#madaya

Alright, that's a lot of people. So in addition to some descriptions and the card designs, I'll also have a rating for how close to reality this is, ranging from 0 (no part of this exists and it's pulled from some alternate reality), to 1 (the vehicle/mount exists, but they haven't heard of or wouldn't participate in any Ghirapur Grand Prix races), to 2 (they might actually have considered participating with that mount/vehicle). So, in the same order as in the ask...

Dancing-Hands

Reality Rating: 0 (this Vehicle doesn't exist, AND Dancing-Hands likely wouldn't participate in the race)

Dancing-Hands isn't exactly a racing type. The most likely way to get him there would be as part of efforts to support the Amonkhetu effort. But even there he'd likely not want to undermine their endeavor to show their own skills and abilities. This vehicle, the Psicycle, is one that would likely be born of Kamigawan tech, harnessing Dancing-Hands' powerful short-range telekinesis to power the entire vehicle. As a result, he'd likely be riding it fully laying down in a small cabin to have the engine as close to him as possible.

Arega

Reality Rating: 1 (the ?vehicle? exists, though I don't know if they were even aware of the Grand Prix)

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes... And also a tree?

Arega recently designed and cultivated for themselves a bioship to travel the Space-y plane of Sicarius at their leisure. Of course, they're Simic, so the "ship" is a living organism, though not one that's typically independently aware. Arega doesn't quite ride or pilot it in conventional ways, since they can just inhabit it as their own body, just like they can most of their creations. But it is a ship since it was made to be able to transport their main body as they inhabit the ship... And potentially passengers! There are technically two nested organisms in the full ship, a personal craft that can only carry Arega (or one cramped passenger for a short time) depicted on the card here, and a much larger one that has actual room for up to two passengers as well as living amenities, production of fruit to feed them, and some manual controls.

Built to drift on aether currents or propel itself with wings that power it via photosynthesis, it's unclear how well it would fare in a race, and if it could keep up in speed. But Arega's inhabiting of it as a body would make it much more reactive and intuitive than any Vehicle or Mount/Rider combo.

Jaspar

1. That car came from a regime_controled area. Entered with the Red Cross . And they distributed Chipes. Hence, a lot of kids followed the car.

2. Those two villages [Foa'a and Kafraya] are in the rebels-held areas.

3. The people in Foa'a and Kafraya are pro-Assad. And most of the fighters there have fought the rebels aggressively.

4. There is an agreement between rebles forces and Iran to evacuate the people from those 2 villages safety , in exchange of displaceing the people of Madaya and Zabadani which are under siege by the regime Safely . along with some other conditions.

5. The regime is against this agreement from day one and Iran force them to agree. Cuz the majority of people of Fo'aa and Kafraya are Shia and Assad had this as a winning ticket to attract ideological Shiite militias into Syria and if the agreement to success, that allegation will go down the drain.

Friday is around for fanwalkers of all kind, and I believe it’s time I wrote some stuff about those two that were created in the past few weeks. They’re both open to questions for today and the foreseeable future, in case you want to learn any more about them.

Madaya Svetlena Soari is a human from Kaladesh. She was a skilled magician (as in, prestidigitator, not an actual mage) and earned her living at various (mostly aetherborn-funded) parties in Ghirapur. That is, until the whole Revolt affair started, canceled parties for a while, brought Magic with a capital M into the spotlight. By the time she was back onto her feet she couldn’t find any more work, everybody looking for “real” mages that were much more in fashion.

She despises Magic, and grew more and more desperate. When she finally got to the point she tried to steal some food and got caught, she used Magic instinctively to try to get out. In a mix of shock, disgust, anger and hunger, her spark ignited, and stranded her onto another plane.

To this day, she still dislikes Magic, even after seeing planes where it’s everywhere, considering it inferior to her actual trained skills and cheating. Of course, it might be heavily influenced by her first impressions of it. As far as her own Magic, on instinct she’s only created a few illusions. Maybe someday she’ll refine her talents there, but she’d need to get past her disgust first.

Lhur (who has other names but doesn’t like them) is a giant from a far off (and as of yet unvisited) corner of Fiora, beyond the Empire of Kinnesta from the Paliano we’ve seen. His land was under the rule of a cruel tyrant, against which he led the resistance. After a confrontation that slotted right into history books, he managed to defeat that tyrant in singular combat. The old ruler revealed a secret to Lhur before Lhur killed him, one that shook Lhur enough to make him spark. He quickly came back home, though, and was chosen (well, “chosen”, he might have had a hand in it) to lead the country out of the civil war. He rules to this day, most of the time. Some days he’s nowhere to be found.

Lhur is manipulative, intelligent and ambitious, but he has an approach to it that most other black-aligned characters don’t. In his mind, as long as most are content and entertained, as long as people’s best interests are that he stays in power, he has little to fear on that axis and a lot of freedom in how he exercises his power. When most see you in a positive light, they’re more likely to agree with you, or find you excuses, or go your way.

My son.