Greater Videnth
| Greater Videnth | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Type | Island |
Greater Videnth is an island on Dominaria north of Umber and to the northeast of Terisiare, lying more than 1200 berim north of the island of New Argive. Further east lie the Spice Isles of the Domains.[1]
Just east of the main island lies Little Videnth Island. The surrounding Sea is called the Videnthian Sea.[2]
History
The long-dead human civilization of Videnth colonized the southern part of the arctic supercontinent, which they later named Upper Videnth. That civilization is now long gone as well, probably due to harsh conditions during the Ice Age. Their descendants in Upper Videnth eventually forgot their origins.
The Videnthian Theory
The Videnthian Theory is an erroneous hypothesis posited by some Argivian scholars. It holds that the accounts of the Brothers' War are too unrealistic and the scale of the war would be too great for the time, making it impossible to have happened on the Terisian Isles. They believe that it is far more likely that ancient Argoth is, in fact, Little Videnth Island and that the greater part of Terisiare lies on Greater Videnth. This would bring the conflict to a more realistic, though still vast, scale. To further support this theory, the climate in and around the Videnthian Sea around 4000 AR was more consistent with that described in war records.
The opposers to this Videnthian Theory note that Greater Videnth bears no resemblance with Terisiare, as it doesn't contain the Kher Ridges, Sardian Mountains, or Ronom Lake. Little Videnth, too, is a desolate and rocky atoll that bears no resemblance to verdant Argoth and could never have supported lush forests. Scholars who support the Videnthian Theory counter these objections by positing the absence of mountains and forests on Greater and Little Videnth is the result of erosion and that the modern New Argive and Kher Ridges were named by survivors of the war.[3]
References
- ↑ Martha Wells (March 21, 2018). "Return to Dominaria, Episode 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Ethan Fleischer (April 20, 2018). "Dominarian Cartography". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Kathy Ice (1994), "The Brothers' War". The Duelist Supplement, May 1994.