Tam wasn't used to headaches. Study was the only time she'd had to deal with them, and even then, it was nothing a pot of Ravnican coffee couldn't dismiss. Most of her stipend was spent on the stuff.
Well, Nissa is her partner. She naturally feels much more strongly for her than Ajani
I totally get why she'd give Nissa more leeway, but given that Nissa was brought back in the exact same way as Ajani, one would think Chandra would be more likely to give him a second chance too.
Also, I gotta say that reading this reminded me of how much I disliked the writing of the Aetherdrift main stories - I had completely forgotten that Jace injured Chandra pretty badly in the climax.
The students all enter the innards of the titan's skeleton in Titan's Grave, along with one of the Shattered, Suki
Tamira sees a man in white (not blue?) instead of her own distorted reflection in a cave lake, but only for a bit - she apparently knows that man
The students run into a Daemogoth demon, but Prof. Fel arrives, remarks that the Daemogoth has "transgressed upon my wards for the last time", kills the Daemogoth with plant magic, then responds that he did not make a deal with that "provincial" Daemogoth despite it offering to make a deal
Prof. Fel insists he is still trying to "keep a promise I once made. A promise whose roots run deep in the soil of my soul."
Tamira outright says that Fel is interested in the Archaics because, as beings of nonlinear time, they might hold ways to let Fel "find some way to go back and save the woman you loved", then reports that she learned that from Jadzi
Fel changes the subject to the Archaic who has Jadzi
Lluwen finally reports his sighting of the Archaics around a snarl, then Fel responds that "There are no snarls in Titan's Grave. There never have been" and wants to follow Lluwen's lead
Chandra, starting to behave more in character again, speculates that Jace is trying to reincarnate into the giant Archaic who has Jadzi (I'm currently betting she's wrong), and that's why she still wants to kill that Archaic
Well, Nissa is her partner. She naturally feels much more strongly for her than Ajani
I totally get why she'd give Nissa more leeway, but given that Nissa was brought back in the exact same way as Ajani, one would think Chandra would be more likely to give him a second chance too.
Also, I gotta say that reading this reminded me of how much I disliked the writing of the Aetherdrift main stories - I had completely forgotten that Jace injured Chandra pretty badly in the climax.
Ajani also killed Jaya and while Nissa, did do harm while compleated, was a less active antagonists (even during MoM the idea I gleamed was enough of real Nissa in control to hold back from killing Chandra and only tried to capture/slow her down) so thats a factor.
Also why Nissa is also (seemly) has come out being compleated the best, the other four actively invalid planes and killed/compleated people while Nissa was mostly a booster and pilot for the tree to help invade, so her role was much more of a passive one.
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"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"
"When it first brought me here, every few hours. But it's getting more frequent," she said. Her eyes landed on the creature, its many hands alongside its great head, writhing this way and that. "Every time it happens, something about our future changes. Every time. And it's getting worse…
… why did Jazri just say something alarmly similar to what the endstone does?!
No students and no Prof. Fel, but Ajani and (non-OOC) Chandra instead
Ajani and Chandra see the "snarl", which has edges that look like echoes of planes other than Arcavios(!) and just might be the nascent origin of a Reality Fracture
Ajani and Chandra meet Jadzi with the giant Archaic, and the giant Archaic is getting medical treatment from Jadzi (the Archaic likely kidnapped Jadzi precisely because it needed a doctor)
Jadzi apparently knows which of several Archaics correspond to which Oracles
According to Jadzi, the giant Archaic is the Archaic with the soul of the last Oracle, who is implied to not be her (that explains why there aren't so many Archaics on Arcavios, there's no room to build Strixhaven)
Said Archaic is feeling nasty ripples increasingly often involving the future (especially of Arcavios) getting modified and/or erased, to the point of threatening to delete said Archaic
Ajani gets hit by one such ripple and sees visions of "—a known agitator on Avishkar— —no, a Consulate enforcer— —a vengeful rage that would never be quenched—" - it's ambiguous whether he is seeing Chandra both times or he is merely reliving an alternate future or past where he gets down and dirty with Consulate enforcers
The three seemingly agree to fix the "snarl" and possibly close it, but Chandra lies about fully agreeing and tries setting the Archaic on fire partway through the process, deciding this is still the most expedient way to stop what she thinks are Jace's plans
Ajani makes Chandra miss, and Chandra readies another fire in a cliffhanger
oh yea and Chandra is definitely not thinking this through
yes the archaic could like be involved in jaces plan but she forgot, the question isn't "does jace need the ultimate Archaic for something" the question is "dos jace need the ultimate archaic dead or alive" basically chandra could be making a fatal mistake and jaces plan is tricking influence to kill it
Given that the next in-universe MTG set is Reality Fracture:
Things are about to get worse. Much worse. That "snarl" is going to open and fracture reality. It's possibly where White Liliana and Prof. Zarek entered this Arcavios from (has Prof. Zarek even appeared in Arcavios yet at this point, or was that first side story from the episodes' future? I'm not even sure at this point).
If Jace behaves like Ugin, he is going to like his spirit body just fine. This means that I, too, doubt that he'll actually try possessing the Archaic. I just also doubt he'll get it killed. I still think Jace just needs the Archaics horribly distracted so none of them regulate the reality-fracturing "snarl"....
“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"
Ajani and Chandra continue fighting, even through waves of reality shifts, but Ajani is pointedly only going for continuous first blood, while Chandra is also implied to be holding back
Ajani and Chandra eventually come to some sort of agreement ("being a Planeswalker means we've already been through enough") and stop fighting
The students, Prof. Fel, and Suki similarly also reach the Archaic and Jadzi through similar reality shift waves
Suki is mentioned to be a pyromancer, while she refers to implied Chandra as "Shatter Prime"
While Jadzi is still healing the Archaic, who is flinging spells in agony, Tamira pushes her into the "snarl" as she was directed to do so long ago
Tamira pointedly says to the other students that those recent times with them were the happiest of her life before jumping into the "snarl" herself
The "snarl" then closes, but in a possible continuity error, is said to later still be sending out waves of magic (maybe the Archaic was never sending out reality shift waves?)
Lluwen leads the charge to finish healing the Archaic, and the students and eventually the lumarets follow
Chandra, Ajani, and Fel are notably freed from amber restraints when the Archaic is healed
Both Tamira and Jadzi fall into AU!Strixhaven, possibly Hexhaven...although the Jadzi Tam sees there may only be AU!Jadzi
Tamira is implied to fall through the Blind Eternities first, as her features start temporarily warping in there
Tamira meets the man in white (AU!Jace? Spirit Jace? Probably her secret teacher), and the man in white congratulates her and starts to introduce her to "the others" who should help her in her duties
Tamira is noted to be a "(being) created to betray", and every version of her, AU or not, is noted to spill blood
Is Tamira a magical construct, the daughter AU!Jace and AU!Vraska wish they could have but never can conceive through the birds and the bees, so they have to create her out of magic instead?
Pretty much full confirmation that's AU!Zarek as Silverquill prof - Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer has a watermark never seen before.
...Oh, and he's a planeswalker, too. Oh, and while I'm willing to believe he splashes white, his card is mono-black. Oh, and the debut stream mentioned that he's an Orzhov lawyer.
“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"
...comes the genesis of a really nasty hunch that all of them will revolve around last Strixhaven set's students
Rootha is attending a Summitfest, where wild art happens
Rootha still has dreams and visions of the Phyrexian Invasion and Dean Nassari, Phyrexianized
A prodigy student, Glassyk, has to prevent Rootha from falling off a cliff, then shows her that he's augmenting a local elemental whale as his capstone project
Rootha sees Dean Nassari repeatedly at the Summitfest, de-Phyrexianized
Turns out that the ritual Rootha had participated in - and faltered in, causing Quintorius to pick up her slack - to repel the Phyrexians from Strixhaven also de-Phyrexianized the partially fire elemental Nassari
Glassyk's augmented elemental whale later goes out of control, attacking the Summitfest
After Nassari cannot fully restrain the whale, Rootha reveals her Living Flame project, a greatly malleable and obedient cool flame, to help calm the whale
Glassyk, taken in by the whale, manages to escape the day with a few broken ribs
Nassari apologizes for not having kept up with Rootha's projects (despite having criticized her work earlier in history), and the two reach an understanding
these are called portal treatments i bet these portals likely lead to hexhaven (the reality fracture/time spiraled version of strixhaven) especially since the lorehold one seems to lead to a statue of jace
the the ral card shown is monoblack and not orzhov and the watermark and the abiltiys don't seem white...but more blue
what if time spiraled ral is not ment to be orzhov but actually....dimir and the watermark that may not be a time shifted watermark what if thats the campus symbol of hexhaven
Only AU!Zarek's last ability is kinda blue - the rest are black (the second one), shared with white (the reanimator), or shared with too many colours (the first ability). There's also still the part where the debut stream mentioned AU!Zarek, "the famed Orzhov lawyer".
However, that watermark on Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer looks suspiciously similar to Jace's hood...I'm willing to believe that's an AU!Jace or Spirit Jace alignment (I thought Spirit Jace was into blue clothes, though? The last Tarkir story specifically mentioned a blue cloak) watermark, meaning anything from a Jace cabal to a "Hexhaven" logo (assuming a Jace founded "Hexhaven").
Do planeswalkers ever get faction watermarks though? Still think it's definitely a mark for our "fractured" characters
Never before, even during Ravnica 3 where it was a plot point that the 5 planeswalkers had taken over as guildmasters.
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Poetic.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
the first dang paragraph
yea the spec is likely over now
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
I totally get why she'd give Nissa more leeway, but given that Nissa was brought back in the exact same way as Ajani, one would think Chandra would be more likely to give him a second chance too.
Also, I gotta say that reading this reminded me of how much I disliked the writing of the Aetherdrift main stories - I had completely forgotten that Jace injured Chandra pretty badly in the climax.
Ajani also killed Jaya and while Nissa, did do harm while compleated, was a less active antagonists (even during MoM the idea I gleamed was enough of real Nissa in control to hold back from killing Chandra and only tried to capture/slow her down) so thats a factor.
Also why Nissa is also (seemly) has come out being compleated the best, the other four actively invalid planes and killed/compleated people while Nissa was mostly a booster and pilot for the tree to help invade, so her role was much more of a passive one.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-episode-5-breaking-point
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
… why did Jazri just say something alarmly similar to what the endstone does?!
Things are about to get worse. Much worse. That "snarl" is going to open and fracture reality. It's possibly where White Liliana and Prof. Zarek entered this Arcavios from (has Prof. Zarek even appeared in Arcavios yet at this point, or was that first side story from the episodes' future? I'm not even sure at this point).
If Jace behaves like Ugin, he is going to like his spirit body just fine. This means that I, too, doubt that he'll actually try possessing the Archaic. I just also doubt he'll get it killed. I still think Jace just needs the Archaics horribly distracted so none of them regulate the reality-fracturing "snarl"....
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-episode-6-two-three-five-seven
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Has the vibes of the comparision of magic with music in older flavor
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
its just moved to reality fracture instead of secrets of strixhaven
but my goodness i will be ticked if i don't see timeshifted cards of characters/stuff outside arcavios in reality fracture
...Oh, and he's a planeswalker, too. Oh, and while I'm willing to believe he splashes white, his card is mono-black. Oh, and the debut stream mentioned that he's an Orzhov lawyer.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-a-living-flame
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Rumor place on reddit pointed this out
these are called portal treatments i bet these portals likely lead to hexhaven (the reality fracture/time spiraled version of strixhaven) especially since the lorehold one seems to lead to a statue of jace
the the ral card shown is monoblack and not orzhov and the watermark and the abiltiys don't seem white...but more blue
what if time spiraled ral is not ment to be orzhov but actually....dimir and the watermark that may not be a time shifted watermark what if thats the campus symbol of hexhaven
Only AU!Zarek's last ability is kinda blue - the rest are black (the second one), shared with white (the reanimator), or shared with too many colours (the first ability). There's also still the part where the debut stream mentioned AU!Zarek, "the famed Orzhov lawyer".
However, that watermark on Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer looks suspiciously similar to Jace's hood...I'm willing to believe that's an AU!Jace or Spirit Jace alignment (I thought Spirit Jace was into blue clothes, though? The last Tarkir story specifically mentioned a blue cloak) watermark, meaning anything from a Jace cabal to a "Hexhaven" logo (assuming a Jace founded "Hexhaven").
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKFQ7Q38/ a book based on Lusitanian Mythology
Never before, even during Ravnica 3 where it was a plot point that the 5 planeswalkers had taken over as guildmasters.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"