Voyage For Change: Dominiara - Compiling Lore and Ages

Dominaria was once the hub of the multiverse, and is still easily the largest plane in Magic: the Gathering's multiverse. It has multiple continents and covered in various biomes, battles, and climates in various expansions. Here we are working to compile various elements of the story and lore, to assist newcomer planeswalkers to Dominaria.

Dominaria's Maps:

History of Dominaria: this five part article series covers the maps, history of major events, and world changes of Dominaria, including the very popular series of the Weatherlight Saga.

Part 1: Quick History,

Part 2: Maps and Locations,

Part 3: World Changes,

Part 4: The Weatherlight Saga,

Part 5: Terisiare

Expansions and their continents:

The majority of the original magic sets on Dominaria took place on two continents: Terisiare and Aerona. You can find places like Argive, (formerly Kjeldor/Balduvia), Yavimaya, and Lat-Nam on Terisiare, and on Aerona: Benalia, Llanowar, Keld, Verdura, Tolaria West, The Spice Isles, and sometimes included: Bogarden and Urborg (though they're usually considered part of The Burning Isles).

Antiquities took place on Terisiare, highlighting the Brother's War between Urza and Mishra.

The Dark took place on Terisiare, showing the decline of civilization with a cooling climate.

Fallen Empires, a set from 1994, took place on a small eastern continent: Sarpadia, covering the fall of 5 kingdoms to decay, climate change, and being overrun by enemy factions.

Ice Age (Block: Ice Age, Alliances, Coldsnap) took place in Terisiare, for the years of the ice age after The Antiquities War.

The Mirage Block (Mirage, Visions, Weatherlight) took place on the central continent of Jamuraa. Jamuraa's three main city states, Femerf, Suq'Ata, Corondor, and the lost Zhalfir, all are here.
The expansion Prophesy also took place in Jamuraa, with an invasion by Keldons.

The novels of Jedit Ojanen took place on a variety of continents, but mainly on Jamuraa, Legends I Trilogy.

Portal Second Age took place on a southern continent of Caliman.

Tetsuo Umezawa and the Nicol Bolas novels took place on Madara, a small island continent to the Southwest of Jamuraa. This took place in the Legends II trilogy novels.

Much of the Urza's Saga block (Urza's Saga, Urza's Legacy, Urza's Destiny) took place on various continents (and other planes!), but the features were Shiv (central northern continent), Yavimaya, Urborg, and Tolaria (the original, now sunken). There were some historical elements of the block, even showing the forest of Argoth before the Sylex explosion in the Brother's War.

Prophesy took place on Jamuraa, with the Keldons Invading just before the Phyrexian invasion.

Invasion block (Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse) took place across all of Dominaria, with the Phyrexians using portals, a Rath Planar overlay, and a full invasiion of the plane.

Odyssey block (Odyssey, Torment, Judgement) took place on the continent of Otaria to the southeast of Terisiare. It followed the path of the Mirari and Kamahl's journey.

Onslaught block (Onslaught, Legions, Scourge) continued the Otaria story, with more Mirari troubles and the coming of Karona

Time Spiral block (Time Spiral, Planar Chaos, Future Sight) took place across Dominaria once more, with the Rift era almost tearing the Dominaria and the multiverse apart. The mending solved and changed the challenge of planeswalkers.

Dominaria (2018) took place on various continents, showing Benalia, Llanowar, Urborg, Suq'Ata, Femeref, Vodalia, and Yavimaya.

Now, in 2022: Dominaria United showcases many of these same locations, but adds Argive and Keld, with nod to Caliman, Versuva, and reprinted and reimagined legends from previous eras!

Ancient History

Prerevisionist lore had a lot of differences in the world of Dominaria - from planar gates to different types of planeswalkers. Much of the lore was recorded online here and there, and we've compiled some of it for you.

Coldsnap's last stand of the Ice Age lore.

Caliman and the second age of Portal

Planar Gates and travelers