Obliteration of Tolaria

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Obliteration of Tolaria
Event Information
Era War with Phyrexia
Date 4205 AR
Location Tolaria, Dominaria
Sets Invasion
Characters Barrin and everyone else on Tolaria at the time
Outcome The entire island of Tolaria, along with its scholars, students, the Tolarian Academy, invading Phyrexians and Barrin himself, are erased from existence.
Timeline
The Phasing of Zhalfir Obliteration of Tolaria Rathi Overlay

The Obliteration of Tolaria was an event that took place on the island of Tolaria during the Phyrexian Invasion of Dominaria in 4205 AR.[1]

Description

The Obliteration of Tolaria stands as one of the most devastating and mythic events in Dominaria’s long history — a cataclysm of both grief and fury, wrought by one of its greatest mages, Barrin. Once a place of profound learning and magical innovation, Tolaria was home to the Tolarian Academy, a crucible of thought, invention, and power. But in the twilight of the Phyrexian Invasion, it became a funeral pyre.

Barrin, long a trusted ally of Urza and master of the Academy, had been fighting on the front lines in Urborg. He was recalled to Koilos by Urza to reinforce a final push, a summons Barrin obeyed in the hope of reuniting with his daughter, Hanna. Instead, he was met with the bitter truth: she had died from the Phyrexian plague. She had been dying for two weeks, and Urza had never mentioned it to him. This revelation broke something in the old mage. Forsaking all else, Barrin recovered Hanna's body and returned to Tolaria — only to find it overrun by Phyrexians. His haven had become a charnel house.

In grief and wrath, Barrin carried Hanna to the tomb where her mother Rayne, another recent victim of war, lay entombed in a crypt that had once been prepared for himself. Then, drawing upon every reserve of mana — fiery red from Shiv, deathly black from Urborg, tranquil green from Yavimaya, steadfast white from Benalia, and the potent blue of Tolaria itself — Barrin enacted his final spell. He became a vessel of pure destruction, a living sylex.

With eyes blazing, pores and wounds radiating magic, Barrin rose into the sky. Power surged from him in searing beams, incinerating Phyrexian warships and boiling the oceans beneath. The very fabric of Tolaria unraveled under the might of his fury. Trees burned to ash, stone melted like wax, and every living thing — Phyrexian and Tolarian alike — was annihilated in a flash of arcane fire. The island cracked and sank beneath the waves, leaving behind only smoldering seawater and silence.

When the spell faded, the skies were torn open, the sea churned like blood, and Tolaria was no more. Its libraries, its students, its scholars, its invaders — all reduced to memory and myth. Only Rayne and Hanna, entombed in their sarcophagi, remained untouched. Barrin himself perished in the blast, his mortal form consumed by the magnitude of his magic.

Thus ended Tolaria — not in siege, but in sacrifice. A testament to the depths of love and the terrifying, consuming power of loss.[1]

References

  1. a b J. Robert King (2000) - Invasion, WotC.