The latest set from Magic: The Gathering is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, the card and book sets were broken into two mini-blocks (Lorwyn and Shadowmoor) with two expansions each (Lorwyn, Morningtide, Shadowmoor, Eventide). Second, the book set has two of the best story cycles written in the game’s history. The novels also mark a newer and darker grounds for the franchise’s fiction.
The block novels begin with Lorwyn, named after the plane that it takes place on. The plane of Lorwyn is one that is stuck in midsummer, full of color and life. The story follows a motley crew of characters from every walk of life while they try to stop the elves and treefolk from what seems to be complete planar domination. However, not all is what it seems. Morningtide, the second book of the Lorwyn cycle, continues this search for justice and self-discovery. The heroes from the first book try to figure out what is wrong with their world. They have to because every race is starting to change. Goblins are becoming more savage and daring. Giants are becoming less self-aware and more brutish than normal. Merfolk are becoming cut-throat pirates. Eventually Rhys, Sygg, Brigid and the other heros find out about the coming “Great Aurora,“ essentially a plot device that signals the shift into the second world.
The second world starts the Shadowmoor cycle. The plane of Shadowmoor is a dark reflection of the world that was Lorwyn, going from perpetual midsummer to perpetual winter. Although Lorwyn was a place of light, hope and life, few remember that version of the world since it has become a place of shadows, fear, death and desolation. Shadowmoor is a world that only the brothers Grimm, Stephen King and Clive Barker can love.
The first book of the Shadowmoor cycle is an anthology of short stories named after this new world showing the drastic shift in the nature of the plane’s inhabitants and its magic. Some of the authors are veterans like Scott McGough, Cory J. Herndon and Will McDermott. Others are newcomers but they match the style and urgency without a problem. Eventide, the second book of the cycle and the end of the complete storyline, follows the remaining protectors of light and beauty as they struggle against Oona, Queen of the Faeries, and an enemy generally referred to as “The Destroyer” and her army of living smoldering cinders.
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The block novels begin with Lorwyn, named after the plane that it takes place on. The plane of Lorwyn is one that is stuck in midsummer, full of color and life. The story follows a motley crew of characters from every walk of life while they try to stop the elves and treefolk from what seems to be complete planar domination. However, not all is what it seems. Morningtide, the second book of the Lorwyn cycle, continues this search for justice and self-discovery. The heroes from the first book try to figure out what is wrong with their world. They have to because every race is starting to change. Goblins are becoming more savage and daring. Giants are becoming less self-aware and more brutish than normal. Merfolk are becoming cut-throat pirates. Eventually Rhys, Sygg, Brigid and the other heros find out about the coming “Great Aurora,“ essentially a plot device that signals the shift into the second world.
The second world starts the Shadowmoor cycle. The plane of Shadowmoor is a dark reflection of the world that was Lorwyn, going from perpetual midsummer to perpetual winter. Although Lorwyn was a place of light, hope and life, few remember that version of the world since it has become a place of shadows, fear, death and desolation. Shadowmoor is a world that only the brothers Grimm, Stephen King and Clive Barker can love.
The first book of the Shadowmoor cycle is an anthology of short stories named after this new world showing the drastic shift in the nature of the plane’s inhabitants and its magic. Some of the authors are veterans like Scott McGough, Cory J. Herndon and Will McDermott. Others are newcomers but they match the style and urgency without a problem. Eventide, the second book of the cycle and the end of the complete storyline, follows the remaining protectors of light and beauty as they struggle against Oona, Queen of the Faeries, and an enemy generally referred to as “The Destroyer” and her army of living smoldering cinders.
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