Giva Province
| Giva Province | |
|---|---|
| Giva | |
| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Status | Fallen |
| Part of | Terisiare |
| Later part of | Kjeldor and New Argive |
Giva Province was one of the Northern Provinces during the Dark Age of Terisiare on Dominaria.[1]
History
After the Brothers' War and the Fall of Penregon, the nation of Argive survived for some time into the period of the Dark Age. As the cold temperatures slowly kept increasing, the larger cities of old were unable to sustain themselves and fell apart, leaving behind only a loose collection of farmsteads and villages. These became known as the Northern Provinces, which through the Dark Age contained many lesser city-states and open land, and among them was Giva Province.
Giva Province was the area that would house the farmstead of Jarsyl after his stay in the Conclave of Mages. Established by Jarsyl's mother, the farmstead was originally of good land, fertile and flat, and able to sustain crops and animals. Jarsyl eventually built a mage tower on the farmstead grounds, where he conducted experiments and wrote in his journal. Eventually, though, the land started to fail due to the continuously decreasing temperatures, and the land became swampy. The crops grew sparse, and the animals could not be fed. Jodah was born and spent his first few years on the farm, fallen fallow, until his family had to abandon it completely to the cold. Giva Province as a whole lasted for some more years but was frozen over and depopulated during the Start of the Ice Age.
Long after its abandonment, the land of the former Giva Province would later be re-settled by the hardy Kjeldorans, and even later would be included in the terrain of New Argive after the Thaw.
References
- ↑ Jeff Grubb - The Gathering Dark (1999), Wizards of the Coast