#Tevesh

[croxot]

"Date pic!"

"You just took one."

"I wanted another one." Modern Tevesh & Jinn.

[xantchaslegacy]

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

Artist: Livia Prima TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[colossal-idiot]

I seriously fucking swear, if WotC doesn't give us a Nissa/Chandra commander duo in the next Zendikar set, I will kill someone. We NEED the Nissa and Chandra partner commanders asap. And if they're made for a precon, it's name better reference that they're dating. Mark Rosewater, make this happen.

[loreleywrites]

What's your favorite Snow card?

The sort-of cheating answer is Dead of Winter, where I got to directly reference the old Ice Age comics:

Actual snow card? Probably Dark Depths? I'd love to Marit Lage people in Legacy if I could afford to play Legacy.

[etrata]

Round 1

[tags5colors]

Tevesh Szat

Pre Mending or Post Mending: Pre 

Status: Killed by Urza

Age: Unknown

Primarily Color(s): Black

Other Color(s): N/A

Type of Magic:

Non-magic skills;

Species: Dragonic being, formally human 

Homeplane: Dominaria 

Know Visited planes (that we’ve seen in cards):

Sets/Storylines: Commander Legends 

Known Other Planeswalkers (that we’ve seen as a planeswalker card):

Mini Bio:

[dduane]

Hi hi! Hope you are doing well! Would like to say I absolutely adore your works, and am very happy to have found you.

(Apologies in semi-advance for any grammatical or spelling errors, English is not my native language.)

I understand that you do not write Star Trek any more, and have not for some time, but I have a question regarding the spoken Vulcan that was seen in Spock's World. Particularly "Hwath ta-jevehih tak rehehlh kutukk'sheih nei ya'ch'euvh" seen on page 111, and "ekhwe'na meh kroykah tevesh" on page 227 (or at least in my copy). There are no translations or suggestions of such for either one. I was simply wondering what you were thinking they or what you believed they were expressing while writing it, if there was any. It has been on my mind ever since I read the book, and despite my best efforts, will likely continue to be unless addressed. If you have already answered this question elsewhere, then do direct me that way.

Regardless of your response, I would love to express my joy over the book as a whole. I read its entirety in a single day. Between how you crafted the worlds in such vividly visible detail and beauty, and the way you portrayed Sarek, Amanda, and Leonard, and frankly all of the characters, really made my day.

Thank you! :D

Hi there!

Since in the first one McCoy's discussing with Kirk how he learned Vulcan, and Kirk asks him whether he'd taken a "listening course" or a "speaking and listening" one, McCoy's response almost certainly means something along the lines of "Like I'd have had time for that while I was on leave!" (In any case. McCoy had taken a series of tailored messenger-RNA treatments to acquire basic fluency in the language.)

The p. 227 excerpt comes during McCoy's address to the population of Vulcan during the secession debates. Having said "Hell, no!" to the question of whether he approves of the concept, McCoy then asks pardon for slipping into his native idiom when he might "more correctly" quoted Surak by saying—and he says it in archaic and period-correct Vulcan— "Better even rude* truth than craven refuge in silence." (The kroykah in the Vulcan phrase, which we've heard canonically in ST:TOS s2e1, "Amok Time," is here used in its sense of "be still" or "be silent", with an inferred positive inflection from the "-'na", instead of "Stop" or "Cut that out right now".)

In both these cases I didn't translate because I wanted the reader to have a chance to experience the slightly-at-sea sensation then being experienced by the POV character. In both cases the meanings aren't necessarily going to be important to the reader, but the usage itself goes to the issue of the moment: that Vulcan is being spoken (a) relatively easily and (b) with significant effect.

I can't take credit for the technique. I picked it up from C.J. Cherryh, who as a language teacher is absolutely flawless in the way she handles alien languages in her work. Whether I pulled it off as well as she does is a judgment best left to the readership.

Meanwhile, thanks for the query! And I'm delighted you enjoyed the book. :)

*In the sense of "rough" or "ill-formed", not "impolite".

[vorthosjay]

Tevesh Szat says of Shandalar: "The Mana. It breathes. Almost sssentient." What was he talking about? Is Shandalar's mana still different post-mending?

Yes, but It’s identity is mostly “generic high fantasy plane with secrets(tm)”. I think Invasion of Shandalar’s back face references the mana thing.

[croxot]

Tevesh, but in the 'style' of darkstalkers' Felicia. You know, with carapace instead of fur. Don't think too hard about it.

[princess-of-the-corner]

"I am entirely counting on him betraying us!" reminds me of something from Magic: the Gathering's story.

During the first Phyrexian Invasion, Urza (one of the greatest Planeswalkers in the multiverse) recruited eight other Planeswalkers and gave them mech suits to counter-invade Phyrexia.

One of them was an evil bastard called Tevesh Szat, who Urza only brought along because he knew that Tevesh would betray them, and could then use that as a justification to turn Tevesh into the magical fuel for a bomb that would utterly destroy Phyrexia.

This royally pissed off the other members of the Nine, not least of which because Tevesh killed two of them, one of which was the partner of another member.

It was also pointless, because Urza decided he couldn't destroy a place of such potential knowledge and dismantled the bombs.

Well that's fucked like BRUH

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Disciple of Tevesh Szat

"You pray to Freyalise, but she cannot hear your pleas. It is Tevesh Szat who will claim your soul."

Artist: Pete Venters TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[markrosewater]

When or If: a pw card for all the nine titans? (We already have three: Freyalise, Windgrace and Tevesh)

My gut is when, but not necessarily soon.

[junonerdywhispers]

Magic the Gathering cards, but the Owl House!

warning: it's ok.

[sorry for not making one of these for a while, I was doing stuff]

Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis but it's Hunter/ the (former) Golden Guard

Tevesh Svat, Doom of Fools but it's the Collector

[etrata]

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[dimestoretajic]

THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BRACKET, FIELD OF 32!

It's the -10 vs. -10 battle of the ages! Will Tevesh steal Daretti before he can get Artifacts Returning Forever? We'll see who wins!

Make your choice!