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"CHOOSE YOUR OWN SAGA" CONTEST 2019
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The Pit is a dark and silent place, a gigantic maze of impossibly deep canyons of black slate that serpent for tens of thousands of miles, covered in thick clouds that hide the sky.
At the end of each canyon, there is an opening to another plane. This means that one can access the Pit through one of these doorways, and should he find another one, effectively travel to another plane.
The process however, is tricky, as the doorways do not simply reveal themselves, and travelling through the Pit is long, tiring, and especially dangerous.
Karveen's agents like Grayvan use the Pit to travel at their master's command, being unable to planeswalk themselves. They also use it as an effective dispatching tool, as anyone tossed into the darkness of the Pit seldom finds a way back out alive.
If the plan to flee from the mines was perfectly accurate, once the gnomes were in the surface, the situation was not that clear.
After a couple of days in the surface, the positive thing was, how strangely comfortable felt the gnomes in Lorwyn. They found opposition from no creatures or beings, so Hisji thought about settling in those woods. He gather the elder miners, most of them expert in soil, and ask them their opinion.
The elder miners started analysing all the elements and their conclusion was positive. The huge amount of light hours, the absence of hostility, the quality of the ground and the weather were all optimal.
Hisji let the veteran miners in charge of the settlement and quickly they come with a plan. Agriculture and fishing would have to be the cornerstone of the new Gnomic Colony.
With the survival of the Gnomic Colony guaranteed, it was time to Hisji to start planning the revenge against the dwarves.
@DoctorFro gotcha for # 9, give me time to post please and ill post your numbers results later. I have i think 3 people ahead of you, im going in order of when cardsmiths post comments here. : )
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Your task : Create a nonpermanent protection type card of any rarity. It can be designed to prevent damage or protect from colors, any type of protection!
Aelynn has a mysterious past that her home planes has not yet been revealed. Her knowledge goes far and vast; knowing of other planes only planeswalkers had true knowledge of. How is it then, that Aelynn came to have such knowledge of places such as Theros?
@Fallen_Lord_Vulganos please elaborate more on Aelynn's story with this tidbit added to her lore!
Your creature ran into trouble!
Your creature and Disciplined Guardian 'fight.' Your creature's power and toughness is 2/5, Disciplined Guardian's power and toughness is 3/3, nothing happens, both survive!
Your task: Create an evolved version of your creature! This may only be a slight evolvement. Nothing way too powerful please, as this is the first battle your creature has won in the contest. Congratulations!
@Beastakles please continue the lore for your character. What planes and city is your character from? Who or what is his opposition? What is with the girl with the pyro ability? What prevents this power from evolving here on your character's planes?
Aldren is from the plane of Maghrebal, a world divided between monoliths of differing colors of mana. His home is the orderly region of Thesgal, whose central monolith of the same name emanates blue, green, and white mana, excluding red and black from the region. The thing about pyromancy or necromancy is that they are physically impossible to conjure within the borders of Thesgal because of the stone's suppressive power. Therefore, when the girl Mila manifests the ability to harness red mana, it intrigues Aldren.
The camp of the Hibernarchs - a fort called Karatos - lies at the foothills of the mountains separating Thesgal from Qaen, the region pulsing with red, black, and green mana. It is here that Aldren is centurion to a cohort of soldiers, including a Gnoll named Harandar. Far from the capital city of Scudwahal, Aldren is more or less free to command in any way he sees fit, and of late his ideas of using fire magic against his enemies (namely Gnolls from Qaen and gypsy nations from the south) run counterintuitive to the illegality of pyromancy according to his superiors.
To what preventing power are you referring to @sorinjace? Please elaborate.
Okay, I am literally in love with pyromancy in fantasy. Any chance on a later date we could get a whole storyline on Mila
Since your traitor version of the cardis the evolved version of your character, you can ask for another number whenever you are ready to as it counts for the last task per our agreement.
@sorinjace Okay, so it seems my Hibernarch Captain survived the fight with the disciplined guardian, a perfect training session for the captain who happens to be in those colors. Perhaps the guardian was a conjured sparring creature or something?
I can evolve my captain into something different than the traitor if you like, give him a chance to slowly become the "monster" he embraces.
Do I choose from the same list of numbers as before, or is there a new list?
This story will be written in the form of a diary, she has been keeping this diary since 5 days after the god she served was killed and writes an entry every two days. This entry describes the last few days.
Entry #36286
I had that dream again today, i'm still surprised i can remember it so clearly, when i woke up i had to start writing. I can't seem to remember the way that person looked, no matter how hard i try, i hope i can find them some day, who knows what stories they've got to tell. It feels like something is going to happen soon, wether it's good i don't know, but it is something, i haven't used my blade for over 30 years, but i fear i may soon have no choice.
Day 72577, morning: The sun was shining today, but it did look like it was going to rain later. It's been two days since i arrived at this part of this country i believe it's called "De Veluwe" it is quite a beautiful piece of nature and it is nice to know that there are enough humans in this country that care about keeping the nature here alive. Since there seem to be a lot of places where humans care a lot less.
Noon: As i thought it started raining, but the sun was still shining and the rainbow is stunning. It does seem like there are a lot of people here at who enjoy visiting this place.
I had to hide my wings when walking around, a lot of humans seem uncomfortable when they see something that is not as human as they are, i still don't really get what the point of this is, you could miss out on so many oppurtunities. I helped a lost child today, he said his name was Max, he talked to me about his mother, her name was Sam, and how he lost her, when we found her, i could see the worry on and then the relief on her face, it was a sight to behold. After Sam thanked me, she wanted to repay me, i asked her to sit with me and tell me about herself, she told me she was divorced and that she adopted Max with her now former wife, she didn't tell me her name, whenever she talked about Max her eyes seemed to smile, i couldn't help but smile with her. I spend the rest of the afternoon listening to her stories and watching Max play around on the trees.
Evening: As it was getting late, i saw a group of faeries around, not a sight i have seen before in this country, they seemed to recognize me as an angel, most of them scattered, two rather curious ones, decided to try and talk to me themselves, their names were Lieri and Era, they also greatly enjoy learning new things from the other beings in this world and i gladly shared some of my stories with them. Today was a good day.
Day 72578, morning: It was rather cloudy today, but it wasn't raining. As i was stretching, shortly after waking up, a man walked up to me, his eyes filled with wonder, seems he was a religious man, he dropped down to his knees, it felt uncomfortable, when i asked him to stand he seemed shocked at the thought, so instead i sat down asking him to sit next to me, i asked him his name and what he thought upon seeing me, he told me his name was Arie. He told me that he thought i was sent by the god he so admired, i proceeded to ask him why he worshipped this god. He told me about his trials, his struggle with disease, he believed a god saved him, i told him i was not send by any god, but his faith seemed to give him hope, so i wouldn't dare tell him, no god would care enough about a single life. I only asked he do not blindly devote everything to this god leave room to care for yourself, he nodded. With that we parted ways.
Noon: There were a group of humans at the border of the forest, they seemed to be dirtying the forest on purpose, i approached and asked for their reasoning behind their actions, they proceeded to threaten me. I asked them again for their reasoning, but they wouldn't tell me and they proceeded to attack me... i... i don't remember what happened after that, but the humans were gone, after i cleaned up the thrash they left behind, i went on my way.
Evening: An old elf walked up to me as i was lying down enjoying the setting sun, he didn't say anything and simply sat down next to me and watched, we shared that moment and it told me so much more than words could have and when the sun set, we both said our thanks, for sharing this moment with each other and left.
I've spent some time here now, i think it's time to proceed, there is still so much i haven't seen yet, so many people worth knowing, i can't wait to see what the future holds.
This took a surprising amount of time to do, but i'm not sure if it actually says all that much, anyhow hope you enjoyed reading through this somehow if you did. This is in essence the beginning of the story and i hope something can be done with it or maybe it gained some more insight in the character and her ideals.
Anyhow, now that i've gotten in an extra bit of character, i'd like to take another number, 2 if you don't mind.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/aldren-eagle-bearer-1
Thus far, Aldren has fought the Disciplined Guardian, a creature designed for training the recruits of his cohort, and survived. It was a hard-fought battle, but Aldren prevailed with the Hibernarch control magic at his disposal. His power was not enough to defeat the spirit, however, and Aldren grows unsatisfied with the results of his own magic. He knows that if he is to defeat enemies far tougher than this, he will have to use every tool in his arsenal, even if that means breaking a few rules to do so.
@sorinjace (Is this how we are supposed to continue with our stories? Take what happens and work with it?)
Noooooooooooooooo Crying Ensues The R/B one is gone!!
When you're online later, may you message with how long I have to finish the card and story paragraph? I was offline yesterday mostly and just want to make sure how long is the usual time duration for completing these events.
Thanks in advance, I'll try to make the card as as soon as possible. Then post it this evening, if done.