Editing Ixalan (section)

==Factions==
This being a plane in M:tG, naturally, Ixalan has various different groups of people who want to kick the shit out of each other for various reasons.

===The Brazen Coalition===
Originating out of Torrezon, the Brazen Coalition are an anarchic and unruly conclave of rebels who fled their homeland when the Legion of Dusk took control of the continent after a protracted (700-years-long) campaign of conquest. United, albeit barely, by their refusal to bend the knee to anyone and their hatred of the Legion of Dusk, the Brazen Coalition operates out of a vast floating city built from half-scuttled ships, known as "High & Dry". They predominantly support themselves by acts of piracy against the fleets of Torrezon, but the more unscrupulous members of their ranks aren't above preying upon the weaker members of their own faction. They're very interested in the idea of using the Immortal Sun at the heart of Orazca to destroy the Legion of Dusk and take back their original homelands.

The only mixed-race faction on the plane, the Coalition counts humans, orcs, goblins and sirens amongst its rank.

In case you haven't figured it out, this is the Pirate faction, the representatives of the mercenaries and thieves who profited from the Age of Sail by attacking cargo ships from other nations.

===The Legion of Dusk===
A theocratic monarchy of humans ruled by vampire priest-nobles, the Legion of Dusk originated in a mountainous province called Torrezon, before they forcibly renamed their entire continent after that original territory. Torrezon had been charged with guarding a powerful magical artifact, called the Immortal Sun, a charge they ultimately failed when a jealous neighboring king attempted to steal the artifact from it. This led to one of its guardian warrior-nuns, Saint Elenda, the Dusk Rose of Garrano, to develop a magical rite that transformed her into the first vampire. She went on a crusade to retrieve the Immortal Sun, but never returned, but the Rite of Redemption she created was used to create a ruling caste of vampire-saints, who went on to conquer their continent, in no small part to ensure a steady supply of "guilty" victims to feed their hunger for blood. This ultimate leads to their seeking out the Immortal Sun, which they believe can be used to create a new version of the Rite of Redemption that will grant them true immortality without the need for blood.

Except... it turns out that the history books had gotten a little creative over the centuries. It turns out that the Rite of Redemption was never intended to be a path to power and immortality, but a heroic sacrifice, a means to pursue greater humility and to enable an adherent to better serve humanity. Needless to say, when Saint Elenda finds out - because it turns out that she found Orazca, couldn't get past the traps, and so decided to set herself up as an eternal guardian for the city - she is ''pissed'' at what the vampires have turned into.

The Legion is the Conquistador faction, being the arrogant, ruthless, self-righteous band of conquerors who want to exploit the denizens of the New World (in this case to use them as livestock).

They're still the most popular faction on /tg/ at the moment, though, because, hey, they're still vampires in gilded armor who at least claim to live up to a noble religion based on self-sacrifice through damnation. They might literally be [[Lawful Evil]] by the D&D writeup of Ixalan in [[Plane Shift]], but, as [[TVTropes]] says, "Evil Is Cool". You can run a mixed black/white card set or a majority white/majority black set. In lore the narrative representative of white is [[Lawful Good|Saint Elenda]] & the narrative representative of black is [[Lawful Evil|Vito]].

===The River Heralds===
The merfolk known as the River Heralds were the original dominant race of Ixalan the continent, where they warred with the humans of the Sun Empire. Despite being reduced to scattered, nomadic bands by the Sun Empire when it possessed the Immortal Sun, they are the current guardians of its resting place in the Golden City of Orazca. They currently exist in competitive tribal groups, or bands, each led by a single [[shaman]] (although, in D&D terms, their powers are more of a blend of [[druid]] and [[illusionist]]) called a Shaper.

As a once-mighty empire that fell from glory and reverted to tribal roots, the River Heralds are the Maya faction of the plane.

===The Sun Empire===
The dinosaur-taming humans of the Sun Empire are the current masters of Ixalan, seeking to reclaim the Immortal Sun that they once possessed and use it to conquer the world. They are also rather pissed off about the Legion of Dusk invading their lands and trying to use them as livestock.

Obviously, these are the Aztec faction.

The Sun Empire are basically the creator's darlings of the set; the only new [[planeswalker]] introduced in the set, [[Huatli]], is a resident of the Empire, and the storyline ends with them reclaiming Orazca and making plans to counter-invade Torrezon.