#inverfeim

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Two Inverfeim praetors! Ren Arinox, Praetor of The Lustrous Dialectic, the Legislative body of the Empire of Inverfeim, a bicameral arena that ensures that all imperial policy is tested in rhetorical battle, with debates between the chamber of the Praetor and that of her leader of opposition. and Skoltresh, General of the Burnished Onslaught, the army of the Empire, expanding across the isles and overseas for the glory of Phyrexia.

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Six Non-Phyrexian Drinkable Trinkets to Contrast the Six Phyrexian Drinkable Trinkets.

Susseryinthe- Absinthe but it jackpunches you in the mage organs. Been playing baldur's gate 3 what can I say? Realizing carrying around this stuff messed with my bard was amusing.

Sad Potion- is a sad potion. And something I can't remember if I've posted yet... Its been around for a while suffice to say.

Keg of Bumblebeer- Encountered in Witchlight campaign proper.

Riverspan Wine- A nod to the first invasion, and probably something that was in stock at the Aligheiri's Inn.

Inverfeim Decanter- From the world by @socialpoison. The delightfully victorian world of phyrexians not quite run amock.

Flask of Halo- Decima met an angel. Lady (or was it Dame) Angelhair hasn't sniffed anything ominous out yet. Just *knows* something is up with her.

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Playing with medieval phyrexian aesthetics!

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A fey knight of Ettony, Derryth! So as not to need iron in the presence of the fey, she was given mail of living bark, a maul of lumber, and indestructible cinderella-fit clogs!

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Okay worldbuilding thought for Inverfeim: So it actually has a Norman/Saxon/Medieval English vibe for the Phyrexians after the Iron Bog Witches make a deal with the Vassens who are invading the Isles. But these early Phyrexians are no longer in charge.

Baileoch resisted Phyresis because its lakes and rivers ran magically pure and clean, in a way which actually made it hard for the oil to take hold.

So I think the nature of the land actually causes Phyrexians to sustain over a lifetime, degeneration that leads to death - In other words, they age.

But they've been steadily polluting Inverfeim's water, with the runoff of the Great Work. Soon they won't die of old age. And the land will begin to wither. And then it's said by some that the redblood populace will be rendered eentirely obsolete. What happens to them next? That's a matter of politics.

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Alright did a flipwalker for Cullen and Sy'Rikk, and of course it HAS to be a meld card. Got the idea that the Mythic version could show a bit more of the moments where the two of them started to be less of their own people, Cullen when the Phyrexians began to experiment on him, and Sy'Rikk when they were first allowed to control Cullen.

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Drawing of Cullen and Sy'Rikk when Sy'Rikk still had full control! Cullen's body was altered immensely after he was discovered to be a planeswalker, such that Sy'Rikk, a phyrexian germ could live within him, controlling him. Much of his body is now a weapon made of a shapeshifting biometal, which contains Sy'Rikk, allowing the germ to control Cullen's body and shape into a manner of weapons while also preventing Cullen from getting infected with Phyresis. The Phyrexians of Inverfeim tasked Sy'Rikk to be the beginning of a new interplanar Phyrexian Empire, which they took to with gusto.

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okay talking about Inverfeim makes me realize I need to design a fit for Elspeth, because I would ideally want her story to conclude there, where she was born.

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I do apologies if that came out as insensitive, I find your planes rather interesting and full of story potential. It is always nice to see planes of a more darker lean. I particularly like the Victorian industrial aged plane powered by phyrexian oil, that is such a cool concept. I actually think my Planeswalker Shepherd would be attracted to such a plane, tending to the downtrend redbloods and setting up one of his churches of universal mercy.

No worries, it wasn't! But yeah, I tend to worldbuild dystopias. Glad you like Inverfeim though! Most redbloods actually want to receive phyresis so that (if they don't die) they can become a blackblood. The aristocracy don't enjoy the thought of playing a more crowded field, so they try to restrict it. Of course I doubt this is a service Shepherd would provide.

aside, Shepherd sounds like he would really get along with my fanwalker Vanya!

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What are the names of this planes? Also don’t worry to much about the guns some older mtg cards have fantasy firearms on them.

On guns heh, I'm aware. That they're still absent even when they ought to not be is a ratings thing nowadays I believe.

But my fanplanes!

-When it still had its original culture, though this was many years ago, it was called Baileoch. However, the Phyrexians conquered it. Its name now is a corruption of the word Ynafem, meaning "perfection" in Phyrexian, but it, like many other Phyrexian words, have been mangled by the large second-class redblood population the blackbloods don't care to teach the proper language. Now it is known as Inverfeim.

-The plane where Primerium, a sort of fuel made of mana, which can be extracted and utilized mechanically, lending itself to great technological advances in warfare, as well as battles over the control of such resources, is called Vestria. The continent of Vestria was formerly made of five warring nations that had grown to be colonial powers, but they've since been dissolved to form a single Vestrian Empire.

-The post-apocalyptic world is known as Axin. It's Aetherstorm has in the last 60 years, wrought havoc on the plane, driving people to desperation ans violence. What many don't know is that the storm is a vortex, pulling the world's matter and energy out into the Eternities, replacing it with volatile, deateuctive Aether. Their world was once a lush paradise, made by a planeswalker when his powers were godlike. He tried to return those powers, channeling the Eternities through the miles of artifice he built into his world's capital, but failed, dooming himself, and it along with him.

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going insane from imagining phyrexians as brits, this is stuck in my head, and I must subject you to it as well: (To the tune of Rule Britannia): "Rule Phyrexia! Phyrexia, rule the planes. Phyrexians will never, never, never be in chains!"

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missed Fanwalker Friday this week, but whatever this is my fanwalker, Cullen.

He's a human from my headcanon homeplane for Elspeth, and his spark was discovered by the Phyrexians ruling the plane (A little quirk of theirs is that they currently rule over fleshies for a number of reasons, but that can change very soon.) They made his body a vessel to hold a Phyrexian germ named Sy'rikk who puppets his now shapeshifting, biometal body, with the goal of taking over other planes.

They get their ass kicked by Elspeth and Cullen is able to regain control of his body enough to eject the evil slime baby from it, leaving them weak and helpless without a host. He sadly realized he'd need Sy'rikk's help to get things done with his body the way it is, and he gets Sy'rikk back in there on more equal terms.

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What are the souls of your fan planes like?

Ooh, fun question! Baileoch's soul would have looked like a water elemental. A confluence of the currents of five rivers, all flowing into one graceful, humanoid form, gentle and serene. Now that it's being transformed, the soul of Inverfeim would be black and oily, water replaced with viscous oil. It would look confused, and in pain, with phyrexian machinery stuck all through it. Sicarius's soul would look like a star, surrounded by a swirling nebula of dust and gas. Shining brightly, with a shifting form. Vestria's soul would look like heavy machinery, harsh and industrial, bristling with weapons. Very brutal and utilitarian in appearance. Axin's soul would look like a storm of aether and dust, rolling through a very rusted and ramshackle frame of metal and artifice, barely contained by the makeshift frame.

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I truly am in something of a state, because I want to create some kind of link between Inverfeim and New Capenna so bad... One option is some kind of overlaid plane deal the way Rath was, but Inverfeim happened basically the same way New Phyrexia did while Capenna had Old School Phyrexians... I'm also considering there having been some attempts at cooperation between the phyrexians of New Capenna and Inverfeim somehow.