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Quote from Urabrask »Quote from 5colors »Anything else on newish stuff that been added for Beyond Death? With no art book, novel or planeswalker guide I just realized this the only source for anything they added in since last time. I think there are a few things, I sadly don't have much time this week, I will try and get to it on the weekend. I'am still hoping for that book to come out one day There is a bit of lore for the woe strider under the Klothys section. "Walkers of Woe. The nightmarish creatures known as woe striders are said to be products of Klothys’s punishment. These beings descend from an age when some mortals learned to unshackle themselves from the strands of destiny. To what end is a question lost to time, but Klothys put a quick end to these blasphemers and eradicated nearly all knowledge of their methods. Ever since, the shades of these accursed mortals have walked the Underworld as woe striders, monstrosities endlessly seeking strands of destiny that they might use to replace their own discarded lots." - Mythic Odysseys of Theros And some more under the monster section "Woe striders form from the souls of those who’ve broken the bonds of destiny. Over centuries, these cosmic blasphemers transform into hunched, long-limbed horrors. Sadistic things, woe striders seek ways to reweave themselves into the tapestry of destiny. This leads them to search for answers within the bowels of other beings, performing murderous haruspicy in pursuit of their discarded cosmic purpose. When they fail to find answers, their unnatural cries cause reality to shudder, undermining magic and sane minds alike." - Mythic Odysseys of Theros Something else I found was the art for Perisophia, described as a member if the ruling council (the Twelve) of Meletis and some other new art. Edit: Found something new on Tymaret, if I'am not mistaken. When Phenax escaped the only one to witness it was an unremarkable soul called Tymaret. He shared what he saw with Erebos and received a cursed blessing from him. He restored him as a returned with the task of slaying Phenax. The tasked proved to be difficult, because Phenax was masked, because of that Tymaret slaughtered every mortal he encountered, confident that one of them would be Phenax. When Phenax became a god he evaded Tymaret, leaving him and his legion of Returend to endlessly, fruitlessly kill in Erebos name. With this in mind, it makes sense why Erebos choose Tymaret as his champion during THB. I also corrected the part with Phenax on my previous post. He sacrificed his identity to the memory draining waters and was able to cross the rivers that ring the world wrapped in a shred of Athero’s cloak (not actually hiding in the cloak). Since he had no identity, Athreos couldn’t detect him and Erebos couldn’t use his lash to pull him back.
Quote from 5colors »Anything else on newish stuff that been added for Beyond Death? With no art book, novel or planeswalker guide I just realized this the only source for anything they added in since last time.
Quote from Flisch »Quote from 5colors »I also can see the Bolas gods going 50/50 if they can be restored or are too far gone and are a monsters of the desert now. I'm on the fence about this. On the one hand, I'd love for the locust and the scarab god to be redeemed. On the other hand I'm genre savvy enough to doubt that. Unlike the other 5 gods, the three corrupted gods were changed pyhsically, which usually means they have become irredeemably corrupted, see Brisela and, well, basically most fantasy stories. I'm also struggling to see a beneficial locust god. Scarabs are fine, they are beneficial beings in original egyptian mythology as well, but locusts? Locusts always stand for being something negative. I suppose he could be a fertility god, maybe. Quote from Manasurfer »The new big bad will be a powerful enough mummy that started its own empire. I think it would be interesting if the "surviving" mummies start squatting in the ruins of Naktamun, transforming it into a necropolis of sorts.
Quote from 5colors »I also can see the Bolas gods going 50/50 if they can be restored or are too far gone and are a monsters of the desert now.
Quote from Manasurfer »The new big bad will be a powerful enough mummy that started its own empire.
Quote from Flisch »Quote from soramaro »I don't want to keep on going on and on about this, but "desire for independence" reads like a red thing to me. To expand on this, black does not care as much about independence as it does about power. Black has no qualms binding itself to a higher power, like demons, if it means to become more powerful. I doubt Skysail is really associated with Indatha as much as the planeswalkers guide makes it look. It's a nomadic "everywhere" kinda society after all.
Quote from soramaro »I don't want to keep on going on and on about this, but "desire for independence" reads like a red thing to me.