Xenagos

Template:Character Xenagos is a satyr planeswalker aligned with red and green mana. He is the lord of Skola Valley and is known at large as "King Stranger".

History

Xenagos's history of violence and ego began before he was even born, slaying his twin sister while they were each still in the womb. In time, his mother, Raissa, would give birth, knowing that Xenagos would bear a fate destined to be something special. Unlike the others of her kind, she stayed and attempted to raise the child that she knew was fated for something great.

It was a terrible decision.

Xenagos displayed a wanton disregard for life, killing another child and leading Raissa to flee with her child from Setessa. It did not stop there though. At six, he began to attempt to murder his own mother. He seemed impressed by her ability to overcome his repeated attempts on her life, but all Raissa desired were answers. The answers she got were confusing and terrifying, as she saw visions of her son rise to challenge the gods themselves.

The Rise of King Stranger

Like the rest of his kind, Xenagos led the life of a hedonist, reveling in a care free life of pleasure without inhibitions. At some point, this lifestyle led to his ascension, his spark igniting during the Bakkeia. Xenagos took advantage of his newfound status and perspective, engaging in revelries elsewhere in the Multiverse and enjoying the new pleasures available to him, but soon he was aware of a grim reality: that he, ultimately, was utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and that the gods' reach was meaningless outside of Theros. Following the trauma of this revelation, and disillusioned with the meaningless hedonism, the satyr became progressively more ambitious.

Return to Theros

Some time later, Xenagos returned to his birthplane, finding his old hedonistic lifestyle exceedingly dull and the gods to be a farce that he was no longer willing to participate in. His ambitions had evolved into a desire for outright godhood, to join or replace the pantheon of Theros, and so he began gathering his forces of eldritch, otherwordly monsters to attack the poleis of Meletis, Akros and Setessa. These attacks became so severe that the gods themselves began to go blind, cut off from their oracles. This drove them into a panic which escalated as they blamed the others of their kind for the transgression. Only Nylea seemed to be aware of the threat he played, but with his otherworldly magic, none of the gods could truly stop him.

In circumstances largely under mystery, he managed to ascend to godhood. This occurred during a minotaur siege at Akros, battled off by armies led by Elspeth. The victory celebration was the final ingredient to Xenagos' divine ascension, and and in the ensuing turmoil the Sun god's champion was ironically scapegoated for this, resulting in her exile to the wilderness. Xenagos now holds the position of the god of the revels, furthering the chaos and distrust of the established pantheon. Heliod was particularly offended by his ascension and sought to destroy the satyr, whom he refers to as "the usurper". He planned to punish all of mortalkind for the actions of the new god.

In-game references

Represented in:

• Xenagos, the Reveler
• Xenagos, God of Revels
• Xenagos Ascended

Depicted in:

• Deicide
• Fanatic of Xenagos
• Impulsive Charge
• Silence the Believers
• Strength of the Fallen
• Xenagos's Scorn
• Xenagos's Strike

Quoted or referred to:

• Annul (Theros)
• Destructive Revelry
• Eidolon of the Great Revel
• Fanatic of Xenagos
• Mischief and Mayhem
• Reckless Reveler
• Revel of the Fallen God
• Rollick of Abandon
• Satyr Hoplite

Trivia

Xenagos was originally designed with a goat head, but this was scrapped due to him looking "too demonic and inhuman".