#fanwalkers

[niuttuc]

Updated this for 2024 info about them and including various art commissioned for the characters over the years for the main roster. Sorry for the long post, but putting this up here again as a result.

Niuttuc’s Fanwalker List

Art and short bios and description of my fanwalkers, since it was a little weird to refer to an ask every time. Occasionally updated (last update: November 2024.) Since my roster has expanded significantly since this post was first made, I’ll only put my “core” characters into a first “short” list, and the rest below the cut. Note that I do still occasionally develop and do appreciate questions beyond the core characters, I just decided to separate things for ease of read.

Feel free to inquire if you’re curious about any of them or any specific bit of the text here! There is much, much more than the little written here about each of them. Though do provide enough context for me to understand what you’re asking about.

None of the art featured here was made by me, though it was all commissioned from various artists. I’ll tag them when I know their current tumblr whereabouts, though many have moved on from it over the years, or changed their handles enough times I don’t know them anymore.

1) Anedia Kosel (UB)

She/her, Human, overt (former?) dimir reporter and covert (former?) dimir agent. Sleep mage. From Ravnica. After a successful column writing about other worlds and planeswalkers, and a failed attempt at a paper she ran herself, now has moved to Thunder Junction to try again, and trade interplanar information with interested parties.

2) Ivegard ( R )

She/Her, Flamekin empath from Lorwyn. She travels mostly for traveling’s sake, but takes on courier work across planes to find new places to go and meet new people. Omenpaths have brought both more competition and more parties interested in her services.

3) Nyrhen (G)

(Nyrhen doesn’t deserve art, plus he’d be annoying if not murderous to anyone he would deem representing him in less than perfect fashion)

He/Him, Elf from Lorwyn. Potential/true self magic. Seeks people who know who they are. Current home set up in the Wilds of Eldraine, but he doesn’t spend too much time there. He’s a terrible person who occasionally does good things for bad or weird reasons, but most often an unpredictable danger for others.

4) Vaalin (WUR)

(art by @reubenyeoart​ )

He/him, half-merfolk half-human, Tolarian scholar from Dominaria. Magic allowing manipulation of the perception of time, and for him to slip between moments. Generally a pacifist, he’s still not alright with the little fighting he found himself forced into during the recent phyrexian invasion, even though he mostly stuck to handling logistics for the new coalition.

5) Dancing-Hands (WU)

He/Him, Kitsune with origami-based animating magic and innate short range telekinesis on non-living objects. From Kamigawa. Former follower of an Ojutai dragon. Currently mostly based on Amonkhet in a relationship with a pair of Khenra twins, he’s also been exploring working with a branch of the Order of Heliud.

6) Dolores (BR)

(She has some gifted arts, but nothing “official” yet. Though that might change sooner than later)

She/Her, demon with pain-based magic. Resides and works on New Capenna as torturer, mainly for the Maestros. From the fan-plane of Ferely. She was born an Azra and ascended to demonhood in a process she doesn’t fully understand. Recently has been seen on Thunder Junction and a few other planes seeking some specific people for unknown reasons.

7) Arnoss (RGW)

He/Him, Ghavalek (Gharial-based person) with enhanced strength and protection based on others’ need for his help. From the fan-plane of Ocaelum. Fully amphibious. He’s recently spent more time on his home plane and was adopted into his culture’s wide pantheon, the Spirit Kindred. He’s big, over 3m (10′) tall at time of writing, but the gentlest of giant with most people, despite or maybe because of his appearance. Before his return home, he’s worked as a bodyguard to help people and his own purse before.

8) Lhur (B)

(No art for Lhur yet. Maybe someday!)

He/Him, Giant from Fiora. His magic is rooted in manifesting what people want or desire. Led a revolt against his own father’s rule of a small kingdom far away from Paliano. After his victory, he ruled for a few years and established a better system for his country and his people. And recently lost the first election with that new system.

9) Farell Bassola (U)

(No art for Farell yet, unless there is. It’s hard to tell with shapeshifters. Which would make a depiction pretty pointless.)

Most often uses He/They. Shapeshifting duelist from Fiora, copying their opponents’ appearance and skills. Doesn’t try nor like actually trying to impersonate others. Inspired by a character from tragedy, Farell has suffered his share of cruel twists of fate and impossible love.

10) Arega (GU)

(art by @poisonhemlocke​)

They/Them, Lorwyn Changeling modified with old Simic biomancy. They’re now encased in a hybrid body designed for the Guardian project, and slowly adapt to conditions they face. On the run from the actual Simic guild, though the Guild is not as interested in chasing Arega as they think.

11) Zarunpel (G(BW))

(No official art for Zarunpel yet, but she might be next on the list)

She/Her, Human Knight of Garenbrig, from Eldraine. Rapunzel-inspired, she has long, heavy and indestructible hair she uses as both weapon and protection. She’s stronger than she looks and has access to some protection magic. She doesn’t like the story a fae has tried to force her into since the day of her birth, and tries to be very different than what her looks of a dainty princess would have others expect. Also her shadow either is or contains a magical giant panther of Urborg she uses as a mount, bonded to her by the Soul of Windgrace after a service rendered.

12) Sezashi (UG)

(art by @reubenyeoart​ )

He/Him, Orochi from Kamigawa. His kami-granted magic allows him to manipulate life and objects by doubling or halving them or some of their characteristics. Trying to figure out what kind of world Kamigawa might one day become from the Merge and help steer it towards the better outcomes of it.

13) Jaspar Naelir (BG)

(No art for Jaspar yet)

He/Him, Shadow Elf from Skemfar (Kaldheim). His magic deals with evoking past life in previously living objects, somewhere between druidism and necromancy. It is empowered by a fang of Koma’s (coil) he carries made up to look like a sword. He looks for secrets of the Einir and how they came to be in “far realms”, other planes that the Skoti may not have purged like they did his own culture.

Link to a spreadsheet for easy reference

The rest of the cast under the cut, this post is already plenty long enough, you scrolled down plenty already.

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[bace-jeleren]

i miss the fanwalker era of the mtg tumblr experience

I should pay them more attention, I fell off the wagon for real. I'm always open to and enjoy answering questions about them, it's how I usually get info about them out there, since I can never find the right time to info dump about them very much.

[dancing-sword]

So before Bloomburrow comes out I at least one to get out one MH 3 ask, so could you tell me about your walkers Origin card?

For Halona, I really like the explore sub-theme I gave her when I did the Chandra M19 inspired set since it represented her origin story of sailing and exploring. I think for her creature side, it'd keep track of every land she explores to a max of 3, probably using the noting system like Long List of the Ents. I'm not sure what would trigger the flip, probably when she sees a land on exploring, but after she flips she gains more loyalty for each land she explored and maybe draws for each +1/+1 counter (or tutors for an aura based on the number of counters) she had when she flips.

For Nireta, I made most of one, but I'm not sure I ever posted it. She'd be a 1/2 for UB flier with "Tap: Put a scavenge counter on her and draw a card." and "An opponent could put two counters on her and have a creature they control fight her. Only opponents may activate this ability, and only as a sorcery." If she would die with any scavenge counters on her, she'd flip and come in with that many loyalty. I like how it worked in her plundering and eventual near-death igniting. I didn't have any real notes for her back half though.

I only have the barebones of a Catrina origin card that I started working on once. The only thing I really have is that she'd have been White-Black with a Green tap ability. I think she'd have a fight ability with a noting mechanic to keep track of the highest CMC or Power/Toughness and she'd flip after killing a certain total amount. The planeswalker custom card I printed back in... 2022??? (God why I am so bad at being an artist online?) I was already struggling to come up with a representative version of her back then. She'd still probably have another destroy effect and probably another boardwipe-adjacent ability, but it's hard to come up with something that fits and isn't super broken.

[reubenyeoart]

Speaking of your planeswalkers, how did you design them and theme them around their colors? If you haven't answered this before. I love the theory behind the colors and how planeswalkers are represented.

Ah; the colour connections my fanwalkers had are a bit looser than how the colour pie works, hahaha.

For Kanerva, my first planeswalker; he's simply based on my W/B enchantments EDH deck, led by Daxos, the Returned. It's also an allusion to his fur colours (since he's a panda).

For Tormund, he was designed for an idea I had for a piece I did for my Ko-Fi. I wanted to create a Kaldheim-based character and designed Tormund's outfit based on the Kannah, since I envisioned his magic being based on growing stronger the more he puts himself into danger (also the reason why he doesn't wear any topwear).

This piece was to highlight Tormund's character, showing Tormund wanting to flex his abilities and planeswalking to Amonkhet to complete the Trial of Strength.

[pikachugirltits]

So fanwalker creators of Tumblr... anyone actually going to engage with the whole "lots of planeswalkers have lost their sparks" plot point for your fanwalkers, or are you gonna just ignore it?

[socialpoison]

The Phyrexian Arc where my ocs are concerned:

-Traenor went on a revenge quest for the friend he thought he lost to Jin-Gitaxias, Endry.

-He enlists Klaus and Andra to help him out.

-Traenor and Klaus went to New Phyrexia and helped the resistance for a bit.

-They investigated Kaldheim, then Kamigawa, where they met Avon, who was investigating consortium leads that led her to Tezzeret's trail.

-They try to follow up on leads that bring them to Elspeth's homeplane, New Capenna. They meet walkers from the Order of Heliud , Lys Ora, Vanya, and Constance. Lys Ora blames Andra for initiating their homeplane's eventual destruction (andra is unaware) and she chases Andra off. Vanya joins the gang.

-They go to Dominaria, after reports of Phyrexians invading. Vanya takes them to the Serran Order of Grace, her order which had been infiltrated by Sleepers. Avon helps root them out, until she accidentally mind melds with a sleeper, and turns against them, nearly destroying them all. Avon is captured and left to recover, though they do manage to save the Order.

Around here, Ellidus is captured and compleated, and the Order's listening post on New Phyrexia now monitors planeswalker travel for New Phyrexia.

-In BRO they meet with the Gatewatch formally. They prepare their homeplanes for invasion. Traenor finally gets his second knighthood.

Around here, after months of the Listening Post being used to stop planeswalkers from messing with Phyrexia, the Order hires a certain Metathran to take it down. Ellidus is punished for losing it, and to try and make up for it, they help augment the Phyrexians' new anti-planeswalker field, with their body as a component.

Also Ora discovers Andra never intended to kick off the growing of Axin's aetherstorm, and would have stopped it if she could. They return to the gang.

-In ONE, the gang go to New Phyrexia to try and run interference for the Planeswalker Strike Team, and achieve a secondary goal, which is to try and find how the Phyrexians are compleating planeswalkers.

But Klaus is separated on arrival and captured. His immunity from Melira is bolstered by some Halo he takes, so he isn't compleated at first. However they do put him into a pod to access his memories and magic. While he's under, he dreams a journey through the layers of Phyrexia, where he sees people he knows being either captured or compleated. He's rescued just before he dies or gets compleated.

Ellidus is probably separated from Realmbreaker, left helpless.

[yellingaboutmasseffect]

Summary:

As worries of Phyrexian incursions on various planes grows, two planeswalkers, Clelia and Ariael, volunteer to go to Dominaria to look for evidence of the Phyrexians being on the plane. Doing so changes the course of their lives forever as they both do whatever it takes to make it back to each other and those they love. -

Chapter Summary:

Ariael receives a mission from Elesh Norn that will allow her to show the glory of New Phyrexia to those she loves.

But why does she still feel an ache in her soul?

[arvadthecursed]

IT'S DONE

Here's the final chapter of THR!!! Thanks for coming on this journey with me :)

[little-red-rabbit]

Think with all the invasion stuff you’ll compleat any of your characters? (I think I’m too attached/chicken to xD)

I'm kind of in the same boat as you @thetabbybadger I'm far to attached to my walker to complete any of them. Though I had considered have Niphorbis becoming complete do to his connection to nyx and have him pass away when the Phyrexians become inert.

But just because I have no plans to complete any of my oc dose not mean I have not put a lot of thought into what they would be like completed.

Marcel, Tender to Perfection

“I have surrendered the fleeting warming of flesh for the cold embrace of perfection.”

Not to long ago I sent you as message describing a completed Marcel well I have an update to that.

Marcel hair has become one sheet of flesh like silver fused to his lower back and around his ribs, it cloaks his upper body like a funeral lily. His upper body is now segments of perfectly smooth porcelain, jointed together like a great doll. As he moves you can see in the gaps of the joints brambles of copper, wound together in a mockery of muscle and sinew. His lower body though is now quadrupedal, green copper artistically sculpted into a mockery of a unicorn. An affront to everything Marcel ever believed in and the blessed of his home plane.

Marcel had become Elesh Norn's greatest weapon against the remains of the Mirrodin resistance, for against the cold artificialness of New Phyrexia their life force burns like a flare in the night.

When the invasion happened Marcel was tasked with brining perfection to his own home plane. Here he further proved his worth to the great work as he ability to manipulate life energies assisted in allowing the Phyrexian to overcome the Floramorians natural resistance to completion.

He would ultimately be put down by Duke Lyle, who in a brutal dragged out battle was finally able to avenge both his sons from what had happened to them. But this was not the end of Marcel's story for as he laid dying on warm stone of the castle he grew up in, the soul of Floramore heard the anguish of the soul trapped with in metal cage. She welcomed her lost child back into the embrace of the good earth, and somewhere far in the Fair Wilds a young dryad with silver hair would one day be born with a spark already ignited.

Segara, Avatar of Assimilation

"Here my journey has come to an end, I have found my place within the great work."

The breathtaking albino peacock feather of Segara's mighty wings have fused together into great sheets of chrome, tipped with the eyes of gitaxias. His head is now a chrome bird skull with interlocking metal spines flowing down from it to his chest. His body is now completely smooth chrome, with the symbol of Phyrexia carved into his chest. Behind him rages a living storm of black oil vapers, the Avatar of Assimilation. Born from Segara adsorbing the magic of glistening oil into his body and with the magic of his former goddess manifesting the very avatar of Phyrexia's will.

Molycap, Mycosynth Mutation

*horrifical oily gurgles*

Molycap has fused with mycosyth to become a horrific blighted mound of death and decay. A living rot farm of fused funguses and the undead from which Phyrexian saprolings burst from that quickly skitter into the dark of the undercity to spread more of the glistening oil into Ravnica water ways.

Serrabeth, Blazing Raider

"Come now child, no more tears, sometimes you got to know when to join the winning side."

Out of all my walker Serrabeth might have joined Urabrask willingly, trading in her aging body for one of immoral iron. Most of Serrabeth body is little more then an skeletal framework with a skull and crossbones making up her chest. The rest of her is the flames of Urabrask furnace given life, oh also her left arm is now a cannon because fuck ya.

Dillan, Yawgmoth's Dream

"Soon the nightmare of flesh will come to an end and all will share the dream of Phyrexia."

Dillan lower body if formed out of porcelain plates and has become more of a bipedal satyr then the sheep centaur he used to be. A sheet of white oil stained wool rapped around his waist like a child's security blanket. His chest is made entirely out of silver as he has been fused to mother moon. Who now oily sands now flow from the gap in his chest, spreading the dream of completion.

Nivel, Phyrexia's Harmony

"Soon we shall all sing in one voice"

Nivel has been fused with a number of other Phyrexias from all of the factions, their bodies forming a sort of twisted exoskeleton around is. They are his choirs and he is their conductor. Together they sing the hymn of the Phyrexia using Nivel animation magic to bring completion even to unliving stone.

Angelique, Angel of Elesh Norn

"In the light of the five suns I have foreseen Phyrexia's victory across countless worlds."

Angelique would be twisted into a mockery of an Elspeth, her body now little more then a set of living procaine pates interlocked into a set of armor. Behind her head is a halo shaped in of the New Phyreia's symbol. From her shoulders extend two great vents from which gouts of great flames burst forth giving the illusion of wings.

Valentino, Unseen Agent

"Promises where made to me that my love would be returned to me in perfection."

No one knows what Valentino's completed form looks like and that is the point. His mastery of illusion magic has made him invaluable in infiltration pockets of resistance and destroying them from within.

Ozmander, Porcelain Patriarch

"I have served many who only keep a veneer of faith, I find no such weakness here."

The left half of Ozmander body is formed from the white of the orthodoxies porcelain, the right the black iron of the steel thanes. He is draped his the robes of a holy man tattered and dripping with black oil, his sword having been fused with his right hand where it spins in it's socket.

Anise, Phyrexias Scripter

"The story has been written, the ending planed long in advance, all will be one."

Anise body now had the skeletal build of black iron, wing of folded porcelain plates and a cap of chrome covering her eyes. She now write in glistening oil a single word on everything she sees "Completion".

[professor-oaktree]

Just some planeswalker ideas for if they gave the original gatewatch secondary colors :3 I tried to keep them fairly balanced

[niuttuc]

Tell me about your mtg characters!

Let’s reverse the usual, either reblog this post with basic information about your own Magic: the Gathering characters, or send me an ask with it. One at a time, and give me that information even if I already know them, others might not. I’ll ask around questions about them that pop into my head.

[bace-jeleren]

Since you mentioned it (last week but procrastination), I am curious about what happened to your fanwalkers in the past couple years of events eventing, but to narrow it down a bit more, let's start with the family of Wren, Kuro and Megumi!

Ah, yes, of course, everyone's favorite little family! It's so difficult to juggle my fanwalker canon, since a lot of plot stuff happens like ten+ years in the future, so every time a major canon event takes place I have to male sweeping addendums to their lore.

For the uninitiated: Wren is a vampire from Innistrad who made a name for herself on Kylem in Valor's Reach. She doesn't have any standout qualities that aren't just "vampire traits, but juiced up", but she is especially charismatic and uses that to her advantage. In order to feed, without stooping to murder, Wren hosts orgies with her army of devoted fans, and drinks only small portions of participant's blood. Wten is genderfluid.

Kuro is a soratami necromancer from Kamigawa who met Wren shortly after the events of WAR, and the two of them immediately became entangled in a whirlwind romance. Kuro raises the dead by way of touching corpses, so she can actually use her necromancy unintentionally if she isn't careful. When she raises the dead, she is treated to the memories of their death, and sometimes even other details.

Megumi is their daughter, a soratami dhampir who winds up getting into trouble of her own much later down the line.

By the time the Phyrexian invasion was taking place, Megumi was an infant, which forced Wren and Kuro to remain on Kylem instead of going to the aid of their friends.

Kuro attempted to make use of Phyrexian corpses at her disposal, but getting treated to the memories of what they experienced during compleation made utilizing them impossible. Trying even once exposed her to the Phyrexian brainwashing that it nearly consumed her.

Due to "I already planned out their story way ahead of canon, so they have to keep their sparks" reasons, neither of them were victims to the Great Pruning, but they became automatic go-tos when it came to working with multiplanar travelers when the Omenpaths started opening up.

[dancing-sword]

"As a tree broke through the realms, so too did a girl's heart."

Out of all the images to do after not having the time and/or energy to do art for so long, this was a nice one to do.

I didn't talk with @moisellethefae about Moiselle's curse that kept her from planeswalking when I started this (and I still haven't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), but once I got the idea I had to put it down. I've had a couple ideas of proxy/alt card art that I've been wanting to do, but it's taking me forever to pen the ideas (and also decide which are for what).

[thegreatskywhale]

So before magic drops March of the Machine, and potently ruins the multiverse, I would like to know what your ocs are up to!

Most of my OCs are entirely unaware of the plot and in for a very rude awakening. The only ones acutely aware of the growing threat are Karesh, Xiltas, and Malain.

Karesh continues to find himself aware of and involved in unavoidable conflicts, and while he is not a particularly noble or heroic individual, the Phyrexians are not a threat he can ignore. However they have provided him an opportunity he has been looking for for a long time, an opening to escape his contract with Maharabh.

Xiltas, on the contrary, is looking forward to the near future. He's been wanting to dissect and study Phyrexians for a long time, and now he's being provided with a way to do that.

Malain (who can see the future) knows shits about to go down and wants none of it and has disappeared until this is all over.

[gollumni]

I want to write another thing for @talesofthemultiverse, but can't choose which of my fanwalkers I want to use for it.

Each of my fanwalkers has a unique color identity, so I'm going to do this a certain way

[yellingaboutmasseffect]

Summary:

As worries of Phyrexian incursions on various planes grows, two planeswalkers, Clelia and Ariael, volunteer to go to Dominaria to look for evidence of the Phyrexians being on the plane. Doing so changes the course of their lives forever as they both do whatever it takes to make it back to each other and those they love.

Chapter Summary:

A reunion but it is anything but cathartic. 

Preview Below the Cut:

“I don’t think it’s enough,” Clelia admitted as she looked at the preparations to the fortress they had managed to do for the past few days marked on a map that Aki had drawn.

With Clelia on the fortress’s parapet was Nissa, Chandra, Elspeth, and Slenna looking equally, if not more worried. The others were still continuing their preparations but it all seemed insignificant when laid out on paper against what they would face.

“It never is enough but we will make do,” Elspeth said, looking older than her years.

Beside her, Nissa was looking equally grim as she clung to her staff hard enough to turn her knuckles white.

“I haven’t been able to contact Dominaria’s world soul. I can keep trying but without their aid, it will limit what I will be able to do.”

“I’ll buy you time if I have to, Nissa. They’re not immune to fire and I’m eager for payback,” Chandra said, leaning against the table.

“I have a few surprises for them too. Between all of us, we should be able to keep them on their toes for a bit,” Slenna said without her usual bravado as she walked around the map.

“Something’s out on the horizon,” Elspeth said, pulling their attention away from the map to where there were dark figures hovering over the fields in the distance.

“Let’s take a look,” Slenna said, reaching into her bag and pulling out a spyglass. She hummed as she made some adjustments to bring what she was looking at into focus. “There are some Phyrexian aven coming towards us- wait one of them is like the angels in the stained glass windows- no.”

Slenna dropped the spyglass which grew to its regular size as it rolled across the table.

Despite knowing what she would see, Clelia grabbed the spyglass first and looked out at the figures hovering in flight on the horizon.

Among the Phyrexian aven was Clelia, remade into a Phyrexian vision of the Dominarian angels. Clelia heard her heartbeat in her ears as she passed the spyglass to Elspeth.