So Olivias true plot was to marry Edgar, get an artifact of moon silver and use both in a ritual with Sigarda to take control of the angels of Innistrad. I did get worried (even knowing Sigarda was gonna be ok) since I had forgotten the original vampires had been born from drinking the blood of an angel.
We also learn (I believe) that Sorin was unwillingly turned into a vampire.
I delight that in the end Olivia is getting Comeuppance for Midnight Hunt. She could have gotten something else but by insisting on taking the key and bringing eternal night it let Katlindas ghost right and free Sigarda, with Sorin giving them the moment they needed by attacking Olivia. Nice way to have all three forces who hate Olivia have a hand in taking her down.
Seems we are finally getting Runo Stromkirk. Also, there is new card for Anje Falkenrath and a progenitor of a new, Maurer, bloodline (who is, as I collected a character from the Plane Shift DnD/Magic crossovers.
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I dunno why but these Innistrad stories seem kinda Campy so far.
I think it’s due to the passing and lack of depth to some of the wider storytelling elements.
Everyone has heard of or knows one another already. Character knowledge or motivations are sometimes left unexplained or vague.
it’s like the unfinished sketch of visuals/scenes meant for a movie (or Netflix show…) to flesh out more fully with derper dialogue, combat and world building.
Yeah, exactly espressed. But this is the same persisting problem since the stories "restarted" with Zendikar Rising, and the main story is always crammed up into about six episodes.
Kaldheim: Big battles happening offscreen or just seen in passing.
Strixhaven: Big time jumps.
But this is all the same - pacing and shallowness problems, just in different forms.
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Unless we see it in the side story Friday we didn't get shown what story beat Fateful Absence is suppose to show.
Something of note is Katilda seemed to have given up her soul into the key which might hint 1) she's not dead and/or 2) the ritual can still be finished.
Yeah, that one is obvious. I guess that it was trapped in the Key and the ritual will finish.
As for Olivia, it was already apparent in the previous story, but they went in kind of different direction than when she was featured in the Shadows story. There she was more serious, IIRC. Here, for some reason, I really heard her lines in my head in the voice of Miranda Richardson as the Queenie in Blackadder II. "BORING"!!!
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The retcons (intentional or unintenrional) are REALLY getting on my nerves.
- there is a crapload of images with a moon in it. Guess on how many of them the Gatewatch glyph that was seared there when Emrakul sealed herself in the moon is visible?
I will spare you the time. NONE. No reminder of that, nothing has happened, move along.
- Thraben Exorcism depicts Kaya...with her daggers. Both of them were lost during the Kaldheim story and replaced by axes.
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- We have a world that has recently seen Eldrazi, a world where something bad is happening
- There is a mythical machine that can help it
- There is a key for the engine missing
. Both local and offworld planeswalkers converge here to show interest in it.
Wait a minute, where have I seen this before?
- Zendikar - Innistrad
- Lithoform Engine - Celestus
- Lithoform Core - Moonsilver key
- Nahiri, Jace - Arlinn, Teferi
The only difference is that this time, the walkers seem to collaborate. Otherwise the core story is quite similar.
Regarding Katilda, I loved the exchange:
"Who invited YOU here?"
"You did."
- referencing Olivia's Midnight Ambush
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Yeah, exactly espressed. But this is the same persisting problem since the stories "restarted" with Zendikar Rising, and the main story is always crammed up into about six episodes.
Kaldheim: Big battles happening offscreen or just seen in passing.
Strixhaven: Big time jumps.
But this is all the same - pacing and shallowness problems, just in different forms.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
Yeah, that one is obvious. I guess that it was trapped in the Key and the ritual will finish.
As for Olivia, it was already apparent in the previous story, but they went in kind of different direction than when she was featured in the Shadows story. There she was more serious, IIRC. Here, for some reason, I really heard her lines in my head in the voice of Miranda Richardson as the Queenie in Blackadder II. "BORING"!!!
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
The retcons (intentional or unintenrional) are REALLY getting on my nerves.
- there is a crapload of images with a moon in it. Guess on how many of them the Gatewatch glyph that was seared there when Emrakul sealed herself in the moon is visible?
I will spare you the time. NONE. No reminder of that, nothing has happened, move along.
- Thraben Exorcism depicts Kaya...with her daggers. Both of them were lost during the Kaldheim story and replaced by axes.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
- We have a world that has recently seen Eldrazi, a world where something bad is happening
- There is a mythical machine that can help it
- There is a key for the engine missing
. Both local and offworld planeswalkers converge here to show interest in it.
Wait a minute, where have I seen this before?
- Zendikar - Innistrad
- Lithoform Engine - Celestus
- Lithoform Core - Moonsilver key
- Nahiri, Jace - Arlinn, Teferi
The only difference is that this time, the walkers seem to collaborate. Otherwise the core story is quite similar.
Edgar's dead, perished during the Markov manor destruction. At least that's the consensus.
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