Mishra

Template:Character Mishra is the brother of Urza. A cruel and ruthless Argivian artificer, controlling western half of Terisiare (i.e. Zegon). Unlike his brother he focussed his mind on a single goal. Mishra was able to to confederate various Fallaji tribes of the Western Desert under his command. He and Urza fought a long and bloody war. Unlike his brother, he did not become a Planeswalker.

Early Years

Mishra was born on the last day of the year 0 AR (Or 912 PF) to one of the Noble Families of Argive, one of the three coastal Kingdoms of Terisiare. His older brother Urza was born on the first day of the same year.

A number of years after the Brothers' birth, their mother died. Their father married another member of the aristocracy. This woman ignored the boys at best and showed them contempt at worst. In 10 AR their father fell ill, and he arranged for them to travel to the excavation sites of Tocasia, to whom he had done a favour some years earlier. They were apprenticed to her, and unlike other children sent to her camps, they remained with her.

Apprenticeship to Tocasia

Tocasia's camp was located in the desert, and was populated by the more modern of the desert tribesmen, called the Fallaji, and by young nobles who were sent there by their parents. Through the years, Mishra grew to be the polar opposite of his brother, for his brother was cold and favored the artifacts they excavated. Mishra instead enjoyed interacting with the people at the dig sites and participated in almost all of the digs, and eventually came to oversee all of the digs done at Torcasia's camp.

While studying the Thran, an ancient race whose machines were the main reason for Torcasia's camp, Urza discovered that all of the sites where large amounts of Thran devices were found seemed to circle around a central point. Torcasia, Urza, and Mishra flew to this place in an Ornithopter, a Thran flying machine found by Mishra and his brother. Once there they found a large Thran City, which Urza named Koilos, the Argivian word for "secret". They landed and wandered among the ruins of the city, and when the finally got to the center of the city they found a great machine powered by a Thran power stone. While inspecting the machine there was an explosion, when they awoke from the aftermath each brother was holding one half of the great stone in his hand.

After the explosion each brother became increasing hostile towards one another. the stones seemd to have odd effects on both living and non living things. Urza's stone, which he named the Mightstone, seemed to make things stonger than normally possible, while Mishra's stone sapped the strength from both artifacts and living creatures. Urza named this the Weakstone. One night after much drinking Mishra went to confront Urza and tried to take the stone from him, the fight was heard around the camp, and when Torcasia tried to stop the brothers she was caught in between the power surging from the two stones and died. Mishra , ashamed at what he had caused, fled into the desert during the confusion that followed.

Fallaji Rakiq

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Raki to the Qadir

To be Written After Mishra ran away, Urza made Dominia into an artifact forging aera with towers, powerplants and mines. Mishra did the same and soon created a war with anything from Ornithopters to Triskellons. Soon Atogs and Yawgmouth Demons which eat metal came to Dominia and soon a cataclismic war started.

Artifice Qadir

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Pawn of Gix

He had been a pawn of Gix at some point. He created a few artifacts, but did not truly gain power.

Final Punishment

In the battle of Argoth, Urza revealed Mishra to be a construct of flesh and Phyrexian metal. When Mishra completely abandoned his humanity to attack his brother, Urza released an enormous burst of power that destroyed both Mishra and the sentient forest they were fighting over. It is said that Mishra now lies deep in the Center of Phyrexia, his body wrecked with fresh pain and torments day in, day out.

Mishra's Legacy

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