Aiming to torment her and revel in the pain, he unleashed an attack on Chandra that caused her to planeswalk away from Zendikar. After a brief fight, his magic proved too much for the Pyromancer in her current state of self-pity. He confronted her on Zendikar, using his magic to influence the inner pain she felt about failing Gideon. Plaguing Chandra Īfter the War of the Spark, Tibalt began harassing Chandra Nalaar. Tibalt survived the battle, as he was one of the many planeswalkers who left Ravnica and escaped to safety as soon as Chandra disabled the Immortal Sun. He led an army of demons and devils alongside the diabolist Davriel Cane. Alongside many other planeswalkers and Ravnicans, he fought against the Eternals of Bolas' Dreadhorde, although Tibalt also delighted in tormenting civilians and causing wanton destruction. Tibalt was lured to Ravnica by the Interplanar Beacon, and immediately became trapped there due to Bolas's use of the Immortal Sun. Tibalt decided that he had to interfere if for nothing else, just to torment the ancient walker. However, he soon encountered another of his kind, the vampire Sorin Markov who was attempting to spoil the diabolic fun of those that preyed on humanity. It was during one of these trips that he discovered the world in more peril than he could ever recall before, and it thrilled him. Together with Davriel Cane, Tibalt leads an army of devils during the War of the Spark.ĭespite the peril of returning, Tibalt continued to return to his homeplane, taking a special delight in the torment of the Innistradi population. The shock and trauma ignited Tibalt's spark and he was flung across the Blind Eternities, away from his executioners. Power flooded him, but at a cost at that moment he experienced all the suffering that he had inflicted upon others. The spell fused his own essence with the devils at his side. At that moment, cornered, he invoked a potent and hateful spell built from the devils' utterances and his own grim discoveries. However, though he may have ignored the townsfolk who whispered, he was not without foresight. His crimes would finally be answered, and the severity of them called for only one punishment: execution. Holy warriors poured into his workshop and found him in a room filled with jabbering devils and torture devices. It was only a matter of time before an inquisitor's boot kicked in the door of his laboratory. Tibalt continued on, oblivious to the rumors surrounding him. His neighbors began talking, whispers passed around between the townsfolk of the terrible things they suspected. Empowered with such horrible knowledge, Tibalt grew even more sadistic and more careless. As if summoned by the evil nature of these vile experiments, devils began to gather near Tibalt's laboratory at night, whispering in their diabolic, chittering tongue.įascinated with his work, they sought to assist him, offering Tibalt insights into his obsession, the very nature of pain. He took in vagrants, unwitting people stepping into their own deaths. Tibalt began simply, using only common vermin, but the further he sank into his work, the bigger his subjects became, larger animals and eventually he moved onto people. His experiments sought the limits of living organisms to withstand pain. In frustration, he turned his talents toward the realm of the living, using what his master had taught him to explore the true thresholds of the mortal frame. His repeated failures drove him into isolation, and there he nursed a growing hatred. Tibalt began life in Nephalia, an apprentice to one of the province's many Skaberen, but he lacked the skills required for the work of stitching together the dead. History Ascension Īfter his spark is ignited, Tibalt begins tormenting victims throughout the Multiverse.
As he planeswalks, he disappears in a mass of orange cinders like burning paper. He also has the ability to create illusions. When battling Chandra, he remarked that her flames couldn't hurt him, revealing a remarkable resistance to fire considering Chandra's flames had previously caused Ob Nixilis trouble. Tibalt is primarily red-aligned, and secondary in black mana. He cares not for others, being selfish and sadistic to an almost inhuman degree. He can feel this pain and even seeks it out, to heighten it and revel within it. He loves to have fun in his own way, which is bringing pain and misfortune to those around him. The pain is not limited to physical damage, as he has magic capable of instilling despair and exacerbating emotional weaknesses. He is an empath specializing in pain, causing it, and drawing power from it. Tibalt is a red-skinned man with two prominent horns.
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