Reality Fracture | Episode 9: Unafraid
As the planar overlay threatens to destroy the Multiverse, Tam struggles to find a way to stop the process while reunited with her friend Kirol. Elsewhere, Vraska and Chandra team up to battle a stone Niv-Mizzet and reach a mage-ring.
- Planes across the Multiverse begin to overlap as identical copies line up with originals.
- The spell merges the plane of Hexhaven directly into the environment of Strixhaven.
- Tam reunites with Kirol and sets out toward the Folioplex to stop the overlay.
- Vraska and Chandra prepare a coordinated attack against an animated stone dragon in Ravnica.
Multiverse Overlaps Across Planes
A strange phenomenon spreads across every realm as double versions of existing worlds begin to overlay directly onto the originals. On the world of Ravnica, performer troupes look to the sky to see a ghostly duplicate of the city mirrored high above them, leaving citizens stunned as upside-down buildings match their own spire for spire. Meanwhile, deep within Bloomburrow, giant twin trees emerge alongside the natural flora, forcing native squirrelfolk to run down the trunks warning of a shadow world shifting into view.
The desert plane of Amonkhet faces immediate panic as frozen, snow-tipped pyramids float directly over Naktamun, casting an icy chill through the air. Seeing the threat above, Samut, Vizier of Naktamun steps out beside Hazoret the Fervent and Djeru to confront the mysterious sky-bound apparition. Far away on Dominaria, Danitha Capashen, Paragon prepares her angelic forces as a shadowy phantom army materializes across the plains, waiting to see if the threat will solidify into true physical matter.
Chaos Erupts at Hexhaven
At the altered academy, Tam flees a crumbling tower as the realm of Hexhaven actively merges into Strixhaven: School of Mages. Spectral shapes of missing students and entire stone structures materialize and harden into true matter. Uncanny, mind-controlled doppelgängers spawn beside original students and immediately attack, though the cold and formidable instructor Dellian Fel effortlessly defends himself with conjured vines as he walks through the falling debris.
Tam attempts to use her magical knowledge to push back the boundary of the Echoverse, but the sheer quantity of spellbound strands connecting the two realms makes the process nearly impossible. As panic spreads, she spots her old companion Kirol in danger from falling cobblestones and uses her magic to divert a flying sphinx to save them. Despite the pain of Tam's recent betrayal, the two share a tearful reunion and agree that Tam must head toward the local Folioplex library to discover a way to reverse the infinite overlay before every living soul perishes.
A Plan Against the Statue
In a central memory chamber patterned after the Implicit Maze, Vraska arrives via a mage-ring to find Chandra, Hope's Beacon waiting among broken artifacts. A duplicate version of Vraska has commandeered a massive, animated stone sculpture of Niv-Mizzet, Parun, using the giant construct to crush all opposition and guard the exit portal alongside other shadowy copies.
Determined to break through, Vraska, Betrayal's Sting scavenges a discarded sunburst shield from a destroyed suit of armor and positions it as an improvised launchpad. Utilizing tactical advice echoing through her mind, she directs Chandra to aim an explosive blast at a precise forty-seven-degree angle. With a fiery detonation, Vraska launches high into the air toward the crown of the stone dragon to petrify her duplicate.
