The Parting

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The Parting
The Great Parting The Great Rending
Information
Era	War with Phyrexia
Date	3544 AR (Parting year 0)
Location	Cridhe
Storyline Sources	The Cursed Land
Characters	Capin, Haen, Liana, Lumi, Malvos, Nohr, Raphos
Outcome
Destruction of the Clan Tree of Cridhe Creation of the rift separating the followers of Haen from the followers of Nohr Curse of the Maker starts affecting Nohr and his descendants
Timeline
Founding of Benalia The Parting Sorin's Betrayal

The Parting was an event that occurred on Cridhe.

Description

The Parting was a cataclysmic event that marked the downfall of Cridhe’s natural order and the fragmentation of its people. It was instigated by the exiled Sangrazul, Malvos, and the ambitious mage Nohr, who sought to transcend the plane’s boundaries. Malvos, having been banished to Cridhe for his treachery against the planeswalker Tempe, manipulated Nohr into performing a ritual upon the Clan Tree of Cridhe, the singular source of green mana on the plane. The blacksmith Raphos attempted to stop the ritual, and was killed by Nohr wielding the magical sword Malvos gave him. The ritual, intended to transport them beyond Cridhe, went wrong.

Instead of opening a path to another plane, Nohr’s magic disrupted the Clan Tree’s life force, killing it and shattering its stability. This act fulfilled an ancient curse laid by Cridhe’s creator-god, called the Maker: the land split in two, physically and spiritually dividing the people of the plane. Those descended from Nohr were afflicted with madness, an enduring punishment for their ancestor’s folly. Clouds rolled in, blocking the sun and plunging the land into a deep twilight. The death of the Clan Tree had changed everything, down to the kind of creatures that lived on Cridhe, the way crops grew, and how livestock brought forth their young.

The Parting not only reshaped the geography of Cridhe but also marked the decline of its once-unified civilization. Without the Clan Tree, the balance of mana collapsed, plunging the plane into chaos and forcing its inhabitants to adapt to a world forever scarred by Nohr’s ambition and Malvos’s deceit.