The allied forces of the archangels, mortals, and archdemons were the last to enter the city, after holding open corridors for refugees to stream into the lower elevators. This unlikely deal laid the foundation for a new place that would hold the plane: a fortress that became a city, which the people called New Capenna.ĭenizens from the rest of the plane migrated to the city in two exoduses before the Riveteers tightened up immigration. The angels had become consumed with the defense of the plane, and it had become clear that the demons needed to join the fray as well. To save the people of Capenna from total defeat, the archangels turned to an old, familiar enemy: the archdemons. The enemy's numbers were inexhaustible in addition to their knights, the enemy added the mortal dead to their number, sending the animated corpses of fallen defenders to fight against their comrades. The Phyrexians sent their forces again and again against the spears of Capenna's final defenders, and though the angels and mortals held, it was plain to the archangels that they could not win. Allied with these divine warriors, Capenna's defenders managed to hold a small pocket of land, encircled but defiant against the end. It was only through the intervention of Capenna's archangels and their hosts that the plane's mortal defenders stood a chance.
Their invasion was successful for the better part of a year. When the invaders attacked, they ate hope, turned children's parents against them, and poisoned the plane for millennia. Sometime before the Phyrexian Invasion of Dominaria, a single Phyrexian ship invaded Capenna. Main article: Phyrexian Invasion of Capenna Vivien Reid claims the plane outside of the city is essentially dead, devoid of life and nature. Arriving in New Capenna, she felt out of place as the plane was nothing as she imagined it. She was only 13 at the time.Īfter leaving Theros, Elspeth met with Ajani Goldmane who told her where to planeswalk to find her home plane. When her dark warden came for her, she responded instinctively with a powerful spell and planeswalked away to Theros. Elspeth and her peers were a distraction meant to soothe the insanity of the flawed Phyrexians. In this prison, the Phyrexians of her homeworld tended to those of their numbers they felt insane.
Her life immediately before her ascension was spent as a prisoner along with many other beings, locked tightly away and tortured. Its inhabitants have little memory of its past, perhaps because the demons didn’t want people to remember it, or because people simply forgot the details over generations after fleeing from Phyrexian invaders.Įlspeth grew up in an encampment of Phyrexian holdouts, long after their initial invasion. The city of New Capenna is centuries old, at least older than the Phyrexian Invasion of Dominaria. That Capenna, Old Capenna, is gone, lost in a cataclysmic war against a forgotten enemy - the same war that prompted the creation of the towering city. There was a plane out there centuries ago, one of many cities, kings, cultures, and wonders. The people of New Capenna act like there was no history before the city they're wrong.
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