Docktown
| Docktown | |
|---|---|
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| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Status | Destroyed and abandoned |
| Formerly part of | Cabal City, Otaria |
Docktown was the harbor district of Cabal City, located in the continent of Otaria on the plane of Dominaria.
Description
The street lights of Docktown were fewer and the dangers more numerous than in the rest of Cabal City. There were more people there, not fewer, as anyone who wanted to survive traveled in packs for protection. Burly stevedores and enslaved brutes lugged huge crates on their shoulders. Rodentlike men with valises skulked nervously between armed bodyguards. Gangs of thugs loitered on corners, looking for a fight or a whipping boy to pass the time. Beggars crawled in the narrow alleys, and malnourished, ragged, and filthy people sat propped up against the dirty bricks of the buildings. The Ilyssa family had a tavern there.[1]
History
Shortly before the Rise of the Cabal, Virot Maglan, freshly armed with deathtouch powers granted by Kuberr, brought his sister Vinyata Maglan to Docktown to offer her a demonstration. He showed her that the hungry begged for food, the fed but poor begged for wealth, the rich begged for power, and the powerful begged for life. Thus, life was the ultimate gift. Virot proceeded to enter the Ilyssa tavern, and he and Vinyata killed everyone there except a single except the tavern owner, who begged for his life, as an example of Virot's observations. They spared him on the condition that he give up his Ilyssa name and ties and follow Virot Maglan's orders from then on, and the man obliged. This unnamed tavern owner was thus the very first unofficial member of the Cabal.[1]
In 4305 AR, Cabal City was completely overrun by dementia creatures during the Battle for the Mirari, when Chainer usurped rulership of the Cabal and exiled the Patriarch to Aphetto. Chainer later lost control of the immense power granted to him by the Mirari in a pit fight against Kamahl and the Order. Cabal power in the area had already been greatly weakened, and the city itself suffered massive damage and was condemned. In the end, the ruined city was completely abandoned by the Cabal, and the First relocated all their workings to Aphetto and the Grand Coliseum.[2].[3][4]
References
- ↑ a b Scott McGough, J. Robert King, ed. (2002) - "Family Man", The Secrets of Magic, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 0-7869-2710-0.
- ↑ Scott McGough (2002) - Chainer's Torment, Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Will McDermott. (2002) Judgment, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 0-7869-2743-7.
- ↑ J. Robert King. (2002) Onslaught, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 0-7869-2801-8.