Weaver King

The Weaver King was a villain in the Planar Chaos and Future Sight novels.

Background

The Weaver King was born Oleg en-Dal (later il-Dal), a brave nomad warrior who opposed the Stronghold. Gradually his tribe was killed off, and eventually he led his remaining people to the Stronghold to swear allegiance to the Evincar and start a new life in the City of Traitors. Most of the tribesmen were accepted but Oleg was imprisoned in the Stronghold dungeons and experimented on by Volrath, to pay for the soldiers he had killed. Months of mental abuse and solitary confinement ruined Oleg's mind, driving him mad.

When Volrath put a mother and her young child in a labyrinth with Oleg, he inadvertently killed the child and possessed the mother. Oleg experimented with his newfound powers of possession and control. "Oleg il-Dal died at last, and the Weaver King was born,". When Volrath was overthrown by Crovax, the Weaver King was forgotten for many years. During the Rathi Overlay he was brought to Urborg along with the Stronghold and became a shadow creature.

The Weaver King spent the next 300 years after the Phyrexian Invasion creating a vast web of mental strands between the inhabitants of Urborg, a web which he travels along like a spider, manipulating people and events for his own entertainment. Venser becomes his new favorite "toy", and he messes with many of Venser's plans, until Lord Windgrace puts a Gladehunter mark on Venser, which keeps the King out of his mind.

Leshrac later found him and manipulated him toward his own ends.

Death

Venser eventually killed the Weaver King, when he planeswalked away, holding only the exterior of a pair of powerstones. The vast energy the powerstones held exploded outward, killing even the incorporeal Weaver King.