

The angels had become consumed with the defense of the plane, and it had become clear that the demons needed to join the fray as well. An unlikely deal between arch angels and demonlords created the metropolis of New Capenna. History Īfter the Phyrexians attacked, the plane's situation became dire.

Nido Sanctuary's vault is said to keep a so-called "Doomsday Prophecy" foretelling the city's destruction when its supply of Halo runs out. Its importance to the city's society has caused it to be used almost as currency, and shortages are a cause of citywide tensions. New Capenna is reliant on Halo, with myriad uses including as a healing elixir, for teleportation, and to enhance spells. Rather, the monopoly on violence within the city is wielded by its five ruling families. Though it has a government, it is so ineffectual that Elspeth still had not learned its name after living on the plane for multiple weeks. The city is encased in a dome that keeps it consistently temperate. Outside the city, the plane is desolate and devoid of life. This barrier that the builders had left behind remains, a last bastion of hope against a great, now forgotten evil. The city is surrounded by a skirt of wires and a shield of diffuse Halo, the very essence of the angels. New Capenna is a city of steel and chrome that rises from a plateau of vast emptiness and long-abandoned townships, a testament to the might of its long-forgotten founders.
