Planeswalker/Igniting

Igniting (also "triggering", "flaring" or "ascension") refers to the spark's ignition, that is the process by which a sapient creature activates their latent spark and thus becomes a planeswalker.
==Ascension==
In Pre-Revisionist stories, planeswalkers were often sorcerers who somehow acquired the incredibly vast amount of mana required to perform the ritualistic sorcery of one's own ascension. Slaying a powerful planeswalker was one common way to acquire the necessary mana.
==Sparking==
Following the Mending, ascension was no longer a viable option for becoming a planeswalker, making it impossible for most wizards to become planeswalkers. A very small fraction of wizards possess the qualities needed for a natural spark. These wizards are known as embers.Jay Annelli (2022). Magic: The Gathering - The Visual Guide, DK. ISBN-13 978-0744061055. Usually, its ignition is triggered by a powerful, emotionally-affecting, perspective-altering life event. Ignitions are often caused by near-death experiences, though it is possible for an ember to undergo such an experience even dying without igniting their spark.
==First planeswalk==
As an effect of the ignition, the newly-ignited planeswalker planeswalks away for their first time: they are pulled to the Blind Eternities and then come back appearing to a random plane, and afterwards realizing their new traveling powers.
List of all explained ignitions:
Planeswalker 	Ignited on 	Planeswalked to 	Date 	Ignition's cause
Ajani Goldmane 	Naya 	Jund 	4556 AR 	Realizing the death of his brother.
Aminatou 	Unknown 	Unknown 	Between c. 4543 and c. 4562 	Foreseeing that her spark would ignite one day, and using her fateshifting powers to make it ignite immediately.
Arlinn Kord 	Innistrad 	Unknown 	Between c. 4528 and c. 4543 	Realizing she transformed into a werewolf and had killed an angel;Arlinn Kord or after killing her childhood friend Luciana in werewolf form.
Basri Ket 	Amonkhet 	Unknown 	Between c. 4550 and 4560 	Elation at winning Oketra's Trial of Solidarity.
Bo Levar 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	63 	Being caught in the Sylex Blast.
Calix 	Theros 	Unknown 	c. 4561 	Frustration about his inability to fulfill his purpose of following Elspeth Tirel.
Chandra Nalaar 	Kaladesh 	Regatha 	c. 4548 	Striking against her executioner with pyromancy.
Dack Fayden 	Fiora 	Unknown 	Between c. 4537 and c. 4550 	Witnessing his friend being killed by rival mages.
Dakkon Blackblade 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	Between c. -2000 and c. -200 	After Geyadrone Dihada stole his soul using the Blackblade.
Daretti 	Fiora 	Unknown 	 	Being crippled by the explosion of one of his constructs.
Davriel Cane 	Unknown 	Unknown 	Between c. 4511 and c. 4556 	Pulling a Worldsoul entity from the mind of a dying man into his own mind.
Domri Rade 	Ravnica 	Naya 	4558 	Being buried alive as part of a Gruul ritual.
Dovin Baan 	Kaladesh 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4560 	
Elspeth Tirel 	Capenna 	Theros 	c. 4546 	Fleeing from the Phyrexians.
Eskil 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	Between -2,500 and -440 	Splashed by the blood of the corrupted angel Trine.
Faralyn 	Dominaria 	Shandalar 	2934 	Cast the ascension spell using mana harvested from Chromium Rhuell.Gomez, Jeff. (1995). "The Shard". Ice Age on the World of Magic: The Gathering. Armada.
Freyalise 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	c. 2434 	Being mortally wounded by Jason Carthalion.
Garth One-Eye 	Kuthuman's realm 	Unknown 	4069 	Cast the ascension spell using the mana harvested from slaying Kuthuman.Forstchen, William R. (1994). Arena. Harper Prism.
Garruk 	Unknown 	Shandalar 	Between c. 4537 and 4556 	
Gideon Jura 	Theros 	Bant 	c. 4547Magic Duels: Origins 	Realizing the death of his irregulars through his own hubris.
Huatli 	Ixalan 	Kaladesh (uncompleted) 	4560 	Under furious attack by Angrath.
Jace Beleren 	Vryn 	Ravnica 	c. 4548 	Accidental planeswalk after being memory wiped.
Jared Carthalion 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	3980 	Being crushed by crumbling monoliths while confronting Ravidel.
Jaya Ballard 	Dominaria 	Elsewhere on Dominaria 	2954 	Being hit by Jodah's mirror.
Jeska 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	4306 	Being split from Karona with the Mirari.
Kaito Shizuki 	Kamigawa 	Unknown 	c. 4552 	The kami Himoto ignited Kaito's spark after they find they have a common goal in finding the Emperor of Kamgiawa in the Multiverse.
Karn (1st time) 	Dominaria 	MercadiaJ. Robert King. (2001.) Apocalypse, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 0-7869-1880-2.	4205 	Acquiring Urza's spark.
Karn (2nd time) 	New Phyrexia 	Unknown 	4557 	Acquiring Venser's spark.
Kaya Cassir 	Tolvada 	Unknown 	Between c. 4530 and 4560 	
Kiora 	Zendikar 	Unknown 	Between c. 4539 and 4559 	Being swallowed by a big sea serpent.
Koth of the Hammer 	Mirrodin 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4557 	
Kuthuman 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	4049 	Cast the ascension spell using mana tributes from the Fighting Houses of Kush.
Liliana Vess 	Dominaria 	Innistrad 	Between c. 4300 and c. 4400 	Turning to black mana to restrain her undead brother Josu.
Lukka 	Ikoria 	Unknown 	c. 4561 	Overextending the power of the Ozolith
Masrath 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	c. 4500 	An innate sense of the Multiverse following the Mending.
Mu Yanling 	Shenmeng 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4560 	
Nahiri 	Zendikar 	Innistrad 	Before -1400 	
Narset 	Tarkir 	Pulled back to Tarkir 	Between 4500 and 4559 	Learning the truth about Tarkir's past.
Nicol Bolas 	Dominaria 	Meditation Plane 	Between c. -20,000 and c. -15,500	Rage and envy against Ugin.
Niko Aris 	Theros 	Bretagard, Kaldheim 	c. 4561 	During a battle against an agent of Klothys.
Nissa Revane 	Zendikar 	Lorwyn 	4520 	Witnessing Emrakul's sealed presence.
Ob Nixilis (1st time) 	A plane of eternal war 	Unknown 	2559 or earlier 	Realizing the futility of life and mono-planar ambitions.
Ob Nixilis (2nd time) 	Zendikar 	Unknown 	4559 	Siphoning the power of the hedrons into himself.
Oko 	Unknown 	Unknown 	 	Tortured by magical procedures designed to suppress his powers.
Quintorius Kand 	Arcavios 	Unknown 	4562 	Taking the Invocation of the Founders into himself to save the plane and school during New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse.
Ral Zarek 	Ravnica 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4558 	Being stabbed and finding out his lover was betraying him.
Ravidel 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	2934 	Being resurrected from death by Kristina of the Woods.
Rowan and Will Kenrith 	Eldraine 	Possibly Kylem 	c. 4561 	Learning the truth about their birth mother.
Saheeli Rai 	Kaladesh 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4560 	
Samut 	Amonkhet 	Theros 	4560 	Experiencing euphoria and joy after being thanked by Hazoret.
Sarkhan Vol 	Tarkir 	Unknown 	c. 4554 	Channeling the spirit of an ancient dragon.
Sifa Grent 	Grixis 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4559 	Tortured by Malfegor.
Sorin Markov 	Innistrad 	Unknown 	 	
Becoming a vampire. 	 	 	 	
Tacenda Verlasen 	Innistrad 	Unknown 	4559 	Defeating her sister Willia, and absorbing the Bog Entity.Brandon Sanderson (2018). "Children of the Nameless". Wizards of the Coast.
Tamiyo 	Kamigawa 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4559 	Discovering a book from another plane.
Taysir 	Rabiah 	Unknown 	Before -20 	Uniting his five selves.
Teferi Akosa (1st time) 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	Between 3360 and c. 3650 	An experiment with time and phasing gone wrong.
Teferi Akosa (2nd time) 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	4560 	Restored by a Powerstone made by Jhoira.
Tessebik 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	c. 4500 	An innate sense of the Multiverse following the Mending.
Teyo Verada 	Gobakhan 	Ravnica 	4560 	Being buried alive.
Tezzeret 	Esper 	Grixis 	Between 4500 and c. 4545 	Being attacked by guards after learning that the Codex Etherium was empty.
Tibalt 	Innistrad 	Unknown 	 	Feeling all the pain he had inflicted on others in his life.
The Traveler (non-canon)	Unknown 	Meditation Plane 	c. 4560 	
Tyvar Kell 	Kaldheim 	Possibly Zendikar 	 	
Ugin 	Dominaria 	Meditation Plane 	Between c. -25,000 and c. -19,000	Realizing his twin brother doesn't love him and is trying to manipulate him.
Urza 	Dominaria 	Unknown 	63 	Enduring the Sylex Blast and being resurrected by Glacian's spark through the Might and Weakstone.
Venser 	Dominaria (alternate timeline)	Dominaria 	4500 AR 	With Teferi and Jhoira's help, returning to their timeline.
Vivien Reid 	Skalla 	Unknown 	Between 4500 and 4560 	Seeing her world destroyed by Nicol Bolas.
Vraska 	Ravnica 	A swamp on a dark plane. A tomb with no way out. 	c. 4540 	Being severely beaten by Azorius prison guards.
Vronos 	Innistrad 	Esper 	Between 4500 and 4556 	Having his face scarred by werewolves.
The Wanderer 	Kamigawa 	Unknown 	c. 4551 	After Tezzeret tried to control the kami Kyodai using a prototype Reality Chip.
Wrenn 	Unknown 	Unknown 	4561 or earlier 	Threatened by a forest fire.
==References==
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