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shardssystem · 2 years ago

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A Planeswalker Story - Overview

I recently asked for advice on how I should approach an ongoing writer’s block and drain of enthusiasm, and collating the results suggests that people want to see the overall plans I have for going forward, and hoping I can get to a point that I feel engaged to continue. So with that in mind, let’s go from the top:

First, the published pieces:

Chapter One: Once Was Lost - Set on the plane of Melenas, common farmer Liya al-Amundi runs afoul of a deserter in the ongoing war between two nations, ending up being falsely accused of unlawful use of magic and condemned to death by hanging. At the instant of her demise, her spark ignites, severing spirit from body and allowing her to persist past death. She uses her new-found possession ability to watch over her now orphaned son as he lives his life and gains a family of his own, using his passing as her cue that her time to remain on her home plane had come to an end, and ventured forth to explore the Multiverse with eternity ahead.

Chapter Two: Dream A Little Dream - Liya travels to Theros, inhabiting Myka, a terminally ill child with a connection to Nyx. She gets noticed by Erebos, due to her undead nature, and enlisted into service to usher souls to his domain across the planes. She uses the opportunity of a renewed youth to learn to read, making friends with another child, Spiros. The two learn of a plot to assassinate the king, which Liya sacrifices herself to disrupt, knowing that Myka would have been dead already if not for her possession. As she dies for a second time, she reveals that Spiros has he skill of magic within him as Myka did. In the future, Spiros, a now renowned warrior hero, is visited by a mysterious individual seeking information.

Chapter Three: Future Past - Liya travels to Tarkir, possessing Chaka, an outrider scout of the Abzan house. A spokesperson of the Temur summons Liya to attend a vision ceremony after one of their seers foresaw her arrival. She receives a prophecy cryptically concerning her personal future and how she might overcome the dangers ahead. Liya pretends to be magically weakened to cover for her lack of combat ability to train. As predicted, a Sultai force presses into Abzan territory, as Liya is given command. She encounters a fearsomely skilled foe who recognises her by name. Confused, she doesn’t notice as a dragon descends to blast the Sultai. The mysterious combatant melts into an oily-substance before disappearing in a similar, planeswalking fashion before Liya’s eyes. Before she can investigate, the dragon condemns the Abzan for engaging with necromancy, sensing Liya’s spiritual presence and using that as evidence before obliterating the entire troop, and reporting to the Dragonlord Dromoka, potentially setting the future of the clan in jeopardy. Liya attempts to apologise as her spark pulls her home.

Chapter Four: Pulling Loose The Threads - Further honing her combat skills, Liya trains on Melenas until an eclipse signals her need to planeswalk. She travels to Innistrad, finding the body of Claude, a hunter, an experiences the opposite side of the gender divide for the first time. She returns Claude to his home in Gavony and spends time with Claude’s wife Cynthia, culminating in her first shared sexual experience since her death, and first time ever as a male. Upon waking, Liya learns that she had spoken in her sleep, revealing names of people from other worlds. She attempts to confess her existence to Cynthia, but is thrown out of the house instead, the names believed to be women in other villages. Liya takes a young boy, Derrich, on a hunt as an excuse to be out of the home situation. Unfortunately for Derrich, nightfall reveals Claude to be a werewolf, and losing control, Liya kills and devours the boy. In the morning, her form reverts to that of Claude, and she respectfully buries the boy’s remains. Still needing to know the next step of the prophecy, she retreats into the woods, away from town. Liya learns that by accepting the transformation, she retains control. She also encounters Nahiri, the shaper mentioned in the prophecy, and follows her to witness her confrontation with Sorin Markov. Liya gets cornered by Avacyn, and confined to the Helvault alongside Nahiri in her spirit form, causing 1000 years of soul-rending pain as her spark fights to recall her to Melenas while the Helvault fights to keep her contained. When the Helvault is destroyed, Liya returns home, finding her magic changed. No longer able to choose a host at will, she is now placed into one at random; a fact she discovers inadvertently by traveling to Ravnica, and taking over an aspiring Rakos entertainer Jasen. She is overwhelmed by the sudden situation and runs into the streets, her new-found claustrophobia and fear of angels causing her to faint at the sight of a Boros guard.

Now we get to the unfinished pieces:

Chapter Five: A Tale Of Two In The City - Damzak, goblin tinkerer experiences a strange event causing her to pass out, but awakens with her mind racing with new thoughts and ideas that eventually get her a position with the Simic Combine as a biomancer, specialising in Ooze metaphysiology, and begins work in constructing a serum of immortality based on the ooze’s ability to reproduce, to many failing attempts, leaving herself immutably morphed into half-ooze. Meanwhile, Zoe has trouble dealing with her burgeoning abilities of precognition. After a sharp impact to the head, she encounters a strange boy who looks after her. As they spend time together, he reveals his name to be Kolya. Zoe recognises the feelings of gender dysphoria as she grows, without knowing the cause, an Kolya helps her on a path to transition, teaching her, now him, what it means to be a boy, and taking him to a therapist that helps Zoe fully realise his intent. The two grow closer as friends. Zoe asks his parents to help with the medical/physical side of his transition, but they refuse, denying his rights. Zoe runs away from home, intending to live alone. As he tells Kolya, Kolya reveals that he is nothing more than a hallucination caused by the injury combining with the precognitive powers, and is essentially his own future self guiding him along the path to where he could be happy. Zoe eventually accepts this, and changes his name to Kolya as he recognises it to be the name of his own grandfather, an a name he had been considering anyway. The newly minted Kolya signs on with the Azorius guild; his precognitive abilities useful to them. Struggling on his wage to afford transition, Kolya enlists the help of an underground Rakdos-aligned surgeon to handle his top surgery, but is unable to o further. The surgeon guides him towards Damzak, who is still working on her theory. In return for providing a sample of genetic material for transitioning hormones to be synthesized, Damzak would provide Kolya with what he felt he needed to become a man. Secretly, Damzak also used this sample in her project, getting results for the first time. However, the project goes awry as the ooze awakens and kills its creator before fleeing into the sewers. Though his supply of hormones had been secured through Damzak’s will to maintain progress on all her experiments, Kolya feels he owes the goblin closure, and seeks out the escaped ooze. He encounters it in the sewers, awakening to its own sapience. It reaches out telepathically, recognising Kolya as its genetic donor and introduces itself as Caidi, an alteration of the project designation “KD”. Unwilling to slay the creature, Kolya takes them home, and learns more about them and their abilities. One day, Kolya encounters a screaming elf in Rakdos colours being questioned by an angelic Boros Legionaire, and takes him away to a nearby doctor.

Chapter Six (Ravnica) - Liya awakens on Ravnica, being assisted by one of the Azorius, Kolya. She tries to explain, but ends up sounding mentally unwell. Not heartless, Kolya takes Liya to see the therapist that had helped him in his dark times, Ji’maz. In confidence, Ji’maz reveals himself to Liya to be a planeswalker like herself, using telepathy so she can communicate as herself, not through her host body. Liya recalls that upon possessing Jasen, she heard his voice whisper that he “just wants to be accepted”. As time goes on, Liya adjusts to her new understanding as Ji’maz helps her get over the accumulate traumas of her planeswalking life to date. Liya gets set up with a job in a bakery, utilising her homemaking skills, under the guidance of former Selesnya guildmember Elnaya, who is also brought into the circle of people who know Liya’s true identity and planeswalking situation. Liya makes friends with Kolya and Caidi, eventually using Caidi’s skill in telepathic construction to form a more serious relationship between the two and they become lovers on a mental level. Liya gets Jasen accepted to the Selesnya under Elnaya’s recommendation after finding out that’s what his goal had been before she had possessed him; he was too nervous to go against his family’s wishes to join the Rakdos. Feeling Liya had reached a level of comfort with her abilities, Ji’maz suggests she take a planeswalk for her own mental health, to prove that it’s not all bad out there, and to emphasise that imprisoning people against their will via possession might not be the healthiest thing. Liya agrees, and resigns herself to being less connected each time she visits a plane for her host’s sake.

Chapter Seven (Kaladesh) - Liya inhabits the body of Elra, a skilled Dwarven pilot and racer recovering from a near-fatal crash leaving her with an artificial arm and leg, imparting Liya with a desire to “just win one more time”. Liya uses Elra’s inherent magic to modify her racing engine with the help of her pit crew, and sets her up to race in an upcoming tournament by qualifying on Elra’s behalf.. Following her win, Liya is congratulated by a pale woman with an odd accent before leaving the plane, her adventure successful.

Chapter Eight (Lorwyn) - While possessing the form of Galumvol, a treefolk, Liya encounters Yri, a faerie who is curious about her friend’s sudden movement; Galumvol is apparently known for being a stationary figure, and self-proclaimed defender of the forest. Thinking this has something to do with her request to “warn everybody” that the treefolk left her, they team up to investigate the potential problem. The pair discover that a lingering remnant wave of the Great Aurora is soon to pass over the land of Lorwyn; not changing it back to Shadowmoor, but acting as a refresh, erasing the memories of all the residents of the plane, save those in the palace of the fae. Yri and Liya try to save as many people as they can in the time they have, but get caught outside as the wave approaches. Yri freaks out, not wanting to lose her memories, and her spark ignites, catching the slower-moving Liya in its wake. She “awakens” still in Galumvol’s body, but the whisper tells her that her job is done; she can go and he can rest as easy as he could. Confused, Liya planeswalks away.

Chapter Nine (Equilor) - Immediately following the events of the previous chapter, we follow Yri as she experiences her first planeswalk, exploring the deceased plane of Equilor. She meets the only other living being on the plane, a pale man with an odd accent who is studying the plane to learn about its existence, and why it seems to be at the end of its life. He explains what being a Planeswalker is to the faerie, how it works, and introduces himself as Neris. Together, they explore more and learn the history of Equilor that is left to learn. Seemingly disappointed he didn’t get what he was seeking, Neris departs, but tells Yri of a place where she might “find a friend or two to help her”: Ravnica.

Chapter Ten (Ravnica) - Liya inhabits the body of Zoda, a Loxodon cleric of the Orzhov. She meets back up with Kolya, who is untrusting at first, until Caidi’s magic reveals the truth. Kolya recieves reports of a troublemaker in the markets, and Liya follows to find Yri trying to steal food, not knowing about the concept of money and trade. A small spark of memory flashes in Liya’s mind as she recalls Yri’s name. After a brief questioning, Yri learns about Liya and is brought into the inner circle using Caidi’s telepathy to show her true from and learn of their adventure on Lorwyn and Yri’s first planeswalk. Yri gets a job as a messenger with the secretive Dimir syndicate owing to her illiteracy and tiny size. Though Liya is enjoying her growing relationships in her home away from home, she starts experiencing nightmares of hurting people, culminating with a belief that she had planeswalked in her sleep, until she realises she’s possessing the body of the deserter that invaded her home on Melenas, leading to her own death. She learns that the man’s name was Vasil Iashvili, an orphan from the neighbouring country that her husband had been drafted into war against. Whenever Liya tries to avoid interacting with her past self, she reverts to the beginning. She tries a variety of methods to change her own fate, all of them unsuccessful. She finally gives in, and reenacts the memory as it originally happened, and learns that the intruder was killed by the townsfolk after her past self was taken away to be hanged, but he possesses a similar power to Liya. Instead of being a spirit though, he remained in his own body; a living corpse. Not lonog after this discovery, she is taken by a force of creatures hidden beneath the earth of Melenas, learning that they are Phyrexians attempting to reach their home. They torture and maim Liya’s host in a process they call “compleation”, causing the man’s spark to ignite properly. Liya learns the man ended up traveling to a Phyrexian stronghold on Dominaria; information that is imparted to her host, and subsequently her, during the remaining compleation process and mental domination. Liya is flung out of the memory to learn it was just a dream engineered by a shadowy figure who simply laughs at her pain. The figure reveals that they had gotten this information from the man himself, and thought it would be fun to deliver more than his warning that he was coming. They also show Liya another nightmare; the man believes that if Liya hadn’t managed to planeswalk away when she did, she would’ve been the victim of the Phyrexian’s research, and the figure shows what could have been: Liya, Herald Of The Phyrexians. Liya wakes up screaming.

Chapter Eleven (Ravnica) - Still shaken by her nightmare, Liya tries to calm down. She brushes Kolya, Caidi, and Yri aside and tries to walk it off. Out of nowhere, she is knocked down by a tackle from behind. The assailant reveals himself to be a cloaked skeleton, dripping a thick black ooze. As soon as her calls her by her real name, she recalls the voice: the Sultai fighter that vanished before the dragon attack on Tarkir. He goes on the mention that she is the cause of his pain, and the pieces fall into place; this isn’t some random assailant, this is Vasil out for revenge. Vasil mentions that he felt the pull to Ravnica, following Liya’s travels but alsoo from an external source. Liya apologises to the dormant Zoda in her own mind, and attempts to planeswalk away to save herself and seek help, only to find her ability blocked by the appearance of the Immortal Sun. War had come to Ravnica. The two undead planeswalkers struggle for a moment before they feel a calling. They slavishly follow it, walking together, finding the dragon Nicol Bolas and the necromancer Liliana Vess summoning an army of zombies. Curious as to their appearance, Liliana learns of both of their true natures, stops Bolas from killing them right there, and commands them to join join the Dreadhorde on their mission to find planeswalkers and harvest their sparks. They would of course sacrifice themselves too, but after they were useful. Between Vasil’s natural combat abilities and Liya’s borrowed clerical healing, they proved an effective team. Unable to control her own body, Liya meets Ji’maz, and throws him to the metaphorical wolves, as Vasil takes his spark and life. They encounter the trio of Kolya, Caidi, and Yri trying to help civilians. They were pleased to see Liya was okay until Caidi tried to reach out, warning the others of the danger. Before Liya and Vasil could catch Yri, their spark-wielding target, the compulsion was broken. While the chase had been going, the Gatewatch had succeeded in ending the threat. Vasil took his opening to escape, not fancying his chances against Liya with her friends to back her up. In the following cleanup, Jace Beleren senses Liya’s domination of Zoda, and reads her mind, learning of her role under Liliana. She is given a chance to explain herself, and reveals her true name and nature to the mind-mage. Apologetic that she had gotten caught up in their conflict, Jace asks the elementalist Nissa Revane for a favour. Nissa entwines Liya’s spirit to the leylines of Ravnica, granting her a proper home on the plane which would counter Melenas’s ownership of her soul and restoring her magic-borrowing capabilities. In return, as she fades back to Melenas, temporarily unable too be heard, she swears a her version of the Gatewatch Oath, overheard from a conversation between Jace and Gideon.

Chapter Twelve (Ecruna) - Liya travels to the plane of Ecruna, a plane of endless daylight. She discovers that she is in her own form, not possessing anyone. This is due to the nature of death on the plane; direct sunlight destroys the dead, but they otherwise continue to live normally. Liya learns of a ritual designed for people who no longer wish to linger as one of the shadowkin, and witnesses one such event as a person is conveyed to a cave and engulfed in light. Some people go missing, and Liya assists in the search. She discovers a secret tunnel in the cave and finds that the people who seek their final end aren’t being given that at all, but kept prisoner by a mad scientist trying to research how to reverse the effects of the plane, and allow him to walk in the sunlight without fear. Liya tricks the scientist into standing in direct light and he is destroyed. Before she can free the others, she finds them already freed, but mostly annihilated. She asks a survivor what happened, and they tell her of a place stranger who wanted to talk to the scientist, and lashed out when they discovered Liya’s intervention. She departs the plane, mulling over the new information.

Chapter Thirteen (Ravnica) - Liya takes time to rest and spend time with her friends, and try to overcome her fear of angels as she possesses the body of Brakne, an angelic Boros legionnaire. Yri shows her some of her favourite spots around the city, usually all but impossible to access without flight. The two bond as Yri talks about her honest feelings regarding her spark.

Chapter Fourteen (Sym-Po) - Liya travels to the plane of Sym-Po, having to adjust to life without sound due to the plane’s effects. She learns rudimentary sign language, and enters into the Harvest Festival, choosing cooking as her specialty, but is outclassed by the aesthetic styles of the competition. Liya picks up some tricks to improve her technique for her part-time job at Elnaya’s bakery.

Chapter Fifteen (Dominaria) - Vasil recovers and plans, as he recalls his life. We learn that time moves a lot faster on Melenas than other parts of the Multiverse, and that Vasil played a significant role in the Phyrexian conquest of Mirrodin, as well as other nameless worlds.

Chapter Sixteen (Amonkhet) - Liya travels to Amonkhet, and assists with the restoration efforts. The surviving god of the plane, Hazoret, senses Liya’s presence and asks for an explanation. She explains herself, and has a discussion about the nature of deific entities, as it relates to Erebos’s deal with her.

Chapter Seventeen (Arcavios) - Liya travels to Arcavios, to visit Ji’maz’s homeland. She has to balance her host Aavai’s study schedule with her own desire to explore and learn from other departments. While there, Liya meets the pale woman she last saw on Kaladesh, who gives her name as Syren. She is interested in necromancy, but is drawn to Liya after Liya lets slip that they’ve met before.

Chapter Eighteen (Mercadia) - Liya travels to Mercadia and gets embroiled in a plot between rival merchant families.

Chapter Nineteen (Plin) - Yri gets bored and begs Liya to take her on a planeswalking adventure. She agrees, and the two arrive on Plin and have to adjust to the dual-bodied nature of the plane’s magic. They discover the history of The Coterie, and the dangers they represent.

Chapter Twenty (Alara) - Liya travels to Alara

Chapter Twenty-One (Fiora) - Liya travels to Fiora. A confrontation with The Coterie is teased, but the three escape before Liya can seek aid.

Chapter Twenty-Two (Dominaria) - Liya travels to Dominaria and ends up in the body of a Sliver, corrupted by an external hivemind. Struggling to make sense of the alien sensations, Liya ends up completing the sliver’s mission to betray its entire colony to the other hivemind. Liya feels terrible that this seemed necessary.

And this is what I currently have, even as my brain attempts to spin more. But at least now anyone who was every interested in Liya’s story is roughly on the same page I am, stuck as I am on Chapter 5.

#mtg oc #mtg community #fan writing #fanwalker #fanplane #Liya al-Amundi #yri #Vasil Iashvili #kolya #caidi #The Coterie

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little-red-rabbit · 2 years ago

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How do you think your fanplanes would handle Phyrexian invasion? at least based off of what we’ve seen so far

Now that the story for March of the Machine is out and we have a better understanding of just what the invasion of the Multiverse entailed, here is how my planes faired @leafdrake-haven.

Floramore

As the clear sun blessed skies above the verdant plane where ripped asunder, the branches of the invasion tree quickly Sought the few population centers upon the largely rural world.

One of which was Soleildorée, the palace of the Sun king and where dozens of aristocratic courts fraternized on the daily. The branch came crashing into the protective charms that shielded those with from harm external harm, but which also prevented those with from harming each other. But the elaborate crafted enchantments could only buy them a few moments before giving way. It was a slaughter, the guards stationed there where largely ceremonially, their duties consisting of escorting nobles who feel out of favorer off the primacies.

The pregnant Queen Elenora was escorted to safety by her loyal thorns threw the maze of catacombs beneath the palace. As with in the grand ball room, amongst the cacophony of panicking nobles, those who had long been plotting against King Alphonse struck. The young king felt a blade slip into his back as a honeyed voice whispered bitterly in his ear. "Dusk has come for the kingdoms of the living, now rises the king of the blood moon," No one even notices the alabaster sun bleed out upon the marble floor.

In the west on a hill overlooking the malfaisant wood is the last great castle from the time of the verdant kings. A branch having planted itself in the courtyard and the sound of a massacre could be heard. But it is not the inhabitance of the ancient keep that die this day, but those foolish enough to defile the home of Duke Lyle the Dhampir master of the hunt. The whirlwind of death that takes place there leaves the Phyrexian in reeling in honor. As their precious oil bubbles and hisses against Lyle's cold pale skin, before flaking away harmlessly like autumn leaves.

For it is in this moment that this plane so abundant in organic life let it's distain for those who had come to despoil it known. Across fields of wilding flowers herds of unicorns manifest from between beams of sunlight, horns lowered in a living phalanx that crashes into the Phyrexian host. Swarms of fairies swirls long the branches of the invasion tree, sticking prickles, stolen needles and bits of glass between the armor of the unnatural invaders. In small towns all across the plane errant knights come to their defense, reliving the glory of the age of chivalry. As covens of witches tap into the fear and panic flooding Floramore to weave curses of power not seen before.

For if ever there was a plane of nightmares for the Phyrexians it is here, where even the oil in their veins feels as if boils.

Out of all my planes Floramore fairs the best, below are short snippets of what happens with a few other others if you interested.

Hyverta

Being a planeswalker who is actively looking for allies to aid him in his fight with the Discordance, Nivel knew of the Phyrexian's planes to invade the multiverse. Sadly there was little he could do to rally his home in defense of another threat as it was actively being torn apart by the first. So when the sky shattered and great tendrils wound their wat to the cities not yet laid low by rampaging elementals, the half orc thought this was the end. Only the Phyrexian found the Discordance every bit as vexing as the natives of Hyverta did. Their magic acted erratically, turning upon them as it became sentient and hostile. The entire plane descending into anarchy.

Lochtamor

The great powers of Lochtamor had long been preparing for war with one another so the Phyrexians found them neither unprepared, nor lacking. The highlands erupted into battle before the first branch even touched the ground. The clans of cat giants found there are warriors to their core and always eager for a fight and meet the invaders with a ferocity they where unexpecting. Above the bright isle star faced angels did battle with twisted mockers of their forms as below the polished armor of the kingdoms defenders dripped with oil. The invading forces that found their way to the Thurngul forest quickly became lost in the maze like woodland. The elves of moon and shadow used their magic to isolate their would be conquers and pick them off one by one. But al is not well for one of the Invasion trees branches found it's way to the heart of the plane, Loch Tamor, the great lake where the lay lines of the world meet. Already the surface of the lake bubbles with glistens as a great storm threatens to drown the plane oil. Earthquakes rock the lands as drakes and wyrms burst forth twisted into phyrexian likeness, as the primordial elder dragons drown in the essence of phyrexia.

Kamakshetra

The great jungle plane only has one population to speak of, the grand city Zataparva. The branches of the Invasion tree rip the city the spans the Bo river in two, sending great portions of it crashing into the waters below. The battle for the city was over before it even started, the population fleeing into the relative safety of the jungles. Those that could fight engaging in gorilla warfare as the man-eating plants and chimera beasts prey upon the invaders. All around them the thousand avatar and incarnation of the goddess, for who for the plane in named for, brings her fury down upon Norn's orthodoxly.

Crusabella

Crusabella knew of the coming invasion long before it happened for those gifted with visions of future spoke in unison of metal demons pouring from the sky upon the tendrils of a Eldredge kraken. The church had to put many of them down as black tear poured from their eyes and their bodies became hosts of metal demons. But when the invasion happened they could not have foreseen that the longest held prophecy, the one given by the prophetess the church was founded, upon would come to pass. The halls of the Candled Thrown where thrown upon and the angel gather soul flooded back upon the plane. The souls inhabit anything they can, the finely crafted marble armors made by the church, gargoyles and even entire ships as the gathered with the living to bright back this invaders.

Sucrotopolis

The lands made entirely of sugar and spice was in the mist of a brutal civil war. So when this strange being made of meat and metal came spilling from the sky the Sugar and Spices put aside their difference momentarily to fight a common threat. Though the Phyrexians quickly discover that everything on this plane was organic, but a form of processed organic material that their oil could not interact with in any significant way. So just as quickly as the invasion of Sucrotopolis started the branches of the Invasion Tree returned back threw the portals it opened as their forces would best be used elsewhere. So with that distraction out of the way the Sugars and the Spices got back to killing one another.

#thank you for the ask #mtg #mtg ocs #mtg planes #fanplane #Floramore #Hyverta #Kamakshetra #Crusabella #Sucrotopolis

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ufcosmo · 2 years ago

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okay i might be the most bouncearound motherfucker of all time because i said i would make a terraria fancomic series but now im making a mtg fanplane and fanset with fancards. and you will see me fucking working on it somehow somewhere. mark my words

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connoissuer-of-fine-vines · 3 years ago

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You said that on Auraan the worship of the Arcons is like ancient Greek mystery cults. So why not have the main religion revolve around the mono white Arcon of Order with the smaller cults dedicated to it's multi colored offshoots. You could also drop the mono white Arcon entirely and just have the 4 white aliened Arcons. Maybe the each rule a potion of Auraan to the north, east, south and west. Maybe they when born when Arcon of Order was shattered? Just some ideas as I love world building.

Those are some neat ideas. You're helping me realize that maybe 'cult' may be too strong of a word to use. The denizens of Auraan don't exactly worship the archons like actual religious deities. It's a lot more like the Chinese philosophies and how each group has chosen to follow a certain archon on what is the best way to live life. They don't forsake all others, they just follow the teachings/example of the archon they choose as the most important.

For the most part each archon is associated with a certain territory. The Archon of Order is most closely associated with the nomads in the savannas, the Archon of Knowledge with those that live along the tropical archipelagos and rain forests, the Archon of Passion with those in the craggy highlands, and the Archon of Harmony with those in the alpine forests. The Archon of Finality has the smallest following and she claims no territory though the mangrove swamps, highland peat bogs, and other untamed areas are attributed to her.

#mtg fanplane #mtg fanwalkers #auraan #ask

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leafdrake-haven · 3 years ago

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Oh wow! I wondered if the theft mentioned in the other post had something to do with a dragon, but I hadn’t imagined there were 5 more on the surface and one died D: I love the mirror with the dwarves and elves and the 10 dragons. It’s sad what happened but is definitely a fascinating bit of world-building and history!

So, there are hints that some of the land dwelling species of ocaelum might not have originated there, and that the life trees were possibly created to accommodate them. The PW guide doesn't actually know how this happened, but us there an answer?

There very much is an answer, and it involves more than just them. I'll keep the rest under a read more because it's definitely not common knowledge any planeswalker or even person on the plane would be able to glean.

The land-dwelling species of Ocaelum didn't use to live under Lifetrees, but the "Old World" they come from is misleading, it isn't another plane. They originate from the surface of Ocaelum, back when it was a thing. As far as how that happened, one would need to go back very far...

To the genesis of Ocaelum. The guide sometimes refers to the "sun below", the one at the center of the world that provides its warmth to the core and the lower waters, from which the Elder Smiths were born and draw their power from. Ocaelum also has a second sun, the sun above, that provides warmth and light to the surface world, much closer to what people are used to from other planes. The Depths were actually the part in-between, isolated from both suns' warmth and light.

Similarly to the sun below, Elder Dragons were born from the sun above, five of them, complementary to the Elder Smiths, their cousins. They cared for the surface world like the Smiths do for the core, and they might have grown the Elves of Ocaelum like the Smiths forged the dwarves. Back then, the Core extended through the land all the way up to the surface, and even though the Smiths themselves stuck closer to the sun below, they exchanged and had respectful relationship through elves and dwarves with their cousins of the air.

Until one died. Five powerful merfolks from the depths forged an uneasy alliance and managed to kill one of the Elder Dragons of the surface. Those five necromancers then raised the corpse under their thrall, and then, through it, started to steal power from the sun above and split it between each other. Those would use that power to become the Shiver of Kings, unifying all the Depths under their rule and forming an Empire. Despite their many differences over the centuries, they still need each other. One of them dying would release their part of the sun, and none of them know if they could hold to their part if that happened.

As the Shiver killed their brethren and stole the sun, the Elder Dragons felt it, of course. But not soon enough that they wouldn't be significantly weakened by the time they'd find and try to stop the Shiver. Or at least, that wouldn't be likely. So they did their best to save what they could of the surface, by entrusting it to their cousins and the sun below.

There was an exodus through the core and magic both, as the Elder Dragons created the first lifeseeds, and then poured the remainder of their life into them to grow them into the first Lifetrees in a timely manner. The four Councils, or types of Lifetrees are named after (part of the name of) the four living Elder Dragons that created them. The light of each lifetree contains, within it, a faint echo of the sun above.

The surface is now completely unlivable. Walled off by a few kilometers of ice at the end of the Depths and that cover any remainder there might have been of the world it once was. There's barely an atmosphere left, and it is definitely not a breathable one. The magic and leylines up there are long dead. Planeswalking there would trip the same kind of alarms and safety as planeswalking into a wall or in the middle of an active volcano, so as far as planeswalkers are concerned, there isn't a "surface".

Similarly, the upper tunnels of the core, the ones that go through the depths and formed the land above are flooded where they're not frozen and just part of the depths. Without enough warmth to keep alive the fungus, all the entrances let the water in. It is mostly stopped when you get deep enough that the sun below supports the fungal life, but what trickles down forms streams, waterfalls and river in the Core proper, and their sources of water. Spells to make ocean water drinkable are very, very, very common on Ocaelum, it's how all factions that need it get access to it.

The Shiver was too busy stealing the sun, reveling in their new power and conquering their empire to care much about the exodus, the ground waters were too bright and warm for merfolks to care about them anyway.

The Spires themselves know what happened, but elves, humans and coral alike are kept mostly in the dark. Their memories of the surface faded and that might be intentional, to avoid them going on a suicidal campaign against the Vhigg'ithu in vengeance. Some Voices might know the truth.

The Smiths are still very angry at the Shiver for killing one of their own, committing mass murder, stealing the sun and forcing their other cousins to kill themselves to save a little of the surface, and that sentiment is echoed among the dwarves, though very few dwarves know in detail what happened either. The Smiths don't confront the Shiver directly because they aren't sure they can win, with the Shiver having taken power equivalent to their own, and they don't want to risk them stealing the sun below as well should they fail.

The Viggs do as they do, the monarchs very much know what happened but getting information out of a Vhigg'ithu is already hard to begin with, to hell if they are gonna tell anyone how they gained their unmatched power.

The Family wasn't formed at the time, but some of their composing tribes had legends about the exodus and the Old World that were distorted and passed through the centuries.

#mtg Fantober #mtg fanplane #ahhhhh this place is so cool #i love this history but also it makes me sad Dx

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lord-of-innistrad · 3 years ago

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Mechanics of the Factions of Cordifá

Cordifá is my fanplane, a shard based world. For this I selected nine complimentary mechanics (and invented one more), two for each faction, and made custom cards, seen under the cut

WUB - Toles - Exploit/Afterlife

Afterlife was selected first because of this factions theme of respecting the dead. Exploit was chosen to be complimentary to Afterlife and added a theme of disregarding the living.

GWU - Seves - Rebound/Oblivion

Oblivion is the mechanic I invented. It means whenever you cast a card from exile you do something. It was intended to compliment Rebound.

RGW - Ristan - Populate/Fabricate

Populate is one of the best mechanics in GW in my humble opinion. The addition of Fabricate is meant to represent civil engineering as well as grant tokens not usually seen in green.

Berbe - BRG - Bloodrush/Escape

This group I'm not sure about. I like the theme of discarding for value and then exiling for more value, I just wish Escape wasn't named that.

UBR - Tela - Dash/Revolt

Dash came first for this pair with revolt chosen to compliment it. I imagine it would play out a card dashing and then a revolt card being played. Also I liked the idea of my drake card for this one being a handsome gambler.

And that's it! Let me know what you guys think!

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inudono · 4 years ago

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Mermay Day 5

Khaital is an ocean world with only a single notable landmass. Volcanic vents coat the ocean floor, and giant steam bubbles offer convenient transportation to the surface.

#mermay #mermay 2021 #merfolk #mermaid #magic the gathering #May 2021 #art #Illustration #artists on tumblr #inudono #fanplane #Khaital #mtg

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teaxch · 3 years ago

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Endioische, the Cradle (RA-4491-30A)

From the Desk of Dr. Ynshlvt, Planar Observation Working Group

The planes of the multiverse vary significantly in age. Generally, the younger ones tend to have known origins, and are mostly artificial. Endioische is among the youngest known naturally-occurring planes, having emerged only five years ago. It provides a nearly unique window into the earliest years of a plane’s existence. (More after cut.)

While generally physically stable, Endioische is still in many ways inchoate. The world itself is hollow; roiling mana in its interior is still coalescing into solid earth. The fluctuations of this mana can be heard at all times as a low pulsing sound, and several areas of the planet’s surface are open, allowing the mana core to be viewed directly. The surface is relatively flat; seismic activity has not had an opportunity to open up deep oceans or raise tall mountains, and no glaciers have had time to furrow ridges into the earth. The oceans are broad, clear, and calm. Much of the northern and southern reaches of the world is covered in ice. The world is very geologically active. Mud pots and other gaseous vents are exceedingly common, and plumes of fire burst from the surface in areas where red mana has become trapped in underground pockets.

While Endioische’s youth makes it a fascinating object of study, it also makes it vulnerable. Its people are few in number and possess only primitive technology and forms of social organization. Endioishce is being monitored to ensure that it does not draw the attention of outside forces that may wish to exploit it.

Endioische’s People and Creatures

Several intelligent species already call Endioische home. The mana event that birthed the plane may have created these peoples simultaneous to the creation, or they may have emerged shortly thereafter. None have any history of anything prior to the creation of their world, and they all recall simply waking up one day with no memories or existing social bonds. While different species awoke in different areas of the world and have largely remained in those areas, they have mingled to a degree in the years since their creation.

Humans, as on many planes, are perhaps the most numerous and wide-spread of the world’s people. The humans of Endioische are gregarious and social creatures. They almost immediately developed verbal means of communication, and their spoken and signed language is far more sophisticated than the more limited forms of communication most commonly employed by other species. This has allowed humans to more easily coordinate amongst each other, and humans are also the only species that has invested much effort into communicating with other species.

While most other species are content to hunt or forage for food, the elves almost immediately observed that they could produce at least limited quantities of food safely by sowing and tending to various plant species, mostly root vegetables and fast-growing gourds. The elven art of cultivation is still in its infancy, and is far from being sustainable as a sole source of food, but with each season more and more elves choose to dedicate part of their time to their gardens.

After initial negative encounters with other species, the Naga of Endioische have become somewhat withdrawn, preferring to keep to themselves. While in hiding, they have unlocked a powerful secret of their world - through careful repetition of ritual chants and gestures, they can evoke apparently supernatural effects. The Naga currently have chosen to reveal their techniques only to each other and to a tiny number of outsiders, withholding key details in the latter case. The Naga do not know whether their gift is something that other species would even be able to replicate if they knew about it, but for the time being they have decided not to take that chance.

The inhabitants of Endioische generally regard its fauna as a threat or a source of food, but the tough and patient ogres have begun to take a different approach. They have insinuated themselves amongst packs of coyote-like predators, lending their intelligence and endurance to the hunt and taking advantage of the coyotes’ speed and keen senses. The ogres’ symbiosis with these beasts is so strong that many people of other species mistakenly believe that the coyotes are intelligent and have forged an alliance with the ogres. The ogres have also - with the assistance of their coyotes - herded packs of woolly rhinos south from their habitats in the arctic reaches of the world. In addition to serving as a source of food, the rhinos supply rugged, coarse hair that the ogres fashion into ropes and nets, and some daring ogres have begun to train the beasts to accept a rider.

The dwarves of Endioische are fairly populous, but spend relatively little time travelling, so are seldom seen. They have mastered the art of architecture, at least by Endioischean standards. While most other races avoid the elements in simple lean-tos or eschew shelter entirely, the dwarves’ sturdy wooden and stone cabins allow them to thrive in regions other species find inhospitably cold, and to pursue massive megafauna that can feed a community for an entire season when felled. Dwarves have another unique characteristic - to date, no dwarven children have been born on Endioische, even after five years. It is unclear to the dwarves what this means for the future of their species.

#mtg #fanwalker #fanplane #fan plane #mtg fanplane

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