Khali

Khali
[[File:{{#setmainimage:Kor Hookmaster.jpg}}|250px]] A kor hookmaster
Details
Race	Kor
Birthplace	Zendikar
Lifetime	Mending Era
Relatives	Sha'heel (twin brother)
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Khali is a Kor hookmaster from Zendikar.

History

Khali and her twin brother Sha'heel joined Nissa Revane and the three humans Hamadi, Bahkut, and Alira in hunting Eldrazi. As an experienced hookmaster, Khali and her brother led the climb up the gravity fields, and through the maze of floating boulders. Nissa watched the brother and sister communicate with a series of intricate hand gestures as they made their way deeper into the gravity field. Dozens of massive boulders moved in apparent chaos as they collided and rolled. Khali and Sha'heel moved their party along, picking through the hazards with ease. Their ropes were like magical extensions of their arms, as they flicked out their lines to catch passing rock faces or swung onto new boulders as they floated by.

As the sun reached its zenith, they paused, suspended on ropes between three boulders that floated over a canyon. Then a scream echoed around them, and Khali whistled and pointed down. Far below, a Pathrazer — a spawn of the titan Ulamog — emerged from under the earth before a scattered group of adventurers.

Sha'heel pulled out a knife and cut his anchor lines with one smooth motion. The ropes popped as Sha'heel plunged toward the ground in a free fall. Energy surged from Nissa and vines writhed from the side of the boulder in an explosion of growth and sunk their roots deep into the rock. Nissa rode the tangle of vines down to the ground. Below her, Sha'heel had opened up a kitesail and sped toward the Eldrazi, a hook line in his hand.

Ten travelers were strewn about. Before anyone could act, the Pathrazer had grabbed several of the expedition and crushed them in its tentacled hand. Sha'heel swooped low and set an anchor hook into the Pathrazer's rubbery flesh. The Eldrazi swatted at him as Sha'heel executed a series of tight spirals and let out a tangling line of rope. Then Khali streaked across the Eldrazi's legs and trailed another tangling line. The Eldrazi swiped at the Kor as the remaining expedition warriors shot arrows at it.

Khali ditched her kitesail into some rocky cover and rolled out of sight, while Nissa hit the ground running. The Kor's ropes popped as the Eldrazi freed itself, but all sounds were overwhelmed by the bone-shaking rumble of the land as it came to life. Green fire shot out from Nissa into the earth. A massive elemental emerged in several enormous chunks, tearing itself from the side of the canyon in a shower of earth. The Eldrazi turned, only to be grabbed by a massive hand made from rock, roots, and dirt.

The elemental squeezed the Eldrazi, and Nissa gritted her teeth, channeling a large amount of power. The Eldrazi struggled and clawed at the earthen colossus but the elemental only tightened its grip. Two other elementals emerged in a thunder of earth. The towering behemoths closed in on the writhing Eldrazi as it emitted a burst of staccato sounds that tore through the air, but its sounds were soon cut off as the other two hulks bludgeoned the Pathrazer into a wriggling mass of unrecognizable flesh. This act certainly underlined Nissa's title of "Shaya" - Worldwaker.

Story Appearances

Title	Author	Release Date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Nissa, Worldwaker	Kelly Digges	2014-06-25	Magic 2015 / Prologue to Battle for Zendikar	Zendikar	Nissa Revane, Ulamog, Hamadi, Bahkut, Alira, Khali, Sha'heel