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.
Given that Dauna stabs Nishang as he poisons the other sibsig, then continues to stab him as he pleads (proceeding with horror on her face the entire time), I think Nishang essentially dies a second time (so the bad resolution occurs) and his soul-portion will only ever be acting for the rakshasa as a ghost from this point forward.
“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"
The man claiming to be Taigam "named himself as a loyalist", and Sarkhan sees in him "a grief cousin to his own" and that he too "had lost something profound" - is this the true Taigam Sarkhan is conspiring with, or is this Jace in disguise - and is Jace pulling from his own reserves of grief, or is he just presenting what Sarkhan wants to see?
Sarkhan would rather die fighting a dragon than die of old age
Sarkhan kills a dragon and bites into its heart on Taigam/"Taigam"'s instruction to get easier access to dragon form back, but he hesitates because he reveres dragons and eating them is profane, then decides to bite the heart anyway and feels that the spell he was given by Taigam/"Taigam" is corrupted and starts to think accepting it is a mistake, then no longer thinks about how big a mistake this is
The Abzan grab Narset and Elspeth on entry into their grounds, then reluctantly imprison both in fear of reprisal from their khan - Elspeth chafes and grows impatient, while Narset is more patient and still wants to negotiate with the Abzan
Narset reveals that, due to the Abzan relying more on ancestral spirits now, the Jeskai see the Abzan as backwards-looking, while the Abzan see the Jeskai as "dogmatic and arrogant" on the Jeskai insistence that the afterlife be treated for their own as insignificant
Ajani leads a gazelle hunt for the Abzan, then encounters an enormous Sarkhan in dragon form (and dragon buddies) and retreats, partially because the Abzan clan dragons on Ajani's team are preemptively bucking their riders off in attempts to collectively retreat
Khan Felothar of the Abzan and other Abzan house heads meet Narset and Elspeth, the meeting extends over Elspeth's agreed-upon hour of patience, and Elspeth is about to act when Ajani bursts in and reports that Sarkhan has gained control of wild dragons at Abzan borders
Ajani feels that "others deserved salvation more than [him]" and that Melira should have saved someone else back then
Okay now I’m almost certain taigam is Jace in disguise I think he trick sarkhan to do this as a distraction so he can snatch the “The Stormnexus Ritual” spell
if Jace is infact the villain
lets Just say Ugin might end up with a second prisoner in his meditation realm
and Ugin will give a pep talk of why what he tried was so wrong
Paala's family were outcast from the Abzan due to being on the wrong side of a political divide - Paala's father is presumed dead from the incident
Paala and her remaining family were taken in by the Mardu and eventually told to tend kittens of a deceased riding cat
People who pull out of their first Lightning Proving due to cowardice get looked at disdainfully, even if the Mardu captain implies otherwise
Paala has a rivalry with Altan, who thinks adoptees like her shouldn't participate in Mardu rites; she nevertheless helps him out of rocks that pin him, and says "It's the Mardu thing to do" when asked by Altan, "Why would you help me? I hate you."
Paala ends up taking Altan with her due to his broken leg
Only one person can claim the biggest lightning bolt during any one Lightning Proving; Altan's initial knife attack on Paala was therefore allowed
Paala has to ward off two more attackers on the way to claiming her lightning bolt and winning the Lightning Proving
Paala gets to name her (manul-wildcat) mount thanks to winning the Lightning Proving
“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"
Felothar discusses loads with the Council of Houses, so discussions tend to take hours
Elspeth forgives Ajani (despite his report that he did everything impactful as a member of Phyrexia willingly and eagerly), but Ajani breaks down and refuses to accompany Narset and Elspeth to the Dragonstorms because he still can't forgive himself and Narset's request he accompany them reminds him of that inability to forgive himself
Elspeth "had thought herself removed...from human emotion" but slowly starts feeling some again
The latest Dragonstorms whip the soil into scales and grant the sky images of teeth
There is indeed a temple in the heart of the Dragonstorms - one that Narset doesn't recognize despite all the documents she has read, Ojutai-authorized or not
Narset and Elspeth find a ragged Omenpath, seemingly bitten into existence, within the temple
The Omenpath leads to the Meditation Realm (are the Dragonstorms oozing directly from Ugin himself through the temple, and have they always done so?) - but this Meditation Realm is warped, likely trying to continuously funnel every visitor away from Nicol Bolas...or is it?
Narset and Elspeth find Jace with Loot after some number of reroutes in the Meditation Realm; Narset and Jace start excitedly discussing how Jace broke phyresis's hold on him and how others may become able to break that hold, too; Elspeth interrupts in an attempt to sound neutral instead of demanding, Narset reflects on "her inability to read social cues the way most could" and her blank to aberrant interpretations of changes in tone and facial expression
Jace may be busted right now, but maybe...just maybe...Taigam was mind-controlled into giving the corrupted dragon spell to Sarkhan instead of Jace disguising as Taigam that time? It would have been a pain for Jace to research that spell to the point of knowing how to co-cast it, especially if he spent most of the time after landing foot on Tarkir in the Meditation Realm....
Confirms Elspeth gets the second planeswalker card.
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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"
remmeber In thunder junction epilogue tezzeret mentioned to Jace that bolas was scared of what’s in the vault
and the only thing erased from his mind is his name so he could recognize loot from that vault
Oh And card names for Ugin and Elsepth “ugin, eye of the storm” and “Elspeth, Dragonstorm slayer”
The actual card names according to the "Building Worlds" video are "Ugin, Eye of the Storms" and "Elspeth, Storm Slayer". This doesn't change lore guesses much for Ugin (he indirectly generates Dragonstorms guaranteed and he's getting dragged into this conflict in Episodes 6-7 because he sure didn't get dragged in previous episodes), but it does change lore guesses for Elspeth (the lightning around Elspeth means that she could be channelling the Dragonstorms instead of dispelling them on Ugin's advice, so she could be "Storm(-Charged) Slayer" instead of "Storm(-Ending) Slayer" - the former phrase gets more awkward if "Dragonstorm" is substituted in for "Storm").
So less far-fetched speculation has Nicol Bolas and Loot meet, then Bolas freaks out and maybe Loot does too, then maybe Loot starts mutating into a highly scary form in an attempt to scare Bolas off and Jace finally realizes that he bit off more than he could chew and Loot is phoning Fomori in...
...but what if Loot freaks out at Ugin because Ugin and Bolas are twins, then Loot mutates the same way? Or maybe Ugin's latent temporal magic (note the breakage of sensation of time being inside the Dragonstorm inflicts) makes Loot grow up at record speed?
Eshki Dragonclaw and Alniul, Twice Whisperer set out to break a lethal blue magic curse that is affecting the Temur
They seek help from local shaman Ureni but don't get very much
They meet a freezing Surrak, affected by the curse, and decide to rescue him despite Eshki having previously violently beat Surrak for the Dragonclaw position and Surrak still resenting that
The party eventually find that it's not Jace, it's not blue magic-using Ugin, but it's a whole throng of ancestral spirits who cast the curse, essentially ejected from the Temur due to committing crimes against them (e.g. theft, murder, implied cannibalism), causing hell until they are accepted back into the Temur
To break the curse, the party essentially has to welcome the spirits back into the Temur
They seek help from local shaman Ureni but don't get very much
Yup just the local shaman spirt dragon.
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"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
They seek help from local shaman Ureni but don't get very much
Yup just the local shaman spirt dragon.
Gosh's sake, the new series of Tarkir legends are so hard to remember. I needed Felothar hammered into my head through the main Episodes, and Kotis and Eshki required the "Building Worlds" video to finally remember in full. I think Neriv is the Mardu spirit dragon according to that video? The spirit dragons are even harder to remember, and they aren't being reinforced now.
Ureni definitely behaves like a shaman in that bonus story.
“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"
As Helga said "the kings in the dark will return, The mage in blue will bring about the end".
Guessing Jace reality breaking lets the Fomori return/brought back to life, maybe due to Loots memories manifesting them. While "the kings in the dark will return" could be a number of things, again the story has seemed to be setting up the Fomori. Maybe be the next 4 sets have whomever our protagonists will be trying to undo whatever Jace broke, which could get rid of the fomori.
Also makes sense for Edge to be our next set, if Jace broke a part of reality I could see how the echo would hit The Edge.
I do think this will let Bolas slip out but I don't think hes the big bad of this arc. I think this will just let him be out and plotting something and keep that on the back burner for a future story arc.
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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"
Jace was originally planning to go to the Meditation Realm
Jace knows what he's doing is wrong, he just can't think of any other way to get what he needs/wants done
Jace, Vraska, and Loot had settled in with the Sultai, who have coffee (but prefer it differently prepared from the Abzan)
Jace finds he's been muttering to himself things that he shouldn't have said vocally
Vraska is concerned Jace harmed Chandra too much back at the races
Vraska wants the past to be the past; Jace still wants to fix the past and effectively rewind time
Loot is referred to as a Fomori in passing during a recount of Jace resorting to sedating him during a Dragonstorm - Jace mentally revisits this moment over and over, but then he eventually can't see anything but his own intent in that moment (Loot remains Fomori-aligned...but is he a child of the giant race and they undergo metamorphosis, or is he just Fomori-aligned and their society is greater than one species? I'm still with the latter for now...)
Jace admits they're probably trapped in a space loop in the Meditation Realm, but Narset suggests clearing their minds in an attempt to find an exit
The Meditation Realm reveals Ugin and Nicol Bolas entwined, likely in a staring match
Ugin tried dissuading everyone away from Nicol Bolas, Bolas tries luring them in
Narset asks Ugin to quell the Dragonstorms or give tips on how to quell them; Ugin offers neither because all his concentration is required to suppress Nicol Bolas
Elspeth, likely unintentionally, name-drops "Bolas", and of course Nicol Bolas overhears - he starts thinking that's his name and Ugin is the name of his twin brother suppressing him, but he doesn't get the chance to completely remember (or does he?)
Jace reveals that the Meditation Realm (at least in its current metamorphic state) is "a substrate to all of reality, touching countless worlds and moldable by sheer force of will" - he claims neither Nicol Bolas nor Ugin learned this "in their arrogance" and likely confidence that their own powers are enough
Jace grabs the gem that used to be between Nicol Bolas's horns to channel the Meditation Realm's power, and Narset sees for a moment Jace's vision of what he wants fixed in the multiverse, especially Vraska's sanctity and happiness
Jace "shattered like glass" as the Meditation Realm attempts to obey a not-powerful-enough Jace and fails - but Jace wasn't explicitly given an opportunity to go through that memory of sedating Loot over and over - will he survive in some form anyway, or did he go through that between the Dragonstorm and the Meditation Realm?
Loot is awakened and afraid through much of the episode, but he importantly doesn't warp or reveal his Fomori alignment more fully - he's just the same old Loot, even if he prefers others' treatment over Jace's
Given that Dauna stabs Nishang as he poisons the other sibsig, then continues to stab him as he pleads (proceeding with horror on her face the entire time), I think Nishang essentially dies a second time (so the bad resolution occurs) and his soul-portion will only ever be acting for the rakshasa as a ghost from this point forward.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-episode-4-heart-of-fire
"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
if Jace is infact the villain
lets Just say Ugin might end up with a second prisoner in his meditation realm
and Ugin will give a pep talk of why what he tried was so wrong
Love how they turned the manul into a fantasy steed
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-episode-5-recursion
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
In which Narset and Jace giddily discuss the latter's prevention of phyresis
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
………………
Narset, Ajani, and Elspeth: AAAAAAAAAH! BOLAS!!!!!
Nicol Bolas: “Did you miss me?”
basically “metronome” arc idenity could be “Bola's return”
there’s a temple where the core of the dragon storms are and it’s a really chewed up omenpath leading to……… the meditation realm.
sounds like jaces ultimatum scheme involves getting ugin and bolas out. So Ugin being in the set doesn't mean bolas is getting out my butt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPsCs1exnY
Confirms Elspeth gets the second planeswalker card.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
remmeber In thunder junction epilogue tezzeret mentioned to Jace that bolas was scared of what’s in the vault
and the only thing erased from his mind is his name so he could recognize loot from that vault
Oh And card names for Ugin and Elsepth “ugin, eye of the storm” and “Elspeth, Dragonstorm slayer”
The actual card names according to the "Building Worlds" video are "Ugin, Eye of the Storms" and "Elspeth, Storm Slayer". This doesn't change lore guesses much for Ugin (he indirectly generates Dragonstorms guaranteed and he's getting dragged into this conflict in Episodes 6-7 because he sure didn't get dragged in previous episodes), but it does change lore guesses for Elspeth (the lightning around Elspeth means that she could be channelling the Dragonstorms instead of dispelling them on Ugin's advice, so she could be "Storm(-Charged) Slayer" instead of "Storm(-Ending) Slayer" - the former phrase gets more awkward if "Dragonstorm" is substituted in for "Storm").
So less far-fetched speculation has Nicol Bolas and Loot meet, then Bolas freaks out and maybe Loot does too, then maybe Loot starts mutating into a highly scary form in an attempt to scare Bolas off and Jace finally realizes that he bit off more than he could chew and Loot is phoning Fomori in...
...but what if Loot freaks out at Ugin because Ugin and Bolas are twins, then Loot mutates the same way? Or maybe Ugin's latent temporal magic (note the breakage of sensation of time being inside the Dragonstorm inflicts) makes Loot grow up at record speed?
Tarkir Dragonstorm| Temur: Together Survives the Pack
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-temur-together-survives-the-pack
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
Yup just the local shaman spirt dragon.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Gosh's sake, the new series of Tarkir legends are so hard to remember. I needed Felothar hammered into my head through the main Episodes, and Kotis and Eshki required the "Building Worlds" video to finally remember in full. I think Neriv is the Mardu spirit dragon according to that video? The spirit dragons are even harder to remember, and they aren't being reinforced now.
Ureni definitely behaves like a shaman in that bonus story.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/tarkir-dragonstorm-episode-6-how-wretched-love
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Nicol bolas: Did you miss me?
Guessing Jace reality breaking lets the Fomori return/brought back to life, maybe due to Loots memories manifesting them. While "the kings in the dark will return" could be a number of things, again the story has seemed to be setting up the Fomori. Maybe be the next 4 sets have whomever our protagonists will be trying to undo whatever Jace broke, which could get rid of the fomori.
Also makes sense for Edge to be our next set, if Jace broke a part of reality I could see how the echo would hit The Edge.
I do think this will let Bolas slip out but I don't think hes the big bad of this arc. I think this will just let him be out and plotting something and keep that on the back burner for a future story arc.
"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
Was it leonin though?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology