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Apr 25, 2012 -- 6:49PM, Tevish_Szat wrote:

What about Geralf? Is his absence from Avacyn Restored intended to indicate that he died?

No. At first they were just fun flavor-text PoV characters, and Jenna took a shine to them and wrote about them more (and would have written more still if given the chance!). They became more prominent only after the card sets had long been in the can. That's a weird thing about Magic -- fans expect story and character elements to be reflected in card form, and often it doesn't work that cleanly on our end. It's more organic than that.

Apr 25, 2012 -- 5:47PM, Barinellos wrote:

Has Sorin sired vampires on Innistrad? Has he tried to continue his own personal lineage even after he made Avacyn? Would there be vampires willing to back him if he needed their help?

And how did the deal with Liliana go down? We know she made a deal with four demons, but was it four different deals or all the deals at once with four demons involved? It's been sort of poked at before, but never really made clear. We just know there are four demons in on it.

(1) Almost certainly but very few. (2) No; he's unconcerned with that. (3) Unlikely -- they would be ostracized if they did. (4) She made four deals with four demons, but used results from one deal to broker another, etc.  

Apr 25, 2012 -- 5:26PM, jedi123 wrote:

What is the nature of summoning magic? Are they the real thing, some magical copy, or does it depend? 

I have no good response for this. We've published both "answers" you suggest at various times. I think we need to continue to hand-wave it, because if they're aether-proxies or whatever, then combat seems like a kind of pantomime, and if they're the real thing, summoning could be seen as evil by nature.

Apr 25, 2012 -- 5:20PM, Skibo_the_first wrote:

Maro has seven(?) year plan on where he wants magic design to go. I was wondering if you had a similar plan for the storyline, what planes you wanted to visit or revisit, or what major character archs you want to touch on.

I had as much or more to do with the current long-term plan as Rosewater did. Many of the years have both mechanical and creative blueprints, some just one or the other. No, not tellin'.

Apr 25, 2012 -- 4:53PM, HairlessThoctar wrote:

is the ruined landscape of the new Tinker art meant to depict anywhere in particular, or is just a nice quiet place Tezz found to improve himself.

Nonspecific, but in my head it might be the plane where Tezzeret's tower was located in Agents of Artifice.

Apr 25, 2012 -- 6:56PM, Moppi wrote:

Are there going to be at least one last article that caps off bits and pieces of what happened in Avacyn Restored? Or was that it? Move on to Return to Ravnica?

I don't know, honestly. There will definitely be some more flavor content, but we're still working out what it means to "resolve" The Plot of a given block. Even when we've done our best to resolve it in a novel, the storyline fanbase considers it unresolved. Tying every loose thread isn't really possible (without ruining the story), and we wouldn't want to anyway. We always need stuff to come back to.