The Vorthos Guide to Magic: The Gathering
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Welcome back to Archive Trap, the unofficial story column for all things Magic: The Gathering! Today we're talking about Innistrad again, subject of The World of Innistrad and The World of Innistrad Part II: Eldritch Shadows. Today I'm doing something a little bit different: I'm telling the story out of order. The reason for this is that Eldritch Moon is essentially several distinct stories that only overlap by coincidence. There is no grand plan that unites both Nahiri's plot and Jace's investigation, other than that he happened to be looking for Sorin while Nahiri was taking out her vengeance. That is, of course, unless the final twist also means that a certain someone (Emrakul, I'm talking about Emrakul) orchestrated the whole thing somehow.
Liliana's Necromancer abilities being featured was a big clue as to the ultimate enemy.
Eldritch Moon Key Art
Shadows Over Innistrad
A Turn to Madness
In Gatstaf, the trackers Halana (known as Hal) and Alena sit in a town hall meeting as a farmer professes that one of his cows is possessed and ate another one of his cows. The townsfolk are quick to blame one of the elders for failing wards, but Hal and Alena believe it to be a werewolf. During the meeting, the innkeeper comes in screaming that there has been a murder - the wife of the Cathar Palter appears to be dead. Hal and Alena believe it to be connected to the dead cow and go to investigate, and find a blood soaked room and what appears to be a scene where the Cathar, secretly a werewolf, killed his wife - Mrs. Palter - but there is only a lot of blood to go by. They begin tracking Palter, and while they find werewolf tracks the other clues they find don’t add up to their theory, and they stumble upon dead bodies, but not killed in a way that would suggest werewolves.
Eventually, the trail leads them to Mrs. Paltar, preparing to sacrifice her husband to the demon Ormendahl. The trackers try to stop her, but Mrs. Palterr is unnaturally strong. Just before Mrs. Palter can strike a killing blow, she’s dispatched by a large werewolf, and surrounded by a pack. Afraid their situation went from bad to worse, they’re shocked when the werewolf transforms into a naked woman. The woman - Arlinn Kord - tells them they must leave the woods and stop killing members of her pack. Arlinn believes something, she doesn’t know what specifically, is coming, and that werewolves may be Innistrad’s best hope of survival. When the trackers protest, Arlinn points out that they’d be dead without her intervention. She transforms back into her wolf form and leaves, hoping that the trackers take her advice so she doesn’t have to kill them.
The clue tokens contained a coded flavor text message; "Remember this: They came as three".
Clue Token by Franz Vohwinkel
Above Stensia, Avaycn floats, reflecting on the progress humanity has made since her release from the Helvault. She believes that a new era is upon Innistrad, with the darkness finally in retreat. Since she was created, the concept of protection was all she has known. She hears the prayers of all her faithful, but recognizes that her responsibility is to lead and inspire, not fight every battle. Sometimes, however, a prayer is so strong that she is compelled to intervene. She does so for a mother and her son after the boy goes missing in the forest. But after rescuing the boy, Maeli, she’s wracked by a vision of what seem to be the Hedrons on Zendikar. Afterwards, she begins to hear a buzzing hum in addition to the prayers, and is struck by a sudden thought, ‘The seeds of men are rotten’.
Avacyn appears to a priest who had begun to doubt Avacyn during her disappearance. He prays for clarity, but when Avacyn appears she seems… off. Between her words, she seems to be listening to some voice only she can hear. The priest is cowed by her presence, and she begins to denigrate humanity, calling the priest impure and wondering out loud if she’s lost her faith in humans. He fears that Avacyn will slay him, but she just leaves him with a kind, feathery touch.
Time passes, and a former werewolf wakes up to his home in shambles and his family slaughtered. Realizing with horror that the Cursemute has failed, and he had turned once more, in his grief he prays and demands to know why he has been forsaken. The only response he gets is burning divine light, smiting him.
Sigarda sits in her solar reflecting on the growing darkness in Innistrad, when she catches sight of her sisters, Bruna and Gisela, and thinks of their dead sister. When her sisters land, they move suspiciously, as if they’re planning to attack Sigarda for not coming when Gisela called for her the week before - but she had merely been busy helping Kessig rebuild. Sensing something is off, she begins to plan how she can escape before she is surprised by Avacyn. Avacyn is different than the other angels, and she couldn’t sense her arrival. The situation invokes memories of their fourth, long dead sister, who been killed about 1,000 years before, around the same time Avacyn had appeared. The fourth sister and her flight were slain by Avacyn after the sister, who Avacyn forbids all to name, allied with a demon lord. None of her sisters came to her aid. Avacyn speaks to Sigarda of joining the Great Work, of how humans are no different than monsters and must be cleansed. Bruna and Gisela echo Avacyn in a way that suggests they are no longer themselves. Sigarda is cautious, and is given time to consider Avacyn’s proposal. Remembering her fallen sister, Sigarda vows to fight rather than acquiesce to Avacyn again.
Maeli’s mother worries about the rage and anger that took her over after Maeli was recovered, but it passed as Avacyn departed. Her recollections are interrupted by screams. A host of angels descends on her village, led by Avacyn, who confronts and slays the mother. As the village is destroyed, Avacyn looks up to the moon and basks in the whispers she hears from it. All will burn, All will bleed. Maeli’s mother tells him to run, and he does so.
The original artwork for Magic Story is always fantastic.
Art by Mathias Kolros
Jace's Investigation
Jace Beleren arrives on Innistrad and immediately sets out to find Liliana Vess to aid him in tracking down Sorin Markov, following the events of Oath of the Gatewatch. Unfortunately for Jace, he’s arrived on a full moon and his guide quickly turns into a werewolf, forcing Jace to flee on horseback. The werewolf calls to his pack, and soon Jace is beset by five snarling beasts instead of one. His attempt an illusions fails, so he calls a more substantial one which forces one his pursuers to engage it. He digs into the mind of his former guide and makes it lash out at the alpha, causing those two to fight as well, and a third to stop to watch. He reaches his destination just before the last werewolf catches him: a dark manor patrolled by shambling corpses. He has reached the home of Liliana Vess.
Jace enters and is guided by a zombie in servant’s livery to meet with Liliana. After their last encounter, Jace is worried she will refuse to help - and he’s right. She recognizes right away he’s come for something, and when Jace mentions that he’s looking for Sorin she refuses to help. She had a run in with him - once - a long-time before when she first came to the plane. He fought her until it became clear she was no threat to him, and pronounced as much, warning her she was a guest on his plane. Liliana has no desire to repeat the experience and thinks Jace mad for wanting his aid. Jace gives her the short version of the Zendikar and Battle for Zendikar story, and she’s uninterested. Jace persists, and is even willing to go to Markov Manor - something Liliana finds abhorrent - even more so when Jace continues to insist after she tells him he’d be killed for asking about Sorin, the Markov Pariah.
In the end, Liliana does not agree to help him, but does offer her ‘guest room’, which is essentially her dungeons, for him to stay the night.
While cropped out of the card, Jenrik's only appearance is in this art.
Tamiyo's Journal by Chase Stone
Jace arrives at Markov Manor to find the place demolished, giant fragments rearranged like an Escher painting. He makes his way across and is struck by visions and voices and he explores the ruin. Vampires, now stone, are embedded in the walls, and there are bizarre statues all around the manor. He sees Edgar Markov draining Marcyz’s silver blood - first as a statue and then in a vision. He sees the vampires alive and writhing in the walls, trying to get at him. And he sees the face of Tamiyo speaking to someone. As he explores, he realizes this place is messing with his head somehow, but he doesn't quite know how to leave, despite and outside force seemingly urging him to do so.
Eventually, he follows the trail of visions that lead him to Jenrik, a Nephalian scholar, dead with all the rest embedded in the wall, a journal in his hand. Jace takes the journal and realizes it's written in a Kamigawa script (something, presumably, he learned as part of his time with the Infinite Consortium, which had a Kamigawan cell). Part of the journal is written in Jenrik’s hand as well, and it's clear that Tamiyo had sent Jenrik here. The pages are filled with notes and clues as to what is going on in Innistrad, enough so that Jace realizes this is the key he's been looking for. He manages to find the exit and departs, surmising that the Angels are the key to finding Sorin.
Tamiyo’s Journal in hand, Jace leaves Markov Manor behind to try to find answers. The journal is a fascinating read, with accounts of Tamiyo dissecting a werewolf that didn’t change back upon death and finding a lattice-like structure on the inside and an extra eye in its liver. Tamiyo had also studied the cryptoliths and deduced that they’re redirecting mana for some unknown purpose, and that they may also be affecting beings of pure mana - a possible explanation for what has happened with the angels. Due to her hatred of angels, Jace begins to suspect Liliana.
Jace, master detective, puts the clues together all wrong.
Epiphany at the Drownyard by Titus Lunter
Jace follows the path of the cryptoliths to Nephalia, where he encounters a mad woman who hints at knowing the truth of what is happening. When Jace tries to read her mind, however, he becomes trapped and takes a little bit of her madness with him - seeing illusory duplicates of himself with slightly different features. These eventually resolve into visions of Liliana and Tamiyo. When he succeed in tracking down the destination of the cryptoliths (the drownyard temple), he senses an ill-formed darkness, an Object, growing above. According to Tamiyo’s journal, something she refers to as an Eldritch Moon is causing the Heron Moon to move out of alignment, changing the tides and warping Innistrad’s environment. Jace, more than a little in the grip of madness, decides that Liliana must be behind this, and leaves to confront her.
In her mansion, Liliana hears an accusing voice in her head. She turns to see the Raven Man, and at first believes it was him talking… until she notices that his lips haven’t moved. Jace has returned from the drownyard, maddened, and is attempting to unleash a psychic attack on her. The Raven Man warns her he can only keep her protected for so long, and strangely Jace catches sight of him for just a moment. His distraction is all Liliana needs to cast an agony spell on Jace. Although the Raven Man urges it, she doesn’t kill him, and he disappears in disgust.
Through pained breaths, Jace accuses Liliana of being behind whatever is happening with ‘the moon’ he saw at the drownyard. He hasn’t put the pieces together, but he believes it’s about freeing herself from the Chain Veil. Liliana offers to help him, but he refuses - embittered and untrusting of her. He leaves for Thraben to confront Avacyn herself instead, despite Liliana’s warnings. Once he is gone, a strange man named Gared appears, telling Liliana his master is ready for her. With that, she follows him out - presumably to do something about the Chain Veil, as a raven squaks at her from above.
Man, it's always disappointing when awesome art like this is on a bad card.
Merciless Resolve by Chase Stone
Avacyn's Fate
Sorin, having discovered the ruins of Markov Manor for himself, sets out to enlist Olivia Voldaren’s aid to confront the coming threat. Olivia is in the middle of one of her grand parties when he arrives, and plays games. Sorin, to make a point, kills the six vampires she orders to escort him out. Keeping up pretenses, she leads him through her own manor and to a private location for them to meet. Along the way, she leads him past a feeding room to try to unnerve him. Unfortunately for Olivia, she doesn’t realize that Avacyn wasn’t made to protect humans from vampires, but vampires from themselves, and so the ploy is a wasted effort.
Sorin recounts the destruction of Markov Manor, which Olivia finds ironic in the extreme, assuming that because Avacyn destroyed Castle Falkenrath, that she must have done so to Markov Manor as well. Sorin assures her that it was not, and that there is a great threat to the plane the vampires must unite to confront - Nahiri. Olivia, intrigued by a threat so great it would disturb Sorin, agrees to help… for a price.
In Thraben, Tamiyo has entered the Cathedral in an effort to answer lingering questions about the nature of Innistrad and Avacyn. She uses her story magic to sneak through and find a library that might have more information. Jace, too, finds himself stalking through Thraben Cathedral following his confrontations with Liliana. He chances upon Tamiyo, who cures his madness and chastises him for his plan to stop Avacyn. Instead, Jace convinces her that knowing Avacyn’s mind would help her research. Jace and Tamiyo link minds so that she can aid him, but the plan fails and Avacyn strikes.
Avacyn’s attack is cut short by the arrival of Sorin Markov, who attempts to convince her to return to the cellar so that he can correct what has gone wrong with her. Jace asks for help and tries to talk to Sorin, but hilariously, he also tells her she can kill the two other walkers first if she likes. Avacyn is torn, and she has delusions about Sorin being a leech. Sorin fails to reach her, and she attacks.
Quote from"Silence," he snaps, and the demons jolt with the force of his voice. He turns to me again. "Listen to me. If you have some grievance with these two, you may kill them before we begin."
When Avacyn’s attacks fail to affect him, Sorin reveals he is her creator. The two battle through the cathedral, and Avacyn calls down her angels on him. He slaughters them and presses the attack until Avacyn turns even further, believing him to be pure evil. Her mad conviction allows her to finally hurt him, which leaves Sorin with no further choice. After a final attempt to plead with her, and against the warnings of Jace and Tamiyo, Sorin undoes the spell that created Avacyn. He walks away as Jace calls after him.
A Werewolf Intermission
In the wake of Avacyn’s death, the corrupted angels are whipped into a frenzy. Arlinn and her pack rush to Lambholt to stem a slaughter, but Arlinn finds that Cathars there are already battling with an angel they’ve brought down. Her mentor, Rembert, is among them. The shock throws her off her game, and the Cathars react to her presence poorly, splitting their attention between her and the angel. The angel uses this to get free, and Rembert tries to get the group to focus on the werewolf among them.
In the chaos, Rembert is attacked and carried off by the angel. Arlinn leaps to bring the angel down - dropping Rembert over the edge of a gorge in the process. She finished off the angel and reaches out a paw for Rembert, but he refuses. She transforms back into a human and reaches out to him again, imploring that she is no longer the thrall to the curse. He prays to Avacyn and takes her hand, to which she responds:
"Avacyn is gone," Arlinn said. "We must find strength in each other."
To this day, people are proposing alternate theories to Emrakul.
Coax from the Blind Eternities by Jaime Jones
Emrakul Rises
With Avacyn dead, Nahiri’s plan finally comes to fruition. Innistrad has no protections left, and she summons Emrakul into being. The effects are felt across the plane immediately. A pair of Cathars defend Maeli. He prays for Avacyn, but only a mad angel responds that 'she' is here. In Nephalia, cultists cheer as Emrakul emerges from the sea, transforming all in her wake. In Kessig, Hal and Alena struggle against transformed villagers. It’s only their love for one another that keeps Hal from turning as well. Bruna and Gisala fuse into one horrible monstrosity, Brisela. The villagers of Hanweir fuse with the town itself to create one horrible abomination.
In the wake of all this, Jace struggles with his sanity. Tamiyo helps protect his mind, and Jace realizes his mission is more than complete. Gideon sent him to find help tracking down Emrakul, and he succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Emrakul is on Innistrad now. Jace and Tamiyo part, and Jace returns to the Gatewatch.
Liliana and Dierk’s attempts to free the Veil from the curse while keeping its power intact are met with failure. To make matters worse, Liliana’s mansion is invaded by corrupted Werewolves. Dierk is killed, but Liliana dispatches the rest and calls on Dierk’s assistant, Gared, to follow her. They leave for Olivia Voldaren’s stronghold. Liliana returns a Witchbane Orb and Dierk’s reanimated corpse, but finds Olivia and her vampires readying for war.
It's hard to root for either Sorin or Nahiri. They're both terrible.
Campaign of Vengeance by Igor Kieryluk
Sorin is there as well, and he and Liliana have words about her involvement in breaking open the Helvault, before the vampires all leave to confront Nahiri. Liliana realizes none of them are going after the source, and heads to Thraben - collecting army of zombies along the way. Her goal? To find out what happened to “cloak boy”.
Nahiri prepares the ruins of Markov Manor for her final confrontation with Sorin, who has amassed a vampire army against her. Nahiri has brought her own army - cultists and eldritch abominations mutated by Emrakul. The two sides clash while Nahiri and Sorin look for one another in the battle. They meet, and the power of the two former oldwalkers is a breathtaking display. Nahiri pulls dozens of weapons from the stone while Sorin works magics that would demolish any other foe. The two know each other too well, and their personal battle grinds to a standstill as neither side can gain the advantage.
Their battle moves into the ruins of Markov Manor, and it becomes clear that Sorin made a tactical mistake following her in. Nahiri has full command of the stone structure, and turns it against him over and over. Nahiri, a native of Zendikar, is no novice when it comes to navigating strange structures like the ruins, but Markov is even more ancient. They wound one another, until finally Sorin surprises Nahiri and begins to feed on her, intent on killing her. Nahiri uses the opportunity to spear Sorin with jaws of stone, ending the fight. Sorin can’t regenerate while the stone continues to damage him from the inside, and Nahiri pulls him into the stone, trapping him.
In victory, Nahiri is cruel. She gives Sorin a front row seat to the destruction of Thraben, and from his stone vantage Sorin has a clear view. Emrakul approaches the city, and with her the death of everything. Vengeance accomplished, Nahiri planeswalks away. Olivia, who had been lurking in the background of the fight, floats into Sorin’s view. Sorin demands she release him, but Olivia kind of likes the title of Lord of Innistrad, and decides to leave Sorin right where he is.
There is no redeeming Nahiri. She doomed an entire plane out of spite.
Art by Cynthia Sheppard
The Order of Saint Traft
Rewinding a bit before Avacyn's death, Odric finds himself adrift in a crisis of faith. He begins to question his loyalty to the church because of Avacyn’s turn, and fills his new role as the Lunarch Marshal out of duty more than conviction. Thalia, on the other hand, is aghast at the changes in the church. The Inquisition is burning children as heretics, and she just can’t abide it anymore. She floats her doubts to Odric and finds herself rejected. Odric isn’t yet ready to give up on the church. Knowing the church is hopelessly corrupt, she begins to plan.
When she returns to Thraben, it’s with evidence of corruption. She accuses Bishop Jerren of being the new head of the Skirsdag cult, and he only laughs in response. To both Thalia and Odric’s dismay, the accusation is turned around on Thalia and she is imprisoned. Odric, along with his lieutenant Grete, make their decision and free Thalia. In their escape, they’re forced to cut through friends who still believe in the church, leaving Odric despondent. Thalia leads them to her allies and introduces them to her new means of fighting back: The Order of Saint Traft, with the holy geist himself backing her.
The Order of Saint Traft grows under Thalia’s leadership. No longer a small group of rogue Cathars, the Order now included scores of cathars, inquisitors, and priests who could no longer stand the corruption of the Church of Avacyn. Together, they stand against the corrupted of Emrakul, and the so-called sinpurged of the church (mutated by Emrakul, believing it to be a divine mark of their lack of sin). Rem Karolus returns to Thalia from Thraben, after being sent to scout out what has become of Avacyn. He returns with only her spear. Thalia moves to take it from him, but divine power pushes her away. Rem admits it took him a while to get it strapped to his mount.
Displaying the true power of the Order, Thalia asks for aid from a benevolent geist inhabiting her body. With its power, she is able to raise the Order’s standard on the spear, and she gives a speech to her troops as they march on Thraben. Along the way, they find that almost everything on Innistrad is being pulled there in one way or another. They battle a mutated horse and rider, and while victorious they lose one of their own to Emrakul’s corruption. Olivia Voldaren’s remaining army encounters them on the road, and a truce - until the true enemy is defeated - is agreed to. As they march, villagers of all sorts, some armed with nothing more than farming tools, join their ranks. The final battle, for the fate of the plane, is coming. But the madness soon grew too much.
Thalia herself had taken on a benevolent geist before her confrontation with the Lunarch Council. Saint Traft offered his aid when she stumbled upon his chapel, and Thalia accepted. As she realized the madness was spreading through her ranks, Thalia offered them the same protection she holds. Traft summons hundreds, if not thousands of benevolent geists to the army’s side, and those who can invite them in, gaining their strength and protection. Even more remain at the army’s side, to fight with them instead of through them. All but those already too far gone to accept agree to the possession… all but Rem, whose pure strength of will is enough to keep the madness at bay. The collected forces enter Thraben, and the pure chaos within.
Thraben is a madhouse. Cultists and townsfolk, howlpack and dronepack, Skaab and abomination, all are locked in mortal combat. The battle seems to be going in favor of the uncorrupted, until Thalia realizes many have started looking to the sky. Brisela arrives, letting out an ear-rending screech. Thalia, mounted on a gryff, assaults the abomination, but is swatted out of the sky. Brisela swoops down to finish the job, when Sigarda interposes herself between the grounded cathar and her former sisters. Sigarda’s attacks are for naught, and Brisela draws her in and attempts to assimilate its sister. Traft tells Thalia to wield Avacyn’s spear, that together they can use it. With the spear and Traft’s power, Thalia takes on an angelic form, and flies to meet Brisela. She frees Sigarda from their grasp and using the spear’s power slays the monstrosity, driving the spear through it and falling to the ground alongside it. Thalia has a moment’s hope that the forces of light are victorious, until Sigarda gestures to the horizon. Emrakul has come.
This time, it's Jace's turn to be totally helping. Keep looking fierce, bro.
Unknown Gatewatch Art
The Silver Prison
The Gatewatch arrive on Innistrad and fight there was into the madness that is Thraben, with Gideon and Chandra taking the lead. Nissa warns that Innistrad’s leylines are different, but she and Chandra think they can work another titanic spell, but as Nissa tries to connect to Innistrad’s leylines, the darkness of them overwhelms her. Their position quickly becomes overrun as they fight with Emrakul’s brood as they argue over what to do next.
In steps Liliana, who had been waiting in the wings for just such a moment. Her zombie army quickly surrounds and protects the Gatewatch, but Gideon and Nissa are wary of her help - until Chandra of all people intercedes.
"The nice lady with the uncomfortable dress just saved our butts, Gideon. Calm down a second."
And so an uneasy alliance is formed. Nissa, however, hates the Chain Veil - sensing something truly wrong with it.
As the group stands around trying to figure out what to do, Tamiyo returns and communicates with Jace. They waited to long to take action, and fall under Emrakul's mental assault. Jace protects all but Liliana, who digs deep into the Chain Veil's power to protect herself. Both the spirits of the Veil and the Raven Man beg her to flee, but she resolves to stay. She's sick of feeling powerless, and for the first time she owns the Veil. And she wishes to challenge Emrakul. She lashes out with tremendous power, power she hasn't felt since the mending, and she seems to be harming Emrakul. But the Raven Man warns her she can't hope to control that power for long, and she doesn't know what she's doing. And he's right - her power begins to fail as her body can no longer handle the power. Her power falters, than fails as she screams at Jace.
Jace, meanwhile, reaches almost by accident deep into the mind of his fellows. He witness a vision of Gideon and the Gatewatch facing off against Erebos, and the god kills the team one by one, demanding to know what Gideon truly wants. He says he wants to protect, then to defeat Erebos, but both are revealed as lies. The vision fades before his true desire is revealed. Jace then passes a vision of Tamiyo, who slowly turns into Emrakul's thrall, losing her ability to connect to her magic - the mental library she has assembled. He passes another vision of Chandra, facing off against the Consuls' forces who mock her over the death of her parents and tell her she's powerless. In response, she ignites and burns away everything. Nissa follows, and she transforms and proclaims what seems like nonsense, ranting about entropy. Finally, Jace comes to a door, and inside is his Sanctum, and a being that looks like the images of Emeria from Zendikar. An angel disturbingly Emrakul-like. They talk, and there are hints that Emrakul is a natural force in the world, possibly rebirthing dying worlds. Emeria/Emrakul shows him a scroll with iron bands, much like Tamiyo's, and she writes in it. She comments on how everything dies, and weirdly the two play chess. Jace wins, but then the board warps into more Eldrazi spawn. Jace comments that she cheated, and she responds:
"Hey uh, see that moon? Yeah... don't open that. Ever."
Imprisoned in the Moon by Ryan Alexander Lee
Quote from"They are all my pieces, Jace Beleren. They always were. I just no longer want to play."
"This is all wrong. I am incomplete, unfulfilled, inchoate. There should be blossoms, not barren resentment. The soil was not receptive. It is not my time. Not yet."
Finally, Jace encounters himself, a contingency plan he had set up against Emrakul's intrusion. He tells himself that Liliana is about to die, and that Tamiyo may hold the key to victory. When he snaps out of it, the rest of the Gatewatch wake up as well. They quickly form a plan based on Avacyn's mantra - What cannot be destroyed must be bound. Tamiyo comes up with the idea to bind Emrakul in the moon like a giant Helvault. Nissa agrees to try and power the spell, and together they cast the glyph to bind Emrakul on the moon. But the power isn't enough... until Tamiyo unfurls one of the iron banded scrolls, not unlike the one Emeria/Emrakul showed Jace, unleashing a torrent of mana. Emrakul stretches out in ways that shouldn't be possible, and then folds in place into the moon, finally bound.
After, Tamiyo declines Gideon's invitation to join the Gatewatch. Liliana however has realized the power of friends - or at least the usefulness of four powerful children who will help her without being forced to. She makes an Oath, carefully walking the line so they will believe she in sincere when she is not. Jace goes to find Tamiyo after, and learns a horrifying truth. Tamiyo was not in control when they cast the spell - Emrakul had taken her over.
Quote fromI told you before, Jace. Sometimes our stories have to end. Yet here we are, each seeking to prolong our story, no matter the cost. But what if all stories are just her story, all in service of some awful destiny waiting to unfold?
Thanks for reading! With Emrakul being sealed in the moon of Innistrad, both Shadows Over Innistrad and the Eldrazis' stories have come to an end, for now. But we've got a bigger mystery now than when we started. What is Emrakul, really? Why did she seal herself into the Moon? Maybe we'll learn more on Kaladesh, but I have my suspicions.
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