Magic Untapped takes a look at a married couple from the time of the Brothers' War who founded one of the most famous schools of magic in Dominarian history.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
Welcome back to Who Is on Magic Untapped as we explore the stories of characters from throughout the Magic: The Gathering multiverse. I’m Barry White.
In this episode, we go back to the time of the Brothers’ War on Dominaria and explore couple characters who took neither side of the conflict and, instead, formed a third path to follow.
This is the story of Drafna and his wife, Hurkyl.
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The common use of magic on the continent of Terisiare had not been seen in quite some time. Curious about this and pondering if the regular use of magic by people can be brought back through academic study, husband and wife Drafna and Hurkyl founded the College of Lat-Nam, a school of magic and wizardry. Though relatively small, the college became a destination for the few who practiced the magical arts to congregate, share information, and tutor novices.
A little after the war between artificer brothers Urza and Mishra broke out and escalated, Drafna and Hurkyl traveled to Terisia City and met with the Archimandrite of the Ivory Tower there. Along with archeologist Feldon, scholar Loran, shaman Sunastian Falconer, and members of the mysterious Brotherhood of Gix, they founded The Third Path – a society of peoples looking to remain neutral in the conflict.
Drafna proved to be a very talkative man, opposite of his rather quiet and reserved wife, and often found himself disagreeing with the Third Path’s majority seemingly whatever the reason, though he usually would defer to Hurkyl’s point of view when he found himself in disagreement with her as well. In fact, were it not for his wife’s cooler and more reasonable head, Drafna would have likely parted ways with the Third Path one way or another.
Due to her involvement with the Third Path, Hurkyl never returned to Lat-Nam, though Drafna would make frequent trips between the two locations as his role as an academic and desire to further his study of artifice coupled with his role within the Third Path would sometimes seem to require him to be in both places at once. And, even though his skills with magic paled in comparison to that of his wife’s, it was often Drafna that would receive the credit for her works thanks mostly to his gift of gab. As such, attributions fell to him.
Unfortunately for the couple, they were both in Terisia City when Mishra’s forces attacked. After a months-long siege, the city’s gates fell. In defense of the city, Hurkyl cast a mighty recall spell that caused three of the attacking dragon engines to disappear. After the spell’s completion, however, she was fatally stabbed by an invading spearman.
Distraught by the slaying of his wife, Drafna took charge of the city’s defenses and ordered as many artifacts to be spirited out of the city as possible before the city fell to Mishra’s forces. Drafna survived the fall of Terisia City and traveled back to Lat-Nam, though the college, too, would be destroyed in the war.
Still, Drafna survived. In the rubble, he, along with some surviving members of the Third Path, founded a new school of magic – one that would remain hidden from common view and knowledge: The City of Shadows.
The City of Shadows would outlive Drafna, eventually becoming known as the School of the Unseen around the start of Dominaria’s Ice Age. The legacy of Drafna and Hurkyl would continue to persist well after their lifetimes. Many centuries later Urza’s Tolarian Academy opened a campus on the couple’s former island home, naming that campus the College of Lat-Nam in honor of the school of magic that Drafna and Hurkyl once founded there.
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