Halcyon

Halcyon
Information
Plane	Dominaria
Part of	Thran Empire, floating above present-day Caves of Koilos
Demonym	Halcyte[1]
Status	Destroyed
Card art	art:"Halcyon"

Halcyon was the capital of the Thran Empire in northeastern Terisiare.

Description

The city was a dazzling beauty. Its sparkling districts rose through eight terraces toward the highest point, the western plateau. Streets of white brick mazed among three- and four-story townhouses in limestone. Roofs of blue tile topped the smaller and more conventional buildings. On the highest terrace towered minarets with onion domes, flying archways, and slender buttresses. A great stadium stood there, and beside it the amphitheater, Council Hall, and high court. Libraries, archives, noble palaces, temples - the city crowded the eight terraces to the sheer edge of the extinct volcano it was perched over. A wide white wall surrounded it all. Archways in the wall led to five aerial ports, where merchant caravels hovered. It was suspended in the air thanks to powerstone technology. The city hovered above the Caves of the Damned, on which a mana rig (not to be confused with the Mana Rig the Thran built in Shiv) was built that produced the powerstones the city needed.

History

Halcyon was destroyed at the end of the Thran-Phyrexian War when the Null Sphere was sabotaged so the destructive gasses of the stonechargers (which had been used to kill the armies that were attacking the city) couldn't be stopped. All its inhabitants either died from the gas or fled to Phyrexia.^[1] The forces that had been unleashed created the avatar Evra as a silent witness.^[2]

The Caves of the Damned would be discovered millennia later by Mishra and Urza, and renamed by the latter as the Caves of Koilos.^[3]

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