Signing of the Guildpact

Signing of the Guildpact
Event Information
Era	Time of the Thran
Date	-5517 AR (0 ZC)
Location	Ravnica
Characters	Azor, Cisarzim, Mat'Selesnya, Niv-Mizzet, the Obzedat, Rakdos, Razia, Simic, Svogthir, Szadek
Outcome	Magical guildpact established, binding the guilds of Ravnica for 10,000 years
Timeline
Shattering of Madara Signing of the Guildpact Thran Civil War

The Signing of the Guildpact was an event that marked the start of Zal Concordant time reckoning in Ravnica.

History

The Guildpact was created on the plane of Ravnica after a long war led by the opposing Cisarzim and Razia. Ravnican guilds divided duties across nine guilds for the betterment of the plane as a whole. Following this, Ravnica began its long evolution into a predominantly urban plane.

The Guildpact itself was focused upon an ancient, primeval living document signed with blood and magic by each of the paruns to represent their willingness to work together to hold the city together. It was signed in -5517 AR, a year which became known as 0 ZC. The first draft of the Guildpact, pressed under three inches of magic-treated glass and authored by Azor himself, is still preserved in the Old Laws Library of the Azorius Jelenn Column complex. Its second signatory was the Boros parun Razia, followed by the Golgari parun Svogthir.

The paruns were the founders of the ten Ravnican guilds and signatories of the original Guildpact. As most were exceptionally long-lived beings, a majority remained active in some form after ten millennia, though not all continued as guildmaster of their respective guild.