“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't seem to grow a full mustache"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Coffee exists in Tarkir (first Ravnica, now here?)
Orphans still get instilled as krumar
Kin-trees die if they have cuttings extracted from them before spirits enter them
Note how deus ex machina-like the kin-tree's activation with spirits feels like
Found in Episode 1:
Narset is indeed the current Jeskai waymaster/leader
Kotis, once-rebel leader of the Sultai uprising, is undead and died while rebelling
Zurgo is now titled "Stormrender"
Narset suffers a panic attack mid-show due to overly enthusiastic applause; she hyper-pays attention to the tavern-goers to remove her panic, so this is implied to not be Narset's first panic attack
Teval, Sultai spirit dragon, is described as "ruthlessly impartial"
Narset describes Ojutai as "only ever been good to her"(!!), implying the rest of the Ojutai clan were the ones who exiled her (and Ojutai himself did nothing to stop them)
At the end of the episode, Elspeth arrives at the tavern
Main story
-I enjoyed them showing Narserts neurodivergent traits, she isn't in many stories so nice to see they remembered that aspect and nice for representation.
-A nice look into the rebellion. Wish we got more but I do believe they said Narset is the main character of this set (and I'm guessing her person arc will be her working out her feeling about Ojutai) so I hope we get more through the story.
-Useing Bian Lian as a way to show the play is really good worldbuilding detail.
-Elspeth and Narset are friends/friendly so hopefully we get to see that shown in person.
Side story
-Very clearly showing how there is no more conflict on Tarkir and everyone is big happy family alright. /s
-I do like the tensions of post dragons Abzan and them dealing with the fall out.
-I do like how we see the effects of the dragons with kin tree now being rare and them needing to slowly regrow them back.
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“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't seem to grow a full mustache"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't seem to grow a full mustache"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Elspeth is accused of being a dragon by a young girl; the girl luckily is more intrigued than frightened and still wants to talk to Elspeth (well, the resemblance to Ojutai and even Mardu dragons is there...)
Narset admits she and Elspeth have never met, and Narset only knows Elspeth by reputation and mutual friends
Narset had felt loss, then relief that she could concentrate entirely on Tarkir, when she lost her planeswalker's spark
Narset reveals that Mardu contacts have reported that oxen have developed reptilian eyes and cats are growing wings
Narset still wishes she had Ojutai to (possibly) help her out through the difficult times of destabilizing Tarkir's geography
A wild dragon attacks Narset and Elspeth's meeting place in Storm Crane Monastery, breaking through the bottom of the ship
Taigam also misses Ojutai and is even more loyal to him
Taigam suspects Elspeth's mere arrival aggravated the wild dragon
Reverent mentions of Ojutai are tantamount to treason in today's Jeskai culture (Narset lets Taigam get away with them due to their shared more forgiving feelings towards Ojutai)
Elspeth needs help analyzing what's going wrong with the Dragonstorms; Narset eventually declares she can assist but the Jeskai will not be following her (at least as a unified group, maybe individuals will also feel helpful)
“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't seem to grow a full mustache"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Wait a second it’s gonna be tarkir and not lorwyn for the ajani foreshadow from the foundations set (they said the basic lands in the set have characters that will appear in future universe within sets)
and is Taigam potentially the next “that’s not *name* it’s Jace” character.
Could Ugin be connected to what Jace is trying to do?
Narset notices Elspeth's reduced humanity but keeps this to herself
Narset speculates that Tarkir's previous dragonlords went into hiding or got incorporated into the essence of the plane of Tarkir and infected the dragonstorms
Elspeth and Narset find hedrons (that still hold portions of Ugin's life force, according to Narset) in the Crucible of the Spirit Dragon - only Elspeth is surprised to see them
Tarkiri dragons mature very slowly - the adolescent dragon Narset rides is "likely several decades older" than her, possibly making her a century old
Sarkhan has been tracking dragonstorms and speculates Tarkir wants to create ever stronger dragonstorms and to swamp the multiverse with dragons - this is not something Elspeth wants to see
Sarkhan attacks Elspeth, Elspeth retaliates, Narset is trying to call it off when Sarkhan stabs Elspeth and Narset decides to defend her
Sarkhan has been having a much harder time transforming into a dragon since he lost his planeswalker's spark
A hooded man claiming to be Taigam meets Sarkhan at the end of the episode; he behaves out of character for Taigam (and Taigam is usually not depicted with a clear hood), so I also suspect he's Jace in disguise
Also, I've been enjoying the story so far. At least the core premise isn't fundamentally broken like it usually is. Although I feel like the "dragonstorms are threatening the other planes" should have been set up more properly. The random mentions from the other planes didn't sound urgent at all. The dragon on Bloomburrow pretty much behaved like any other calamity beast, adding dragons to Duskmourn might actually lower the average hazard level of the plane, Amonkhet has enough hazards as is as well, and there was a single dragon in Avishkar, which has native dragons already.
The leadup isn't quite there unfortunately. Would have helped if Elspeth had detailed what exactly made her come to Tarkir. Maybe dragons have been invading other planes that formerly didn't have dragons, or their numbers have exploded in some places. Still not ideal telling rather than showing, but this makes the premise weaker than it had to be.
I think Jaces ultimate plan to reset the multiverse is use The same spell ugin did call “storm nexus ritual” on tarkir, but on all the planes to reform all planes thus resetting the multiverse
they mention something called the Storm Nexus Ritual in episode 1 and mention it may be capable of…
Reshaping tarkir, which could me it could reshape any plane. So that’s it that’s jaces evil plan he's probably trying to use the storm nexus ritual so he can reshape the mutiverse to his image and at the same time making it so the phyrexian invasion of the mutiverse never happens thus closing the omenpaths.
Then this whole thing probably causes Ugin to come back from the essence of the hedrons and maybe causing bolas a jailbreak
then How we go the space opera set. Because “the edge” is where Jace needs to bring the storm nexus ritual to reset the multiverse
Very likely due to his loss of spark. I also wonder if that is having an additional effect due to Sarkhan being an "orphan" of time and I wonder if his spark was helping keeping him tied to this timeline.
Also, I've been enjoying the story so far. At least the core premise isn't fundamentally broken like it usually is. Although I feel like the "dragonstorms are threatening the other planes" should have been set up more properly. The random mentions from the other planes didn't sound urgent at all. The dragon on Bloomburrow pretty much behaved like any other calamity beast, adding dragons to Duskmourn might actually lower the average hazard level of the plane, Amonkhet has enough hazards as is as well, and there was a single dragon in Avishkar, which has native dragons already.
The leadup isn't quite there unfortunately. Would have helped if Elspeth had detailed what exactly made her come to Tarkir. Maybe dragons have been invading other planes that formerly didn't have dragons, or their numbers have exploded in some places. Still not ideal telling rather than showing, but this makes the premise weaker than it had to be.
I agree here and as I said before unless Winter and/or Val show up to do something on Tarkir it makes Duskmourn stand out with this arc and almost feel like filler.
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“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't seem to grow a full mustache"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Nishang, old adherent to Silumgar principles, is of the belief that death should be a Blessed Sleep and any sibsig are rightfully dishonourable disturbances of that Sleep, punished for their disobedience (including Nishang himself when he is turned)
Nishang's second-in-command and friend, Titsui, is a vulture (implied aven) killed in battle; Nishang dies of wasting disease and both are raised from the dead by Sidisi
Sibsigs' hearts beat(!) despite being undead
Turns out that Titsui may never have been raised from the dead after all - Nishang checks how his vulture companion died and finds he gives the wrong death story, then "Titsui" reveals himself as a shapeshifter rakshasa (the breadth of rakshasa forms is refreshing, given that among the most famous rakshasa is the one in the Ramayana who transforms into a golden deer)
Nishang starts having a change of heart before exposing "Titsui" as a rakshasa, but he is unable to act on this change of heart before he poisons the pool of sibsig (Nishang is implied to be controlled by the rakshasa at the time) and the head necromancer Dauna stabs him in retaliation
“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't seem to grow a full mustache"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I feel like the story just ended without a proper resolution be it good (Nishang gets to break out of the Rakshasa's control) or bad (he gets killed and his soul is forever bound to the Rakshasa). I don't know if the implication with the blood coming out of his mouth (zombies have blood?) is supposed to mean he's going to die, but giving him a last plea kind of makes the ending ambiguous as we don't know how Dauna reacted to it.
Like, I enjoyed the story and gave us an interesting glimpse into both the new Sultai and the Silumgar loyalists, but like, at least end it properly. It reminds me of when I accidentally pasted only most of one of my own stories and it just abruptly ended because the last couple paragraphs were missing and everyone thought that was intended.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-episode-1-stories-and-their-bones
Tarkir: Dragonstorm | Abzan: Siege Blossoms by Rhiannon Rasmussen
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-abzan-siege-blossoms
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Found in Episode 1:
-I enjoyed them showing Narserts neurodivergent traits, she isn't in many stories so nice to see they remembered that aspect and nice for representation.
-A nice look into the rebellion. Wish we got more but I do believe they said Narset is the main character of this set (and I'm guessing her person arc will be her working out her feeling about Ojutai) so I hope we get more through the story.
-Useing Bian Lian as a way to show the play is really good worldbuilding detail.
-Elspeth and Narset are friends/friendly so hopefully we get to see that shown in person.
Side story
-Very clearly showing how there is no more conflict on Tarkir and everyone is big happy family alright. /s
-I do like the tensions of post dragons Abzan and them dealing with the fall out.
-I do like how we see the effects of the dragons with kin tree now being rare and them needing to slowly regrow them back.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-episode-2-omens
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-jeskai-the-unknown-way
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
Ajani joins the party
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
and is Taigam potentially the next “that’s not *name* it’s Jace” character.
Could Ugin be connected to what Jace is trying to do?
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
*points gun*
Always has been.
Also, I've been enjoying the story so far. At least the core premise isn't fundamentally broken like it usually is. Although I feel like the "dragonstorms are threatening the other planes" should have been set up more properly. The random mentions from the other planes didn't sound urgent at all. The dragon on Bloomburrow pretty much behaved like any other calamity beast, adding dragons to Duskmourn might actually lower the average hazard level of the plane, Amonkhet has enough hazards as is as well, and there was a single dragon in Avishkar, which has native dragons already.
The leadup isn't quite there unfortunately. Would have helped if Elspeth had detailed what exactly made her come to Tarkir. Maybe dragons have been invading other planes that formerly didn't have dragons, or their numbers have exploded in some places. Still not ideal telling rather than showing, but this makes the premise weaker than it had to be.
I think I got a Jimmy netutron brain blast moment
I think Jaces ultimate plan to reset the multiverse is use The same spell ugin did call “storm nexus ritual” on tarkir, but on all the planes to reform all planes thus resetting the multiverse
Reshaping tarkir, which could me it could reshape any plane. So that’s it that’s jaces evil plan he's probably trying to use the storm nexus ritual so he can reshape the mutiverse to his image and at the same time making it so the phyrexian invasion of the mutiverse never happens thus closing the omenpaths.
Then this whole thing probably causes Ugin to come back from the essence of the hedrons and maybe causing bolas a jailbreak
then How we go the space opera set. Because “the edge” is where Jace needs to bring the storm nexus ritual to reset the multiverse
Very likely due to his loss of spark. I also wonder if that is having an additional effect due to Sarkhan being an "orphan" of time and I wonder if his spark was helping keeping him tied to this timeline.
I agree here and as I said before unless Winter and/or Val show up to do something on Tarkir it makes Duskmourn stand out with this arc and almost feel like filler.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
It's like they made Nishang to preemptively appeal to people who find the new Sultai too soft.
Needless to say, they are better but not clawless
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olZiT7zb53Y
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I feel like the story just ended without a proper resolution be it good (Nishang gets to break out of the Rakshasa's control) or bad (he gets killed and his soul is forever bound to the Rakshasa). I don't know if the implication with the blood coming out of his mouth (zombies have blood?) is supposed to mean he's going to die, but giving him a last plea kind of makes the ending ambiguous as we don't know how Dauna reacted to it.
Like, I enjoyed the story and gave us an interesting glimpse into both the new Sultai and the Silumgar loyalists, but like, at least end it properly. It reminds me of when I accidentally pasted only most of one of my own stories and it just abruptly ended because the last couple paragraphs were missing and everyone thought that was intended.