Sengir

The infamous Baron Sengir is a vampire lord, ruling the Dark Barony on Ulgrotha from Castle Sengir.

History

Before Ulgrotha

Sengir was the son of a small baron. The young baron was described as having perfect white teeth,hair of a healty shade of brwon flattend on his head and precisely combed, and with eyes almost black. His father started dabbling with black magic and, in order to be provided with fresh corpses, summoned a swarm of Plague Rats to infest a village under his protection. The baron's intention was to become an immortal and he had begun the path towards vampirism, bringing with him his son. The baron also made his son sleep into a coffin, much to the disgust of the latter.

Realizing the evil intentions of his father and believing he could be a better ruler, he started visiting the graveyard of the nearby village during the night. Here he met a little orphan, whose parents had died by the plague. Sensing some magical potential in her, he taught her the song used by his father to control the rats, asking her to kill the baron in order to free her village from the plague. In fact, he couldn't kill his own father, or he wouldn't have inherit his barony. After some convincing, the girl finally agreed. The two entered the castle, with a swarm of plague rats subjugated by the girl at their heels. When the girl ordered the rats to attack the baron, he sang the same song of control and repelled them. Confused by the battle of wills, the rats attacked the only other prey in the room: the young Sengir. When the rats slashed the boy's throat, the baron shout a spell that hit his now dead son. Sensing the right moment, the girl once again ordered the rats to devour the baron: they complied. When she opened a window to let the sunlight enter, he heard a scream behind her. The young baron was alive, the slash at his throat completely healed by his father's final spell. However, he was visibly hurt by the sunlight and receded to a dark corner of the room, hinting at his now complete transformation into a vampire. He complimented the magic of the girl and suspected she would become a planeswalker. The two realized they didn't know each other names: the girl's name was Ravi, while the boy has just become the new Baron Sengir. Unbenknowst to both of them, they would be reunited many centuries later.

Ulgrotha

Stranded on Ulgrotha after a planeswalker duel, Baron Sengir created the Dark Barony and has begun to conquer all Ulgrotha after he took the Castle of Morning Light and the subterranean city of New Freedom from the dwarves. As a further insult, he turned the daughter of the dwarven king into a vampire, renaming her Irini Sengir. He freed Ravi from the prison of the Basalt Spire in the Dead Zone and named her Grandmother Sengir, who in turn taught him most of his magic. His most loyal servant was Veldrane of Sengir. Outside his immediate "family," he also made a pact with Eron the Relentless, stating that Eron would provide food for the Sengirian villages and that Sengir would not send minions against Koskun Keep.

The Baron sent vampires to raid Aysen to instill fear in the populace. He met Serra once, and, later, spoke with both Serra and Feroz one night after he saw them from his Black Carriage, and warned the two planeswalkers not to interrupt his plans for Ulgrotha.

After he turned the Serra paladin Ihsan into a shade, he then stopped his raids on Aysen, hoping that the city-states would fall apart on their own from interior conflicts. After Feroz's death, Sengir convinced Serra to leave the plane before she did any more harm, and knew later when she was killed. The Baron has discovered the Dwarven Gate in the basement of his castle, though he does not know where it leads. The Autumn Willow has foreseen the Baron marching an army through the portal to another world. But in the information known of the Baron, that had yet to occur and he was focusing on conquering all of Ulgrotha first. It is quite possible that he has achieved that goal, as in 4505 AR his armies of vampires were seen marching out of Castle Sengir into the night.

In-game references

Represented in:

• Baron Sengir

Depicted in:

• Drawn Together

Associated cards:

• Castle Sengir
• Grandmother Sengir
• Irini Sengir
• Sengir Autocrat
• Sengir Bats
• Sengir Nosferatu
• Sengir Vampire
• The Dark Barony
• Veldrane of Sengir

Quoted or referred to:

• An-Zerrin Ruins
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• Black Carriage
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• Elixir of Immortality
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• Feast of the Unicorn
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• Rashka the Slayer
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