Aftermath and the Omenpaths

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Story Chapters

1. 01

   Victory does not rewind

   The invasion ended when New Phyrexia was displaced, but its damage remained embedded in worlds and survivors.

   The final strategy exchanged the positions of Zhalfir and New Phyrexia. Zhalfir emerged from its long isolation beneath Mirrodin’s five suns, while the Phyrexian plane was sealed into the exile Teferi had once created. Without Elesh Norn’s command, invading forces across the Multiverse fell inert.

   That ending stopped further conquest without removing what had already crossed Realmbreaker. Cities, ecosystems and institutions had been broken on many planes. Survivors could cut away dead machinery and still find that the war had changed borders, leadership and the assumptions on which ordinary life depended.

   The victory also changed the people most associated with interplanar action. Some planeswalkers kept their sparks, while many did not. The pattern was not understood well enough to feel like a rule. Power vanished unevenly, leaving former walkers to interpret a cosmic event through private loss.

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2. 02

   Nahiri beneath the Skyclave

   Nahiri survived compleation and began removing its metal from Zendikar before she was ready to face the world outside.

   Nahiri woke inside the fallen Emeria Skyclave and pulled the remaining Phyrexian material from her body. She then turned the same work outward, separating metal from stone piece by piece in corridors where the invasion had fused them together. The labour offered a scale small enough to control.

   Her spark no longer rested inside her. She eventually found its power wrapped in a delicate hedron structure within the Skyclave, close enough to recognise and separate enough to make her body feel hollow. Restoration became the answer she could pursue before deciding what survival or accountability required.

   When Nahiri climbed into daylight, the damage across Zendikar exceeded anything she could repair alone. Phyrexia had used her knowledge of lithomancy and the plane’s structures to deepen the invasion. She rejected the idea that coercion made those memories meaningless, but guilt did not lead her automatically toward trust.

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3. 03

   Guilt cannot form a coalition

   Ajani offered Nahiri a partnership in repair, and both survivors heard accusation inside the other’s need.

   Ajani came to Zendikar because he believed the former evangels could understand one another in ways their uncompleated allies could not. He had retained his spark and had been restored through the work and sacrifice of friends. That support gave him a model for healing, but it also made his offer sound effortless beside Nahiri’s solitary recovery.

   Nahiri refused to become an instrument for Ajani’s atonement. She wanted him away from Zendikar and read his persistence through a lifetime in which planeswalkers had repeatedly brought danger to her home. Ajani, grieving Jaya and the acts performed through him, heard her anger as another refusal to face their shared responsibility.

   Their argument exposed why surviving the same violation did not create automatic solidarity. Compleation had exploited traits already present in them—purpose, protection and certainty—then sharpened those traits into weapons. Afterward, the same qualities could still prevent them from recognising help that did not arrive in the form they needed.

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4. 04

   A spark breaks in stone

   A collapse shattered Nahiri’s separated spark and redirected her grief toward the travellers she blamed for Zendikar’s wounds.

   Suspicion escalated the meeting into sudden violence. Nahiri pulled at the Skyclave’s stone to create distance, misjudged the strength required and fell through the structure. The spark-hedron dropped with her into the pile of Phyrexian metal she had spent so long removing.

   When she recovered it, the fragile layers were broken and the power inside was gone. Whether restoration had ever been possible no longer mattered. The object had carried her last practical route back to planeswalking, and its loss gave grief a target standing outside herself.

   Nahiri concluded that Zendikar’s recurring catastrophes shared one cause: powerful outsiders arrived, acted and left the plane to absorb the result. She committed herself to closing her home against planeswalkers. The vow was protective in intention and dangerous in its refusal to distinguish visitors from invaders.

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5. 05

   Nissa wakes on Zhalfir

   Nissa survived without her spark and struggled to accept a future in which Chandra could still leave whenever duty called.

   Nissa regained herself on Zhalfir with dead Phyrexian metal still attached and Chandra beside her. Cleansing returned her mind but not the effortless connection to planes that had defined much of her adult life. Recovery required physical work, patience and an identity no longer organised around being the person who could always depart.

   Chandra wanted celebration because survival felt impossible enough to deserve it. Nissa kept clearing wreckage because unfinished labour gave shape to guilt. Their different responses were not opposites so much as attempts to manage the same fear: that one would move on before the other could trust the reunion.

   The loss of Nissa’s spark made Chandra’s remaining ability a problem neither could solve through reassurance. Chandra still had obligations elsewhere, including finding Ajani. A promise never to leave would be false; leaving without a new way back could repeat the separation they had only just survived.

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6. 06

   The first Omenpath forward

   An open passage gave Nissa and Chandra a route between planes that depended on choice rather than a planeswalker spark.

   Realmbreaker’s reach left passages between planes after the tree itself was gone. These Omenpaths did not behave like controlled planeswalking. They opened in places, could be crossed by ordinary people and creatures, and did not promise permanence or a familiar destination.

   For Nissa and Chandra, one such path transformed an argument about inevitable departure. It could carry them forward together, not because Chandra transported Nissa as a passenger but because both could choose to cross the same threshold. The route did not solve their grief; it changed what their future was allowed to include.

   For the Multiverse, that possibility was revolutionary and destabilising. Trade, migration, rescue and invasion no longer required a spark or a machine. Planeswalkers remained important, but they were no longer the sole living bridges between worlds. The aftermath ends by opening the map to everyone.

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