Post by cajun on Apr 5, 2018 9:39:37 GMT
In this infinite Multiverse, there is a surprising amount of repetition.
No two worlds are the same but the components never change, like letters in a book, yet it never shows a number or has pages made of silk.
Every world has countless iterations with unique components, just out of sight like two beasts on different islands, though never reachable even for planeswalkers.
This draws into question the infinite. Not everything that could exist does exist.This draws into question reality. Likely everything that could exist does exist.
And yet nonexistence is on our horizon.
Planeswalkers:
{Ahl Strixian}
An unimpressive fateweaver turned explorer, Ahl was the first to discover the Mirror’s Edge, a layer of aether barely separating two planes from collision. Thinking the opposite plane near lifeless, Ahl has searched the Multiverse for answers and allies, and yet as the Mirror threatens to end everything he is left with neither.
Home Plane: Ophorio
Spark Plane: Oirohpo
Cards: Ahl was last seen in Relidon.
An unimpressive fateweaver turned explorer, Ahl was the first to discover the Mirror’s Edge, a layer of aether barely separating two planes from collision. Thinking the opposite plane near lifeless, Ahl has searched the Multiverse for answers and allies, and yet as the Mirror threatens to end everything he is left with neither.
Home Plane: Ophorio
Spark Plane: Oirohpo
Cards: Ahl was last seen in Relidon.
{Lha Sha'rador}
Once a lowly mercenary of the bazaar, Sha’rador was torn from his home by an owl betraying his fate. He too would uncover the Mirror, and would go on his own search for power and protection. Researching every corner of the Multiverse, he would learn of the Rathi Overlay. Sha’rador has been lead to believe the planar overlay is an invasion, and even if it isn’t, knows that the overlay will destroy any Reflection in its wake.
Home Plane: Oirohpo
Spark Plane: Ophorio
Cards: Sha’rador was last seen in Xazerial
Once a lowly mercenary of the bazaar, Sha’rador was torn from his home by an owl betraying his fate. He too would uncover the Mirror, and would go on his own search for power and protection. Researching every corner of the Multiverse, he would learn of the Rathi Overlay. Sha’rador has been lead to believe the planar overlay is an invasion, and even if it isn’t, knows that the overlay will destroy any Reflection in its wake.
Home Plane: Oirohpo
Spark Plane: Ophorio
Cards: Sha’rador was last seen in Xazerial
{Mei Liva}
The accidental lone survivor of the Drowning of Pguqium, Mei is many things, a scholar, a swordmaster, a visionary, and, arguable most important, a vampire. Her hunger for knowledge became literal, needing to devour new information, most often the secrets of others, to stay sane and stay alive. While initially used as a minor memory wipe, Mei’s life changed when she stole the secret to planeswalking, launching herself into the Blind Eternities while leaving the other planeswalker trapped.
Home Plane: Pguqium
Spark Plane: Unknown
Cards: This is Mei’s first appearance in the cajuniverse.
The accidental lone survivor of the Drowning of Pguqium, Mei is many things, a scholar, a swordmaster, a visionary, and, arguable most important, a vampire. Her hunger for knowledge became literal, needing to devour new information, most often the secrets of others, to stay sane and stay alive. While initially used as a minor memory wipe, Mei’s life changed when she stole the secret to planeswalking, launching herself into the Blind Eternities while leaving the other planeswalker trapped.
Home Plane: Pguqium
Spark Plane: Unknown
Cards: This is Mei’s first appearance in the cajuniverse.
{The Blight}
Countless years ago, a plane was forged, lorded over by the manifestations of its creator’s emotions. One of these would sow the seeds of disease, allowing the Blight to survive for centuries before overrunning the plane of Novea. The parasitic Blight was able to take an interplanar host in the form of Xaro Tarax, letting the Blight loose on the Multiverse.
Home Plane: Novea
Spark Plane: N/A
Cards: The Blight was last seen in Shadows of Vaask
Countless years ago, a plane was forged, lorded over by the manifestations of its creator’s emotions. One of these would sow the seeds of disease, allowing the Blight to survive for centuries before overrunning the plane of Novea. The parasitic Blight was able to take an interplanar host in the form of Xaro Tarax, letting the Blight loose on the Multiverse.
Home Plane: Novea
Spark Plane: N/A
Cards: The Blight was last seen in Shadows of Vaask
{Xaro Tarax}
A warrior ferocious enough to ascend to archangel, Xaro would discover his strength was due to his planeswalker spark when he was swept from one plane's war to another's. While he successfully ended the Ageless War of Relidon, when he returned home he found the Eradin elves had exterminated his people. Xaro struck back at the elves, and began hunting the two planeswalkers he believed responsible for his late return before being taken as the Blight's host on Novea. While Xaro has lost control, he has refused to let the parasite kill him, allowing the Blight more power but also allowing himself to become the reflection in Oirohpo.
Home Plane: Eradin
Spark Plane: Novea
Cards: Xaro was last seen in Relidon and in Eradin vs. Ainox
A warrior ferocious enough to ascend to archangel, Xaro would discover his strength was due to his planeswalker spark when he was swept from one plane's war to another's. While he successfully ended the Ageless War of Relidon, when he returned home he found the Eradin elves had exterminated his people. Xaro struck back at the elves, and began hunting the two planeswalkers he believed responsible for his late return before being taken as the Blight's host on Novea. While Xaro has lost control, he has refused to let the parasite kill him, allowing the Blight more power but also allowing himself to become the reflection in Oirohpo.
Home Plane: Eradin
Spark Plane: Novea
Cards: Xaro was last seen in Relidon and in Eradin vs. Ainox
{The Mirge}
Link to the plane's thread intro to the Refractors. Once again, big thanks to ThisisSakon for redesigning the terrible Arroyo into one that hits the flavor far better. New Arroyo disables Prophecy and dodges Fateseal, which Sakon wouldn't have even know was in the set, interestingly. And because I don't think I can say it better, Sakon on Arroyo:
Sha'rador looked upon the nightmare he had let happen. There had been no invasion, except perhaps the one he had brought himself. The world shook hard enough to break the unmoving face he had held since he had returned. He had cheated death too many times, and now it was staring back at him. The other reflections panicked as Xaro seemed to evaporate into nothing, but the closest thing to an army was the now confused Blighted, temporarily lost without their host. The two worlds refusing to stop their collision was the enemy at hand, and the green and blue owls seemed to be the only one that could fix that. The last words escaped the owl's beak. The world froze.
Ahl was already of two minds if he had made the right decision, but now he was literally beside himself. He could see the worlds slowly pulling away. That alone was enough. He had done it. He could feel himself falling to pieces as the two planes slowly unwound themselves, but his efforts had set the world right again. Ahl needed nothing more. The Multiverse demanded far greater. A half of the owl drifted into either plane, quietly followed by a silent, hooded watcher.
The world may have ended with a whisper, but it was intent on restarting with a bang. What was left of the Mirror fused to form a creature of pure aether, a fact mostly overlooked by the two planes now reeling backwards, trying to unravel themselves. Sha'rador, seemingly the only planeswalker left standing, hoped that would stop before the two planes managed to pull completely apart. Without the Mirror, nothing would stand between them and the Blind Eternities. Luckily, it was not just the Mirror that had fused. Between the canyon forming between the two planes came the void.
For millenia the Mirror had stood, quietly standing guard as the entrance to the infinite reflections of Ophorio. In the empty world between the Mirrors, life had persisted. That life now stretched between and beneath the twin planes as they unraveled, anchoring the two, until finally, the world stopped falling apart. Finally, everything was still. The world across the Mirror had become the world across the void. While the world was so much further away, it no longer seemed unreachable. While the owl's work was done, the Sha's work had just begun. In the end, the other side was much the same as your own, and no one was going to suffer his mistakes but him.
The Grand Refractors are not known for their emotions. Writing the fates for infinite reflections didn't give much time for such frivolities as anger or love. But every once in a while, someone manages to bungle the fates so much, they draw more than attention.
Alyss, the writer of Law, had not known rage before. But her beautiful fates had been undermined, two of her planes had been run into each other, and the foreigners that had caused it had fled without justice. The other Refractors were supposed to be dealing with this. The justice would be on their heads.
Dinah, the writer of Life, was quite akin to rage. Alyss had tried to control them for years. Dinah's designs had been their own in the age of Arroyo, but Alyss had forced everything around Alyss. But one last prophecy remained. The Lost Verse superseded Alyss.
The two had been at odds before. Alyss had always won. Alyss had won because Aurora allowed it. But this one was different. The Verse had been written for Aurora, after the mortals had discovered fateweaving. It was naive and dangerous, but it was Aurora's.
There was the moment of doubt. Without Aurora, Alyss would be weak, if only for a moment. Ada's existence had been catering to Alyss for this moment, narrowing avoiding being erased time and time again to finally strike. Aurora and Dinah would be easy prey.
Like emotion, the Refractors had never known violence. They did not die, they were erased, powerless and bound by the laws of Alyss. Without the Lawweaver to alter it, the bonds would never loosen. Without the Lawweaver to watch it, the bonds would never hold. The paradox alone would freeze Alyss. It wasn't good enough for her prisoner.
Alyss, the writer of Law, had not known rage before. But her beautiful fates had been undermined, two of her planes had been run into each other, and the foreigners that had caused it had fled without justice. The other Refractors were supposed to be dealing with this. The justice would be on their heads.
{Alyss}
Dinah, the writer of Life, was quite akin to rage. Alyss had tried to control them for years. Dinah's designs had been their own in the age of Arroyo, but Alyss had forced everything around Alyss. But one last prophecy remained. The Lost Verse superseded Alyss.
{Dinah}
The two had been at odds before. Alyss had always won. Alyss had won because Aurora allowed it. But this one was different. The Verse had been written for Aurora, after the mortals had discovered fateweaving. It was naive and dangerous, but it was Aurora's.
{Aurora}
There was the moment of doubt. Without Aurora, Alyss would be weak, if only for a moment. Ada's existence had been catering to Alyss for this moment, narrowing avoiding being erased time and time again to finally strike. Aurora and Dinah would be easy prey.
{Ada}
Like emotion, the Refractors had never known violence. They did not die, they were erased, powerless and bound by the laws of Alyss. Without the Lawweaver to alter it, the bonds would never loosen. Without the Lawweaver to watch it, the bonds would never hold. The paradox alone would freeze Alyss. It wasn't good enough for her prisoner.
{Arroyo}
Link to the plane's thread intro to the Refractors. Once again, big thanks to ThisisSakon for redesigning the terrible Arroyo into one that hits the flavor far better. New Arroyo disables Prophecy and dodges Fateseal, which Sakon wouldn't have even know was in the set, interestingly. And because I don't think I can say it better, Sakon on Arroyo:
The ultimate gift of Arroyo, complete control over everyone's fate. Pull a middling card from your opponent's library that tempts them to put it in their hand instead of a potentially better card. Pull a bomb from an ally's deck for them to snag on their draw step. Get exactly what you need when you need it. Slowly tear through your opponent's library while you laugh maniacally. It's the same flavorful fate manipulation without the oppressive card design.
Sha'rador looked upon the nightmare he had let happen. There had been no invasion, except perhaps the one he had brought himself. The world shook hard enough to break the unmoving face he had held since he had returned. He had cheated death too many times, and now it was staring back at him. The other reflections panicked as Xaro seemed to evaporate into nothing, but the closest thing to an army was the now confused Blighted, temporarily lost without their host. The two worlds refusing to stop their collision was the enemy at hand, and the green and blue owls seemed to be the only one that could fix that. The last words escaped the owl's beak. The world froze.
Ahl was already of two minds if he had made the right decision, but now he was literally beside himself. He could see the worlds slowly pulling away. That alone was enough. He had done it. He could feel himself falling to pieces as the two planes slowly unwound themselves, but his efforts had set the world right again. Ahl needed nothing more. The Multiverse demanded far greater. A half of the owl drifted into either plane, quietly followed by a silent, hooded watcher.
The world may have ended with a whisper, but it was intent on restarting with a bang. What was left of the Mirror fused to form a creature of pure aether, a fact mostly overlooked by the two planes now reeling backwards, trying to unravel themselves. Sha'rador, seemingly the only planeswalker left standing, hoped that would stop before the two planes managed to pull completely apart. Without the Mirror, nothing would stand between them and the Blind Eternities. Luckily, it was not just the Mirror that had fused. Between the canyon forming between the two planes came the void.
For millenia the Mirror had stood, quietly standing guard as the entrance to the infinite reflections of Ophorio. In the empty world between the Mirrors, life had persisted. That life now stretched between and beneath the twin planes as they unraveled, anchoring the two, until finally, the world stopped falling apart. Finally, everything was still. The world across the Mirror had become the world across the void. While the world was so much further away, it no longer seemed unreachable. While the owl's work was done, the Sha's work had just begun. In the end, the other side was much the same as your own, and no one was going to suffer his mistakes but him.
