Liliana Vess

2018-08-08T10:20:57Z

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[[Image:Liliana TN.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Lili, probably doing something evil]]
A [[Planeswalker]] from [[Magic: The Gathering]], specializing in Black magic. Notable for being equal parts awesome, sexy, crazy, and power-hungry. Some demons own bits of her soul and she's trying to get them back. Also she has a thing called the Chain Veil which is a powerful artefact that'll [[Heresy|corrupt your shit]]. Is (still?) being chased by [[Garruk Wildspeaker|Garruk]] who is giant and [[Rage|pissed off and really wants to cut her head off for getting icky evil black mana all up in his swoleness]].
==Origins==
Liliana began experimenting in necromancy after some creepy Raven Man gave her some potion to cure her dying brother. She gave it to him, but he became a fuggin zombie who tried to strangle her but who she rekt. She then went planeswalking and fought a weird old witch and then went back to her home plane and rekt an angel. Oh and then she killed the Raven Man. And finally she sold her soul to Griselbrand, Razaketh, Belzenlok, and Kothophed (who Spellcheck hates), and got eternal youth. So now she has big purple tattoos all over her body. YAYAY
==Faust==
Liliana sold her soul to FOUR separate demons for power and eternal youth. Naturally, she is trying to get out of the contracts by killing said demons. As of Dominaria, all of her demons have been dealt with, but she's still not free. In fact, because she killed all of the holders of her contract, ownership of Liliana now defaults to [[Nicol Bolas]], who acted as the middleman for said contracts. [[Derp|Oops.]]

=== [[Griselbrand]]===
Liliana broke open the Helvault on [[Innistrad]] to free Griselbrand so she could kill him. And then she killed him. A side effect was freeing the angel Avacyn and the planeswalker Nahiri, who were trapped in the Helvault, but who cares about that?

===[[Razaketh]]===
He lives on [[Amonkhet]]. Apparently, he kickstarts the process that returns Nicol Bolas to Amonkhet, beginning with turning Amonkhet's Luxa River into blood (sound familiar?). Met his fate at the hands of Liliana, who possessed exactly twenty-four zombified crocodiles in order to eat him alive.

===[[Belzenlok]]===
Belzenlok seems to be associated with the Cabal on [[Dominaria]]. At least some of them worship him as a deity, and gave Liliana's brother a job. If you did something cool, Belzenlok will say that he did it.

===[[Kothophed]]===
Liliana's pact with Kothophed was for eternal youth. This was the last demon Liliana made a pact with and the first she offed. Liliana's tattoos are actually Kothophed's doing, as a way to keep her in line. It didn't work well enough to keep her from killing him.

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Nicol Bolas

2018-08-08T10:19:14Z

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[[File:Nicol_Bolas.jpg|thumb|right|400px|''"We were gods once, Beleren. Did you know that? The Spark burned so much brighter then. We willed our desires upon the worlds, and the worlds obeyed. And then, the catastrophe on Dominaria and we... We are less, Beleren. Less than we were... And less than we will be!"'']]
{{Topquote|Bolas does not wait for you. You wait for Bolas.|[[Tezzeret]], Agents of Artifice}}

The Lord of the Blind Eternities. The Forever Serpent. The Eldest [[Planeswalker]]. Big Evil. He actually prefers to be called '''Nicol Bolas''' because he thinks titles lose all meaning when you have pretty much all of them. He is one of the oldest, most powerful, malevolent, uncaring and destructive beings in the Multiverse. And he's a freaking [[dragon]]. He uses a powerful kind of magic that combines black with blue and red. He also possesses an ability that allows him to shatter the minds of any being he touches with but a caress.

He also has a [[Brundlepenis|dick growing out of his chin]] [[Rule 34|for some reason]].

==Origins==
When Dominaria had only recently been established as the Nexus of the Multiverse, roughly twenty-thousand years before the birth of [[Urza]], a great war shook the plane. It was the war of the Elder Dragons, that saw only five survivors: Nicol Bolas, his brothers Arcades Sabboth and Chromium Rhuell, their sister Palladia-Mors and their cousin Vaevictis Asmadi. Nicol got out as top dog with a triggered Spark. Five thousand years later the plane saw its first Planeswalker Duel, where Bolas defeated a [[Tyranid|demonic leviathan]]. The duel reduced the continent of Madara to a third of its size and saw the creation of the Talon Gates: the leviathan's remains that allowed non-Planeswalkers to travel between the planes.

[[File:Bolas.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Nicol Bolas in his younger years, before he ascended.]]
==The Dragon Emperor==
More than four millennia after the birth of Urza, Nicol Bolas had usurped the Madaran Empire for his own. He did this because Madara was the crossing line of the blue, black and red leylines, which Bolas needed to anchor himself to the Plane so that he would not blow it up with his mere presence. In this way he could rule Madara as its [[God-Emperor]] for 400 years. Unfortunately for him, his Imperial Champion Tetsuo Umezawa (descendant of Toshiro Umezawa of Kamigawa fame) had other plans. Because his conscience could not deal with Bolas ravaging the continent, he severed Bolas' link to the leylines while the dragon was at his Meditation Realm and eventually killed the dragon himself.

==Rebirth of the Dragon==
350 years after his death, Dominaria was plagued by time rifts. Piggybacking his consciousness on the Planeswalker Spark of [[Venser]], he managed to be reborn. He dueled with Teferi, but when he was told about the nature of the rifts he left for the plane of Kamigawa.

When he returned he was challanged by Leshrac, the Walker of the Night. After a titanic battle Bolas imprisoned him in the mask of the Myojin of Night's Reach, the embodiment of black mana on Kamigawa. Bolas then threw the mask into the rift that had appeared over Madara, stopping that what he had set into motion. He then left Dominaria but was caught up with by [[The Mending|the Mending]], stripping the dragon of most of his powers.

[[File:Come_at_me_Brolas.jpg|thumb|left|300px|''"I've never cared for that expression. It makes me sound so pompous. I despise other people making me sound pompous. I prefer to do it myself."''<br> - Nicol Bolas' response to Tezzeret's saying.]]
==Return to Power==
Robbed of his most powerful abilities, Nicol Bolas set a series of events into motion to return himself to power. He founded an interplanar consortium, which was unfortunately usurped by [[Tezzeret]]. Enlisting [[Liliana Vess]] who in turn found an ally in [[Jace Beleren]] he tried to get the organisation back, but this plan failed when Jace opted to destroy the Consortium instead. Bolas then attempted to combine the planes of Alara into a single one and absorb its power, which succeeded even after the intervention of [[Ajani Goldmane]] who made a copy of Bolas for the dragon to fight and both he and the copy disappeared in a flash of light.

The dragon sent his servant [[Sarkhan Vol]] to the plane of Zendikar to unravel the mystery of the Eye of Ugin. He also engineered the appearances of Jace Beleren and his [[Shadowsun|tsundere]] ladyfriend [[Chandra Nalaar]] to activate the Eye and [[fail|draw the Eldrazi back into the Multiverse.]] Because his intervention stopped at this point, it is rumored that this was [[just as planned]] for the dragon. [[Ugin]] suspects that Bolas did this to make a distraction that could not be ignored. As for what Bolas intends to do while those who would probably try to stop him are occupied with dealing with the Eldrazi, Ugin has no idea.

Tezzeret proved to be useful even after his defeat at the hands of Jace Beleren when Bolas sent him to find the creator of Etherium, Crucius the Mad. Tezzeret did, but not in such a way that proved useful for Nicol Bolas. He in fact managed to defeat and trap the dragon with a piece of artifice. Until Bolas visited the dragon on the island that was his prison and revealed [[Tzeentch|he was just a simulacrum.]] Tezzeret found this out fairly soon when the dragon "recruited" him once again to go to Mirrodin to assess and observe the rise of [[Phyrexia]] as his inside man.

In [[Amonkhet]] we find out Bolas conquered a plane, and made a prosperous city into an elite zombie army making machine. Then in Hour of Devestation he shows up, destroys the city, and humbles the [[Gatewatch]].

[[File:Nicol_1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker.]]

==Cards==
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Interestingly enough, if you exclude the 5 Origin DFC planeswalkers, Nicol Bolas is one of nine characters represented both as a creature and as a Planeswalker (the others being [[Venser]], [[Karn]], [[Jaya Ballard]], [[Xenagos]], [[Narset]], [[Teferi]], [[Ob-Nixilis]], and [[Samut]]). As a Planeswalker he costs a whopping 8 mana in three colors, so don't expect to see too many people use him, and starts with five Loyalty counters.

His abilities allow him to destroy a non-creature permanent for +3, can give you control of a creature for -2, and for -9 he deals 7 damage to a player who then discards 7 cards and sacrifices 7 permanents. Despite his high cost, when on the table he has to be dealt with, lest he fuck you up.

==See Also==
[[BBEG]]: In terms of a singular bad guy, Nicol Bolas is currently the biggest one in Magic. (Phyrexia is more of an evil civilization and the [[Eldrazi]] are a trio of cosmic horrors).

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