The Vorthos Cast

Wow! 400 episodes! That's a lot! And we're not even counting all the previews and special side episodes we've done! To thank you all for listening to so, so many hours of this podcast, we solicited questions from our listeners and answered them in this episode! All of us are here, including Jay, the host emeritus, and we're answering questions about our opinions on robots, which cursed ships we're set sail on, and actual real lore questions like what the heck a nightstalker is.

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Jace has created his own model multiverse, an echo of our own, where existential threats like Nicol Bolas, the Eldrazi, and Phyrexia never existed. In addition, he has gathered together the reflections of planeswalkers from the true multiverse whose histories have diverged in significant ways. These planeswalkers, known in our world as the Lorwyn Five, are key to Jace's plan to assert control of the multiverse and impose his vision on reality. We're here to tell you the true origins of the Fractured Five (and Vraska) and where their lives were fractured in the Echoverse.

If you want to support the Vorthos Cast, you can! Go to Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and contribute as little as $1 a month to get access to our Discord server, as well as early episode releases! And for $3 a month, you can listen to episodes recorded live on Thursday nights at 7pm Eastern time! We'd love to have you. Our Patreon supporters keep the podcast free and ad-free.

This week's episode is a two-parter! First up is our reaction to the news out of Amsterdam as the preview panel (the Amsterpanel) showed off more of Reality Fracture and introduced us to the three Magic sets for 2027, including a new plane, a mashup, and a brand new look at an old setting!

Then we're diving into Izzy Wasserstein's story for the Global Fund for Women Secret Lair drop, "Spirits of the Abzan," an incredible story about Felothar and the Abzan during their struggle against Dromoka and the importance of trust and the bonds between women.

Don't worry about our meddling with the time streams in this one. If you're reading this message, that means we've put everything back in its place. If you see Cary some time in the past, though, could you let them know we're working on getting them back?

If you want to support the Vorthos Cast, you can! Go to Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and contribute as little as $1 a month to get access to our Discord server, as well as early episode releases! And for $3 a month, you can listen to episodes recorded live on Thursday nights at 7pm Eastern time! We'd love to have you. Our Patreon supporters keep the podcast free and ad-free.

We're once again joined by the incredible Seanan McGuire to ask all about Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos! She tells us all about how the novel came to be, how it felt to write a full novel rather than a series of web fiction episodes, and why Segante has a single nipple piercing. We also spend a lot more time talking about cross-species fertility than you'd expect in a Magic the Gathering lore podcast.

If you want to support the Vorthos Cast, you can! Go to Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and contribute as little as $1 a month to get access to our Discord server, as well as early episode releases! And for $3 a month, you can listen to episodes recorded live on Thursday nights at 7pm Eastern time! We'd love to have you. Our Patreon supporters keep the podcast free and ad-free.

It's comics week, again! This week we're talking about the first two issues of Dark Horse Comics' Untold Stories: Jace. Elspeth's story was untold yet familiar, being the story for the card set Theros: Beyond Death. But Jace's story is new to us, and even new to Jace himself, as the mind mage is delving into memories which had been locked away from even himself until now. These memories concern his time working for Tezzeret as an interplanar thief and smuggler, and their mission to Shiv on Dominaria, where things went very wrong.

If you want to support the Vorthos Cast, you can! Go to Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and contribute as little as $1 a month to get access to our Discord server, as well as early episode releases! And for $3 a month, you can listen to episodes recorded live on Thursday nights at 7pm Eastern time! We'd love to have you. Our Patreon supporters keep the podcast free and ad-free.