I'm too lazy to get the card out, but basically it mentions NightMist holding the Rod of Anubis and feeling its power or something like that. It's been months since I have actually read it.
Cool, thanks Ronway. Interesting.
And I had thought about it being permanent but if you look at Baron Blade's incap you see she is back up and running, so I'm guessing it was just a temporary thing.
Restating my love for the online card breakdowns.
Since it was brought up quickly, I'm gonna say Vengeance takes place before:
The Dark Watch forms (Fixer in normal clothes)
Apostate appears (Fanatic not in Redeemer armor yet)
Ennead's first appearance. (The incap side for V5 Blade shows Ra with no Beard, so the Ennead have not beaten him the first time yet to drive him off into the desert)
Why does Nightmist go after the staff of Anubis?
- She needs more power to fight Skinwalker, so she takes a team to get the staff and increase her power
- Nightmist wants to resurect Mr Fixer who was killed by the Operative, so she takes the staff in order to get Anubis to release Fixer from the underworld. The Trial of Anubis card art could possibly show Anubis weighing Fixers heart against a Feather to see if he is worthy of returning.
- Did you know there are two teasures found in the Tomb of Anubis enviro deck? Staff of Anubis is one, and Nightmist takes that. The other is the Idol of Anput. Anput, it turns out, is the female version or counterpart of Anubis. Anubis and Anput had a child named Kebechet who was related to mummification and keeping bodies fresh for reanimation. When Nightmist took the staff of Anubis, she might have turned into some kind of aspect of Kebechet, daughter of Anubis. This could also be a strong weapon against the likes of Skinwalker, given what he is and all. Note that the Idol of Anput also bears the marking of the Eye of Horus, just like DW Nightmist. Flavor text also mentions Blake Washington somehow building an exhibit display around the Idol, something playtesters may or may not find interesting.
The weighing of the heart was done to those about to enter the underworld, not leave it - if your heart was lighter than the feather, you got to go through into…paradise, or whatever it was. If it was heavier, it got eaten and your soul was basically destroyed into oblivion. Unless you were a Pharaoh, in which case you skipped the whole heart-weighing thing (because you were a god, or something) and travelled along a river thingy in a boat through a bunch of gates with challenges and stuff (like giant snakes that might try to eat you), and if you were properly divine and stuff then you were able to pass through it all and erm…join the gods or something, like all the other Pharaohs. I can't really remember the details…but basically, I don't think the weighing of the heart would have anything to do with retrieving anyone from the underworld because they didn't do that in Egyptian mythology. Nightmist might've tried nicking the Rod to try and rez Fixer herself, I suppose…though from what I recall Anubis didn't do much except escort your soul to the place with the scales and stuff for the heart-weighing. Maybe she tried to use the Rod and the Idol to try and rez him, if the Idol is to do with keeping bodies nice and stuff.
It could also be that they were collecting the relics to try and free the Visionary. We see her going under in one of the environment cards, so it seems possible that they would want the relics to try and get her back.
Running with the idea that Nightmist becomes something similar to daughter of Anubis/Anput, and taking into consideration what "Attunement" means (DW Nightmist's base power), the whole healing/resurecting theme really sticks out to me.
And Braith, I totally forgot about Visionary falling into the Underworld. Just what I needed, another piece to the story I can't place in a larger context. Thanks!
If you are talking about NM's swirls beneath her eyes, those swirls appear in a few more places:
- Her arms
- Her nemesis icon
- Ethereal Bonds
- Grimoire
- Promo Gloomy's chest
- Promo Spite's chest
- Haka's eyes
Except for Haka, all of the other occurences are directly related to NM and her mythos.
This probably is a coincidence but…
…both involve snakes.
Quick question: Which poem by TS Eliot is Haka reading: The Waste Land or the Hollow Men?
I would imagine its the Wasteland, both because its his most famous work so more people will ger the joke and primarily beecause Haka's reading it in the Final Wasteland.
I won't disagree that The Waste Land was my first thought, but much of the imagery in the Hollow Men can fit into Haka's life in the Final Wasteland. One example is the last stanza:
[quote="The Hollow Men"]This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
[/quote]