Lords of Tarkir: BG Sultai/Silumgar, the Creeping Death

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Mechanics | Faction Mechanics | WB Abzan/Dromoka, Who Reigns Eternal | UR Jeskai/Ojutai, Wandering Soul | BG Sultai/Silumgar, the Creeping Death | WR Mardu/Kolaghan, the Storm's Champion | UG Temur/Atarka, World-Speaker | Skeleton

Silumgar, the Creeping Death: Lost among the rot and riot of the jungles, what was once the Sultai has folded back on itself. The rakshasa left when Silumgar refused them their tribute of souls, and those left behind retreated with Silumgar’s brood deeper into the jungles, to the morass known as Weeping Heart. Here the dragonlord weaves the souls of the fallen into the Palace Animate, a great tangle of half-structure half-sentient jungle. In the rainforest there is no line between plant and animal, animal and human. The living walls of the Palace are braided from vine and gold. A man becomes a corpse, a corpse becomes the soil, the soil rises to do the work of a man. In this inward spiral there are still those who assert themselves and bend the world around them to their will, but the cunning and manipulation of the Sultai courts are long-gone. Now it is only raw force of will, ambition, drive, that determine the victor and the victim. Luxury is gone, replaced by the privilege of sentience. And at the black heart of the Palace Animate slumbers the Creeping Death. Though his body rarely rises from its jade couch, his will is felt throughout the jungle. Those who would defy him find their hearts turned to loyalty and servitude as the miasma of his animate self overtakes them.

Gurmag, Hungering Mire: The Gurmag swamp has always been a vibrant and dangerous place. As Silumgar’s influence braids sentient beings into the landscape, the land begins to acquire sentience in turn. The Hungering Mire is the nascent consciousness of the Gurmag, a forming hivemind that encompasses the plants, animals, humans, and terrain itself. Though not particularly intelligent, and certainly not powerful enough to challenge Silumgar, the Gurmag is an elemental force to be reckoned with. It has already subdued and subverted several other minds, including a few of the weakest dragons, who have been slaved to its landscape.

Weeping Heart: The black ruin of the old Kheru Temple, now transformed utterly into the Palace Animate, the half-sentient hivemind extension of the dragon Silumgar’s will.