Mirrodin

ARGENTUM & THE FIVE SUNS

Before the Mending, planeswalkers had the ability to create artificial planes, made in their own image. The golem planeswalker, Karn, sought out to create a silver world of mathematical perfection, devoid of any colored mana, and named it Argentum. He seeded it with a race of golems, and left the golem Memnarch in charge as its steward in his absence. Driven mad by residual Phyrexian oil, Memnarch sought to become a planeswalker like Karn, and began to transform Argentum into a world that could support life so that he might find a spark to harvest. By his hand, Argentum became Mirrodin, slowly populated by abducted races of elves, leonin, humans, vedalken, and goblins. The subtle corruption of the Phyrexian oil created a fungus-like structure known as mycosynth which facilitated the mutation of these inhabitants, leading to the natural integration of metal into all of the plane’s life. Mirrodin eventually (as all artificial planes do when left alone) balanced its own mana, creating five massive burning sphered of mana known as the ‘Suns’ that circle the plane. As the fifth sun took its place in the sky, events unfolded that led to the death of Memnarch and Karn’s return, and the initiation of the invasion that would transform Mirrodin into New Phyrexia. Prior to its completion, Mirrodin was unique in the multiverse for its metallic-organic life and habitats of razorgrass fields, copper forests, and quicksilver seas.

NEW PHYREXIA

Once known as Mirrodin, the plane now called New Phyrexia is a descendant of the original Phyrexia and a horrorscape of machinery and madness. With the majority of Mirrodin overtaken by Phyrexian oil (a nanomachine that transforms flesh to metal and metal to flesh), New Phyrexia rose to prominence with the vast defeat of Mirrodin’s forces. Although divided into five factions, each with their own praetor, the majority of the plane follows and worships Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite of the Machine Orthodoxy and Mother of Machines. Together with Jin-Gitaxias, Sheoldred, Ubarask, and Vorinclex, these five praetors bring their versions of The Great Work to realization with the vivisection and evolution of all life in their domains.  Despite a small Mirran resistance in the furnace layer of the plane, New Phyrexia is a technological world of near-perfect nightmare, and seeks only to find a way to reach other planes with its message of perfection and unity.

GODS & AVATARS

• Kaldra - A great avatar summoned by the unification of the Sword, Shield, and Helm of Kaldra

• Karn, The Great Creator - Creator of Mirrodin, worshipped most notably by its steward, Memnarch

• Memnarch - A golem created out of the powerful artifact the Mirari, he was worshiped by the Vedalken of the Synod

• The Steel Mother - The heart of Mirrodin’s molten core in Kuldotha, worshipped by the goblins of Oxxida