The Fate of the Order
Time of Need As I said in my Champions article, I was the fellow who created the Order of the Sacred Bell and the Battle of Silk as seen in Time of Need’s art and flavor text. The nice folks at Wizards even let me explore both in my web-story on Jugan, the Rising Star. In the story, I described the outset of the Battle of Silk and the siege upon the Order.
Emboldened by my contributions in Champions, I found myself wanting to explain the rest of the Battle of Silk in Betrayers’ flavor text. I intended to write a small handful of pieces recounting the Order’s fate, sprinkled throughout the set. The problem was that, by chance, not a lot of green and artifact cards had space for flavor text, so the opportunities to do storytelling with characters from the Jukai Forest were few and far between. I jumped at what I could find, including this card from Namebase:R&D Card Name: [Gnarled-Root Kami]
Mana Cost: o1oGoG
Spell Type: Creature —
Creature Type: Spirit
Power/Tough: 3/3
Rules Text:
Art Desc.:
Color: Green
Location: deep forest
Action: Show a kami that represents deeply set roots. This spirit-world creature is rooted deep in the earth and can’t move across the ground. It’s like a living, animate barrier that reaches high into the sky.
Focus: the kami of roots
Mood: the forest as a living barrier
Notes: All kami have strange objects orbiting them. See your styleguide for Kami references.
Gnarled Mass is the only card from Betrayers with any mention of either the Order or Battle of Silk in its flavor text. Right in line with Betrayers’ story themes, the Order’s situation is a desperate, hopeless one. It seems Rokuan’s fears were well founded, and that Kazuki’s months of bell-ringing may have brought on more harm than good. Bummer, eh? If there is one glimmer of solace, it’s that we know from Time of Need that the Battle will last six years so I guess there’s a small hope the monks can pull it out in the end.
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A FLAVORFUL VIEW OF BETRAYERS Posted in Feature on February 14, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/flavorful-view-betrayers-2005-02-14
『神河物語』の《昇る星、珠眼/Jugan, the Rising Star》に関する掌編小説「龍の盾」（※１）において、神と聖鐘の僧団の戦い「絹の合戦」が描かれていました。その続きを描きたかったが、なかなか枠が取れず、《節くれ塊/Gnarled Mass》の１枚だけになったということです。
絹の合戦の五十七日目、死すべき者たちの助けを求めて鐘が再び鳴らされた。 しかし、この時その呼びかけに答えたのは、新たな神の蜂起だった。
――― 神河大戦記.
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《節くれ塊/Gnarled Mass》のフレイバーテキスト
昨日の部分では、『神河物語』から新しく変わった部分が少ないので困った、ということでした。その一方で、『神河物語』から引き続き描きたいものもあるのに中々上手くいかないのも、難しいものです。
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MEET THE CHAMPIONS UPDATE: JUGAN, THE RISING STAR Posted in Arcana on October 13, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/meet-champions-update-jugan-rising-star-2004-10-13
龍の盾
https://web.archive.org/web/20070831000058/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/chk/jugan,,ja
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