ELESH NORN - QUICK PRAETOR LORE

A quick dive into the lore of Elesh Norn, the white phyrexian praetor. For those who want the rundown on the villains of Phyrexia: All Will Be One and March of the Machine. There's an exhaustive history of the phyrexians and their plane on my channel but I'll be posting a lore short for each praetor over the next 5 days
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[@redhotchikapepr8978]

We went from Mono White Weenies to Mono White Mommies as far as deck building that’s for sure

[@codypickell7]

How did I know the first comment was gonna be about mom/mommy

[@grimm850]

Mmmm mono white mommy

[@malickmeziani_FreePalestine]

@@codypickell7because people are down bad horrendously ?

[@grandpretredesalpagas4665]

"all phyrexian want to spread phyrexia across the multiverse " Red phyrexian °-°

[@xtralvls439]

Fr Urabask is just chilling

[@jamescampbell2353]

Urbrask to Ayara: “Trade offer: you get immortality, a better body and the power of the furnace host. I get you becoming my Queen.” Ayara: “Deal.”

[@richardbloodedgesheep781]

But I, my friend, I want to spread my cream across here half machine half organic body

[@noahtackett6264]

​@@xtralvls439I really like the fact that he believes in getting consent from the beings he wants to compleat

[@PremPnamNam]

They still want to spread compleation, a bunch of Urabrask's troops still took part in the invasion, they just prefer those who willingly chose to be compleated

[@pixelgoat7317]

All hail Machine Mommy! Now, all she needs to do is show herself in the next One booster pack I open because she's too expensive right now!

[@averyripley6729]

Elesh norn got me questioning my loyalty to dominaria😳😳😍

[@BathrobeKeck]

Stop. Think about they did to Ajani, now, let that rage ignite your will to resist and drive for vengeance. Phyrexia will burn!

[@Case2_0]

@@BathrobeKeckwhat do you mean? Haven’t you seen Ajani’s new armor. He is a beautiful mix of flesh and porcelain metal exemplifying the need for strength to spread the compleation of all planes.

[@BathrobeKeck]

@@Case2_0 you too will be melted for slag.

[@CelticRot]

​@@BathrobeKeck I dunno, Ajani seems pretty on board with it at this point.

[@danzansandeev6033]

@@BathrobeKeck I say he’s happy at the moment, even if that’s wrong. He always wanted to belong, to have a pride again. Now he does

[@weseiseman5602]

All it takes is one Sliver getting completed and they're all completed. Now the real question is who would win between Phyrexians vs Eldrazi?

[@jeffbrownstain]

Just because a Sliver is complete doesn't mean they bow to Phyrexia. What's more likely is they consume it and their own hivemind overtakes it.

[@sleeplessnarcolept6541]

This is why I simultaneously want to and dont want to see slivers (I mean ffs they are on Dominaria). They used to be with the phryxians, but now have a few of their own hives. Would a handful become infected and spread? Or would the hive's respective leader be able to overpower even compleation?

[@jessseawolf9365]

Eldrazi respectfully, I think would destroy them and the plane they inhabit, unless eldrazi can be compleated. Then everyone in the multiverse is doomed

[@TieberiusVoidWalker]

​@@jessseawolf9365 given the fact that their physical forms are just the shadows of their true selves I doubt they can be completed

[@simonkerstgens6888]

​@@TieberiusVoidWalker Would look sick thought

[@achimney29]

Haha oh nooo, please don't complate me, that would be awful ahhh

[@togaprentice9927]

It’s giving Shayne Topp talking about Lady Demitrescu

[@waltersanchez2623]

Elesh Norn is what White Diamond should have been

[@williamoldaker5348]

Well to be fair, that's White Diamond was for a long time but things change.

[@waltersanchez2623]

@@williamoldaker5348 You’re right - but I wanted to see that White Diamond!

[@quirkyturtle6652]

Yeah it was weird how quickly Steven could change her millennia old beliefs

[@witchivy5905]

Yas

[@nicholasdickson8698]

White diamond was a waste

[@MagusFlorren]

🔻◾️▪️⚪️🟥⚪️▪️◾️🔻 Thank you Silver Myr. Keep up this obedience to our Mother of Machines and soon you will be granted the title of “Porcelain Myr”

[@silvermyr]

Fuck I hope we get a porcelain myr! Urtet (and convert) aside, I'm getting worried about the lack of myr being spoiled

[@MagusFlorren]

@@silvermyr Perhaps the idea is to build and rule your own armada of Myr, particularly with Urtet. I hope we atleast get some Myr TOKENS!

[@epicrabid1857]

Love there style cant wait for the set

[@zeo4481]

All hail Yawgmoth

[@torreydunn7034]

HAIL!!!HAIL!!!

[@imstupid880]

praetussy

[@skwyd3341]

I’d die the second I was in but it would totally be worth it

[@Daisychain738]

I mean I'll join machine Mommy's glorious holy communism

[@urbaraskpraetor3316]

Communists stealing from everyone, then invading everywhere? sounds about right.

[@pickledblowfish6178]

>no food >millions die >loses Checks out

[@sheepketchup9059]

​@@pickledblowfish6178 "According to the Central Intelligence Agency, an average Soviet citizen consumes 3,280 calories a day, compared to 3,520 calories for the American." www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000498133.pdf Don't buy the Capitalist propaganda

[@matthewalvarojr.2634]

​@@pickledblowfish6178 They don't need food to be fair. And if you want to talk about analogues to real life how about the obsession with oil and religion, that sounds like someone I know.

[@RandomHobo]

​@pickledblowfish6178 bro just described capitalism instead lmaooo Capitalism has led to far more deaths due to lack of food.

[@Liminality-Png]

God magic lore is so interesting, I’ll need to understand it from the beginning, but it kinda sucks that New Mirrodin kinda got jammed in the middle of this fight. Lmao i originally thought the Phyrexians wanted the metal world for some reason.

[@ix8750]

From what I understand Karn the silver golem built Mirrodin "in his own image" and charged the Memnarch as being the warden and developer of Mirrodin while he was away, but at some point he left a small trace of Phyrexian oil from their original homeworld that over time Spawned the original 5 praetors through the 5 colors of mana on the artificial plane. It's not that Phyrexian wanted the metal planet, they just wouldn't exist in 5 colors without it and they wouldn't have spread from old phyrexia without Karns accidental help.

[@DeathSithe92]

Eldrazi: Heh...your in danger....

[@brighty-go6nn]

Yes please replace my skin with porcelain

[@cerpintaxt362]

There must not be doors in New Phyrexia

[@cernunnos8344]

Why ?

[@cerpintaxt362]

@@cernunnos8344 have you seen Elesh Norn's face/head/armor?

[@cernunnos8344]

@@cerpintaxt362 ok now I see what you meant

[@SWetovich]

Considering this clip was preceded by a GoT clip, i can't help but see that she's a version of a successful High Sparrow that was turned by the walkers!

[@GozMaster]

Love her. just did a Video/Music vid on Atraxa telling her story.

[@ravipun6714]

everyone shocked after finding out elspeth and elish are related lol

[@witchivy5905]

Her look Iconic , Slay , Queen shit, Love to Hate her , Circe could Never, Yas , we Stan. 🤣😂🤣❤️❤️❤️

[@koreyb1671]

Sheo got my heart tho

[@goofygoober9719]

I shouldn't be down bad for her, but I am

[@zaddydaddy162]

Here’s a question for the mtg lore heads what about ashiok the dream render isn’t there one person she know who could basically undo or stand in her way and it’s him

[@margar9021]

Ashiok uses they/them btw

[@ainsooalgown3862]

Hoping for Phyrexia VS. Eldrazi duel deck

[@philippniemann8842]

I would really like to know what the praetors were before they became phyrexians and how they were cpmpleated

[@Fibonochos]

That really changes the way I look at the transformers quote, "till all are one"

[@PastorKCLiu]

This is awesome, thanks!!

[@torreydunn7034]

I love the phyrexians. Been a fan since around the invasion set.

[@stevensims3342]

I'd be driven to the edge of insanity if my head was shaped like that too. Always getting in the way. Never getting any sleep, can't get comfortable. Sheesh.

[@samuelhigh7831]

Anyone else feel that they're going to eventually have to release/unleash the Eldrazi against Phyrexia?

[@brianweeks4164]

I was just thinking that today, emrakul being released from the moon

[@samuelhigh7831]

@@brianweeks4164 They compleated Tamiyo, Nahiri, and Nissa. Phyrexia should have extremely deep knowledge of the Eldrazi now. As well as Nicol Bolas for that matter. Now, you really think Elesh Norn isn't ambitious enough to try and Compleat the Eldrazi, or Bolas somehow? I'd like them to be undone by their own machinations, instead of some SAVES THE DAY! moment by Teferi and co.

[@gabrielrussell5531]

But where did she come from? Is she a compleated Mirran, was she spawned by the oil, or made by other Phyrexians?

[@daltonmckinney2420]

You should watch aetherhubs video on it but she is basically one of the originally phyrexians from Memnarch when Meridien became new phyrexia.

[@galonEagle]

aka. . . M O M M Y

[@Monsterthatsunderyourbed]

Would, will, and shall!

[@brandonh5629]

I can fix her ❤️🖤

[@sinkabutitsyoutube409]

Norn fine as hell tho damn

[@Rewwgh]

I like that for once we have a set name that is a complete lie

[@rawandjaff5634]

I got elesh norn in the pre released 🎉🎉🎉

[@cordthomas97]

Is anybody going to talk about that she has a chair made out of her most trusted advisors. So if you do gain her trust, she might just make you into a piece of furniture.

[@archmagosdeciuskronen1501]

I would love lore on the armies of Phyrexia, units and roles of said units. Trying to piece lore together from cards has been annoying.

[@benjaminaswad6486]

Phyrexia is my absolute favorite. I first started buying into MTG right before Inistrad came out.

[@thebattleofpelennorfieldsp6081]

We all know who Elesh Norn really is

[@floydyutiamco]

Who??

[@drfuzzy3977]

@@floydyutiamco mommy

[@floydyutiamco]

@@drfuzzy3977 I thought mother of runes is mom?

[@nicholaswilhelm8906]

Mecha mommy

[@hoppIdet]

Elon musk

[@khalidkothiwale2]

Is this a warhammer 40k lore or i am in a wrong room

[@CorrodedClockworks]

Love how nobody called the machine Orthodoxy by their (kinda) updated name, "the machine legion" I think the MO just rolls off the tongue better lol

[@RadioSilver27]

Lmao, get phantom menaced, phyrexians. INERT GANG

[@GigaBoost]

MOMMY!!!

[@neon_spotlight]

Kind of has the same vibes as the Kahn Maykr from doom eternal

[@Mr.Alexander-wx5ku]

What did i just walk into? Uh what is this?

[@baltasarice7091]

That's all wrong, norn wanna be an dentist

[@xavierlopez5220]

and then she gets turned into mush by karn

[@desmondgentle1474]

I think Elish Norn is just a Cyberman

[@GodofPing]

Can’t wait to add her to my homework file 😏

[@rowjo2006]

yes

[@vatarants]

if we could be Phyrexian w/o losing my mind it would be perfect.

[@tacemiko3849]

Wait, they are machines? Wow

[@christopherfrawley2560]

Why dont the phyrexians worship yawgmoth?? Did he not find the glistening oil and make the first phyrexians?? Didnt they follow him as a god once? Why is there no mention of him?

[@phelandiller4066]

Part of the reason for the uprising against Norn on New Phyrexia is her seeing herself as greater than he.

[@ghostofhallownest5300]

I stumbled onto this what is this story from??

[@timgil7830]

Now if they could just make white strong enought to back that up

[@jeffclarke929]

here on level one of robot HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL

[@Original-Yellow]

They should have let them win. At least for a while

[@joshrobinson2409]

Flesh norn probably will be defeated in the worst way possible then she will probably throw a phyrexian equivalent to a temper tantrum I also think its interesting that sheoldred and urabrask rebelled I wonder how they will help against norn

[@EntheogenShaman]

This raises a question. Should Norn be more aligned to black, or should Yawgmoth have been more aligned to white?

[@JazzOfTheStinson]

I think they are colored correctly. Black is more of a selfish color where white is more about law and unity. Yawgmoth never really cared about unification and was more willing to spread phyrexia to increase his reach and power. While elish norn is spreading her influence to increase her power, it has a different motivation, which lends itself to the color white. Thank you @spice8rack you make me sound like I can explain what the ever living F the color pie is supposed to represent.

[@EntheogenShaman]

@@JazzOfTheStinson Norn is definitely white-dominant, but the self-serving aspect is definitely black.

[@rachelmcrachel6589]

@@JazzOfTheStinson I wouldn't even say she's doing it for herself. She is spreading compleation to unify the multiverse, and uses her power and dominion to make it such. To say she's using the collective for explicitly her gain would make her Orzhov, but since she's spreading the Machine Orthodoxy to "save" everyone and make the universe whole, her mono-white alignment fits perfectly. Basically, she isn't spreading her agenda, she is a unit to spread the Machine Orthodoxy and the perfection of New Phyrexia

[@simonkerstgens6888]

​@@EntheogenShaman Seems fitting as all of their origins is in black therefor their core is and always will be black as the glistening oil that forges them

[@NoFlu]

People rarely remember that white is also the color of Order (alongside Morality). Order does not have to be good, a totalitarian state, like New Phyrexia, will always be, partially, white, as it reflects that aspect. Yawgmoth's Phyrexia was chaotic and he didn't care too much about Order (except for himself at the top), but it is a good way to get more done quickly, especially in wartime, at the expense of the poeple at the bottom. I still hope Phyrexia fails because of infighting between the 3 "neutral" Praetors and not because Urabask kills Norn or sth...

[@keatonmc1]

I’ma still side with the Eldrazi

[@khalidkothiwale2]

Well this girl is nothing to sheoldred and she get killed by her and absorb by sheoldred

[@sheepgrass500]

Pretty sure the whole change happened because of a false bug report

[@BathrobeKeck]

And they'll be melted I to slag for what they did to my boy Ajani

[@TeamCardgaming]

And then she lost her head in fight...

[@RocketRaven]

All will be obi wan kenobi

[@9677677]

Mommy?

[@CromwellMTG]

If phyrexia so perfect then why norns teeth be pretty chat

[@FlawlessP401]

If the Phyrexians try this shit in Forgotten Realms they are gonna get decimated. Probably just the Chosen of each God could take care of this without a God even getting involved. Forgotten realms has real gods. You don't want the smoke.

[@8-bitspartan]

What is this from?

[@windknife]

You mean the footage? It's from the ONE trailers that the MTG KZbin channel releases. The lore can be derived from the cards themselves and articles written on the WOTC website.

[@MattHarb]

Would’ve been cool if we also got a colorless Praetor

[@Turnil321]

red does not want to spread completion, right?

[@KingBobXVI]

Urabrask does want to spread compleation, but is against forceful compleation against one's will. He believes that, given time, everyone would eventually choose to be perfected of their own volition ('cause it's just clearly the best option, y'know). He's in favor of personal freedom, but like, he's still a praetor.

[@JazzOfTheStinson]

Urabrask is a weird one. When looking at Elish Norn, he almost looks like a good guy tbh.

[@jeffbrownstain]

@@JazzOfTheStinson He is. Read the lore.

[@simonkerstgens6888]

​@@jeffbrownstain He kinda is? He is still really really dangerous and as he is red his loyalties can be swingy

[@skwyd3341]

Would

[@chaoswarriorx4411]

Smash

[@kirbyball97]

The plot armor of these last few arcs is just obnoxious.

[@jakevuckturd1201]

Smash or pass?

[@MrTinygod]

I'm just salting at a lot of them are constructs

[@Indy-the-soup]

Sheoldred > Norn

[@Namrec_Molai]

Wtf is this monsterosity

[@q_qouch]

hear me out

[@isaactelesco2141]

Her pronouns: was/were

[@an3582]

The most bland boring senseless villian in Magic History. They have Phyrexian Walkers now. This should be over and Phyrexia should have already won. If actual story was happening, the phyrexians would be infecting countless worlds while the Mirrans are preparing, but apparently the plot does not progress until the Main Characters move.

[@isildhurjonas]

But the lore of this cicle... Sucks

[@voiddollnero7677]

Mommy

[@brenttotland3704]

Mommy?

[@PhoenixPlayer404]

Would