| Nashi | |
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| Details | |
| Race | Nezumi |
| Birthplace | Kamigawa |
| Lifetime | Mending Era |
| Parents |
Tamiyo (adoptive mother) Genku (adoptive father) |
| Relatives |
Hiroku (adoptive brother) Rumiyo (adoptive sister) A kitsune (adoptive sibling) Umeyo (adoptive cousin) |
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Nashi is an orphaned Nezumi from Kamigawa. He was adopted by the planeswalker Tamiyo and her husband Genku after his village was destroyed, and now resides in Otawara.[1]
Description[]
Nashi is a young Nezumi artificer with bright white fur and gray spots.[2] With his Reckoner gang, he wears a black leather jacket with sharp cuts and silver rings along the edge of his ear.[3] During New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse, he cobbled together motley metal armor and a homemade helmet from scraps.[4] A microchip at his temple allows him to control drones and other technology.[5]
A natural tinkerer, Nashi uses a modified form of his mother's story magic to access spells copied through surveillance footage.[5]
History[]
Nashi was born in a nezumi swamp village in rural Kamigawa.[6] The planeswalker Tezzeret and the Infinite Consortium had come to Kamigawa to acquire magical artifacts from the swamp near Nashi's village. When the nezumi refused to sell their land, Tezzeret sent his second-in-command Baltrice to assassinate the village's chief as only the chief's son would agree to a trade deal. Upon arriving, Baltrice found the chief's son had given them faulty intel and burned the village down in retaliation.[7] Nashi's parents died in the process and he was left heavily scarred by a fire elemental controlled by Baltrice. Afterward, Tezzeret was betrayed by his subordinates, who left him braindead in the burned village for the ratfolk to do with as they wished. The Nezumi kept Tezzeret until the day a dragon arrived and bargained for his body.[3]
Nashi's fur has since grown back but has turned white where his burns used to be, giving him a unique pattern among the nezumi. Nashi was subsequently sent to various houses which he refused as he felt his foster parents were trying to replace his dead parents. This changed when Tamiyo came to him and insisted he call her nothing but Tamiyo.
Though loving his new family, he often felt the runt and was frustrated due to not being able to fly like his Soratami siblings. However, he has learned how to cope with the grief and even make new friends through his interest in technology. When Ajani came to their house, Nashi was initially distrustful, but came to sympathize with the planeswalker and his loss of Elspeth Tirel.[1] He also finds great comfort in the stories his mother has collected around the Multiverse and would like nothing more than to see it for himself one day.
Neon Dynasty[]
Tracking Tezzeret, Kaito Shizuki inevitably tried to track Nashi for information. Tamiyo intercepted him and appealed to leave her son due to his trauma. Nashi was revealed to be interested in technology and was excited about Kaito's drone.[3]
With Tamiyo's capture by Tezzeret, Kaito felt obligated to inform Nashi and the rest of his family. The young nezumi vowed to find his mother, but unbeknownst to him Tamiyo had been compleated and considered New Phyrexia her new family.[8]
Phyrexian Invasion[]
Immediately before New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse, Nashi joined the Nezumi gangs to try to find his mother. He came across Tezzeret and attacked him, demanding to know where she was. The planeswalker easily subdued him and killed the other nezumi in his gang. Still, he let the injured boy live, telling him that his mother was alive and that he'd wish he had killed her.[2]
When Tamiyo was tasked by Elesh Norn to compleat Kamigawa, Nashi tried to reason with her. She refused and was felled by the Wanderer. However, a spiritual projection of her past self comforted Nashi and asked the Wanderer to take care of him.[4] In the aftermath of the invasion, he and Tamiyo's memory returned to her husband Genku.[9] Nashi later took up his mother's story circle, collecting new stories in her stead.[10]
Storyteller[]
In the wake of the Phyrexian Invasion, Omenpaths opened across the Multiverse, allowing Nashi to carry on his mother's mission by collecting stories from across the planes.[5] He started his travels on Thunder Junction, but his story magic was inhibited by the lingering trauma of witnessing his mother's death. He eventually heard about a magic-amplifying elixir concocted by the Slickshot Gang, one of the plane's criminal gangs. After doing some surveillance, Nashi decided to break into their headquarters and steal the elixir to strengthen his faltering magic. However, he was stopped in his tracks by Obeka, the gang's enforcer. After a short fight, she threw a punch enhanced by temporal magic that caused Nashi to relive his past experiences and escape while he was hallucinating. However, reliving the memories of his mother emboldened him to try again, channeling story magic through video footage instead of scrolls. He was much more proficient with this method and successfully stole the elixir.
Lost on Duskmourn[]
Sometime after he returned from Thunder Junction, the scroll containing Tamiyo's memory vanished.[11] Hearing her voice, Nashi followed it to a doorway to Duskmourn. After attempting to investigate the door unsuccessfully, he took six of his closest friends, other nezumi Reckoners, and traveled through, where he was trapped for three months.[12]
In a clearing surrounded by an unnatural forest, the Wanderer, Niko Aris and Winter discovered Nashi imprisoned alongside his friends, four of whom had already been turned to wickerfolk.[12] After a tense battle, Niko and the Wanderer used shards and fire to drive off the creatures and free Nashi and his two remaining friends. Despite the Wanderer's pleas, Nashi remained determined to continue his search, motivated by a deep desire to reunite with his mother Tamiyo, and led the group deeper into the House, intent on finding her.[13]
The party led by Nashi continued their journey deeper into Duskmourn through a series of natural environments that seemed impossible to contain within the House.[14] They entered the Valley of Serenity, home of the Cult of Valgavoth, a dangerous group dedicated to the demon Valgavoth, and then their altar room, where they encountered the Cult. The cult had captured three Survivors, including a wounded girl named Rill and an uninjured captive named Sunset. Rill gave in to the cultists' demands, agreeing to become one of them. Despite trying to intervene, Niko, the Wanderer, and Nashi were captured after a betrayal by Winter, who sealed them in the room with the cultists. The cult leader then used a cloud of sedative dust to knock them out, killing or turning the last of Nashi's Reckoner friends, and they awoke tied to stone posts in another cavern. The Wanderer was the first to regain consciousness, realizing that the cult was using Tamiyo's scroll echo to siphon her stories and feed them to the demon Valgavoth, allowing him to learn where to place the doors to spread his influence beyond Duskmourn's walls.
While Niko and the Wanderer were able to rescue themselves and Nashi from captivity, Nashi learned from Tamiyo's echo that the theft of her stories had greatly weakened her grasp on reality.[15] She was only tethered to physical existence by a Duskmourn ghost trap, and would not be able to leave the plane. Nashi struggled to accept that he had failed, but the echo reminded him that she was not his mother, but a collection of all her stories, and that the story of her love for Nashi was the one most foundational to her being, which was why the cultists hadn't been able to steal it. He decided to accept her passing, destroying the ghost trap so that the cultists wouldn't be able to exploit her anymore. Nashi then escaped from Duskmourn with an artificial Omenpath created by Kaito and Alquist Proft. With this overcoming of his traumatic experiences, Nashi was finally prepared to take up Tamiyo's storytelling mantle.
Artifacts acquired[]
Planes visited[]
Through Omenpaths, Nashi was able to visit the following planes:
Trivia[]
- Nashi is the protagonist of the Duskmourn: House of Horror trailer.
Gallery[]
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Nashi with Tamiyo's story after New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse. Avatar for Magic: The Gathering Arena. -
Nashi in the Duskmourn: House of Horror trailer.
Story appearances[]
In-game references[]
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References[]
- ↑ a b Chris L'Etoile (October 5, 2016). "Release". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Reinhardt Suarez (January 17, 2023). "A Man of Parts". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c Akemi Dawn Bowman (January 25, 2022). "Episode 3: An Unexpected Alliance". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b K. Arsenault Rivera (March 17, 2023). "March of the Machine - Episode 3: Mother, Son, and Story". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c Akemi Dawn Bowman (March 19, 2024). "A Long Way from Home". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Ari Zirulnik, Grace Fong, Emily Teng, and Gerritt Turner (February 11, 2022). "The Legends of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Ari Marmell (2009), "Agents of Artifice", Wizards of the Coast
- ↑ Akemi Dawn Bowman (January 27, 2022). "Episode 5: Threads of War". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ K. Arsenault Rivera (March 28, 2023). "March of the Machine - Episode 10: The Rhythms of Life". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ WeeklyMTG - March of the Machine: The Aftermath (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (May 2, 2023).
- ↑ a b Mira Grant (August 19, 2024). "Duskmourn: House of Horror - Episode 1: Don't Go Past the Old Dark House". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Mira Grant (Aug 26, 2024). "Episode 4: Don't Give Up". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Emily Teng (September 19, 2024). "The Legends of Duskmourn: House of Horror". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mira Grant (2024-08-28). "Duskmourn: House of Horror - Episode 5: Don't Give In". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Mira Grant (August 30, 2024). "Duskmourn: House of Horror Episode 6 - Don't Die". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ An Ode to Magic - Modern Horizons 3 Debut (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (May 21, 2024).
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