#baileoch

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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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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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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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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.