Oviya Pashiri

Oviya Pashiri
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Race	Human
Birthplace	Kaladesh
Lifetime	Mending Era
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Oviya Pashiri, or Mrs. Pashiri, is a renegade lifecrafter from Kaladesh. She is called a Grandmother by Ajani Goldmane.

Description

Oviya is an elderly female human with gray hair. She believes beauty should be at the heart of every invention. An acclaimed lifecrafter, she spent many years mentoring young artificers. But when she lost her wife, she took to working on her designs in secret. She hired smugglers, including the Nalaars, to supply her with aether for her ingenious creations.

History

Oviya Pashiri spent much of her life teaching some of Ghirapur's most famous icons how to craft artifact creatures. But she gave up her mentorship when her wife fell ill, choosing to spend over a year at her beloved's bedside. After her partner died, Oviya worked a menial job in the Foundry of the Consuls while she focused on her designs in secret. She worked with smugglers, including the Nalaars, to secure enough aether for her ingenious thopters and drones. Since Chandra's disappearance, Oviya has been working on a secret project of great scale.

Oviya Pashiri was the contact person that Chandra was to deliver aether to before she manifested pyromantic abilities. When Oviya learned about it, she agreed to hide Chandra's abilities from the Consulate officers. Later, she witnessed Chandra's ignition during her supposed execution by Baral.

In the following years, Oviya worked closely with Renegade Prime, Chandra's surviving mother Pia, both believing that Chandra was dead. At some point, Oviya made the acquaintance of Ajani Goldmane, who had come to Kaladesh to track Tezzeret down. When Chandra returned to Kaladesh and Pia was arrested, Oviya took her and her friend Nissa Revane under her protection, promising them to rescue Pia. They visited the party of the Aetherborn Yahenni. While Yahenni was at first unable to aid them, a Consulate officer hunting for a criminal Aetherborn at her party allowed her to learn that the prison where Pia Nalaar was held was the Dhund. Pashiri told Chandra that Baral was still stationed there. The trio searched in the tunnels beneath the night market after the rumored position of the Dhund. With Nissa's aid, they managed to locate the aether pipelines that connected the prison to the rest of the city's infrastructure and found the hidden prison. When they entered it, however, Baral already awaited them, having been warned by Dovin Baan. Baral lured the group into an airtight, enchanted Deadlock Trap, intending to turn Chandra's pyromancy against them by using up the air faster while filling the trap with poisonous gas. Oviya resigned herself to her fate, telling the two girls that she had lived a fulfilled life and was ready to die. They were freed by Ajani, who had come in search of Oviya Pashiri. Afterwards, the planeswalkers brought Oviya to safety.

During the revolt against the Consulate, Oviya participated and again protected Chandra from Baral. In retaliation, the Chief of Compliance ordered to fire on her, wounding the lifecrafter critically in an attempt to drive Chandra into despair. Oviya herself was saved by Ajani, who used his healing magic to preserve her life.

Oviya later aided the Renegades in their attack on the Consulate's Spire.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Chandra's Origin: Fire Logic	Doug Beyer	2015-06-10	Magic Origins	Kaladesh, Regatha	Chandra Nalaar, Pia Nalaar, Kiran Nalaar, Dhiren Baral, Oviya Pashiri
Renegade Prime	Mel Li	2016-09-14	Kaladesh	Kaladesh	Pia Nalaar, Dhiren Baral, Tamni, Venkat Dasai, Nadya, Kari Zev, Viprikti, Dovin Baan, Chandra Nalaar, Liliana Vess, Nissa Revane, Tezzeret, Oviya Pashiri
Born of Aether	Alison Luhrs	2016-09-21	Kaladesh	Kaladesh	Yahenni, Nived, Depala, Oviya Pashiri, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane
Bottled Up	James Wyatt	2016-09-28	Kaladesh	Kaladesh	Oviya Pashiri, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Dhiren Baral
Release	Chris L'Etoile	2016-10-05	Kaladesh	Kamigawa, Kaladesh	Ajani Goldmane, Nashi, Umeyo, Hiroku, Rumiyo, Tamiyo, Genku, Vatti, Dayal, Tamni, Mihir, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Oviya Pashiri
In This Very Arena	Doug Beyer	2016-10-12	Kaladesh	Ravnica, Kaladesh	The Gatewatch, Ral Zarek, Oviya Pashiri, Ajani Goldmane, Kambal, Pia Nalaar, Dhiren Baral, Rashmi, Tezzeret, Saheeli Rai
Burn	Chris L'Etoile	2017-01-04	Aether Revolt	Kaladesh	Dovin Baan, Tezzeret, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Gideon Jura, Jace Beleren, Liliana Vess, Dhiren Baral, Ajani Goldmane, Vatti, Oviya Pashiri
Breaking Points	Doug Beyer	2017-01-18	Aether Revolt	Kaladesh	Gideon Jura, Chandra Nalaar, Liliana Vess, Pia Nalaar, Saheeli Rai, Rashmi, Hope of Ghirapur, Ajani Goldmane, Nissa Revane, Oviya Pashiri, Dovin Baan, Vatti

In-game references

Represented in:

• Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter

Quoted or referred to:

• Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• Ridgescale Tusker