Xenthori: i'll keep lore dumping while you're out
Xenthori: so in that case, Bolas probably left now that he had his Ark of thousands of undead skeletal crystal warriors (we'll call them Eternals) and three mindbent gods under his control, leaving behind the one city that HAD been under protection of the 5 'good' mindbent gods (all mostly dead, but didn't know they were baddies like the 3 Bolas probably took with him) to suddenly be exposed to the giant desert outside
Xenthori: 'cause they had a big ol forcefield from the desert
Xenthori: cause out there are lots of feral zombies, wurms, ect.
Xenthori: and they really fucking wanted to get in and spread their mummy curse
Xenthori: because those zombies out there were the guys Bolas killed when he first got there, stuck in undeath
Xenthori: so any survivors are probably hanging out in the ruins of an apocolypse'd !egypt! while shite tons of zombies roam and everything's gone to shit
Xenthori: corpses of the gods lay in the streets
Xenthori: the river has already been turned to blood
Xenthori: distinction: these are the zombies that Bolas took with him, that he made out of the loyal servants who passed the trial and got to go to his 'afterlife' http://needcoffee.cachefly.net/needcoffee/uploads/2017/08/Magic-Gathering-Amonkhet-Khenra-Eternal.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEKYHfwUAAQG41_.jpg
Xenthori: these are the zombies that once roamed the desert outside the protection of the city, now able to roam in the city https://crystalcommerce-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/6349285/large/en_pskzGDdBWi.png?1492468721 https://crystalcommerce-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/6349525/large/en_95N6lSrUTD.png?1492195651
Xenthori: and these are the zombies of other people that didn't pass the trials, and were onced used as servants and workers of the fields and shit. Basically "hey if you die a failure, atleast your corpse can pull it's own weight" http://media.wizards.com/2017/dw466ytu5_akh/en_37utTYc2ch.png http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=426708&type=card
Xenthori: they're probably still doing their jobs even though there's no one to order them
Xenthori: tending to dead fields, cleaning empty ruins, etc.
Xenthori: so that's the zombies
Xenthori: if there ARE ruins filled with treasure, it's outside that one city
Xenthori: whatever civilization was there BEFORE bolas came and hostile tookover
Xenthori: but they'd most likely planeswalk (or however they get there) into the main city, which wasn't this fucked up last time someone's been there
Xenthori: so they'll go expecting !egypt!, and get apocolypse !egypt! instead
 
 
FelixCalamatus: okay
FelixCalamatus: you know more about say Innistrad right
FelixCalamatus: I placed Innistrad right next to Equestria on the map
FelixCalamatus: i dont know why, maybe so the horrors could torment the ponies
Xenthori: oh yeah, but moreso what's happened recently, not the zombie invasions
Xenthori: once again, probably in a state of recovery
Xenthori: the gatewatch ruins everything, TLDR
Xenthori: the fuck up a plane forever and then move on to the next one
Xenthori: Sorin is stuck in a pillar of rock
Xenthori: only one angel is still around
Xenthori: well, one of the famous ones
Xenthori: sure she's got her flock too
Xenthori: werewolves got fucked by eldritch
FelixCalamatus: this setting doesn't have a gatewatch but there might be something equivalent
Xenthori: anyways doesn't matter cause this was morso Nahiri getting revenge on Sorin
Xenthori: you know about the stuff Ugin did with his lil scooby doo gang?
FelixCalamatus: nop
Xenthori: alright well they were the original Mystery Incorperated before the gatewatch
Xenthori: although not the OG OG ones, but we won't go into Urza stuff
Xenthori: anyways Ugin the Dragon (now spirit dragon), Sorin the sick nasty vampire who's a gentleman and scholar, and Nahiri, who maybe is a vampire? she's really pale atleast, and she's a lithomancer
Xenthori: meaning she's good at doing rock stuff
Xenthori: so they all decide "these Eldrazi Tititans are bad news, let's imprison them in Zendikar"
Xenthori: and they totally do, because they're awesome
FelixCalamatus: My friends are super duper scared Im gonna throw out the Eldrazi as a BBEG
FelixCalamatus: im probably not
Xenthori: nah they've been more or less sealed away
Xenthori: again
Xenthori: this is long ago lore though
FelixCalamatus: yeah
Xenthori: over 6000 years ago
FelixCalamatus: same with dtd
Xenthori: in mtg stuff
Xenthori: Ugin force are all immortals
FelixCalamatus: the mtg lore within dtd is all on the forums and homebrew stuff
Xenthori: aaanyways, they all agree what they did was great, Nahari stays behind to take a nap and Ugin and Sorin do their respective things
Xenthori: so 5000 years later, still 1000 years in the past, Nahiri wakes up from her nap, and realizes the endrazi have been fiddling with their locks
Xenthori: she's like "i can handle this", fixes up the prison again, then wonders what Sorin and Ugin are up to because that shit almost got past her
Xenthori: she gets pissy because while they're out doing their own things, she's gotta baby sit
Xenthori: so she leaves zendikar to get em
Xenthori: then the Zendikar block happens, eldrazi are free and Sorin's "oh shit" and shows up
Xenthori: and neither Nahiri or Ugin are there
Xenthori: he leave Zendikar again to find Ugin, meanwhile Nahiri STILL is trying to find Sorin
Xenthori: Khans of Takir happens, Sarkhan revives Ugin, Sorin and Ugin chat it up back at Sorin's manor, Ugin tells sorin to get Nahiri
Xenthori: now we're at Shadows Over Innistrad
Xenthori: Nahiri is still being a cunt and is pissy about Sorin for not being there for the little break out she had to deal with, even though while she was gone all shit broke lose because she wasn't watching the Eldrazi
Xenthori: loose
Xenthori: so Sorin's like "srsly" and Nahiri goes full frontal feminazi, starts breaking up Innistrad, and builds a buncha glyphs, stone hedgy-kinda stuff, wahtever
Xenthori: gatewatch show up, they're like "what's this lady doing" and "why are the angels suddenly being a lot more evil" and "what's all this other shit"
Xenthori: (here we ahve the clue mechanics)
Xenthori: anyways prettyboi of the gatewatch builds a blue/green clue deck and after sacrificing a bunch of them to draw some cards, realizes she was totally building a eldrazi homing beacon to get them to come
Xenthori: and so they do
Xenthori: gatewatch fight the eldrazi, Sorin has to put down the angels (which he created in the first place btw so it's like killing his daughters), and the Nahiri goes full REEEEEEEEE and sticks him in a pillar of stone
Xenthori: not dead, but unable to escape
Xenthori: anyways eldrazi god realizes that the gatewatch wants to kill them, unknowning that the eldrazi are basically space detrivores
Xenthori: they eat old worlds so that new ones can emerge
Xenthori: so it warps jace's mind a bit to make him think up his totally original, not eldrazi-given idea of locking her in the moon
Xenthori: so Emrakul tricks them into imprisoning her instead of killing her, and then the gatewatch leaves the planes
Xenthori: not bothernig to clean up the mess
Xenthori: who knows if there's still tentacle beasts, etc.
Xenthori: but all sortsa shit is fucked when they leave
Xenthori: and that's the state of Innistrad
Xenthori: there's an elder god in the moon
 
FelixCalamatus: I'm saving all this to read again later. Ok so without throwing in the Eldrazi what's something my players can do there?
Xenthori: it's still the same innistrad it should be, just a lot more nursing wounds
Xenthori: i'd probably go demon cults
Xenthori: that's the Skirsdag
Xenthori: so first they were a cult taht worshiped Griselbrand that rose to power over all other demons and shit
Xenthori: though he was killed by Liliana the gatewatch necromancer
Xenthori: so for shadows over innistrad, they started worshipping the next best demon
Xenthori: big ol demon prince named Ormendahl
Xenthori: anyways with the chaos Nahiri caused, the Skirsdag totally snuck under the radar of everyone else
Xenthori: and so they unded up basically infiltrating a sect of the church of avacyn, the Lunarch council
Xenthori: basically awesome paladin people
Xenthori: and gained control over said council
Xenthori: so you could totally do some intrigue stuff, routing out the cultists remaining in the church as the truly devote have to not stand out too much or get silenced
Xenthori: possibly requesting the help of your party to root out the cult and restore the church's power to actually holy dudes
Xenthori: could even culminate in a demon battle
Xenthori: maybe or maybe not Ormendahl himself, although he's fucking huge https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/mtgsalvation_gamepedia/7/78/Ormendahl.jpg
Xenthori: probably some demon lord, not demon prince himself
Xenthori: that's the church anyhow, there's zombies you can deal with too, with the different necromancers trying to outdo eachother
Xenthori: in a friendly, i'll kill you but we'll joke about it kinda way
Xenthori: there's the werewolf packs of the Kessig, who mostly got corrupted by the eldrazi and lost their ability to transform, stuck in beast form
Xenthori: and how the remaining untainted werewolves had to deal with that
Xenthori: i'd read up on the howlpacks if you were interested in them
Xenthori: there's also ghosts and stuff, but they're more akin to the weather
Xenthori: one day it can be rainy, the next it can be ghosty
Xenthori: really any gothic horror-y stuff you want to do, Innistrad's the place to do it
Xenthori: witches, werewolves, i didn't even go into the vampires