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World Spell
World Spell
Event Information
Era End of the Ice Age, start of the Thaw
Date 2934 AR
Location Terisiare, Dominaria
Affiliations Juniper Order
Characters Freyalise, Jaya Ballard, Jodah, Kaysa, Kolbjörn
Outcome
Timeline
Lim-Dûl's Battle World Spell War for Shandalar

The World Spell was cast by the planeswalker Freyalise in 2934 AR to break the Shard and end the Ice Age on Dominaria. Freyalise's World Spell started a new age known as The Thaw. Heidar tried to stop the effect of that spell and to cover the entire world with ice again.

Description[ | ]

The casting of the World Spell happened after Freyalise discovered that Jodah had been used by Lim-Dûl to study a rogue plane. Intrigued, she researched the plane herself and discovered that she could use the energy waves caused by the plane's arrival to end the Shard and the Ice Age.[1]

Set directly after Lim-Dûl's Battle, the World Spell involved the use of the Ice Cauldron, which Freyalise had built as a replica of the Golgothian Sylex. Into the cauldron, she placed Jodah's mirror, which was used to "show the land its true self". The moon-marked girl Kaysa was present at the casting and may have been involved in the ritual, although this was not shown from Jodah's perspective. The energy of the spell was on par with the Sylex Blast and would have caused equal devastation if Jodah had not dispersed it over the continent of Terisiare via the safe havens, which were destroyed in the process. Jodah's mirror survived the ritual, and it was handed back to him, but he sensed that it had been altered by the magic of the spell and never used it again.[1]

People present at the casting[ | ]

The Prerevisionist World Spell[ | ]

The casting of the World Spell was also shown in the Ice Age comic, but this version of the spell has been retconned by the later release of The Eternal Ice, which keeps some, but not all elements of the previous story.[2]

In this version Kristina of the Woods gave Freyalise the idea to combine forces to end the Shard and the Ice Age during the Summit of the Null Moon. The spell involved using the latent powers of the girl Kaysa, who would later become the Elder Druid of the Juniper Order, to provide the mana to fuel a gigantic spell that simply restored Dominaria to its former self without such devastating effect, although it still caused massive flooding. The Ice Cauldron and the mana Kristina provided were backup plans, in case Kaysa could not bear the strain of the ritual.

People present at the casting[ | ]

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References[ | ]

  1. a b Jeff Grubb. (2000.) "The Eternal Ice", Wizards of the Coast.
  2. Jeff Gomez (1995), "Ice Age on the World of Magic: The Gathering. Volume 4. Forever Silent the World". Armada
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