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TIME STREAMS


ARTIFACT CYCLE тАв BOOK III




J. Robert King




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 J. Robert King




Prologue
Urza says he's sane. Perhaps he is. Measures of sanity
among planeswalkers are hard to come by. He has lived for
over three thousand years. He heals by merely willing it.
With a thought, he steps from world to world to world. His
very appearance is a matter of convenience, clothes and
even features projected by his mind. How can conventional
notions of sanity apply to a planeswalker?
Perhaps they cannot, but his madness began before he
was a planeswalker. Three thousand years ago, a mortal
Urza battled his mortal brother. Their sibling rivalry turned
fratricidal. So began the Brothers' War. In his rage to kill
Mishra, Urza enlisted the armies of the world, sank the isle
of Argoth, gutted the continent of Terisiare, and wiped
whole nations from the globe. He ushered in an ice age. In
repayment for all this madness, he became a planeswalker.
Urza says he regrets the destruction. True regret would
be a good sign.
It wasn't regret that later sent Urza on his own private
invasion of Phyrexia. It was revenge for his brother.
Somehow, Urza convinced himself he hadn't killed Mishra,
that the Phyrexian Gix had done it. True, Gix seduced
Mishra with promises of awesome power and in the end
transformed him into a monstrous amalgam of flesh and
artifice. But Urza was Mishra's slayer. Not in his mind,
though.
In the mind of madness, Urza blamed Gix and plotted
to get even. His motive was mad, and his invasion madder
still. Urza attacked PhyrexiaтАФone planeswalker against
armies of demonic monstrosities. He lost, of course. He