Feanav: The Apothecary's Progress

MSEM Releases

***Feanav: The Apothecary's Progress*** is the 1st set made by TEST for MSE. It was released on March 3rd, 2022, and later revised to be the first set in the Feanav block.

## Set Details

*Feanav: The Apothecary's Progress* contains 239 cards (106 commons, 80 uncommons, and 53 rares).

*Feanav: The Apothecary's Progress* introduced two new keywords:

**Agonize** *(You may cast this card from your graveyard by putting a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)*

**Unveil <cost>** *(<cost>: Transform this. Unveil only as a sorcery.)*

Unveil typically appeared on hybrid cards with a gold cost to transform.

*Feanav: The Apothecary's Progress* returned one custom keyword:

**Vial tokens** *(They're artifacts with "<1>, Sacrifice this and another permanent: Draw a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.")*

## Synopsis

The story is set on Feanav both before and after the ignition of Lettie Wormwood, with a time skip of slightly longer than a year separating the halves.

### Pre-Ignition

Leticia Petrine is a gifted yet unusual child, born in the countryside. Slow to learn speech, and slower to learn manners, she embarrasses her family enough that her mother accepts an offer to become the personal apothecary to a peer, Lord Barton, and move the family business to the imperial capital. Lord Barton's condition is considered terminal, and Leticia's apprenticeship includes assisting in prolonging his life. During this time, she becomes acquainted with Lord Barton's daughter, Margaret. The two become close, and Leticia's eventual introduction into polite society allows her to meet Michael Haldean, a promising university student involved in the Great Work—an imperial effort to create alchemical life.

After Lord Barton's death, Margaret moves to the highlands, and Leticia studies to complete her certification as an apothecary, assisted by Michael. However, despite her qualifications, her guild refuses to grant her any property unless she marries. Being the last among her sisters to marry despite being the eldest, Leticia courts Michael by collaborating with him on his research. Through her own perspective on the nature of life, and her own skill as an apothecary, Leticia is struck with inspiration, and brings her design to Michael. Together, they create a programmable and adaptive alchemical process, which Leticia names the Melancholic Blood.

On presenting their breakthrough, Leticia and Michael are granted funding by both the prince regent and several aristocratic families to develop a humanoid creature using the Melancholic Blood. Now free to focus on their work, Michael proposes to Leticia, and they agree to have their wedding immediately following the completion of the project. However, when the creature is awakened, Michael is horrified by its appearance, and flees the laboratory. Realizing the similarity between Michael's rejection of the creature and the social rejection that she had once experienced, Leticia flees as well, and argues with Michael regarding the creature's fate. However, they return to the laboratory to find that the creature has escaped.

Leticia finds that Margaret is no longer answering her letters, and that Michael refuses to acknowledge his part in the creature's disappearance. When Leticia intends to explain what happened to the prince regent, Michael instead denounces her design of the Melancholic Blood, and accuses her of misleading the Great Work. Facing complete ostracization and in despair from Michael's betrayal, Leticia attempts suicide once she is alone. However, her will to live results in the ignition of her planeswalker's spark, and the creation of her spark's Miasma, a summoned process equivalent to the Melancholic Blood which saves her life.

### Post-Ignition

Presuming herself disowned, Leticia assumes the alias of Lettie Wormwood, taking on the name of Feanav's first fae. For over a year, she attempts to survive in the wider multiverse; her distrust of others and unwillingness to live at anyone's mercy drives her to instead oppress and attack others. Eventually, she is defeated and all but forced to reflect on herself and begin bettering her life by Experiment Zero. Lettie returns to Feanav in hopes of destroying all copies of her research, and reconnecting with her childhood friend Margaret.

However, in attempting to locate Margaret while posing as a fae, Lettie encounters a man who claims to be Doctor Barton, a cousin of Margaret's. As Margaret is Lord Barton's only heir, a conspiracy of aristocrats led by Michael Haldean is attempting to coerce her into marriage so that Lord Barton's estate may be used to fund the continuation of Lettie's Research. Lettie and Doctor Barton reach the agreement that if she assists him in destroying the conspiracy, he will allow her to meet Margaret.

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