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Ancient
Toshiro Umezawa
Color: Black
Race: Human
Class: Samurai
Toshiro Umezawa
, or "Toshi" for short, is the Black-aligned protagonist of the Kamigawa saga. Toshi's only true loyalty is to himself, and he'll never fight when it's possible to bargain. Luckily for the rest of Kamigawa, it's currently in his best interest to save the world.
- Anti-Hero: Toshi is selfish and underhanded, and his first instinct upon rescuing the princess is to ransom her.
- Badass Family: If his so-called descendant Satoru is to be believed, he evidently lived long enough to have a family.
- Dark Is Not Evil: A prominent example of black taking a heroic role in the storyline.
- Deadpan Snarker: He likes to snark.
- Guile Hero: The quintessential example. In an early scene, he joins a group of assassins contracted to kill the ogre Hidetsugu. While the other assassins jump into the fray, Toshi hangs back. After all his companions are dead, he calmly approaches Hidetsugu and offers to become blood brothers instead. (It works.)
- Handicapped Badass: At the end of Saviors, the Myojin of Night's Reach blinds him.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: In-universe historical records frame Toshiro as a noble selfless hero. While his actions did save Kamigawa, he was always looking out for himself first and foremost.
- Irony: Toshi is a samurai; his claimed descendant Satoru is a ninja.
- Just Whistle: Toshi negotiates a bargain of this nature with a giant moth whose life he saved.
- Rōnin: Toshi has no daimyo.
- Sealed Badass in a Can: The yuki-onna. Toshi does the sealing.
- Shadow Walker: Got fused with the Shadow Gate, allowing him to move around freely in all of Kamigawa's shadows.
- To the Pain: Modus operandi of the Hyozan Reckoners. Toshi delivers a particularly Badass Boast to Kobo's murderer:We will kill you.
We will burn your fields, steal your treasure, destroy your house, and enslave your children. We will murder your spouse, poison your pets, and blaspheme on the graves of your ancestors. We will do all this, and the only way to avoid it is if we cannot find you.
We've already found you.
Konda, Lord of Eiganjo
Color: White
Race: Human
Class: Samurai
The central villain of the Kamigawa Block, Takeshi Konda is the ruler of a vast empire spanning most of Kamigawa. Seeking immortality so he could personally ensure that his kingdom would last forever, he committed a great crime that triggered the spirit war and eventually drove him to madness.
- And I Must Scream: His fate following his judgment by Kyodai. Essentially turned to stone and broken into many still conscious pieces, some of which still endure thousands of years later.
- Big Bad: Of the Kamigawa block. For the longest while the only main antagonist to be purely White-aligned.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Konda's eyes are the only visual indication of his transformation. They change color and begin to swivel around randomly.
- The Caligula: He's quite mad to begin with, and when Toshi steals his precious Power Source, he goes into full crazy mode and devotes the full resources of his empire to its pursuit.
- The Determinator: Konda kidnapped a god in order to secure everlasting prosperity for his kingdom. The gods turned on the mortal world as a result, and by the events of the novels, twenty years of war and strife have reduced Konda's once-mighty kingdom to a scarred fraction of its former size. In spite of all the death and suffering, Konda's blind pride refuses to let him see anything but victory.
- The Emperor: His role.
- A God Am I: Konda fancies himself the all-powerful eternal ruler of the realm.
- The Heavy: Konda is the central figure, not only of the mortal realm but of the story, and his actions drive the entire Kamigawa plot.
- Light Is Not Good: Despite all of this, he is still pure White. For added bonus see his depiction in Reverence.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Stealing That Which Was Taken has granted him immense physical durability and immortality. To kill him Kyodai needed to petrify him and smash him into pieces. Which are not dead.
- Parental Neglect: He cares more about his power than he does about his daughter, and rarely ever speaks to her or spends time with her.
- Sanity Slippage: He becomes more and more obsessed as the trilogy progresses.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: His power turned him into The Caligula.
Hidetsugu
Color: Black and red
Race: Ogre demon
Class: Shaman
A demon-worshiping ogre mage that lives in the Sokenzan Mountains. Toshi's blood brother and co-founder of the Hyozan Reckoners.
- Affably Evil: Hidetsugu has civilized conversations with his guests, all while his prisoner screams in the background from having a superheated gem embedded in his chest.
- Ax-Crazy: A demon worshipper who kills and tortures at his leisure.
- Badass Bookworm: He is rather erudite and a philosopher.
- The Determinator: He bulldozes through everything without stopping until the Oni of All Consuming Chaos is unleashed.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He levels the entire Minamo academy to the ground because one of their students killed his apprentice in self defense.
- The Dreaded: "Heartless Hidetsugu" is among the most terrifying figures of the Kamigawa underground, capable of even enslaving entire armies.
- Enemy Mine: During the Phyrexian's multiversal invasion, Hidetsugu is freed from the spirit realm by none other than the Blue Divine Dragon Kairi, who's previous incarnation Keiga was murdered by Hidetsugu himself ages ago, in order to help fight off the invasion. Hidetsugu, for his part, happily agrees to help due his own amusement of the situation and desire to finally wreak some havoc again.
- Fusion Dance: Similar to how That Which Was Taken and Michiko merged to form Kyodai, he eventually manages to fuse with his master and effectively take over his position.
- Religion of Evil: Like most Kamigawa ogres he worships the omi demons, and was a rather devout servant of the Oni of All Consuming Chaos.
- He eventually ascends to becoming its God of Evil after consuming/fusing with said Oni, and still has the position by the time Neon Dynasty rolls around.
- The Starscream: When he realizes his master fled from battle, he chases him back to the Honden of the All-Consuming and beats the shit out of him.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: By the modern day, his now demonic form has been imprisoned in the spirit realm by Kyodai. He ends up being released by Kairi when the Phyrexians invade Kamigawa.
Mochi
Color: Blue
Race: Spirit
The Kami of the Crescent Moon, the mysterious, ever-smiling Mochi is the patron of the Soratami. He manipulated Konda into taking a piece of O-Kagachi as part of a plot to gain more jurisdiction than just a few moon phases.
- Big Bad Wannabe: His influence helped cause the Kami War. His role in the narrative, however, serves primarily to shed light to the protagonists (and the reader) on the origins of the War (though he tends to gloss over his own involvement). He seeks the eventual destruction of Konda's kingdom as well as the rest of the non-soratami civilisations so that his worshippers, the Soratami, can remake the world in their image. However, shortly after his Soratami armada is finally launched to realize his goals, Konda discovers Mochi's betrayal and wipes out the Soratami fleet before they can do any real damage beyond the Jukai Forest and Takenuma Swamp massacres and getting a group of Orochi eaten by O-Kagachi, bringing Mochi's endgame to a screeching halt.
- The Chessmaster: A very clever trickster; he might have succeeded in his plan had his former ally, Konda, not discovered his treachery.
- Faux Affably Evil: Exceptionally polite, even as he plots genocide.
- For the Evulz: While his primary motivation was perfecting the world in his image, he also just wanted to sate his curiosity. Apparently he was really curious about all manner of war time atrocities.
- Karmic Death: Torn apart by the demonic Hidetsugu at the end of the novels. It is oh so satisfying.
- Meaningful Name: An especially clever and elusive one; "mochi" is rice dough, which the chubby little kami's body resembles. In Japanese lore, the moon holds the image of a rabbit pounding mochi dough (hence the association with the moon). Mochi's followers, the Soratami (or Moonfolk), bear physical similarities to rabbits. There's also a more direct pun involved: "mochi" can be short for "mochizuki" (望月), or "full moon".
- Omnicidal Maniac: His ideal of "perfection" = get as many non-soratami life forms killed as possible.
- Smug Snake: His grandiose genocidal plans are ultimately interrupted and he stops being able to put teeth behind his arrogance.
- Smug Smiler: His grotesque smile in his card art s made even worse in narration.
O-Kagachi
Color: 5 Color
Race: Dragon spirit
The ruler of all kami. After Lord Konda stole a piece of him for the sake of immortality, the vengeful kami declared war on humanity.
- Draconic Abomination: Looks like a massive long serpent with a mane made of smaller snakes.
Michiko Konda
Color: White
Race: Human
Class: Advisor
Daughter of Lord Konda. It was around her birth that Lord Konda got the idea of capturing a piece of O-Kagachi for his ritual.
- Barrier Maiden: She and Kyodai team up after the war to become the new guardians of the barrier between the mortal and spirit realms.
- Fusion Dance: With Kyodai.
- The High Queen: After the Kami War she went on to have a longing legacy of truth and justice, never denying her family name or her father's crimes.
- Last of Her Kind: The last Konda as Emperor.
- Silk Hiding Steel: She graces that trope's page as the page picture.
That Which Was Taken/The Taken One/Kyodai
Color: White
Race: Spirit dragon
A fragment of the soul of O-Kagachi, stolen from the spirit realm by Lord Konda in order to perform a ritual that would make him invincible.
- Artifact of Attraction: Especially pronounced in Saviors of Kamigawa, where Konda and O-Kagachi himself both go on huge-scale rampages chasing after their prize.
- Barrier Maiden: She and Michiko team up after the war to become the new guardians of the barrier between the mortal and spirit realms.
- Draconic Abomination: Fitting for a kami, her depiction in Neon Dynasty is mind-bending, made of many arms and faces.
- Fusion Dance: With Michiko.
- MacGuffin Turned Human: Takes a human form when Toshi releases her from the stone disc towards the end of the war.
Modern
Nashi
Color: Black (primary), Green and blue
Race: Nezumi
Class: Ninja, Shaman
A young Rat Folk orphaned by Tezzeret's razing of his village. Thankfully, Tamiyo adopted him and now he expresses interest in technology.
- Broken Bird: His first apparence in Release, understandably still recovering from the brutality of what happened to his family. As of Neon Dynasty he seems to have mostly healed, though Tamiyo goes to great lengths to not remind him.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Possibly the strongest example in all of Magic. As a Nezumi Ninja, Nashi is associated with black mana. Personality-wise, however. he is nothing more than a sweet-natured, curious young boy.
- Dramatic Irony: He lost his parents twice to Tezzeret: first he razed his village and burned Nashi birth parents to death, then kidnapped Tamiyo and sent her over to Phyrexia, where she was compleated.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Loves technology and excitedly asks Kaito about his drone.
- Happily Adopted: Loves his guardian Tamyio, the only adopter who never tried to replace his parents.
- Interspecies Adoption: A nezumi (anthropomorphic rat) adopted by a moonfolk.
Risona
Color: Red and white
Race: Human
Class: Samurai
The leader of the Asari Uprisers, who took the Emperor's long absence very hard.
- Light Is Not Good: Another White aligned antagonist in Kamigawa, the final boss even.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Emperor's absence meant an increasingly corrupt court and poor living conditions for the underclasses. She will have none of that.
- Villain Has a Point:
"You may have Kyodai, but it is the people's faith that makes a true leader. And the people lost faith in your return long ago—they will not see you the same way they once did."
Light-Paws
Color: White
Race: Kitsune
Class: Advisor
The regent and tutor to the Emperor, Light-Paws has taken up responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the Imperial Court while the Wanderer is away.
- The Good Chancellor: She is uninterested in power for herself, and wishes only to see Eiganjo and the Emperor safe.
- Parental Substitute: The Emperor's parents (that is, ostensibly, the previous Emperor) are never mentioned, and it's basically stated that Light-Paws raised her.
Tameshi
Color: Blue (primary), White
Race: Moonfolk
Class: Wizard
An ambitious young Soratami scientist and friend of Kaito Shizuki whose work with manipulating the Spirit World has forced his reasearch underground, where he met with some less that upstanting benefactors in order to bridge the gap between physical and material.
- Reluctant Mad Scientist: He's a nice enough guy, but his work drove him to begin working under Jin-Gitaxias.
Satoru Umezawa
Color: Blue and Black
Race: Human
Class: Ninja, Rogue
A Reckoners crime boss from the back alleys of Towashi who dubiously claims descent from the ancient Anti-Hero Toshiro Umezawa.
- Ambiguously Related: We have only his word that he is descended from the legendary ronin who is known to have spent his last days on Dominaria.
- Animated Tattoo: One of his most distinctive magical tricks are his Reckoners tattoos, which take the shape of psychedelic-looking dragons, and can be animated as quasi-living creature's under Satoru's command.
- Cyber Ninja: He is indeed a ninja with high-tech gadgets, and he is always pictured as having Artificial Limbs, although it's downplayed as he apparently isn't augmented extensively enough to count as an artifact creature.
