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During our last visit to Innistrad in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Innistrad: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Midnight Hunt, an eternal night had finally fallen across the plane. The Dawnhart Festival, a grand human ritual meant to bring back the sun, was ambushed by packs of werewolves led by their feral leader Tovolar. To make matters worse, the vampires saw an opportunity to strike and, led by Olivia Voldaren, struck down the human warlock Katilda and stole the mysterious artifact instrumental to the ritual, the Moonsilver Key.Months have passed since then, and Innistrad's humans have been suffering under the endless night. Werewolves on one side, Vampires on the other, it's up to the Innistrad werewolf Planeswalker (a powerful individual who can jump between universes) Arlinn Kord, who has been abandoned by her wolf pack, to bring back the day with the help of fellow Planeswalkers Teferi, Kaya, and Chandra. Now that the stage is set, here is everything that happens in our second trip to Innistrad this year, Innistrad: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crimson Vow.
Tithes And Invitations
The , a region of Innistrad ruled by the Voldaren vampire family. Since the Sun set many months before, the Vampires have become more brazen in their attacks, and now demand a tribute of one bowl of blood per human every day.
Meanwhile, Arlinn, Kaya, Teferi, Chandra, and the non-Planeswalker Cathar Adeline have been trying to help the plane's humans find safety in a world where monsters can attack at any time. Chandra and Adeline have been growing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:incredibly close (which is implied to be thanks to the matchmaking of Kaya), but the strain of this months-long fight is beginning to affect everybody. Feeling now is the time to strike at the Voldaren Estate and recover the Moonsilver Key, the team decide to visit a Planeswalker who refused to help them during Midnight Hunt, the vampire Sorin Markov.
Although Sorin is a vampir꧋e, being a Planeswalker has given him a greater perspective than many. He has identified the eternal night as a threat to vampirekind – those with less control are treating it as a feeding frenzy, and with werewolves, zombies, and spirits also thinning the human numbers, their food source isn't as secure as many would like to think.
Unsure of what to do next, he heads to his family's archives in Markov Manor to awake his sleeping grandfather, the progenitor of all of Innistrad's vampir🌟es and head of the Markov family, Edgar Markov.
However, things don't go according to plan. On arrival at the archives, he discovers that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Edgar's coffin – and all of his other possessions – have been stolen. While enraged by this, Sorin is interrupted by the a🍸rrival of a bat holding an ornate envelope.
Before he gets the chance to read it, he hears the sound of yet more intruders and returns to the main hall. There, he finds the Planeswalkers who begged him for help months ago: Teferi, Kaya, Arlinn, Kaya, and the human Adeline. Before any business can be discussed, Arlinn immediately notices Sorin's envelope, and both she and he know exactly what it is: an invitation to the wedding of Olivia Voldaren and Edgar Markov, to be held at the Voldaren Estate in Stensia.
The Dolorous Weight Of Pleasantries
. The event of the century is underway, and vampires from right across Innistrad have turned up. Bloodlines major and minor mingle, some drinking from the blood fountains, others taking it directly from the human thralls enslaved as serv💙ers, while others still engage in barbed words and outright duels. One surprise guest is Henrika Domnathi, a powerful vampire whose family is known for colluding with demons – Henrika herself rumoured to once be the lover of the demon Griselbrand himself.
Outside the Voldaren Estate, the team and Sorin are assessing the situation. Now that there is a real chance to get the Moonsilver Key back, entire human armies have been raised, from the Cathars and Lunarchs to the simple farmers and villagers of the Plane. Their plans are thwarted, though, when it's discovered that there is a magical forcefield placed around the entire estate – the only people who can enter are those with an invitation. Sorin has to enter alone, leaving his uneasy allies waiting outside.
Entering the wedding, Sorin tries to contain his disgust for his fellow🔯 vampires, who have fallen into mindless gluttony and bloodlust. Entering the main hall, he finally sees his target: Olivia Voldaren is standing at the dais, ready to give a speech. Her dress is both beautiful and horrific at the same time, full of spikes and luxurious filigree, completed with a train made of the trapped spirits of her oldest victims.
During her speech, a coffin is brought to the dais, and it's none other than Edgar Markov's. Slitting her wrist, Olivia pours her blood into the coffin – on Innistrad, blood is a powerful thing, containing the desires and memories of its owner. By pouring her blood in, Olivia is able to control and command Edgar's desires, putting them in line with her own.
Sorin attacks, leaping forward in an unexpected burst of love for his grandfather, who has known him longer than anybody else. Before he can reach the dais, the guards restrain him with chains made of blessed silver, and Edgar finally wakes up… utterly smitten by Voldaren. Sorin's worst nightmares are realised when more coffins are brought in – the entire Markov bloodline, who despise Sorin for his habit of 🍷meddling in the wants of Innistrad's vampire♒s, are all ensnared by Olivia in the same way.
Forever Hold Your Peace
With , the wedding ceremony can begin for real. Before the vows, though, Olivia has one more announcement to make; beckoning to the thralls, a red curtain is lowered from the ceiling, and Sorin knows straight away what it is: after all, it's a disgusting mockery of the ceremony that made him a vampire in the first place.
Bound in a magical red cloth is one of the last surviving archangels of Innistrad, and the sole remaining source of hope for its humans: Sigarda. Weakened and wounded from her fight with Sorin during Midnight Hunܫt, her capture by Olivia raises the stakes even more. If Olivia consumes Sigarda's blood, she wi𒐪ll gain control of all of Innistrad's angels, and she will be a truly unstoppable threat way bigger than any endless night could be.
With no other option, Sorin uses his blood-manipulating sangromancy to form a blade out of the blood in Olivia Voldaren's bowl and cuts himself free of the blessed chains. Stealing a weapon from a retaliating guard, he finally manages to get to Olivia and attacks her. In the ensuing fight, she drops the Moonsilver Key and blinding light bursts forth from it. The light is the spirit of Katilda, the human warlock who brought humanity together for the failed Dawnhart Ritual in Mܫidnight Hunt.
Sori🎃n keeps Olivia busy while Katilda works on freeing Sigarda. Eventually, the angel is released, and in her righteous fury releases a wave of light so powerful it smashes all the glass in the grand hall&hel🦋lip; and the forcefield stopping the rest of Sorin's allies from entering.
The Wedding Crashers
, and Chandra, Kaya, Teferi, Arlinn, and Adeline can finally push forward, ordering their amassed army to charge through. Teferi speeds up their advance with🐈 his time magic, and before long Chandra, Teferi, Arlinn, and Adeline have broken into the main ballroom where Sorin, Katilda, and Sigarda are fighting Olivia, Edgar, and the remaining vampires.
B🧸ut where is Kaya? As an expert in spirits with the ability to turn into a ghostform, Kaya had identified the spirit of Katilda from outside the estate. Using her location, Kaya took a different route and leapt into action from behind Olivia, her ghostform'd daggers effortlessly cutting free her train of trapped spirits. Olivia, knowing she is at a disadvantage, flees into her labyrinthine mansion.
With the others holding off the vampire forces, Arlinn𒈔 chases Olivia, using her werewolf senses to maintain her bearings in a castle that can shift its walls based on Olivia's whims. Sorin also leaves the ballroom, pursuing his grandfather who has retreated to the blood cellars beneath the estate.
Sorin catches up with Edgar, and the two finally duke it out with claws and pipes. Edgar's words are a tangled mess of Olivia's control and his own deep resentment of Sorin, and eventually, h💧e manages to get the upper hand and throws Sorin deep into a blood-filled pit.
Meanwhile, Arlinn has managed to chase down Olivia. In the ensuing fight, Arlinn is heavily injured, easily beaten down by the blood-fuelled Olivia. Alone in the cold, dead🦩 estate, Olivia thrusts her hand into Arlinn's chest, her hand a perfect stake with which to pierce the werewolf Planeswalker's heart💧. She falls to the ground in a pool of her own blood, and Olivia is seemingly able to make her escape.
Till Death Do Us Part
After Sorin, Edgar, Arlinn, and Olivia have , Chandra, Kaya, Teferi and Adeline are left to fight off the seemingly endless hordes of vampires. Even with Teferi's time magic, the group are struggling to keep up🗹, and all seems lost when a new cohort of heavily-armed vampire guards march into the hall.
That is, until the sound of snarling and howling floods the hall. The vampire weapons are batted away by fur and muscle, as a hundreds-strong pack of wolves descend upon the estate, lead by none other than the main antagonist of Midnight Hunt who successfully stopped the Dawnhart Festival, Tovolar. With him are Arlinn's old pack, who abandoned her and defected to Tovolar's side months ago. They descend into the bowls of the esta🔥te, hunting for Arlinn and Olivia.
In the cellars, Sorin wakes up, fully submerged. Drowning in the well of ꧋blood, he finally gives in to his vampiric urges and drinks deep from the well. Surging with power, he pulls himself out of the well and runs to the ballroom, just in time to stop Edgar Markov's attack on his… allies🐎? Peers? Friends? The two fight, both moving faster than any human there could perceive – not even Teferi and his command of time.
The fight is short and brutal, and ends with Sorin holding the point of his sword to his gra🐓ndfather's throat. A decisive victory on Sorin's part, but ﷽he can't let go of the past and his old relationship with his grandfather. Supportive of his differences to Innistrad's other vampires, and a constant companion in the thousands of years both have been alive, Sorin has no choice but to spare Edgar, but orders him to "get out of his sight".
Deep in the estate, Arlinn is barely holding on to life when she feels a flurry of fur against her skin, and a smell that's all too familiar to her: her former mentor Tovolar. Shocked by his sudden arrival and unexpected aid, Arlinn too gives in to her monstrous side and finally transforms into her wolf form. Her body knitting itself back together, Arlinn, her old pack, now reunited with her, and Tovolar pursue Olivia. Though they can't prevent her and Edgar from escaping together, they do regain the Moonsilver Key. The daꩵy💙 is won, and it is time to bring back the sun.
Returning to the Celestus, the monument where the Dawnhart Festival took place, Arlin꧑n and Katilda talk about Tovolar, who for some reason is accompanying them. Katilda argues that he is a beast disguised as a human, while Arlinn is the opposite, and that justice must be done for Katilda's coven who were slaughtered at his hand. They alsꦐo discuss Sorin, who has found a new purpose on Innistrad, using his vast knowledge and archives to turn Markov Manor into a temporary hospital for the humans injured in the battle.
Their discussion is left hanging as they arrive at the Celestus, and Katilda's spirit manages to be reunited with her body. Returned to life, an🧔d possessing the Moonsilver Key at laꦬst, the ritual is able to be completed. Humans and werewolves alike celebrate the first glimpses of the first sunrise in months.
It is time for Kaya, Teferi and Chandra to go. Though Arlinn fails to say goodbye to Chandra, as she is busy having a rendezvous with Adeline, she does talk to Teferi. Katilda has given him the Moonsilver Key, as it's no longer needed for Innistrad, but contains properties Teferi is very interested in. Before he leaves, Teferi gives Arlinn a stark warning: the Phyrexians are coming – horrific amalgams of flesh and machine hellbent on converting everything to its design, they've been spotted on Kaldheim and appear to be creeping back across the multiverse once more. If Arlinn ever sees any sign of 💯the Phyrex♌ians, she is to alert Teferi immediately.
With ﷽this warning, Teferi, Kaya, and Chandra planeswalk away, and the Innistrad: Crimson Vow story comes to an end.
