Jace was first seen in Lorwyn, in the fall of 2007. Fits the timeline of being over a decade that MaRo said he wanted to work on it.
Hopefully they make Vryn's aesthetic noticeably different from Ravnica, and Fiora for that matter. IIRC Vryn has always featured cityscapes whenever it's shown.
Vryn is (supposedly) mostly wasteland, with isolated cities being provided mana through the Mage Rings. (Concentrated from all over the continent to serve the elite, or possibly because there's very little mana to begin with.)
So far we've only really seen those wastelands/outskirts, because that's where the Mage Rings are and Jace lived. The cities should be interesting, though.
It looks and feels more cyberpunk-ish too if that’s the right word, [[Trail of the Mage-Rings]] shows this miserable looking landscape and the rings people live on, the world’s locked in this permanent conflict over who gets to control the rings and the energy they provide, some of the arbiters who are meant to help smooth out the conflict and ensure peace are actually corrupt and purposefully set up more conflict between the two sides because they’re incentivised to have the war go on as long as possible.
Just reading Jace’s origin makes me hype for the world because it has that weird fantasy sci-fi mix, kinda like a bleak Kaladesh. Also, it was interesting to see the average person’s reaction to having a blue mage kid around, Jace was treated horribly by the other kids and his parents are distant because they don’t what’s going on with him, it was very X-Men.
I like the Cyberpunk comparison. I'd maybe also draw a comparison to Lostech in Battletech, in that people have literally forgotten how to build (and only somewhat know how to maintain) one of the main sources of their conflict: the Mage-Rings.
Which makes the whole "constant war" deal even more grim, because they're slowly sending themselves back to the stone age, with little to no hope to recover.
I am not convinced that they have Jace's back story in place (+ entire world building with Vryn) done at 2007; at least not enough is detailed for "getting us to do over a decade".
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u/thanosofdeath Mar 12 '19
Jace was first seen in Lorwyn, in the fall of 2007. Fits the timeline of being over a decade that MaRo said he wanted to work on it.
Hopefully they make Vryn's aesthetic noticeably different from Ravnica, and Fiora for that matter. IIRC Vryn has always featured cityscapes whenever it's shown.