Fall of the Infinite Consortium

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Fall of the Infinite Consortium
Information
Era	Mending Era
Date	4556 AR
Location	Ravnica, Kamigawa, Mercadia and Aranzhur
Storyline Sources	Agents of Artifice
Affiliations	Infinite Consortium
Characters	Baltrice, Jace Beleren, Kallist Rhoka, Liliana Vess, Nicol Bolas, Tezzeret
Outcome
Several deaths, including Kallist Rhoka, Gemreth, and Xalmarias. Several minds wiped, including Paldor, Ireena, and Sevrien. Tezzeret is defeated and left for dead, and falls into Nicol Bolas's clutches. The Consortium's Ravnica cell is destroyed, and the others are left isolated and leaderless. Jace Beleren and Liliana Vess have a falling out and no longer trust each other.
Timeline
Fusion of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Fall of the Infinite Consortium End of Diraden's Eternal Night

The Fall of the Infinite Consortium marked the end of the Infinite Consortium as an interplanar criminal network. The organization was once controlled by Nicol Bolas, but was later usurped by Tezzeret. The event also marks the moral turning point in the life of Jace Beleren, who rose from a manipulated agent to a powerful planeswalker able to challenge those who sought to use him.

Description

The Consortium’s collapse began indirectly with the death of a man named Kallist Rhoka. Kallist and Liliana Vess were ambushed by mercenaries searching for Jace Beleren. In truth, the Kallist present was Jace himself, who had lost his memories and identity in a failed mind-transfer spell between himself and the real Kallist months earlier. Kallist’s death unraveled the spell, returning Jace’s memories and triggering the chain of events that led to the Consortium's destruction.

Years earlier, Jace had been recruited by the Consortium, a shadowy criminal syndicate dealing in interplanar information and artifacts. Under the mentorship of Tezzeret and the watchful eye of the pyromancer Baltrice, he forged a powerful partnership with the real Kallist Rhoka.

Jace’s loyalty was tested during missions such as an assassination attempt on a nezumi shogun on Kamigawa, and a confrontation with Nicol Bolas himself — the former Consortium founder. Bolas mentally overpowered Jace, and Tezzeret punished him brutally for the failure, even though he lost a toe to frostbite during the mission itself.

Ordered next to manipulate Talqez, a religious figure of the Church of the Incarnate Soul, into supporting the Consortium, Jace finally snapped. He fled with Kallist, who reluctantly abandoned his life of luxury to follow his friend. Their bond was further strained when Liliana Vess entered the picture, claiming to flee the Consortium as well. Both men fell in love with her, but she only expressed desire for Jace and secretly informed the Consortium of their location. When its agents attacked, Jace tried to save Kallist by merging their minds, intending to carry his friend through the Blind Eternities. The spell failed, swapping their identities instead.

With Kallist's death, Jace’s memories returned to him, and he was then met with the full force of Liliana’s machinations. By having several of his friends assassinated, Liliana urged Jace to retaliate against Tezzeret. Breaking into the Ravnica headquarters, Jace wiped out the Ravnican heads of the Consortium.

Desperate for information on Tezzeret's hideaway, Jace contacted Nicol Bolas, who revealed the location of Tezzeret’s hidden sanctum. The attack on the Iron Tower failed, however, and Jace was captured. Liliana, now posing as Tezzeret’s ally, used her position to confess her true motivations: she needed the Consortium to break out of her pact with four demon lords—or at least needed Jace to run it under her influence. She had orchestrated the original assassination attempt to trigger Jace’s return to power. Even now, she withheld one final truth: Bolas, not the demons, had brokered her freedom — in exchange for the Consortium itself.

Saving his life from Baltrice's tortures and Tezzeret's plot to enslave his mind, Liliana freed Jace, and the pair launched their final assault on Tezzeret. Jace lured the artificer to Kamigawa, where the nezumi aided him in capturing the cybernetic planeswalker. Jace, drawing upon Kallist’s memories, dueled and dismembered Tezzeret, tearing off his etherium arm and crippling his mind. Meanwhile, Baltrice was neutralized by Liliana, who assumed Jace would return to her and install himself as the puppet leader of the organization. Instead, Jace walked away from the ruins of the Consortium, refusing to take its secrets and vowing to find a way to free Liliana from her demonic pact on his own.

In the aftermath, Liliana returned to Bolas hoping for a reward, but the elder dragon deemed her failure a breach of their deal. He offered her another opportunity — true freedom, in exchange for service to him, which she rejected. Nonetheless, Bolas had acquired something else had had desired: Tezzeret’s broken body, which he began rebuilding for his designs.