Sivitri's War
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| Era | Time of Legends | ||||
| Date | Between -2140 and -840 AR | ||||
| Location | Southeastern Corondor, Dominaria | ||||
| Sets | Legends | ||||
| Storyline Sources | Dakkon Blackblade (comic)[1] | ||||
| Characters | Sivitri Scarzam, Sol'Kanar | ||||
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Sivitri's War was a devastating conflict during the Time of Legends on the continent of Corondor, Dominaria. The war is named after the planeswalker Sivitri Scarzam, who, astride her immense and fearsome dragons, launched a campaign of destruction across southeastern Corondor. Her forces swept through villages, towns, and farmland alike, causing mass panic and displacing countless refugees. The dragons' nearly impenetrable hides rendered conventional weapons and defensive strategies nearly useless, leaving the local population in a desperate struggle for survival. Sivitri's campaign prompted both widespread resistance and widespread terror, as farmers, hunters, and fledgling militias attempted to repel the dragon-led assault using whatever weapons, traps, or minor magics they could muster.
History
Astride mighty dragons named for her, the planeswalker Sivitri Scarzam descended upon the lush lands of southeastern Corondor, her staving horde of horrors like locusts, devouring all in their path. All before them were thrown into panic and frenzy. As the dragons began to spread, people began to band together to battle them. Refugees, mostly farmers, joined causes to oppose Sivitri, but their weapons of iron and wood were useless against the hides of the dragons. They tried trick avalanches, fire traps, water traps, and whatever meager magics they could muster, but it seemed nothing could stand in the way of the dragon swarm.
Then one day, an aged healer found a new species of poppy created by the elemental guardian Sol'Kanar. The healer had never seen such flowers before, though he had wandered the region for years. When mulched into a potion, the poppies became an incredibly potent contact poison that could kill the Scarzam Dragons. Spears rubbed with the poison did not even need to penetrate, but only touch their scaled flesh to kill them. Dozens of the creatures were killed.
Sivitri rode the largest Scarzam Dragon, said to be capable of leveling a mountain, and left the plane for other planar conquests. In her absence, the last remaining dragons were destroyed, and the joyous victors settled in the region surrounding the origin point of the invasion, north and west of the Great Sulgh Salt March.[1]
Shortly after the war, Geyadrone Dihada showed up on Dominaria and corrupted Sol'Kanar, the source of the poppies, which made them disappear from the land. Dihada then set into action the Forging of the Blackblade.
Timing
This event is described as happening "millennia after" the Thran Civil War and "centuries before" the Brothers' War. This vague description places it as happening closer to 28 AR (start of the Brothers' War) than to -5000 (fall of the Thran), or roughly some centuries later than -2500 AR. [1]
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References
- ↑ a b c Jack C. Harris & Alexander Glass. (1996). The Dragon War: a legend of Sol'kanar the swamp king. Dakkon Blackblade. Armada