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Penregon
Terisiare Detail 2
Information
Plane Dominaria
Part of Argive (nation)
Status Destroyed by glaciers in 80 AR
Later part of Kjeld, Argivia

Penregon was the capital of Argive during the Dominarian Brothers' War until the Fall of Penregon in 80 AR.[1][2]

Description[ | ]

Penregon was located on the east coast of Terisiare along the Visceral Sea, south of the Sardian Mountains, east of the Kher Ridges and north of Korlis.[3] The great clock of Penregon's Grand Court was said to be a Thran artifact. [1]

History[ | ]

Penregon survived the Sylex Blast but was severely damaged.[3] The blast caused terrible earthquakes that leveled most of the city's stone and brick buildings, collapsing them on top of their occupants. The king and his court, sheltering in the Lion's Hall— the mighty citadel perched on the vertiginous cliffs overlooking Penregon Harbor — collapsed into the sea. Massive tidal waves followed, pounding the coastal districts, scouring the city streets, and scraping them clean of rubble and survivors.

When the shaking stopped and the water receded, Kayla bin-Kroog was one of the few nobles left alive. As the wife of the alliance's leader and a princess herself, the rule of the city fell to her. Kayla tried to rebuild the city with the help of Tawnos and his civil automatons. The use of the very machines that had been used in the War angered the fledgling Church of Tal, which launched the Siege of Penregon but were beaten back by the armed, armored and powered-up mechanical civils over a single day in the spring of 69 AR.[3][2]

Though the Talites were defeated within and without the city, the repentant Tawnos destroyed Urza's archives and left the city. This ended the age of artifice in Penregon.[2] The Fall of Penregon came a mere ten years after the Siege of Penregon when the inhabitants were forced to flee to the west to avoid the encroaching cold.[2]

The location of Penregon would later become the site of Kjeld and was included in the new nation of New Argive after the Thaw. The land around the city still used the term "Penregon" as late as 4000 AR, and was able to sustain the cultivation of beer crops like hops.[4]

After the destruction of the original city of Argivia in the Phyrexian Invasion of Dominaria, a new city bearing the same name came to be built on the location of former Penregon.

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References[ | ]

  1. a b Jeff Grubb (1998). The Brothers' War. Wizards of the Coast.
  2. a b c d Miguel Lopez (October 20, 2022). "The Brothers' War - Episode 2: The Beginning". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  3. a b c Miguel Lopez (October 20, 2022). "The Brothers' War - Episode 1: The End". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  4. Paul B. Thompson, Jess Lebow, ed. (1999.) "Vesipellis", The Colors of Magic, Wizards of the Coast
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