Nashi

Name

Nashi

Species

Nezumi (Rat Folk from Kamigawa)

Bio

Nashi is a young Nezumi artificer in his twenties with bright white fur and gray spots. With his Reckoner gang, he wears a black leather jacket with sharp cuts and silver rings along the edge of his ear.During New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse, he cobbled together motley metal armor and a homemade helmet from scraps. A microchip at his temple allows him to control drones and other technology. A natural tinkerer, Nashi uses a modified form of his mother's story magic to access spells copied through surveillance footage.

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. 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.

Pyrexian 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. 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. In the aftermath of the invasion, he and Tamiyo's memory returned to her husband Genku.Nashi later took up his mother's story circle, collecting new stories in her stead.

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.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.

Duskmourn

Sometime after he returned from Thunder Junction, the scroll containing Tamiyo's memory vanished. 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. 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. 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.

Nashi's home.

Kamigawa a neon Japanese cyberpunk city.

Kamigawa

More than 1,200 years after the events of the Kamigawa block, the two realms of Kamigawa are merging, and one day they will exist as one. Some wonder about what's beyond the merge gates, or how denizens of both realms will be affected when the merge is complete. The Imperials are still the main power in Kamigawa. The Kamigawans have discovered electricity, experienced an industrial revolution, and entered a computerized era. The Utsushiyo has transformed into a futuristic world of cyberpunk ninjas and samurai, where tradition and modernity meet. The kami feel threatened by the growth of the modern city of Towashi. Many have fled to the remains of the Jukai forest, and are hostile to humans. For this reason, Eiganjo trained many kami diplomats to try to keep the peace between the mortal and spirit realms. Some Kami have adapted to the electricity, taking on industrial-style bodies. Seeking information on the spirit realm and the planeswalker's spark, Tezzeret was sent to Kamigawa by the New Phyrexian praetors to investigate. Clashing with the Emperor, he destabilized her spark with the prototype Reality Chip before escaping. Years later, Jin-Gitaxias traveled to the plane himself to continue his research, eventually unlocking the secret to compleating planeswalkers before implementing it on his first subject, Tamiyo. The Emperor was able to briefly stabilize her spark, reconnecting with Kyodai and ending the Asari Uprisers' rebellion before naming Light-Paws her regent and departing again.