Future Sight Online

Wrapping up the online coverage of the Time Spiral block, some articles on Future Sight. I'll be honest, there is a not a tremendous amount of interest here, though there is a very strange first appearance of a character who would go on to be very important, which is fun to look at.

As with the last two sets, we no longer have the minisite, though the Arcana articles advertising it only talk about "hints" and "insights" in the storyline, no actual stories, so I don't think we're missing much. Let's quickly move on to the Feature Articles.

Future Sight

 

Author - Scott McGough & John Delaney

Cover art - Aleksi Briclot

First printing - April 2007

SUMMARY

We start on the shores of Madara, where Leshrac (did you guess it was him?) is approached by the Myojin of Night's Reach. She offers him a mask with the power to steal powers, in the hope that he will use it against Nicol Bolas, who is currently hunting her for dropping off the Umezawa clan on Madara centuries ago. Leshrec then heads to Urborg where he recruits the Weaver King's foremost killer, Dinne il-Vec, sending him to find Radha. After that he begins to manipulate Jeska, hoping to bring Phage out in her.

Jeska has been brought up to date by Jhoira, Teferi & Venser, but didn't like their plans and went off to look into the rifts on her own. Leshrac tells her the Otaria and Yavimaya rifts are very complex, and that sacrificing their own sparks might not even work on them, but that they could use Venser & Radha's link to the rifts in a way adapted from how Bolas used Venser to bring himself back to life in Time Spiral. Jeska goes to inspect Radha, but Leshrac interferes by having Dinne attack the Keldon warhost just as Jeska is talking to Radha, making the half-elf mistrust her. Some fighting later (during which Jeska seems to subconsciously use a minor version of Phage's touch) Radha is beaten and claimed by Jeska.

Planar Chaos Online

Unfortunately the Planar Chaos mini-site, like the one for Time Spiral before it, has fallen off the edge of the internet. And this one actually had a story! Luckily it has been saved from oblivion, so let's start looking into that before delving into the articles!

Destiny, by Michael J. Ryan

Yup. That's the summary alright!

Okay, okay, I'll take this seriously.

In the Stronghold of another timeline, Death Stroke doesn't show Crovax killing Selenia, but Mirri doing so instead. As a result, she is the one who ends up with the curse of vampirism. The two of them fall overboard during the final battle with the Predator in Exodus, but the Weatherlight comes back and Crovax escapes. The story is book-ended with Crovax and Gerrard discussing destiny.

Planar Chaos

 Writer - Scott McGough & Timothy Sanders
Cover Artist - Daren Bader

First Printing - January 2007

SUMMARY

With Rahda back in Keld and Teferi dealing with his sudden lack of godliness, Venser and Jhoira come to the fore in this book. Jhoira creates a barrier of glass shards to protect them form the angry Shivans that attacked the crew at the end of Time Spiral, but mana-surges of the returned Shiv cause it to go out of control and shred the attackers. This makes their last companion Corus go mad, which leads to him breaking an artifact Teferi gave him, blowing himself up in the proces. Eventually they make it to a Ghitu tribe though, where they build an ambulator over the course of several weeks. Unfortunately, there's also a strange giggly voice who starts talking to Venser, trying to distract him in dangerous situations.