I would LOVE for an Eldrazi Planeswalker, like someone who gets turned into a drone or such Ascending, who actively seeks out new planes for them to devour. Kind of like a Herald of Galactus thing.
This is possibly the closest we'll ever get to an "eldrazi planeswalker". The problem is that the eldrazi don't really recruit, everyone is just part of the meal. So the planeswalker would be more like a mad prophet heralding the eldrazi, rather than their ambassador.
I would LOVE for an Eldrazi Planeswalker, like someone who gets turned into a drone or such Ascending, who actively seeks out new planes for them to devour. Kind of like a Herald of Galactus thing.
This is possibly the closest we'll ever get to an "eldrazi planeswalker". The problem is that the eldrazi don't really recruit, everyone is just part of the meal. So the planeswalker would be more like a mad prophet heralding the eldrazi, rather than their ambassador.
Maybe. We don't really know THAT much about the inner workings of the Eldrazi.
This is going to sound crazy, but hear me out. What if the eldrazi titans are actually the transcended form of some old planeswalkers even more ancient than Ugin and his pals. These planeswalkers became so powerful that they no longer belong to any plane. They're now omnipresent beings of the blind eterneties. Maybe they consume these planes kind of as a way to make room for new ones. Or maybe for reasons no one knows yet. It's kind of like Ugin. It's hard to fully understand his motives for things. It's the same for all the ancient planeswalkers.
Eldrazi are mindless, soulless plane-devouring machines. They work on instinct and nothing else so far as anyone can tell. The only one shown to possess any capability of thought process is Emrakul and her strange ability to corrupt and twist living beings into her service without actually transforming them into eldrazi. In fact, it is my theory that the Eldrazi titans are one being, with Emrakul being the brain, Ulamog being the digestive system, and Kozilek being the nervous system. The only reason they are split in three is that there is not enough physical space to hold the true Eldrazi titan's physical form.
But that's just my theory.
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As I understand it, the three titans are the only "real" Eldrazi; the rest are just extensions of one of the titans. An easier way to look at it is that each titan is the brain, and the titans' respective brood lineages are their bodies.
Here's the thing: normally, the titans themselves don't manifest on the planes they eat. The only reason they manifested on Zendikar is because of Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri's meddling. It's kinda like how, when you're eating a bag of chips, you just stick your hand inside. So there's no actual planeswalking or planeshifting going on. The Eldrazi exist in the blind eternities, and they stick their fingers in nearby planes to scoop out the tasty planar goodness.
This has gotten me thinking. My hypothesis is that the Multiverse is like a cosmos comprised of pure mana, and the constant swirling of mana keeps it in motion. If things become stagnant, then the Multiverse becomes indistinguishable from nothingness, and ceases to exist. When enough of this mana gathers in one place, it coalesces into a physical form with its own scientific laws (i.e. a plane), in the same way that dust and gravity eventually form a star. The problem is, if too much of the mana is spent forming planes, then the Multiverse might come to a halt, cease to function, or fall apart entirely. With no more mana to hold the Multiverse together, there is nowhere for the planes to exist. This is where the Eldrazi come in. At some point, these entities came into existence with the sole purpose of destroying (or, more accurately, unmaking) planes and releasing their mana back into the Blind Eternities. This mana, in turn, would later go on to form newer planes, and so the cycle of the Multiverse continues.
This leaves a lot of questions, though. How would the Eldrazi be defined under this paradigm? As manifestations of the Blind Eternities themselves? How did they gain sentience? Why are there three separate Eldrazi, as opposed to a single, omnipresent entity?
As I understand it, the three titans are the only "real" Eldrazi; the rest are just extensions of one of the titans. An easier way to look at it is that each titan is the brain, and the titans' respective brood lineages are their bodies.
Here's the thing: normally, the titans themselves don't manifest on the planes they eat. The only reason they manifested on Zendikar is because of Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri's meddling. It's kinda like how, when you're eating a bag of chips, you just stick your hand inside. So there's no actual planeswalking or planeshifting going on. The Eldrazi exist in the blind eternities, and they stick their fingers in nearby planes to scoop out the tasty planar goodness.
This has gotten me thinking. My hypothesis is that the Multiverse is like a cosmos comprised of pure mana, and the constant swirling of mana keeps it in motion. If things become stagnant, then the Multiverse becomes indistinguishable from nothingness, and ceases to exist. When enough of this mana gathers in one place, it coalesces into a physical form with its own scientific laws (i.e. a plane), in the same way that dust and gravity eventually form a star. The problem is, if too much of the mana is spent forming planes, then the Multiverse might come to a halt, cease to function, or fall apart entirely. With no more mana to hold the Multiverse together, there is nowhere for the planes to exist. This is where the Eldrazi come in. At some point, these entities came into existence with the sole purpose of destroying (or, more accurately, unmaking) planes and releasing their mana back into the Blind Eternities. This mana, in turn, would later go on to form newer planes, and so the cycle of the Multiverse continues.
This leaves a lot of questions, though. How would the Eldrazi be defined under this paradigm? As manifestations of the Blind Eternities themselves? How did they gain sentience? Why are there three separate Eldrazi, as opposed to a single, omnipresent entity?
Well stated, and I'm sure Ugin agrees. There has been some argument since Nissa supposedly pulled two Titans into Zendikar for Chandra to burn, but personally I think the attempted drowning didn't realize the victim was bigger than the water fountain... If you get my drift. Still a great hypothesis, and they have been compared to Galactus before, but great summary of the idea.
what about a story about a planeswalker imprisoned in the blind eternities by an eldrazi, maybe even possessed as they travelled between planes
that somehow escaped and became whatever
According to wiki, the blind eternities are actually more or less a place. They are described as " the space between planes in the Multiverse which is filled with chaotic energies, mainly the Æther but also mana and temporal energy", so the idea of getting trapped there seems to be valid. Although not even planeswalkers can survive that for an extended period of time ("time" being used loosely, due to their chaotic nature).
Another interesting bit is this:
"The Eldrazi are creatures native to the Blind Eternities. It is not known if they were born there, or later adapted to survive its rough energies."
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This is possibly the closest we'll ever get to an "eldrazi planeswalker". The problem is that the eldrazi don't really recruit, everyone is just part of the meal. So the planeswalker would be more like a mad prophet heralding the eldrazi, rather than their ambassador.
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But that's just my theory.
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Well stated, and I'm sure Ugin agrees. There has been some argument since Nissa supposedly pulled two Titans into Zendikar for Chandra to burn, but personally I think the attempted drowning didn't realize the victim was bigger than the water fountain... If you get my drift. Still a great hypothesis, and they have been compared to Galactus before, but great summary of the idea.
that somehow escaped and became whatever
Another interesting bit is this:
"The Eldrazi are creatures native to the Blind Eternities. It is not known if they were born there, or later adapted to survive its rough energies."