Teferi
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Teferi is one of the planeswalker
s in the fictional multiverse
of Magic: The Gathering
to work in the Tolarian Academy, and a notable troublemaker. When a time travel
experiment failed, Teferi was caught in the midst of an explosion, and stumbled into an especially slow-moving time zone, burning for 40 years. This caused his planeswalker
's spark to fully manifest. He was finally rescued by a fellow student by the name of Jhoira.
-block, when Zhalfir and Femeref were still one. 450 years later, he was peacemaker after the Zhalfirin civil war. He continued his time-research in isolation until the day, 200 years before the events of Mirage
he, his assistants and all the inhabitants of his Isle vanished (phased out) from Dominaria.
Teferi's disappearance lured three mages to his Isle: Jolrael, Mangara of Corondor and Kaervek
of the Burning Isles. Then followed the time of Mangara's Harmony followed by Kaervek's War. Almost two hundred years after its disappearance, the isle returned to its origins. The people of the isle were unaware that any time had passed, and their first realizations that something was wrong came when one of Jolrael's dragons, drawn by the scent of people, attacked the isle. Teferi slew the dragon and immediately set out to discover what was happening. He was horrified to discover foreign wizards warring within Jamuraa, and he began to consider how to remove them without dragging anyone else into the war. Meanwhile he chose to end his experiments lest they run out of control again.
Over time Jolrael had begun to wonder if her choice of allies was a wise one. She magically transported her physical self to the isle, confessed her part in Kaervek's invasion, and begged for help. Teferi refused to intercede, his experiments were too fragile and if unattended could threaten Jamuraa far more than Kaervek's plans. Instead, he offered to guide the leaders of Jamuraa through dreams and visions. He would show them the location of Mangara and the key to unlocking the amber prison.
Kaervek found that the isle which had drawn him to Jamuraa two centuries before was newly inhabited, and he knew that those newcomers must be responsible for his defeat at Tefemburu. He gathered his remaining forces and sailed to Teferi's Isle. The confrontation was short lived. Teferi made short work of Kaervek's armada, sending most of the evil mage's forces to the ocean floor.
requested that Teferi help him fight against Yawgmoth
's invasion of Dominaria, and perhaps man one of his titans. Teferi refused, and instead phased out the entire continent of Zhalfir and a large part of Shiv to secure them against the invasion. This further hurt Urza's plans by preventing the use of one of his large powerstones factories on Shiv.
Upon arrival, Teferi first seeks out the assistance of Freyalise
, although she spurns him, accusing him of running and hiding. The group then travels to Urborg to witness the centerpiece of the Rathi overlay, before Teferi returns to the location of Shiv. The phasing out of the land created one of the mana-draining rifts, and Teferi merges himself to the rift in an attempt to seal it before Shiv phases back into sync with reality. Intending to sacrifice his life to close the rift, he unintentionally loses only his planeswalker spark, stripping him of his powers. However, he is successful in repairing the time rift.
In Planar Chaos he spends much of the book dazed and confused, a shell of his former self. Unaccustomed to bleeding, eating and other normally mortal things, he spends much of the aftermath of Shiv's overlay recovering. However, even dazed, he is a valuable source of information. He instructs Lord Windgrace and Freyalise and despite their aggression towards him never relents in trying to provide them with a way of destroying the remaining rifts. In the end he is able to convince both the panther lord and the patron of Skyshroud (Windgrace and Freyalise) to do as he did and seal the rifts above their homes. During the crisis he is further wounded by the Weaver King's shadow minion Dinne but ultimately survives. With both rifts sealed, he decides to travel to Zhalfir where he will finish its overlay. When Karn the silver golem goes missing, his apprentice Jeska tracks down Teferi and his group. With another Planeswalker at his disposal Teferi tries to convince her to do as the previous planeswalkers had.
However, due to careful manipulations by Leshrac, Jeska rejects Teferi's plans and seeks to fix everything on her own using Radha as a tool. Teferi confronts Jeska shortly after she begins to close the Zhalfiran rift, and when the rift does close, Zhalfir is lost forever, blinking out of existence. Shattered, Teferi sulks and broods while Jeska continues to do Leshrac's bidding without knowing. Jhoira finally manages to convince Teferi to finish what he started despite his monumental losses, and Teferi forces Jeska to listen to him and do as he says in closing the Otarian rift. After Jeska's sacrifice, Teferi parts ways with Jhoira on the beaches of the uninhabited Zhalfiran island. His final fate is unknown as he had become a wanderer at the end of the story.
Planeswalker
In the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, a planeswalker is a mage with the ability to travel to different planes of existence.-Magic: The Gathering:...
s in the fictional multiverse
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of Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering
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Tolaria
Teferi was a talented human apprentice wizard drafted by UrzaUrza
Urza Planeswalker is a fictional character from the universe of Magic: The Gathering, best known for his millennia-long struggle with Yawgmoth and the plane of Phyrexia...
to work in the Tolarian Academy, and a notable troublemaker. When a time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
experiment failed, Teferi was caught in the midst of an explosion, and stumbled into an especially slow-moving time zone, burning for 40 years. This caused his planeswalker
Planeswalker
In the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, a planeswalker is a mage with the ability to travel to different planes of existence.-Magic: The Gathering:...
's spark to fully manifest. He was finally rescued by a fellow student by the name of Jhoira.
Zhalfir
Teferi became a legendary courtmage of Zhalfir. He was the creator of the five guilds 800 years before the events of the MirageMirage (Magic: The Gathering)
Mirage was the fifteenth Magic: The Gathering set and ninth expert level set, released in October 1996. This expansion began the first official block set with one large expansion being followed by two smaller expansions all tied together through card mechanics and setting. This expansion also...
-block, when Zhalfir and Femeref were still one. 450 years later, he was peacemaker after the Zhalfirin civil war. He continued his time-research in isolation until the day, 200 years before the events of Mirage
Mirage (Magic: The Gathering)
Mirage was the fifteenth Magic: The Gathering set and ninth expert level set, released in October 1996. This expansion began the first official block set with one large expansion being followed by two smaller expansions all tied together through card mechanics and setting. This expansion also...
he, his assistants and all the inhabitants of his Isle vanished (phased out) from Dominaria.
Teferi's disappearance lured three mages to his Isle: Jolrael, Mangara of Corondor and Kaervek
Kaervek
In the fictional multiverse of Magic: The Gathering, Kaervek is an evil sorcerer from the Burning Isles.A mage known for allegiance with many malign spirits and their allies throughout Urborg and Bogardan, chiefly the Nightstalkers and the easily manipulated Panther Warriors...
of the Burning Isles. Then followed the time of Mangara's Harmony followed by Kaervek's War. Almost two hundred years after its disappearance, the isle returned to its origins. The people of the isle were unaware that any time had passed, and their first realizations that something was wrong came when one of Jolrael's dragons, drawn by the scent of people, attacked the isle. Teferi slew the dragon and immediately set out to discover what was happening. He was horrified to discover foreign wizards warring within Jamuraa, and he began to consider how to remove them without dragging anyone else into the war. Meanwhile he chose to end his experiments lest they run out of control again.
Over time Jolrael had begun to wonder if her choice of allies was a wise one. She magically transported her physical self to the isle, confessed her part in Kaervek's invasion, and begged for help. Teferi refused to intercede, his experiments were too fragile and if unattended could threaten Jamuraa far more than Kaervek's plans. Instead, he offered to guide the leaders of Jamuraa through dreams and visions. He would show them the location of Mangara and the key to unlocking the amber prison.
Kaervek found that the isle which had drawn him to Jamuraa two centuries before was newly inhabited, and he knew that those newcomers must be responsible for his defeat at Tefemburu. He gathered his remaining forces and sailed to Teferi's Isle. The confrontation was short lived. Teferi made short work of Kaervek's armada, sending most of the evil mage's forces to the ocean floor.
Phyrexian Invasion
UrzaUrza
Urza Planeswalker is a fictional character from the universe of Magic: The Gathering, best known for his millennia-long struggle with Yawgmoth and the plane of Phyrexia...
requested that Teferi help him fight against Yawgmoth
Yawgmoth
Yawgmoth, known as the "Father of Machines" and called the Ineffable by his underlings, is a fictional being from Magic, The Gathering, and is the unabated god of the plane of Phyrexia, a universe of untold corruption and mechanical monstrosity. He wields nearly unlimited magical might and...
's invasion of Dominaria, and perhaps man one of his titans. Teferi refused, and instead phased out the entire continent of Zhalfir and a large part of Shiv to secure them against the invasion. This further hurt Urza's plans by preventing the use of one of his large powerstones factories on Shiv.
Time Spiral
Three hundred years after the end of the Phyrexian invasion, the section of Shiv that had been phased out was beginning to return to reality. However, Teferi saw that the return of Shiv to a plane constantly damaged by continual warfare would result in a cataclysmic event (the crater left when Shiv was removed no longer fit the continent's shape), possibly destroying the entire multiverse. With Jhoira as his companion and a small party of Shivans (two viashino named Corus and Skive and two Ghitu warriors, a man named Aprem and a woman of the name Dassene), Teferi returns to Dominaria to find it shattered beyond his greatest predictions. Large rifts drain the mana from the land, and fractures in the space-time continumn bring the past to the present.Upon arrival, Teferi first seeks out the assistance of Freyalise
Freyalise
Freyalise is a character in the fictional multiverse of Magic: The Gathering. She is a planeswalker.-History:The beautiful half-elven Freyalise is considered to be a goddess by the elves of Llanowar...
, although she spurns him, accusing him of running and hiding. The group then travels to Urborg to witness the centerpiece of the Rathi overlay, before Teferi returns to the location of Shiv. The phasing out of the land created one of the mana-draining rifts, and Teferi merges himself to the rift in an attempt to seal it before Shiv phases back into sync with reality. Intending to sacrifice his life to close the rift, he unintentionally loses only his planeswalker spark, stripping him of his powers. However, he is successful in repairing the time rift.
In Planar Chaos he spends much of the book dazed and confused, a shell of his former self. Unaccustomed to bleeding, eating and other normally mortal things, he spends much of the aftermath of Shiv's overlay recovering. However, even dazed, he is a valuable source of information. He instructs Lord Windgrace and Freyalise and despite their aggression towards him never relents in trying to provide them with a way of destroying the remaining rifts. In the end he is able to convince both the panther lord and the patron of Skyshroud (Windgrace and Freyalise) to do as he did and seal the rifts above their homes. During the crisis he is further wounded by the Weaver King's shadow minion Dinne but ultimately survives. With both rifts sealed, he decides to travel to Zhalfir where he will finish its overlay. When Karn the silver golem goes missing, his apprentice Jeska tracks down Teferi and his group. With another Planeswalker at his disposal Teferi tries to convince her to do as the previous planeswalkers had.
However, due to careful manipulations by Leshrac, Jeska rejects Teferi's plans and seeks to fix everything on her own using Radha as a tool. Teferi confronts Jeska shortly after she begins to close the Zhalfiran rift, and when the rift does close, Zhalfir is lost forever, blinking out of existence. Shattered, Teferi sulks and broods while Jeska continues to do Leshrac's bidding without knowing. Jhoira finally manages to convince Teferi to finish what he started despite his monumental losses, and Teferi forces Jeska to listen to him and do as he says in closing the Otarian rift. After Jeska's sacrifice, Teferi parts ways with Jhoira on the beaches of the uninhabited Zhalfiran island. His final fate is unknown as he had become a wanderer at the end of the story.