New UR: Fire Logic
Lore forum
Posted on June 10, 2015, 10:56 a.m. by JWiley129
Chandra's origin story is up.
First note, Kaladesh is the Steampunk plane that some people have been hoping for!
FAMOUSWATERMELON says... #3
Dat... was awesome. Actually pretty predictable, but enjoyable throughout.
June 10, 2015 11:38 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #4
Great story. Though I could have sworn she had a brother, but eh.
June 10, 2015 12:01 p.m.
Sorry, I'm sure I should know this, but what plane did she trave to?
June 10, 2015 12:07 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #7
tooTimid, she walked to a plane called Regatha.
Also whoa, this story really does retcon Chandra quite a bit. Compare this UR to her MTGSalvation history from her backstory in The Purifying Fire.
June 10, 2015 12:19 p.m.
julianjmoss says... #8
This piece was really well written, they did a kid job of setting up the plane and characters. Slightly different than the old Chandra story but I like this one better
June 10, 2015 12:37 p.m.
KindredDiscovery says... #11
So...when are we going to have a block based on Kaladesh? Because I think I need that. Like, yesterday.
June 10, 2015 6:14 p.m.
So Chandra's backstory has been entirely ret-conned, and now everything that happened in The Purifying Fire with her and Gideon makes no sense whatsoever... Brilliant.
Why do I feel like this is what we can expect from the other origin stories as well?
@GoldGhost012, if I remember correctly she was supposed to have an older brother and two younger sisters.
June 10, 2015 7:15 p.m.
sonnet666 - That stuff can still happen, just later on in her timeline.
June 10, 2015 7:16 p.m.
@JWiley129: She tells Gideon the story of how her family died and how she planeswalked for the first time, and then walks through a pure white mana source that would have taken away her magic if she'd been lying. I'm pretty sure we have a continuity error on our hands...
June 10, 2015 7:24 p.m.
It's fine sonnet666, but Wizards wants more control over the creative content, and so far we've only seen Chandra's backstory. The only other backstory we have full details on is Liliana's, so there might be a bigger uproar should Lili's backstory get retconned as well.
June 10, 2015 7:27 p.m.
jandrobard says... #17
So much badass!
"Fist logic" is a memorable quote.
"Rising almost silently into view were three ornate flying roterothopters, beating the air with their spinning rotors, each one with a large lens staring right at her." Roterothopter reprint? I hope not but the damn things were mentioned, so it could happen.
June 10, 2015 7:34 p.m.
manasource going over the story and the revision to chandras backstory here.
June 11, 2015 8:34 p.m.
swkelly89, he got a few points wrong, but yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about too.
ChiefBell says... #2
Kinda steampunk.
June 10, 2015 11:35 a.m.