Planeswalkers: The Mending

[Yawgmoth]

I do not have the Time Spiral-cycle, as such I know very little of how the actual Mending and it's effects are described in it.

As such, I'd like some help from you, inferiorites... I mean... my subjects... Uh... Fellow vortexians? Anyway - I am working on... something. And I would need as much information as I can get regarding the Mending and it's effects on the Multiverse and Planeswalkers. How did it affect old Planeswalkers? Do they lose their 'walker-status or are they downgraded to the new kind of 'walker? Did the Multiverse change in any other tangible ways?

Minor note: How is the Blind Eternities depicted in these stories? I have heard that it has changed from the older books.

[Michael_Zeora]

The Blind Eternities are as depicted as just the Void - I would say when they talk about it - I can't seem to pull away from the idea it's black void space with dots of colors (the planes)

In the case of the Old Walkers - the only one left of any note was Nicol and he was off to his own thing (fully powered I assumed)

my understanding is that because of the damage - the Sparks were altered to fix the problem - but that fix made the sparks limited - thus Venser being the first one of them.

Meanwhile all the other old walkers are either dead or turned Human (or there previous race)

[Tekkactus]

Essentially, what MZ. Old Walkers still exist, but they are few and far in between. Nicol Bolas is the only established character that we know is at large. As far as I know players are still considered Old Walkers.

The Blind Eternities they always make a point of being hard to describe. It's life in zero dimensions, essentially; Planeswalkers are in the form of pure thought there, and its completely black. It's nothing.

The Sundering of Alara was caused by "a great shift", but we don't know if that was the Time Rifts (the way Agryem and the Kami Realm were) or the Mending.

[Your Worst Nightmare]

How did it affect old Planeswalkers? Do they lose their 'walker-status or are they downgraded to the new kind of 'walker? Did the Multiverse change in any other tangible ways?
What MZ said, with one exception - Myojin of Night's Reach is also still alive. I don't know if she's a planeswalker proper, but she does have the ability to, if not travel to other planes, at least project herself in them and send objects to people. (She gave a porcelain mask to Leshrac this way.)

The Multiverse itself is the same way, as far it is known.



Minor note: How is the Blind Eternities depicted in these stories? I have heard that it has changed from the older books.
Time Spiral novel, by Scott McGough, chapter 3 (page 31):

Teferi returned once more to the Blind Eternities. This was the all-encompassing void that separated planar realms, a place between places that was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. The Blind Eternities had been named by ancient planeswalkers, and since they were still the only beings who could breach such a barrier unaided, the name stuck. Like other planeswalkers before him, Teferi used the Blind Eternities not only as a conduit for his travels but also as a waystation and vantage point from which to consider his grandest cosmic designs.

Teferi paused, gathering strength after another unexpectedly strenuous journey. Before him lay the entire multiverse like a great, chaotic hive, its countless planes all stacked into a seemingly infinite array with no discernable pattern. He skimmed along the surface of this great, untidy mass like a drop of water on piloshed glass, looking down at the galaxies and arcane nether realms hurtling by below him.

All around, the horizon was filled by countless glittering stars and an army of planets that marched in tight orbital formation. There was vast empty space here as well, unbroken stretches of black vacuum that connected swirling nebulae of colorful ice and dust. The physical and magical stresses here would kill almost instantly anything less than a planeswalker, but to teferi it was a quiet place that afforded him the solitude he craved.

[Yawgmoth]

If you can actually see planes in the Blind Eternities, how different is it from... a weirder space? To me it sounds like Teferi basically teleported into space and looks at the universe.

[CoglineErro]

What MZ said, with one exception - Myojin of Night's Reach is also still alive. I don't know if she's a planeswalker proper, but she does have the ability to, if not travel to other planes, at least project herself in them and send objects to people. (She gave a porcelain mask to Leshrac this way.)

We don't know that the myojin is alive, and it is doubtful really since Nichol Bolas met her and took her original mask away. So I'm pretty sure she is dead. And all planeswalkers from before the mending have either died, lost all powers, or lost the majority of their powers with the exception of Nichol Bolas. All planeswalker who recieve the spark are of the new breed.

[Yawgmoth]

The Planeswalkers that have been mentioned in the novels can't be all the planeswalkers that exist, there has to be more. What I am trying to figure out is what would happen to a planeswalker that was say... on Phyrexia, when the Mending happened. Would his spark be altered by the Mending? Or would he keep his previous powers unchanged?

[Tekkactus]

Planeswalkers who were as such before the Mending (such as Bolas) keep their old powers.