-Again like Zendikar I think my only biggest issues is wanting more. A few things (the elves deciding not to kill the gods, Tyver switching around about planeswalkers, meeting the gods ect) all felt very rushed but I think it could have been fixed with more chapters on it.
-Biggest of note: Kaya doesn't kill Vorinclex.
-Kaya ends the story with Tyver and Niko being a walker mentor
-Vorinclex kills Esika (RIP) and takes some of the god exiliar. And while it seems like the likely candidate is Tezzeret the epilogue hints there might be more to this.
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Yup its Tezzeret. I almost wonder if it was an experiment to see vorinclex could survive. Not good the metal bits of phyrexia can survive and heal up using Tezzerets bridge.
Also Family Tree;
Alrund is the patriarch, brother to Jorn and "married" to Cosima. They have three kids Toralf, Birgi, and Kolvori as well as Halvar being adopted by Alrund. Alrund tries to use rune magic to talk to the world tree which got us Tergrid and Esika so "children" of Alrund as well it seem. That just leaves Reidane, Egon and Valki as unknown but likely could be Alrund siblings. Reidane deeply likes the Beskir clan for saving Alrunds so she seems have a connection to him.
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From a Reddit user was interesting might be kasmina who hired Kaya to kill vorinclex
basicly it comes from the war art book her cabal and her unknown intentions for a conflict the theory is that conflict is the new phyrexia phyrexians and she’s Basicly urza (not power wise planning and personality wise)
That would check out.
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So is Vorinclex making Tibalt sow chaos as a prelude to Phyrexian invasion?
I also wound't be surprised if the "seed" or w/e in Tibalt also spread oil or something else to help Phyrexia. That way even if Kaya kills Vorinclex* w/e been done to Tibalt might still stick around.
*I think this likely but if SoI taught we should wait for the full context
well my theory with the posion is potentially wanted to compleat a walker so they can get their hands on a spark so they can go to other planes
oh the third story also mentions tibalt has kill kaya on the list?
im not sure if it will work out but i have tin foil hat theory of who hired kaya to hunt vorinclex from a couple of reddit users
Thats also a mystery to solved.
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So is Vorinclex making Tibalt sow chaos as a prelude to Phyrexian invasion?
I also wound't be surprised if the "seed" or w/e in Tibalt also spread oil or something else to help Phyrexia. That way even if Kaya kills Vorinclex* w/e been done to Tibalt might still stick around.
*I think this likely but if SoI taught we should wait for the full context
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To note I do like how it ties in and explains Koma being able to break into Sternheim.
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Today’s installment was much too short for my tastes. What I do find interesting is that the parts that aren’t narrated by Tibalt are written from the perspective of an unknown narrator who tells the story from the perspective of Tibalt’s thoughts. Surely vorinclex, as a phyrexian, doesn’t care about Tibalt’s looks, and would probably consider him a weakling for not being compleat, but that’s not what Tibalt sees, and the narrator’s perspective reflects that.
“The beast knew that a handsome and powerful planeswalker such as Tibalt would never stoop to helping a hideous, stupid monster...”
Pretty sure its Tibalt writing his own Saga. Which honestly works great here as an unreliable narrator its hard to tell fully whats going if we had a 3rd person omniscient point of view.
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So Vorinclex inflected Tibalt with a "seed" and wanted Tibalt to cause a distraction for him, which Tibalt planned to do anyways.
Tibalt is on his way into being completed.
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It seems that Tibalt somehow imprisons the real Valki, as seen on his classic version and partially also on his showcase Valki side (note the person chained to a pillar in tbe background). As well as in this card and its flavor: https://mythicspoiler.com/khm/cards/glacialdetentionpillar.html
As said its seems to be a fun nod at the mythology.
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We focus on the other nine realms featured this time around;
-RW Axgard is home of the dwarves. Dwarves don't hold gold as valuable (as they have access to a lot) instead liking iron better but do like gold for how it looks.
-Dwarves are warrior artisan and are divided by the color into how they make their art. R dwarfs are more impulsive and passionate creators and more known for weapons while W dwarves are more meticulous (similar to the W dwarfs on Kaladesh) and more known more for the magic items.
-Dwarfs reach adulthood in their 100's.
-Its foretold that a cosmic giant named Goldeater will one day soon bring destruction of the dwarf city.
-RG Gnottvold is the realm of the trolls. Lots of untamed wilds with a second mtg nod to Stone Henge. Giants also have been known to live here it seems.
-Trolls come in two colors. Hagi are the R trolls that are basically goblins on this world minus all much of the comedic elements. Torga are the G trolls who are huge and unlike the Hagi are more in touch with nature and can have shamans. They often just sleep (often together in familiar units) for long period of time often having moss and plants and such grow over them until they seem to be part of the land. If woken up early they will rampage from days to weeks until they get sleepy again. I can relate.
-RB Immersturm is the realm of demons and is hell basically. The sky and water is on fire and volcanos are all over. Only life is demons and fire elemental elementals. When a non-demons is killed their blood is magically poured into a volcano which births new demons. The elf gods originally had magic items to trap the ways in and out of Immersturm to keep demons out but those items are now lost with the new gods. Instead they use rune magic to ward the demons but those wards aren't 100% perfect.
-Demons are the worst aspects and tropes of Viking, blood lust tyrants who love knowing more than killing and causing pain. B demons want to conqueror and spread fear while R demons want to burn everything down. Looks like they got the horned helmet trope used for their horns as well.
- WU Istfell is the realm of the spirts of the dead who didn't die in an honorable battle, as well as monster and animals living a pale refection of life. Its found at the bottom of the world tree and look up you can see the roots. The light from Starheim and the cosmos barley streams in and is even more filtered by fog. Sprits are pretty much the same as they are in life but passionless (all WU and no R) and even Egon needs to use is magic to get them to take action.
-The Hall of the gods is also in Istfell after Valki tricked Toralf into sending it there in a story thats very similar to Útgarða-Loki and his tricks on Loki and Thor. They haven't bothered to organized enough to move it back to the realm it was in before (noted not one of the 10 in this set).
- UB Karfell the cold realm of the draugr (zombies). Once a wealthy kingdom its turned into a land of snow and undeath. A few human tribes still live in the Skybreen mountains.
-The draugr where born when Narfi betrayed his people and had Egon turn them into undead. They retain a range of memories from thier live often the nobel are more intelligent while the warriors and servants are less so (I'm guessing the U and B split).
-UG Littjara home of the shapeshifters. Made of many forests and lakes it can shift and change similar to the shapeshifters. Only a lake made by the elven gods is the only constant and its where shape shifts go to die.
-Shapeshifters wear elaborate wooden masks and cloak to cover their true forms. They can appear as most anything, most notable into a cosmic aura that lets them travel the cosmos but they often prefer to be in animal forms. The G shapeshifters like land animals (often bears) and the U shapeshifters like water animals. While seen as tricksters and villains in stories many shapeshifters live in peaceful curiosity with the other races, with them unaware who the shapeshifters really is. Nothing else is much know about what drives them apart from curiosity. They tend to only live in Littjara for a short time during thier childhood and near the end to dye. Said to be born from an unknown race who the elven gods help flee a tyrannical ruler.
-BG Skemfar is the elven realm. Its a shadowy seemly untouched natural land. The surviving seven elven gods are imprisoned in/as Jaspera trees which the elves worship. Each tree has a different magical properity which is based on the god who was imprisoned but only two are listed. There are also tunnels that where made from Koma traveling through the realm.
-G elves are wood elves, B are shadow elves. Said to be born when Halvar used an axe (odd Godsend like) that could split anything and cut the elves into the the two groups that only have recently stopped warning and united under Harold. Harold got a vision after eating a fruit from a Jaspera tree and sleeping under one and the guide said if he is killed it likely the two elf factions will go back to warring with each other.
- WB Starnheim home of the honorable dead and the Valkyries. Like a yule tree Starnheim lights up the rest of Kaldheim as a dog sun on the very top of the world tree. The honored dead get to feast and tell sagas of their lives. What seems to be a black lake is actually the blood of the first Valkyrie and the honored dead will float to the docks on longships. At the docks is twelve long ships for the Skoti who will one day be judge and may or may not be allowed to Starnheim themselves.
- Valkyries are being who judge the dead and who are worthy to enter Starnheim. They don't not obey the gods, born before them and will judge the gods when the day comes for the gods to die. W Valkyries are shepherds who value the heroic and brave and the B are reapers who punish cowards. Shepherds and reapers travel in pairs and both must agree on a mortal to let them into Starnheim. They tend to just watch and judge but have been known to join to help out a in a noble battle or rarely slaughter a whole town of who they judge as cowards.
-The Prismatic Path is the rainbow path the Valkyries use to lead the worthy to Starnheim.
- UR Surtland is the land of the giants. Land of frost and snow and volcanic mountains and even the wild life grows to giant sizes.
-U giants are frost giants who are intelligent and study magics and mystery. The R giants are fire giants who are strong brutish nomadic who love conflict. They often fights as frost giants hold all the best lands, magic and resources. Frost giants can be friendly towards humans like the omen speakers they trade knowelge with. Fire giants often will raid frost giants and other realms when they can. Kaldar is the king of fire giants and have a rivalry with Alrund who might have been a frost giant???
Dang this world building is dense, I wish we got art book for this world :/
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Tyver is fun, I do like him being a heroic version of a cocky jerk and love the idea he's been planes walking with out knowing it. Odd he isn't as eager to kill the gods as his bro.
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Frankly, there are three gods that do not have cards yet. Birgi, who was in a story. Reidane, who is confirmed to have a miniature. And Cosima.
As well as R, W and U each not yet having a rare god in what seems to be a cycle....
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So has anyone noticed Green and Black get the most gods? Given the Heinir before the Skoti, is it possible Kaldheim gods just are oriented towards Golgari colors?
I think its just kinda how the designs shook out (along with flavor to make it work out), Maro said they had a bunch of design ideas with the MDFC. Jorn and Esika are both cool with almost being hybrid colored (with what they are gods of making sense to be in base green) and story/theme wise makes a lot of sense to have the Loki analog and Tibalt on one card.
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But however this could be the first story when she goes for his neck and alrund had him run and plus maro confirmed she gets her axes later in the story these are daggers and even if it happens phyrexians know how to resurrect or this is a set up for glissa to become the green praetor
I find it odd they spoil this, this soon they tend to try and save some of the more story spoil stuff towards the ending of the season and we haven't even gotten Maros design article. They also often leave the full context of the story out of the cards (since it hasn't been written yet) so while I think this is likely gonna go how we think it will, I think there might be more.
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Oh so Tibalt kills Koll the dwarf uncommon legend...you can see it in the saga of Tibalt stealing the sword.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-5-battle-kaldheim-2021-02-03
-Again like Zendikar I think my only biggest issues is wanting more. A few things (the elves deciding not to kill the gods, Tyver switching around about planeswalkers, meeting the gods ect) all felt very rushed but I think it could have been fixed with more chapters on it.
-Biggest of note: Kaya doesn't kill Vorinclex.
-Kaya ends the story with Tyver and Niko being a walker mentor
-Vorinclex kills Esika (RIP) and takes some of the god exiliar. And while it seems like the likely candidate is Tezzeret the epilogue hints there might be more to this.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Also Family Tree;
Alrund is the patriarch, brother to Jorn and "married" to Cosima. They have three kids Toralf, Birgi, and Kolvori as well as Halvar being adopted by Alrund. Alrund tries to use rune magic to talk to the world tree which got us Tergrid and Esika so "children" of Alrund as well it seem. That just leaves Reidane, Egon and Valki as unknown but likely could be Alrund siblings. Reidane deeply likes the Beskir clan for saving Alrunds so she seems have a connection to him.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
That would check out.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Thats also a mystery to solved.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I also wound't be surprised if the "seed" or w/e in Tibalt also spread oil or something else to help Phyrexia. That way even if Kaya kills Vorinclex* w/e been done to Tibalt might still stick around.
*I think this likely but if SoI taught we should wait for the full context
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Pretty sure its Tibalt writing his own Saga. Which honestly works great here as an unreliable narrator its hard to tell fully whats going if we had a 3rd person omniscient point of view.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-3-saga-tibalt-2021-01-20
So Vorinclex inflected Tibalt with a "seed" and wanted Tibalt to cause a distraction for him, which Tibalt planned to do anyways.
Tibalt is on his way into being completed.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
As said its seems to be a fun nod at the mythology.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/planeswalkers-guide-kaldheim-part-2-2021-01-14
We focus on the other nine realms featured this time around;
-RW Axgard is home of the dwarves. Dwarves don't hold gold as valuable (as they have access to a lot) instead liking iron better but do like gold for how it looks.
-Dwarves are warrior artisan and are divided by the color into how they make their art. R dwarfs are more impulsive and passionate creators and more known for weapons while W dwarves are more meticulous (similar to the W dwarfs on Kaladesh) and more known more for the magic items.
-Dwarfs reach adulthood in their 100's.
-Its foretold that a cosmic giant named Goldeater will one day soon bring destruction of the dwarf city.
-RG Gnottvold is the realm of the trolls. Lots of untamed wilds with a second mtg nod to Stone Henge. Giants also have been known to live here it seems.
-Trolls come in two colors. Hagi are the R trolls that are basically goblins on this world minus all much of the comedic elements. Torga are the G trolls who are huge and unlike the Hagi are more in touch with nature and can have shamans. They often just sleep (often together in familiar units) for long period of time often having moss and plants and such grow over them until they seem to be part of the land. If woken up early they will rampage from days to weeks until they get sleepy again. I can relate.
-RB Immersturm is the realm of demons and is hell basically. The sky and water is on fire and volcanos are all over. Only life is demons and fire elemental elementals. When a non-demons is killed their blood is magically poured into a volcano which births new demons. The elf gods originally had magic items to trap the ways in and out of Immersturm to keep demons out but those items are now lost with the new gods. Instead they use rune magic to ward the demons but those wards aren't 100% perfect.
-Demons are the worst aspects and tropes of Viking, blood lust tyrants who love knowing more than killing and causing pain. B demons want to conqueror and spread fear while R demons want to burn everything down. Looks like they got the horned helmet trope used for their horns as well.
- WU Istfell is the realm of the spirts of the dead who didn't die in an honorable battle, as well as monster and animals living a pale refection of life. Its found at the bottom of the world tree and look up you can see the roots. The light from Starheim and the cosmos barley streams in and is even more filtered by fog. Sprits are pretty much the same as they are in life but passionless (all WU and no R) and even Egon needs to use is magic to get them to take action.
-The Hall of the gods is also in Istfell after Valki tricked Toralf into sending it there in a story thats very similar to Útgarða-Loki and his tricks on Loki and Thor. They haven't bothered to organized enough to move it back to the realm it was in before (noted not one of the 10 in this set).
- UB Karfell the cold realm of the draugr (zombies). Once a wealthy kingdom its turned into a land of snow and undeath. A few human tribes still live in the Skybreen mountains.
-The draugr where born when Narfi betrayed his people and had Egon turn them into undead. They retain a range of memories from thier live often the nobel are more intelligent while the warriors and servants are less so (I'm guessing the U and B split).
-UG Littjara home of the shapeshifters. Made of many forests and lakes it can shift and change similar to the shapeshifters. Only a lake made by the elven gods is the only constant and its where shape shifts go to die.
-Shapeshifters wear elaborate wooden masks and cloak to cover their true forms. They can appear as most anything, most notable into a cosmic aura that lets them travel the cosmos but they often prefer to be in animal forms. The G shapeshifters like land animals (often bears) and the U shapeshifters like water animals. While seen as tricksters and villains in stories many shapeshifters live in peaceful curiosity with the other races, with them unaware who the shapeshifters really is. Nothing else is much know about what drives them apart from curiosity. They tend to only live in Littjara for a short time during thier childhood and near the end to dye. Said to be born from an unknown race who the elven gods help flee a tyrannical ruler.
-BG Skemfar is the elven realm. Its a shadowy seemly untouched natural land. The surviving seven elven gods are imprisoned in/as Jaspera trees which the elves worship. Each tree has a different magical properity which is based on the god who was imprisoned but only two are listed. There are also tunnels that where made from Koma traveling through the realm.
-G elves are wood elves, B are shadow elves. Said to be born when Halvar used an axe (odd Godsend like) that could split anything and cut the elves into the the two groups that only have recently stopped warning and united under Harold. Harold got a vision after eating a fruit from a Jaspera tree and sleeping under one and the guide said if he is killed it likely the two elf factions will go back to warring with each other.
- WB Starnheim home of the honorable dead and the Valkyries. Like a yule tree Starnheim lights up the rest of Kaldheim as a dog sun on the very top of the world tree. The honored dead get to feast and tell sagas of their lives. What seems to be a black lake is actually the blood of the first Valkyrie and the honored dead will float to the docks on longships. At the docks is twelve long ships for the Skoti who will one day be judge and may or may not be allowed to Starnheim themselves.
- Valkyries are being who judge the dead and who are worthy to enter Starnheim. They don't not obey the gods, born before them and will judge the gods when the day comes for the gods to die. W Valkyries are shepherds who value the heroic and brave and the B are reapers who punish cowards. Shepherds and reapers travel in pairs and both must agree on a mortal to let them into Starnheim. They tend to just watch and judge but have been known to join to help out a in a noble battle or rarely slaughter a whole town of who they judge as cowards.
-The Prismatic Path is the rainbow path the Valkyries use to lead the worthy to Starnheim.
- UR Surtland is the land of the giants. Land of frost and snow and volcanic mountains and even the wild life grows to giant sizes.
-U giants are frost giants who are intelligent and study magics and mystery. The R giants are fire giants who are strong brutish nomadic who love conflict. They often fights as frost giants hold all the best lands, magic and resources. Frost giants can be friendly towards humans like the omen speakers they trade knowelge with. Fire giants often will raid frost giants and other realms when they can. Kaldar is the king of fire giants and have a rivalry with Alrund who might have been a frost giant???
Dang this world building is dense, I wish we got art book for this world :/
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-2-awaken-trolls-2021-01-13
Tyver is fun, I do like him being a heroic version of a cocky jerk and love the idea he's been planes walking with out knowing it. Odd he isn't as eager to kill the gods as his bro.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
As well as R, W and U each not yet having a rare god in what seems to be a cycle....
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I think its just kinda how the designs shook out (along with flavor to make it work out), Maro said they had a bunch of design ideas with the MDFC. Jorn and Esika are both cool with almost being hybrid colored (with what they are gods of making sense to be in base green) and story/theme wise makes a lot of sense to have the Loki analog and Tibalt on one card.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I find it odd they spoil this, this soon they tend to try and save some of the more story spoil stuff towards the ending of the season and we haven't even gotten Maros design article. They also often leave the full context of the story out of the cards (since it hasn't been written yet) so while I think this is likely gonna go how we think it will, I think there might be more.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"