Taysir of Rabiah

Taysir in the Acclaim Ice Age comic #3

Taysir was the most powerful of the prerevisionist planeswalkers, and where he stands compared to Urza is debatable. His storied life was unique even before his planeswalkers' spark flared -- during the thousandfold refraction of Rabiah, he was copied five times, instead of one thousand. Each Taysir became the master of one of the colors of magic; the black magic user was used by the power-hungry Sorceress Queen, Nailah. The black Taysir betrayed her, and in the end, the five Taysirs merged, becoming a powerful planeswalker with mastery over all five colors. Nailah's sole revenge was a spell forever locking him away from Rabiah -- he could never return home.

Taysir happened upon Dominaria just before the Shard formed, trapping him in the twelve-plane nexus. But he was not alone -- on the Dominarian continent Corondor, he met and fell in love with fellow planeswalker Kristina of the Woods. They explored the twelve planes, helping troubled peoples where they could.

One day, they were drawn, like many other planeswalkers in the Shard, to the Summit of the Null Moon by the planeswalker Faralyn, to discuss the Shard and how to break it. the meeting descended into chaos, and Faralyn escaped to Shandalar by sacrificing the life of his apprentice, Ravidel. Kristina and Taysir revived the younger planeswalker, not imagining what trouble he would cause.

The Shard was broken without their help, and Taysir and Kristina were finally free to move about the multiverse. Taysir wished for Kristina to help him return to Rabiah, which was within her power -- but they would then both be trapped there forever, which she could not live with, now that the entire multiverse was open to her. The two parted ways, and the embittered Taysir took on Ravidel as an apprentice.

Ravidel pushed his teacher to return home using the same means Faralyn had used to escape the Shard -- by sacrificing another planeswalker. Taysir eventually relented, deciding to hunt down and execute the evil Leshrac and Tevesh Szat, who had started the fighting during the Summit. Szat could not be found, and while Leshrac was defeated, he wound up imprisoned deep in hellish Phyrexia instead of killed, depriving Taysir of the energy he needed to return home.

Kristina, meanwhile, had fallen in love with the minotaur planeswalker, Sandruu. Ravidel discovered this, and told Taysir, who was still carrying a torch for Kristina. He attacked Sandruu, and pursued him when he fled to his homeworld, Ulgrotha. There, he defeated Sandruu, and banished him to a remote plane it would take him a millenia to find his way back from. This enraged Feroz, the planeswalker guardian of Ulgrotha and a friend of Sandruu's. He was defeated utterly, and cast into a plane thought of as the afterlife by Sandruu's Anaba clan.

Over the course of two centuries, the Anaba Ancestors tempered Taysir's fury, and redeemed his spirit. He managed to resume physical form, now that of a withered old man as a sign of his repetance. As a response Taysir's belligerant arrival, Feroz had created a ban around Ulgrotha, again trapping Taysir away from the multiverse. He found a young native planeswalker there, Daria, and took her as an apprentice, remaining with her even after the ban fell after Feroz's death. Once Daria was strong enough to take care of herself for short periods, he began looking around the multiverse now and then, still remembering his love for Kristina and vow to punish Tevesh Szat. He, like many others, was drawn to Dominaira by the Mox Beacon, and played a role in the Planeswalker War on Corondor.

Taysir was one of the eight planeswalkers recruited by Urza to participate in attack on Phyrexia during the Phyrexian Invasion. Since Teferi opted out at the last minute, Daria took his place in the Nine Titans. This team of planeswalkers included other important names like Kristina, Freyalise, Lord Windgrace, and of all people, Tevesh Szat. Urza insisted on Szat's participation, over the objections of everyone else in the group. The objections were not unfounded -- Szat killed Kristina by "accident" early in the assault, then hunted down Daria deliberately later on. Urza knew Szat would betray them, and allowed him to do so so that he would have the moral ground necessary to kill him to charge one of his weapons. Taysir, grieving, grew mutinous; when Urza's sympathy with Phyrexia made him switch allegiences, Taysir attacked him, and was killed. Lord Windgrace took Taysir's heart and put it beside his own, to ensure part of Taysir would live on.