Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Dominaria: Story and Lore from 2018

As is usual with this fan blog, we write and compile all useful information for the interested Vorthos, by world or block of sets (within a world!).  This article will highlight the 12 stories by author Martha Wells, as well as the Magic Story Podcast featuring portions of Dominaria lore and geography, and go into detail for the Sagas and Legendary Sorceries that Wizards described.

Magic Story: Return to Dominaria, by Martha Wells.

All 12 chapters can be read in the main Magic Story archive.

OneTwoThreeFourFiveSixSevenEightNineTenEleven. Twelve

Art by Tyler Jacobson
Art by Tyler Jacobson, copyright Wizards of the Coast.

Planar Description.

Dominaria Cartography by Ethan Fleischer

Dominaria Retrospective, by Mark Winters

The Historic cards of Dominaria

Sagas and Sorceries by Jay Annelli
An Art review of Sagas by Vorthos Mike
A brief history of Dominaria's Thallids by SEV8

Sagas of Sagas

The Mirari Conjecture
The Ice Age
The First Eruption of Shiv

Legendary Events: Sorceries

Karn's Temporal Sundering

(editor's note: none of the other Legendary Sorceries  or Sagas got a full description article!)


Individual Card Flavor for areas of Dominaria:
Memorials

All the legends from the set, with some history!

Story Podcasts: 

All Archives of Podcasts can be found on the official site.
Introducing Martha Wells.
Reintroducing Dominaria
Dominaria Geography
The Mending
The Church of Serra
The Cabal and Otaria




Art by: Svetlin Velinov, copyright Wizards of the Coast

More of the history of one of Dominaria's oldest Planeswalkers is revealed in the Core 2019 story

Chronicles of Nicol Bolas: Core 2019
by Kate Elliot

Part 1. The Twins

Part 2. The first lesson.  Where more is revealed about Bolas and Ugin.

Part 3. Things Unseen.

Part 4. Whispers of Treachery.

Part 5. Blood and Fire.

Part 6. A familiar stranger.

Part 7. A different Perspective than one before.

Part 8. The Unwritten, now.



Thursday, August 23, 2018

Smoke Signals



Fair girl
Why do you send your thoughts to the sky?
The wind carries them aloft to mingle with the crows
Trimmed with blue, your flags fly again today. 
-From Up on Poppy Hill