Mishra

Template:Character Mishra was the brother of Urza. A cruel and ruthless Argivian artificer, he had the same humble origins as his brother, eventually coming to control the western half of Terisiare (i.e. Zegon). Unlike his brother he focused his mind on a single goal. Mishra was able to confederate various Fallaji tribes of the Western Desert under his command. Eventually, 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 favor 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 Tocasia's camp, Urza discovered that all of the sites where large amounts of Thran devices were found seemed to circle around a central point. Tocasia, 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 powerstone. 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 increasingly 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 stronger than normally possible, while Mishra's stone sapped the strength from both artifacts and living creatures. Urza named this the Weakstone. Another effect the visit to Koilos had was that Mishra had disturbing dreams about darkness, trying to lure him to somewhere.

One night after drinking Mishra went to confront Urza and tried to take the stone from him, the fight was heard around the camp, and when Tocasia 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

Mishra travelled through the desert, lured to Koilos by the darkness in his dreams. Before he could reach it, he was captured by the Suwwardi, a militant faction of the Fallaji, was subjugated into slavery for them and had the Weakstone taken from him. He was forced to do all sorts of menial tasks, until he came across Hajar, a young Fallaji who had been at Tocasia's camp. Hajar convinced the Qadir, or leader, of the Suwwardi to appoint Mishra as rakiq, or teacher, to his young son, teaching him the language of Argive. Mishra's lot improved for a few years, but the Qadir began to worry about his son. In Fallaji culture, it was seen as weakness to rely on others, so the Qadir began to ponder having Mishra killed so his son would not rely on him.

That plan never developed, for one night, Mishra had another disturbing dream, of a mechanical parody of nature. Waking from this screaming, he had no time to dwell on it, for a giant mechanical beast in the shape of a dragon appeared from under the sands and started rampaging. The Qadir was killed in the confusion. Mishra and Hajar used this confusion to retrieve the w\Weakstone, so Mishra could weaken it, but to everyone's surprise, Mishra found he could directly control it.

The Qadir's son became the new Qadir, and appointed Mishra his Raki, or Wizard, and set about using the dragon engine, or Mak Fawa, to unify the Fallaji people under the Suwwardi.

Raki to the Qadir

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Artifice Qadir

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Pawn of Gix

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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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