10,175 ZC

The World Today
It's been a peaceful century under the law of Jace Beleren, the new Living Guildpact. Jace's jurisdiction over the guilds has ushered in a new age of peace throughout Ravnica. However, under the surface, tensions continue to rise between the guilds as the impact of the Guildpact slowly dimished in the public eye. As the guilds settle into the new era of law, the age old struggle for influence throughout the city has be reignited. What the officials in the Chamber of the Guildpact have meticulously written laws for Jace to ingrain into the mana coursing through the world, they failed to foresee one critical law to protect the Living Guildpact himself.

It was a cold night in Precinct 1 when the precog mages of the Azorius Senate foresaw what would become the greatest tragedy in Ravnica's bloody history. Jace Beleren, slain in his own chambers, laid out unceremoniously with no wounds and no sign of forced entry. The perfect crime that even the lawmages could not discern any clues on the crime.

The Chamber officials deemed the assassination of Jace Beleren to be the world's most guarded secret. Not even the spied of House Dimir could know about the Living Guildpact's death as the shadow of all out war between the guilds descended on the land. The Chamber of the Guildpact decided that in lieu of the dissolution of the ancient magic Jace wielded, the New Guildpact must still be enforced and the status quo must be maintained or the world would be plunged into war and chaos once again.

The solution was simple yet convuluted. To inform the guildmasters' of each of Ravnica's ten guilds of the truth in hopes that they will not allow the world to be plunged into war while gathering representatives of each guild to form a taskforce to maintain the peace, investigate the murder of the Living Guildpact, and to find a way to enact a new guildpact throughout Ravnica to save it from itself.