Towser
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Tow Towie | |
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| Species | Human |
| Job | Wizard |
| Spark | Planeswalker |
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| Birthplace | Dominaria |
| Lifetime | War with Phyrexia |
| Born | c. 4054 AR |
Towser was an egotistical wizard interested in astronomy and astrology, living in Aerona on Dominaria. He was the main foe of Greensleeves and Gull.
Description
Towser was a gaudy wizard with a head of stiff yellow curls and a bushy mustache. He wore a robe sewn in layers, dark blue at the bottom shading to yellow at the waist, then flowing like a rainbow to pink and red at the stiffened shoulders.[1] He carried an artifact that looked like a child's rattle and could divert attacks and a small brass-bound book hung by chains.[2]
Towser was constantly fretting over his health.[3] He believed that using magic drained his "vital juices", and he constantly complained about "balancing the salts" and "maintaining electricity". His nurse, Haley, administered six potions a day, while Kakulina, his astrologer, shared his readings.
Towser rode with a wagon train of five wagons.[3] The chuck wagon lead the train, driven by Gorman and later Gull and containing Felda the cook, her helper Stiggur, and Greensleeves. The second wagon was the women's wagon, carrying six beautiful dancing girls who served as Towser's rotating harem: Lily, Rose, Orchid, Peachblossom, Jonquil, and Bluebonnet. The center wagon was a solid box wagon, gaudy with gold filigree and carved faces and painted scenes of the world. The wizard spent most of the day and night inside, while his clerk Knoton drove. The fourth wagon was the astrologer's wagon, which held Haley the nurse, Kakulina the astrologer, and Ranon Spiritsinger the bard. The final wagon was the men's wagon, which held the bodyguards Chad, Kem, Morven, and Oles, who took turns driving the other wagons and protecting Towser. Altogether, there were eighteen people in Towser's retinue, each paid two gold crowns a day, as well as eight mules and twelve horses.
History
In 4073 AR, Towser followed a falling object to the Whispering Woods, where he met the rival wizard Dacian outside the village of White Ridge, and engaged in a battle that resulted in the village's destruction.[1]
After the destruction of White Ridge, he hired Gull as a member of his traveling crew to tend his livestock and wagons.[2] After he had gathered a group of wizards, whom Greensleeves once defeated, he planned to kill her by stealing and copying her Nova Pentacle, making her unable to summon the bound spellcasters. After Greensleeves defeated him yet again during the Battle of Lat-Nam, she found a terrifying punishment for Towser. With the Stone Brain, she took away his gift of doing magic, rendering him a mere common man - the ultimate punishment for one as power-crazed as Towser.[4]
Colors of magic
Towser used all five colors of magic: white (Circle of Protection,[5] Indestructible Aura), blue (Flight, Unsummon, Mahamoti Djinn), black (Weakness), red (Goblin Balloon Brigade, Rock Hydra, barbarians) and green (Wall of Brambles).
Towser's spark
Towser is explicitly stated to be able to "move [himself] through the void", also called "shifting", in Shattered Chains.[6] Towser appeared only in books prior to Mirage, in which there was no mention of a planeswalker's spark: the words "wizard" and "planeswalker" were often used interchangeably, and any mage could "pierce the veil" and travel across the planes with the right spell and sufficient mana. For some of these characters, it was later retconned that they actually possessed sparks that were ignited by the spells they cast, but no such statement has yet been made regarding Towser.
Story appearances
References
- ↑ a b Clayton Emery (November 23, 1994). "Chapter 1". Magic: The Gathering - Whispering Woods, HarperPrism. ISBN-13 978-0061054181.
- ↑ a b Clayton Emery (November 23, 1994). "Chapter 6". Magic: The Gathering - Whispering Woods, HarperPrism. ISBN-13 978-0061054181.
- ↑ a b Clayton Emery (November 23, 1994). "Chapter 7". Magic: The Gathering - Whispering Woods, HarperPrism. ISBN-13 978-0061054181.
- ↑ Clayton Emery (1995) - Final Sacrifice, HarperPrism.
- ↑ Clayton Emery (November 23, 1994). "Chapter 12". Magic: The Gathering - Whispering Woods, HarperPrism. ISBN-13 978-0061054181.
- ↑ Clayton Emery (January 27, 1995). "Chapter 6". Shattered Chains, HarperPrism. ISBN-13 978-0061054198.