Quintorius returns to Strixhaven with evidence gathered on Ixalan and negotiates his way onto a Fields of Strife expedition as a teaching assistant. His concern is larger than one excavation: traces of the Coin Empire suggest a civilisation once connected distant planes and then disappeared with dangerous speed.
Beyond the wards, dead warriors drag Quint into their memories. His planeswalker spark lets him step around the haunting without treating the past as an enemy. A fall then opens an untouched cache of Blood Age artefacts—and an Omenpath used by Stella Lee to remove pieces for a buyer on New Capenna.
Quint drives the looter away but chooses preservation over pursuit. A geomancer uncovers fossil tracks matching the beings Quint encountered in Colony’s End, confirming that the Fomori-linked power reached Arcavios. The find does not solve the mystery; it turns a suspicion into a research programme.