Szadek’s goal by technically breaking the Guildpact, as the Wojek's Guildpact-enforced arrest of a criminal went directly against the Guildpact's own clause that the Dimir guild could never be exposed by another Guild.
The aftermath of the Decamillennial saw Szadek “dealt with” by the Boros, Jarad rising as the new Golgari guildmaster, and Kos preparing to leave the force after revealing the burden of the full truth about the past, including the tragic truth behind the death of Fonn’s father, Myczil Zunich, 57 years earlier. But Szadek's conspiracy was far from over: the body of Luda, the girl whose death had sparked much of the investigation, was revealed to be yet another Lupul shapeshifter — one of many quietly manipulating events behind the scenes.[1]
References
- ↑ a b Cory J. Herndon, (2005.) Ravnica Cycle, Book I: Ravnica, Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Jay Annelli (2022). Magic: The Gathering - The Visual Guide, DK. ISBN-13 978-0744061055.
