#reforging

Our bond is unbreakable. Believe me, I’ve tried. Through pain, jealousy, anger, or whatever else drove me, I tried to shatter that bond with a red-hot fury. But you didn’t leave. You stayed put. Sure, you might have been pissed off at me for a couple of days, but you didn’t leave. You didn’t tell me go fuck myself and block me. You didn’t go silent and pretend to acknowledge me. You stayed. You…

I’m on fire today!  I have created a guide to mabinogi’s Reforging system. 

kpestana replied to your post: “WotC (namely Doug) confirmed that the time travel changes have been...”:

If the entire multiverse that we’ve seen reflects the new Tarkir timeline, then how could Ajani and Bolas have interacted with Sarkhan when he was never born on the new Tarkir and didn’t exist in that timeline until he pointed out of Ugins Nexus?

That’s actually part of what I’m getting at. Anyone planeswalking to Tarkir would find themselves in the Dragonlords timeline, just as Sorin did in the story. Sorin’s visit that we see reflected on his card in Khans never happened -- he never stood among Ugin’s bones as we see depicted in the art on Solemn Visitor. There was no time when Sorin found himself staring at Ugin’s sun-bleached spinal column.

By that same vein, anyone else planeswalking to Tarkir in the 1280-year span would find themselves on a plane where Sarkhan’s visit took place. Their actions following that visit would, either directly or indirectly, be affected by the fact that they visited a plane ruled by dragons, a world where Sarkhan Vol was not born. If a Planeswalker went to Tarkir, then met another planeswalker and was asked to describe the plane, the word “dragon” would probably come up in the conversation more than once. This Multiverse only has one Tarkir, and that Tarkir is the Dragonlords version.

Despite that, a man matching Sarkhan’s description, using his name, was seen on Alara and Zendikar. Sarkhan himself still has the memories of those times, and we know he can recount them because we’ve seen him do it.

So then, what does this mean? How can it be that the Multiverse can have someone in it that both does and does not exist? Did Sarkhan’s memories of his actions at those crucial points in time overwrite his non-existence? Is he powerful enough to will himself into being through sheer strength of memory? Is this why he’s Blue aligned now, because he’s got such a strong mind that he can literally think himself into existence?

The Multiverse we know is the Multiverse post-Reforging. This is a true fact, because it must be the case. Sarkhan’s presence in history has not been removed despite his birth no longer occurring. This is also a true fact.