Sure it does. The more literal of a flame it is, the closer it is to R, maybe RW or RGW. The less literal it is, the closer it is to WUBRG.
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Well, they aren't artifacts, so they can't be colourless.
Well, Artifacts aren't the only colourless things in Magic, but I'm pretty sure the Eagles aren't Eldrazi either, so your point still stands.
I haven't played Magic for about 10-15 years, so I don't remember all too well. What are Eldrazi?
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The multiverse's cleanup crew, staffed wholly by eldritch abominations. Because they live in the Blind Eternities, they are inherently colorless.
Edit: also, if the Eagles are Maiar, they're likely Green/White, as they helped create the natural world, and help preserve it. Eagles are also very often white in magic.
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The Eagles are lesser Maia, but I don't know the significance of that. They obviously aren't Thorondor-strength. I can see them being white, blue, red, and green, and any combination there-of.
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Probably White/Green/Blue, to be honest. The Bant, the faction of those colors in MTG, are characterized as wanting to bring about a utopic society of thought, peace, and spiritual connection. They employ winged angels, which the Eagles basically are. It's a good fit.
Zap Rowsdower
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Are they Maiar? I thought they were just Manwe copying Aule's work on the dwarves.
I'm not entirely up to date on Magic's fluff myself, so I'm not sure how accurate @1KBestK's description is, but whne they've shown up in story arcs/blocks, they tend to manifest as mountain sized non-elucidain beings that produce legions of equally non-elucidian Spawns in a wide variety of sizes. They (and their spawn) draw sustenance from matter, reducing it to dust, and they never get full.
Hmm, are you by chance familiar with the Steven King story 'The Langoliers'?
Here's some cards, so you can get a feel from the pics, flavor text and descriptions.
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@Gruntjerka
More specifically, they are a race of beings that live in the Space between Spaces, the Endless Dark, The Blind Eternities, and are drawn to planes that have a lot of mana. The only times we have seen Eldrazi come to a plane was when a planeswalker intentionally fucked up the leylines of a plane to such lots of mana from the Blind Eternities, with the specific intention to draw in the Eldrazi. Although it's not explicitly stated, it's implied that the Eldrazi are part of a natural cycle of planes. Ulamog eats all the mana, Kozilek reshapes the land into wastes that draw only colorless mana, and Emrakul mind controls and then eldrazifies all the life on the plane. The most supported theory is they go to planes that are producing so much mana that they're at risk of Rifts forming, and basically hard resets them before they damage the multiverse. Although we've only see her twist and corrupt, Emrakul literally refers to herself as 'Life.' The vampires of Zendikar evolved from the offspring of Ulamog. It's likely that, once Ulamog and Kozilek do their thing, Emrakul reseeds or possible recreates all life on the plane. This could be a reason why we see the same races over and over - the single common ancestor.
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Eagles are in fact, a type of bird.
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Tolkien's Giant Eagles however are indeed creations of Manwë.
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Tolkien's Giant Eagles however are indeed creations of Manwë.
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there are colored artifacts. It became much more noticeable in the Alara blocks, and then a few more after if I am not guessing wrong?
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Gruntjerka said "not artifact" => "not colourless" which is not equivalent to "there are no coloured artifacts"
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I guess I misunderstood then. I had thought thinking there aren't colorless non-artifacts means they may not know there can be colored artifacts.
Yes, the eagles are probably normal creatures of mostly white mana.
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I somewhat miss the good old dragon breath attacks.
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Blue Dragon breathattacks are Frost or Arcane magic...
JoshuaSweetvale
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Ash nazg durbatulûk , ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
On the one hand, a WoW character would be stupid enough to put a phylactery on their finger because it was a Legendary.
On the other hand, Atregos and Ren use Soulstones, which are basically the disposable-razor version of a Phylactery, so it should be easy to go "hey waaaait a minute..." even without the Hobbits yelling at them to not actually wear the Ring.
On the one hand, a WoW character would be stupid enough to put a phylactery on their finger because it was a Legendary.
On the other hand, Atregos and Ren use Soulstones, which are basically the disposable-razor version of a Phylactery, so it should be easy to go "hey waaaait a minute..." even without the Hobbits yelling at them to not actually wear the Ring.
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I just assumed it was because Sauron is a giant eye that is known for being able to see everywhere and flyers are incredibly visible. He would be able to see them and focus all his attention on stopping them. Given that the ringwraiths have some sort of twisted dragon thing that can fly in a part of the movie It would be the eagles vs the ringwraiths which would be a problem.
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Exactly - its the same reason the Council only sent Legolas to accompany and defend the Ringbearer as Elven representative, rather than Glorfindel who was right there, was one of the most powerful Elves still on Middle Earth, and had a literal balrog kill under his belt, because the point was to be stealthy and under the radar, not to be big and bold and noticeable.
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Mordor.
It reminded me of something. Icecrown but without the cold, just with extra ash.
Also, Orcs. Plenty of Orcs.
The hell did they even eat? I suspected mainly Orcs.
Ew.
"See anything yet?" Ren asked and beat her wings to regain some altitude to stay close enough to me to keep inside of the blur spell. Not to speak of speaking distance.
"Nothing yet," I admitted as I scanned the ground. "Maybe we were wrong and it's not magical in the way we can see."
"Possible."
I shook my head and let out a sound of frustration. "A life-seeing spell wouldn't help either, too many orcs around."
Turning my eyes to the side, I looked over the tower in the distance. The entire tower glowed with magic, getting more and more intense the closer to the top you got, until at the top a giant globe of magic shone like a massive eye.
To be honest, it was freaky as hell. What it was, I wasn't sure. Some kind of power source, some sort of massive scrying spell…
No clue.
But we stayed away from that area as it seemed to be his stronghold and if he managed to fuck with my shield like that and having created that ring, I suspected he was an enchanter of some sort.
Going there would be too dangerous.
"There!"
"Where?" I asked and banked, looking over towards Rengosa. She turned her head towards the right and I followed her line of sight.
A glimmer of magic in the desolate landscape, towards the base of the volcano. Like… a torch on the other side of a valley in the dead of night.
Weaker than I would have expected if that truly was the ring. But then again, nothing said it had to be radiating massive amounts of magic to be powerful.
Look at my weapons; when not actively shifting or channeling magic, they were almost nothing but metal. Actually, the most efficient artefacts were those that radiated the least waste magic.
Banking, I ducked beneath Rengosa and came up on her other side before twitching my armour into full deployment.
"Do you think that's it?"
"No idea," I answered and frowned. "Don't see anything else glowing, though, so we might as well take a look."
"If that's not it, we should leave," Ren said and flew along, almost wingtip to wingtip. "This place… it's wrong. Corrupted. It's like…"
"It's like Icecrown," I agreed. "Nothing here but death and decay."
Half an hour of flying and we got closer and closer, it didn't take long to spot two small shapes among the rocks.
A pair of little hobbits. The lead one was wearing something glowing around his neck, their cloaks also had a faint shimmer. The lead one's sword were also shimmering slightly.
Two hobbits, but the other only spoke of one.
Hmm.
Well, there can't be that many hobbits wandering around here, it pretty much has to be those.
Banking, we circled above them. Well, let's have a look at this ring then.
Well, there is no way to do this without scaring the life out of them, so might as well do things quickly.
Swooping down, I spread my wings and pulled up, beating my wings hard before casting the transformation spell, turning my pull up into a flip before dropping down on my feet.
That's something that had taken an embarrassing amount of time before I learned how to do that.
"AAHHH!!"
They stumbled away from me and pulled their swords, the fat one yelling at me to get away.
Rengosa went in for landing behind them and they turned and looked between us.
"Calm yourself," I said and crouched down to look at them at a more even level. "Peregrin Took sent us."
The not-fat one that glowed when the magic seeing spell was active lowered his weapon slightly. "Pippin?"
"If that's what you call him," I confirmed with a smile. "He and the Wizard Gandalf are at the city of Minas Tirith. The army the master of these lands sent to take it was defeated."
Frodo glanced back at his companion and Rengosa before he turned back to me. "Who are you?"
"My name is Atregos, this is Rengosa. I assure you, we are not your enemy."
"Why are you here? Are you here to help us?"
I shook my head. "No. But perhaps I we still can. What I'm here for is to see your ring."
"No!"
"Oh for…" I rolled my eyes. "I'm not going to take it! I want to see it! Possibly poke it. You can hold it the entire time if you like."
From the shaking of his sword, it didn't seem to calm him that much.
AN// Many thanks to Grey Rook for betaing this section.
It reminded me of something. Icecrown but without the cold, just with extra ash.
Also, Orcs. Plenty of Orcs.
The hell did they even eat? I suspected mainly Orcs.
Ew.
"See anything yet?" Ren asked and beat her wings to regain some altitude to stay close enough to me to keep inside of the blur spell. Not to speak of speaking distance.
"Nothing yet," I admitted as I scanned the ground. "Maybe we were wrong and it's not magical in the way we can see."
"Possible."
I shook my head and let out a sound of frustration. "A life-seeing spell wouldn't help either, too many orcs around."
Turning my eyes to the side, I looked over the tower in the distance. The entire tower glowed with magic, getting more and more intense the closer to the top you got, until at the top a giant globe of magic shone like a massive eye.
To be honest, it was freaky as hell. What it was, I wasn't sure. Some kind of power source, some sort of massive scrying spell…
No clue.
But we stayed away from that area as it seemed to be his stronghold and if he managed to fuck with my shield like that and having created that ring, I suspected he was an enchanter of some sort.
Going there would be too dangerous.
"There!"
"Where?" I asked and banked, looking over towards Rengosa. She turned her head towards the right and I followed her line of sight.
A glimmer of magic in the desolate landscape, towards the base of the volcano. Like… a torch on the other side of a valley in the dead of night.
Weaker than I would have expected if that truly was the ring. But then again, nothing said it had to be radiating massive amounts of magic to be powerful.
Look at my weapons; when not actively shifting or channeling magic, they were almost nothing but metal. Actually, the most efficient artefacts were those that radiated the least waste magic.
Banking, I ducked beneath Rengosa and came up on her other side before twitching my armour into full deployment.
"Do you think that's it?"
"No idea," I answered and frowned. "Don't see anything else glowing, though, so we might as well take a look."
"If that's not it, we should leave," Ren said and flew along, almost wingtip to wingtip. "This place… it's wrong. Corrupted. It's like…"
"It's like Icecrown," I agreed. "Nothing here but death and decay."
Half an hour of flying and we got closer and closer, it didn't take long to spot two small shapes among the rocks.
A pair of little hobbits. The lead one was wearing something glowing around his neck, their cloaks also had a faint shimmer. The lead one's sword were also shimmering slightly.
Two hobbits, but the other only spoke of one.
Hmm.
Well, there can't be that many hobbits wandering around here, it pretty much has to be those.
Banking, we circled above them. Well, let's have a look at this ring then.
Well, there is no way to do this without scaring the life out of them, so might as well do things quickly.
Swooping down, I spread my wings and pulled up, beating my wings hard before casting the transformation spell, turning my pull up into a flip before dropping down on my feet.
That's something that had taken an embarrassing amount of time before I learned how to do that.
"AAHHH!!"
They stumbled away from me and pulled their swords, the fat one yelling at me to get away.
Rengosa went in for landing behind them and they turned and looked between us.
"Calm yourself," I said and crouched down to look at them at a more even level. "Peregrin Took sent us."
The not-fat one that glowed when the magic seeing spell was active lowered his weapon slightly. "Pippin?"
"If that's what you call him," I confirmed with a smile. "He and the Wizard Gandalf are at the city of Minas Tirith. The army the master of these lands sent to take it was defeated."
Frodo glanced back at his companion and Rengosa before he turned back to me. "Who are you?"
"My name is Atregos, this is Rengosa. I assure you, we are not your enemy."
"Why are you here? Are you here to help us?"
I shook my head. "No. But perhaps I we still can. What I'm here for is to see your ring."
"No!"
"Oh for…" I rolled my eyes. "I'm not going to take it! I want to see it! Possibly poke it. You can hold it the entire time if you like."
From the shaking of his sword, it didn't seem to calm him that much.
AN// Many thanks to Grey Rook for betaing this section.
I can only imagine the look on Sauron's face. Dragons? Planeswalkers? ... What.
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Sauron always was a flaming pussy...