Endstone
| Endstone | |
|---|---|
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| Information | |
| Origin | The Edge |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Status | Recovered |
The Endstone is a mysterious artifact sought out by Tezzeret in the Edge. It can change the past to suit its wielder's will. It was recovered by Sami and Tannuk, who delivered it to Tezzeret, before it was returned to its original master.
Description
The Endstone appears as a dark, unpolished, egg-shaped rock.[1] Its surface is pebbled with small bubbles and it emits a faint pink blur that emanates rainbow patterns of interference. It has a mind and purpose of its own and serves the Vaar, which it describes as "the true master of Sothera." It is working to advance one ultimate future.[2] It can influence pasts connected to its wielder.[3] The wielder's past becomes the object's area of influence. By extension, when a Monoist brings it into a black hole - especially a black hole that joins INEVITA - then it will have access to all the pasts that have ended in that black hole.[3]
The Endstone is able to change any past events and create a new past under two conditions:
- However improbable the past you are creating, it has to be at least possible. The Endstone can't force people to do something they would never do, only alter events within what is possible.
- The past it creates still has to lead to the present you are currently experiencing. The Endstone has a sort of reverse sense of causality, where the present is constant but the past is in flux (instead of the past being constant and the future in flux). Whatever changes the stone makes, they have to result in the same present moment the wielder is currently experiencing.
History
The Endstone was originally left unfound and was destroyed by a supernova.[4] It changed the past six times to actuate its discovery, including creating an observer, causing Mm'menon's expulsion from the Uthros Combine, and preventing Tezzeret from hiring specialists to retrieve the Endstone. It was discovered on Sigma's Reach between about 4554 and 4564 AR and placed in a QA cyst on the planet.[1] Around 4564, a Sunstar Free Company palestar arrived on the planet and dispatched four Hopelight warmakers to eradicate the inhabitants. However, the Endstone changed history so that no one ever arrived to start work due to Sothera's impending nova, and the palestar passed the planet by unharmed.
As a favor to Tezzeret, Sami and Tannuk traveled with the Seriema to Sigma's Reach to find the artifact. They retrieved it under hallucinogenic circumstances.[4][1]
Based upon an entry in the anathalmanac, Syr Vondam theorized that the True Faith's mission in Sothera threatened the object, and that it therefore was calling out for a wielder, someone who could make use of its power. And that if it were to find that wielder, it would prevent the resurrection of Sothera. He further suspected that the object had manipulated events on the Dawnsire: Captain Slats's vision, Vondam's prophesied death, and his survival. All of it was intended to bring Alpharael away from his people and to the object.[3]
The Endstone manipulated a fight between the Sunstar Free Company and the defenders of Kavaron to help Sami, Tannuk, and Alpharael escape. Before that would happen, the squire Haliya managed to locate Alpharael and tried to force him to alter the past with the Endstone, so that she would be hurt by the singularity bead instead of her knight, Vondam. When nothing happened, she tried to have them all obliterated by the Sunstar Company.[3] However, Vondam ordered the innocent civilians of Kavaron to be killed instead of Haliya and the others on the ship, leading her to believe that the Endstone could not fall into the Summists' hands.[5]
The Seriema docked with Tezzeret's ship, where he told the crew that he wanted to see what it would influence them to do. Random chance revealed to them that it wanted to go to Infinite Guideline Station, so they took it there. The Monoists and Summists converged on the station to take the stone, as well as some Eldrazi, but they managed to use the station to warp them out into the Wurmwall. As the crew drifted in the Wurmwall, recuperating from the damage they sustained in the battle at the station, a hole in space opened in the Seriema's galley and a Vaar android stepped out to reclaim the Endstone, fulfilling its desire.[6]
Revisions
The Endstone has the magical ability to alter reality through a process called "revision."[4] It accomplishes this by locking onto certain people who touch the artifact, referred to as its "chosen" or "wielders." Known chosen include Sami, Alpharael, and an unknown person that it refers to in the second person throughout the story of Edge of Eternities.
When someone has been chosen by the Endstone, it gains access to all of the events of their life. If a chosen focuses their will on a particular decision to change something, the Endstone will retroactively revise events in the past to create a more favorable outcome. However, it is not omnipotent. It cannot make revisions without a strong will helping it, and it can only revise events to the best possible outcome. If an event is a mathematical certainty, the Endstone cannot stop it from happening, nor can it bring into existence an otherwise impossible outcome. Furthermore, the scope of the revisions is relatively narrow, with the result that certain consequences of revised events are sometimes left behind, stranded without an obvious cause.
Chosen see hallucinatory glimpses of erased timelines when they touch the Endstone.[1] For anyone else, the only way to tell that the Endstone has revised without knowing of its existence is via the quantum prophecy of an Astelli, as the only way that these can be wrong is if causality is altered.
The following is a list of revisions to the timeline of the Edge known to have been made by the Endstone.
| Revision number | Change | Objective | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zero | None | None | Results in the Endstone's annihilation when Sothera goes supernova[4] |
| One | A sentient being is created[4] | Allow further revisions using being as a chosen | Seemingly took place without the assistance of a chosen |
| Two | The Sothera system is populated with sentient life[4] | Someone finds the Endstone | |
| Three | Unknown | Textual evidence indicates that this revision had something to do with Tannuk and Sami meeting each other in the wreck of the Wurm Speaker. | |
| Four | Mm'menon is expelled from the Uthros Combine[4] | The Endstone is kept from being discovered by the Drix | |
| Five | Tezzeret does not hire specialists to investigate Sigma's Reach | The Endstone comes into contact with Sami | |
| Six | Sami's cat Mirri weftwalks off their ship and does not return[4] | Sami spends years working as a wildcat scavenger in Sothera | |
| Seven | Unknown | Textual evidence indicates that these revisions may have caused all the members of the Seriema's crew except Sami and Tannuk to quit.[4] | |
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| Ten | The Sunstar Free Company does not massacre the population of Sigma's Reach to destroy the Endstone and anyone it may have chosen[1] | Sami and Tannuk survive their trip to Sigma's Reach | |
| Eleven | Alpharael's sekhar bead passes through Syr Vondam's skull[7] | Haliya does not kill Alpharael | |
| Twelve | The trajectory of Alpharael's Hopelight warmaker on atmospheric entry to Kavaron is slightly modified | Several Kav vaultguards that would have arrested Alpharael are acutely poisoned by radiation, necessitating medical evacuation to Taro-duend | |
| Thirteen | Sami and Tannuk luckily manage to evade Sunstar soldiers on the way back to their ship | Sami and Tannuk catch Haliya on board | |
| Fourteen | Alpharael injects Haliya with a paralytic | Haliya does not kill Sami and Tannuk | |
| Fifteen | A die rolled by Tezzeret over a map of the Sothera system lands on Infinite Guideline Station | The crew of the Seriema bring the Endstone to Infinite Guideline | |
| Sixteen | Alpharael randomly guesses a 512-character override code for a warp ferry at Infinite Guideline | The crew of the Seriema escape Infinite Guideline and warp to the Wurmwall, where the Endstone is taken by the Vaar | As pointed out by the warp ferry's onboard AI in the story, this feat is astronomically unlikely, and would on average take hundreds of orders of magnitude longer than the current age of the universe |
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References
- ↑ a b c d e Seth Dickinson (June 24, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Seth Dickinson (June 27, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 5". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c d Seth Dickinson (July 1, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 7". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Seth Dickinson (June 21, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Seth Dickinson (July 2 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 8". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Seth Dickinson (July 7 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 11". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Seth Dickinson (June 26, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 4". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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