Samor

Samor
Samor the Collector
Details
Race	Human
Birthplace	Halquina, Almaaz, Terisiare, Dominaria
Lifetime	Time of Legends-Brothers' War
Born	c. -25 AR
Died	35 AR (60 years old)
Spouse	Lesta
Children	Claria
Relatives	Claria (descendant)

Samor was a the leader of the Sumifan songmages during the Brothers' War.

Description

Samor had a solid build and a strong, lean jaw. He had dark curly hair, dark eyes, olive skin, and bushy eyebrows. He had a kindly, empathic demeanor. As the leader of the songmages, he read from the Holy Book of the Confessors, transmitting its messages to the other songmages across the land. As his slave, he also worked as Mishra's historian and sometime ambassador to Almaaz.

History

In 23 AR, Samor found young Porros tangled like a broken kite in a treetop, where he had landed after a failed attempt at flight. Samor extricated Porros from the tree, dumping him to the ground with a song spell, but this only caused the prince to become keenly insulted and angry, demanding Samor teach him the ways of the songmages. After some pestering, Samor and the Circe eventually accepted Porros into their ranks, and Samor gave Porros the title "the Raptor", after how he had found the prince initially.

In 35 AR, Samor was summoned to Mishra at Sarraza, where a rogue cockatrice called the Beast of the Hours was petrifying Mishra's army as well as the nearby locals. Samir attempted to kill the creature with a songspell, but a discordant note disrupted the ritual, forcing Samor to change the spell to one of imprisonment beneath the mountain. Mishra then gave Samor three days to learn a song of unbinding, so he could threaten his brother Urza with the release of the cockatrice.

Samor tried to object, but after Mishra threatened him, he could only comply with the request to save his own family. He started his work, by creating a songspell that would resonate with the Chimes in the nearby valley, and using his daughter Claria naming song as the melody. As he was finishing his work, Porros appeared in his study in a cyclone of sand. The prince then revealed himself to be a traitor to the songmages. It was Porros himself who had summoned the cockatrice to begin with, and had sung the discordant tone during Samor's spell, which disrupted the ritual.

Porros stole the amulet that was the key to the binding of the song, but Samor secretly locked the music of the cockatrice's release into his daughter's name and handprint, then cast a spell of transformation on Porros, draining away his handsome features and leaving only his grey eyes, a shadowed, sandy body, and taloned feet like a raptor's. Furious, Porros slashed Samor's throat with a piece of broken mirror, then gave himself over to his rage, drawing a heavy sandstorm onto Sumifa as he rose into the air above it. While its people, including his own two sons, fled the city for the Nessian Caves to seek shelter, the Fall of Sumifa happened as the city was buried under tons of sand and became part of the endless, shifting desert landscape. Porros himself did not see what he had done until his rage was spent, and he could only stare as the city he had been posed to inherit had disappeared for all time.

3000 years after his death, Samor's skeleton was found in the buried ruins of old Sumifa, and the song magic he had set up enabled Ogwater Rifkin to finally release and banish the Beast of the Hours.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Song of Time	Teri McLaren	June 1996	Antiquities	Dominaria	Samor, Porros, Caelus Nin, Mishra, Beast of the Hours, Lesta, Aswi, Praden, Claria, Urza, Sh'Daran, Charga, Cheyne, Thedeso, Javin, Muni, Rij, Hadi, Zu (mentioned), Kalkuk, Riolla Hifrata, Maceo, Doulos, Ogwater Rifkin, Vinzo, Saelin, Drufalden, Kifran, Vashki, Kirmah (mentioned), Claria, Yob, Bandro (mentioned), Shalikre (mentioned), Rotapan, Womba, Naruq, Gahzi, Rafek, Krota, Chelydrus, Glom, Puffer, Wiggulf, Rasper, Clutch, Sawsa, Frijan, Dunsan, Jepli, Carsh, Q'Tarin, Salmak, Silufe, Luquin