| Fall of Sumifa | |||||
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| Event Information | |||||
| Era | Brothers' War | ||||
| Date | 35 AR | ||||
| Location | Sumifa, Almaaz, Terisiare, Dominaria | ||||
| Characters | Porros, Samor | ||||
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| Storyline sources | Song of Time[1] | ||||
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The Fall of Sumifa was an event during the Brothers' War that marked the end of old Sumifa.
History[ | ]
In 35 AR, the crown prince of Sumifa, Porros, flew on a sandstorm to the office of his mentor Samor. Samor was the leader of the songmages of Sumifa, and Porros was one of its strongest members. Although Porros stood to inherit both the throne of Sumifa and the leadership of the songmages, his impatience, greed, and lust for power prompted him to betray his order and claim the leadership by force.[1]
Porros revealed to Samos that had betrayed his order, summoning a cockatrice that forced Samor into debt to Mishra, the current absolute ruler over the kingdom. When Samor had attempted to defeat the dangerous creature, Porros had sung a discordant tone during Samor's song spell, which disrupted the ritual. This forced Samor to bind the beast beneath the mountain of Sarraza rather than kill it. Mishra bid Samor to invent a spell to reverse the binding, which tempted Porros to confront his master and steal the spell and the power of the beast for himself.[1]
Porros took a broken mirror shard and cut Samor's throat, but Samor in turn cursed Porros to become a taloned sand wraith, draining away his handsome features and leaving only his grey eyes, a shadowed, sandy body, and taloned feet like a raptor's. Furious, Porros then gave himself over to his rage, drawing a heavy cyclone of sand onto Sumifa as he rose into the air above it. While its people, including Porros's own two sons, fled the city for the Nessian Caves to seek shelter, Sumifa was buried under tons of sand and became part of the endless, shifting desert landscape. Porros himself did not see what he had done until his rage was spent, and he could only stare as the city he had been posed to inherit had disappeared beneath the sands.[1]
More than 3000 years later, an archaeologist team led by Javin, Muni and Cheyne rediscovered the ancient, buried remains of the city.[1]