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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Urza starts the novel as an aloof, paranoid, and callous man convinced that he knows best and that any sacrifice made in the name of protecting Dominaria from the Phyrexians is warranted. This is best shown in his reaction to the academy's destruction: he only manages to save fifteen of the hundreds of people living at the academy, himself included, but because one of those people is Barrin and because the destruction of his inventions means they'll be kept out of Phyrexian hands, Urza views this as a good and equitable trade. The events of the book force Urza to acknowledge the human cost of his actions, learn some humility, and become a better person. By the end of it, Urza has gone from keeping Karn at arm's length and treating him like a disposable tool to treating him with affection, he's reading his late wife's account of the Brothers' War -- which he had dismissed as crock in [[Literature/{{Planeswalker}} the previous novel]] -- with clear wistfulness, and he deigns to join the students in a dance, something he never would have done back when he was still the unapproachable Master Malzra.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Urza starts the novel as an aloof, paranoid, and callous man convinced that he knows best and that any sacrifice made in the name of protecting Dominaria from the Phyrexians is warranted. This is best shown in his reaction to the academy's destruction: he only manages to save fifteen of the hundreds of people living at the academy, himself included, but because one of those people is Barrin and because the destruction of his inventions means they'll be kept out of Phyrexian hands, Urza views this as a good and equitable trade. The events of the book force Urza to acknowledge the human cost of his actions, learn some humility, and become a better person. By the end of it, Urza has gone from keeping Karn at arm's length and treating him like a disposable tool to treating him with affection, he's reading his late wife's account of the Brothers' War -- which he had dismissed as crock in [[Literature/{{Planeswalker}} the previous novel]] -- with clear wistfulness, and he deigns to join the students in a dance, something he never would have done back when he was still the unapproachable Master Malzra.
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* MorphicResonance: Gorig is repeatedly described as having eyes resembling wedges of lemon. When he reveals his true form as a Phyrexian demon, his lemon-wedge eyes are the only parts of him that remain unchanged, allowing Barrin to recognize him from Urza's description of the man.
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* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Radiant's minister Gorig has eyes "as slim and yellow as wedges of lemon", and he is quickly established as a manipulative and untrustworthy figure.
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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Urza starts the novel as an aloof, paranoid, and callous man convinced that he knows best and that any sacrifice made in the name of protecting Dominaria from the Phyrexians is warranted. This is best shown in his reaction to the academy's destruction: he only manages to save fifteen of the hundreds of people living at the academy, himself included, but because one of those people is Barrin and because the destruction of his inventions means they'll be kept out of Phyrexian hands, Urza views this as a good and equitable trade. The events of the book force Urza to acknowledge the human cost of his actions, learn some humility, and become a better person. By the end of it, Urza has gone from keeping Karn at arm's length and treating him like a disposable tool to treating him with affection, he's reading his late wife's account of the Brothers' War -- which he had dismissed as crock in [[Literature/{{Planeswalker}} the previous novel]] -- with clear wistfulness, and he deigns to join the students in a dance, something he never would have done back when he was still the unapproachable Master Malzra.
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* DragonRider: Urza rides Rhammidarigaaz into battle twice, while Barrin rides Gherridarigaaz during the final battle in Serra's Realm.
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* DragonRider: Urza rides Rhammidarigaaz Gherridarigaaz into battle twice, while Barrin rides Gherridarigaaz Rhammidarigaaz during the final battle in Serra's Realm.
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* DragonRider: Urza rides Rhammidarigaaz into battle twice, while Barrin rides Gherridarigaaz during the final battle in Serra's Realm.
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* TakenForGranite: When the time machine explodes, Urza turns the nearest fifteen people to stone so he can grab them and planeswalk out of there without killing them. Several of them get cracked during the transit and die when he turns them back, but most of them survive.
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* TakenForGranite: When the time machine explodes, Urza turns the nearest fifteen people to stone so he can grab them and planeswalk out of there without killing them. Several of them get cracked during the transit and die when he turns them back, but most of them survive. Later, Urza turns the dragon Rhammidarigaaz to stone while the dragon is lunging at him, showing the dragon's Viashino allies that he is not to be trifled with. He turns Rhammidarigaaz back to flesh and blood once the point has been made.
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* MoleInCharge: War Minister Gorig is Radiant's righthand man and the guy in charge of rooting out the Phyrexians hidden amongst the people of Serra's Realm. But unbeknownst to Radiant, Gorig is a Phyrexian himself, and he uses his influence to isolate Radiant from the people she's meant to protect and direct her wrath against the innocent.
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* SharingABody: When Urza frees himself from Multani's grasp, Multani tries to stop him, only for his spirit to get bound up in Urza's essence as the planeswalker reconstitutes himself. He then spends some time as a passenger in Urza’s head, where he offers snide commentary and the occasional power boost.
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* FantasyMetals: Thran metal is an incredibly hard substance which can only be made in the foundries of the Shivan mana rig. It can scratch steel, adamantine and diamond, it is unaffected by the stress of passing through different time streams, and it grows like a living thing once it has been forged. This last property proves a problem when Urza tries to build robots from the stuff: their Thran metal parts grow into and grind against each other, breaking their more fragile components in the process.
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* CantTakeCriticism: Urza clearly expects everyone to be wowed by his initial plans for a supersonic airship that can blow whole armies of Phyrexians to smithereens. Instead, Jhoira questions the practicality of the design, pointing out that the resources needed to build just one of these ships could be used to create an army of artifact creatures, and forcing Urza to admit that they simply don't ''have'' the resources to make more than one anyway. In response, Urza angrily pulls the plans off the wall and snaps at everyone to get back to work.
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* TheGreatSerpent: At one point, Kerrick's wizards summon a gigantic python and send it after Barrin. It eats two of his peers and chases him up a tree before he summons a drake to kill it.
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* SummonMagic: Barrin realizes that Kerrick has started training some of his Phyrexians as wizards when they sic a summoned python on him. He counters by summoning [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=3368 a drake]] which makes short work on the python.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Karn and Jhoira blow up a cave to stop the tide of Phyrexian reinforcements, only to find themselves surrounded by the ones that came out of the cave previously. There's more than they can hope to fight off, and it seems certain that they’re about to die. Enter Barrin, who obliterates the horde with a battery of spells.
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* ItHasBeenAnHonor: At one point, Karn and Jhoira find themselves surrounded by a horde of Phyrexians. Certain that they're about to die, Karn tells Jhoira that it's been a pleasure to be her friend. Jhoira returns the sentiment, stating that she's glad to die alongside him.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Several students try to rescue a man who stumbled into a slow-time field by pulling on his arm, which is sticking out of the field. To their shock and horror, they end up tearing his arm right off.
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* VisionQuest: According to Jhoira, the Ghitu undertake these before becoming adults in the eyes of the tribe.
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* VisionQuest: According to Jhoira, the Ghitu undertake these before becoming adults in the eyes of the tribe. She undertakes one during her ten-year coma, giving her the insight needed to design and build a machine which can safely bring Teferi out of his slow-time prison.
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* DefensiveFeintTrap: When Urza starts bombing K'rrik's fortress, K'rrik tells his minions to cover most of their ballistae with corpses and keep two of them firing half-cocked at regular intervals, to make it seem like Urza did more damage to the ballistae than he actually did. He's counting on this to lull Urza into a false sense of security and bring his dirigible lower, at which point all the ballistae will fire simultaneously now that Urza is within range. The plot works flawlessly: the dirigible is destroyed, and all its crew but Urza and Jhoira are killed.
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* {{Mordor}}: After the academy blows up, Kerrick and the surviving Phyrexians build a nation for themselves at the bottom of a chasm within a fast-time rift. Their domain is a bleak and lightless place, where Kerrick's monstrous subjects toil in perpetual darkness to harvest blind cave fish from the pools and miny tiny scraps of iron from the chasm walls, all while Kerrick rules over them from an imposing fortress of iron, obsidian and bone.
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* {{Mordor}}: After the academy blows up, Kerrick and the surviving Phyrexians build a nation for themselves at the bottom of a chasm within a fast-time rift. Their domain is a bleak and lightless place, where Kerrick's monstrous subjects toil in perpetual darkness to harvest blind cave fish from the pools and miny mine tiny scraps of iron from the chasm walls, all while Kerrick rules over them from an imposing fortress of iron, obsidian and bone.
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* {{Mordor}}: After the academy blows up, Kerrick and the surviving Phyrexians build a nation for themselves at the bottom of a chasm within a fast-time rift. Their domain is a bleak and lightless place, where Kerrick's monstrous subjects toil in perpetual darkness to harvest blind cave fish from the pools and miny tiny scraps of iron from the chasm walls, all while Kerrick rules over them from an imposing fortress of iron, obsidian and bone.
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* DrivenToSuicide: One of Urza's students throws herself off a cliff out of guilt for accidentally tearing off her boyfriend's arm while trying to free him from a slow-time field.
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Urza and Karn both remember the events of the original timeline where Kerrick's Phyrexian negators slaughtered everyone at the academy, though Urza finds it difficult to recall exactly what happened because he wasn't the one travelling through time.
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* RapidAging: People who get trapped in fast-time rifts tend to come out of them much older, if they come out at all.
** One of Jhoira's fellow survivors was a student who fell into a fast-time rift as a twelve-year-old boy and came out of it as an elderly madman several years later.
** When Urza returns to the island, one of his students commits suicide by jumping into a fast-time ravine. She ages to death before she even hits the ground.
** One of Jhoira's fellow survivors was a student who fell into a fast-time rift as a twelve-year-old boy and came out of it as an elderly madman several years later.
** When Urza returns to the island, one of his students commits suicide by jumping into a fast-time ravine. She ages to death before she even hits the ground.
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* TakenForGranite: When the time machine explodes, Urza turns the nearest fifteen people to stone so he can grab them and planeswalk out of there without killing them. Several of them get cracked during the transit and die when he turns them back, but most of them survive.
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* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Or golems, in this case. Everyone who meets Karn quickly realizes that he's an intelligent, self-aware being with his own thoughts and feelings. Barrin repeatedly tries to get Urza to acknowledge this, pointing out that Karn is, for all intents and purposes, a confused child in need of his father's guidance. Unfortunately for Karn, Urza has no interest in being a father to his creation.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jhoira goes looking for Karn one day and finds Teferi and his friends humiliating the poor golem in the cafeteria. When Jhoira tells them to leave him alone, Teferi claims that he's just putting Karn through his paces as Master Malzra would want, before quipping that he could put Jhoira through her paces back in his room. At this, Jhoira goes off on Teferi, making it clear that she has no interest in a mean-spirited little boy whose only joy in life is making others miserable. By the time she's done, Teferi's smug attitude has completely evaporated, and he's on the verge of tears.
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* ExplosiveOverclocking: The time machine struggles to send Karn more than two days into the past and needs time to cool off between uses. When an emergency forces Urza to send Karn back twice in quick succession, the overstressed machine explodes, leveling the academy and killing many of its occupants.
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* AnimatingArtifact: Xantcha's heartstone is what gives Karn his sentience and personality. Without it, he's just an ordinary, mindless golem. When he travels to the past for the first time and sees Urza take the stone out of him, he's disturbed to realize that this tiny, fragile, easily removed rock contains everything that makes him who he is.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Teferi has a crush on Jhoira and tries to win her affection in various ways. Jhoira views him as an annoying little creep and wishes he would leave her alone. Her opinion of him softens in the decades after the academy's destruction, however, and they eventually become friends.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: This is the ultimate goal of Urza’s TimeTravel experiments.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: This is the ultimate SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong:
** The end goal ofUrza’s Urza's TimeTravel experiments.experiments is to prevent the Thran from ever becoming the Phyrexians. It doesn't pan out.
** On a more immediate scale, Urza sends Karn back in time to prevent a devastating Phyrexian attack on the academy by capturing Kerrick before the spy can leak the academy's plans and weaken their defenses. This succeeds, but the subsequent explosion of the time machine proves almost as devastating.
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** On a more immediate scale, Urza sends Karn back in time to prevent a devastating Phyrexian attack on the academy by capturing Kerrick before the spy can leak the academy's plans and weaken their defenses. This succeeds, but the subsequent explosion of the time machine proves almost as devastating.
