After reading last weeks story, Emrakul's nature started to make me think of exactly what cosmic force of nature they represent. I believe that the Titains and the Eldrazi in general aren't just destructive forces of nature, but essential forces of nature. Instead of just munching on planes I think they are meant to take dying planes and use what's left of them to create new planes similar to how new stars are formed from the collapse of old stars. We have mostly been seeing them as a mix between Galactus and Lovecraftian beings, but I am beginning to think they are more akin to the three golden goddesses in Zelda mythos.
Ulamog and his brood seem to me to be the only Eldrazi that actually consumes anything, or at the very least consumes more than his brother or sister. In my comparison he is most akin to Din. He is meant to burn or consume the dead mana like how a forest requires burning for new growth.
Kozilek, I am still trying to figure out. He may in a way control order by shaping it, but in planes that have a natural order it may be more akin to chaos and distorting it.
Emrakul is meant to reintroduce life to the new plane. She seems to be the least consuming of the three as all she did on Innistrad was transform and evolve the creatures there and induce madness. She describes that her coming should have been like blooming, and that her arrival on Innistrad was wrong. Blooming seems far more benign than what actually happened on Innistrad.
I think that there is supposed to be something or someone that keeps the three in check and somehow that fail safe is gone. Without the guide they have been hopping from plane to plane instinctually fulfilling their function before they were trapped on Zendikar. I don't know it may just be my imagination, but that's why I posted it in baseless .
It actually makes a lot of sense. As we've been tipped off to before, the titans aren't actively malevolent, just kind of accidentally kill and consume while carrying out their instinctual functions
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It seems that the titans are supposed to destroy and recreate dead planes, but what part each one has in the process is unknown. Emrakul seemed pretty omnipotent in the last SOI story, so I wouldn't be surprised to see her reform a plane alone, but that would invalidate the other two titans. Perhaps different types of planes need to be reformed by different titans, so each titan is still relevant, which would be the consequences Ugin was talking about: some dying planes can still be taken care of Emrakul, but those that would have been Ulamog's or Kozilek's can't be reformed.
Yup, this is kind of the likes of thinking I've been thinking since Ugin talked about consequences. Emrakul saying something about the plane not being ready yet kinda leads me in the same direction - Innistrad doesn't need recycling just yet.
Honestly that whole story with Emrakul trapping herself made me see the Eldrazi from an entirely new angle. Very well written.
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I agree. I think the reason we've seen the Eldrazi in a destructive light is because they were either ending a plane meant to be ended, or trapped and drained of energy on a plane they've been lured to, but didn't belong on. Emrakul made this rather apparent with her actions. And Ulamog's desire to leave Zendikar as well. It's likely Ulamog consumed Zendikar because it had been drained of energy during their history of being sealed away. The Eldrazi meant to break away in order to leave Zendikar and continue their work, rather than devastate the plane I suppose.
I think the only reason Emrakul mutates living matter is because it isn't meant to be around already-formed biology. It's meant to create biology from the building blocks Ulamog and Kozilek broke up and left for her. Ulamog provides the "chemicals"/mana, Kozilek creates the plane's physical laws, like Nyx on Theros, and Emrakul warps these simplified materials into appropriate life. On some planes this means Kithkin and Faeries instead of humans. On others it's different races of humans, like Asians on Kamigawa (the Multiverse has planes, not Earth geography and genetics to account for different appearances, for example). Who knows, but it seems plausible.
What's interesting is that Tazri, in her delusions inspired by Kozilek, sort of confirms that he too felt incomplete. "But Kozilek was a poor creator, nothing like his eldest sibling." Tazri was essentially experiencing, I suspect, Kozilek's own realization that his function was limited without Emrakul. And that's why she felt she couldn't "re-create Zendikar." Still, she was fascinated with "weather" for a time, for example, a physical plane property well within the realm of Kozilek's function.
Perhaps Bolas knew this and meant to return a necessary function to the multiverse. Not without his own benefit of course.
Ulamog and his brood seem to me to be the only Eldrazi that actually consumes anything, or at the very least consumes more than his brother or sister. In my comparison he is most akin to Din. He is meant to burn or consume the dead mana like how a forest requires burning for new growth.
Kozilek, I am still trying to figure out. He may in a way control order by shaping it, but in planes that have a natural order it may be more akin to chaos and distorting it.
Emrakul is meant to reintroduce life to the new plane. She seems to be the least consuming of the three as all she did on Innistrad was transform and evolve the creatures there and induce madness. She describes that her coming should have been like blooming, and that her arrival on Innistrad was wrong. Blooming seems far more benign than what actually happened on Innistrad.
I think that there is supposed to be something or someone that keeps the three in check and somehow that fail safe is gone. Without the guide they have been hopping from plane to plane instinctually fulfilling their function before they were trapped on Zendikar. I don't know it may just be my imagination, but that's why I posted it in baseless .
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Honestly that whole story with Emrakul trapping herself made me see the Eldrazi from an entirely new angle. Very well written.
I think the only reason Emrakul mutates living matter is because it isn't meant to be around already-formed biology. It's meant to create biology from the building blocks Ulamog and Kozilek broke up and left for her. Ulamog provides the "chemicals"/mana, Kozilek creates the plane's physical laws, like Nyx on Theros, and Emrakul warps these simplified materials into appropriate life. On some planes this means Kithkin and Faeries instead of humans. On others it's different races of humans, like Asians on Kamigawa (the Multiverse has planes, not Earth geography and genetics to account for different appearances, for example). Who knows, but it seems plausible.
What's interesting is that Tazri, in her delusions inspired by Kozilek, sort of confirms that he too felt incomplete. "But Kozilek was a poor creator, nothing like his eldest sibling." Tazri was essentially experiencing, I suspect, Kozilek's own realization that his function was limited without Emrakul. And that's why she felt she couldn't "re-create Zendikar." Still, she was fascinated with "weather" for a time, for example, a physical plane property well within the realm of Kozilek's function.
Perhaps Bolas knew this and meant to return a necessary function to the multiverse. Not without his own benefit of course.
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Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||