Mending of the Clan Tree
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| Era | War with Phyrexia | ||||
| Date | 4064 AR (Parting year 520) | ||||
| Location | Cridhe | ||||
| Storyline Sources | The Cursed Land | ||||
| Characters | Arn, Aylith, Feryar, Jedhian, Lorris, Nazir | ||||
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The Mending of the Clan Tree was an event that occurred on Cridhe.
Description
The Mending of the Clan Tree marked the end of centuries of division and suffering on the plane of Cridhe, bringing balance back to the land after the catastrophic event known as the Parting. Five hundred and twenty years after the destruction of the original Clan Tree of Cridhe, Aylith, the newest Keeper of Inys Haen, had been recovering from a wound given to her by the Felonarch of Inys Nohr, Nazir. As war loomed between the forces of Nazir and the growing rebellion, Aylith made her way to Inys Haen. The Nohrish forces weakened but still formidable, advanced on the abandoned homeland of the Keepers, unaware that they were walking into a final reckoning.
Arn, a former slave turned rebel, had successfully united the Far Clans, but his efforts nearly cost him his life when he was betrayed and sent to die in the frozen marshes. Rescued by the elven scholar Feryar, he returned just in time to bring the clans into the battle at the Equinox, forcing Nazir’s remaining forces into a desperate struggle for survival. Meanwhile, Aylith used her Keeper abilities to ambush the Felonarch, hoping to end his reign of terror. Overwhelmed by years of suffering and rage, she was tempted to kill him and end his family’s cursed line forever. Yet, in a moment of clarity, she chose a different path. Instead of vengeance, she used her Keeper’s gift to enter his soul, healing him of the madness, pain, and mutations that had plagued his lineage since the fall of Nohr.
With his mind and body restored, Nazir carried Aylith back to the sacred place where the Clan Tree once stood. There, with the battle still raging around them, they performed the long-lost Awakening Ritual together. As their voices rose in unison, the sky — long shrouded in cold and darkness — began to shift. A great warmth spread across the land, melting the ice and snow that had imprisoned Cridhe for centuries. Rivers unfroze, barren fields softened, and in the heart of the ruins, a small sapling pushed through the soil.
At the sight of the reborn Clan Tree, the warring factions halted their fighting. The miracle before them broke the cycle of hatred, and the armies laid down their weapons. The balance of the plane had been restored. The mirkalbion, twisted beings who had relied on eternal darkness to survive, faced extinction with the return of the sun. However, Feryar offered them sanctuary in Loch Prith, where the shadows and the sacred ardre fungus they depended on would always persist.
As the world healed, Malvos, the Sangrazul who had long manipulated events from the shadows, found himself abandoned. Stripped of power and purpose, he was visited one last time by his former master, the planeswalker Tempé. When he proved unable to give her the knowledge she sought, she left him to his fate — devoured by a deceptive magical shroud.
With the Mending of the Clan Tree, the long era of suffering on Cridhe ended. The lands of Nohr and Haen, once split by the Parting, were finally reunited, ushering in a new age of harmony and renewal.[1]
References
- ↑ Teri McLaren (1995), "The Cursed Land", HarperPrism