Elesh Norn looks like a tall, roughly humanoid figure, covered in porcelain plating. The next logical step for her is to unite all other praetors under a single banner. The white-aligned praetor of unity, Elesh Norn guides all groups within her sect, knowing that she is the most powerful praetor as of now. They try to glean the leadership from the dormant Karn, whispering calming words in the times he is awake to try an get the mind-wrecked, tormented golem to lead them. Lastly, the Apostles of Karn believe that New Phyrexia is like a body without a brain, a machine without a command. Second, the Porcelain Legion wants to adapt all into a phyrexian army, implanting white porcelain-like metal on their bodies.
It is by far the dominant sect, and is divided into three smaller groups.įirst, the Flesh Singularity tries to unite all beings into one, and do so quite literally by stitching creatures together in hopes of making one ultimate life-form. They seek to balance everyone on a level playing field, so to say. The Machine Orthodoxy is tries to reach perfect, equal unity, and do so with religious fervor. None of the present-day Phyrexians know what happened back then, yet simply accept the Scriptures as true.
Once that happened, the Phyrexians split into 5 sects, each led by a praetor, based on different interpretations of the Phyrexian Scriptures, a codex written in the Phyrexians' original days. They Phyrexians corrupted, or according to them, "compleated" the already artificial landscape, eventually defeating the Mirrans. When Karn brought a drop of Glistening Oil, that drop was all they needed to rebuild. They were once a terrible threat on a different plane, yet were exterminated. The Phyrexians are the faction that took over Mirrodin. It is produced as a side product of various phyrexian processes and experiments. Glistening OilĪlso called Phyrexian Oil, Glistening Oil is a tar-like black liquid that corrodes metal and bone and, over time, phyrexianizes creatures it is applied to. This art is from "Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite", by Igor Kieryluk. Art CreditsĬover art is from "Furnace Layer", by Kekai Kotaki. There are still a few Mirrans, who called themselves the Mirran Resistance, hiding from the Phyrexians as they wonder how could they possibly defeat them. They battled the Mirrans, and at the end, the Phyrexians won. From a drop of the Oil, the Phyrexians arose again, on a new plane. Just when Karn thought they were dealt with, he brought a tiny fraction of Glistening Oil (see sidebar). The Phyrexians believed flesh is weak, and sought to replace it with a mix of machine and flesh from other creatures of their own design, in a way much less passive than the natural artifcat-i-ness of the Mirrans. Then, Karn made the fatal mistake of returning to Mirrodin after he mingled with and helped exterminate the Phyrexians, a faction of unholy evil. All it landscape, objects, and even people are artificial. Mirrodin was a world of artifice, created by the silver golem Karn.
Originsīefore it became known as New Phyrexia, it was a plane called Mirrodin. Welcome to the second installment in my Plane Shift series, this time on the corrupt plane of New Phyrexia! Once called Mirrodin, this plane was odd even before the Phyrexians invaded.
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