Starting the year, I think I’ll give new cards and some associated summaries for the few of my fanwalkers that I got art for, which in alphabetical order started with Anedia! Her art was commissioned a bit ago to @land-ofthebooty.
Anedia is a human woman from Ravnica. She belongs to House Dimir and is aligned to their Blue-Black colors. Her parents are part of the House themselves and she's been raised in its principles. Her allegiance is public, and she works at a Dimir newspaper local to her native Fourth District, the Fourthcoming. Before the War of the Spark, she mostly covered criminal stories and regularly reported on particularly interesting investigations or blunders from the Boros and Azorius, sometimes in the fourth, and sometimes elsewhere.
She was close enough to the Tenth when the War broke (and ended the same day) to be able to write an insightful file on it that filled a whole special edition. The foreknowledge of planeswalkers probably helped, but it was a genuinely good summary of what happened that day over multiple angles, both political and social. That special edition sold way beyond the usual scope of the Fourthcoming, and she was able to leverage it into a weekly column, covering planeswalkers and extraplanar information, in which she interviews planeswalkers, or sometimes presents another world. Of course, her own status as a planeswalker is a secret, she gets her information (and checks its veracity) thanks to her "anonymous planeswalker sources). It is decently popular, and has started to get her name around.
Anedia's signature magic is one of sleep and its effects. She can induce sleep, of course, but also prevent it, or simulate effects of sleep-deprivation, or even make someone feel well-rested. When someone is asleep, her magic can affect how restful, calm or agitated that sleep is, but can't see or manipulate any dream directly. She manifests her spells as big (more or less translucent and sneaky) blue bugs of various types that enter their target's body through skin or orifices.
Beyond her overt duties, Anedia performs some more covert activities for House Dimir. While part of the organization, she's also a freelance agent for it, helping various teams, agents and heists with their work through the city. Generally for pay, but occasionally as a favor for someone higher up in the organization. Her covert work is made under mask and alias, and it's where she generally uses her magic.
Her planeswalker spark ignited during her studies, or rather after them. She found use in her magic to avoid sleep herself, and thus be much more productive of her time, but she didn't manage to hold it back forever. When she slipped, after way too long without sleep, the sheer exhaustion and snap of her magic ignited her spark, sending her to Lorwyn, where some delighted faeries kept her alive to feed on the dreams of her month-long nap. She eventually escaped them, and managed her way back to Ravnica. She mostly stays there, but occasionally checks on info given by others for her recent column, or explores the unique opportunities other worlds could give her. She keeps her planeswalker status a secret of most people up to and including her parents, and she believes even her superiors in the Dimir aren't aware of it.
As far as people around her, there's most notably her sister, Evicz Kosel, a Wojek Captain in the Boros who very wilfully escaped the family trade. Evicz is the only person Anedia has revealed she's a planeswalker to, and they're still in very amicable terms, seeing each other occasionally.
(Oh, an example of her interviews is posted here: https://niuttuc.tumblr.com/post/187969572310/fourthcoming-interviews-1)
