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Notable Characters (Or more particularly, characters of enough influence or power to be of some importance beyond their home plane)
Felice
Homeplane: Adira
Species: Human (Planeswalker)
Gender: Female
Age: 234
Sets Appeared In: Memory's Tyranny
Bio Summary: Felice's homeplane of Adira was slowly collapsing. In an attempt to save it, Felice went to the plane of Arcanum to study to try and find a way to fix it. Eventually she found something that might work - a method for immortality that she hoped to apply on a much larger scale - and went back to Adira. The solution was the pump the plane with so much stabilizing white mana that it stopped collapsing, and had the side effect of all but removing death from the plane. But it was a brittle fix, and as the strain on the fix increased so did the amount of mana necessary, until eventually even time on Adira (compared to the rest of the multiverse) slowed down. And so over the course of two centuries years normal time, Felice herself experience several thousand years, albeit in a fugue state. When Aerida attempted to kill Felice out of jealousy, the spell/fix broke, and all that pent up strain started tearing Adira apart faster than ever.
Once Felice recovered from the attack, she returned to Arcanum to confront Aerida, defeating her and exposing her crimes to Arcanum's academic elite. Aerida was locked away, and Felice claimed Arcanum's newly created subplane as a refuge for the surviving people of Adira.
Design Philosophy: WIP
Current State: Alive, Arcanum
Cards: Felice the Binder, Felice, Adira's Salvation

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Aerida
Homeplane: Arcanum
Species: Human (Planeswalker)
Gender: Female
Age: 231
Sets Appeared In: Memory's Tyranny
Bio Summary: A native of the plane of Arcanum, Aerida was a gifted prodigy in the academies. The one that came along one in a century, if not longer, as the academic elite were prone to telling her. Not to mention that her planeswalker status gave her a vaulted position in a world obsessed with learning more about how planes work. During her youth, she became close friends with another planeswalker: Felice. A walker from another plane who was just as much a prodigy as Aerida. And over time, that began to chaff on Aerida; the idea that she wasn't as special as she had thought. Jealousy began to grow, and truly flared when Felice discovered a method of achieving immortality, refused to share the secret, and then left. Aerida followed, after discovering a way to manipulate time to similarly drastically expand her lifespan, and in her jealousy orchestrated a plot that resulted in the death of Felice; effectively dooming the entire plane of Adira in the process.
Back on Arcanum, she resumed her work on leading the academic elite towards creating their own subplane. But the ritual wasn't quite right, the magic available not strong enough, and the entire affair was on the verge of catastrophic failure when the not-nearly-as-dead-as-anticipated Felice made an appearance, saving the ritual and defeating Aerida immediately afterwards. Exposing her crimes and having her locked away.
Design Philosophy: WIP
Current State: Alive, Arcanum
Cards: Aerida the Releaser, Aerida, Envious Chronomancer

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Kalemn Weller
Homeplane: Rhyse
Species: Human (Planeswalker)
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Sets Appeared In: Plagues of Fretport
Bio Summary: Kalemn was born into a clan of bandits, and as she grew up, was raised to steal. Starting with whisking sheep away in the dark of night, and then, once she could hold a sword, the classic pillaging and highway robbery. She never had any moral issues with it. She never really had moral issues with anything. She and the clan needed food and supplies, and they were strong enough to take them.
Her spark remained latent until one particularly brave villager got the jump on her and shoved a torch into her face. After its ignition, faced with the grand scope of the Multiverse, she realized she was sick of preying on those living on the dirt just so that she in turn could live in the dirt. And so she changed her career to the slightly more illustrious role of a mercenary.
Her potential for magic had remained unknown to her until her sparks ignition — due to Rhyse’s suppressing influence on magic — but since then she has slowly cultivated it. Her magical abilities start and end at the ability to manipulate flesh. She can rend flesh with a touch, though in her opinion the need to touch her victims means she might as well go the old fashioned route and stab them. She can heal wounds, though being a solo operator, it's mostly used to patch herself up after and/or during a fight. Finally, she can use it to make herself stronger, faster, and more durable.
Design Philosophy: Kalemn’s a straight forward woman. Not one for complicated schemes, most of her planning is composed of having a good idea of what fights to pick and what ones to avoid. As such, her abilities should be simple. Destructive in nature, since she makes a living killing people for coin.
Current State: Alive, Rhyse
Cards: Kalemn Weller

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Helene Trant
Homeplane: Alara (Bant)
Species: Human (Planeswalker)
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Sets Appeared In: Plagues of Fretport
Bio Summary: Born on Bant, Helene was a Sigiled-cast knight, but only barely, and not for long. Her interest in strength over honour became more apparent over time, and she was stripped of her sigils and shamed by being reduced to Unbeholden-cast.
She wallowed in prison for a few years before the Conflux threw Alara into turmoil. With undead Grixis hordes and violent Jund hunters threatening the borders, Helene was released and armed once more, sent to help defend Bant in it’s desperate times. It eventually resulted in her spark being ignited, as a Grixis death mage attempted to drain away her vitality.
When it did, Helene turned her back on her homeland, and struck out into the Multiverse. She took up the profession of mercenary, as a way to test her strength while also being rewarded for it.
Design Philosophy: Design Philosophy: Strength of body leads to strength of mind, and vice versa. This is the mentality that drives Helene, and mechanically results in a mix of aggressive abilities and card draw/filtering. Overall her cards should be aimed at midrange decks, and turn into a trampling hexproof creature as a + or 0.
Current State: Alive, Rhyse
Cards: Helene Trant

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Claren Ziegler
Homeplane: Mious
Species: Tiefling (Planeswalker)
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Sets Appeared In: N/A
Bio Summary: Originally from the plane of Mious, Claren was an adherent of Ni'Ama's clergy, tasked with testing the virtue of those around her. Though more often she simply mocked and aggravated those around her for her own amusement. After her brother was murdered, however, she set out on a pilgrimage for holy retribution, eventually tracking her brother’s murderers to Bahet’s holy mountain, where she took them by surprise and overcame them, only to drag them up the mountain and murder them at it’s peak in defiance of Bahet for letting any of this happen. When doing so captured the attention of both Bahet and Ni’Ama, their combined influence was enough to trigger her spark.
Sent to the plane of Rhyse by her awakening, she found herself trapped due to the planes strange interaction with mana. Or rather, it's near complete lack of mana. During her years there, she joined the Ordealist cult, a group of people determined to achieve five impossible tasks in order to achieve spiritual and natural harmony. During her years of training and attempting to complete the tasks, she moved past her brother’s death and became more like she was before. Albeit less actively aggravating to those around her, and more concerned with personal improvement. Eventually she managed to complete the five Ordeals, and the mana infused pool she found at the peak of the final challenge let her leave Rhyse and enter the Multiverse proper.
Design Philosophy: Abilities should not be free to use; there should always be some pain involved. Both of the major defining periods of her life were focused around struggling through adversity to strengthen oneself, and her cards should reflect that. At the same time, once you’ve made it past the challenge, you should be rewarded in a way that helps mitigate what you lost along the way. Bonus points if parallels are drawn between one of her abilities and the trial mechanic from Mious.
Current State: Alive, Rhyse
Cards: Claren, Twice Tested // Claren, Thrice Born

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Rahit
Homeplane: Kaladesh
Species: Human (Planeswalker)
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Sets Appeared In: Carpe Arcanum
Bio Summary: A natural-born teacher, Rahit excels at guiding others and encouraging them to succeed. While his technical prowess was nothing remarkable, he had a knack for the manipulation of aether. However, an experiment gone wrong nearly cost him his life, only saved by the ignition of his spark.
In the years since, he has made Arcanum his home, becoming a well known face amidst the academics of the plane. Believing that all have the potential for greatness, no matter their walk of life, he hosts free to attend public lectures on a wide variety of topics when he’s not busy writing thesises.
Design Philosophy: Not being one interested in supremacy, his abilities should reflect his helpful nature. Effects should be group-hug in style. More specifically, letting everyone do the same thing, but with him doing it slightly better.
Current State: Alive, Arcanum
Cards: Rahit, Immaculate Architect

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Salva Toré
Homeplane: Festenya
Species: Elf (Planeswalker)
Gender: Nonbinary
Age: 25
Sets Appeared In: Carpe Arcanum
Bio Summary: Born in the slums of Stalbrit on Festenya, Salva was a protester against the oppressive social structure, especially in how it affected the elves. During a riot, Salva was trapped inside a burning building, igniting their spark.
Now, whenever they returns to Festenya, they are caught in the uncomfortable position of being allowed to move amongst the higher echelons of society due to their spark while still being isolated and scorned for their local elvish blood.
Design Philosophy: Since her bio is based upon feeling resentful towards the privilege and power humans have over elves on Festenya, her abilities should focus around the idea of taking from others to bolster herself. More vaguely, they should also try to reflect the idea of extending lifespans.
Current State: Alive, Arcanum
Cards: Salva Toré

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Ardy
Homeplane: Arcanum
Species: Human (Planeswalker)
Gender: Trans Male
Age: 17
Sets Appeared In: Carpe Arcanum
Bio Summary: Ardy is a young planeswalker with a talent for geomancy. Born on the plane of Arcanum, he still lives there with his mother.
His parents have been seperated for several years now, due to the inherent tension between his father's desire to live a quiet life in the country and his mother's need for the hustle and bustle of the Arpechian Academy. While Ardy stayed with his mother, he still regularly visits his father.
His spark was ignited when he was fourteen, waking one night to the smell of smoke. By the time he realized what was happening and had woken his mother, the fire had trapped them. His sparks ignition whisked him away before the fire could reach him; and while his mother received burns severe enough to cause her to lose her arm (which she has since had a artificial replacement made for), she also managed to escape the fire via more mundane means.
Worried about the dangers the Multiverse could hold for someone so young, Ardy's mother enlisted the help of another planeswalker who worked as a professor at the Arpechian Academy: Rahit. She convinced Ardy not to 'walk without Rahit's oversight, though as he's gotten older, he's been sneaking off on solo 'walks more and more. Meanwhile, his mother and Rahit have been growing closer, and recently Rahit has moved in with them.
Design Philosophy: As a bright and cheerful character, Ardy’s abilities should not be overly aggressive in nature. No burn, no fight, very limited destroy effects (if any). The abilities should also feel loose and full of potential, to reflect Ardy’s creative mindset.
Current State: Alive, Arcanum
Cards: Ardy, Youthful Geomancer


Mechanics (Or at least the ones that I'm not ashamed of)

• Call to Arms -- Whenever ~ attacks, create a tapped and attacking {creature token}. Exile that token at end of combat.

• Recall (As this spell resolves, you may discard a card with converted mana cost equal to or greater than this card's. If you do, return this card to your hand.)

• Vestige {cost} (You may pay {cost} and discard a card to cast this card from your graveyard.)

• Reborn #--{cost} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its reborn cost. If you do, it enters the battlefield with # additional +1/+1 counters on it and becomes reborn. When it dies while reborn, exile it.)

• Weave {cost} (This spell costs {cost} more to cast for each mode beyond the first.)

• Fabled {cost} (Then, if you cast this for its fabled cost, put it onto the battlefield transformed attached to that creature.)

• Cripple {cost} (You may cast this card for its cripple cost if an opponent has lost life this turn.)

• Cadence (Whenever you cast a spell, if its converted mana cost is greater than this creature’s power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

• Orchestrate {cost} (You may exile this card from your hand anytime you could cast a sorcery for its orchestrate cost. The next time you cast a spell, cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

• Archive # (As this enters the battlefield, shuffle the top five cards of your main library into a new face up library. Sacrifice this when the archived library is empty.)

• Conjure {cost} (You may cast this creature from your graveyard for its conjure cost. If you do, exile it when it enters the battlefield or if it would leave the battlefield.)

• Abound (To abound, you may cast a nonland card that costs less than this from your hand without paying its mana cost.)

• Nourish # (To nourish #, either put # +1/+1 counters on this creature or create # 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens.)

• Harvest (You may tap any number of creatures you control as you cast this spell. If you do, reduce this spell's cost by their total power.)

• Rapport -- Whenever ~ and at least one other creature you control become tapped, {effect}.

• Embody (Enchanted creature is a copy of this card except for its types.)