"What's your next move? Use Vraska to control the Golgari Swarm, then infiltrate the Ravnica Guildpact?"
Shaan VII once again used Legendary Magic to create a demilich body for himself, disguising himself as a living person.
After all, Undead were still quite terrifying in the eyes of most living people and could easily cause unnecessary trouble.
More importantly, he had always considered himself "human"—the legitimate emperor of the Shaan Dynasty in Calimshan, south of Faerun—and had not, like other liches, gradually been consumed by Negative Energy and begun to see himself as Undead opposed to the living.
"No, there was no need.
The Golgari Swarm had been struck by the Azorius Senate several years ago and had nearly been stripped of its status entirely. Its current sphere of influence was nowhere near what it had once been.
Frequent assassinations and shifts in power had also made its rule and administration extremely unstable. Even with Vraska as its nominal leader, there was no guarantee that those beneath her would obey.
An organization that remained chaotic and unstable for so long simply had no value worth infiltrating or controlling.
Rather than waste time on them, it would be better to use the entire Golgari Swarm as a stirring stick—or a sacrifice—and throw it out there to plunge the entire Ravnica Plane into chaos.
The more chaotic things became here, the more time and effort Nicol Bolas would need to figure out what was happening behind the scenes."
As Raymond said this, his tone carried naked, undisguised contempt for the entire Golgari Swarm.
The organization was a guild that fused the utterly opposing values of life and death. Its absurdity was no less than those Western institutions obsessed with environmentalism and gender diversity, and its destructive potential was even greater.
They cultivated life