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Niko Bolas is an American music producer, sound engineer, and consultant. He is also a business developer in the fields of virtual reality and Internet radio. In 1989, Bolas founded Fakespace Music with Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall, and Christian Greuel. In 1995, Fakespace developed the Soundsculpt Toolkit, a software interface which ...
17 ott 2017 · 17 Ottobre 2017. |. Stefano Leto. Niko Bolas è un produttore ed ingegnere del suono americano in attività dal 1977. Nella sua carriera ha collaborato con grandissimi musicisti come Neil Young, John Mayer, Melissa Etheridge, Keith Richards, Herb Alpert, KISS, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock e Sting.
- Overview
- Appearance and characteristics
- History
- Note on Test of Metal
- Trivia
- Artifacts acquired
- Planeswalkers met
- Planes visited
The nameless, former planeswalker once called Nicol Bolas (born Nicol) is the youngest and most infamous of the seven Elder Dragons that survived the Elder Dragon War. He was also known as the Forever Serpent, the Horned One, the God-Emperor of Madara, as well as the Second Sun and God-Pharaoh of Amonkhet. After his downfall in the War of the Spark - during which he briefly became a near-omnipotent Dragon-God - he was magically stripped of all names and titles by his twin brother Ugin to prevent anyone from summoning him ever again. He is dead to the Multiverse, his survival known only to Ugin and Jace Beleren. The now-mortal, planebound dragon is kept imprisoned on Ugin's Prison Realm, formerly known as Bolas's Meditation Realm.
He had styled himself "the mind-ripper, the deathbringer, the winged dark that terrifies your dreams, the first to witness the sunrise on Dominaria, and the last to watch it set for the final time". On Ixalan he adopted the pseudonym Lord Nicolas, and on Ravnica that of Master Venati.
Unlike normal dragons, the olive-green-scaled Bolas stands on two legs, using his long tail for balance. His face is flattened and broad, with pale green eyes and a human-like mouth and features. His horns curve upward, framing a hovering orb between them, and his enormous wings spread behind him. Standing 35 feet tall, his body stretches 60 feet long, with a 60-foot wingspan, and he weighs 60 tons. When Bolas breathes fire, it is black-tinged with death magic. His flight is inelegant.
Already nearly as powerful as a planeswalker as an elder dragon, after his spark ignited Bolas became the most powerful being in the Multiverse. Along with his twin Ugin, they are possibly the oldest beings alive. He was said to be old before Dominaria was even born. He sired whole races, populated entire planes, and then hunted them to extinction for his amusement. Bolas' hallmark is his touch, an inborn ability that causes a mind-shattering effect with the slightest caress. In his duel with Teferi, Bolas proved skilled enough in blue magic to completely nullify the time magic Teferi had created.
Origin
Like the other Elder Dragons, Nicol Bolas was the spawn of The Ur-Dragon, born from an egg-stone shed from the Ur-Dragon's wings, which fell from the sky like a meteor. Born simply as Nicol, he emerged from his egg-stone twinned together with his brother Ugin. Whereas every other Elder Dragon egg spawned only one dragon, Nicol and Ugin woke together, named themselves together, and touched the soil of Dominaria at the same instant. They were both only half the size of their other siblings. When they witnessed their newly-hatched sister Merrevia Sal being killed by humans and their dogs, Nicol expressed outrage, but Ugin convinced him to not aid her - to preserve their own lives, to seek more knowledge, and to find their siblings. Inspired by the sun - who he described as bright and fearless - and by his success in killing one of the hounds, Bolas acquired the notion that this multiverse is a place of "hunters and the hunted". Originally, Bolas was seen as the least of the Elder Dragons, mockingly called the Last Fallen, having shared his name with Ugin and being smaller and weaker than his siblings. When Chromium pointed out that the twins shared their names, one for each, Nicol took the second name Bolas to feel equal to his larger siblings. After Palladia-Mors mocked their size and their hunting techniques, the twins spent years perfecting various techniques for hunting in tandem. After this time, they met and then lived with Arcades Sabboth who had taken up residence as dragonlord in a human settlement. Here Nicol learned about the nature of humans, and how easily they could be manipulated to further his own goals. Having learned enough, he took Ugin to seek revenge for their sister's murder. After tricking the dragon hunters into a quarrel between several factions, he took over as supreme leader. After this, he tried to use his brother for his ends, and Ugin realized that Bolas had never truly cared for him at all. This mental shock caused Ugin's planeswalker's spark to ignite.
Dragon War and ascension
Thousands of years before the Brothers' War or even the Thran Empire, the Elder Dragons were engaged in a conflict that lasted for thousands of years, the Elder Dragon War. Nicol Bolas emerged victorious, though there were survivors other than himself, his brothers Arcades Sabboth and Chromium Rhuell, his sister Palladia-Mors, their cousin Vaevictis Asmadi, and possibly others. At the crescendo of the war, Bolas ruled half of Dominaria. The last clash of the war took place on Jamuraa, between the troops of Bolas himself and Arcades Sabboth. Only the unexpected intervention of Ugin prevented the ultimate defeat of Sabboth. The war ended there and then, because in rage and envy of Ugin's newly-revealed planeswalker status, Bolas' own spark ignited and he planeswalked away.
Confrontation on the Meditation Plane
Many, many times and adventures later, the two planeswalking brothers confronted each other on the Meditation Plane. First above the wide waters of the Meditation Realm and then on a wild pummeling path through the planes, they struggled for days, years, generations. In the end, by diverse paths, they returned to the Meditation Realm where Bolas killed Ugin. Monstrous waves rose from Ugin's fall in the water. The waves ran on and on, washing far beyond the bounds of the Meditation Realm into the web of connection that links the planes and the Blind Eternities. Bolas was flung through ten or twenty or a hundred planes before he fell hard back into Dominaria, onto the island chain of Madara.
Test of Metal have been contradicted by later stories. Chief among these contradictions are Jace and Liliana believing Tezzeret to be dead prior to the events of Kaladesh, and Jace having not seen Liliana between the events of Agents of Artifice and Catching Up
In a cave composed entirely of sangrite, Bolas rebuilt Tezzeret's body and mind and tasked him to find Crucius the Mad. Bolas ultimately saw this mission come to fruition when he tracked Tezzeret to an island made entirely of etherium. There he demanded to know what Tezzeret had been up to. To get direct answers, Bolas formed a mental link to Tezzeret and read his memories. There, many of Tezzeret's plans and actions were laid out.
Bolas soon learned he would not be the only visitor upon the Metal Island though. Jace arrived next, followed lastly by Sharuum, stripped of her etherium. As soon as the sphinx left, a terrible fight broke out among the assembled walkers, and it ended with Bolas victorious. However, during the fight, his concentration and powers severely waned. This was revealed to have been engineered by Tezzeret, who was the true victor of the fight. Tezzeret himself left Bolas trapped on the island, infested with a mental device that would keep the Elder Dragon there as long as needed.
Little did Tezzeret anticipate that the dragon he had been fighting was nothing more than a poorly constructed simulacrum, specifically made to fail at reining in the artificer. Bolas himself appeared on the island and informed his copy that it would not be alive by the time Tezzeret returned, and he had served his purpose in making Tezzeret reveal the secrets he had learned.
•Nicol Bolas was originally printed as a creature in Legends, and reprinted in Chronicles, Time Spiral, From the Vault: Dragons, and Masters 25, the last two featuring new artwork.
•Nicol Bolas also appears as a card in the Japanese TCG Duel Masters, which is likewise published by Wizards of the Coast.
•In Conflux, he was printed as a Planeswalker card with the type Bolas. This would later be reprinted in Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas and finally in Magic 2013, being the first-ever multi-colored card in a core set.
•He is considered by many fans to be one of the major antagonists of the MTG storyline.
•Bolas narrates the trailer for Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 and is the primary antagonist of the War of the Spark trailer.
•He is considered by Kruphix, one of the gods of Theros, to be one of the greatest possible future threats to the plane putting him on the same level of danger as the Eldrazi and New Phyrexia. By Kruphix's admission, any of the three would be able to defeat all of the gods of Theros. However, Kruphix does not realize that the Bolas he sensed from Ajani's memories are merely a shell of his former self and true power.
Already immensely powerful, Bolas has gathered several artifacts to add to his plethora of abilities:
•Gem of Becoming
•The Spirit-Gem that he wore between his horns, which looks similar to the Gem of Becoming. Found on the Meditation Realm, Bolas was unaware that it was made from a piece of Ugin's essence. Ugin used his connection with the Spirit Gem to observe the events of the War of the Spark without being on Ravnica.
•Immortal Sun — Used as a means to trap planeswalkers on Ravnica. Entrusted to Dovin Baan during the War of the Spark.
•Planar Bridge — Used as a means to bring his Eternal army to other planes. Grafted into his minion Tezzeret's body.
•His citadel — Used as a phylactery to store the sparks of the planeswalkers he harvested during the War of the Spark.
•Ajani Goldmane
•Aminatou (non-canon)
•Chandra Nalaar
•Demonic Leviathan
•Domri Rade
•Dovin Baan
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Niko Bolas is an American music producer, sound engineer, and consultant. He is also a business developer in the fields of virtual reality and Internet radio. In 1989, Bolas founded Fakespace Music with Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall, and Christian Greuel.
Niko Bolas. US producer, mixer and engineer with a career stretching back to 1977. Has collaborated with Neil Young as 'The Volume Dealers'. Other artists he has worked with include Melissa Etheridge, Keith Richards, Herb Alpert, KISS, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock and Sting. Bolas is Greek for "Up is louder".
