Kei Takahashi

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Kei Takahashi
Information
Colors
Species	Human Eumidian
Job	Cleric
Birth, Life & Death
Birthplace	Empire of Madara, Dominaria
Lifetime	War with Phyrexia
Born	c.3585 AR
Death	3607 AR
Sources
Assassin's Blade, Emperor's Fist

Kei Takahashi was a Dominarian healer-in-training with the natural magical ability to sense danger and to prevent damage. He was the student of Ayesha Tanaka and the healer of Tetsuo Umezawa's entourage.

Description

Kei was a tall and gangly youth with his face painted white in the style of a healer in training. He wore his long black hair knotted at the top of his head.

After being infected with a eumidian transformation, he stopped showing signs of fatigue and held a peculiar posture, often with his clawed fingers and toes buried deep into wooden or earthen surfaces, even if they were vertical or inverted. His knee and elbow joints sprouted bony, upturned barbs that punched through his clothing when he moved. Protruding cheekbones and jagged eyebrow ridges framed the youth's inhumanely wide eye sockets. In the shadow of these ridges, his eyes were a sickly yellowish-green, studded with a dozen red pupils each. His movements were short and sharp, staccato bursts of speed and precision. He skittered when he moved and chittered with his teeth when excited or annoyed.

History

Kei had a rough youth, living with an abusive foster family. His life took a turn for the better when Ayesha discovered his natural abilities and decided to train and adopt him. Kei lived a happy life while training under her.

During the Madara-Edemi War, when Ramses Overdark wanted to lure Tetsuo to the Edemi Islands, he had his master assassin, the eumidian Xira Arien, infect Kei with her brood. Kei fell seriously ill due to the larva growing inside him and suffered from insectoid mutations. Tetsuo and his entourage tracked Xira down, hoping she could cure Kei. However, she discovered there was no cure. Tetsuo and Ayesha did manage to kill the insect growing within Kei, but he had to live with his mutations.

The mutations turned out not to be just physical, for he became vicious and hungry for battle after his ordeal. A few weeks after the larva was killed, Kei, along with the rest of Tetsuo's entourage, was forced to join the kentsu as punishment for Tetsuo's role in the failure of Overdark's attack on the Edemis. Kei was placed in a squad of healers but longed to fight alongside the soldiers. While Kei served on Kusho, Ayesha took the Sylvan Library from Lord Magnus and tried to warn her student about the poisoning of the mana lines on Kusho. However, she could only contact Kusho via evergreen trees transplanted from Argenti. Kei and Tor Wauki, Tetsuo's second, went looking for these evergreens after the only one they knew of was burned by Barktooth Warbeard. They didn't find any but discovered Ramirez DePietro protecting the sick Kushoans. While caring for the ill, Kei was suddenly attacked by Tor. In the following fight, Kei discovered that the "Tor" who attacked him, just like the "Warbeard" that had destroyed the evergreen tree, was the shapeshifter Halfdane. Kei and the real Tor were both mortally wounded by 'Dane and Xira Arien respectively, but Kei used the last of his energy to heal Tor, saving his life while at the same time forfeiting his own.

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