Should this story starts our HoD thread? It would be fitting.
The story suggests Bolas, even at the twilight of his power (he was trying to reclaim his godhood), was able to overpower all eight Gods. How the EFF will the Gatewatch even remotely scratch him? They got no plan, either, oh this is gonna suck.
And Bolas is, as many pointed out, a cruel bastard, for what he did to the Gods and the civilization. He's literally the kind of character who do things because he wants and he can. Compare to Eldrazi's enigmatic, endless, and primal hunger, Bolas is true face of evil, cares for nothing except himself, all the more scary because he has the power to satisfy his desires.
The ending where the demon called out to Liliana was chilling as EFF. He just killed a whole river of life, the only water source that sustained the city, and he did not give a damn about it, while it's expected of a demon, it was still horrifying, I could only imagine how the citizens felt when they fell from high hope to despair.
Here is my theory. The world of Amonket is in decline and the plane is going to die. The mending happens and Bolas sees the dying plane and knows that the eldrazi will be drawn to it to do their thing and has a process to draw all the remaining power from the plan or eldrazi when that happens. So he sets this up then has to find and unlock the eldrazi. So he finds Ugin and fights him on Tarkir to give him the information about where the eldrazi have been trapped and how to open it. Then knowing the danger that the eldrazi are manipulates other planeswalkers into opening the lock to free the eldrazi and get them to go to Amonket after they finished with Zendikar. He didn't expect the gate watch to risk destroying a plane to kill the titans and probably didn't expect Nahari drawing Emrakul to Innistrad since Amonket would likely be the next plane they were suppose to recycle. I suspect the bridge that Rashimi built was to allow him to draw the power from the plane without putting himself at risk. I think the story will go one of two ways, one they plane will die and the eldrazi will not show up and his plan will fail and he will take it out on the Gatewatch, or the plane will die and he will still draw power but not the way he wanted to be angry and take it out on the Gatewatch.
Do you guys believe it was Nicol Bolas who came before and made sure that all the other cities and civilizations will disappear... what if it was another "Trespasser"? I'm thinking that maaaaaaybe Ob Nixilis could have come before and tried to conquer it, but failed after the 8 gods united. Then when the gods saw Nicol they knew he mean no good as the previous one.
Here is my theory. The world of Amonket is in decline and the plane is going to die. The mending happens and Bolas sees the dying plane and knows that the eldrazi will be drawn to it to do their thing and has a process to draw all the remaining power from the plan or eldrazi when that happens. So he sets this up then has to find and unlock the eldrazi. So he finds Ugin and fights him on Tarkir to give him the information about where the eldrazi have been trapped and how to open it. Then knowing the danger that the eldrazi are manipulates other planeswalkers into opening the lock to free the eldrazi and get them to go to Amonket after they finished with Zendikar. He didn't expect the gate watch to risk destroying a plane to kill the titans and probably didn't expect Nahari drawing Emrakul to Innistrad since Amonket would likely be the next plane they were suppose to recycle. I suspect the bridge that Rashimi built was to allow him to draw the power from the plane without putting himself at risk. I think the story will go one of two ways, one they plane will die and the eldrazi will not show up and his plan will fail and he will take it out on the Gatewatch, or the plane will die and he will still draw power but not the way he wanted to be angry and take it out on the Gatewatch.
That just doesn't make a lot of sense. We dont know that planar recycling was the purpose of the Eldrazi. There is no evidence that he took anything from Ugin or if he would even have been able to. Even if the purpose is the Eldrazi we dont know how they code planes or if Amonkhet would have been their next destination. I could keep listing off the problems but basically every point of your hypothesis has nothing backing it up.
"Bolas spoke something to Ugin, barbed words in low tones that Sarkhan couldn't hear over the wind. Ugin spoke back, calm and serious, with a note of warning, and Bolas's smile spread like a stain."- The Reforged Chain.
"Bolas sent you to the Eye?" said Ugin.
"Why?""He wanted…" Sarkhan faltered, sorting through memories twisted by madness. "He wanted it opened, the devourers released. He never told me why."
Ugin's neck frills flared.
"If he engineered the Eldrazi's release, he is far less cautious than I remember him."
"He is obsessed with power," said Sarkhan. "He was once like a god, so he told me—but no longer. He wants that power back."- Unbroken and Unbowed
This is what I base most of my theory on.
The reason I believe that the eldrazi are a planner recycling system is that Ulamong left behind the chalky stuff that then Kozilek then changed the chalk to the crystal lattices. Then in the finally story of Eldrich moon Emrakul felt the world was not ready for her it was not ready to receive her gift. I believe these bring together a strong possibility of being planner recycling system.
"Bolas spoke something to Ugin, barbed words in low tones that Sarkhan couldn't hear over the wind. Ugin spoke back, calm and serious, with a note of warning, and Bolas's smile spread like a stain."- The Reforged Chain.
"Bolas sent you to the Eye?" said Ugin.
"Why?""He wanted…" Sarkhan faltered, sorting through memories twisted by madness. "He wanted it opened, the devourers released. He never told me why."
Ugin's neck frills flared.
"If he engineered the Eldrazi's release, he is far less cautious than I remember him."
"He is obsessed with power," said Sarkhan. "He was once like a god, so he told me—but no longer. He wants that power back."- Unbroken and Unbowed
This is what I base most of my theory on.
Except that Bolas wrecked Ugin's ***** about 2500 years prior to the mending, when both were full on Godlike Oldwalkers. It had NOTHING to do with Amonkhet or Bolas' current plans, with the exception of POSSIBLY the Eldrazi. Everything else you wrote is pure speculation, but the idea that Bolas taking down Ugin was in any way related to this is demonstrably incorrect.
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Problem being that Kozilek changes anything, not just Ulamogs dust, into the bismuth-like stuff.
Also your quote their says that Ugin replied. Theres no way he would have been so forthcoming with the info on the Eldrazi. And besides if the Eldrazi devour all the mana and life force of a plane then what is there left for Bolas? You imply that Bolas would be too afraid into intercede directly against the Eldrazi. Besides his plan was clearly to return and do something himself on the plane. Thats why he twisted the whole trial system and created the hours prophecy. If he just needed the Eldrazi to come eat it why go through all that. Not to mention that he set up Amonkhet long before he did anything with the Eldrazi. He was desperate, his power was waning. He wouldn't have interwoven a plan that is seemingly a sure thing with one that banks on a couple of mortals following some bread crumbs and then hoping that one of those mortals could manage to create the second part of the key to the hedron cage. It just doesn't all fit together. I think Amonkhet and the Eldrazi were separate plots.
I believe he used the Eldrazi for another purpose rather to have them eat all the worlds... I have a theory that the Eldrazi are like parasites that arrive at dying planes which they trace depending on the pattern of the leylines and once they arrive to a plane they start they process. Perhaps that's how they could be lure to Zendikar, Ugin with Nahiri used the hedrons to change the pattern of the leylines and them used the same leylines to anchor them to the plane. In Innistrad that's why Nahiri could lure Emrakul and bind it, in fact several flavor text refer to the monoliths as redirecting the mana of the plane. Emrakul knew that in Zendikar and Innistrad where not ready for them, so in a way I believe she establish a connection to Nissa when she first communicate with Zendikar and the connection was reinforced in Innistrad and we can see it still manifest here on Amonkhet.
I'm still inclined to think that it wasn't Bolas that laid waste to the majority of Amonkhet. I think something major happened on the plane before he arrived there, and he just took advantage of the situation.
As others have already said, incredible story today. It was great to get the history of Bolas's domination of Amonkhet and Alison Lhurs did a great job showing both the anticipation of the citizens of Naktamun and the horror of their disappointment. Razaketh is enormous, if for no other reason than the size difference I'm now willing to believe he's stronger than Griselbrand was. Also very cool that the plagues of Egypt will get shout-outs in HOU.
Perhaps the most interesting tidbit from today's story was that Naktamun was the last patch of civilization even before Bolas overthrew the gods. This of course raises the question of what did cause the devastation? Some possibilities:
-Phyrexian Invasion-Gods purged rest of world to kill infection
-Ob Nix invasion-Gods fought him off, but not before he'd devastated most of the world (this seems unlikely to me as I think Ob would keep on coming back until either he'd won or he was dead)
-Eldrazi invasion-Gods fought them off but not before they'd eaten a good portion of the world (I feel also unlikely, too much life out in the wastes)
-Local menace-Razaketh or some other Amonkhetu bad guy wrecks the world (I feel unlikely because I think the gods wreck anything else on Amonkhet)
-Ripple effects from some of Dominaria's catastrophes-A little uninteresting since the villain is a disaster rather than an antagonist but could be cool.
Oh the possibilities..
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Amonkhet and the Eldrazi are definitely not related - Bolas might have set up Amonkhet in a hurry, but even in that haste and in the past 60 years (which included observation at the Eye of Ugin via Sarkhan), Bolas never did set up anything to attract the Eldrazi. Granted, his return might have been to set the leylines so that the Eldrazi will arrive (he probably couldn't set it early in case something went wrong) but it still takes time for the Eldrazi to arrive so is Bolas going to frolic around the planes while waiting for them? Give a "you're doomed" speech and wonder how long it takes Emrakul to reach Amonkhet in the next few months/years?
Plus that means the Gatewatch/Emrakul already foiled Bolas's plans when they defeated UlaKozi and I honestly feel that would be the cheapest victory the Gatewatch definitely does not need now (or ever, for that matter).
In the realm of speculation it's not outright impossible, but it's highly unlikely and I would personally consider it bad overall plot-writing.
Anyway, what I think is more feasible, based on Razaketh's actions and Liliana's pact is that Bolas is doing something akin a Blood Pact, except way more massive (okay, less massive than he would have liked, but he only 3 days to set the plan, so he couldn't be picky). If anything it involves a lot of blood sacrifice that isn't his in exchange for power that will be his. I doubt anything in the world could reinstate the oldwalker spark powers (short of chronospatialdimensional powers... which means clockworking backwards), so Bolas is just going to get a huge power boost here, perhaps to the state of the 3 days he had before (he probably started diminishing before that anyway).
I do not want to entertain the idea he gains enough power to "re-use" clockworking (even if it isn't canon, he could invent it now but from a meta perspective there was a non-canon timeline it happened before, so it's still a re-use of sorts) and shifted himself to an era where he still had oldwalker powers.
"Bolas spoke something to Ugin, barbed words in low tones that Sarkhan couldn't hear over the wind. Ugin spoke back, calm and serious, with a note of warning, and Bolas's smile spread like a stain."- The Reforged Chain.
"Bolas sent you to the Eye?" said Ugin.
"Why?""He wanted…" Sarkhan faltered, sorting through memories twisted by madness. "He wanted it opened, the devourers released. He never told me why."
Ugin's neck frills flared.
"If he engineered the Eldrazi's release, he is far less cautious than I remember him."
"He is obsessed with power," said Sarkhan. "He was once like a god, so he told me—but no longer. He wants that power back."- Unbroken and Unbowed
This is what I base most of my theory on.
Except that Bolas wrecked Ugin's ***** about 2500 years prior to the mending, when both were full on Godlike Oldwalkers. It had NOTHING to do with Amonkhet or Bolas' current plans, with the exception of POSSIBLY the Eldrazi. Everything else you wrote is pure speculation, but the idea that Bolas taking down Ugin was in any way related to this is demonstrably incorrect.
Agreed, the story even described Ugin had an upper hand on his plane with all the dragons helping him. It wasn't until Yasova gained control of the dragons to turn on Ugin, Ugin might've won, but her intervention was of course part of Bola's plan.
Far as the story goes, the two were on par of each other. I doubt Bolas would visit Ugin himself if he's not at least deserving of his "violence".
The reason I believe that the eldrazi are a planner recycling system is that Ulamong left behind the chalky stuff that then Kozilek then changed the chalk to the crystal lattices. Then in the finally story of Eldrich moon Emrakul felt the world was not ready for her it was not ready to receive her gift. I believe these bring together a strong possibility of being planner recycling system.
They are. Ulamog breaks down planes, Kozilek breaks down physical laws and re-shapes them, and Emrakul forms those building blocks left behind into biology. The problem is, every time we've seen the Eldrazi, they've either been Ulamog ending a plane (that presumably needed to be ended) or all 3 lured onto an illegitimate plane they were not intended to invade. As a result, Emrakul appeared at once with the other two titans, out of synch. And as a result of that, she warped already-present biology into monstrosities, rather than warping building blocks of life left behind by the other titans into biology.
I wonder if "all that remained was Naktamun" meant that Amonkhet was a plane the Eldrazi would have devoured, to recycle, had they been free? That the plane was dying away, anyhow. Bolas engineered Eldrazi release after all. To what end I cannot be sure. I can't imagine he cares enough even for the Multiverse to want to restore balance. But it could play a part in why he chose Amonkhet to devastate first?
Can we just have Ms. Luhrs do all the stories from now on? Because damn.
Semi-agreed, out of the 9 stories she has written nearly all of them been great and none I think been too bad received (last weeks story, Yahenni stories, the Teysa story and the SoI Gisa and Geralf).
On the other hand, if she does too many of them, she risks having her quality decrease.
Plus, Chris L'Etoile (where's he been anyways)
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This. A million times this. I never understood why he was given the Tezzeret vs. Liliana story in AER...
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Haven't posted here in a long time but today's story was amazing! I can't wait to see the three gods that Bolas stowed away. I haven't been this excited about the story in a while.
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Haven't posted here in a long time but today's story was amazing! I can't wait to see the three gods that Bolas stowed away. I haven't been this excited about the story in a while.
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Interesting story. What do we know? The plane was already damaged before Bolas arrival. When the three kids went outside the hekma they found a ruin with inscription of a trespasser (don't remember if they say it was a dragon). Now, for what we know that ruin is there from before Bolas arrival. This make me think that there was another trespasser who destroyed the plane. If it was a dragon this would explain why the gods attacked Bolas or maybe they sensed his evil intent. This would also explain the inscription inside Naktamun, while Samut thought was talking of Bolas in reality talk about another dragon.
Now we only now of another dragon planeswalker who look quite similar to Bolas: Ugin. It could be it was another dragon, but maybe it was the colorless guy having a bad day.
Ugin seems to be all about doing things for the greater good of the multiverse, which is why he didn't kill the Eldrazi (or at least try to), why he went out of his way to warn Bolas of the dangers of whatever he was planning to do during their muffled conversation on Tarkir, and why he didn't give a hoot about Zendikar being destroyed by Ulamog and Kozilek. If he actually had colours, he'd probably be Bant to directly contrast with Bolas' Grixis (Ghostfire notwithstanding).
He doesn't seem like the type of person to just go to a random backwater plane and wreck stuff, even when he's upset.
I took that scene as the gods just knew there was something bad about Bolas. I mean they're clearly able to sense things about people if not outright read their minds. They just saw Bolas, knew something was bad about him, maybe even just mistook him for a horror or demon from the wastes and attacked. It seemed to me that the "We won't fail again" stuff was just that the desert and its horrors and monsters had been slowly swallowing the plane and the gods were trying to protect the last bastion of civilization.
Edit: in addition bringing in Ugin and all these extraneous factors like the phyrexians and Eldrazi has absolutely no basis. Okham's Razor folks.
Why wouldn't the gods have known Bolas to be a "monster" and threat from him having been the original trespasser who destroyed the plane on their first encounter, save for Naktamun? After all, the story says the 8 gods were determined not to fail again "now that Naktamun was all that remained." In order to know about Amonkhet, Bolas had to have visited it before. It's not beyond the realm of imagination that he damaged it then, became the trespasser, and returned to face the gods and overtake the plane.
Why wouldn't the gods have known Bolas to be a "monster" and threat from him having been the original trespasser who destroyed the plane on their first encounter, save for Naktamun? After all, the story says the 8 gods were determined not to fail again "now that Naktamun was all that remained." In order to know about Amonkhet, Bolas had to have visited it before. It's not beyond the realm of imagination that he damaged it then, became the trespasser, and returned to face the gods and overtake the plane.
That's how I read it too. Bolas knew too much about the plane to be new there. Of course that doesn't mean he did all the damage, but the story itself made no indication at all that it was anything other than Bolas. (For example by saying "After all that happened, the gods would not fall to this monster as well." or just in another way indicating that the desolation has other causes.)
Why wouldn't the gods have known Bolas to be a "monster" and threat from him having been the original trespasser who destroyed the plane on their first encounter, save for Naktamun? After all, the story says the 8 gods were determined not to fail again "now that Naktamun was all that remained." In order to know about Amonkhet, Bolas had to have visited it before. It's not beyond the realm of imagination that he damaged it then, became the trespasser, and returned to face the gods and overtake the plane.
Well clearly he was there before the place got reduced to just Naktamun, since Liliana noted that the place looked very different from when she paid a visit to get her Razaketh contract.
Why wouldn't the gods have known Bolas to be a "monster" and threat from him having been the original trespasser who destroyed the plane on their first encounter, save for Naktamun? After all, the story says the 8 gods were determined not to fail again "now that Naktamun was all that remained." In order to know about Amonkhet, Bolas had to have visited it before. It's not beyond the realm of imagination that he damaged it then, became the trespasser, and returned to face the gods and overtake the plane.
Well clearly he was there before the place got reduced to just Naktamun, since Liliana noted that the place looked very different from when she paid a visit to get her Razaketh contract.
Lilly's comment was that she didn't get a tour when she came for the demon and much 'could' have changed. It's quite clear that she came after Bolas made it his own, which is why she says it's his and assumes he made it.
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The story suggests Bolas, even at the twilight of his power (he was trying to reclaim his godhood), was able to overpower all eight Gods. How the EFF will the Gatewatch even remotely scratch him? They got no plan, either, oh this is gonna suck.
And Bolas is, as many pointed out, a cruel bastard, for what he did to the Gods and the civilization. He's literally the kind of character who do things because he wants and he can. Compare to Eldrazi's enigmatic, endless, and primal hunger, Bolas is true face of evil, cares for nothing except himself, all the more scary because he has the power to satisfy his desires.
The ending where the demon called out to Liliana was chilling as EFF. He just killed a whole river of life, the only water source that sustained the city, and he did not give a damn about it, while it's expected of a demon, it was still horrifying, I could only imagine how the citizens felt when they fell from high hope to despair.
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That just doesn't make a lot of sense. We dont know that planar recycling was the purpose of the Eldrazi. There is no evidence that he took anything from Ugin or if he would even have been able to. Even if the purpose is the Eldrazi we dont know how they code planes or if Amonkhet would have been their next destination. I could keep listing off the problems but basically every point of your hypothesis has nothing backing it up.
"Bolas sent you to the Eye?" said Ugin.
"Why?""He wanted…" Sarkhan faltered, sorting through memories twisted by madness. "He wanted it opened, the devourers released. He never told me why."
Ugin's neck frills flared.
"If he engineered the Eldrazi's release, he is far less cautious than I remember him."
"He is obsessed with power," said Sarkhan. "He was once like a god, so he told me—but no longer. He wants that power back."- Unbroken and Unbowed
This is what I base most of my theory on.
Except that Bolas wrecked Ugin's ***** about 2500 years prior to the mending, when both were full on Godlike Oldwalkers. It had NOTHING to do with Amonkhet or Bolas' current plans, with the exception of POSSIBLY the Eldrazi. Everything else you wrote is pure speculation, but the idea that Bolas taking down Ugin was in any way related to this is demonstrably incorrect.
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Also your quote their says that Ugin replied. Theres no way he would have been so forthcoming with the info on the Eldrazi. And besides if the Eldrazi devour all the mana and life force of a plane then what is there left for Bolas? You imply that Bolas would be too afraid into intercede directly against the Eldrazi. Besides his plan was clearly to return and do something himself on the plane. Thats why he twisted the whole trial system and created the hours prophecy. If he just needed the Eldrazi to come eat it why go through all that. Not to mention that he set up Amonkhet long before he did anything with the Eldrazi. He was desperate, his power was waning. He wouldn't have interwoven a plan that is seemingly a sure thing with one that banks on a couple of mortals following some bread crumbs and then hoping that one of those mortals could manage to create the second part of the key to the hedron cage. It just doesn't all fit together. I think Amonkhet and the Eldrazi were separate plots.
Perhaps the most interesting tidbit from today's story was that Naktamun was the last patch of civilization even before Bolas overthrew the gods. This of course raises the question of what did cause the devastation? Some possibilities:
-Phyrexian Invasion-Gods purged rest of world to kill infection
-Ob Nix invasion-Gods fought him off, but not before he'd devastated most of the world (this seems unlikely to me as I think Ob would keep on coming back until either he'd won or he was dead)
-Eldrazi invasion-Gods fought them off but not before they'd eaten a good portion of the world (I feel also unlikely, too much life out in the wastes)
-Local menace-Razaketh or some other Amonkhetu bad guy wrecks the world (I feel unlikely because I think the gods wreck anything else on Amonkhet)
-Ripple effects from some of Dominaria's catastrophes-A little uninteresting since the villain is a disaster rather than an antagonist but could be cool.
Oh the possibilities..
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Plus that means the Gatewatch/Emrakul already foiled Bolas's plans when they defeated UlaKozi and I honestly feel that would be the cheapest victory the Gatewatch definitely does not need now (or ever, for that matter).
In the realm of speculation it's not outright impossible, but it's highly unlikely and I would personally consider it bad overall plot-writing.
Anyway, what I think is more feasible, based on Razaketh's actions and Liliana's pact is that Bolas is doing something akin a Blood Pact, except way more massive (okay, less massive than he would have liked, but he only 3 days to set the plan, so he couldn't be picky). If anything it involves a lot of blood sacrifice that isn't his in exchange for power that will be his. I doubt anything in the world could reinstate the oldwalker spark powers (short of chronospatialdimensional powers... which means clockworking backwards), so Bolas is just going to get a huge power boost here, perhaps to the state of the 3 days he had before (he probably started diminishing before that anyway).
I do not want to entertain the idea he gains enough power to "re-use" clockworking (even if it isn't canon, he could invent it now but from a meta perspective there was a non-canon timeline it happened before, so it's still a re-use of sorts) and shifted himself to an era where he still had oldwalker powers.
Agreed, the story even described Ugin had an upper hand on his plane with all the dragons helping him. It wasn't until Yasova gained control of the dragons to turn on Ugin, Ugin might've won, but her intervention was of course part of Bola's plan.
Far as the story goes, the two were on par of each other. I doubt Bolas would visit Ugin himself if he's not at least deserving of his "violence".
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I wonder if "all that remained was Naktamun" meant that Amonkhet was a plane the Eldrazi would have devoured, to recycle, had they been free? That the plane was dying away, anyhow. Bolas engineered Eldrazi release after all. To what end I cannot be sure. I can't imagine he cares enough even for the Multiverse to want to restore balance. But it could play a part in why he chose Amonkhet to devastate first?
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This. A million times this. I never understood why he was given the Tezzeret vs. Liliana story in AER...
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Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
Ugin seems to be all about doing things for the greater good of the multiverse, which is why he didn't kill the Eldrazi (or at least try to), why he went out of his way to warn Bolas of the dangers of whatever he was planning to do during their muffled conversation on Tarkir, and why he didn't give a hoot about Zendikar being destroyed by Ulamog and Kozilek. If he actually had colours, he'd probably be Bant to directly contrast with Bolas' Grixis (Ghostfire notwithstanding).
He doesn't seem like the type of person to just go to a random backwater plane and wreck stuff, even when he's upset.
Edit: in addition bringing in Ugin and all these extraneous factors like the phyrexians and Eldrazi has absolutely no basis. Okham's Razor folks.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
That's how I read it too. Bolas knew too much about the plane to be new there. Of course that doesn't mean he did all the damage, but the story itself made no indication at all that it was anything other than Bolas. (For example by saying "After all that happened, the gods would not fall to this monster as well." or just in another way indicating that the desolation has other causes.)
Well clearly he was there before the place got reduced to just Naktamun, since Liliana noted that the place looked very different from when she paid a visit to get her Razaketh contract.