Editing Vraska (section)

==History==
Originally a lowly scavenger in the Golgari Swarm, Vraska once lived an un-noteworthy life in the Undercity of [[Ravnica]] - until the day that the Azorius Senate issued a writ of mass arrest for any and all members caught bearing allegiance to the Golgari. Vraska was amongst the teeming legions of innocents caught up in that purge, crammed into cells that swiftly proved too small to hold the vast number of political prisoners that were forced into it. Outnumbered heavily, and with no further contact from above, the guards grew nervous and ultimately turned abusive, sparking a prison riot.

The rioters naturally turned to gorgons like Vraska to gain an edge against their oppressors, and Vraska herself was swiftly attacked by guards seeking to prevent her using her deadly gaze attack. She was beaten to the brink of death, but then her spark ignited, hurling her away from Ravnica to some unknown plane. There, she lay and recovered, building her strength and testing her new powers. Fueled by her understandable resentment of the Azorius Senate, she developed a personal philosophy, building upon the Golgari's philosophy: "Life into death and death into life. It's an eternal circle, and those who disturb it with their own ambitions must experience a profound death. A person's existence cycle should be punctuated by the nature in which they lived. Only that will incite reiteration in the darkest roots."

Or, and this is the part that most interests Vraska: "A person should die the death they deserve."

Two years after her ignition, she returned to Ravnica, where she joined the assassin's guild of the Ochran and set about gathering the disenfranchised and embittered and molding them into an army of vigilante assassins, intent on bringing lethal justice to those who had failed the people. She developed a taste for ironic deaths, murdering victims in a way that symbolized the crimes they had committed to earn her wrath.

Her first meeting with another planeswalker of note came when [[Jace Beleren]] was appointed the Guildpact of Ravnica. This did not sit well with Vraska, whose rebellious beliefs and disenfranchisement with the Guilds of Ravnica had only grown since she established herself as an assassin-vigilante. She used a carefully orchestrated surge of murders to lure Jace to a secret meeting. Her goal was to either find a way to work with him to overthrow the guilds or, failing that, to kill him. In the end, she did neither, and Jace extracted a confession of sorts that he broadcast to a group of assembled guild representatives.

This exposure was enough to drive Vraska into the shadows for quite some time. But her pride and ambition would not be denied forever.