In 1386 DR, the Spellplague traveled across time and space, and reached the world of Abeir through the planar gates, and large parts of Abeir and Toril switched places (small, almost imperceptible parts had been switching places since the Time of Troubles but this event was markedly more noticeable). Those who survived lost their ability to use arcane magic. In Cormyr, a third of the War Wizards were either killed or driven mad. Thousands of spellcasters were either destroyed or went insane due to the collapse of the Weave after Mystra's death. Almost every part of Faerûn was affected by the Spellplague and certain areas were eliminated entirely, while others were created anew. The blue flames also infected portals and planar gates, spreading even further across Toril. Sespech, the Golden Plains, and the Nagalands were also affected, and those lands were transformed into an unpredictable and surreal place, dubbed the Plaguewrought Lands. However, the remaining Halruaan lands in Toril were laid to waste due to the heavy wild magic activity in the area, in such a catastrophic way that the explosion was felt as far as Waterdeep. Halruaan wizards, having divined the death of Mystra and the destruction of the Weave, were able to use the energy of the blue fire to save most of their kingdom by shifting it into another world, Abeir. The Spellplague manifested in Toril as a storm of blue flames in the Mhair Jungles, west of Halruaa, and quickly grew to a massive size. The Storm of Blue Fire Ī rider flees from the blue flames of the Spellplague. Physical places could also be horribly warped by the Spellplague, becoming a changeland. Those who came into contact with weaker versions of the Spellplague were sometimes lucky enough to escape with only a spellscar, which could also bestow potent magical abilities. Creatures and individuals risked becoming " plaguechanged", which entailed massive physical mutations and often a complete loss of sanity, and sometimes bestowed the creature or individual with terrible powers. Īnything that came into contact with the Spellplague risked being destroyed or warped by its energies. The corrupted madness of Cyric defiled what arcane forces remained from the dissolution of the Weave, resulting in a new magical source of defiling arcane energy in the form of blue flames that destroyed Dweomerheart and continued to spread across the multiverse. The breakdown of the Weave was felt by all wizards across Faerûn. Mystra's death caused the Weave to collapse and, without the Weave, the Shadow Weave was unable to be maintained and collapsed as well. Īround 1396 DR, the sentient construct Cynosure theorized that the escape of an entity named the Traitor from its confinement in the dungeons of Stardeep, around the same time Mystra was murdered, may have also influenced the Spellplague's virulent onslaught. In these scholars' views, the truth would never be fully known to mortals, and perhaps not even to the gods. Historically, two earlier incarnations of Mystra had died before only to be reborn, and the Weave maintained its hold over the power of magic for the duration of her deaths. Other scholars, however, didn't consider this to be a logical explanation. For eons, magic had been bound within Mystra's Weave, the universal structure of arcane forces, and her death tore the Weave apart and unleashed the raw magic contained within it, creating the cataclysm that was later known as the Spellplague. The most popular and widely accepted theory about the origins of the Spellplague was that this calamity was caused by the death of Mystra, the goddess of Magic.
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