A perfect afterlife built on a perfect lie
Amonkhet
A river civilisation trained for sacred trials beneath the gaze of living gods, unaware that Nicol Bolas had designed its faith to harvest an army.
Plane profile
A world worth knowing
Amonkhet presents two worlds at once. Inside its protected river valley, food, order and divine guidance make civilisation seem blessed. Beyond that shelter lies a furnace of sand and wandering cursed dead. The contrast taught generations of initiates to see safety as proof that their God-Pharaoh's path was true.
Five gods trained the living in solidarity, knowledge, strength, ambition and zeal. Passing their trials meant earning an honoured death, not escaping one. Nicol Bolas had reshaped that devotion into a production line for Eternals, and his return tore the promise apart. What remains is a plane whose survivors must build a future without the certainty that once organised every day of their lives.
Stories and Travellers
Stories
- AetherdriftTen teams chase one manufactured spark across three worlds, until stopping for other people becomes the only victory that matters.
- Amonkhet and the Hour of DevastationThe Gatewatch went looking for Bolas’s weakness and discovered a world engineered as his weapon.
- Amonkhet: The Trials and the PeopleWHAT THE PROMISE COST
- Magic: Legends and Card LorePORTRAITS ARE NOT ONE CAMPAIGN
Characters
- Basri KetPaladin of solidarity and a home still being rebuilt
- Chandra NalaarPyromancer, rebel and emotional heart of the Gatewatch
- DarettiArtificer whose repairs and reprisals leave different marks
- Gideon JuraShield-mage, founder and the promise at the heart of the Gatewatch
- LootLiving map of the Multiverse whose personhood is constantly mistaken for access
- Nicol BolasElder dragon, empire-builder and architect of the War of the Spark
- Pia NalaarRenegade engineer who keeps turning invention into shared freedom
- SamutDissenter, protector and a voice for Naktamun's living
- Sita VarmaPrecision racer who turns a hidden name into a life she chooses herself