So technically Wizards has only said that the current emperor of Kamigawa is a "familiar face", which means that both the Wanderer and Azusa could be candidates.
We still need to consider the Wanderer and the emperor not being one and the same, but we also need to explain the War of the Spark-era fiction also saying that the Wanderer wears a "golden mask" at least some of the time, has a history with Tezzeret, wields a sword with cool, possibly high-tech properties, is "one of the most efficient and...deadly warriors...on any plane" (source is the Tolarian Community College preview video), and is a fairly good tracker.
We also have confirmation that the emperor was attacked at least one year ago by a "man with a metal arm" and was witnessed disappearing, and that Himoto, the Kami of the Spark, was born at around the time and scene of the attack. Himoto is strongly speculated in-universe to be a symbol of the bond between the emperor and Kyodai.
With that evidence, I find it easier to believe that the Wanderer is the emperor and is also not Azusa - the emperor likely got attacked by Tezzeret, seems to have planeswalked off Kamigawa, probably has better access to high-tech, high-quality weaponry than the average person, also probably has better access to weapons training and desire to train with weapons than a peaceful monk wanderer depicted as weaponless like Azusa, and would have better reason to develop tracking abilities than a Jukai monk would. ...I guess we can assume, from the Wanderer's recent golden, possibly teched-out garb, that the Wanderer just likes her masks golden.
...I guess it's somewhat believable that the Wanderer could be an older planeswalker Azusa made more cynical and very good at defending herself, who also got attacked by Tezzeret and figured tracking was her new hobby.
What I believe the least is that Azusa is the emperor, regardless of whether the emperor is the Wanderer.
Given the recent reminder of unreliable narration and incomplete sourcing being common enough in regards to Kamigawa (e.g. the Toshiro Umezawa Saga story saying that Toshiro keeps being referred to as "noble" and "self-sacrificing" when he is not and the narrator will freely admit that, the older Kentaro, the Smiling Cat story implying that Kentaro's rehabilitation of samurai fired by their superiors for no good reason is not known to the general Kamigawa populace, with that populace only hearing about Kentaro's habit of killing such samurai and other ronin and ochimusha), I'm wondering how long Jin-Gitaxias has been reality hacking at Kamigawa, whether the Saga stories are being told during the present day and whether those stories would have been the same before the emperor got attacked, and whether Jin-Gitaxias's actions are scrambling up the Kamigawans' memories of the past to grossly inaccurate degrees.
So technically Wizards has only said that the current emperor of Kamigawa is a "familiar face", which means that both the Wanderer and Azusa could be candidates.
We still need to consider the Wanderer and the emperor not being one and the same, but we also need to explain the War of the Spark-era fiction also saying that the Wanderer wears a "golden mask" at least some of the time, has a history with Tezzeret, wields a sword with cool, possibly high-tech properties, is "one of the most efficient and...deadly warriors...on any plane" (source is the Tolarian Community College preview video), and is a fairly good tracker.
We also have confirmation that the emperor was attacked at least one year ago by a "man with a metal arm" and was witnessed disappearing, and that Himoto, the Kami of the Spark, was born at around the time and scene of the attack. Himoto is strongly speculated in-universe to be a symbol of the bond between the emperor and Kyodai.
With that evidence, I find it easier to believe that the Wanderer is the emperor and is also not Azusa - the emperor likely got attacked by Tezzeret, seems to have planeswalked off Kamigawa, probably has better access to high-tech, high-quality weaponry than the average person, also probably has better access to weapons training and desire to train with weapons than a peaceful monk wanderer depicted as weaponless like Azusa, and would have better reason to develop tracking abilities than a Jukai monk would. ...I guess we can assume, from the Wanderer's recent golden, possibly teched-out garb, that the Wanderer just likes her masks golden.
...I guess it's somewhat believable that the Wanderer could be an older planeswalker Azusa made more cynical and very good at defending herself, who also got attacked by Tezzeret and figured tracking was her new hobby.
What I believe the least is that Azusa is the emperor, regardless of whether the emperor is the Wanderer.
Given the recent reminder of unreliable narration and incomplete sourcing being common enough in regards to Kamigawa (e.g. the Toshiro Umezawa Saga story saying that Toshiro keeps being referred to as "noble" and "self-sacrificing" when he is not and the narrator will freely admit that, the older Kentaro, the Smiling Cat story implying that Kentaro's rehabilitation of samurai fired by their superiors for no good reason is not known to the general Kamigawa populace, with that populace only hearing about Kentaro's habit of killing such samurai and other ronin and ochimusha), I'm wondering how long Jin-Gitaxias has been reality hacking at Kamigawa, whether the Saga stories are being told during the present day and whether those stories would have been the same before the emperor got attacked, and whether Jin-Gitaxias's actions are scrambling up the Kamigawans' memories of the past to grossly inaccurate degrees.
You don't need an outside force "scrambling up the Kamigawans' memories of the past", history is often "changed" depending on the the source. We saw this in Dominaria with The Mending of Dominaria which iirc was made by the Llanowar which is why Freyalise is on top, they have beefy with both Jeska/phage/karona which is why Jeska isn't shown and Teferi is shown on the bottom a "minor" hero who is supporting the rest since he's a controvial figure to many for phasing out Zhalfir.
Now we know this isn't now it happened but thats how history will often go and adding these stuff add deeper layers of world building.
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Of course it is a reference to Michiko and Kyodai, FFS. One has aspects of snake (Kyodai), the other is regal (Michiko). It calls back to the end of Guardian, where they were described (post-ascension) in the very same way. Who else would it be?
I think you're right that it's WotC retconning, but given the ambiguity in the novel it could easily be what 5colors suggested above and that the Sister of Flesh role isn't static, but passed down with the role of emperor. So it would still be the Sisters of Flesh and Stone, just not Michiko. It may not be a hard retcon, because there is nothing from past lore being explicitly contradicted or changed, but I'd still consider it to be a bit of a retcon because I highly doubt that's what was intended when the novel was written.
Yeah, the novel pretty much hints that they merged and became something new, namely the new embodiment of the barrier. Michiko ascennded to spirit form clearly, they fought O-Kagachi together and Michiko performed feats that she did not have as a mortal.
Yeah, it would be more of the lines "...whoops, we did not mention that Michiko actually had not become an immortal spirit, or more precisely, we did not explicitly say she did, oh, how sorry we are about you for thinking that...."
Still it sucks.
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Turns out Jugan got resurrected by the orochi ritual she co-op'd with ryusei to stop the omi
then she put the 3 other dragons fragments including herself and ryusei in a egg to play the role of a time capsule and hatch 50 years in the future
I guess since she’s the smartest one now it’s a absolute disgrace she was the worst one of the OG cycle.
though be prepared Jugan incarnation has rainbow scales so she’s probably gonna get a 5C legend loophole
Read that story. Then read the OG Kamigawa block's previous stories mentioning Jugan ("The Dragon Shield", "The Last Visitor").
Those stories consistently mention that Jugan is male.
Only a few, often mutually contradictory conclusions I can make as to why this is the case:
The ritual to resurrect Jugan changed Jugan's gender (this is inconsistent with "The Dragon-Kami Reborn"'s "While she had lain dead")
Jugan can change his/her gender as s/he sees fit
The narrator of "The Dragon-Kami Reborn" did not do their gender pronoun research well enough
The narrators of the OG Kamigawa block stories did not do their gender pronoun research well enough
Given the (at least seeming) retcon of the Sisters of Flesh and Spirit, I'm the most willing to believe my third conclusion. The narrator(s) of these Sagas is/are looking more and more unreliable by the minute....
Turns out Jugan got resurrected by the orochi ritual she co-op'd with ryusei to stop the omi
then she put the 3 other dragons fragments including herself and ryusei in a egg to play the role of a time capsule and hatch 50 years in the future
I guess since she’s the smartest one now it’s a absolute disgrace she was the worst one of the OG cycle.
though be prepared Jugan incarnation has rainbow scales so she’s probably gonna get a 5C legend loophole
Read that story. Then read the OG Kamigawa block's previous stories mentioning Jugan ("The Dragon Shield", "The Last Visitor").
Those stories consistently mention that Jugan is male.
Only a few, often mutually contradictory conclusions I can make as to why this is the case:
The ritual to resurrect Jugan changed Jugan's gender (this is inconsistent with "The Dragon-Kami Reborn"'s "While she had lain dead")
Jugan can change his/her gender as s/he sees fit
The narrator of "The Dragon-Kami Reborn" did not do their gender pronoun research well enough
The narrators of the OG Kamigawa block stories did not do their gender pronoun research well enough
Given the (at least seeming) retcon of the Sisters of Flesh and Spirit, I'm the most willing to believe my third conclusion. The narrator(s) of these Sagas is/are looking more and more unreliable by the minute....
there’s another mistake
why Is the jugan reincarnation rainbow scaled when…
fully green over here. That pink/purple on the side is just from the lighting of the building.
On another note, the "The Dragon-Kami Reborn" story also mentions something tantalizing called the "Shattered States Era", which definitely (if we can trust the narrator) takes place after the OG Kamigawa block and its Kami War.
What happened during that era besides the Night of Withering and the oni attacks the story also mentions? Did a dynasty change take place? Did Kamigawa split into multiple countries with multiple sovereigns? ...How does/did Kamigawa determine its emperors, anyway?
Kamigawa needing to re-appoint a new emperor every once in a while seems plausible (at least to me and my passing familiarity with Chinese dynasties and their Mandate of Heaven)...has the Line of Konda ever been broken? Other than Michiko posthumously (or "posthumously"), was there ever a Line of Konda to begin with? Is there a chance that Kamigawa appointed a Sister of Flesh and Spirit as emperor centuries after Michiko was declared dead?
This painted silkscreen depicts the birthing of the new generation of dragon-kami. In the art, Jugan takes on the most prominent role, highlighting her role in nurturing the dragons and bringing about their rebirth.
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This painted silkscreen depicts the birthing of the new generation of dragon-kami. In the art, Jugan takes on the most prominent role, highlighting her role in nurturing the dragons and bringing about their rebirth.
Man, when I read "The Dragon-Kami Reborn", I thought those two sentences meant that Jugan was the tree and cracked egg in the picture, not one of the dragons. The reincarnated dragons should not be referred to by the same names as the previous dragons/versions - it's like calling Atsushi "Ryusei".
They have, considering all the minutiae nor mentioned in the recaps. Its just that they're taking advantage of "actuallys", which depending on who you ask might be infuriating on its own right.
They completely changed everything about michiko and kyodai…
Konda's are banned to be emperor's so the absent emperor is not a konda
with that out of the way now where we’re we with that theory azusa is the wanderer.
Small nitpick, they are not banned, it's just that their bloodline doesn't inherit the throne anymore. Instead it seems to be a kami-based elected monarchy now, where everyone with the proper character traits might become emperor (including a Konda).
I wonder about Michiko and Kyodai. The one thing that bothers me still is their implicit appearance in Future Sight (I think it was there). There was no direct indication that their Sisters form was permanent or that Michiko wasn't still mortal (though obviously empowered). Maybe an overlook? If they only read the Kamigawa stories they could easily get to the story as told without retconning much, but that darn appearance in front of Bolas...
Small nitpick, they are not banned, it's just that their bloodline doesn't inherit the throne anymore. Instead it seems to be a kami-based elected monarchy now, where everyone with the proper character traits might become emperor (including a Konda).
I wonder about Michiko and Kyodai. The one thing that bothers me still is their implicit appearance in Future Sight (I think it was there). There was no direct indication that their Sisters form was permanent or that Michiko wasn't still mortal (though obviously empowered). Maybe an overlook? If they only read the Kamigawa stories they could easily get to the story as told without retconning much, but that darn appearance in front of Bolas...
I've noted in the Rumor Mill that the kami-elected monarchy seems similar enough to American political families (e.g. Bush, Kennedy) and Undertale's constant re-election of the monarch, so a Konda could still be emperor and Michiko as a Sister of Flesh and Spirit (assuming the narrators of these latest stories are unreliable) or Azusa-as-planeswalker still could be the latest appointed emperor because the Kami got sick of the other choices. (I'm personally still convinced that Azusa is most likely not a planeswalker and either actually did see the realm of the Kami or saw a planeswalker cut open a tear to another plane, and I'm even less convinced Azusa wants to be emperor and/or is willing to put on the trappings that come with protecting the plane of Kamigawa as emperor.)
I am having serious doubts about the authors of those short sagas having done their homework properly...
I wonder how many inconsistencies would they serve us in the rest of the stories.
Remember how Bolas got his spark? I think MtG is not above retcon, OR, maybe the narrator simply pick out the bits of history they favor, which would actually be an interesting way to present sagas as they're not entirely trustworthy. (would be fun to see Truthseeker's spirit show up and call everything people learned a bull-crap)
Though, I'm not sure if Kyodai (or the narrator) has any idea how politic works. It takes a lot more than just "noble qualities and commitment to the nation" to run political games, you need connections, finance, cunning, military, ruthlessness and more to be an effective leader, which an "ordinary citizen" often lacks. Besides, if the Kami chooses the leader for mortals, wouldn't that potentially reignite anti-kami sentiment? Wouldn't the nobles object and undermine new Emperor's rule? Or will the kami head out to assassinate all nay-sayers when the Pope-like emperor fail to quell an ordinary affair?
I mean, if the Kami really knew how human psyche works, they would've considered a more enlightening way to approach the matter prior to starting the Kami War.
Seriously, this "ordinary citizen chosen by god to rule" reeks of Isekai vibe.
Well, after the last story (Shattered States) I simply accept that they are retconning things left and right.
you know potentially the answer is within the leaks why they are severely retconning the story’s
So they can get tezzert and Jin gitaxias in the story and maybe the wanderer
Alternatively it is pretty much an oversight or intentional because these are in-universe history lessons that might or might not be accurate. We just don't know yet. I will look into my Saviors of Kamigawa book again to see whether Michiko was explicitely described as immortal and permanently bonded to Kyodai. If not, then all of these stories are perfectly fine without retcon, and only the appearance of the sisters before Bolas is problematic (though not unexplainable). I think they really did read every single Kamigawa story as they said, but might have forgotten about Kamigawa's small cameo roles in other stories.
Jin gitaxias might be here to study those for a technique to enter their own planar bridge safely. Just like Vorinclex May have studied how the 10 realms of kaldheim are connect since each is a individual plane.
and himoto is what Jin might be after for that spark granted inside it.
Notably, the Era of Enlightenment story is the first Saga one to mention the Imperials.
Kaito's sister is mentioned as a member of the Imperials in the first Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty story, lightly implying that Kaito used to be one (or possibly still is, which would explain why Satoru Umezawa still won't fully trust him).
It's left ambiguous whether the term "Imperials" applies only to the actual emperors or also their entire administration and collection of government workers. (I thought the latter when reading that first Kaito story, but this Saga story implies the former.) If the latter is true, then the term "Imperials" existing in the first place at least lightly implies that the administration is not completely gutted between emperors. Also, if the latter is true, it would be interesting if every single emperor was an Imperial first...
I recall someone else on this forum comparing the mortal and Kami worlds merging together to the (Phyrexia-instigated) Rathi overlay. Might Jin-Gitaxias be to blame for the mortal and Kami worlds merging together--or at least any acceleration in that process? If that "Jin-Gitaxias, Reality Hacker" rumour of a leak is true...
Interestingly, with the change in the emperor system to incorporate a "mandate of heaven," Japan-inspired Kamigawa became a lot more China-like. Meanwhile, in real-world Japan the hereditary status of the emperor continues to be a big thing...
I assume the "Imperials" are the bureaucrats/government workers. This mirrors the bureaucrat/warrior divide in real-world Japan where the warriors eventually won and created the shogunates, which doesn't seem to have happened in Kamigawa.
Btw, I find it funny how every saga Mini-Story starts with "the artisans of Kamigawa chose to depict this story on this kind of medium." It's like there's a board of art directors, and every part of Kamigawas history only gets to be depicted in art exactly once, haha
I'm wondering whether Kyodai's announcement of the kami electing the new emperor every single time actually led to the kami honestly re-electing a new emperor every time the old, mortal emperor dies or whether that was just a cover-up and an excuse for re-electing forms of the same immortal emperor over and over...or just electing one immortal emperor and watching as the mortals never get another emperor after the one who ended the Shattered States era and founded the Imperials ever again.
(I'm doubtful how much Michiko, as a Sister of Flesh and Spirit, would like changing her looks and name between emperor votes for her, though.)
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We still need to consider the Wanderer and the emperor not being one and the same, but we also need to explain the War of the Spark-era fiction also saying that the Wanderer wears a "golden mask" at least some of the time, has a history with Tezzeret, wields a sword with cool, possibly high-tech properties, is "one of the most efficient and...deadly warriors...on any plane" (source is the Tolarian Community College preview video), and is a fairly good tracker.
We also have confirmation that the emperor was attacked at least one year ago by a "man with a metal arm" and was witnessed disappearing, and that Himoto, the Kami of the Spark, was born at around the time and scene of the attack. Himoto is strongly speculated in-universe to be a symbol of the bond between the emperor and Kyodai.
With that evidence, I find it easier to believe that the Wanderer is the emperor and is also not Azusa - the emperor likely got attacked by Tezzeret, seems to have planeswalked off Kamigawa, probably has better access to high-tech, high-quality weaponry than the average person, also probably has better access to weapons training and desire to train with weapons than a peaceful monk wanderer depicted as weaponless like Azusa, and would have better reason to develop tracking abilities than a Jukai monk would. ...I guess we can assume, from the Wanderer's recent golden, possibly teched-out garb, that the Wanderer just likes her masks golden.
...I guess it's somewhat believable that the Wanderer could be an older planeswalker Azusa made more cynical and very good at defending herself, who also got attacked by Tezzeret and figured tracking was her new hobby.
What I believe the least is that Azusa is the emperor, regardless of whether the emperor is the Wanderer.
Given the recent reminder of unreliable narration and incomplete sourcing being common enough in regards to Kamigawa (e.g. the Toshiro Umezawa Saga story saying that Toshiro keeps being referred to as "noble" and "self-sacrificing" when he is not and the narrator will freely admit that, the older Kentaro, the Smiling Cat story implying that Kentaro's rehabilitation of samurai fired by their superiors for no good reason is not known to the general Kamigawa populace, with that populace only hearing about Kentaro's habit of killing such samurai and other ronin and ochimusha), I'm wondering how long Jin-Gitaxias has been reality hacking at Kamigawa, whether the Saga stories are being told during the present day and whether those stories would have been the same before the emperor got attacked, and whether Jin-Gitaxias's actions are scrambling up the Kamigawans' memories of the past to grossly inaccurate degrees.
You don't need an outside force "scrambling up the Kamigawans' memories of the past", history is often "changed" depending on the the source. We saw this in Dominaria with The Mending of Dominaria which iirc was made by the Llanowar which is why Freyalise is on top, they have beefy with both Jeska/phage/karona which is why Jeska isn't shown and Teferi is shown on the bottom a "minor" hero who is supporting the rest since he's a controvial figure to many for phasing out Zhalfir.
Now we know this isn't now it happened but thats how history will often go and adding these stuff add deeper layers of world building.
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Yeah, the novel pretty much hints that they merged and became something new, namely the new embodiment of the barrier. Michiko ascennded to spirit form clearly, they fought O-Kagachi together and Michiko performed feats that she did not have as a mortal.
Yeah, it would be more of the lines "...whoops, we did not mention that Michiko actually had not become an immortal spirit, or more precisely, we did not explicitly say she did, oh, how sorry we are about you for thinking that...."
Still it sucks.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/dragon-kami-reborn-2022-01-17
Turns out Jugan got resurrected by the orochi ritual she co-op'd with ryusei to stop the omi
then she put the 3 other dragons fragments including herself and ryusei in a egg to play the role of a time capsule and hatch 50 years in the future
I guess since she’s the smartest one now it’s a absolute disgrace she was the worst one of the OG cycle.
though be prepared Jugan incarnation has rainbow scales so she’s probably gonna get a 5C legend loophole
Read that story. Then read the OG Kamigawa block's previous stories mentioning Jugan ("The Dragon Shield", "The Last Visitor").
Those stories consistently mention that Jugan is male.
Only a few, often mutually contradictory conclusions I can make as to why this is the case:
Given the (at least seeming) retcon of the Sisters of Flesh and Spirit, I'm the most willing to believe my third conclusion. The narrator(s) of these Sagas is/are looking more and more unreliable by the minute....
there’s another mistake
why Is the jugan reincarnation rainbow scaled when…
fully green over here. That pink/purple on the side is just from the lighting of the building.
What happened during that era besides the Night of Withering and the oni attacks the story also mentions? Did a dynasty change take place? Did Kamigawa split into multiple countries with multiple sovereigns? ...How does/did Kamigawa determine its emperors, anyway?
Kamigawa needing to re-appoint a new emperor every once in a while seems plausible (at least to me and my passing familiarity with Chinese dynasties and their Mandate of Heaven)...has the Line of Konda ever been broken? Other than Michiko posthumously (or "posthumously"), was there ever a Line of Konda to begin with? Is there a chance that Kamigawa appointed a Sister of Flesh and Spirit as emperor centuries after Michiko was declared dead?
https://twitter.com/imdanielholt/status/1483139446534914050?s=20
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/dragon-kami-reborn-2022-01-17
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Man, when I read "The Dragon-Kami Reborn", I thought those two sentences meant that Jugan was the tree and cracked egg in the picture, not one of the dragons. The reincarnated dragons should not be referred to by the same names as the previous dragons/versions - it's like calling Atsushi "Ryusei".
I wonder how many inconsistencies would they serve us in the rest of the stories.
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I personally don't care.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/shattered-states-era-2022-01-18
They completely changed everything about michiko and kyodai…
Konda's are banned to be emperor's so the absent emperor is not a konda
with that out of the way now where we’re we with that theory azusa is the wanderer.
Small nitpick, they are not banned, it's just that their bloodline doesn't inherit the throne anymore. Instead it seems to be a kami-based elected monarchy now, where everyone with the proper character traits might become emperor (including a Konda).
I wonder about Michiko and Kyodai. The one thing that bothers me still is their implicit appearance in Future Sight (I think it was there). There was no direct indication that their Sisters form was permanent or that Michiko wasn't still mortal (though obviously empowered). Maybe an overlook? If they only read the Kamigawa stories they could easily get to the story as told without retconning much, but that darn appearance in front of Bolas...
I'm siding with this user on the topic:
I've noted in the Rumor Mill that the kami-elected monarchy seems similar enough to American political families (e.g. Bush, Kennedy) and Undertale's constant re-election of the monarch, so a Konda could still be emperor and Michiko as a Sister of Flesh and Spirit (assuming the narrators of these latest stories are unreliable) or Azusa-as-planeswalker still could be the latest appointed emperor because the Kami got sick of the other choices. (I'm personally still convinced that Azusa is most likely not a planeswalker and either actually did see the realm of the Kami or saw a planeswalker cut open a tear to another plane, and I'm even less convinced Azusa wants to be emperor and/or is willing to put on the trappings that come with protecting the plane of Kamigawa as emperor.)
Remember how Bolas got his spark? I think MtG is not above retcon, OR, maybe the narrator simply pick out the bits of history they favor, which would actually be an interesting way to present sagas as they're not entirely trustworthy. (would be fun to see Truthseeker's spirit show up and call everything people learned a bull-crap)
Though, I'm not sure if Kyodai (or the narrator) has any idea how politic works. It takes a lot more than just "noble qualities and commitment to the nation" to run political games, you need connections, finance, cunning, military, ruthlessness and more to be an effective leader, which an "ordinary citizen" often lacks. Besides, if the Kami chooses the leader for mortals, wouldn't that potentially reignite anti-kami sentiment? Wouldn't the nobles object and undermine new Emperor's rule? Or will the kami head out to assassinate all nay-sayers when the Pope-like emperor fail to quell an ordinary affair?
I mean, if the Kami really knew how human psyche works, they would've considered a more enlightening way to approach the matter prior to starting the Kami War.
Seriously, this "ordinary citizen chosen by god to rule" reeks of Isekai vibe.
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you know potentially the answer is within the leaks why they are severely retconning the story’s
So they can get tezzert and Jin gitaxias in the story and maybe the wanderer
Alternatively it is pretty much an oversight or intentional because these are in-universe history lessons that might or might not be accurate. We just don't know yet. I will look into my Saviors of Kamigawa book again to see whether Michiko was explicitely described as immortal and permanently bonded to Kyodai. If not, then all of these stories are perfectly fine without retcon, and only the appearance of the sisters before Bolas is problematic (though not unexplainable). I think they really did read every single Kamigawa story as they said, but might have forgotten about Kamigawa's small cameo roles in other stories.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/era-enlightenment-2022-01-19
By the description of the “merge gates”
Jin gitaxias might be here to study those for a technique to enter their own planar bridge safely. Just like Vorinclex May have studied how the 10 realms of kaldheim are connect since each is a individual plane.
and himoto is what Jin might be after for that spark granted inside it.
Kaito's sister is mentioned as a member of the Imperials in the first Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty story, lightly implying that Kaito used to be one (or possibly still is, which would explain why Satoru Umezawa still won't fully trust him).
It's left ambiguous whether the term "Imperials" applies only to the actual emperors or also their entire administration and collection of government workers. (I thought the latter when reading that first Kaito story, but this Saga story implies the former.) If the latter is true, then the term "Imperials" existing in the first place at least lightly implies that the administration is not completely gutted between emperors. Also, if the latter is true, it would be interesting if every single emperor was an Imperial first...
I recall someone else on this forum comparing the mortal and Kami worlds merging together to the (Phyrexia-instigated) Rathi overlay. Might Jin-Gitaxias be to blame for the mortal and Kami worlds merging together--or at least any acceleration in that process? If that "Jin-Gitaxias, Reality Hacker" rumour of a leak is true...
I assume the "Imperials" are the bureaucrats/government workers. This mirrors the bureaucrat/warrior divide in real-world Japan where the warriors eventually won and created the shogunates, which doesn't seem to have happened in Kamigawa.
Btw, I find it funny how every saga Mini-Story starts with "the artisans of Kamigawa chose to depict this story on this kind of medium." It's like there's a board of art directors, and every part of Kamigawas history only gets to be depicted in art exactly once, haha
(I'm doubtful how much Michiko, as a Sister of Flesh and Spirit, would like changing her looks and name between emperor votes for her, though.)