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Sarpadia is a continent far to the south on Dominaria that was ravaged by warfare during the period between the Brothers' War and the Ice Age. Sarpadia is relatively isolated and as such many of it's denizens and history is unknown. What is known though is that the five dominatn empires around 170 AR were destroyed by invading forces and rebellion. Most races were simply entirely wiped out, but some escaped to the North leaving a species called the thrulls vastly dominating the entire continent. Most of Sarpadia's story is told through the Fallen Empires expansion.

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 * The Skyship Weatherlight was a great ship capable of moving from plane to plane. This ship was designed by Urza as one of the main parts of the Legacy and proved key for the efforts to save Dominaria from the Phyrexian Invaders.

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Ashling the Pilgrim was a female flamekin on a pilgrimage through Lorwyn, serving occasionally as a messenger for various races. She was searching for a greater elemental, a mythical embodiment of higher nature principles, whose call she subconsciously followed, though she did not know where it may lead.

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 * The Skyship Weatherlight was a great ship capable of moving from plane to plane. This ship was designed by Urza as one of the main parts of the Legacy and proved key for the efforts to save Dominaria from the Phyrexian Invaders.

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Toshiro Umezawa (known as Toshi for short) was a ronin samurai, kanji magician and con artist from Kamigawa who lived during the Kami War. Whilst he was mainly interested in self-preservation, he became embroiled in the war's events and ultimately played a key role in ending it.

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 * Please help us improve the article about the Magic: The Gathering game. We don't want it to look like the wiki article from another website.

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The Thran is the prequel to the Invasion Cycle, and actually to the entire Weatherlight Saga as well. It was written by J. Robert King and published in December 1999. This book tells the story of how the mighty Thran Empire fell to internal struggles started by a lowly healer who would grow to become the god-ruler of Phyrexia and the greatest danger to Dominaria in history: Yawgmoth.

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Shadowmoor is the forty-fifth Magic expansion and will be released May 2, 2008, as the first set in the Shadowmoor block. Shadowmoor takes hybrid, introduced in Ravnica to the next level by introducing "Monocolored Hybrid" cards. Shadowmoor introduces the mechanics of: Conspire, Persist, Wither and Untap.

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 * Brothers' War A great war between brothers Mishra and Urza that spawned after the two each found half of an ancient Thran powerstone, and wanted both.