Ravnica

A WORLD-CITY OF TEN GUILDS

One of Magic’s most popular planes and certainly one of the most vast, Ravnica is a world covered entirely by city (also known as an ecumenopolis). Prior to the intervention of the sphinx planeswalker Azor, Ravnica was a place of unending war and turmoil, laden with clan conflict and old god worship. With Azor’s help, Ravnica now exists in a state of tense equilibrium due to a powerful spell cast over ten millennia ago, known as The Guildpact. This spell united the plane under ten equally powerful groups who each held sway in different aspects of running the world, making them unable to interfere with one another by establishing strict boundaries and roles for each. The Boros, Golgari, Izzet, Azorius, Orvhov, Selesnya, Simic, Rakdos, and Gruul were tasked with maintenance of the plane, and over time evolved into the modern ten guilds, each run by a guild leader. 

Extremely urbanized and run by powerful law magic, Ravnica is one of the most technologically advanced and unified planes known, with a powerful standing military, extremely advanced science and magic, and a wide-spanning public works and resource generation. During the events of the Decamillenial of the Guildpact, the magic holding the law of Ravnica in place was dissolved. A failsafe put in place by Azor triggered the Implicit Maze, and in turn bestowed the powers of the Guildpact upon the planeswalker Jace Beleren. Jace was the living embodiment of the law and rule of Ravnica for a time, although was not exactly fond of these duties, leaving Ravnica weak to the eventual invasion by Nicol Bolas. Due to the events of War of the Spark and Bolas’s bid for power, the mantle of the Living Guildpact eventually was passed to the Izzet’s dragonic Parun Niv-Mizzet, 

GODS & AVATARS

• Ilharg - A Gruul boar god, said to bring about the End-Raze

• Mat'Selesnya - Parun of the Selesnya, an elemental fusion of several dryads within Vitu-Ghazi

• Nephilim - Monstrous and abstract entities from old Ravnica, worshipped by the Cult of Yore

• Rakdos - Parun of the Rakdos, a demon of hedonism, cruelty, and entertainment

• Soul of Ravnica - An avatar of glowing blue light and runes

• Svogthir - Parun of the Golgari and a powerful lich, worshipped by elven priestesses