#nantuko

"Thelonite Monk"

Fallen Empires 1994 | Illus. Bryon Wackwitz

Name: Szyra

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: Nantuko

Age: 95

Plane of Origin: Dominaria (alternate)

First Planeswalk: Dominaria (regular)

Colors: Green-Black-Blue

Appearance: She’s a nantuko, and they can be hard to tell apart for humans. On the shorter end at 7'2", but larger than her counterparts in our reality, adapted to the cold. She’s generally dressed lightly of whites, blacks and greens, having a hard time adapting to the higher temperatures even today.

Backstory: Szyra comes from the main alternate reality that connected to Dominaria during the Rift Era. There, the Ice Age never ended and there’s still Phyrexians to fight. She’s a nantuko from Otaria, the main center of resistance, and as such was trained in combat and magic to eventually be sent to fight. The magic she learned had been developed by a joint effort between the Cabal and the Krosan druids to allow more efficient, but also more respectful summoning of creatures, real or not, to help in the unending fight, as well as strengthening and bolstering allies and nature by… Most means available.

In her reality, their rifts were consolidating while ours were flourishing, creating that connection. Szyra was a potential planeswalker connected to the Otarian rift, and a manastorm particularly violent (that might or might not have been caused by someone) pulled her into the rift, where her unique makeup allowed her spark to ignite, which in the middle of the rift fundamentally changed her magic, and sent her to our version of Dominaria.

Soon after, the Rifts were closed and the Mending occurred (Like Venser and Radha, she was already a post-Mending planeswalker, so it didn’t really change anything for her). After a couple years of confusion and discovery, she settled and decided to enjoy the pleasures this new world had to offer, between its warmer climate more kind toward agriculture (despite the rift desolation) and the lack of Phyrexians. She did that for forty years, eventually growing bored even of that.

Nowadays, she’s more or less settled, visiting the occasional other planes and trying to determine which she isn’t attacked on sight on.

Magic, gear and/or abilities: Following her reality shift, her magic mutated into what it is now. She needs a target for her magic, and can either summon or temporarily shift said target into its version from a set alternate reality with one divergence point depending on the plane they’re from. On Dominaria it will pull from her own reality, on Tarkir from the Khans time-line, on Zendikar potentially from an Eldrazi-less reality,… She has little control on the result, and has to establish control on it if it is reluctant.

She has a rare feature amongst her people, wings, and can fly with them. Well. Jump far. Or sustain a couple seconds of flight. Growing up and onto her adult age, she couldn’t use them because of the cold, so even after some practice now they’re not able to carry her far.

She’s trained in close combat, very fast and taking advantage of her natural weapons and strength.

Card:

Card for my nantuko OC Kabila :)

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