![]() At the age of eleven, Tezzeret had stolen a total of 200 grams of etherium, most of which he had hidden beneath his skin and hair. It was here that the effects of his mother's death and his father's worldview became most apparent, as anybody who crossed the boy would find their mothers stabbed to death, proving at least in Tezzeret's mind, that they were weaker than he was. While pursuing his goal of escaping his father, Tezzeret also rose in the ranks of the various Tidehollow gangs. He would receive a violent thrashing every time he was caught, which was almost always intentional, as it allowed him to get away with stealing even more of the metal while his father believed him pacified. It was this lack of diligence on the older man's part that allowed Tezzeret to begin stealing etherium at the age of nine. It was during this time that he learned of his natural talent in rhabdomancy, which gave him the ability to find metal more easily than his father, who soon stopped doing any work short of selling their finds. The next day, he began to help his father salvage metal from the cesspools. With this simple declaration, Tezzeret swore he would become a mage someday so that nobody could take anything from him ever again. While cleaning the corpse out of the street, his father imparted the seeds that would alter Tezzeret's worldview forever the strong ruled and took whatever they could from the weak, and on Esper, there was no force greater than the mages. While begging in Lower Vectis, she was run down by a guildmaster's carriage, leaving Tezzeret and his father alone. Tezzeret's life would change when he was approximately seven, the day his mother died. ![]() It was his peers, in fact, that gave him his name, Tezzeret being Tidehollow slang for "an improvised weapon " he received this name after his first act of calculated violence, stabbing an older boy who had bullied him. Despite the hostile environment in which he grew up, he was not at a loss for peers. His father was abusive and his mother was a prostitute who had grown too old to ply her trade, and she would remind her husband of this at virtually any opportunity. Tezzeret was born, after the Mending, to scrapper parents, neither of whom cared enough for him to even name the boy. ![]() At other times, he has been noted to implode into the void in his chest. From his perspective, he hears a characteristic snap and, before his body was replaced with darksteel, momentary queasiness. When he planeswalks, he vanishes in a buzz saw of blue-silver sparks. Tezzeret is primarily blue-aligned, but secondary in black mana. He has a twisted empathy for other orphans such as Estel and Nashi, though he is no less brutal for it. He also greatly resents being controlled and often frames his misgivings as betrayals, despite his own perpetual conniving and subterfuge against those above him. His primal driving force is a lust for power and knowledge, and he is prone to punish people who failed him in severe and often brutal ways if he needs them in the future, or kill them outright if he does not need them. Tezzeret has a very explosive temper, with frequent violent outbursts, and an unscrupulous nature. He possesses knowledge in Esper mind control magic. Like all Esperites, he has part of his body "enhanced" by the magical alloy etherium, part of an overarching planar venture to create the perfection of both body and mind. He also is proficient in mental magic and in the manipulation of magnetism. While he had often used his magic on himself, his new Darksteel body is resistant to his usual metallurgy. Despite this, the inventor Rashmi judged him incapable of science and invention. His specialty is artifice: spells that forge artifacts, manipulate artifacts and technologies, and bring artifacts to life, creating huge constructs from mere scrap bits of metal. After his reformation with a darksteel body, he has a sliver of vulnerable etherium on his back, and increased physical strength. The fingers can be fired off and return automatically. When necessary, he can conceal his etherium enhancements. Under his loose robe, much of his chest is replaced with smooth, flexible metal, and his right arm is a twisted cage of metal struts, ending in fingers like talons. ![]() He is in his 40s, with a lined, weathered face and long hair bound into ragged gray dreadlocks. Tezzeret is a planeswalker who wields blue magic.
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