How exactly does a Planeswalker, PLANESWALK??
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Posted on Feb. 1, 2014, 5:04 p.m. by Enlightened_Jedi
To really further expand the question, have there been any novels, short stories, Q&A, Etc to really answer how or what the experience is to Planeswalk?
do planeswalkers just magically wave their hands and an abundance of doors open?Is it like the terminator movies, where they just appear instantly within the planes, possibly nude? (give me your clothes.)
But seriously have they ever answered how exactly a planeswalker, planeswalks and what the experience plays out like?
in the agents of artifice novel, jace explains what its like to walk through
February 1, 2014 10:01 p.m.
There's a very good description of what Elspeth has to do to planeswalk in this Uncharted Realms story. The gist of it is that you have to focus on the plane you want, but you also have to bond to the plane you are in. You then tear yourself through the Blind Eternities, a space more defined by what it isn't than what it is. There is no portal, no pop, no sign. One moment you are on one plane, the next in the Blind Eternities, hurtling toward your destination.
I suspect it has to do with mana bonds, but I don't have any evidence of that.
February 2, 2014 6:54 p.m.
I think each Planeswalker experiences it a little different from the others. In the article raithe000 linked, Elspeth says:
"I've never been fast at planeswalking. Once, you [Ajani] told me that it would get easier and hurt less. But it still feels like I have to use a metaphysical knife to shred my skin in preparation for the Blind Eternities. With my legs immobilized, I readied myself. But to leave, I had to bond with that fetid, violent mockery of a civilization." (Mirrodin)
However, when Domri Rade
first 'walked, his experience was described as:
"An overwhelming panic set in... and then something began to take over. A pressure from within surged up through his body, sending a sound through his mind like a chorus of trumpets that threatened to tear him apart. His spine felt like it had turned to liquid fire and his head filled with light and then... it happened. He shot out into the Multiverse to behold the infinite void of the Blind Eternities. Its vastness was incomprehensible to his new eyeseyes that would never be closed again."
It still sounds like a painful experience, but not nearly like what Elspeth describes.
As far as HOW it's done, later on in Domri's story, all he has to do is concentrate on his home plane in order to Walk back there:
"...he started to imagine the Rubblebelt and the great swaths of ruins, caves, and trenches left by wars, beasts, and other devastations. It pulled on him and he felt a strong force begin to arise like a fire within a furnace. The more Domri thought about it, the more the force grew within him, until a dam burst and he felt a tremendous rush of mana overtake him like a ragebeast. It was chaotic. It felt like a swirling storm of earth tangled with trees and vines. Domri began to sweat as the stress of this new vision overtook him. It was as if he was buried in the ground again. Deep in the earth, roots snaked through his body and dissolved his flesh into until nothing but his bones remained. Then those too were crushed into the void. He could faintly hear Hasal calling his name, and he could feel his physical body being shaken as if it was someone else's, but his awareness was elsewhere."
February 3, 2014 4:15 p.m.
lord_of_the_snakes says... #9
if you want to get into the mechanics of it, what i think they do is they enter a 4 dimensional space and then move through that to the plane they want to go to.
February 3, 2014 6:44 p.m.
@dinox222 Here is a link to a description of what a planeswalker is, it explains how one becomes one.
meecht says... #2
This article describes what Domri Rade saw: www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ur/237
The "Blind Eternities" sounds almost like a star map, with all the planes of the multiverse laid out and all a 'walker has to do is focus on one plane in order to go there.
February 1, 2014 5:48 p.m.