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One of the four demons whom Liliana made pacts with. Some time after Liliana made a deal with him, he sent her to fetch the Chained Veil, but upon her return she offed him with it.

* DidNotSeeThatComing: He didn't expect Liliana to kill him using the Chained Veil's power.

* ADayInTheLimelight: She's the main character for the March of the Machine Sidestory, ''The Fall of Park Heights.''

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!Ravnica

!!The Azorius Senate

[[folder:Azor I]]

The ancient, enigmatic Parun of the Azorius Senate and [[NeglectfulPrecursors primary author of the Guildpact]]. The mysterious [[RiddlingSphinx sphinx]] planeswalker vanished from Ravnica to attend to affairs elsewhere millenia ago, and his current wareabouts remain a great mystery to most of Ravnica's citizenry.

You can read more about him [[Characters/MagicTheGatheringPlaneswalkersPreMending here]].

[[folder:Isperia]]

-> ''Color:'' White and blue
-> ''Race:'' Sphinx

The leader of the Azorius from shortly after the end of original ''Ravnica'' block until her death at Vraska's hands (er... [[TakenForGranite eyes]]) at the beginning of ''Guilds of Ravnica'' block.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Granted, her reign was sandwiched between [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill AugustinIV]] and [[SinisterSurveillance Dovin Baan]], so it's hard not to grade on a pretty generous curve, but she is notably the only Azorius guildmaster to not be an ArcVillain in their respective block.

!!The Boros Legion

[[folder:Agrus Kos]]

-> ''Color:'' Red and white
-> ''Race:'' Spirit (formerly Human)
-> ''Class:'' Soldier

The {{Troperiffic}} protagonist of the original ''Literature/RavnicaCycle'', a HardBoiledDetective in the [[OccultDetective Wojek]], the Boros police force.

* FantasticallyIndifferent: Safe to say at the end of his very, ''very'' long life, he had SeenItAll and had a [[TheSnarkKnight quip]] ready for whatever exhausting nonsense was threatening the city this week.
* OldSoldier: Even by Ravnican standards, Agrus is nearing retirement age. Unfortunately for him, [[ResignationsNotAccepted his bosses won't allow something as trivial as death]] to stop him from [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed foiling the latest plot to]] TakeOverTheWorld.

[[folder:Aurelia]]

-> ''Color:'' Red and white
-> ''Race:'' Angel

The leader of the Boros since the death of the Guild's Parun, Razia, at the end of the original Literature/RavnicaCycle. She is a severe and warlike figure, with a sense of justice that verges on the [[TautologicalTemplar tautological]].

* TautologicalTemplar: The specific law the Boros enforce under Aurelia seems to shift from "basically identical to the current Azorius law" to "vaguely defined local statutes" to "just beat the shit out of anyone that looks suspicious" with little clear pattern.

!!The Gruul Clans

[[folder:Borborygmos]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Crush them!"'']]

-> ''Color:'' Red and green
-> ''Race:'' Cyclops

Insofar as the Gruul can be said to ever follow anybody, Borborygmos is the uncontested leader of the barbaric clans in their endless war against everyone else.
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* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Gruul chieftains earn their rule by being strong enough to defeat everyone else who claims it and maintain it by remaining too strong for others to defeat. Borborygmos has remained the longest-reigning Gruul chief by virtue of being the toughest fighter in all the clans.
* ChaoticNeutral: InUniverse, it's his official alignment listed in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica.
* ClassicalCyclops: He's a huge, barbaric humanoid with a single beady eye and an impressive pair of horns.
* FamousAncestor: According to rumor, he's descended from Cisarzim, the parun of the Gruul Clans.

[[folder:Ilharg]]
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-> ''Color:'' Red
-> ''Race:'' Boar god

A great boar god that the Gruul worship in anticipation for his heralding of the End-Raze against civilization.

* BeastOfTheApocalypse: The Gruul believe that his coming will signal the beginning of the End-Raze, where all of Ravnica will be torn down and return to a primordial wilderness.
* FullBoarAction: He's a gigantic, many-tusked boar worshipped by barbarians and prophesied to one day end civilization.
* GiantAnimalWorship: The Gruul worship him as a god. This is justified in this case, as Ilharg is in fact a true god.

!!The Izzet League
[[folder:Niv-Mizzet]]
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-> ''Color:'' Blue and red (primary), 5 Color
-> ''Race:'' Dragon avatar

A genius dragon, Niv-Mizzet is the parun and guildmaster of the Izzet Combine, one of the founding minds of Ravnica itself, and easily the smartest living thing on the plane.

* BackFromTheDead: He's killed by Nicol Bolas before the start of ''War of the Spark''. In preparation for this, he leaves instructions for a complex ritual involving his bones, his SoulJar and Ravnica's ley lines, which ultimately [[spoiler:manages to bring him back as the living avatar of the Guildpact]].
* ChaoticNeutral: InUniverse, at least prior to becoming [[spoiler:the guildpact]]. It's his official alignment listed in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica.
* {{Egopolis}}: An extremely egoistical being, he named his guild after himself and designed its symbol as a self-portrait.
-->''The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.'' -- [[https://scryfall.com/card/c21/247/izzet-signet Izzet Signet]]
* KilledOffscreen: Nicol Bolas kills him shortly before the start of ''War of the Spark''.
* LastOfHisKind: While a few bestial creatures still linger here and there, Niv-Mizzet is the last true dragon left in Ravnica.
* SoulJar: Niv-Mizzet created a silver box in which to preserve his soul and consciousness in anticipation of his own death, which his spirit moves into after Bolas kills him.
* TimeAbyss: He's an incredibly ancient being, having been born long before the signing of the Guildpact 10,000 years ago and having lived through all of Ravnica's history since.
* WorldsSmartestMan: He's the most intelligent living entity in Ravnica, by a very wide margin.
* WorldsStrongestMan: While the power rankings of the guildmasters are unclear, Niv-Mizzet is the most powerful of them, at least according to Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica.

!!The Cult of Rakdos
[[folder:Rakdos]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Entertain me."]]

-> ''Color:'' Black and red
-> ''Race:'' Demon

A powerful and dangerous demon revered by the Cult of Rakdos and feared and loathed by everyone else.

* BigRedDevil: He's a towering, crimson-skinned monster with curling horns, great batlike wings and hooves legs, and rules over fiery pits of iron, fire and suffering.
* ChaoticEvil: InUniverse, it's his official alignment listed in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, representing how he dedicates entirely to slaking his thirst for novelty and entertainment in a manner that's almost invariably harmful and destructive to everyone else.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: He's the most powerful demon in Ravnica, and the ultimate ruler of the guild that most demons belong to.
* ElementalWeapon: His favored weapon is a flaming scythe.
* HeroicNeutral: No, seriously. Every time Rakdos himself personally appears in a story, it's actually to [[EvilVersusOblivion defend Ravnica from a greater threat]], be it the Nephilim or Bolas's Dreadhorde. It's to the point that Rakdos and his Cult might legitimately be counted among the plane's most reliable defenders.
* TheMagnificent: He's typically knows as Rakdos the Defiler.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He finds most of Ravnican life [[ItAmusedMe unfathomably boring]], and spends most of his time sleeping or waiting for his Cultists to do something entertaining.
* TimeAbyss: He's unfathomably old, having already been ancient when the Guildpact was signed 10,000 years ago.

!!Unaffiliated
[[folder:Krenko]]

-> ''Color:'' Red
-> ''Race:'' Goblin
-> ''Class:'' Warrior

A guildless mob boss operating out of Tin Street, Krenko is a remarkably savvy organizer and opportunist ''par excellence'', two traits that allowed him to become arguably the most powerful non-Guild aligned person in all of Ravnica.

* BadassNormal: Krenko is the closest thing to a genuine power player that exists among the [[FantasticUnderclass Guildless]], a position he reached with little more than charisma, wiliness, and a bit of [[TheManBehindTheMan shadowy help]].
* KingmakerScenario: One of the reasons he and his gang are still around: Guilds looking to cause mayhem with plausible deniability (particularly the Dimir, but others as well, otherwise he would just become a full-time Dimir asset, which would kind of negate the whole "plausible deniability" thing) farm out work to them, and in turn ensure that the Azorius and Boros never fully eliminate them.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Goblins, especially on Ravnica, have a reputation as dimwitted yes men who largely [[TooDumbToLive live to sacrifice themselves in pointless spectacles]] dictated by their superiors. Krenko (while still somewhat impulsive and BookDumb), has a concept of biding his time and gathering information, which makes him disproportionately dangerous.

[[folder:Araithia "Rat" Shokta]]
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-> ''Race:'' Human

A guildless girl from Ravnica who gets swept up in the events of ''War Of The Spark'' via proximity to some of the main players. Araithia Shokta, or simply Rat to her friends, was born to Gruul parents, but can't decide whether's she'll join the Clans, the Selesnya Conclave, or the Cult of Rakdos, but has close friends in all three. She was also born with a unique form of magic that makes it so that only certain people can notice her, while others walk right past her unless she's pointed out to them. She doesn't let it get her down. Mostly.

* BadassNormal: She's not a Planeswalker, and, aside from her inmate invisibility, possesses no magic to speak of, but keeps up with Kaya and the others when it comes to fighting the Eternals.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: As mentioned, some form of magic that she was born with makes it so other people don't even notice she's there, with a select few exceptions, like her mother, Teyo and Kaya. Her godfather Boruvo implies it has something do with a person's personality, but doesn't explain further; whatever it is was enough for him to trust Kaya and Teyo right after meeting them, though. Other people ''can'' see and hear her if they've been told she's there by someone else, but have to actively concentrate on her to do so.
* GenkiGirl: Energetic, and speaks endlessly without a thought to letting others get in a word. When you consider how seldom she actually gets to talk to someone else, this becomes a lot more understandable.
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Dimir guildmaster, Lazav, is also able to see and hear her, and has been conditioning her since childhood. She has a second personality called Aktos Tarr who thinks he's a male vampire, and is one of the Dimir's most effective assassins thanks to her invisiblity]].
* MsExposition: Spends most of ''War Of The Spark'' informing Teyo (and by extension, any new readers not familiar with Ravnica) on the finer points of each Guild, and what little she knows regarding Planeswalkers.
* ShipTease: With Teyo. Not only is he one of the few who can notice her, they spend most of ''War Of The Spark'' keeping each other safe.

[[folder:Troyan]]

-> ''Color:'' Green and blue
-> ''Race:'' Vedalken
-> ''Class:'' Scout

Formerly a member of the Simic Combine, the explorer Troyan left his old affiliation to explore the new horizons opened up after ''March of the Machine''.

* BoldExplorer: Troyan is the first named character to be shown traveling between planes via the newly opened Omenpaths, being first encountered climbing beanstalks on Eldraine.
* FracturedFairyTale: He fits in quite well on Eldraine, acting as an {{Expy}} the titular character of Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Vedalken (particularly on Ravnica) are generally portrayed as StrawVulcan [[TotalitarianUtilitarian Totalitarian Utilitarians]] who suffer from a chronic LackOfEmpathy. By contrast, Troyan is a gregarious LoveableRogue and ThrillSeeker.

!Fiora

[[folder:Brago, King Eternal]]

-> ''Color:'' White and Blue
-> ''Race:'' Spirit (formerly Human)
-> ''Class:'' Noble

King of Fiora, he recently died and returned as a ghost. Eventually assassinated under the order of Marchesa, who desires to become queen.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: None were more surprised than the Custodi to see his form coalescing before them.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: A day after announcing "Reign of Brago", the King Eternal himself was killed.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Selvala.
* LightIsNotGood: White aligned and an evil tyrant.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Is a spirit that remained anchored to Fiora thanks to his priests. Kaya "[[DeadlyEuphemism freed]]" him, killing him again.
* PuppetKing: The Custodi's plans for him. His senility before his death and their aims to keep the news under wraps would have facilitated this, had not the man demanded otherwise.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Selvala]]

-> ''Color:'' Green (primary), White

-> ''Class:'' Scout

Advisor, confidant, and friend to King Brago before his resurrection.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Or at least to all people. She was instrumental both in keeping Brago's plans from harming the people and in gaining his support among the people of the Low City.
* MercyKill: After the Custodi was prolonging his life to the point of agony, Selvala sneaked in to inflict a mercy killing on Brago. This only ended up releasing his spirit and got her banished to the dungeons by the Custodi.

[[folder:Marchesa, the Black Rose]]

-> ''Color:'' Black (primary), Blue, Red, and White
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Wizard, Assassin, Noble

Head of Paliano's foremost crime syndicate and spy network. She later becomes queen after having Brago assassinated.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: She comes from a small family, far from royalty. While she eventually became one of Fiora's most infamous criminals, she manages to one-up that by becoming the plane's queen.
-->'''Marchesa:''' I pray that everyone who claimed me a fallen daughter of a fallen house enjoyed ''their'' fall from the High City.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Former crime lord who has the king assassinated to become queen? This can't be good.
* ManipulativeBitch: Is deemed as such in-universe by her WorthyOpponent, a smuggler named Ervos Trax.
* PoisonedWeapons: She relies mostly on poisons hidden in her gems to physically defend herself.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: During the Phyrexian invasion of the Multiverse, Marchesa went out to kick the asses of some of the invaders herself.

[[folder:Grenzo, Dungeon Keeper of the High City]]

-> ''Color:'' Red (primary), Black
-> ''Race:'' Goblin
-> ''Class:'' Rogue

* ManipulativeBastard: He attempts to get Selvala to kill Muzzio.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Is a large, muscular goblin, making him stand out among his fellow Fioran goblins.

[[folder:Muzzio]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Artificer

* ActualPacifist: "I can [murder], but I do not need to. For every obstacle toward my grand design, there is a very simple, nonviolent solution: information."
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Let's hope he never meets Phyrexia, because he seems very eager indeed to become more like what he believes is technological praise.
-->'''Muzzio:''' There are even rumors of a place where the perfection of machines blends inseparably with the vitality of organic life. I hope we can one day be like those places."
* GadgeteerGenius: Spends most of his time inventing unique artifacts and artificial creatures.
* GuileHero: Orchestrates the removal of several obstacles without using a stab in the back, drop of poison, or any other form of violence.
* MadScientist: Implied to want to replace organic life with a mechanical world.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Based off of Leonardo da Vinci, being a mechanical genius on a plane themed around Renaissance Italy.
* PutOnABus: After his attempt to start a coup with an army of mechanical soldiers is discovered, Muzzio is exiled from Palliano between the events of the first ''Conspiracy'' and ''Take the Crown''. This explains why [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration the latter set doesn't have nearly as many artifact creatures.]]
[[/folder]]

!Vryn

[[folder:Alhammaret]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue
-> ''Race:'' Sphinx

A sphinx arbiter from Vryn, and Jace's mentor. He took in Jace to train and hone his telepath skills, but is eventually revealed to be using Jace for his own ends, resulting in Jace killing him.

* EvilMentor: He essentially raised Jace to be a ChildSoldier.
* KarmicDeath: For wiping Jace's memories to turn him into his underling, Jace returned the favor by tearing everything he could out of Alhammaret's mind, during their final duel. Up to and including the memories of how to breathe.
* ManipulativeBastard: As soon as Jace's spark ignited, Alhammaret wiped the memory of it from Jace's mind, simply to retain control of him.
* PlayingBothSides: The main crux of his scheme: he would send Jace to gather and sell intelligence to both sides of a war under the guise of it being necessary for his work as arbiter but wiping Jace's memory each time so he didn't notice he was doing so for both sides. Jace only figured out the truth when he found himself in a soldier's memories.
* {{Telepathy}}: His speciality is in mind magic and linking, and the focus of Jace's training.

!Kaladesh

[[folder:Baral]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Wizard

Captain Baral is an officer of the Consulate that was tasked with capturing the Nalaars. After failing to do so, he was demoted to prison duty.

* BoomerangBigot: A mage who hates mages. The Church of Tal would love him if they knew of his existence...
* BoxedCrook: He was in prison until New Phyrexia invaded. He escaped after the prison wall collapsed.
* ChildHater: [[spoiler:Has developed an intense hatred for children since Chandra burned his face.]]
* EnemyMine: After escaping from prison, he ends up getting saved by the Renegade Kari Zev, who gives him two options; Help them fight back the Phyerexians or be tossed overboard.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler:The ignition of Chandra's spark left marks all over his body and rendered his face frightening to look at. Though he enjoys being more threatening to his quarry, he resents Chandra for "breaking" him.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Insists that all mages are monsters. He uses his own magical abilities to perform quite monstrous acts, and sees no contradiction in it.
* JerkJustifications: His justification for his hatred of pyromancers as public threats.
* KnightTemplar: Goes overboard in his hunt for pyromancers, burning down the village of Bunurat and personally killing people who should lawfully be arrested and tried. Even Dovin Baan acknowledges that he might be too eager for field duty. [[spoiler:Baan eventually arrests Baral for murdering Kiran Nalaar and attempting to murder Pia, implying that only Dovin's personal discipline prevents him using Baral's judicial shortcuts against him]].
* MageKiller: Fights pyromancers that threaten the Consulate. He takes pride in knowing how to cause a mage to self-destruct under their own power.
* WardensAreEvil: [[spoiler:Took a liking in reminding Pia Nalaar in her captivity that he (supposedly) had killed her daughter]].
* YouAreWhatYouHate: A man with an immense hatred for mages who happens to be a mage himself.

[[folder:Pia and Kiran Nalaar]]

-> ''Color:'' Red (primary), White (Pia only)
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Artificer

Chandra's parents. Artificers in the Kaladesh city of Ghirapur. Renegade to begin with, and later fully hunted down and later murdered by the consul forces of Ghirapur when Chandra's fire powers manifested.

* GadgeteerGenius: They were skilled artificers, something Chandra failed to mimic.
* GoodParents: They even tried to flee the country to keep their daughter from the Consulate, but the responsible officer caught up, killed them, and would have publicly executed Chandra had her spark not ignited.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Only Kiran is explicitly shown to have been killed. [[spoiler: That would be because Pia is still alive.]]
* SoProudOfYou: They were proud of Chandra being a natural pyromancer.
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler:Pia Nalaar becomes known as "Renegade Prime" after escaping the Dhund prison]].
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:While Pia could have avoided capture by Tezzeret, she decides to let herself be captured when she sees Chandra, fearing that making a ruckus would endanger her daughter]].

[[folder:Oviya Pashiri]]

-> ''Color:'' Green
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Artificer

Fellow renegade and friend of the Nalaars.

* CoolOldLady: An elderly woman who is a renegade like the Nalaars.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Fights against [[spoiler: Baral and his thopters to keep him from killing Chandra.]]
* OddFriendship: Though leonin do not exist in Kaladesh, she doesn't seem to mind having Ajani, a leonin, as company, and in return he affectionately addresses her as Grandmother.
* ShipperOnDeck: As of Renewal, seems to be trying to nudge an all-too-oblivious Chandra and Nissa into a relationship.

[[folder:Yahenni]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' Aetherborn vampire

An aetherborn living out their last days.

* TheAntiNihilist: Aetherborn have very short lives, and they know exactly how long they have left to live. Yahenni throws parties and refuses to be sad about it. [[spoiler:And after Tezzeret takes over Kaladesh, they decide to spend the time they have left helping the Gatewatch. Once that's done, Yahenni dies just as they planned to, surrounded by friends.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Yahenni is friendly and willing to help the Gatewatch when they were in need, and eventually came to work with the rebels to overthrow the Consulate, but happens to an energy vampire whose 'expertise' is draining people of their life force.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Went from a very rich Aetherborn hedonist who was days away from dying, to a near unstoppable killing machine that can drain the life force out every person on a sky ship by touching it.
* DarkIsNotEvil: A Black-aligned character with vampiric draining powers, that is fairly likeable and helps the Gatewatch.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: While Nissa can do nothing to prevent the inevitable, she does tell Yahenni [[spoiler:the truth about the Multiverse, how aetherborn are made of the literal stuff of worlds. Yahenni dies content, knowing that they are becoming one with the universe.]]
* DyingAlone: Their deepest fear; aetherborn throw lavish Penultimate Parties to avoid this fate, but Yahenni cannot due to the Consul's curfews and restrictions. They eventually manage to hold such a party once the Consulate is subdued.
* LifeDrinker: Some aetherborn can extend their lives taking in the life force of others. Yahenni is one, but doesn't like to [[spoiler:because in doing so, they feel everything the victim feels]].
* MookHorrorShow: The consulate soldiers on Yahenni, Undying Partisan, and Yahenni's expertise are not having the best of days, and they won't be having any worse ones.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Is one of the rare "gifted" aetherborn that can drain the life energy of other sentient beings to prolong their own lifespan. However, Yahenni abhors using such power to simply live longer, insisting in their last moments that they will not live their life as a killer.
* RageBreakingPoint: The party-loving Yahenni eventually goes on the offensive against the Consulate after they keep oppressing the masses.
--> '''Flavor text of [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=547918 Yahenni's Expertise]], with several dead Consulate soldiers in the background''': The Consulate pushed me to my limit, darling, and this is the result.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Calls most people they meet "darling". Including their enemies.
* TheEmpath: All aetherborn can sense the emotional states of beings nearby [[spoiler: which is why it is so difficult for Yahenni to drain a sentient victim]].
* TheHedonist: Yahenni spends their last days in this world throwing lavish parties, customary among aetherborn. They are thus dismayed when the Consulate starts enacting curfews that prevent them from having parties like they used to -- which most pressingly includes Yahenni's "Penultimate Party", which aetherborn traditionally have when they die.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler:Yahenni's first two uses of their LifeDrain power weigh heavy on them]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: On the receiving end of one, courtesy of Nissa [[spoiler:after draining people and feeling guilty]].
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Every aetherborn comes to the world knowing their expiration date. A "gifted" few can extend it by [[VampiricDraining taking the lives of others]], [[spoiler:as Yahenni does in self-defence after Tezzeret takes control of Kaladesh.]]

[[folder:Vatti/"Shadowblayde"]]

-> ''Race:'' Elf

An elf lifecrafter specializing in insects with strong ideas about appropriate conduct in battle.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Seems convinced she's the main character in a pulpy young adult fantasy novel.
* InsistentTerminology: Call her Shadowblayde. With a ''y'', thank you ever so much.
* MissionControl: Her insects are capable of serving as communicators, letting her relay information to other renegades on the battlefield.
* TheNicknamer: ''Very'' insistent on the need for "code names" for both herself and others. Current names include Ajani's rather uncreative "White Cat" and, suggested by Liliana, "Beefslab" (Gideon), "Night Queen" (Liliana) and "Cloak Boy" (Jace).
* VerbalTic: Thanks to overindulging in novels, she announces onomatopoeia instead of naturally producing the noises, such as saying "harrumph" or "Hum, hum, hum".

[[folder:Rashmi]]

-> ''Color:'' Green and Blue
-> ''Race:'' Elf
-> ''Class:'' Druid

An elf inventor who is working on a teleportation device. She wins the Inventor's Fair and is taken to the Consulate to work on her invention, but bails out to join the renegades after discovering the sinister truth at its heart. She has two notable friends: the vedalken Mitul (her assistant), and the planeswalker Saheeli Rai, who first warns her about the dangers of her invention (given that her teleportation device is eerily reminiscent of planeswalking) and subsequently invites her to join the renegade movement.

* AchievementInIgnorance: After the Mending, planar travel by any means beside a planeswalker spark was thought impossible, and many have tried. Nevertheless, Rashmi managed to construct a functioning planar bridge with ''no prior knowledge of the multiverse''.
* GadgeteerGenius: Aside from building the teleportation device that wins the Inventor's Fair, she also helps build the airship ''Heart of Kiran''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Initially happy to win the Inventor's Fair, she decides to get out due to [[spoiler:Tezzeret abusing the Fair's winners and the destructive potential her device holds in his hands]].
* {{Teleportation}}: Not her own power, but her greatest invention is a teleportation device.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: All of the horrors wreaked by Tezzeret's abuse of the Planar Bridge started off with a woman who made a spectacular breakthrough in science with the best of intentions.

!Amonkhet
!!Gods
Unlike the distant and capricious gods of Theros, the five gods of Amonkhet are both a constant presence to the people of Naktamun and benevolent guardians who protect the city and help the mortals within it to become worthy.

[[folder:Oketra the True]]

-> ''Color:'' White
-> ''Race:'' Zombie God

The cat-headed god of solidarity.

* ArcherArchetype: Her weapon is a bow.
* {{Expy}}: Of Bast and Sekhmet.
* LightIsGood: The White god, associated with light and a benevolent presence who emphasizes solidarity.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Her arrows are made from the Second Sun's light.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:She and the other three gods slain during the ''Hour of Devastation'' were made into Eternals and sent to the front lines in Ravnica during ''War of the Spark''.]]
* ZergRush: Her associated cards tend to favor this strategy, either creating weak soldier tokens or serving as a group buff.

[[folder:Kefnet the Mindful]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue
-> ''Race:'' Zombie God

The ibis-headed god of knowledge.

* BarrierWarrior: He's in charge of keeping the Hekma up.
* BirdPeople: He takes the form of a human with the head and wings of an ibis.
* {{Expy}}: Of Thoth, the ibis-headed god of knowledge, wisdom and the alphabet.
* GodOfKnowledge: He is a being of pure intellect, and is charged with sharpening the minds and cunning of the people of Naktamun.
* MasterOfIllusion: His trial subjects initiates to a series of hallucinations.
* MindRape:
** He attempted this on [[spoiler: Nissa, before she altered his component leylines in order to divert his attention]].
** [[spoiler:He and the other gods were also subjected to this by Bolas decades ago when he rewrote their memories and personalities to suit his purposes. Bolas's initial attack on Kefnet is specifically described as Bolas splitting the god's mind in two.]]
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:He and the other three gods slain during the ''Hour of Devastation'' were made into Eternals and sent to the front lines in Ravnica during ''War of the Spark''.]]

[[folder:Bontu the Glorified]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' Zombie God

The crocodile-headed god of ambition.

* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler: She gives being "ambition incarnate" as her reason for siding with Nicol Bolas.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Sobek.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: Part of her justification for [[spoiler: betraying her siblings and siding with Nicol Bolas.]]
-->'''Bontu:''' [[spoiler: Bolas destroyed all who resisted. I chose to join with his power instead. I chose survival.]]
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Has a crocodile head and is evil.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:She and the other three gods slain during the ''Hour of Devastation'' were made into Eternals and sent to the front lines in Ravnica during ''War of the Spark''.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Her reward for faithfully serving the God-Pharaoh [[spoiler: by being complicit in his takeover of the plane decades earlier, maintaining the corruption of the mana in her siblings, and personally bringing a weakened Hazoret to him? A faceful of Bolas's necrotic magic.]]
-->'''Nicol Bolas:''' [[spoiler: [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Your usefulness has ended]]. Serve me in death, little god.]]
* SadisticChoice: Her Trial is essentially one long series of these, with each challenge being set up so that one or more of the candidates must die if the others are to pass. And the final test is that each candidate must present her with a heart to win her cartouche.
* TokenEvilTeammate: The only one of Amonkhet's gods who does not in fact gives a rat's ass about its inhabitants [[spoiler:and sold everyone out to Nicol Bolas]].
* VillainsDyingGrace: [[spoiler:Although it's ambiguously-phrased, it seems as though she uses her last burst of strength to free Hazoret from her trap, whom she had just helped defeat, presumably so she could take revenge for her and the other gods.]]

[[folder:Hazoret the Fervent]]

The jackal-headed god of zeal, Hazoret holds the final trial and personally dispatches the worthy to the afterlife with her spear.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: She survives being stung by the Scorpion God by severing her own arm with her spear before the poison can spread to rest of her body.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Anubis, sharing both his jackal-headed appearance and his role as arbiter of those worthy to enter a privileged afterlife.
* LastOfHerKind: [[spoiler: After Bolas's return and the destruction of Naktamun, she is the only untainted Amonkhetu god left alive.]]
* MamaBear: According to Samut, she was regarded as a fierce protector of homes and families before Bolas sunk his claws into the plane.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: She is apparently made from the same essence as the Second Sun.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: The only god to survive Nicol Bolas's return to Amonkhet.]]

[[folder:Rhonas the Indomitable]]

-> ''Color:'' Green
-> ''Race:'' Zombie God

The snake-headed god of strength.

* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Hazoret called him the strongest amongst her siblings, [[spoiler:but he was the first god to fall to Bolas.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: As he's dying, he curses the God-Pharaoh, and throws his staff at the Scorpion God, which turns into a snake and attacks.]]
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: As he dies, all of Bolas's corruption is undone, and in his last moments he weeps for his world and even the Scorpion God, in whom he recognizes his brother, and curses Nicol Bolas.]]
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler: ''Death to the God-Pharaoh, foul trespasser and destroyer!'']]
* {{Expy}}: Of Wadjet.
* MagicStaff: His staff can turn into a giant snake at his command.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:He and the other three gods slain during the ''Hour of Devastation'' were made into Eternals and sent to the front lines in Ravnica during ''War of the Spark''.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: His death at the hands of the Scorpion God demonstrates that the gods are as powerless to stop Bolas as anyone else.]]
* TheSocialDarwinist: He's the god of strength and his trial involves weeding out the unworthy by having them devoured by beasts. Only the strong survive.

[[folder:The Scorpion, Locust and Scarab Gods]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue-Black (Scarab), Blue-Red (Locust), Black-Red (Scorpion)

Three dark, monstrous gods that awoke during Hour of Revelation. [[spoiler: They were originally three out of eight gods of Amonkhet, before Nicol Bolas corrupted and twisted them even further than the others.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: After Bolas' fall it's unclear just ''what'' the Scarab and Locust Gods' goals are without him, or if they even have any free will at all. [[spoiler: Interestingly, in ''March of the Machine'', the survivors of Naktamun return to their former home and actually find the two corrupted Gods fighting against the Phyrexian Invasion of their own accord. Once the Phyrexians are dealt with, the two quietly disappear into the desert without causing any more trouble.]]
* AnimalisticAbomination: Cross the line between this and HumanoidAbomination. The Scorpion God himself looks like a giant human with its head replaced by a whole scorpion.
* BeyondTheImpossible: The Scorpion God is stronger than even ''the god of strength''.
* BeastOfTheApocalypse: They are monsters that show up to destroy the world and kill the Gods.
* BodyHorror: Implied. The gods seen in the murals all had reptilian, mammalian or avian heads. Meanwhile, these, known to have been corrupted by Bolas, have the heads of arthropods and exposed flesh.
* TheBrute: The Scorpion God is incredibly strong, silent and so large and muscular Rhonas looks like a wimp next to him.
* ComeBackWrong: [[spoiler: They were twisted into monsters by Nicol Bolas.]]
* DeaderThanDead: Hazoret (with Samut and the other survivors' help) manages to do this to the Scorpion God, ensuring he's dead for real.
* {{Expy}}: Appearence-wise, the Scorpion God for Serket, the Locust God for Senehem and the Scarab God for Khepri.
* ExtremeOmnivore: The Locust God creates a swarm of locusts that eat the Hekma, the barrier keeping the desert's monsters and undead at bay.
* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler: They were good deities and protectors of the people of Amonkhet before Bolas transformed them.]]
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The fight between the Scorpion God and Rhonas plays out just like one would in the game. [[spoiler: Rhonas is an indestructible creature with Deathtouch, meaning even if he is not strong enough to kill an opponent, he kills them with his poison. The Scorpion God is not indestructible, but whenever he dies, he returns to the hand and can put -1/-1 counters on other creatures. In-story, Rhonas keeps killing the Scorpion God, who keeps coming back, until finally he can bring Rhonas down, reflecting how indestructible creatures can still be killed if their toughness is reduced to 0 by a card effect.]]
* GamePlayAndStorySegregation: By contrast, an article about [[http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/locust-god-2017-06-20 the Locust God]] concedes as a flavor flaw that its in-universe purpose is to [[spoiler: destroy the Hekma]], but is incapable of doing anything to [[spoiler: the card Protection of the Hekma]] in-game -- in fact it's particularly weak against it, as [[spoiler: the Hekma prevents one damage, stopping the 1/1 insects from hurting the player]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: The Scorpion God's defeat comes when Hazoret, Samut, and the other survivors of the Hour Of Eternity impale it on an obelisk, allowing Hazoret to finish it off via doing so again with her spear and burning it to death from the inside.]]
* KillTheGod: Seems to be their goal, as [[spoiler: the Scorpion God murders Rhonas, Kefnet and Oketra]].
* LossOfIdentity: [[spoiler: It seems that after Bolas twisted them, they forgot their true names and purpose, reflecting by their names being only The ___ God]]
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: The Scorpion God is this to Rhonas.
* {{Necromancer}}: The Scarab God leads the Eternals, and its card can bring any dead creature into its ranks as a 4/4 Black Zombie.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Rhonas, Kefnet and Oketra make the mistake of thinking their attacks have successfully brought down the Scorpion God. In all instances, he simply revives and kills the gods.]]
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler: What Bolas did to them after snatching them away when he took over Amonkhet.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: While they can be killed, they don't ''stay'' dead. Represented in gameplay by their ability to return to your hand upon death so you can summon it again.
* SealedEvilInACan: They were hidden, dormant, in three giant sarcophagi everyone thought to be statues.
* ScaryScorpions: The Scorpion God.
* TheSwarm: The Locust God's sole purpose seems to be to summon a massive swarm of locusts to [[spoiler:consume the Hekma]] and sow chaos around Naktamun.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler: As the Scorpion God kills Rhonas, the snake god recognizes him as one of his brothers, twisted into a monster to use against his siblings, worshipers, and world]].
* UnskilledButStrong: The Scorpion God is stronger than even Rhonas, but is less skilled, doesn't use spells and appears to be mindless.
* WalkingSpoiler: As the number of spoiler tags for their entry should show, knowing what they really are spoils a massive part of the Amonkhet plot.
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: Or at least less monstrous -- all gods had heads of reptiles, birds or mammals, Bolas twisted those three into insectoid monsters.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: When the Eternalized Oketra, Kefnet, Bontu and Rhonas show up on Ravnica in ''War of the Spark'', the Locust and Scarab Gods are nowhere to be seen despite surviving the end of ''Hour of Devastation'' unlike the Scorpion God. Theh ''March Of the Machine'' has them reappear to help the survivors repel the Phyrexians before mysteriously disappearing again.]]

!!Mortals

[[folder:Djeru]]

-> ''Color:'' White
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Warrior

An initiate of the Tah Crop, Djeru's absolute dedication to the ideals of Amonkhet bring him into conflict with his newly-inducted Cropmate, Gideon.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He sees the deaths of his Cropmates in the Trial of Ambition as noble and necessary, going so far as to MercyKill his own brother to ensure that he can be made into a good [[{{Mummy}} Anointed]].
* CCGImportanceDissonance: Despite being one of the most important characters of the Amonkhet story, he only got a card in ''Hour of Devastation'' while several characters of lesser importance did in the first set of the block. He did appear in the art of several cards, and even got a spell under his name in ''Hour of Devastation''
* FreudianExcuse: The death of his childhood friend Nakht drove him to find meaning in the tragedy by dedicating himself entirely to the Trials.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He turns against Bolas during the Hours.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Samut, before their radically different opinions on the worthiness of preserving the status quo on Amonkhet drove them apart. The events of ''Hour of Devastation'' finally bring them back together.

[[folder:Hapatra]]

-> ''Color:'' Blacm and Green
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Cleric

The Vizier of Poisons, in service of Rhonas

* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being associated with snakes, her card being Green and Black and connected to giving -1/-1 counters, a mechanic associated with Black color, she's one of the most heroic and moral characters on the plane.
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''The Hour of Promise'' story is told from her perspective.
* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: Upon realization that the God-Pharaoh is both the architect of Amonkhet's destruction and a planeswalker she seems to have developed hatred towards planeswalkers in general.]]
* FluffyTamer: Has a basilik (described as twice as tall as her and longer than she could measure) as a pet. Bonus points for the pet behaving like a cat around her.
* PungeonMaster: Initiates can attest to her love of sprinkling [[IncrediblyLamePun Incredibly Lame Puns]] into her lectures.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Subverted, she's actually a good person, despite her association with snakes.

[[folder:Temmet]]

-> ''Color:'' White and Blue
-> ''Race:'' Human Zombie
-> ''Class:'' Cleric

The Vizier of Naktamun, ruler of the city and responsible for taking care of the annointed.

* AChildShallLeadThem: He is one of the youngest viziers of Naktamun, yet he is in charge of running the city. Out of universe, he was inspired by the story of Tutankhamun, as a boy ruler who became a {{Mummy}}.
* {{Mummy}}: He is in charge of making them, or at least of overseeing their creation. His card also sees him turn into one, though it isn't reflected in the stories.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the narrative after finding Jace and Liliana investigating the mummy creation process and being knocked out in their escape, with the implication being that the hit killed him accidentally. This is further implied by his card having the Embalm ability: he can be raised as a mummy after he dies in-game, meaning that his death and existence as a mummy may actually happen in-story.

[[folder:Neheb]]

-> ''Color:'' Red (primary), Black
-> ''Race:'' Minotaur Zombie
-> ''Class:'' Warrior

Minotaur member of one of the Crops participating in the Trials.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Dies then returns as one of the Eternals]]
* CCGImportanceDissonance: Opposite situation of Djeru -- this guy has absolutely nothing to do with the story aside living on the same world, has died long before Gatewatch showed up, and [[spoiler: in his one brief appearance as an Eternal he's killed immediately by Djeru and Samut.]] He got two cards and is featured on at least one more.
* FamedInStory: He was remembered as the greatest warrior of his generation and set as an example for everyone to emulate.
* FlamingSword: Spear, actually.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Is protagonist of Amonkhet Story Mode in Magic Duels.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Once he becomes Neheb the Eternal]]

!!Others

[[folder:Razaketh]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' Demon

The third of Liliana's demons and the instigator of Nicol Bolas's return.

* BloodMagic: He cuts himself and lets the blood fall into Luxa River, turning the entire thing to blood.
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler: Liliana uses a horde of zombie animals to devour him]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's pretty friendly, and even "apologizes" to Liliana...for using magic to humiliate her for his own amusement.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Immediately before their encounter, he creates a large number of fresh corpses Liliana uses to kill him]].
* PeoplePuppets: His contract with Liliana includes a clause that lets him use her as one.
* SmugSnake: He dismisses his two colleagues Liliana already killed as idiots, passes up easy chances to kill her, and ignores her threats until he's on fire. He appears to be ultimately a minor cog in Nicol Bolas's plan for Amonkhet.

!Kaldheim

!!The Skoti, Gods of Kaldheim
[[folder:In General]]
* AmbiguouslyRelated: Reidane and Valki, to the rest of the Skoti. Valki is refered to by Toralf as brother at one point, but not in what context. Reidane appears to be a valkyrie and live in Starnheim, which is normally off limits to the living, even the gods.
* BadassFamily: The Skoti are a family of gods, withn all the headaches that come with that fact.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Alrund, Jorn, Egon and Halvar, a third of the Skoti, were once human. Cosima was a Cosmos Monster, while Toralf, Birgi, Kolvori, Esika and Tergird are all HalfHumanHybrids. Valki and Reidane's origins are unknown, but Reidane appears to be a Valkyrie.
* {{Expy}}: Of the [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse Pantheon]].
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: The Skoti have a less than spectacular record when it comes to defending or solidifying their rule over Kaldheim, often being more invested in their own personal whims and squabbles. That said, when there is a grave threat to the realms they do step up.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Toralf, Birgi and Kolvori are the children of Alrund, a human, and Cosima, who, while human in appearance, is a Cosmos Monster. Esika and Tergrid are the daughters of Alrund and the World Tree, born when Alrund tried using magic to divine the secrets of the Cosmos from it.
* HomeOfTheGods: A two-fold example. The first is the Hall of the Gods, where the Skoti gather. The second that is mentioned is The Gods Realm, where the hall used to be located before one of Valki's pranks moved it to Istfell.
* ImmortalityInducer: The Elixer of the Gods, which only Esika knows how to brew, gives them their godly power and slows their aging.
* JerkassGods: They are noted as generally petty and vindictive. They also seem pretty careless, not bothering to fix the curse put on the Kannah and putting half-assed runes to ward off Immersturm's demons (a half-assery exploited by Tibalt).
* PowerTattoo: Each Skoti has rune-like tattoos that glow with the light of the Cosmos.
* WintryAuroralSky: They shine with the northern lights. This is apparently a result of their Cosmos-elixir-induced divinity.

[[folder:Alrund]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue

The God of Wisdom and the Cosmos, and the patriarch of the Skoti.

* TheArchmage: The most knowledgeable of the Skoti gods and their wizard.
* {{Expy}}: Of Odin, being a god of knowledge with a raven familiar. He's even calle the "All Father".
* {{Familiar}}: He commands ravens, who act as his eyes across Kaldheim. He is often accompanied by his personal familiar, Hakka.
* GeniusBruiser: Alrund was already a knowledge diety and he subdued the vast majority of Cosmos Monsters in the acquistion of more knowledge.
* GodInHumanForm: He disguises himself as the Omenseeker Asi and accompanies Kaya at the start of the Kaldheim story.
* GodOfKnowledge: He is associated with wisdom and knowledge. He was born wise enough to know that he wasn't omniscient, and made it his mission in life to know everything.
%%* OldBeggarTest: It is implied that, just like the Norse god he is based on, Alrund does this from time to time.%%Does what? Implied how?
* TopGod: He's the leader of the Skoti, not that this helps him rein his unruly family in.

[[folder:Birgi]]

-> ''Color:'' Red

The God of Boasting and Storytelling.

* EmissaryFromTheDivine: She claims to wander the realms to deliver the word of the Skoti and their tales to the mortals, but everyone can see it as just an excuse to go from one party to another.
* {{Expy}}: Of Sága and Bragi, being the god of poetry.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She's pretty much the god of this trope, spending her life moving from party to party.
* TheStoryteller: One of her duties to spread the tales of the Skoti, but not all of these tales are true. She has hired skalds to follow her brother Toralf so she can claim credit for his deeds.

[[folder:Cosima]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Voyage and the Seas that was originally a dolphin Cosmos Monster before entering the Gods' Realm. She stayed for twenty years, becoming the lover of Alrund and mother to Toralf, Birgi and Kolvori.

* CoolBoat: Her ship, the Omenkeel, which can pass through the cosmos between the realms. It also does not need a crew to function, taking Kaya to Gnottvold on its own.
* {{Expy}}: Of Rán, Njörðr and Skað, the Norse gods of the sea.
* HumanityEnsues: Entering the Gods Realm caused her to assume a human form.
* MakingASplash: She can control the seas of Kaldheim.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: She changed into a human form upon entering the Gods' Realm and is believed to travel among the shapeshifters of Littjara disguised as one of their own.
* TokenNonHuman: She's the only member of the Skoti to be confirmed to be completely non-human, having originally been a dolphin Cosmos Monster.
* WalkingTheEarth: She never stays in one place for long. It is said that the twenty years she spent in the Gods' Hall is the longest she spent in one place.

[[folder:Egon]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Death and self-proclaimed Lord High Ruler of the Lands of Istfell and of the dead of all the Realms, Egon is one of the oldest Skoti, but the Cosmos Elixir causes him to age backwards and gives him the appearance and attitude of a teenager.

* {{Archenemy}}: Of Ragnar and Firja, who foil his attempts to enter Starnheim before his death.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: While he proclaims himself the god of all dead, Egon cannot enter Starnheim, he is hated in Karfell and the spirits of Istfell only vaguely accept his rule and need to be subjected to his godly magic to do anything for him.
* BargainWithHeaven: Narfi made a deal with him, granting him warriors to finish off the Einir gods while allowing the king and his people to becomes [[OurZombiesAreDifferent draugr]].
* BigDamnHeroes: In the backstory, it was him arriving with the army of Karfell against the Einir that turned the tide in favor of the Skoti.
* CoolChair: His throne of Death certainly looks cool, but what it does is unknown. Firja implies that it may play a role in his able to avoid death in Istfell.
* TheCynic: Frequently voices his belief that the Skoti rule will be soon overthrown due to their shortcomings, usually by the elves.
* DarkIsEvil: He's honestly not a very good person, constantly trying to take over the ten realms and not above using pawns to do so. However, he does seem to have a very begrudging affection for his family.
* {{Expy}}: Basically a genderbent Hel.
* GodOfTheDead: He rules over death and the Underworld of Istfel, where the ignoble dead go. However, he has no access to the heavenly realm of Starnheim, where the blessed warriors go, much to his chagrin.
* MerlinSickness: Ages backwards; his memory seems to work normally, but he adopts the maturity level of his current phase of life, and is currently a moody teenager.
* MultiversalConqueror: Wants to conquer all Ten Realms of Kaldheim, starting with Starnheim.
* {{Necromancer}}: Can command spirits and is responsible for King Narfi and his subjects becoming draugr zombies.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Is actually one of the older members of the Skoti, but an odd effect of the Cosmos Elixer causes him to age backwards.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Though he turns to ash when killed, Firja implies that as long as Egon dies in Istfell, he can return to life.
* SinisterScythe: Befitting the god of death, Egon possesses one made of Tyrite.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: He's the only Skoti known not to be related to Alrund's family.
* TouchOfDeath: He has deathtouch as a keyword ability, allowing him to kill any creature he does any damage to.

[[folder:Esika]]

-> ''Color:'' Green
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of the World Tree, who can communicate with the World Tree in ways even the other Skoti do not understand.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:At the end of the Kaldheim story she is mauled by Vorinclex. While she feels like she's dying, the phyrexian heavily implies he infected her]].
* BornOfMagic: She and her sister Tergrid were born when Alrund used runic Magic to commune with the World Tree
* ChariotPulledByCats: She has one, which even makes cat tokens.
* {{Expy}}: Of Idunn and Freyja, the former as the producer of the divine elixir of immortality and the latter due to her cat drawn chariot.
* MagicPotion: She is the only one who can brew the elixer that gives the Skoti their godhood.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Esika is the bright and cheerful one.
* UncertainDoom: Was last seen mauled by Vorinclex and left for dead, with it being ambiguous as to if she survived. [[spoiler:March of the Machine confirms she survived.]]

[[folder:Halvar]]

-> ''Color:'' White
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Battle, who defends the Realms and his divine family.

* CoolSword: The Sword of the Realms, which can cut Omenpaths through the Cosmos.
* {{Expy}}: Of Tyr, the Norse god of battle, and to a lesser degree Heimdallr, using the broadsword as his weapon.
* HappilyAdopted: Found as a baby by Alrund and since loyal to him and the rest of his family.
* {{Irony}}: The white-aligned Skoti god is the one who shines the least with the northern lights, emphasising his humility.
* NiceGuy: Extremely benevolent and well-spoken.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike the more paranoid Alrund he takes Kaya and her allies at face value immediately.
* TokenGoodTeammate: While the other Skoti gods aren't evil, he's the only one to not be a jerk in some capacity.

[[folder:Jorn]]

-> ''Color:'' Green
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Winter and Weather and brother to Alrund, who spends his days wandering the Realms.

* AnIcePerson: His card is the sole snow god card. His staff implies he has ice powers, despiste being Green aligned.
* {{Expy}}: A GenderFlip of Skadi, the Norse goddess of ice and skiing.
* WalkingTheEarth: He wanders the Realms alone and knows the best Omenpaths between them.

[[folder:Kolvori]]

-> ''Color:'' Green
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Kinship, Kolvori loves her family and works to perserve their sagas as she fears for their future.

* {{Expy}}: Of Frigg, the Norse Moher goddess and weaver (relating to her control over sagas).
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Friend to all animals, plants and even to Egon (though she dislikes him a little).
* NiceGuy: Is benevolent to both her fellow gods and mortals.

[[folder:Reidane]]

-> ''Color:'' White
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Justice and the Worthy, Reidane watches over the realms to avenge any wrong -- blood for blood if need be.

* AmbiguousSituation: Its unclear how she's related to the other gods, or why she looks like an angel and has acess to Starnheim.
* {{Expy}}: Of Sól, the Norse sun goddess.
* GodOfLight: Though officially she's the "god of justice", her artwork depicts her shining radiantly and she seems to rule over Starnheim (how and why is unexplained considering its otherwise off-limits to the gods). Her card also forces snow lands to come in tapped, implying her light is melting them off.
* KnightTemplar: Is noted as fanatical and arrogant.

[[folder:Tergrid]]
The God of Fright and Terror and Esika's twin. She's plagued by a murderous shadow with a will of its own.

* BerserkButton: Pointing out that her shadow has a life of its own is a sure way to die.
* CastingAShadow: Gradually gained control over the LivingShadow that constantly tries to kill her.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She's a valiant warrior who tries to "live normally". Her LivingShadow, however, is another matter altogether.
* {{Expy}}: Possibly of Nótt, the Norse goddess of night.
* TheUnintelligible: she can speak a language that no one else can understand and can [[BrownNote cause madness in those who hear it]].

[[folder:Toralf]]

-> ''Color:'' Red
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Fury and Thunder, Toralf chases one daring feat after another throughout the Realms.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Toralf basically lives to fulfill this tropes, ever seeking out new challenges.
* DaddyIssues: Does not like his father one bit, who is constantly criticising him. Being of enemy colors certainly doesn't help.
* DropTheHammer: Wields one, just like his inspiration.
* {{Expy}}: Of Thor, the Norse god of Thunder. His name is even basically Thor + Alf ("elf").
* GodOfThunder: Is the god of thunder.
* TheHedonist: Constantly seeks [[ThrillSeeker adventure]] and pleasure.
* PlayingWithFire: Toralf can grant pyromancy to those who earn his favor.

[[folder:Valki]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' God

The God of Mischief, untrusted by even the other Skoti, his pranks are known to sow havoc across the realms. Impersonated by Tibalt during the events of Kaldheim.

* AmbiguousSituation: Trapped in ice as he is and with Esika mauled to death ([[TheVirus or worse]]) by Vorinclex its unclear if he will remain immortal.
* BeyondTheImpossible: He actually managed to catch a horse that was said to be uncatchable. The saddling however was just the set up for a prank on the other Skoti.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Is mono-black but is noted as being a harmless prankster. Tibalt impersonating him soiled his reputation.
* {{Expy}}: An extremely non-subtle one of Loki. In fact he alludes to the disconnect between the hamrless prankster Loki in early parts of the Eddas and the malicious Satan analogue in Ragnarok, namely being another person taking his place.
* ShouldersOfDoom: His coat incorporates quite the sizable pair.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Considering the real Valki has no role other than being impersonated by Tibalt, we don't really know anything about him other than he's harmless.

!!The Einir, the old gods
[[folder:In General]]
* GreyandGrayMorality: Just as morally complicated as their successors the Skoti. On one hand they did things like give boats that could travel through the Cosmos to the raiders of Karfell, but they were more diligent in keeping the demons of Immerstrum sealed in their realm.
* PowerAtAPrice: It is noted by Lathril that each of the Einir lost something when they achieved godhood. For Lathril that was most of her eyesight.
* {{Precursors}}: To the elves of Skemfar, before being divided into the Wood and Shadow Elves.
* SealedEvilInACan / SealedGoodInACan: The elves believe the remaining Einir were sealed into Jaspera Trees on Skemfar. Given the Skoti's own complicated moral standings, the Einir could fall into either trope.

[[folder:Lathril]]

-> ''Color:'' Green and Black
-> ''Race:'' Elf, later God

Known as the Blade of the Elves, Lathril was the queen and ruler of the Einir.
----
* CanineCompanion: Was accompanied by a wolf named Lukya, one of the pups of Sarulf.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The creature type of her in-game card is Elf Noble rather than God, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration unless the card features her before her ascent to godhood.]]
* HandicappedBadass: The price Lathril paid to become a god was her vision. She had no peripheral vision and could only see clearly a few feet in front of her, rendering effectively blind. This did nothing to stop her from taking on a horde of draugr singlehandedly or leading her forces against the Skoti.
* MasterSwordsman: Was called the Blade of the Elves for a reason. Being near blind did not hamper her skill at close combat.

!Arcavios

[[folder:Extus Narr]]

-> ''Color:'' White and Black
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Warlock

A dark mage who leads the Oriq guild, seeking to destroy Strixhaven for rejecting him.

* ArcVillain: Of ''Strixhaven'', attempting to destroy Strixhaven with the power of the Blood Avatar so he can have all the spells locked away in the school's library.
* BadBoss: He's not above using his own followers as sacrifices to either protect himself or as fuel for spells.
* BloodMagic: A rather practiced blood magic-using warlock.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard : He succeeds in summoning the Blood Avatar, only for the entity to [[KarmicDeath subsequently kill him.]]
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Since Strixhaven is only five short stories long, there's not a lot of time to explore him.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Extus wears a mask, like all Oriq, and is quite malevolent.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: Extus wants to summon the Blood Avatar, possibly reigniting the Age of Blood, because Strixhaven rejected him.

!New Capenna
!!Family Heads
[[folder:Lord Xander, the Collector]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue, Black, and Red
-> ''Race:'' Vampire Demon
-> ''Class:'' Noble

The Vampire Demon head of the Maestros family. One of the oldest family heads, he was present to see the angels leave the plane and through his archives, he hopes to remember the past he long forgot.

* AffablyEvil: For a demonic vampire assassin he is extremely polite and considerate, even forming a sort of friendship with Elspeth.
* KilledOffForReal: The Adversary blasts him off a balcony.
* MindRape: Blue and Black are ''already'' known for this in general, and considering that the Maestros are associated with ''both'' colors, it should come as no surprise that Xander is very good at this.
** Upon hitting the field, an opponent of your choosing has to discard half their hand rounded down.
** Upon attacking with Xander, the defending player has to mill half their deck rounded down.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: He's a Vampire Demon.
* RetiredBadass: Considering he's LongLived, injuries have caught up to Xander, forcing him to walk with a cane. It still doesn't mean he won't hold his own against his own traitorous assassins.
* RetractableWeapon: That dagger of his can extend its blade.
* SwordCane: His cane hides a blade within for when he gets serious fighting.
* TakingYouWithMe: And how! Upon killing Xander, an opponent of your choosing has to sacrifice half the nonland permanents they control, rounded down.

[[folder:Jetmir, Nexus of Revels]]

-> ''Color:'' Red, Green, and White
-> ''Race:'' Leonin Demon

The Leonin Demon Head of the Cabaretti family.

* AffablyEvil: Very affectionate to the point you forget that he's actually a crime lord not above extortion. As the last side story points out, however, "[[FauxAffablyEvil he's nobody's friend]]".
* LifeOfTheParty: The Cabaretti's M.O. is holding lavish parties the other families attend. His card even calls him the "Nexus of Revels."
** Manifests somewhat in his card effect, wherein you get an effect dependent on how many creatures you've got on your side of the field at any time, and the worst part (for your opponent) is that they all stack.
*** Creatures you control get +1/+0 and ''[[SuperPersistentPredator Vigilance]]'' as long as you control three or more creatures.
*** Creatures you control get another +1/+0 and ''[[ArmorPiercingAttack Trample]]'' as long as you control 6 or more creatures.
*** Creatures you control get another +1/+0 and ''[[ActionInitiative Double Strike]]'' as long as you control 9 or more creatures.
* VocalDissonance: His described as sounding warm and grandfatherly in the story, yet his Arena avatar sounds like someone who only eats cigarettes and is on the verge of a maniac attack.
* UncertainDoom: Is last seen gravely wounded following the Crescendo, with Jinnie trying to nurse him back to health. A single piece of flavor text from ''March of the Machine'' shows that Jetmir did survive the attacks on him from The Crescendo.
-->'''Holy Frazzle Cannon''' - "They're using my Halo stockpiles for ''what?''" -Jetmir

[[folder:Falco Spara, the Pactweaver]]

-> ''Color:'' Green, White, and Blue
-> ''Race:'' Aven Demon

The Aven Demon that leads The Brokers.
----
* AmbiguousSituation: The wording on his ''New Capenna Legends'' entry is rather vague, implying he might have been killed by Ob Nixilis but not confirming this.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: He comes with the ''Trample'' keyword.
* BadBoss: Is not above [[YouHaveFailedMe tossing employees who fail him]] [[RailingKill off the balcony]].
* BadassBureaucrat: The Brokers are a demonic law firm, and he's their boss.
* BarrierWarrior: True to his family, he gets a Shield Counter upon being summoned.
* CrazyPrepared: Has been amassing a large amount of Brokers contracts to prepare for a coming threat to the Plane. This manifests in gameplay in that he allows the player to look at the top card of their library, and play that card in exchange for a token on the field ''in addition'' to any other costs.
* FeatheredFiend: An evil bird mob boss. The "fiend" part is also literal since he's a demon.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Apparently was the dominant player in New Capenna until Ob Nixilis showed up.
* PetTheDog: When Perrie, one of his enforcers, refuses to punish a child that broke one of the Brokers' contracts, Falco calls him up to his office. Falco makes a point of intimidating Perrie, but when Perrie holds his ground, Falco spares him, acknowledging that he needs people to act as his conscience.
* RailingKill: It's said his preferred way of dealing with contract breakers is to toss them off the balcony in his office.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Was thrown out of his university back in the day while studying law for formulating the kinds of [[DealWithTheDevil magically-binding contracts]] that he and his Brokers agents currently use with impunity.
* VocalDissonance: He has a somewhat effeminate voice in his Arena avatar, in spite of his masculine mafia boss look.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ziatora, the Incinerator]]

-> ''Color:'' Black, Red, and Green
-> ''Race:'' Dragon Demon

The Dragon Demon that leads The Riveteers.
----
* BadBoss: Aside from being a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist, this translates into gameplay where she allows a player to sacrifice another creature at your end step.
* TheCameo: Her only appearance in the main story is when Vivien listens in to her speech.
* DiscardAndDraw: In a way, and especially given the way the Riveteers work with their ''Blitz'' mechanic; at the beginning of your end step, as long as Ziatora's on the field, you can sacrfice another creature to deal that creature's damage to any target and create three treasure tokens.
* LastOfHisKind: She is New Capenna's last remaining native dragon, not that she minds it.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Her sole appearence in the story is at a rally, decrying the upper classes in favor of the underdogs. However, pretty much all other flavor, from videos to card descriptions, emphasise her selfishness and vanity.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raffine, Scheming Seer]]

-> ''Color:'' White, Blue, and Black
-> ''Race:'' Sphinx Demon

The Sphinx Demon that leads the Obscura.
----
* AntiMagic: She comes with ''Ward 1'', meaning your opponent has to either pay an extra mana in order to target her or else it gets negated.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody wanted to believe her prophecies related to [[spoiler:the Phyrexian invasion of the plane]] in the past, due to how dark and grim they were. Unfortunately, she was absolutely correct.
* DiscardAndDraw: Unsurprising, given the family she leads, but this is particularly exemplefied in that she has ''Connive X'', where X is the number of attacking creatures [[note]]For Calculation Purposes, say you were to attack with 3 creatures ''and'' Raffine, you draw, then discard 4 cards, and Raffine gets 4 +1/+1 counters[[/note]].
* LongLived: Along with Xander, she is one of the oldest leaders on the plane.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: A Sphinx Demon.
[[/folder]]

!!Others
[[folder:Anhelo]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue, Black, and Red
-> ''Race:'' Phyrexian Vampire
-> ''Class:'' Assassin

Xander's [[NumberTwo right hand man]]. He's responsible for recruiting Elspeth into the Maestros.
----
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:He was captured and [[TheVirus Compleated]] into a Phyrexian during Atraxa's invasion of the plane, before being killed in a confrontation with his own daughter.]]
* DragonAscendant: Takes over the Maestros after Xander is killed.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His side story shows he's a devoted father. The main story also shows he's loyal to his boss.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jinnie]]

-> ''Color:'' Red, Green, and White
-> ''Race:'' Elf
-> ''Class:'' Druid

Jetmir's NumberTwo and his adopted daughter. She's the one organzing the Crescendo and is in constant watch of Giada.
----
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She acts all nice and cozy to her friends and acquaintances, but the moment things don't go her way she reveals her to be spiteful and vindictive.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Honestly can't understand why Giada - a prisoner against her own will - isn't grateful for [[GildedCage her life of luxury]].
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Has two animal familiars; Muri, a cat, and Regis, a dog.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jetmir. When the Obscura hideout is attacked, she's shown fighting to protect Jetmir, only fleeing when the situation becomes hopeless. Its also shown that she holds a special hatred for those who betray their families to join the Adversary, even those that weren't Cabaretti to begin with. And while she obviously wants to keep her hold on Giada, she also seems to take Elspeth and her fleeing rather personally.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Giada]]

-> ''Color:'' White
-> ''Race:'' Angel

A mysterious girl always seen with Jinnie.
----
* GuardianAngel: During the Phyrexian invasion, she becomes this to Errant.
* LivingMacGuffin: She's the Font, a near endless source of Halo, having been one of the original angels of the plane.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent:It's heavily implied she is an angel, the last in New Capenna to not be a statue. She appears as a normal girl but as she [[https://media.wizards.com/2022/images/daily/jAAfXJ13yL.jpg ascends]] she looks like a borderline AngelicAbomination.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Errant]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue
-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Rogue

A Tagger for the Maestros and Anhelo's daughter.
----
* ADayInTheLimelight: She's the main character for the March of the Machine Sidestory, ''The Fall of Park Heights.''
* StreetSmart: Being a tagger has given Errant the ability to traverse the city with relative ease. It's this knowledge that the remnants of the crime families use to drop Park Heights onto Atraxa.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Adversary]]
For more, see [[Characters/MagicTheGatheringPlaneswalkersPreMending Ob Nixilis' page.]]
[[/folder]]

!The Blind Eternities

[[folder:The Eldrazi Titans]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eldrazi.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Kozilek, Emrakul, and Ulamog]]

-> ''Color:'' Colorless
-> ''Race:'' Eldrazi

[[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/4.html Emrakul]], [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/6.html Kozilek]], and [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/12.html Ulamog]] are the three progenitors of the EldritchAbomination Eldrazi race. They were [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] in Zendikar for eons by three ancient planeswalkers (Nahiri, Sorin, and Ugin), but the events of ''Rise of the Eldrazi'' released them to [[PlanetEater devour planes]] once more.
----
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Just before the climax of ''Eldritch Moon'', Jace ends up in a mental conversation with Emrakul -- or, more accurately, his mind's flailing attempt at trying to comprehend Emrakul, so she appears in his mind as an angel similar to Emeria, the goddess she was worshipped as on Zendikar.
* AlienGeometries: Kozilek's very presence warps reality into a bizarre reflection of its true form, turning the land around it into a maze of Bismuth like crystals and causing the laws of physics to break down. Its brood lineage has similar powers, and its reflected in gameplay by having creatures blink, become unblockable, and countering spells.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: Stories about ''Eldritch Moon'''s plot on Magic's website see Emrakul addressed with capitalized female pronouns.
* AssimilationPlot: Instead of generating spawn like her 'siblings', Emrakul converts existing lifeforms into her spawn. [[spoiler: We see this on Innistrad when she is brought there by Nahiri, with the people and even angels becoming horrific abominations.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[BlueAndOrangeMorality More strange than evil]], but when Jace makes contact with Emrakul, she’s very polite and even outright friendly, if very, ''very'' weird.
* AboveGoodAndEvil: They're more like forces of nature than villainous entities. [[spoiler: Emrakul even seems confused that the people of Innistrad would want to resist her influence.]]
* BadassBoast: Surprisingly, Emrakul offers two as Jace communes with her.
-->'''Emrakul:''' "I am already winning, Jace Beleren. Let us play a game."\\
"They are all my pieces, Jace Beleren. They always were. I just no longer want to play."
* BiggerIsBetter: The ''entire'' logic behind ''Rise of the Eldrazi''; the cheapest Eldrazi in that set costs seven mana.
* BlessedWithSuck: The ability that shuffle your graveyard back into your library when they die also shuts down cards like [[http://magiccards.info/arc/en/29.html Zombify]] that would help you cheat them into play sooner.
** CursedWithAwesome: Simultaneously, unlike other "Shuffle back into deck" cards, this one lets you reuse some cards (after some time) and makes it much more difficult for mill decks to defeat you. Entire combo decks have been built around the big 3 Eldrazi's ability to shuffle your graveyard back into your deck.
** As of ''Battle for Zendikar'' the ability has been lost; they've moved to weakening the reanimation spells rather than adding new abilities to the big creatures.
* {{Blue And Orange Morality}}: With Emrakul more so then the others. None of them are truly malicious, but she seems the most cognizant, while the other two are simply blind forces. When Jace interacts with a projection of Emrakul (in the shape of Emeria, an angel the people of Zendikar believed represented her), she interrupts Jace's angry flurry of questions by asking if he plays chess and would like a game with her (she loses the ''chess'' game, but on other fronts...) She also seems genuinely frustrated that Innistrad's population are being so hostile towards her as she reshapes them. Finally, [[spoiler:she became sealed in the moon because she wanted to be]].
* BodyHorror: Not on the Titans themselves, which are the way they are "naturally", but on basically everything influenced by Emrakul in ''Shadows over Innistrad'' and especially ''Eldritch Moon''. Knights and riders fusing into one entity, werewolves burning with internal fire, an entire town fused into a writhing blob monster... [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=409863 Grotesque Mutation]] even looks a bit like the page image ''for'' BodyHorror.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Specifically, the Gatewatch. And hell yeah they did. At the end of the Battle for Zendikar block, Kozilek and Ulamog are dragged onto the plane by Nissa using the leylines of Zendikar then obliterated by Chranda's inferno, created by draining the titans of their own mana and combining it with that of Zendikar. What's left is absorbed by Zendikar itself -- the plane consuming the titans as they tried to consume it. They are absolutely and entirely destroyed.]]
** HeroicRROD: Channelling that much raw mana put a pretty heavy strain on Chandra's magic, leaving her almost unable to use magic or her legs for a while.
** DidntThinkThisThrough: Ugin discouraged annihilating them originally on the grounds that they were a natural part of the Multiverse and their loss would cause terrible things to happen. As for what those are, we're not sure. Yet.
** Then on Innistrad, [[spoiler:Jace calls the Gatewatch again, adds a new member (Liliana), and helps Tamiyo imprison Emrakul in Innistrad's moon, a piece of which was formerly the Helvault]]. However, [[spoiler:it's then revealed that Emrakul ''imprisoned herself'', possessing Tamiyo in order to ensure it happened.]]
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Emrakul's mere mental presence rips apart the minds of Jace's friends, but due to his specialty, in ''his'' mindscape he sees {{A Form You Are Comfortable With}}. She requests a seat (she's a visitor in his mind, after all, it's only polite), asks him if he minds her working while they talk, inquires whether he still has a headache, offers to play chess with him, complains things aren't going the way she wanted them to, and then casually demolishes most of the mental scape with her true form. Bonus points for Jace saying the trope almost word for word.
* EldritchAbomination: The lesser Eldrazi are not distinct entities from the greater ones, but instead are different elements of the horror out in the Blind Eternities -- even the Ulamog card is not the whole of Ulamog, but instead is a part of the greater Ulamog creature being pushed into Zendikar to eat things. In an actual conversation (for a given value of "actual") [[spoiler:Emrakul isn't even sure if the Planeswalkers attacking/communing with her are real. They're just so insignificant she can't be certain.]]
* EldritchLocation: Whereas Ulamog simply reduces everything in its path to dust, Kozilek is a bit more creative, leaving behind trails [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=407696 that resemble bismuth crystals]].
* ExactWords: Note that when Emrakul/Emeria says she wants to play a game with Jace, she does not specify a game of ''chess''.
* ExtremeOmnivore: The Eldrazi eat ''everything'', including your permanents (with annihilator) and your library (with ingest). Ulamog, in particular, is defined by hunger without end.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Signature of Kozilek and its brood lineage. Emrakul isn't too shabby, either; some of the mutations shown on ''Shadows over Innistrad'' depict people with more eyes than the standard.
* FaceHeelTurn: Being the master of MindRape among the three, Kozilek and its brood can also do this, as [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=198171 It That Betrays]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=402077 Turn Against]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=407606 Eldrazi Obligator]] show.
** Emrakul-mutated creatures end up turning into extensions of the Titan and attempting to messily devour their former kin, and Emrakul's new card gives you full control over your opponent's next turn, essentially making your opponent pull a FaceHeelTurn on ''themselves.''
* FloatingContinent: Emrakul was mistaken for one at first (an understandable mistake given the presence of floating landmasses in Zendikar).
* HiddenAgendaVillain: In keeping with the general inscrutability of eldritch abominations, no one is sure why the Eldrazi exist or what their goals are. The reason Ugin had them sealed away instead of destroyed was because he didn't want to break something in the case that the Eldrazi were necessary to the multiverse.
* ILetYouWin: [[spoiler:Emrakul chooses to seal herself in the midst of handily overwhelming the Gatewatch.]]
* ItCanThink: For a lack of better words, Emrakul somehow converses with the Gatewatch, and is capable of making several actions normally done by sapient species, such playing chess with Jace, [[spoiler:and willingly sealing herself in the moon.]]
* TheJuggernaut: When one of these three is on the prowl, there's very few things that can make them so much as flinch. Emrakul's rampage on Eldritch Moon stands out as she bulldozed through everything that stood in her way, and was handing the Gatewatch's arses to them before she sealed herself, ''meaning that that she only stopped because she wanted to stop.'' This extends to them in terms of gameplay as well. The Eldrazi titans are powerful creatures that can easily do a ton of damage in a short time and aren't easy to stop, though their cost makes it very hard to get them out. Aside from being among the strongest creatures in the game, their initial three cards also have an effect where if they're put into the graveyard in any way, the graveyard is shuffled back into its player's deck. They also have the annihilator keyword, where defending players have to sacrifice permanents when they attack.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/uma/6/kozilek-butcher-of-truth Kozilek, Butcher of Truth]] is more notable for his draw effect but his second card, [[https://scryfall.com/card/ogw/4/kozilek-the-great-distortion Kozilek, the Great Distortion]], has the menace keyword so he can only be blocked by two or more creatures. He also allows his controlling player to discard a card with specific mana cost to counter a spell of the same value.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/uma/7/ulamog-the-infinite-gyre Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre]] and [[https://scryfall.com/card/bfz/15/ulamog-the-ceaseless-hunger Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger]] have the indestructible keyword. A target permanent is destroyed when the former is cast, while casting the latter exiles two target permanents. The latter card also forces the opponent exile the top 20 cards of their library everytime time he attacks.
** Emrakul is the strongest of the three, fitting as her cards are the most expensive to cast. [[https://scryfall.com/card/plist/2/emrakul-the-aeons-torn Emrakul, the Aeons Torn]] has a power and toughness of 15, the highest in the game at the time aside from a creature released in Unhinged, and can't be countered. She has annihilator 6, the highest of any creature with that keyword, forcing a defending player to sacrifice six permanents, and that is before she even deals damage. She has protection from colored spells, which between that and the fact that she can't be countered means most spells won't be able to stop her. If the player using her actually manage to cast Emrakul by paying her cost they get an extra turn. [[https://scryfall.com/card/emn/6/emrakul-the-promised-end Emrakul, the Promised End]] is a bit weaker, bringing down to a 13/13, but has a lower cost and an ability which lowers it for each type of card in her controller's graveyard, has the trample keyword and protection from instants. When cast she also gives her controller control of the opponent's next turn.
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: The processor mechanic in ''Battle for Zendikar'' is something R&D almost never does because they aren't fans of messing about with the exile zone, caring about colourless mana specifically was mostly unique to Kozilek in ''Oath of the Gatewatch'', and while double-faced cards existed before Emrakul's arrival on Innistrad, meld -- a mechanic in which two cards merge into one horrible abomination -- did not. Emrakul herself, in her ''Eldritch Moon'' printing, is one of the few cards of her time which has the protection keyword, when that keyword itself was being phased out in favour of more intuitive mechanics like hexproof and indestructible.
* MindRape: Their mere presence can cause madness, if you aren't ripped to shreds by the warped reality around them. And of course, there are always [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/115.html more active methods]]. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, is confirmed in the ''Battle for Zendikar'' fat pack booklet to be the worst for your sanity, although the others are no slouch, especially given the ingest mechanic. Emrakul's arrival on Innistrad was not good for the mental health of many people at all, although HeroicWillpower and ThePowerOfLove can help. Gameplay-wise, Emrakul lets you take control of your opponent's turn before giving your opponent a proper turn, representing Emrakul temporarily taking control of them herself before they revert to lucidity.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Each titan creates thousands, if not millions, of spawn in their image.
* NighInvulnerable: Emrakul is [[AntiMagic immune to most colored magic]]. Ulamog is [[ImmuneToBullets indestructible]]. Kozilek doesn't have any comparable protection ability, but [[DamageSpongeBoss 12 toughness is pretty hefty anyway]]. Lore-wise, the titans at full strength are nearly impossible to kill, even for nearly god-like pre-mending planeswalkers.
** In their later forms, Emrakul is immune to instants and gets a turn of forcing you to make the worst available decisions (plus having a 13/13 body), Kozilek can defend itself by discarding cards to turn them into counterspells, and Ulamog is... still indestructible.
** FightingAShadow: Even their massively powerful titan bodies are mere projections of their true forms in the Blind Eternities. Kozilek and Ulamog were eventually killed by dragging more of their true forms into Zendikar.
* NonElemental: They're too alien to correspond to any color of mana.
* OutsideContextProblem: The Eldrazi are native to the Blind Eternities, meaning that they are alien to basically everyone, everywhere. This is especially true for Emrakul, whose arrival boots out the GothicHorror elements of Innistrad and ushers in a CosmicHorrorStory.
* PlanetEater: They devour planes, erasing them completely.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Eldrazi were originally locked away on Zendikar thousands of years ago by the trio of Nahiri, Sorin, and Ugin.
** [[spoiler:After the events of ''Eldritch Moon'', the last living Eldrazi, Emrakul, seals herself in Innistrad's moon. One can only speculate what she's waiting for]].
* SinisterGeometry: Kozilek and its brood tend to have perfectly shapes hover behind them, and strange geometric apendages and crystals jutting out of them. The shapes are actually holes in space!
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Over time, history became muddled and led to them being worshipped as gods by the natives of Zendikar. Once they re-emerged, that changed quickly.
* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:Emrakul was missing in action for the whole Battle for Zendikar block, and was confirmed by Ugin to have left Zendikar for a considerable amount of time after the act of pulling Kozilek and Ulamog onto the plane created "echoes" that Ugin could interpret. No one has any idea where Emrakul has gone...]] Until [[spoiler:Nahiri summons her to Innistrad as vengeance against Sorin]]. Later on, [[spoiler:she makes another 'exit' by sealing herself in the moon.]]
* VillainousGlutton: The aptly named "Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger" is this: When it attacks, the opponent exiles the top 20 cards of their library (one-third of a typical Constructed deck, and half of a typical Limited deck). This is a super-sized version of the Battle for Zendikar "Ingest" mechanic, which implies that Ulamog is literally eating people's thoughts and memories.
* WalkingWasteland: Their mere presence warps and destroys everything around them, as illustrated quite nicely in [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/1.html All Is Dust]] and [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/141.html Disaster Radius]]. [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/84 This story]] particularly describes Emrakul's [[WorldWreckingWave world-wrecking]] capability.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Signature of Ulamog and its brood.
* WorfHadTheFlu: The Eldrazi Titans in the present are notably weaker than they were back when Nahiri, Sorin, and Ugin faced them due to the fact that Ugin's prison had been draining their mana via the leylines of Zendikar. [[spoiler:This more or less allows the Planeswalkers of the Gatewatch to kill both Kozilek and Ulamog by, among other things, dragging their true bodies onto the plane where they could be wholly destroyed.]]
* WorldWreckingWave: They can do this. Seen in [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/1.html All Is Dust]] and [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/100.html Consume the Meek]].
** Emrakul's arrival on Innistrad sent even the mildest mutation into overdrive, and caused countless minds to be absorbed into her brood, leading to Innistrad becoming a domain of hideous tentacle monsters and fusion horrors. Even the mightiest remaining angels were not immune, merging into the Voice of Nightmares.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: It seems nothing will ever again grow where they have withered the ground. [[spoiler:However, after draining the mana of both Kozilek and Ulamog, Zendikar will eventually recover and heal from the damage it received from the Eldrazi. It's just going to take a hell of a long time.]]
* ZergRush: Their "attack" on Zendikar becomes this, as Ulamog and Kozilek resurface with their spawn that swarms across the landscape like a horde of alien insects.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ur-Dragon]]

-> ''Color:'' 5 Color
-> ''Race:'' Dragon Avatar

The Progenitor of Fire, the father of dragonkind across the entire Multiverse. ''The'' Dragon Avatar, a being that endlessly flies through the Blind Eternities, only briefly appearing within the planes to lay the eggs that all dragons come from.
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* DraconicAbomination: Naturally, as a being that seems to be comfortable living in the Blind Eternities like the Eldrazi. As ''The Twins'' describes it:
-->''There is a shadow, a great shadow. It is not clouds, nor is it night. Ripples sweep through the vast airy gulf of the sky. The shadow is a magnificent creature, terrifying and dark and powerful, and it is blind, or maybe it was born in a place of blindness and does not know how to see.''
* DragonsAreDivine: It's not a god per se, but it is a vastly powerful being responsible for dragonkind's existence.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: It birthed the first dragons across the multiverse.
* SummonMagic: Its roar stirs the blood of any dragon, no matter their plane, summoning the dragon to answer the will of its creator. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=the%20ur-dragon The Ur-Dragon's card form]] reflects this by granting you effects that make summoning other dragons much easier.
* TimeAbyss: Said to have been born at the dawn of time.
* TrulySingleParent: ''The Twins'' shows how it births dragons - during its brief manifestations within the planes, it beats its wings and creates a storm. From these storms rain giant colored stones, stones which are in fact the eggs of dragons.
[[/folder]]

!Unknown World

[[folder:Kothophed]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' Demon

One of the four demons whom Liliana made pacts with. Some time after Liliana made a deal with him, he sent her to fetch the Chained Veil, but upon her return she offed him with it.
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* DealWithTheDevil: One of the four demons Liliana made deals with.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: He didn't expect Liliana to kill him using the Chained Veil's power.
* MarkOfTheBeast: He's the one who gave Liliana her tattoos.
* SnakePeople: He looks serpentine from the waist down.
* TooDumbToLive: As Liliana herself points out when she recalls the event, he sent her to get an incredibly powerful artifact capable of destroying him, then let her walk right up to him carrying it.
[[/folder]]

!!The Gruul Clans

[[folder:Borborygmos]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/borborygmos.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Crush them!"'']]

-> ''Color:'' Red and green
-> ''Race:'' Cyclops

Insofar as the Gruul can be said to ever follow anybody, Borborygmos is the uncontested leader of the barbaric clans in their endless war against everyone else.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Gruul chieftains earn their rule by being strong enough to defeat everyone else who claims it and maintain it by remaining too strong for others to defeat. Borborygmos has remained the longest-reigning Gruul chief by virtue of being the toughest fighter in all the clans.
* ChaoticNeutral: InUniverse, it's his official alignment listed in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica.
* ClassicalCyclops: He's a huge, barbaric humanoid with a single beady eye and an impressive pair of horns.
* FamousAncestor: According to rumor, he's descended from Cisarzim, the parun of the Gruul Clans.

[[folder:Ilharg]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ilharg.jpg]]

-> ''Color:'' Red
-> ''Race:'' Boar god

A great boar god that the Gruul worship in anticipation for his heralding of the End-Raze against civilization.

* BeastOfTheApocalypse: The Gruul believe that his coming will signal the beginning of the End-Raze, where all of Ravnica will be torn down and return to a primordial wilderness.
* FullBoarAction: He's a gigantic, many-tusked boar worshipped by barbarians and prophesied to one day end civilization.
* GiantAnimalWorship: The Gruul worship him as a god. This is justified in this case, as Ilharg is in fact a true god.

!!The Izzet League
[[folder:Niv-Mizzet]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/niv_mizzet.jpg]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue and red (primary), 5 Color
-> ''Race:'' Dragon avatar
-> ''Class:'' Wizard

A genius dragon, Niv-Mizzet is the parun and guildmaster of the Izzet Combine, one of the founding minds of Ravnica itself, and easily the smartest living thing on the plane.

* BackFromTheDead: He's killed by Nicol Bolas before the start of ''War of the Spark''. In preparation for this, he leaves instructions for a complex ritual involving his bones, his SoulJar and Ravnica's ley lines, which ultimately [[spoiler:manages to bring him back as the living avatar of the Guildpact]].
* ChaoticNeutral: InUniverse, at least prior to becoming [[spoiler:the guildpact]]. It's his official alignment listed in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica.
* {{Egopolis}}: An extremely egoistical being, he named his guild after himself and designed its symbol as a self-portrait.
-->''The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.'' -- [[https://scryfall.com/card/c21/247/izzet-signet Izzet Signet]]
* KilledOffscreen: Nicol Bolas kills him shortly before the start of ''War of the Spark''.
* LastOfHisKind: While a few bestial creatures still linger here and there, Niv-Mizzet is the last true dragon left in Ravnica.
* SoulJar: Niv-Mizzet created a silver box in which to preserve his soul and consciousness in anticipation of his own death, which his spirit moves into after Bolas kills him.
* TimeAbyss: He's an incredibly ancient being, having been born long before the signing of the Guildpact 10,000 years ago and having lived through all of Ravnica's history since.
* WorldsSmartestMan: He's the most intelligent living entity in Ravnica, by a very wide margin.
* WorldsStrongestMan: While the power rankings of the guildmasters are unclear, Niv-Mizzet is the most powerful of them, at least according to Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica.

!!The Cult of Rakdos
[[folder:Rakdos]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rakdos.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Entertain me."]]

-> ''Color:'' Black and red
-> ''Race:'' Demon

A powerful and dangerous demon revered by the Cult of Rakdos and feared and loathed by everyone else.

* BigRedDevil: He's a towering, crimson-skinned monster with curling horns, great batlike wings and hooves legs, and rules over fiery pits of iron, fire and suffering.
* ChaoticEvil: InUniverse, it's his official alignment listed in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, representing how he dedicates entirely to slaking his thirst for novelty and entertainment in a manner that's almost invariably harmful and destructive to everyone else.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: He's the most powerful demon in Ravnica, and the ultimate ruler of the guild that most demons belong to.
* ElementalWeapon: His favored weapon is a flaming scythe.
* HeroicNeutral: No, seriously. Every time Rakdos himself personally appears in a story, it's actually to [[EvilVersusOblivion defend Ravnica from a greater threat]], be it the Nephilim or Bolas's Dreadhorde. It's to the point that Rakdos and his Cult might legitimately be counted among the plane's most reliable defenders.
* TheMagnificent: He's typically knows as Rakdos the Defiler.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He finds most of Ravnican life [[ItAmusedMe unfathomably boring]], and spends most of his time sleeping or waiting for his Cultists to do something entertaining.
* TimeAbyss: He's unfathomably old, having already been ancient when the Guildpact was signed 10,000 years ago.

!!Unaffiliated
[[folder:Krenko]]

-> ''Color:'' Red
-> ''Race:'' Goblin
-> ''Class:'' Warrior

A guildless mob boss operating out of Tin Street, Krenko is a remarkably savvy organizer and opportunist ''par excellence'', two traits that allowed him to become arguably the most powerful non-Guild aligned person in all of Ravnica.

* BadassNormal: Krenko is the closest thing to a genuine power player that exists among the [[FantasticUnderclass Guildless]], a position he reached with little more than charisma, wiliness, and a bit of [[TheManBehindTheMan shadowy help]].
* KingmakerScenario: One of the reasons he and his gang are still around: Guilds looking to cause mayhem with plausible deniability (particularly the Dimir, but others as well, otherwise he would just become a full-time Dimir asset, which would kind of negate the whole "plausible deniability" thing) farm out work to them, and in turn ensure that the Azorius and Boros never fully eliminate them.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Goblins, especially on Ravnica, have a reputation as dimwitted yes men who largely [[TooDumbToLive live to sacrifice themselves in pointless spectacles]] dictated by their superiors. Krenko (while still somewhat impulsive and BookDumb), has a concept of biding his time and gathering information, which makes him disproportionately dangerous.

[[folder:Araithia "Rat" Shokta]]
[[quoteright:308:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rat_1.png]]

-> ''Race:'' Human

A guildless girl from Ravnica who gets swept up in the events of ''War Of The Spark'' via proximity to some of the main players. Araithia Shokta, or simply Rat to her friends, was born to Gruul parents, but can't decide whether's she'll join the Clans, the Selesnya Conclave, or the Cult of Rakdos, but has close friends in all three. She was also born with a unique form of magic that makes it so that only certain people can notice her, while others walk right past her unless she's pointed out to them. She doesn't let it get her down. Mostly.

* BadassNormal: She's not a Planeswalker, and, aside from her inmate invisibility, possesses no magic to speak of, but keeps up with Kaya and the others when it comes to fighting the Eternals.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: As mentioned, some form of magic that she was born with makes it so other people don't even notice she's there, with a select few exceptions, like her mother, Teyo and Kaya. Her godfather Boruvo implies it has something do with a person's personality, but doesn't explain further; whatever it is was enough for him to trust Kaya and Teyo right after meeting them, though. Other people ''can'' see and hear her if they've been told she's there by someone else, but have to actively concentrate on her to do so.
* GenkiGirl: Energetic, and speaks endlessly without a thought to letting others get in a word. When you consider how seldom she actually gets to talk to someone else, this becomes a lot more understandable.
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Dimir guildmaster, Lazav, is also able to see and hear her, and has been conditioning her since childhood. She has a second personality called Aktos Tarr who thinks he's a male vampire, and is one of the Dimir's most effective assassins thanks to her invisiblity]].
* MsExposition: Spends most of ''War Of The Spark'' informing Teyo (and by extension, any new readers not familiar with Ravnica) on the finer points of each Guild, and what little she knows regarding Planeswalkers.
* ShipTease: With Teyo. Not only is he one of the few who can notice her, they spend most of ''War Of The Spark'' keeping each other safe.

[[folder:Troyan]]

-> ''Color:'' Green and blue
-> ''Race:'' Vedalken
-> ''Class:'' Scout

Formerly a member of the Simic Combine, the explorer Troyan left his old affiliation to explore the new horizons opened up after ''March of the Machine''.

* BoldExplorer: Troyan is the first named character to be shown traveling between planes via the newly opened Omenpaths, being first encountered climbing beanstalks on Eldraine.
* FracturedFairyTale: He fits in quite well on Eldraine, acting as an {{Expy}} the titular character of Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Vedalken (particularly on Ravnica) are generally portrayed as StrawVulcan [[TotalitarianUtilitarian Totalitarian Utilitarians]] who suffer from a chronic LackOfEmpathy. By contrast, Troyan is a gregarious LoveableRogue and ThrillSeeker.

** He attempted this on [[spoiler: Nissa, before she altered his component leylines in order to divert his attention.]]

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Only Alrund, Jorn, Egon and Halvar, a third of the Skoti, were once human. Cosima was a Cosmos Monster, while Toralf, Birgi, Kolvori, Esika and Tergird are all HalfHumanHybrids. Valki and Reidane's origins are unknown, but Reidane appears to be a Valkyrie.

* OldBeggarTest: It is implied that, just like the Norse god he is based on, Alrund does this from time to time.

* SealedEvilInACan / SealedGoodInACan: The elves believe the remaining Einir were sealed into Jespara Trees on Skemfar. Given the Skoti's own complicated moral standings, the Einir could fall into either trope.

-> ''Race:'' Elf, God

!Kaladesh

[[folder:Baral]]

-> ''Race:'' Human
-> ''Class:'' Wizard

Captain Baral is an officer of the Consulate that was tasked with capturing the Nalaars. After failing to do so, he was demoted to prison duty.

* BoomerangBigot: A mage who hates mages. The Church of Tal would love him if they knew of his existence...
* BoxedCrook: He was in prison until New Phyrexia invaded. He escaped after the prison wall collapsed.
* ChildHater: [[spoiler:Has developed an intense hatred for children since Chandra burned his face.]]
* EnemyMine: After escaping from prison, he ends up getting saved by the Renegade Kari Zev, who gives him two options; Help them fight back the Phyerexians or be tossed overboard.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler:The ignition of Chandra's spark left marks all over his body and rendered his face frightening to look at. Though he enjoys being more threatening to his quarry, he resents Chandra for "breaking" him.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Insists that all mages are monsters. He uses his own magical abilities to perform quite monstrous acts, and sees no contradiction in it.
* JerkJustifications: His justification for his hatred of pyromancers as public threats.
* KnightTemplar: Goes overboard in his hunt for pyromancers, burning down the village of Bunurat and personally killing people who should lawfully be arrested and tried. Even Dovin Baan acknowledges that he might be too eager for field duty. [[spoiler:Baan eventually arrests Baral for murdering Kiran Nalaar and attempting to murder Pia, implying that only Dovin's personal discipline prevents him using Baral's judicial shortcuts against him]].
* MageKiller: Fights pyromancers that threaten the Consulate. He takes pride in knowing how to cause a mage to self-destruct under their own power.
* WardensAreEvil: [[spoiler:Took a liking in reminding Pia Nalaar in her captivity that he (supposedly) had killed her daughter]].
* YouAreWhatYouHate: A man with an immense hatred for mages who happens to be a mage himself.

[[folder:Pia and Kiran Nalaar]]

-> ''Color:'' Red (primary), White (Pia only)

-> ''Class:'' Artificer

Chandra's parents. Artificers in the Kaladesh city of Ghirapur. Renegade to begin with, and later fully hunted down and later murdered by the consul forces of Ghirapur when Chandra's fire powers manifested.

* GadgeteerGenius: They were skilled artificers, something Chandra failed to mimic.
* GoodParents: They even tried to flee the country to keep their daughter from the Consulate, but the responsible officer caught up, killed them, and would have publicly executed Chandra had her spark not ignited.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Only Kiran is explicitly shown to have been killed. [[spoiler: That would be because Pia is still alive.]]
* SoProudOfYou: They were proud of Chandra being a natural pyromancer.
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler:Pia Nalaar becomes known as "Renegade Prime" after escaping the Dhund prison]].
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:While Pia could have avoided capture by Tezzeret, she decides to let herself be captured when she sees Chandra, fearing that making a ruckus would endanger her daughter]].

[[folder:Oviya Pashiri]]

-> ''Color:'' Green

Fellow renegade and friend of the Nalaars.

* CoolOldLady: An elderly woman who is a renegade like the Nalaars.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Fights against [[spoiler: Baral and his thopters to keep him from killing Chandra.]]
* OddFriendship: Though leonin do not exist in Kaladesh, she doesn't seem to mind having Ajani, a leonin, as company, and in return he affectionately addresses her as Grandmother.
* ShipperOnDeck: As of Renewal, seems to be trying to nudge an all-too-oblivious Chandra and Nissa into a relationship.

[[folder:Yahenni]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' Aetherborn vampire

An aetherborn living out their last days.

!Miscellaneous Non-Planeswalkers

[[folder:Alhammaret]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue
-> ''Race:'' Sphinx

A sphinx arbiter from Vryn, and Jace's mentor. He took in Jace to train and hone his telepath skills, but is eventually revealed to be using Jace for his own ends, resulting in Jace killing him.
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* EvilMentor: He essentially raised Jace to be a ChildSoldier.
* KarmicDeath: For wiping Jace's memories to turn him into his underling, Jace returned the favor by tearing everything he could out of Alhammaret's mind, during their final duel. Up to and including the memories of how to breathe.
* ManipulativeBastard: As soon as Jace's spark ignited, Alhammaret wiped the memory of it from Jace's mind, simply to retain control of him.
* PlayingBothSides: The main crux of his scheme: he would send Jace to gather and sell intelligence to both sides of a war under the guise of it being necessary for his work as arbiter but wiping Jace's memory each time so he didn't notice he was doing so for both sides. Jace only figured out the truth when he found himself in a soldier's memories.
* {{Telepathy}}: His speciality is in mind magic and linking, and the focus of Jace's training.
[[/folder]]

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!Zendikar

!!The Allies of Zendikar

[[folder:Vorik]]

-> ''Race:'' Human

Former leader of the militia of Sea Gate, he became the Commander-General of the refuges of Sea Gate and the Sea Gate forces after the rise of the Eldrazi.

* KilledOffForReal: Mortally wounded by a Eldrazi of Ulamog's lineage in a skirmish. Vorik's death leads to Gideon's promotion as his successor.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: While he is only featured in a few [[AllThereintheManual Uncharted Realms]] articles, Vorik's decision to name Gideon rather than Tazri as Commander-General to succeed him plays an important role in the story and the overall strategy of the allied army of Zendikar as Gideon decided to liberate Sea Gate from the hordes of Eldrazi while Tazri opted for a more defensive option by attempting to find a safe haven.

[[folder:Tazri]]

-> ''Color:'' White (primary), 5 color

-> ''Class:'' Ally, Warrior

A once famed caravan guard captain of the Tazeem roads, who fell on bad times due to a curse set upon her when she agreed to mercy kill a heavily wounded angel who fought against a group of vampires. After killing the angel, Tazri suffered from a series of bad caravan jobs and lost much of her credibility as a guard. Eventually, she joined up with the Sea Gate militia group led by Vorik and became his second-in-command.

After the Eldrazi overran Sea Gate, Vorik became the leader of the survivors with Tazri as his second-in-command. When Vorik succumbed to his wounds from a skirmish with the Eldrazi, he chose Gideon as his successor instead of Tazri, to her dismay and shock. Tazri is now a leading officer and a general of the allied armies.

* TheAce: She was a famed caravan guard before the age of twenty and an expert swordsman.
* BrokenAce: After the angel incident.
* {{Curse}}: She was said to be cursed due to killing an angel.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Was unable to find purpose or value in herself after her series of failed caravan jobs until she met Vorik who believed in her and helped her. In fact, it is suggested that she has sought a purpose her whole life if the visions caused by Kozilek are to be believed.
* DropTheHammer: Currently uses a mace, but was once a noted sword user.
* FourStarBadass: Vorik's second-in-command and one of Gideon's leading commanders.
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Gideon, who was named successor by a dying Vorik. This is made more evident in her hallucinations caused by Kozilek as she felt happiness when she witnessed Kozilek crush Gideon in its hand in the vision.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Suffered from this after a series of failed caravan jobs until she met Vorik who saw potential in her.
* MercyKill: Killed an heavily wounded angel who begged Tazri for death to avoid a slow and painful fate at the hands of the vampires she was battling.
* MindRape: Due to Kozilek's reality warping presence. [[spoiler: However, the experiences and visions caused by Kozilek's distortions ultimately help her grow as a leader and move on from her curse.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Even though the angel had asked for the MercyKill, killing her still caused Tazri to become cursed.
* TragicKeepsake: Tazri keeps the halo of the angel she mercy killed and wears it around her neck.
* YouAreInCommandNow: When Gideon goes missing after the [[spoiler: emergence of Kozilek]] and the allied forces are routed, Tazri resolves to take command in his stead and rallies the remaining forces left. [[spoiler: Is eventually given the position of Commander-General permanently after the final battle against Kozilek and Ulamog as Gideon cannot stay on Zendikar forever due to his obligations to the Gatewatch.]]

[[folder:Drana]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' Vampire
-> ''Class:'' Shaman, Ally, Cleric

The ancient and powerful bloodchief of the Kalastria vampires, the wealthiest of the five vampire families of Malakir on Zendikar. Drana foiled Kalitas's plot to turn all of the vampires of Malakir into thralls of the Eldrazi, taking Malakir back from House Ghet and driving out Kalitas. However, Drana's victory was short-lived as the Eldrazi pushed her and her subjects out of the city. As such, she led her people away from Malakir to seek a refuge from the ever-growing horde of Eldrazi. Most vampires have either joined Drana or Kalitas after the rise of the Eldrazi.

Drana joined her forces with Gideon when news reached her that he was assembling an army to liberate Sea Gate from the Eldrazi, she became one of his leading commanders during the retaking of Sea Gate.

* TheAgeless: A few thousand years old at this point.
* AntiHero: Has become this as of the Battle for Zendikar block, being forced to work alongside the mortal races against the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]].
* BadassCape: Wears one in both her cards.
* CombatPragmatist: Is willing to employ orphans as child soldiers against the Eldrazi and allow the Kors sent by Gideon to selflessly sacrifice themselves as distractions to the Eldrazi to cover her retreat.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Not entirely evil at least, she's willing to work alongside the other mortal races and take orders from Gideon (and from Tazri, after Gideon goes missing).
* HeroicWillpower: Is able to break out of an Eldrazi's attempt to enslave her through her sheer will alone.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In a good way, sort of. Drana channels the power of a Eldrazi she absorbed into her forces, and resolves to fight for her people and subjects rather than planeswalking away with said Eldrazi power as she believes that they belong to her (and as such, it is her duty to protect everything that is hers).
* LastOfHerKind: Drana is one of the two known remaining bloodchiefs alive (the other being Kalitas). [[spoiler: The bloodchiefs were originally humanoids transformed by a magical Eldrazi disease and numbered in the hundreds, but were cut down to only around a dozen in the years before the Eldrazi were freed.]]
* MonsterLord: Leader of the Kalastria vampire clan.
* Really700YearsOld: One of the oldest vampires of Zendikar, she has lived for thousands of years, but she doesn't look any older than a woman in her mid-to-late 20s.
* StatusBuff: Empowers her forces with the energy of a Eldrazi she absorbed in one [[AllThereintheManual Uncharted Realms]] article. Drana also buffs her entire board in one of her actual cards when she deals combat damage to a player.
* TheFogOfAges: Drana has trouble remember much of her memories with clarity due to her longevity, the only thing she clearly remembers is her commitment of serving no one.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:One of the original vampires, which were humanoids who were contaminated by a infection of Eldrazi origin.]]
* VampireMonarch: As bloodchief of House Kalastria.

[[folder:Noyan Dar]]

-> ''Color:'' White and Blue
-> ''Race:'' Merfolk
-> ''Class:'' Ally

Formerly a powerful merfolk lullmage (a wizard able to calm and control the force of the dangerous and terrain-altering Roils of Zendikar) and iconoclastic scholar at the Sea Gate lighthouse. Noyan Dar is now a roilmage who uses his powers to rouse Zendikar's Roils to combat the Eldrazi threat, and the founder and leader of the new merfolk capital of Coralheim Refuge. He also has a small number of apprentice roilmages under his tutelage.

Noyan Dar and his roilmages are recruited by Gideon to join his united force to retake Sea Gate from the Eldrazi after Gideon personally comes to visit him.

* BadassBookworm: Formerly a iconoclastic scholar from the Sea Gate lighthouse, and now a leader of Coralheim Refuge who fights the Eldrazi on a almost daily basis.
* DeadpanSnarker: He was pretty snarky to Gideon when Gideon came to recruit him.
* DishingOutDirt: As a lullmage, he has the ability to create earthquakes and such by rousing the Roils of Zendikar.
* ElementalPowers: Able to create earthquakes and such by riling up the Roils.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers from a minor one after finding out most of his roilmages are dead after the allied forces are routed by the Eldrazi. However, Tazri is able to get Noyan to regain his composure and channel his anger into fighting the Eldrazi.
* IgnoredExpert: According to the [[AllThereintheManual Art of Magic the Gathering: Zendikar]] book, Noyan Dar had hypothesized from his studies that the merfolk deities (distorted memories of the three Eldrazi Titans) were destroyers and not benevolent beings. He received much criticism from his academic peers at the time.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Zendikari merfolks are bipedal as opposed to having fishtail body.
* TheRival: He has been rivals with Thada Adel since their school days in the Merfolk Enclave when he tried to recruit her into his circle of cronies; she took an instant dislike to him and has been enemies with him ever since.

[[folder:Munda]]

-> ''Color:'' Red and White
-> ''Race:'' Kor
-> ''Class:'' Ally

A kor who is a close friend of Gideon. While it is unknown what Munda did before the Eldrazi were freed, he now serves as a leading figure of the survivors. Munda is called "The Spider" by his allies for his great skill with ropes for trapping and immobilizing enemies. Gideon appointed Munda as a squad leader during the retaking of Sea Gate.

* BadassNormal: Fights Eldrazi with nothing but ropes and a pair of sickles. Munda isn't a planeswalker like Gideon, vampire like Drana, or wizard like Noyan Dar either.
* ColonelBadass: Badass and one of Gideon's officers.
* FrontlineGeneral: One of Gideon's leading officers and often found on the frontlines fighting the Eldrazi.
* RedBaron: Called "the Spider" by the allied forces of Zendikar.

[[folder:Jori En]]

-> ''Color:'' Blue and Red
-> ''Race:'' Merfolk
-> ''Class:'' Wizard

A archaeologist and friend of Kendrin, a human scholar who had been close to cracking the "puzzle of the leylines," who was killed by the Eldrazi when they invaded Sea Gate. This puzzle was believed to be crucial as it may allow the Zendakaris to understand how the magic of the hedrons could be used—and turned into a weapon against the Eldrazi.

Jori En, trapped at Sea Gate due to the Eldrazi attack, was rescued by Gideon and his forces due to her importance as she knew something about the puzzle of the leylines. Afterwards, she continued the work of her late friend and continues to crack the puzzle, hoping that it will ultimately prove to be Zendikar's salvation from the Eldrazi.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Jori En is a relic hunter, as such, she ventures into old ruins.
* MarriedToTheJob: ''"Some relic hunters have given up exploring and gone to fight the Eldrazi. But I know our work is more important than ever. The secrets we uncover could lead to the world's salvation."''
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Zendikari merfolks are bipedal as opposed to having fishtail body.

[[folder:Zada]]

-> ''Color:'' Red
-> ''Race:'' Goblin
-> ''Class:'' Ally

A goblin who is somewhat knowledgeable about the hedrons due to the fact she grinds them up and eats them, something that makes the goblins of Zendikar stronger. Zada overthrew the leader of the Tuktuk goblin tribe, Tuktuk, by convincing the other goblins of the tribe that Tuktuk had been contaminated by the Eldrazi and was a dangerously unreliable leader. She shattered him into many pieces and became the new leader of the tribe.

She encountered Jace when he was making his way to the Eye of Ugin in his jounrey to crack the puzzle of the leylines.

* EatDirtCheap: Zada, like many goblins of Zendikar, eat grinded up rocks as it makes them stronger.
* StatusBuff: Gameplay-wise, her card can buff all your creatures with instant and sorcery spells you cast targeting her.
* TheUsurper: Convinced the goblins of the her tribe to overthrow their leader Tuktuk.

!!Eldrazi-aligned Characters

[[folder:Kalitas]]

-> ''Color:'' Black
-> ''Race:'' Vampire
-> ''Class:'' Warrior

The bloodchief of the Ghet vampires, formerly the poorest and least powerful of the vampire families of Malakir on Zendikar.

Unlike Drana, Kalitas seeks to aid the Eldrazi and plotted to turn all the vampires of Malakir into thralls of the Eldrazi. However, due to Drana's interference, he and his clan were driven from the city. Most vampires have either joined Drana or Kalitas after the rise of the Eldrazi.

* TheAgeless: Presumably, if Drana is any indicator.
* FaceMonsterTurn: Both of his in-game cards do this to other creatures, turning them into vampires or nulls (faceless zombies) under his control.
* LastOfHisKind: Kalitas is one of the two known remaining bloodchiefs alive (the other being Drana). [[spoiler: The bloodchiefs were originally humanoids transformed by a magical Eldrazi disease and numbered in the hundreds, but were cut down to only around a dozen in the years before the Eldrazi were freed.]]
* MonsterLord: Leader of the Ghet vampire clan.
* Really700YearsOld: Comes with being a vampire and a bloodchief.
* TheQuisling: Has the title of "thrall of Ulamog" and "Traitor of Ghet" due to his submission to the Eldrazi.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The vampires of Zendikar are not the traditional undead bloodsuckers, they're actually descended from humanoids who were infected by an Eldrazi-created disease meant to turn humanoids into servants of the Eldrazi.]]
* VampireMonarch: The bloodchief of House Ghet.

[[folder:Ayli]]

-> ''Color:'' White and Black
-> ''Race:'' Kor
-> ''Class:'' Cleric

A kor who was a cleric of the goddess Kamsa or Emeria, the long lost and warped memory of the Eldrazi Titan Emrakul. After the rise of the Eldrazi and the revelation that the Zendikari gods were actually false interpretations of the Eldrazi Titans, Ayli has become the high priest of a cult that worships the Eldrazi called Eternal Pilgrims.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A possible interpretation of her character.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Eternal Pilgrims are this, they worship the Eldrazi and kidnap survivors and offer them to the Eldrazi. They attempted to offer Jori En and Jace as living sacrifices to Ulamog when the two were making their way to the Eye of Ugin. It is also said in the [[AllThereintheManual Art of Magic the Gathering: Zendikar]] book that the Eternal Pilgrims perform raids on survivor camps.

!!Others

[[folder:Anowon]]

-> ''Color:'' Black (primary), Blue
-> ''Race:'' Vampire
-> ''Class:'' Shaman, Rogue

The scion of a powerful vampire family in Malakir and an renown expert on ruins, runes, and ancient languages. In his relentless search for answers, he has left a trail of corpses. He is seen as a powerful mage, knowledgeable scholar, and notable expedition leader in some settlements; but, some regard him as a murderer and ruthless power seeker. Despite whatever opinions others may have of him, most can agree that he is respected by friend and foe alike.

While initially a "son" of the House Ghet under the tutelage of Bloodchief Tenihas, he eventually left, leaving Tenihas and the bloodchief's retinue slaughtered with the only survivor claiming that Anowon killed the bloodchief in rage. It is believed that this was the result of growing animosity between Anowon and Tenihas over ancient texts that alluded the enslavement of the vampire race by "famished gods," most likely the Eldrazi.

Anowon spent the following decades as a mercenary and expeditionary leader until he found a powerful scroll now known as the "Dragon's Fire." After this event, he renounced his loyalty to the expeditionary house he served and he disappeared. He assumed a new identity as a human scholar at the Sea Gate lighthouse and attempted to find the Eye of Ugin. However, after an event that exposed his identity as a vampire, he was nearly beaten to death and ousted from Sea Gate by some of the residents. He eventually established his own league of explorers, adventurers, and mages to help in his search of the Eye of Ugin. Inadvertently, Anowon aided in the release of the Eldrazi by leading both Chandra and Jace to the Eye of Ugin.

After the release of the Eldrazi by Chandra, Jace, and Sarkhan, Anowon became enslaved by the Eldrazi broods until he was freed by Nissa Revane and Sorin Markov. He then accompanied the two planeswalkers to the eye of Ugin; however, after Nissa freed the Eldrazi Titans they fled together to Affa where they parted ways with Anowon retreating back to his league and beginning to rebuild it.