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- Xenthori: i'll keep lore dumping while you're out
- Xenthori: so in that case, Bolas probably left now that he had his Ark of thousands of undead skeletal crystal warriors (we'll call them Eternals) and three mindbent gods under his control, leaving behind the one city that HAD been under protection of the 5 'good' mindbent gods (all mostly dead, but didn't know they were baddies like the 3 Bolas probably took with him) to suddenly be exposed to the giant desert outside
- Xenthori: 'cause they had a big ol forcefield from the desert
- Xenthori: cause out there are lots of feral zombies, wurms, ect.
- Xenthori: and they really fucking wanted to get in and spread their mummy curse
- Xenthori: because those zombies out there were the guys Bolas killed when he first got there, stuck in undeath
- Xenthori: so any survivors are probably hanging out in the ruins of an apocolypse'd !egypt! while shite tons of zombies roam and everything's gone to shit
- Xenthori: corpses of the gods lay in the streets
- Xenthori: the river has already been turned to blood
- Xenthori: distinction: these are the zombies that Bolas took with him, that he made out of the loyal servants who passed the trial and got to go to his 'afterlife' http://needcoffee.cachefly.net/needcoffee/uploads/2017/08/Magic-Gathering-Amonkhet-Khenra-Eternal.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEKYHfwUAAQG41_.jpg
- Xenthori: these are the zombies that once roamed the desert outside the protection of the city, now able to roam in the city https://crystalcommerce-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/6349285/large/en_pskzGDdBWi.png?1492468721 https://crystalcommerce-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/6349525/large/en_95N6lSrUTD.png?1492195651
- Xenthori: and these are the zombies of other people that didn't pass the trials, and were onced used as servants and workers of the fields and shit. Basically "hey if you die a failure, atleast your corpse can pull it's own weight" http://media.wizards.com/2017/dw466ytu5_akh/en_37utTYc2ch.png http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=426708&type=card
- Xenthori: they're probably still doing their jobs even though there's no one to order them
- Xenthori: tending to dead fields, cleaning empty ruins, etc.
- Xenthori: so that's the zombies
- Xenthori: if there ARE ruins filled with treasure, it's outside that one city
- Xenthori: whatever civilization was there BEFORE bolas came and hostile tookover
- Xenthori: but they'd most likely planeswalk (or however they get there) into the main city, which wasn't this fucked up last time someone's been there
- Xenthori: so they'll go expecting !egypt!, and get apocolypse !egypt! instead
- FelixCalamatus: okay
- FelixCalamatus: you know more about say Innistrad right
- FelixCalamatus: I placed Innistrad right next to Equestria on the map
- FelixCalamatus: i dont know why, maybe so the horrors could torment the ponies
- Xenthori: oh yeah, but moreso what's happened recently, not the zombie invasions
- Xenthori: once again, probably in a state of recovery
- Xenthori: the gatewatch ruins everything, TLDR
- Xenthori: the fuck up a plane forever and then move on to the next one
- Xenthori: Sorin is stuck in a pillar of rock
- Xenthori: only one angel is still around
- Xenthori: well, one of the famous ones
- Xenthori: sure she's got her flock too
- Xenthori: werewolves got fucked by eldritch
- FelixCalamatus: this setting doesn't have a gatewatch but there might be something equivalent
- Xenthori: anyways doesn't matter cause this was morso Nahiri getting revenge on Sorin
- Xenthori: you know about the stuff Ugin did with his lil scooby doo gang?
- FelixCalamatus: nop
- Xenthori: alright well they were the original Mystery Incorperated before the gatewatch
- Xenthori: although not the OG OG ones, but we won't go into Urza stuff
- Xenthori: anyways Ugin the Dragon (now spirit dragon), Sorin the sick nasty vampire who's a gentleman and scholar, and Nahiri, who maybe is a vampire? she's really pale atleast, and she's a lithomancer
- Xenthori: meaning she's good at doing rock stuff
- Xenthori: so they all decide "these Eldrazi Tititans are bad news, let's imprison them in Zendikar"
- Xenthori: and they totally do, because they're awesome
- FelixCalamatus: My friends are super duper scared Im gonna throw out the Eldrazi as a BBEG
- FelixCalamatus: im probably not
- Xenthori: nah they've been more or less sealed away
- Xenthori: again
- Xenthori: this is long ago lore though
- FelixCalamatus: yeah
- Xenthori: over 6000 years ago
- FelixCalamatus: same with dtd
- Xenthori: in mtg stuff
- Xenthori: Ugin force are all immortals
- FelixCalamatus: the mtg lore within dtd is all on the forums and homebrew stuff
- Xenthori: aaanyways, they all agree what they did was great, Nahari stays behind to take a nap and Ugin and Sorin do their respective things
- Xenthori: so 5000 years later, still 1000 years in the past, Nahiri wakes up from her nap, and realizes the endrazi have been fiddling with their locks
- Xenthori: she's like "i can handle this", fixes up the prison again, then wonders what Sorin and Ugin are up to because that shit almost got past her
- Xenthori: she gets pissy because while they're out doing their own things, she's gotta baby sit
- Xenthori: so she leaves zendikar to get em
- Xenthori: then the Zendikar block happens, eldrazi are free and Sorin's "oh shit" and shows up
- Xenthori: and neither Nahiri or Ugin are there
- Xenthori: he leave Zendikar again to find Ugin, meanwhile Nahiri STILL is trying to find Sorin
- Xenthori: Khans of Takir happens, Sarkhan revives Ugin, Sorin and Ugin chat it up back at Sorin's manor, Ugin tells sorin to get Nahiri
- Xenthori: now we're at Shadows Over Innistrad
- Xenthori: Nahiri is still being a cunt and is pissy about Sorin for not being there for the little break out she had to deal with, even though while she was gone all shit broke lose because she wasn't watching the Eldrazi
- Xenthori: loose
- Xenthori: so Sorin's like "srsly" and Nahiri goes full frontal feminazi, starts breaking up Innistrad, and builds a buncha glyphs, stone hedgy-kinda stuff, wahtever
- Xenthori: gatewatch show up, they're like "what's this lady doing" and "why are the angels suddenly being a lot more evil" and "what's all this other shit"
- Xenthori: (here we ahve the clue mechanics)
- Xenthori: anyways prettyboi of the gatewatch builds a blue/green clue deck and after sacrificing a bunch of them to draw some cards, realizes she was totally building a eldrazi homing beacon to get them to come
- Xenthori: and so they do
- Xenthori: gatewatch fight the eldrazi, Sorin has to put down the angels (which he created in the first place btw so it's like killing his daughters), and the Nahiri goes full REEEEEEEEE and sticks him in a pillar of stone
- Xenthori: not dead, but unable to escape
- Xenthori: anyways eldrazi god realizes that the gatewatch wants to kill them, unknowning that the eldrazi are basically space detrivores
- Xenthori: they eat old worlds so that new ones can emerge
- Xenthori: so it warps jace's mind a bit to make him think up his totally original, not eldrazi-given idea of locking her in the moon
- Xenthori: so Emrakul tricks them into imprisoning her instead of killing her, and then the gatewatch leaves the planes
- Xenthori: not bothernig to clean up the mess
- Xenthori: who knows if there's still tentacle beasts, etc.
- Xenthori: but all sortsa shit is fucked when they leave
- Xenthori: and that's the state of Innistrad
- Xenthori: there's an elder god in the moon
- FelixCalamatus: I'm saving all this to read again later. Ok so without throwing in the Eldrazi what's something my players can do there?
- Xenthori: it's still the same innistrad it should be, just a lot more nursing wounds
- Xenthori: i'd probably go demon cults
- Xenthori: that's the Skirsdag
- Xenthori: so first they were a cult taht worshiped Griselbrand that rose to power over all other demons and shit
- Xenthori: though he was killed by Liliana the gatewatch necromancer
- Xenthori: so for shadows over innistrad, they started worshipping the next best demon
- Xenthori: big ol demon prince named Ormendahl
- Xenthori: anyways with the chaos Nahiri caused, the Skirsdag totally snuck under the radar of everyone else
- Xenthori: and so they unded up basically infiltrating a sect of the church of avacyn, the Lunarch council
- Xenthori: basically awesome paladin people
- Xenthori: and gained control over said council
- Xenthori: so you could totally do some intrigue stuff, routing out the cultists remaining in the church as the truly devote have to not stand out too much or get silenced
- Xenthori: possibly requesting the help of your party to root out the cult and restore the church's power to actually holy dudes
- Xenthori: could even culminate in a demon battle
- Xenthori: maybe or maybe not Ormendahl himself, although he's fucking huge https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/mtgsalvation_gamepedia/7/78/Ormendahl.jpg
- Xenthori: probably some demon lord, not demon prince himself
- Xenthori: that's the church anyhow, there's zombies you can deal with too, with the different necromancers trying to outdo eachother
- Xenthori: in a friendly, i'll kill you but we'll joke about it kinda way
- Xenthori: there's the werewolf packs of the Kessig, who mostly got corrupted by the eldrazi and lost their ability to transform, stuck in beast form
- Xenthori: and how the remaining untainted werewolves had to deal with that
- Xenthori: i'd read up on the howlpacks if you were interested in them
- Xenthori: there's also ghosts and stuff, but they're more akin to the weather
- Xenthori: one day it can be rainy, the next it can be ghosty
- Xenthori: really any gothic horror-y stuff you want to do, Innistrad's the place to do it
- Xenthori: witches, werewolves, i didn't even go into the vampires
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