It has been a very long time since anyone in the plane of Zendikar saw the eldrazi titan Emrakul.
Visions of a devastated land trouble Gideon Jura, who has decided to track down the last of the three monstrous giants. With Jace off to Innistrad and Nissa healing the plane along with Chandra (However she can), Gideon follows the essence which Emrakul left in her last hedron prison.
This leads him to a peaceful, new plane filled with strangely sentient creatures. However, Gideon can't allow himself to be distracted by this, since as every second goes by, the eldrazi titan becomes stronger and spawns a huge brood of all-consuming aberrations.
If you play MTG, but don't follow the story, here's the summarized story of the Zendikar block:
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You can read this story without knowing the MTG lore. But it's highly recommendable to do so in order to understand many keywords.
On read later list for a time that's not 3:15 am.
I find it ironic that you posted this story the day before Shadows Over Innistrad release.
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I hit the publish button at midday. It got published just now XD
Silly moderators.
This! I like it. Moved from 'read later' to 'favorites'
A solid start. Your portrayal of Chandra and Gideon were spot on! I was curious about why Gideon was receiving visions. It seems like Zendikar itself was reaching out to him specifically, but wouldn't the plane have a stronger connection with Nissa? On the other hand, I'm glad we didn't have to go through "Ashaya, where are you? I've lost my will to fight without you!...Oh, wait, there you are!"
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Explanations shall be given ;)