Timeline/The Brothers' War

Timeline

 

The Thran

 

The Brothers' War

 

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Prelude

0

• Start of Argivian Reckoning - Urza and Mishra are born on the first and last day of the year, respectively.

10

• Arrival at Tocasia's Digsite - the brothers are apprenticed to Tocasia.

12

• Urza and Mishra's father, an Argivian noble, dies.

16

• Urza and Mishra discover the remains of an Ornithopter. They start repairing it.

17

• Flight of the Ornithopter - The brothers take the repaired ornithopter on its first flight, and Mishra discovers Thran symbols in the desert.

20

• Discovery of Koilos - The brothers and Tocasia discover the caves of Koilos, in which a portal to Phyrexia is enclosed. The brothers split a Thran powerstone, accidentally creating the Mightstone and Weakstone.
• Brotherhood's End - A conflict between the brothers arises, with Tocasia accidentally caught in between and killed in an explosion. Mishra flees into the desert and is enslaved by Fallaji nomads. Urza becomes an apprentice to the clockmaker Rusko in Kroog.

21

• Statue Trial of Kroog - Urza marries Kayla bin-Kroog, the princess of Yotia.
• Hajar discovers Mishra, and helps him become the tutor of the son of the Suwwardi Qadir.

c. 23

• Taming the Mak Fawa - Mishra gains control over a Phyrexian dragon engine and becomes the new Qadir's head wizard.

• c. 24
• Tawnos and Ashnod are apprenticed by Urza and Mishra, respectively.

26

• Peace Summit at Korlinda - Korlis, Argive, Yotia and the Falajji meet for a peace conference in Korlinda that ends in disaster. The Warlord of Kroog dies, leaving Urza in charge.
• Mishra recruits more three dragon engines from Phyrexia, but is discovered by a phyrexian demon.
• Following dark dreams, the Brotherhood of Gix leave their Monastery of Gix for Koilos.

The War

28

• Peace Talks at Kroog - a new peace conference in Kroog also ends disastrously and marks the official beginning of the Brothers' War. *Summoned to Koilos by the Brotherhood of Gix, the phyrexian demon enters Dominaria, and announces its name as being Gix.
• Fall of Kroog - Kroog is destroyed by dragon engines while Urza is stuck in the desert. The Qadir of the Fallaji is killed.
• Teferi Akosa makes his second jump back in time, searching for the Last Battle. Aiman sees him and thinks he is Death itself, sparing his life.
• Mishra becomes the new Qadir of the Fallaji Empire.

After 28

• At some point during the war, House Carthalion joins Mishra's side of the battle.

29

• Kayla's son Harbin is born.

32

• Ambush in the Kher Ridges - Ashnod tries to attack Korlis, but is ambushed in a mountain pass and betrayed by the Fallaji. She returns to Mishra in shame, and is sent to Sarinth to bring them over on Mishra's side.

33

• Sarinth refuses Ashnod. The ten-year long siege of Sarinth begins.
• Union of the Third Path - the Third Path is established in Terisia City, but is infiltrated by the Brotherhood of Gix.

34

• The Yumok uncover the Golgothian Sylex and send it to Feldon in Terisia City.

35

• Mishra seizes control over Almaaz, recruiting its song-mages to his side of the war.
• Fall of Sumifa

36

• Coronation in the Combined Kingdoms - Argive and Korlis unite into the Combined Kingdoms. Urza is appointed Lord Protector of the Realm.

38

• The Martyrs of Korlis are killed in Yotia. The king of the Combined Kingdoms orders Urza to take action.

39 - 42

• The Liberation of Yotia - Urza gathers a large army and crosses the Khers for the first time since the fall of Kroog. The combined kingdoms invade and liberate Yotia, freeing all its provinces from Fallaji rule except the heavily contested Sword Marches. Yotia is subsumed into the Combined Kingdoms.

43

• The Fall of Sarinth - after ten years of siege, Sarinth is overtaken by Ashnod's forces and forced into the Fallaji army.
• The Tomakul Campaign begins. Encouraged by the the libration of Yotia, Urza pushes on across the desert almost to Tomakul.

44

• Winter – the Tomakul Campaign reaches its peak as Argivian forces reach within ten miles of Tomakul, but reinforcements from Sarinth overwhelm the Combined Kimgdoms within sight of the city, and they are pushed back.
• Teferi makes his third jump back in time.
• Tawnos is captured and put in the Oubliette of Ashnod below Tomakul.
• Ashnod helps Tawnos to escape. The Brotherhood of Gix discovers this and persuades Mishra to banish her. Ashnod leaves for the west, ending up in the Colekgan Mountains.
• Tawnos returns to the Combined Kingdoms. Harbin begins training as an ornithopter pilot.

45

• Fall of Terisia City - the Gixians betray the Third Path. Hurkyl dies defending the city. Loran flees with the Golgothian Sylex.
• On the way to meet Feldon, Loran is captured by Ashnod near the Colekgan Mountains. Ashnod takes the Sylex.

Between 46 and 54

• Fall of the College of Lat-Nam

55

• Discovery of Argoth - Harbin discovers Argoth.

57

• Invasion of Argoth - The Combined Kingdoms arrive on Arogth, with Harbin and Tawnos leading the charge. Gix also lures Urza and Mishra to Argoth in order to make them face each other physically. The brothers strip the island of its resources during their battles.

c. 63

• Harbin's son Jarsyl is born.

63-64

• Battle at Argoth - the last battle of the Brothers' War takes place. Gix drives all of the artifact creatures in both armies mad. During the battle, Ashnod hands the Sylex to Tawnos before she is injured by Gix. Tawnos then gives it to Urza. Mishra is revealed to have been altered by Phyrexian constructs.
• Sylex Blast - Urza activates the Sylex. Teferi makes his final jumps back in time, meeting with Urza during the blast in a moment beyond time. The blast obliterates Argoth, killing its inhabitants including Titania, turns Urborg into a swamp, and sends all of Dominaria into an Ice Age. Urza ascends. The Shard of the Twelve Worlds begins to form. Gix and his minions retreat to Phyrexia. Ashnod and Tawnos both survive the explosion.

Aftermath

64 - 69

• In the aftermath of the war, Argive, Yotia, Yumok, Malpiri, and Korlis collapse. Almaaz is the only state on Terisiare to remain intact. The Dark Age begins.
• First Talite Crusade - the nascent Church of Tal begins a crusade against artifice and magic, purging the Gixian lands in the north of Terisiare. After destroying the Monastery of Gix, they march south through the Great Desert to Kroog, then east to Korlis on the path to Urza's Tower.
• Xantcha is created from Mishra's flesh, her pod of newts being prepared to invade Dominaria as sleeper agents.

69

• Winter – Tawnos returns to Penregon.
• Spring – The unsuccessful Siege of Penregon by Talites takes place over a single day. Tawnos leaves Penregon. The age of artifice ends.

Between 69 and 75

• The Second Talite Crusade - the Talites travel to Urza's Tower and destroy all the machines there. They leave the tower itself intact and travel to Mishra's Fortress. They battle and destroy all of Mishra's machines there, at the cost of several lives, including Raddic's and likely Arah's.

79

• Spring – Kayla bin-Kroog is one of the last to leave Penregon, travelling west to avoid the encroaching cold.
• Autumn – Fall of Penregon

80

• Jarsyl travels north to the Conclave of Mages, a school of artifice and magic founded by Ashnod and Tawnos. Kayla continues west, following rumors of Harbin.

c. 80

• Xantcha's pod is launched onto Dominaria. Before she herself can be assigned, however, the strangely identical-looking and too-small newts are slaughtered by the plane's inhabitants. As a replacement, a new batch of more individual-looking newts starts being created.

85

• Teferi makes his first jump back in time. Fask, the warlord of Kroog, is driven mad.

4562

• A cadre of planeswalkers including Teferi, Saheeli Rai, and Kaya Cassir, searching for a solution to the growing New Phyrexian threat, use time travel to return to the time of the Brothers' War and learn the use of the Sylex.