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"The Brothers' War"



(Magic: the Gathering. Artifact cycle. Book I.)





PROLOGUE



OPPOSITES ATTRACT

(63 AR)



It was the night before the end of the world.

The two armies had gathered on opposite sides of a blasted

vale. Once this had been a verdant valley, its wide plain shaped

by a wide, meandering stream, its flanking hills blanketed by

thick groves of oak, blanchwood, and ironroot. Now these trees

were gone; no more than ragged stumps remained, the grass burned

away, and the earth beneath packed hard and barren. The stream

was a sluggish flow hidden by a thick film of oil, its surface

broken only by the shadowy masses of nameless solids.

Thick, inky clouds concealed the moons and stars from sight.

It had been overcast and cold on Argoth, despite unseasonably

warmer weather elsewhere on Terisiare. Both sides in the upcoming

battle had taken to torching the forests they found, if only to

deny their opponents supplies and support. By day the cloud