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* ProperlyParanoid: Urza is deeply paranoid about Phyrexians getting into his school, and he enforces many draconian policies--most notably a policy of killing any castaway who washes up on Tolaria--to keep them out. His paranoia is eventually proven right: the one time that a castaway washes up and doesn't get reported, that castaway turns out to be a Phyrexian spy who goes on to cause the deaths of almost everyone at the academy.
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Subverted. Serra's throne room is filled with enchanted windows that look out on numerous places and people within her realm, allowing her to keep tabs on everyone and everything when she was still around. At present, Radiant can't make use of these windows: she lacks Serra's omniscience, so looking at them just gives her a splitting headache from information overload.
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* YourSoulIsMine: The torches carried by Radiant's angels suck up the souls of anyone killed in their vicinity, storing them so they can be transferred to a Phyrexian soul-battery. Living people can lose their souls from coming into direct contact with a torch's flame, killing them in the process.
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:In her last moments, Radiant realizes that her actions have only hastened the collapse of Serra's Realm and harmed the very people she was meant to protect.]]
-->''"I am the mad one!"''
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* TechnicolorFire: Radiant's angels carry magical torches that burn bright blue.
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Barrin magically compels Gorig to fly straight downward at breakneck speed, dashing himself against the ''Weatherlight''[='=]s deck.
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* TakingTheBullet: Gherridarigaaz sacrifices herself to shield Urza from a powerful spell, getting vaporized in the process.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Kerrick. His POV shows him to be an entitled scumbag who's furious that Jhoira wouldn't give him her virginity while they were dating, and he plans to punish her by raping her if he ever gets the chance (thankfully, he doesn't).
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* BondVillainStupidity: Kerrick has Urza at his mercy twice, and both times he chooses to indulge in some EvilGloating instead of going straight for the kill. This arrogance costs Kerric a victory the first time and gets him killed the second time.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: One of Urza's new inventions is the falcon engine, machines built to detect Phyrexians by scent, divebomb them, and eviscerate them. Several of these machines fall into Kerrick's hands, and he reprograms them to target Urza instead of Phyrexians. One of these reprogrammed falcon engines gets the drop on Urza when he comes to destroy Kerrick's spawning labs, nearly killing him.
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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Urza suffers a ''lot'' of horrific injuries in this book, such as being GuttedLikeAFish ''repeatedly''. His powers let him heal from these grievous wounds, but the pain is still excruciating for him and the healing taxes his mana reserves.
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* TeleFrag: Urza kills [[spoiler:Kerrick]] by planeswalking ''into'' the Phyrexian's body, blasting him apart in a shower of oily blood and gore.
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* GeniusLoci: The ancient forest of Yavimaya has its own consciousness and will, personified in the maro-sorcerer Multani.
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* AndIMustScream: At one point, a sentient tree assimilates Urza into itself and forces him to experience all the pain and suffering he brought to the sentient forests of Argoth as if these sensations were his own. He remains trapped in this state, unable to break free and slowly forgetting his own identity under the constant mental onslaught, for five years.
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* PublicExecution: Kerrick captures Urza during a battle and decides to make a spectacle out of killing him. He has Urza brought to an arena to be tortured in front of the assembled Phyrexian army and makes a gloating speech that frames Urza as Phyrexia's ultimate pawn and collaborator. Right has he finishes this speech, Urza's falcon-engines break into the time rift and wreak havoc on the assembled Phyrexians, giving Urza time to break free and be rescued by his allies.
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* YearOutsideHourInside: On the flipside, Teferi gets trapped in a field of such slow-moving time that he appears motionless from an outside observer's perspective, and it takes years for him to show even the slightest hint of movement or change. When he's finally released from the field twenty-five years later, only three seconds have passed from his perspective.
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* YearOutsideHourInside: On the flipside, Teferi gets trapped in a field of such slow-moving time that he appears motionless from an outside observer's perspective, and it takes years for him to show even the slightest hint of movement or change. When he's finally released from the field twenty-five years later, only three seconds have passed from his perspective.perspective.
* ZergRush: When Urza falls into the Phyrexian time rift, the Phyrexians capture him by sending wave after wave of monsters at him until he's burned through all his spells and is too weak to fight back anymore.
* ZergRush: When Urza falls into the Phyrexian time rift, the Phyrexians capture him by sending wave after wave of monsters at him until he's burned through all his spells and is too weak to fight back anymore.
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* ElixirOfLife: Drinking water from a slow-time zone extends the drinker's lifespan by slowing down the aging process. Jhoira has been drinking the stuff for decades and is physically about twenty-two when she is chronologically closer to forty.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Teferi gets trapped in a slow-time bubble for what feels like a few seconds from his perspective but is actually several decades. When he gets out, he's understandably upset to learn that all his surviving friends and peers are now approaching middle age while he is still a teenager.
* GodGuise: To maintain control over his followers, [[spoiler:Kerrick]] starts hyping himself up as the "Son of Yawgmoth" and indoctrinating his minions to believe that he is Yawgmoth incarnate.
* GodGuise: To maintain control over his followers, [[spoiler:Kerrick]] starts hyping himself up as the "Son of Yawgmoth" and indoctrinating his minions to believe that he is Yawgmoth incarnate.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: After the time machine explodes, Tolaria is home to many slow and fast time rifts. One in particular houses [[spoiler:Kerrich]], who takes advantage of the time difference to build a Phyrexian army for himself.himself.
* YearOutsideHourInside: On the flipside, Teferi gets trapped in a field of such slow-moving time that he appears motionless from an outside observer's perspective, and it takes years for him to show even the slightest hint of movement or change. When he's finally released from the field twenty-five years later, only three seconds have passed from his perspective.
* YearOutsideHourInside: On the flipside, Teferi gets trapped in a field of such slow-moving time that he appears motionless from an outside observer's perspective, and it takes years for him to show even the slightest hint of movement or change. When he's finally released from the field twenty-five years later, only three seconds have passed from his perspective.
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Kerrick is a ruggedly handsome and charming man who quickly sweeps Jhoira off her feet. [[spoiler:He's also a Phyrexian infiltrator, and he's stringing Jhoira along so he can gain access to the academy and kill everyone there, including her.]]
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''Time Streams'' Streams'', published by J. Robert King in April 1999, is the third book of the Artifacts Cycle. Picking up a few decades after the end of ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', Urza has established an academy at the remote isle of Tolaria, where he conducts time travel experiments. His goal is to travel back in time to prevent the Thran from turning into the Phyrexians. However, before long things go catastrophically wrong…
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* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: King tries to give the goblins of Shiv some depth by describing three different kinds. None of them match the standard green-skinned goblins of ''MagicTheGathering''.
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* CoolShip: AngelicBeauty: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=12368 Radiant, Archangel]] is the very definition of this. Unfortunately, thanks to her corruption she gets FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon to go with it.
* CoolAirship: The''Weatherlight'' ''Weatherlight'', which is first built and used in this novel.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Gherridarigaaz.]]
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* DeepCoverAgent: Phyrexian [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=129803 Sleeper Agents]], which were introduced in the previous book and have infiltrated both Tolaria and Serra's Realm in this book. [[spoiler:Radiant thinks the sleepers are among the realm's peasants, when in truth they've infiltrated her palace and are being led by her own war minister, who is himself a Phyrexian demon in disguise]]. On the Tolaria side, [[spoiler:Kerrick]] is one of these, and probably the most successful of the sleepers.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Radiant very nearly ''kills'' Urza Planeswalker, being defeated only by her choice to bring together the Mightstone and Weakstone she pulled out of Urza's head instead of just letting him die. To put this into perspective, the only other non-planeswalker character in all of ''Magic'' to manage such a feat was '''Yawgmoth'''.
* FallenHero: Radiant is one of these.
* FemaleAngelMaleDemon: Radiant is the angel, [[spoiler:Gorig]] is the demon.
* {{Golem}}: This book containsto the origin story of Karn [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=212632 Karn, Silver Golem]].
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: Serra is not a god, but to thesilver golem.
inhabitants of her realm she might as well be, and after it becomes tainted by the Phyrexians she basically flounces out of her own heaven, leaving Radiant in charge.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gherridarigaaz.]]
Gherridarigaaz]] goes out this way.
* KnightTemplar: All angels tend to be these, though Radiant takes it to AxCrazy levels.
* LethalLavaLand: Shiv, homeland of the [[LizardFolk Viashino]] and the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=129730 Shivandragons.Dragons]].
* LightIsNotGood: Radiant was originally good, but was corrupted over centuries by the influence of war minister Gorig.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Radiant very nearly ''kills'' Urza Planeswalker, being defeated only by her choice to bring together the Mightstone and Weakstone she pulled out of Urza's head instead of just letting him die. To put this into perspective, the only other non-planeswalker character in all of ''Magic'' to manage such a feat was '''Yawgmoth'''.
* FallenHero: Radiant is one of these.
* FemaleAngelMaleDemon: Radiant is the angel, [[spoiler:Gorig]] is the demon.
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* KnightTemplar: All angels tend to be these, though Radiant takes it to AxCrazy levels.
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* LightIsNotGood: Radiant was originally good, but was corrupted over centuries by the influence of war minister Gorig.
* MamaBear: Gherridarigaaz is a mama ''dragon'', so much so that even being threatened with death by Urza doesn't faze her.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Gorig]] becomes one of these during the final battle in Serra's Realm.
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''Time Streams'' by J. Robert King is the third book of the Artifacts Cycle. Picking up a few decades after the end of ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', Urza has established an academy at the remote isle of Tolaria, where he conducts time travel experiments. His goal is to travel back in time to prevent the Thran from turning into the Phyrexians. However, before long things go catastrophically wrong…
''Time Streams'' by J. Robert King is the third book of the Artifacts Cycle. Picking up a few decades after the end of ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', Urza has established an academy at the remote isle of Tolaria, where he conducts time travel experiments. His goal is to travel back in time to prevent the Thran from turning into the Phyrexians. However, before long things go catastrophically wrong…
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what happened to Serra, so readers less familiar with ''Magic''’s many storylines will run into this trope. What happens is this: after fleeing her realm, she eventually winds up in Ulgrotha, a story chronicled in the unpopular set ''Homelands''.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what happened to Serra, so readers less familiar with ''Magic''’s many storylines will run into this trope. What happens is this: after fleeing her realm, she eventually winds up in Ulgrotha, a story chronicled in the unpopular set ''Homelands''. [[spoiler:She is eventually killed by another planeswalker, having lost the will to live after her husband Feroz's death.]]
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This book is where the status of Urza’s [[StealthPun saga]] as prequel to the Weatherlight Saga really comes to the fore, as it explains the origins of Karn and the Weatherlight and also introduces Teferi and Hanna’s father Barrin. It corresponds to the blue and red portions of Urza’s Saga and to Urza’s Legacy. The Artifacts Cycle is concluded in ''Literature/BloodlinesMagicTheGathering''.
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'''Time Streams''' by J. Robert King is the third book of the Artifacts Cycle. Picking up a few decades after the end of ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', Urza has established an academy at the remote isle of Tolaria, where he conducts time travel experiments. His goal is to travel back in time to prevent the Thran from turning into the Phyrexians. However, before long things go catastrophically wrong…
This book is where the status of Urza’s [[StealthPun saga]] as prequel to the Weatherlight Saga really comes to the fore, as it explains the origins of Karn and the Weatherlight and also introduces Teferi and Hanna’s father Barrin. It corresponds to the blue and red portions of Urza’s Saga and to Urza’s Legacy. The Artifacts Cycle is concluded in ''Bloodlines''.
!! Tropes in ''Time Streams'':
* AdaptiveAbility: This, coupled with the facts that he lives in a fast-time bubble, is how Kerrick manages to stay several steps ahead of Urza.
* CoolShip: The ''Weatherlight'' is built in this novel.
* EvilChancellor: Radiant’s counselor Gorig.
* {{Golem}}: This book contains to origin story of Karn the silver golem.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Gherridarigaaz.]]
* LethalLavaLand: Shiv, homeland of the [[LizardFolk Viashino]] and the Shivan dragons.
* LizardFolk: The Viashino.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: King tries to give the goblins of Shiv some depth by describing three different kinds. None of them match the standard green-skinned goblins of ''MagicTheGathering''.
* ThePrankster: Teferi.
* ProudWarriorRace: Jhoira’s people the Ghitu, which is why Jhoira longs for a strong and mysterious man.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: This is the ultimate goal of Urza’s TimeTravel experiments.
* TimeIsDangerous: Only silver can travel through time unharmed, and even silver has difficulty going further back than two days. Later in the story, many Tolarian students are killed by time rifts when the time machine explodes.
* TimeMachine
* TimeTravel
* VisionQuest: According to Jhoira, the Ghitu undertake these before becoming adults in the eyes of the tribe.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what happened to Serra, so readers less familiar with ''Magic''’s many storylines will run into this trope. What happens is this: after fleeing her realm, she eventually winds up in Ulgrotha, a story chronicled in the unpopular set ''Homelands''.
* [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Yawgmoth’s Time Travel Exemption Act]]: Urza’s attempts to prevent the rise of Phyrexia do ''not'' go well.
This book is where the status of Urza’s [[StealthPun saga]] as prequel to the Weatherlight Saga really comes to the fore, as it explains the origins of Karn and the Weatherlight and also introduces Teferi and Hanna’s father Barrin. It corresponds to the blue and red portions of Urza’s Saga and to Urza’s Legacy. The Artifacts Cycle is concluded in ''Bloodlines''.
!! Tropes in ''Time Streams'':
* AdaptiveAbility: This, coupled with the facts that he lives in a fast-time bubble, is how Kerrick manages to stay several steps ahead of Urza.
* CoolShip: The ''Weatherlight'' is built in this novel.
* EvilChancellor: Radiant’s counselor Gorig.
* {{Golem}}: This book contains to origin story of Karn the silver golem.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Gherridarigaaz.]]
* LethalLavaLand: Shiv, homeland of the [[LizardFolk Viashino]] and the Shivan dragons.
* LizardFolk: The Viashino.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: King tries to give the goblins of Shiv some depth by describing three different kinds. None of them match the standard green-skinned goblins of ''MagicTheGathering''.
* ThePrankster: Teferi.
* ProudWarriorRace: Jhoira’s people the Ghitu, which is why Jhoira longs for a strong and mysterious man.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: This is the ultimate goal of Urza’s TimeTravel experiments.
* TimeIsDangerous: Only silver can travel through time unharmed, and even silver has difficulty going further back than two days. Later in the story, many Tolarian students are killed by time rifts when the time machine explodes.
* TimeMachine
* TimeTravel
* VisionQuest: According to Jhoira, the Ghitu undertake these before becoming adults in the eyes of the tribe.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what happened to Serra, so readers less familiar with ''Magic''’s many storylines will run into this trope. What happens is this: after fleeing her realm, she eventually winds up in Ulgrotha, a story chronicled in the unpopular set ''Homelands''.
* [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Yawgmoth’s Time Travel Exemption Act]]: Urza’s attempts to prevent the rise of Phyrexia do ''not'' go well.
