| Fall of Kroog | |||||
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| Era | Brothers' War | ||||
| Date | 28 AR | ||||
| Location | Kroog, Yotia, Terisiare, Dominaria | ||||
| Affiliations | Fallaji Empire and Yotia | ||||
| Characters | Aiman, Ashnod, Carlo, Kayla bin-Kroog, Llora, Markos, Mishra, The Qadir of the Fallaji, Rendall, Rica, Sanwell, Tawnos, Traxos | ||||
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| Storyline sources | [1][2][3][4] | ||||
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The Fall of Kroog was the result of a surprise attack upon the city of Kroog, capital of Yotia, by forces of the Fallaji Empire.
Description[ | ]
Four months after the failed Peace Talks at Kroog, the Fallaji struck, and the fall of the city happened in a single morning. A critical juncture in the Brothers' War, it showed the supremacy of Mishra's dragon engines over Urza's avengers. While Mishra was leading the charge atop the greatest dragon engine, Traxos, Urza was wandering the desert, unaware of the siege while his pregnant wife, Queen Kayla bin-Kroog presided over the city. Tawnos was present in the palace, setting up five sword-style avengers with pilots, Rica, Carlo and Sanwell among them. He then sent the Jalum Tome with the ornithopter pilot Rendall to the east.[5]
The five avengers and their pilots put up a fight, killing several Fallaji, but were overwhelmed by the dragon engines. Llora, Markos, and Carlo were killed, while Sanwell and Rica managed to escape to Hench.[1]
Ashnod, who was still in captivity in her former quarters, was let free by Tawnos and given the Staff of Zegon back on the premise that she protected the pregnant queen. She agreed to this, and while the dragon engines started attacking the palace of Kroog, killing its seneschal, Ashnod, Kayla and Tawnos encountered a band of Fallaji led by the Qadir himself. The Qadir ordered the three of them killed, explicitly stating that Ashnod was a crutch for Mishra, and a woman besides. Ashnod then used the Staff of Zegon to knock the Qadir's guards unconscious. The Qadir himself she made sure to kill, draining his life with the staff such that he collapsed, bleeding. Ashnod then made sure Tawnos and Kayla escaped the burning city in a boat headed downriver towards the sea, while she went back to rejoin Mishra.[5]
As a consequence of the Qadir's death, Mishra was appointed the new Qadir in the wake of the city's fall. Another survivor of the battle was the Fallaji foot soldier Aiman, who was injured and half-blinded. By the time of the Tomakul Campaign, he was counted as a war veteran.[6]
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Notes[ | ]
- The details of Kayla's pregnancy and Harbin's birth differ between sources. In the prerevisionist Antiquities War-Urza-Mishra War comics, Harbin was already born by the time Kroog fell, and Kayla fled with the babe in her arms. In the canon The Brothers' War (novel), Kayla instead was four months pregnant with Harbin when Kroog fell.
References[ | ]
- ↑ a b Miguel Lopez (October 21, 2022). "The Brothers' War - Episode 3: Sword One". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (April 22, 2018). "Keldons, minotaurs, and giant metal draconic war machines.". The Official Magic: The Gathering Tumblr. Tumblr.
- ↑ Miguel Lopez (October 20, 2022). "The Brothers' War - Episode 1: The End". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Miguel Lopez and Jeff Grubb (October 26, 2022). "The Brothers' War - Episode 5: As Cruel, As Necessary". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Jeff Grubb (1998). The Brothers' War. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Miguel Lopez (October 24, 2022). "The Brothers' War - Episode 4: The Ink of Empires". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.