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This page is about the immortal goblin of Weatherlight fame. For the goblin featured in a rhyme and battle cry, see List of secondary characters/Dominaria.
Squee
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Details
Race Goblin
Birthplace Kher Ridges, Dominaria
Lifetime ~4185 AR[1][note 1] - present
Colors
{R}
Sources
Rath and Storm, Mercadian Masques, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse

Squee is a formerly immortal goblin from Dominaria. He was a cabin-hand on the Skyship Weatherlight and the king of a goblin clan for a time.[2]

Description

Squee is known for his foul cooking, love of eating bugs, and manner of speaking. He is illiterate.[3]

History

Because goblins on Dominaria are named by the mother while birthing, Squee is a quite common name. The name indicates that the birth was quite difficult.[4] When he was only ten years old, Squee saved Captain Sisay from his tribe and was exiled in response, leading him to request to join the Weatherlight's crew as a cabin boy.[1]

A genius - among Dominarian goblins at least - Squee was loyal to the crew and managed to save their lives on several occasions, taking a particularly important role during their time on Mercadia when, as a goblin, he was perceived to be one of the elite Kyrens and thus became an elite himself.[5] At some point, the Salvation Sphere found its way to him, protecting the purity of his soul. During the Phyrexian Invasion, Squee was captured by the Phyrexians, and granted immortality by Yawgmoth, so that he might be killed repeatedly by Ertai and Crovax. This backfired and allowed Squee to accidentally kill Ertai. His immortality outlasted the war and he survived centuries longer. He can now rightly claim to be the oldest, and possibly the wisest, goblin of Dominaria.[6]

Dominaria United

About a century before 4562, Squee became the king of a goblin clan, winning a trial by combat by tiring his opponent to death, a tactic he had developed while pit-fighting.[7] Although he ushered in a new age of peace and progress, his clan was slowly infiltrated by Ertai's sleeper agents, and Squee was captured by Ertai and fully Compleated. However, Squee's body blew up the mountain and squished himself, destroying the Phyrexian cell in the process. Finding himself in a changed extradimensional space, Squee learned from Salvation that his soul had been removed from his body by the compleation process, and only by virtue of the body destroying itself did he have a chance to return. He was given a choice between dying permanently or returning to immortality, but chose a third option instead: being revived again, but only once more, becoming a mortal goblin again.[8]

Squee fought alongside Slimefoot in defense of Dominaria during New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse.[9][10]

Planes visited

Though not a planeswalker, Squee traveled through the Multiverse as a crewmember of the Skyship Weatherlight.

Trivia

  • During Weatherlight design and development, Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes was put in charge of establishing Squee's mannerisms and style of speech.[11]
  • In the Un-iverse, Squee is a casino hand rather than a cabin hand.[12]
  • Although Squee, Goblin Nabob, Squee's original card, has a resurrection mechanic, it was released before Squee attained immortality in the storyline, representing his uncanny ability to get out of trouble. He was given immortality later as a reference to his card.

Gallery

Story appearances

Title Author Publishing date Set Setting (plane) Featuring
Death and Salvation Dan Sheehan 2022-08-16 Dominaria United Dominaria Squee, Bulp, Rarp, Spurna, Ertai, Salvation

In-game references

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Notes

  1. ↑ The Tempest Characters page notes Squee was 10 when he joined the crew of the Skyship Weatherlight. As he is already serving on the crew in Part Two of Born to Greatness in 4195, he must have been born by 4185 AR.

References

  1. ↑ a b Tempest Characters (archived)
  2. ↑ Mark Rosewater (December 03, 2007). "Weather(light) Report". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  3. ↑ Toby Wachter (April 24, 2002). "Behind the Canvas: Terese Nielsen". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  4. ↑ Venters, Pete. (1997). "Dominian FAQ". The Duelist. Issue 21.
  5. ↑ Magic Arcana (July 23, 2007). "Squee's Regalia". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  6. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (April 20, 2018). "Legends from Dominaria’s past". The Official Magic: The Gathering Tumblr. Tumblr.
  7. ↑ Roy Graham (September 1, 2022). "The Legends You'll Find in Dominaria United". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  8. ↑ Dan Sheehan (August 16, 2022). "Death and Salvation". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  9. ↑ Mark Rosewater (Apr 3, 2023). "March of the Machine Learning, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  10. ↑ Squee, the Immortal (Multiverse Legends)
  11. ↑ Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes]] (August 1997). "The Set of Sails". The Duelist #18, p.60-63
  12. ↑ Goblin Bookie
  13. ↑ Mark Rosewater (August 21, 2017). "Get It? Unhinged Edition, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
Story publications
Blocks and Sets
Weatherlight crew
Nine Titans
Other characters
See also
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