Naya's forces follow the elves' decrees and march out of the jungle, searching for answers to the Anima's prophetic visions. The warriors of Jund extend their 'life hunts' to the newfound game throughout Alara's vast hunting grounds. Hordes of Grixis undead mount an assault to maim, enslave, and drain the life energy from other shards. The forces of Esper invade the other shards looking for carmot, an element necessary to create more of their dwindling etherium. As the boundaries between the shards dissolve, cultures clash, and wars ensue. Waves of raw power crash across the former planar boundaries, bringing long-forgotten magics to all the shards and mingling them in unprecedented ways. The rejoined plane flows with all five colors of mana once more. Prejudice gripped these races that were once allies, made strangers by history and fate. As the barriers between worlds dissolved and lands overlapped in chaotic incursion zones, the denizens of the five shards ventured forth, meeting their long-lost fellow Alarans for the first time. As the Conflux progressed, it became not the same Alara that had once been, but a new world, a patchwork plane composed of five distinct microverses-Alara, but reborn.

The shards reunited, a jagged fusion of now poorly-fitting pieces. Many species fell to extinction, while new forms of life adapted and prospered. Environments warped to match the changed mana landscape, and life changed with it. As the shards' mana supplies slowly replenished themselves again, this mana imbalance dramatically altered life on each world. They were planes unto themselves, but not complete - each was cut off from two different colors of mana. The shards that resulted from Alara’s refraction drifted away from each other in the Blind Eternities. Whatever agent caused this destruction abandoned what remained of the plane, its spell presumably finished. The plane broke into shards along mana lines, diffusing into its component parts like light refracted in a prism - and shattering Alara's civilizations and ecologies along with it. The drain on the plane's mana shattered something deep in its metaphysical structure, causing it to undergo a radical planar refraction. Millennia before the Mending, in an event later known as the Sundering, an unknown Planeswalker plundered Alara for its mana. With such powerful and reliable mana, Alara, in its early days, was one of the Multiverse’s most accommodating environments for spellcasters. The obelisks tamed Alara's wild mana into easily manageable sources for rituals, summonings, and other spellcraft. When Alara was one plane, mages channeled and filtered its rich sources of mana with these obelisks.

Īncient Alarans built enormous artifacts called obelisks across the plane which focused the five colors of mana. The archangel Asha watched over the plane, protecting its inhabitants from the forces of Malfegor. The most notable, an ancient kingdom known as Vithia, flourished in an era of peace and wisdom. It featured kingdoms, regions, and civilizations unlike the five shard-cultures that would later inhabit it. The plane of Alara was once a single, immense plane, rich in mana and natural resources.

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