#grixis posting

[vithian-scaleseeker]

testing

[warrior-of-tol-angata]

After much drinking and boistrous partying, slumber befalls the brave Jundian warrior. Whether or not she is in her allotted bed when it comes means little -- she will find her way there one way or another.

It is a deep sleep that takes her. A landscape begins to unfold, formed by her subconscious mind and will.

What does Shregresha's dreamscape look like?

[@dusk-legion-diplomacy]

Despite the night of drinking and partying, Shregresha's dreams would be better described as nightmares. Due to the encounter with the skaabs, her mind turns to when an army from Grixis invaded the clan's hunting grounds, almost a decade ago. It is a familiar dream, one where she's spattered in fetid blood, finding little glory in fighting the dead, yet still needing to.

Unlike the dreams on the ship though, these dreams are not ones of bitter triumph. They are ones of fear. Her son is there, a scared little boy crying for his mother to protect him while a necromancer taunts her with the tortures they will inflict upon her child, a neverending army of distorted flesh separating her from reaching either.

@dusk-legion-diplomacy

[vithian-scaleseeker]

A week or so ago, a large structure fell through a planar fracture ('portentpath', I believe I have heard them called?) in the western part of Nixor Morass, composed of several tightly packed buildings and some streets, as if a chunk of a city had been carved out. It was still inhabited by a number of people - human, elves, vedalken without any etherium, and possibly others. I have bought rumours that the few survivors claimed to be from the city, or plane, of 'Ravnica'.

I did not meet any of them first-hand, as it seems most lacked the hardiness to survive their evidently unplanned displacement onto Grixis. But that is where I ultimately looted this networking device, and a number of other oddities. Do any of you Ravnicans know the meaning of a six-legged spiderlike symbol with a single eye at the center?

[vithian-scaleseeker]

A proper introduction

Embers endure, people of the network.

For those who have not met me, I am Karrolin, a Vithian human mage from the plane of Grixis. I am willing to trade knowledge of my own plane, and my other expertises, in exchange for unique information of other worlds. And their lizards. I have a particular interest in lizards.

My magical talents are mainly in the minor bending of time. Faster or slower, preservation or decay, making objects and people as they were or as they may in future be. I draw from uncertain futures to maximise my options, although it does mean my spells are usually of little accuracy for actual clarivoyance.

I aim for our correspondence to be mutually beneficial.

Darkness declines, Karrolin.

[vithian-scaleseeker]

Ravnicans of the network; do House Dimir consort with dark forces?

I looted a trinket of theirs from the structure-wreck, and in trying to cast the spell within, I learnt it can be a source of mana as well. But the power that it creates is... cold. Alien. Empty, like a dreamless sleep.

Part of that feeling may be that it is spellcraft from a plane unfamiliar to me. But it has an undeniable similarity to the dark forces of my world, which I have spent my life trying to ward off and evade. Demons, lich-lords, bone-hoarding kathari and withering specters.

I should like to know more about its origins and the House that crafted it before I decide whether to make use of it or abandon it in the next acid lake I pass.

[vithian-scaleseeker]

Success!

Warily, I have conducted experimentation upon the Dimir artifact I looted, and slowly but surely, I have managed to cast the spell stored within. I dared not channel black magic myself, but the trinket's own power proved sufficient for that component of the spell, and...

The trinket itself transformed into a... creature. It is something like a lizard, and something like a sea monster, of the sort we have on Grixis. In that the details of its form escape both description and mental retention. But it certainly had... lizard-like qualities of some sort... I think.

...and... it seems I have forgotten what I was going to say next. Concerning.

[vithian-scaleseeker]

I've had more than one person, upon hearing my powers, compare me to one 'Teferi Akosa'. Has anyone else heard of this man? He is allegedly a planeswalker and a time mage, whose feats strain credulity. I would sooner believe him a powerful illusionist than accept that he has cast even half of the spells that rumours have alleged.

Not to condemn such behaviour, for the stories tell he has used his magic for the good of many. Cultivating such a wondrous reputation must serve him well, even if it bends the truth somewhat.