I've read Lorwyn, Morningtide, and the Shadowmoor anthology and don't recall this ever being addressed...but:
1.) Where were the races like the trow, hobgoblins and whatnot during the time before the Aurora?
2.) If they didn't appear prior to the Aurora, is it known how they came to be? Like are the hobgoblins extra feral kithkin, or maybe bizzare progeny of kithkin-boggart interbreeding?
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I think MORT is right, they just stayed hidden during times of light. Like the Duregar were underground. My question is actually what happens now that the day/night shift happens like it would on a normal plane now. Are the flamekin nice during the day and murderous at night? Or do they retain one form or another, or are they in between? the same goes for all the races. and what about the Knollspine Dragon, Mossbridge Troll, etc? Do they sleep in the day? There are many questions i'd like answered.
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Where the Krakens, Dragons, Angels, Demon Hound and Trolls hid was fairly easy, in the Hideaway lands as Beyer pointed out in his article, the changelings turned into mimics and I'm pretty sure the Ouphes are just another type of goblin. The trows probably stayed underground for the simple reason that as a race happen to be nocturnal in the original myths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trow_(folklore) what makes me wonder is the selkies, they really just kinda showed up and it had no real way of hiding. Not enough water around unless of course the waterways change completely or there is an ocean on Lorwyn and they get teleported by the aura. I mean honestly, how big does a lake have to be for something the size of Isleback Spawn for it to feed continuosly?
Also story wise, I like the Angel showing up during shadowmoor, it makes it feel like its there to fight for finding the light tomorrow and that the sun will come back.
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Why would an angel hide in the day and show up at night?
She's called twilight shepherd. She's shepherding the twilight would be my guess. When lorwyn got stuck in day-mode she didn't have anything to do.
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I'm not familiar with the storyline of Lorwyn/Shadowmoor overall, but did the merrows & kithkin etc reverted or at least, gained some consciousness of "happy-friendly" self at the conclusion of Eventide? Or did they remained twisted as they were in Shadowmoor?
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor was described as untouched by planeswalkers again and again. We don't know much about the creature - as Angels are a very mythical race wherever they show up and seem to be creations of magic rather than having a biological life, they very well may be created by the Aurora - possibly a transformation of a greater elemental.
I personally like to think it may have been a guardian similar to Spirit of the Hearth that shows up in the dark Shadowmoor, because it is called by the greater needs this world full of threats creates.
I like this idea for some of the things being transformations of greater elementals, specifically the spirit avatars or the lieges are likely a perversion of the elemental incarnations like Dread and Guile or the greater elementals like Sumpreme Exemplar and Reveillark. It's just a theory but hey it could work
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It's implied in flavor text that, even before Aurora, dark things slept in the depths of Lorwyn. Like... Literally in the depths. Down beneath the Waterways.
It's why there was so much speculation that Shadowmoor would actually take place on the other side of Alara, and that Alara was a 'flat' plane with a world on both sides, like Xeen from Might and Magic 4 and 5. It would also have explained why on one side, the sun never quite set, and on the other, it never quite rose. But on both came close.
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Trows? These either went underground, or were petrified by sunlight, turning into small boulders or gnarled stumps in-keeping with a number of stories about trolls. Perhaps not fully Celtic or Gaelic in origin, but still reasonable.
Duergar? They clearly don't enjoy going above ground often, and there isn't a trace of the sun in sight during Shadowmoor, even. Chances are fairly good they were around during Lorwyn, perhaps fully active even, but they just never popped up before.
Ouphes? Lorwyn is a place of whimsy and mirth, life and bounty. This was expressed in many different ways, and on the whimsical side, primarily through faeries and boggarts, and maybe a changeling or two imitating them. But as we all know, there's a great deal more to Lorwyn than meets the eye. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there where in fact ouphes lurking about, perhaps being mistaken for faeries or groundlings when first seen. They, like the elementals, are expressions of Lorwyn's innate nature and were perverted and corrupted when night fell.
Hobgoblins? I'm not really sure. Given as how they seemed relatively civilized and had similar civilizations as kithkin, I'd wager that they used to be kithkin, or relatively less nutty boggarts. No one race or culture is uniform across a whole world, even if routinely warped by Grand Auroras. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if hobgoblins are in fact derived in some way from kithkin and/or boggarts.
Selkies? Now these are curious aren't they? Strange conglomerations of pinniped and hominid forms, with not a trace of humanity to be found anywhere, and always mourning a loss of an oceanic home that never seems to have existed, or at the bare minimum begrudging confinement to rivers and lakes. My first guess that they were some kind of outcast merrows, back in the day, and the Aurora extrapolated this into taking on a whole different identity and seeing the waterways they live in as prisons rather than hideaways. But I have another theory.
Consider: the Aurora has the effect of completely changing the whole plane, except for faeries or those of an intrinsic elemental nature (yes, there are otherexceptions). It seemed at first as though it allows only one half of any being's nature to be expressed at a given time, as though Oona's glamers are a veil of sorts, but once all was said and done in the books, the flamekin other than Ashling remained cinders. The only thing that actually reverted to a default state was the day/night cycle. I believe that what Oona's glamers did was outright transform the world, and not merely allow only a part of it to be expressed. Given this case, and how drastic each Aurora was, who's to say that whole landscape didn't change with time? There may very well have been a home ocean for the selkies and possibly others to have come from, but successive Auroras over millennia eventually wore it away, and now all the selkies have are their stories of grief and loss. Not unlike other Shadowmoor residents, really.
As for noggles, pucas, gwyllions, skulkins, hags, kelpies, and any others I'm forgetting, it's a mystery. Gwyllions and hags could've been derived from the more debase members of the former Lorwyn, but without a clear look at the world, who's to say?
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1.) Where were the races like the trow, hobgoblins and whatnot during the time before the Aurora?
2.) If they didn't appear prior to the Aurora, is it known how they came to be? Like are the hobgoblins extra feral kithkin, or maybe bizzare progeny of kithkin-boggart interbreeding?
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Daretti, Scrap Savant
Karametra, God of Harvests
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest
Vorel of the Hull Clade
Also story wise, I like the Angel showing up during shadowmoor, it makes it feel like its there to fight for finding the light tomorrow and that the sun will come back.
After all, I saw a promo of the Kithchen Finks that probably happened in the day of lorwyn.
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I like this idea for some of the things being transformations of greater elementals, specifically the spirit avatars or the lieges are likely a perversion of the elemental incarnations like Dread and Guile or the greater elementals like Sumpreme Exemplar and Reveillark. It's just a theory but hey it could work
It's why there was so much speculation that Shadowmoor would actually take place on the other side of Alara, and that Alara was a 'flat' plane with a world on both sides, like Xeen from Might and Magic 4 and 5. It would also have explained why on one side, the sun never quite set, and on the other, it never quite rose. But on both came close.
Duergar? They clearly don't enjoy going above ground often, and there isn't a trace of the sun in sight during Shadowmoor, even. Chances are fairly good they were around during Lorwyn, perhaps fully active even, but they just never popped up before.
Ouphes? Lorwyn is a place of whimsy and mirth, life and bounty. This was expressed in many different ways, and on the whimsical side, primarily through faeries and boggarts, and maybe a changeling or two imitating them. But as we all know, there's a great deal more to Lorwyn than meets the eye. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there where in fact ouphes lurking about, perhaps being mistaken for faeries or groundlings when first seen. They, like the elementals, are expressions of Lorwyn's innate nature and were perverted and corrupted when night fell.
Hobgoblins? I'm not really sure. Given as how they seemed relatively civilized and had similar civilizations as kithkin, I'd wager that they used to be kithkin, or relatively less nutty boggarts. No one race or culture is uniform across a whole world, even if routinely warped by Grand Auroras. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if hobgoblins are in fact derived in some way from kithkin and/or boggarts.
Selkies? Now these are curious aren't they? Strange conglomerations of pinniped and hominid forms, with not a trace of humanity to be found anywhere, and always mourning a loss of an oceanic home that never seems to have existed, or at the bare minimum begrudging confinement to rivers and lakes. My first guess that they were some kind of outcast merrows, back in the day, and the Aurora extrapolated this into taking on a whole different identity and seeing the waterways they live in as prisons rather than hideaways. But I have another theory.
Consider: the Aurora has the effect of completely changing the whole plane, except for faeries or those of an intrinsic elemental nature (yes, there are other exceptions). It seemed at first as though it allows only one half of any being's nature to be expressed at a given time, as though Oona's glamers are a veil of sorts, but once all was said and done in the books, the flamekin other than Ashling remained cinders. The only thing that actually reverted to a default state was the day/night cycle. I believe that what Oona's glamers did was outright transform the world, and not merely allow only a part of it to be expressed. Given this case, and how drastic each Aurora was, who's to say that whole landscape didn't change with time? There may very well have been a home ocean for the selkies and possibly others to have come from, but successive Auroras over millennia eventually wore it away, and now all the selkies have are their stories of grief and loss. Not unlike other Shadowmoor residents, really.
About any "subpar" mechanics or cards: Context is king.
If I make a templating or grammar error, let me know.
The franchise MtG most resembles is Battlestar Galactica. Why? Its players exist in, at most, a dozen different models at any given point in time, with perhaps up to 3% variation, 5% if you're lucky.