I'll ditto what Cory said. If there is a novel for Coldsnap, I am not writing it. And it should be in process by now to be out next year (don't remember the date for Cold Snap).
My guess is that there will be a novel, but that's just a guess.
Once on Argentum, the virus did two things. It infected Memnarch, driving him a little crazy. Plus, since memnarch was already an artificial, living being, it mutated and began turning him to flesh instead of the other way around.
Come on. Thats pretty weak, an engineered virus, made specifically to transform living things into metallic things, is able to mutate and do the complete opposite....right off the bat? How exactly would it make him crazy?
To go in a completley different direction....
Is Mirroden/Argentum a natural plane or one Karn created? I don't remember if it was revealed.
an engineered virus, made specifically to transform living things into metallic things, is able to mutate and do the complete opposite....right off the bat?
Will might have a different answer--he invented the stuff--but I would figure it's a bit like those Jurassic Park frogs that spontaneously switch sex when confronted with a single-sex environment. If the stuff was supposed to turn flesh to metal, but only found metal, then sure, it mutated.
Hey, *I'm* not the one who decided to use frog DNA...
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How exactly would it make him crazy?
Turn half of your brain into, oh, let's say delicious chocolate pudding. Assuming it didn't just kill you, it might make you a little bonkers at least.
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To go in a completley different direction....
Is Mirroden/Argentum a natural plane or one Karn created? I don't remember if it was revealed.
Again, Will would know better, but I believe it's artificial.
Cory, Ive read the novel once and the beginning twice, and I still cant piece together what exactly was going on in the beginning with Palla and all those hacked up Rakdos. I mean the troll had his limbs ripped off, not cut off, and the little girl being there in the end...I dont get it!!!
Pretty sure Argentum was created, Devouring Zombie
Here's a good question for all you writer types. Two parts:
1) How familiar are ya'll with prerevisionist magic storylines?
and
2) How big a priority do you think it should be to rehabilitate these storylines, and make them fully a part of modern, accepted magic canon?
Speaking only for myself,
1) I am passing familiar with most of it as a consequence of being the former Magic Story Guy, but most familiar with the Homelands storyline (specifically the Baron, Eron, and Serra). I have not read much of the novels but have read all of the comic books. Before you all sharpen up your pitchforks and light torches to come get me, my lack of informed-ness is primarily because I had to immese myself in the history of the Brothers' War and Weatherlight saga in order to step in and start working on Urza, Masques, and Invasion blocks and novels. There was literally never any time to go back and re-read the older novels because they weren't part of my day-to-day job.
2) I don't think it should be a big priority at all. Pitchforks down; let me elaborate: I'm 100% in favor of revisiting these places and key characters in future storylines and sets, but I don't think it's worthwhile to re-tell the original stories again. If we see Garth One-Eye again (or any of the other early characters I'm not all that familiar with), I'd rather see him do and/or be something new. We can have all the flashbacks we like to show how he got from the old books to the new ones, but beyond that, I say go forward and do not look back.
That being said, I still want WotC to revisit the Umezawa clan so I can write another novel about it.
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1) How familiar are ya'll with prerevisionist magic storylines?
2) How big a priority do you think it should be to rehabilitate these storylines, and make them fully a part of modern, accepted magic canon?
Sorry dude--you posted your questions while I was writing up my previous post, didn't see 'em right away....
1) Mort's more or less right. I did read a short story in the instruction booklet of a boxed starter set I picked up in...'94? '95? I dunno, I've still got it somewhere. I think Richard Garfield wrote it. Does that count?
2) If rehabilitation took place, I think it should be done through the current storylines. I'd have no problem with it (though if I were to write it, I'd obviously need to do a little more research) and think it can only add to the history and richness of the multiverse. Which I know sounds like marketing-speak, but I really mean it.
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Cory, Ive read the novel once and the beginning twice, and I still cant piece together what exactly was going on in the beginning with Palla and all those hacked up Rakdos. I mean the troll had his limbs ripped off, not cut off, and the little girl being there in the end...I dont get it!!!
Well...Jarad is really, really badass, and he planned his attack very well. He got there before Kos and Zunich to get the girl (who was still alive, but about to not be) out of the warehouse. He struck from the shadows, and eventually freaked out the Rakdos so much that they started to distrust each other, many of the rest actually killed each other and saved Jarad the trouble.
Some of Jarad's bugs took off the troll's limbs. They looked ripped off, but were really *chewed* off.
Come on. Thats pretty weak, an engineered virus, made specifically to transform living things into metallic things, is able to mutate and do the complete opposite....right off the bat? How exactly would it make him crazy?
A virus (even an engineered one) is basically a living thing. It looks for receptors in cells to cling to and then invades those cells and alters what they were supposed to do to do what the virus wants instead (usually some form of replicating itself to survive long enough to infect something else).
So, if the a flesh to metal virus finds a host that has no flesh it will either die or mutate to a form that can effect the metallic cells. It's a stretch, but it had hundreds of years to find some way to affect Memnarch and viruses can actually mutate very quickly. As for driving him crazy, what if the cells it attacked first were in his neural network? these are the most likely to be the most complex and organic-type cells in the body, so a likely candidate for initial infection given that he's made of metal. Who knows what happens after that.
To go in a completley different direction....
Is Mirroden/Argentum a natural plane or one Karn created? I don't remember if it was revealed.
I believe Karn created the fabric of the world itself, but the blinkmoths were either already there (in a relatively unformed plane) or he imported them from somewhere else. They were the only organic creatures on the world before Memnarch began bringing lifeforms in from other planes. My guess is that Karn (knowing that manufactured planes have a limited lifespan, transformed an existing (and nearly desolate) plane for his home, taking great care not to upset the balance of the blinkmoth's existence.
Here's a good question for all you writer types. Two parts:
1) How familiar are ya'll with prerevisionist magic storylines?
and
2) How big a priority do you think it should be to rehabilitate these storylines, and make them fully a part of modern, accepted magic canon?
I am not personally familiar with them. I think I have a couple, but since they didn't affect the storylines I was working on, I haven't read them yet.
As for should they be rehabilitated? I would say a qualified yes. It would be great to make the canon work well enough to get everything to flow neatly. But sometimes this can't happen because it's such a huge, sprawling multiverse. Also, as these were published before Wizards took publishing in-house, I don't know how the rights were done on these stories. It is completely possible that WotC does not have all rights to these books. I do not know if that's true, but it is possible, which would mean that Wizards could not use certain parts of the story (things that have nothing to do with copyrighted wizards material such as characters created by the authors for the story) without permission from the authors or maybe even from the publisher.
I believe Karn created the fabric of the world itself, but the blinkmoths were either already there (in a relatively unformed plane) or he imported them from somewhere else. They were the only organic creatures on the world before Memnarch began bringing lifeforms in from other planes. My guess is that Karn (knowing that manufactured planes have a limited lifespan, transformed an existing (and nearly desolate) plane for his home, taking great care not to upset the balance of the blinkmoth's existence.
It's all about those stupid little bugs, isn't it? :tongue3:
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ok, so where was Palla the entire Time Kos and Zunich where investigating,
biding her time...she's smarter than the average Rakdos, and followed Jarad at a discreet distance. Her thinking was, "the jig is up, but at least I can get that elf what spoiled my plans."
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and what were the Rakdos shipping all those heads off for???
Long story short, any books printed before The Brothers' War. To explain it further, i'll quote a recent AIM conversation:
[01/04/2006 21:48:29] VestDan: 1993, Magic is created by Richard GArfield and buddies. they have fun concepts for gameplay, storyline, etc, but basically have no idea what the hell they'rd doing
[01/04/2006 21:48:43] otherguy: yay urzas sunglasses
[01/04/2006 21:48:45] VestDan: they make it up as they go, with cards and storyline alike.
[01/04/2006 21:48:46] otherguy: go on
[01/04/2006 21:49:23] VestDan: the game is a hit. it grows. they throw together more sets, and look around for storylines. They adopt the Arabian Nights, and make up reasons for that to make sense
[01/04/2006 21:49:39] otherguy: they failed...
[01/04/2006 21:49:41] VestDan: they realize they need an original story, a background for this fantastical setting
[01/04/2006 21:49:52] otherguy: ya...
[01/04/2006 21:49:55] VestDan: And so, for Antiquities, they came up with the Brothers' War
[01/04/2006 21:50:03] otherguy: which was an awesome idea
[01/04/2006 21:50:11] VestDan: little snippets in flavor text. needed to read the comics for the whole story
[01/04/2006 21:50:44] VestDan: they hired a bunch of writers. "Writers," they said, "We have this brand. It's a fantasy setting. Write some stories and use these terms we made up."
[01/04/2006 21:50:58] otherguy: ahh... ok
[01/04/2006 21:51:07] VestDan: and so, these writers, with no real guiding principle except the occasional inclination to cite cards, wrote whatever the hell they pleased
[01/04/2006 21:51:21] VestDan: Planeswalkers everywhere.
[01/04/2006 21:51:30] otherguy: lol...
[01/04/2006 21:51:57] VestDan: Wizards also had some comics lines. one for Taysir, from Rabiah that explained the Magic version of Arabian Nights
[01/04/2006 21:52:06] VestDan: one for the brothers war, like i said. a few for various Legends characters
[01/04/2006 21:52:10] otherguy: ya... never understood taysir
[01/04/2006 21:52:39] VestDan: then some computer games came out. one was fun, one was lame. Both had very in depth storylines, that were integrated into already existing storylines from the sets and comics
[01/04/2006 21:52:51] otherguy: ahh
[01/04/2006 21:52:52] otherguy: ok
[01/04/2006 21:53:01] VestDan: the comics never sold too well, so they stopped doing that. the games, likewise, but the story stood.
[01/04/2006 21:53:21] VestDan: Mirage happened, and a lot of that story was told on this magical new entity called the internet
[01/04/2006 21:53:30] VestDan: but then, they had this idea
[01/04/2006 21:53:30] otherguy: ahh
[01/04/2006 21:53:31] otherguy: ok
[01/04/2006 21:53:47] VestDan: "our storylines are all over the place" they said. "And a lot of them are really cool."
[01/04/2006 21:53:58] otherguy: so connect them
[01/04/2006 21:54:11] VestDan: "But what if we just had one really long storyline? We can start it now, and it can go all the way into the next millenium. it can build upon everything we've already done!"
[01/04/2006 21:54:33] otherguy: lol.. ya
[01/04/2006 21:54:38] otherguy: it was really long...
[01/04/2006 21:54:44] VestDan: "but wait," they said. "a lot of what we've already done contradicts some of our plans. and theres a lot of details we forgot because we were lazy."
[01/04/2006 21:54:50] otherguy: kinda ended at apocalypse though
[01/04/2006 21:55:16] VestDan: "Well, that's easy. All we have to do is ignore details we don't like. We use existing storyline stuff as we recall it, changing it as is convenient."
[01/04/2006 21:55:23] VestDan: THAT is what the revision was
[01/04/2006 21:55:33] otherguy: ahhh.... so they threw out stuff
[01/04/2006 21:55:45] otherguy: and it just sits their to this day confusing the hell out of people
[01/04/2006 21:55:58] VestDan: When they decided to do the Weatherlight saga, in particular, when Urza block went back in time to when a lot of prerevisionist stuff had taken place, some details had to change
[01/04/2006 21:56:16] VestDan: whenever prerevisionist stuff and revisionist stuff disagree, the new stuff wins
[01/04/2006 21:56:36] VestDan: however, if there is no revisionist source on a subject, it is assumed that the prerevisionist material still holds true
How come Isao, Enlightened Bushi was not written into the Kamigawa novel? I mean the flavor text was there so why no Isao?
For the same reason as Azami, Adamaro, Seshiro, Dosan and plenty of other Kamigawa card characters. In a block of extreme abundance of legends, you cannot await to have seen everyone in the novel.
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1. Can you give us more knowledge about the military structure of the Boros (their ranks and such.)? Or would that be teling?
2. How is a life of a non-guilded Ravnican citizen?
3. Do all shop owners in Ravnica go with Orzhov? Or only the rich, successful ones?
4. Do you get paid for joining a guild, liek working for them or something?
5. What is the most populated guild? least?
Sorry for the delay, Arch...been a bit busy the last couple of days.
1. Matt's article (referenced in another post) has a pretty solid layout of how I pictured the Boros structure. They don't mention the Haazda, which is probably just as well...they're volunteer "law enforcement" that few people, and no "true" Boros, really rely on. They're mostly there for the shiny uniforms.
2. It depends...in general life as one of the guildless is not easy. There is definitely an unspoken caste system in Ravnica of sorts, and the guildless are on the bottom of the heap. They take what work they can to get by, some are actually slaves (slavery being no more illegal than murder), many are criminals. It's actually worse in some ways to be guildless in the dense population centers like the City of Ravnica, then again, you don't want to be guildless in an area that's the sole domain of, say, the Rakdos.
Of the total population of Ravnica the plane, roughly a quarter of the inhabitants are guildless, though this percentage waxes and wanes.
3. The guildless people that are best off are merchants who have yet to officially join the Orzhov guild. As soon as you start earning enough for the Orzhov to notice, they come calling. When the Orzhov ask you to join, you don't refuse, if you're smart. Merchants who aren't smart usually become merchants who are dead.
4. Depends on the guild. If you are a member of a guild, most of your needs are taken care of by that guild, either through pay or through the supply of food, shelter, etc. Wojeks do get paid a regular paycheck, for example. If you're in the cult of Rakdos, on the other hand, your "bennies" are primarily food, shelter, and (horribly violent) cameraderie.
5. The most populous guild is probably the Golgari, since that guild includes both the living and the undead. The Dimir is *probably* the smallest...though it's difficult to get a head count with them. Especially when it comes to Lupul.
Cory, I am just translating the novel, and one thing strikes me: What means Z.C.?
I know that it means something like A.D. - Anno Domini, but what is the proper meaning?
I must say that I like your words like lawmage, labmage, ectomage etc. :D. Also, the part where Pivlic comments in a completely unsurprised style Borca's afterlife avenge assurance in words like "Yeah, the blue aura, that must be the work of V,O,F & W..." is perfect and I must laugh everytime I read it.:wink2:
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I am not sure (if there is, I'm not writing it. ;)) You might try checking in over at the Wizards boards.
Hope this helps,
CJH
My guess is that there will be a novel, but that's just a guess.
As for MR in the novels, I plead the fifth.
Will
Come on. Thats pretty weak, an engineered virus, made specifically to transform living things into metallic things, is able to mutate and do the complete opposite....right off the bat? How exactly would it make him crazy?
To go in a completley different direction....
Is Mirroden/Argentum a natural plane or one Karn created? I don't remember if it was revealed.
Here's a good question for all you writer types. Two parts:
1) How familiar are ya'll with prerevisionist magic storylines?
and
2) How big a priority do you think it should be to rehabilitate these storylines, and make them fully a part of modern, accepted magic canon?
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Will might have a different answer--he invented the stuff--but I would figure it's a bit like those Jurassic Park frogs that spontaneously switch sex when confronted with a single-sex environment. If the stuff was supposed to turn flesh to metal, but only found metal, then sure, it mutated.
Hey, *I'm* not the one who decided to use frog DNA...
Turn half of your brain into, oh, let's say delicious chocolate pudding. Assuming it didn't just kill you, it might make you a little bonkers at least.
Again, Will would know better, but I believe it's artificial.
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Speaking only for myself,
1) I am passing familiar with most of it as a consequence of being the former Magic Story Guy, but most familiar with the Homelands storyline (specifically the Baron, Eron, and Serra). I have not read much of the novels but have read all of the comic books. Before you all sharpen up your pitchforks and light torches to come get me, my lack of informed-ness is primarily because I had to immese myself in the history of the Brothers' War and Weatherlight saga in order to step in and start working on Urza, Masques, and Invasion blocks and novels. There was literally never any time to go back and re-read the older novels because they weren't part of my day-to-day job.
2) I don't think it should be a big priority at all. Pitchforks down; let me elaborate: I'm 100% in favor of revisiting these places and key characters in future storylines and sets, but I don't think it's worthwhile to re-tell the original stories again. If we see Garth One-Eye again (or any of the other early characters I'm not all that familiar with), I'd rather see him do and/or be something new. We can have all the flashbacks we like to show how he got from the old books to the new ones, but beyond that, I say go forward and do not look back.
That being said, I still want WotC to revisit the Umezawa clan so I can write another novel about it.
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Sorry dude--you posted your questions while I was writing up my previous post, didn't see 'em right away....
1) Mort's more or less right. I did read a short story in the instruction booklet of a boxed starter set I picked up in...'94? '95? I dunno, I've still got it somewhere. I think Richard Garfield wrote it. Does that count?
2) If rehabilitation took place, I think it should be done through the current storylines. I'd have no problem with it (though if I were to write it, I'd obviously need to do a little more research) and think it can only add to the history and richness of the multiverse. Which I know sounds like marketing-speak, but I really mean it.
Well...Jarad is really, really badass, and he planned his attack very well. He got there before Kos and Zunich to get the girl (who was still alive, but about to not be) out of the warehouse. He struck from the shadows, and eventually freaked out the Rakdos so much that they started to distrust each other, many of the rest actually killed each other and saved Jarad the trouble.
Some of Jarad's bugs took off the troll's limbs. They looked ripped off, but were really *chewed* off.
Yum!
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I wonder if perhaps Argentum/Mirridion makes an appearance in "The Thran", when Yawgmoth goes planeshopping and finds what becomes Phyrexia?
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A virus (even an engineered one) is basically a living thing. It looks for receptors in cells to cling to and then invades those cells and alters what they were supposed to do to do what the virus wants instead (usually some form of replicating itself to survive long enough to infect something else).
So, if the a flesh to metal virus finds a host that has no flesh it will either die or mutate to a form that can effect the metallic cells. It's a stretch, but it had hundreds of years to find some way to affect Memnarch and viruses can actually mutate very quickly. As for driving him crazy, what if the cells it attacked first were in his neural network? these are the most likely to be the most complex and organic-type cells in the body, so a likely candidate for initial infection given that he's made of metal. Who knows what happens after that.
I believe Karn created the fabric of the world itself, but the blinkmoths were either already there (in a relatively unformed plane) or he imported them from somewhere else. They were the only organic creatures on the world before Memnarch began bringing lifeforms in from other planes. My guess is that Karn (knowing that manufactured planes have a limited lifespan, transformed an existing (and nearly desolate) plane for his home, taking great care not to upset the balance of the blinkmoth's existence.
Will
I am not personally familiar with them. I think I have a couple, but since they didn't affect the storylines I was working on, I haven't read them yet.
As for should they be rehabilitated? I would say a qualified yes. It would be great to make the canon work well enough to get everything to flow neatly. But sometimes this can't happen because it's such a huge, sprawling multiverse. Also, as these were published before Wizards took publishing in-house, I don't know how the rights were done on these stories. It is completely possible that WotC does not have all rights to these books. I do not know if that's true, but it is possible, which would mean that Wizards could not use certain parts of the story (things that have nothing to do with copyrighted wizards material such as characters created by the authors for the story) without permission from the authors or maybe even from the publisher.
Will
It's all about those stupid little bugs, isn't it? :tongue3:
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Perhaps they are the whole key to understanding the very fabric of the multiverse. Mwah ha ha.
Okay, maybe not.
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[01/04/2006 21:48:29] VestDan: 1993, Magic is created by Richard GArfield and buddies. they have fun concepts for gameplay, storyline, etc, but basically have no idea what the hell they'rd doing
[01/04/2006 21:48:43] otherguy: yay urzas sunglasses
[01/04/2006 21:48:45] VestDan: they make it up as they go, with cards and storyline alike.
[01/04/2006 21:48:46] otherguy: go on
[01/04/2006 21:49:23] VestDan: the game is a hit. it grows. they throw together more sets, and look around for storylines. They adopt the Arabian Nights, and make up reasons for that to make sense
[01/04/2006 21:49:39] otherguy: they failed...
[01/04/2006 21:49:41] VestDan: they realize they need an original story, a background for this fantastical setting
[01/04/2006 21:49:52] otherguy: ya...
[01/04/2006 21:49:55] VestDan: And so, for Antiquities, they came up with the Brothers' War
[01/04/2006 21:50:03] otherguy: which was an awesome idea
[01/04/2006 21:50:11] VestDan: little snippets in flavor text. needed to read the comics for the whole story
[01/04/2006 21:50:44] VestDan: they hired a bunch of writers. "Writers," they said, "We have this brand. It's a fantasy setting. Write some stories and use these terms we made up."
[01/04/2006 21:50:58] otherguy: ahh... ok
[01/04/2006 21:51:07] VestDan: and so, these writers, with no real guiding principle except the occasional inclination to cite cards, wrote whatever the hell they pleased
[01/04/2006 21:51:21] VestDan: Planeswalkers everywhere.
[01/04/2006 21:51:30] otherguy: lol...
[01/04/2006 21:51:57] VestDan: Wizards also had some comics lines. one for Taysir, from Rabiah that explained the Magic version of Arabian Nights
[01/04/2006 21:52:06] VestDan: one for the brothers war, like i said. a few for various Legends characters
[01/04/2006 21:52:10] otherguy: ya... never understood taysir
[01/04/2006 21:52:39] VestDan: then some computer games came out. one was fun, one was lame. Both had very in depth storylines, that were integrated into already existing storylines from the sets and comics
[01/04/2006 21:52:51] otherguy: ahh
[01/04/2006 21:52:52] otherguy: ok
[01/04/2006 21:53:01] VestDan: the comics never sold too well, so they stopped doing that. the games, likewise, but the story stood.
[01/04/2006 21:53:21] VestDan: Mirage happened, and a lot of that story was told on this magical new entity called the internet
[01/04/2006 21:53:30] VestDan: but then, they had this idea
[01/04/2006 21:53:30] otherguy: ahh
[01/04/2006 21:53:31] otherguy: ok
[01/04/2006 21:53:47] VestDan: "our storylines are all over the place" they said. "And a lot of them are really cool."
[01/04/2006 21:53:58] otherguy: so connect them
[01/04/2006 21:54:11] VestDan: "But what if we just had one really long storyline? We can start it now, and it can go all the way into the next millenium. it can build upon everything we've already done!"
[01/04/2006 21:54:33] otherguy: lol.. ya
[01/04/2006 21:54:38] otherguy: it was really long...
[01/04/2006 21:54:44] VestDan: "but wait," they said. "a lot of what we've already done contradicts some of our plans. and theres a lot of details we forgot because we were lazy."
[01/04/2006 21:54:50] otherguy: kinda ended at apocalypse though
[01/04/2006 21:55:16] VestDan: "Well, that's easy. All we have to do is ignore details we don't like. We use existing storyline stuff as we recall it, changing it as is convenient."
[01/04/2006 21:55:23] VestDan: THAT is what the revision was
[01/04/2006 21:55:33] otherguy: ahhh.... so they threw out stuff
[01/04/2006 21:55:45] otherguy: and it just sits their to this day confusing the hell out of people
[01/04/2006 21:55:58] VestDan: When they decided to do the Weatherlight saga, in particular, when Urza block went back in time to when a lot of prerevisionist stuff had taken place, some details had to change
[01/04/2006 21:56:16] VestDan: whenever prerevisionist stuff and revisionist stuff disagree, the new stuff wins
[01/04/2006 21:56:36] VestDan: however, if there is no revisionist source on a subject, it is assumed that the prerevisionist material still holds true
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1. Can you give us more knowledge about the military structure of the Boros (their ranks and such.)? Or would that be teling?
2. How is a life of a non-guilded Ravnican citizen?
3. Do all shop owners in Ravnica go with Orzhov? Or only the rich, successful ones?
4. Do you get paid for joining a guild, liek working for them or something?
5. What is the most populated guild? least?
For the same reason as Azami, Adamaro, Seshiro, Dosan and plenty of other Kamigawa card characters. In a block of extreme abundance of legends, you cannot await to have seen everyone in the novel.
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I think that was covered somewhat by Wizards in "Holy War: The Boros Legion" http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mc16
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Trade Thread
Sorry for the delay, Arch...been a bit busy the last couple of days.
1. Matt's article (referenced in another post) has a pretty solid layout of how I pictured the Boros structure. They don't mention the Haazda, which is probably just as well...they're volunteer "law enforcement" that few people, and no "true" Boros, really rely on. They're mostly there for the shiny uniforms.
2. It depends...in general life as one of the guildless is not easy. There is definitely an unspoken caste system in Ravnica of sorts, and the guildless are on the bottom of the heap. They take what work they can to get by, some are actually slaves (slavery being no more illegal than murder), many are criminals. It's actually worse in some ways to be guildless in the dense population centers like the City of Ravnica, then again, you don't want to be guildless in an area that's the sole domain of, say, the Rakdos.
Of the total population of Ravnica the plane, roughly a quarter of the inhabitants are guildless, though this percentage waxes and wanes.
3. The guildless people that are best off are merchants who have yet to officially join the Orzhov guild. As soon as you start earning enough for the Orzhov to notice, they come calling. When the Orzhov ask you to join, you don't refuse, if you're smart. Merchants who aren't smart usually become merchants who are dead.
4. Depends on the guild. If you are a member of a guild, most of your needs are taken care of by that guild, either through pay or through the supply of food, shelter, etc. Wojeks do get paid a regular paycheck, for example. If you're in the cult of Rakdos, on the other hand, your "bennies" are primarily food, shelter, and (horribly violent) cameraderie.
5. The most populous guild is probably the Golgari, since that guild includes both the living and the undead. The Dimir is *probably* the smallest...though it's difficult to get a head count with them. Especially when it comes to Lupul.
I know that it means something like A.D. - Anno Domini, but what is the proper meaning?
I must say that I like your words like lawmage, labmage, ectomage etc. :D. Also, the part where Pivlic comments in a completely unsurprised style Borca's afterlife avenge assurance in words like "Yeah, the blue aura, that must be the work of V,O,F & W..." is perfect and I must laugh everytime I read it.:wink2:
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)