Teferi

Teferi is one of the planeswalkers in the fictional multiverse of

Tolaria

Teferi was a talented human apprentice wizard drafted by Urza to work in the Tolarian Academy, and a notable troublemaker. When a time travel experiment failed, Teferi in the midst of an explosion, caught fire and stumbled into an especially slow-moving time zone, burning for 40 years, which caused his planeswalker's spark to fully manifest. He was finally rescued by a fellow student by the name of .

Zhalfir

Teferi became a legendary courtmage of Zhalfir. He was the creator of the five guilds 800 years before the events of the -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 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 tend 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

Urza 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.

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 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, although she spurns him, accusing him of running and hiding. The group then travels to Urborg to witness the centerpiece of the 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. [cite book|title=Time Spiral|first=Scott|last=McGough|year=2006|edition=1st Edition|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|location=U.S.A.|id=ISBN 0-7869-3988-5]

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.

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