Prysmos

"The damage is not too bad. As long as the foundations are still strong, we can rebuild this place. It will become a haven for all peoples and aliens of the universe... oh. Now those foundations are gone. Sorry."

The Earthlike world of Prysmos orbits three suns. It's inhabited by the Prysmosians, who superficially resemble humans; some of their number are capable of wielding magic.

Fiction

Animated cartoon continuity

Prysmos was part of the Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere. The AllSpark Almanac II Swindle thought the Darkling Lords of Prysmos would be good customers, and planned to use his experience with the Angry Archer as a primer to speaking their quasi-medieval lingo. AllSpark Almanac

INSIRT continuity

Catgut transformed into a Prysmosian cheetah. TFSS Treadshot profile card

Beast Wars: Uprising

By the 25th century, Prysmos had lent its name to a treaty applying to humans and Shi-Lai. The Inexorable March

2005 IDW continuity

Prysmosian religion holds that their planet was created by Heskedor, the "living universe," a deity who created the cosmos from her essence and formed Prysmos from her heart. Her lifeblood became what ancient Prysmosians called the "Arcana Vast," binding the inhabitants of Prysmos to the greater universe and allowing the most skilled of their number to channel that power in the form of magic. Good Men For many centuries, magic and its practitioners ruled Prysmos. Eventually, however, the first Age of Magic gave way to an era of technological advancement; as Prysmosian civilization developed, magic was forgotten, and worship of the Arcana Vast was regarded as an outmoded superstition. Cybertron No More

The only known survivor from this First Age of Magic was a capricious wizard called Merklynn. Disgusted with the course that his species had taken, Merklynn sought to do away with the "vulgars" of technology. Three centuries ago, he did so by casting a spell, realigning the planet's three suns so that their conjunction would shut down all electrical devices on Prysmos. Schismatic With technology vanquished, Prysmos's Second Age of Magic began, with Merklynn arranging events so that his servants, the Darkling Lords and Spectral Knights, would continually vie with one another for his favor. The Curtain

At some point before 1943, One Unholy Machine Prysmos was destroyed. The precise circumstances behind its destruction are not entirely known; Merklynn himself believed that his spell had been improperly cast, and when the three suns moved back out of alignment the planet was ripped apart by gravitational forces. Schismatic Omega Supreme claimed that the planet's destruction was due to the effects of the ancient superweapon that had been responsible for creating Unicron; its destructive energies cascading across time and space. The effects of this weapon were also responsible for absorbing and corrupting Prysmos's natural magic, giving rise to the monstrous Dire Wraiths on Antilla and their culture of "dark magic." Stranger Eons

Merklynn, hoping to undo his mistake by finding a new world to colonize, arrived on Earth in the years leading up to World War II and disguised himself as a human named "Garrison Kreiger." One Unholy Machine

In 2017, "Kreiger" joined Baron Ironblood's Iron Ring; plotting to use the alien Talisman on the core of Cybertron with the goal of terraforming the mechanical planet into a copy of his old homeworld. His plan was only partially successful, changing only a small portion of the planet into the city of "New Prysmos", First Strike #6 which soon became inhabited by the few Prysmosian refugees who had survived the devastation of their world. Schismatic Following a period of conflict with the native Cybertronians, the Talisman was able to raise New Prysmos to the surface of Cybertron, while terraforming the surrounding area into a copy of Prysmos' biosphere. The Curtain This new utopia was short lived, and New Prysmos was ultimately destroyed by Unicron with the rest of Cybertron. Road's End The surviving Visionaries had used the Talisman to flee to Earth, but were inadvertently cast backwards in time instead, arriving on prehistoric Prysmos where they could begin anew. A World and a Future

Notes

• Prysmos is the planet setting for Hasbro's Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light.