Liliana used the power of the Chain Veil to unleash a massive horde of zombies on the city, commanding them to fight the Eldrazi monsters. But Innistrad had another planeswalker resident who was unwilling to let it fall. They were outnumbered and trapped without a way out. They fought back the Eldrazi’s spawn but were unable to keep the upper hand. The Gatewatch arrived on the plane, led there by Jace, just as Emrakul herself loomed over Thraben. There they joined forces with the Cathars to fight off the corrupted and mutated beings that were taking over the city. With Sorin trapped and Nahiri gone from the plane, Olivia Voldaren took control of the vampiric force and led them to Thraben. Nahiri saw this as a fitting payback for trapping her within the Helvault for so long. The lithomancer trapped the vampire in the stone of his own manor’s walls, fusing him into it, alive. The two planeswalkers dueled, but Sorin underestimated Nahiri and paid the price for it. The vampiric ancestral home had been turned into a mockery of itself by Nahiri and her lithomancy to punish Sorin.

Even Gisela and Bruna, two of the most powerful remaining angels, were fused together into Brisela, an inhumane horror of a creature.Īs Emrakul descended upon Innistrad, Sorin and his vampire army marched onto Markov Manor. The plane’s animals and monsters transformed too. The entire town of Hanweir, one of the most important human bastions on the plane, was corrupted into a writhing mass that melded the inhabitants with each other and the town itself. The monstrous titan’s influence only grew after her arrival. This served to call into Innistrad the reason for the increasing madness and horrifying mutations: Emrakul, the last of the three Eldrazi titans that managed to survive the Gatewatch on Zendikar.

The cryptoliths she’d built all over Innistrad redirected the mana leylines of the plane, creating a massive beacon of mana. With Innistrad’s defenses gone, Nahiri sparked her plan forth. Avacyn went mad and was undone by Sorin Nahiri, freed from the Helvault, started building cryptoliths all over the plane Jace was investigating the strange occurrences that plagued the plane (while wearing a very silly trench coat). A wave of madness and mutations is taking over the residents of Innistrad, both human and monster alike. Emrakul's Evangel | Illustration by Jason FelixĮldritch Moon’s story begins right where Shadows Over Innistrad’s leaves off.

Eldritch moon meld mechanic