#kolvis

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Inspired by the ask a friend sent me, do any of your ocs have an enemy, a rival, a nemesis? A person who presence just ruins their day? If so, what transpired to make them feel that way about that person?

Arnoss: Lady Seric of the Cabal, self-appointed Daughter of Belzenlok, a high-ranking cabal member operating in Orvada who has ambitions to take over the organization after the demon's demise. Powerful, very hard to kill, so far her efforts have been thwarted by Arnoss, his adoptive sister Oprena and a team of Tolarians. She's melted most of the scales of his back, he's eaten through her neck and left her as a head for a while until she made herself another body, and they dislike each other very much.

Dolores: More one-sided, but she does have thoughts for whoever decided to get rid of her on Paliano. Once she finds out who that is. They probably didn't see anything personal in it, though.

Ecxilet: More complex, and also mostly one-sided. The Cursetamer has kidnapped both his husband and him at various points, and they've tried to kill each other a bit. They have an... Agreement now, and Ecxi is staying out of her affairs.

Farell: Whoever ordered for Farell's brother to be killed will be high on Farell's short enemy list once he or his sister figures out who it is.

Ivegard: Gestures vaguely in Nyrhen's direction. She thinks he's dangerous, and knows exactly how bad elves are. She doesn't know what she can do about it though.

Lhur: His father, Tolema II. Their duel at noon in the ruins of the throne room is quite the story, and everyone knows how a triumphant Lhur ended his father's reign and life. Except Lhur himself is not so sure that last part happened.

Szyra: Phyrexia in general. But there's no phyrexians left in this timeline, right?

Regellen: Has some choice thoughts about Ugin and Azor after they incidentally trapped Regellen's beloved on Ixalan for a millenium.

Kolvis: Sedris, after he used her to steal much of the life remaining in Vithia and contributed to turn it into what Grixis is today.

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Kolvis

Name: Kolvis Pronouns: She/her Species: Angel Age: ? >1000 Plane of Origin: Alara (Vithia/Grixis) First Planeswalk: Innistrad Colors: White, Black Appearance (and/or Art): Kolvis is an angel, 6’2”, her hair, wings and eyes are of a medium gray. She’s still connected to her homeland and it affected her shape through its evolution into Grixis, she know sports bone spikes at her elbows and knees, that go against her arms and legs when they’re extended. Backstory: In the years before Alara’s Sundering, angels protected the land of Vithia. Then the world was shattered.

Vithia was stripped of its main magic, its weapons to protect itself and its tools to feed itself. Cut from the magic that sustained them, the angels withered and died, one by one. Most kept on the fight despite their waning powers, and died either from an ultimate spell or movement or at the hands of enemies they could previously hold off, emboldened by the disappearance of their enemies’ magic.

The defenders of the capital expended less of themselves to fight, and were the last angels to remain in Vithia. And then there was only one left. Her remaining days could be counted on one hand when she was called by the king, Sedris. The king was wise and smart. He had devised a way, using the magic that remained, for the angel to be given part of any person’s life to extend her own.

She was horrified at such a perspective, preferring oblivion to taking the life of others. But the king managed to convince her. It would be entirely voluntary, a gift of the people to their last defender, and none would give more than a week’s worth of their life to her. She reluctantly accepted, and the ritual was set. In a few days, the first ritual, a test, was organized inside the palace. She only took a day of whoever would give her inside of the palace, getting a few months of life this way. The test was a success, and Sedris wished to expand it to the capital and the country for the next one.

Unbeknownst to the angel, Sedris’s ideas and magic were whispered into his dreams by the demons of the plane, and slowly but surely turning his intentions inward. If he was to be Vithia’s savior, he would have to be more powerful than he was. His enemies both in war and in the palace would never be able to defeat him, and, along with the angel, he would be able to keep the peace in the kingdom.

Within two months, the larger ritual was organized. The angel had been able not only to survive, but also to fight more effectively, flying around the border to hold off or even drive back the necromancers, demons and their armies. She found that she was now capable of taking life without the ritual, thing she forbidden herself to do even to an enemy, by fear of becoming just like them.

She flew back to the capital for the ritual, and was greeted by an overjoyed Sedris. Reports had came back, and a large majority of the population seemed willing to give a day or a week of their life to help back the angel who helped them. Under the King’s direction, she lied back down on the altar, and he commenced the ritual. As it started, she connected to every living thing in the kingdom. The people knew what happened, and opened themselves, a hundred thousand voices thanking the angel and offering what they wanted as gratitude. She took, brought up to tears by the display of widespread generosity, benevolence and trust.

The king acted.

Through the angel, he pulled life. More than a day. More than a week. More than a year. He took everything. The angel felt the gratitude and trust turn into betrayal, a kingdom’s worth of it. She felt the power of a hundred thousand lives flow into her, the king siphoning as much of this power as he could for himself. With that power came something else. Something different. But with that power and by her will, she managed to stop the ritual before it went any further. But it was too late, most of the kingdom had already died by her hands. She wanted to give back, but even if she had had access to the magic of giving, a dead body can’t be brought back without more than its own life. Out of anger, the powerful being that had become the angel slayed the traitor king, bringing down most of his throne room in the same spell.

As soon as her vengeance was delivered, the angel disappeared into another world, forever changed. She took a new name, Kolvis, lifetaker, to remind herself of what she’d done, what she was used to do. The king, through her, had already taken the power of thousands of lives, and soon after his death, he stood back up, more powerful than ever. He blamed the angel for the massacre, and himself as the one who managed to stop her. In time, he would betray again, the whispers of demons making him yearn more power than he held. Magic, gear and/or abilities: Her magic changed after her becoming a locus of life, and she can now take lifeforce, give it to others or use it for various effects. The life of sapient beings is the most potent, followed by the one of sentient beings, and most non-sentient vegetals are next. She will avoid taking the life of anyone without consent, and even of plants if she can avoid it. As for gear, she wears specially made armor and carries a mace. Card:

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Niuttuc's fanwalkers: Who knows who

Alright, took the time this morning to create a list for each of my current fanwalkers of who they've met or know among the others. In the very likely occurrence that you don't know them all, the list with summaries is available here.

So, so far...

Rizana: knows Icalia, Szyra, Dolores. Knows about Anedia, but not that she's a planeswalker.

Ivegard: Knows Icalia, Nyrhen, Arega, Alamir, Anedia, maybe Gevon.

Ecxilet: Knows the Cursetamer, Icalia, Vaalin, Arnoss.

Nyrhen: Knows Ivegard, Icalia, Arnoss, Dancing-Hands, the Cursetamer, Kavu, Alamir.

Arega: Knows Ivegard and has heard of Anedia, without knowing she's a planeswalker.

Icalia: Knows Rizana, Ivegard, Ecxilet, Nyrhen, the Cursetamer, Alamir, Licid, Vaalin, Kolvis, Quzawe, Regellen, Dolores, Szyra.

The Cursetamer: Knows Icalia, Ecxilet, Nyrhen, Regellen, Dolores, Szyra. Knows about a few more.

Alamir&Licid: Knows Ivegard, Nyrhen, Vaalin, Kolvis, Szyra, Icalia.

Anedia: Knows Ivegard, Quzawe, Szyra and Odomi.

Vaalin : Knows Icalia, Szyra, Alamir, Ecxilet, Dancing-Hands, Regellen, Arnoss.

Kolvis: Knows Icalia, Quzawe, Regellen, Ecxilet, Alamir, Kavu.

Dancing-Hands: Knows Nyrhen, Arnoss, Vaalin, and Kavu. Might meet Sky-Eyes.

Quzawe: Knows Anedia, Kolvis, Regellen, Icalia, Arnoss, Gevon.

Regellen: Knows Kolvis, the Cursetamer, Vaalin, Quzawe, Odomi, Gevon, Icalia.

Dolores: Knows Icalia, Silena, Szyra, the Cursetamer, Rizana.

Arnoss: Knows Quzawe, Dancing-Hands, Nyrhen, Ecxilet, Vaalin.

Kavu: Knows Nyrhen, Kolvis and Dancing-Hands.

Szyra: Knows Dolores, Vaalin, Alamir, Icalia, the Cursetamer, Rizana, Anedia.

Gevon: Knows Regellen, Quzawe, Ivegard.

Silena: Knows Dolores.

Odomi: Knows Regellen and Anedia.

Sky-Eyes: Doesn't know anyone.

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Speaking of Alara, how has things been for her on the reunited plane?

She's happy about it, not about the circumstances, and now that it will be centuries if not more before her Vithia is back to its former glory, if it ever does. She still fears facing Vithian, both from guilt from what she did and fear of what they have become because of her. But she tries to act sneakily to help them.

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How did the mending affect her?

The Mending... Well, affected her as it did other planeswalkers. She can no longer steal the life from entire worlds (not that she ever did that) or spread healing on kilometers on end (she might have done that one once or twice).

She's still an angel, and as such powerful, and she didn't lose any of the life still in her, but having vast reserves of energy and being able to use them all at once are two different things.

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Given her time line Kolvis would have to have been a old walker, with the god like power that comes with that why did she not fix herself? Is the curse to much apart of her to be undone without her destruction? Dose she see it as her burden? Or has the power that comes from draining the life of another quietly become an addiction she is to noble to admit, but to weak to go without?

It's less of a curse and more became a part of who she was. Yes, she's horrified at having killed so many and taken their life in her, but letting that energy go now would just be a waste of everything they could do... Or worse if someone else snatched it. She isn't addicted, she does choose not to take any life as long as she can since she sees it as evil. Can't and doesn't like to meld into each other for an angel.

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Dose her mace have a name?

Not that I'm aware of. I'll have to ask her next time I see her.

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Her thoughts on Avacyn

That's the issue with not knowing when the Sundering was. We don't know if Avacyn, the Helvault, Sorin or even vampires and elves were a thing when she got to Innistrad. Well, Avacyn wasn't, so she probably saw her as the tool of a monster. She doesn't like Sorin, and he doesn't like her back, so she likely didn't spend much time on Innistrad since Avacyn was made.