Bori Andon

Bori Andon
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Race	Human
Birthplace	Ravnica
Lifetime	Mending Era
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Bori Andon is a well-respected Nivix guildmage and Izzet blastseeker on Ravnica, highly skilled but incredibly reckless. He was at one point on an Azorius list of the ten most wanted criminals.

History

Despite his Izzet guild affiliation, the destructive nature of Bori Andon's experiments could at one point no longer be ignored by the Azorius. Bori launched a viashino through the priceless stained-glass window at the Harmony Basilica, and his Ossmorpher machine disintegrated the Veil Theatre, including their thousand-year-old collection of masks.

Prime Izmagnus Micas Vay and his council safeguarded Bori Andon from the Azorius who hunted for him. To stop his destructive ways and call off the attention of the Senate, the council halted Bori's projects and instead gave him a special task: to solve the Theorem of Simultaneous Discordance. The theorem questioned whether a single person could simultaneously ring all seven bells in the seven great bell towers of the Kalnika Quarter. Many great minds had tried and failed before him, and the theorem was rumored to be impossible to prove. Izmagnus Vay claimed that Niv-Mizzet himself had given this task to Bori, but it seemed just as likely that he was trying to stifle Bori's ambition because Vay was threatened by the guildmage's success.

After his dismissal from the council, Bori resolved to complete his special task, no matter how impossible it seemed, while a black-haired Dimir agent started trailing him to check if the Theorem was in any danger of being solved. Bori first visited his friend, the mapmaker Zaba, who provided him with the correct route between the seven towers as well as a history lesson regarding the magic of the bells.

Bori then performed a series of trial experiments. He set off a cyclone that damaged the Dome of the Black Dove and a mass mind attack that caused widespread memory loss, disorientation, and bleeding out of people's ears, but enabled him to view the crisscrossing Dimir conduits running between the bell towers. At this point, both the Azorius Order of Architects and the Dimir's Kalnika operation wanted Bori's head. The Dimir found him first, cornering him in his lab, but were surprised by a pair of Boros patrolmen, and Bori managed to slip out a secret door during the ensuing fight.

Bori then fled to the edge of the Quarter and set off a device that exploded all the Dimir conduits, and in the distance, the damaged but still glorious Dome of the Black Dove crumbled like sand. A vampire enforcer working for the Dimir caught Bori, but the guildmage activated a stunning device and escaped. After this, the Dimir reassessed Bori's capabilities and decided to turn his skills to their cause instead of killing him outright.

Bori hid in an ashbin on a roof and finally managed to activate all seven bells at once using his device. The terrible noise caused widespread hearing loss, headaches, and disorientation among the locals, and caused three of the bells to tear themselves apart.

Bori Andon then returned to the Council of the Izmagnus, where he received a standing ovation for having solved the Theorem. Afterward, he received a gift of a tiny silver bell with a delightful chime. He was happy to receive this gift, not knowing that it would be the catalyst for his mind manipulation by the Dimir.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
The Azorius Ten Most Wanted	Jenna Helland	2012-10-31	Return to Ravnica	Ravnica	Ritjit, Ruzi and Kuma, Senka, Bori Andon, Krenko, Mr. Taz, The Cozen, Damir, Vraska, Massacre Girl
The Seven Bells, Part 1	Jenna Helland	2012-11-07	Return to Ravnica	Ravnica	Bori Andon, Micas Vay, Zaba
The Seven Bells, Part 2	Jenna Helland	2012-11-14	Return to Ravnica	Ravnica	Bori Andon

In-game references

Represented in:

• Nivix Guildmage

Quoted or referred to:

• Essence Backlash
• Hypothesizzle
• Mind Static
• Pursuit of Flight