Basri Ket

Basri Ket
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Race	Human Formerly Planeswalker
Birthplace	Naktamun, Amonkhet
Lifetime	Born c. 4540 AR
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Basri Ket is a Human, former planeswalker, and sand-mage from Amonkhet.^[1] He's a paladin devoted to Oketra, who evangelized the virtue of solidarity. His magic appears as a swirling golden aura of sand.^[2]

Appearance and characteristics

Basri Ket is a charismatic young man with brown skin, black hair, a short black beard, and dark brown eyes.^[3][4] He is 6' tall and was in his early 20s in 4562 AR. His armor is white and gold colored with lazotep accents; the woven breastplate has an abstraction of Oketra's face across the chest, and he wears a heavy white cape. An empty bandolier meant to hold his cartouches hangs from his belt. The base of his spear is one of Oketra's arrows — specifically the one he retrieved in the Trial of Solidarity — fitted with a curved blade. He's a master of group tactics and strategy. When he uses his magic, he surrounds himself and his allies with a golden aura of sand that allows him to absorb the injuries of his allies and enhances the abilities of anyone within it.

Basri believes in fighting for the people around him — and has the perfect powers to do so. ^[5] He is considered kind, hopelessly optimistic, eager to fight, and confident in his ability to protect everyone.^[3] Thanks to his power and natural charisma, Basri always has someone to fight alongside him.^[5] Basri Ket was centered in white mana.

History

From an early age, Basri Ket idolized Oketra — Amonkhet's god of Solidarity — and tried to follow her teachings to the letter. Basri wanted nothing more than to prove himself to her by completing the Trial of Solidarity, and not long before the Hour of Devastation, he got his chance. Basri used his power over sand during the trial to shield his crop.^[4] Thanks to his leadership, his crop survived the ordeal with no casualties, and Basri himself claimed Oketra's arrow to finish the Trial. In a moment of pure elation, Basri's latent Planeswalker's spark ignited and he found himself on another plane. Believing this to be a calling from the gods, Basri spread Oketra's teachings across the Multiverse and lived by her example. When he finally learned the truth of what he was, he was eager to return home, but when he returned to Amonkhet, it was a smoking ruin. Oketra was dead, and everything he had believed turned out to be an elaborate lie.

With nothing to hold onto, Basri experienced a crisis of faith. Refusing to give in to despair, Basri saw his people struggling and hurting and understood that he still had a job.^[4] He rounded up the injured and weary, encouraged them with what he knew and realized that Oketra's teachings were still true. Truth, respect, and solidarity from her teachings lived on in her people and through him. Driven by his faith, he used his powers to bolster his comrades on the front lines and to become a force for good in the Multiverse.

Not much later, he lost his planeswalking abilities again in the Desparkening.^[6]

Rebuilding Naktamun

In the wake of the Hour of Devastation and New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse, Basri decided that Naktamun needed to be united under a strong leader.^[3] He believed that Temmet, as the chosen of Oketra may know a way to bring the god back. He sought out his two remaining crop-mates, Mahitab and Niharet, who were also the two remaining members of the crew that had entombed Temmet after his death as an Eternal, to help him find the location of the tomb. He also brought along two teenage embalmers, Marunaten and Merinaten, to revive the vizier when they found him. They set off across the desert, surviving an attack from a sandwurm, and reached the tomb. When they arrived, they were confronted by an ancient pharaoh of the Chitin Court, Munhatep, and betrayed by Niharet, who was also aligned with the old gods. However, they were saved by the arrival of Ketramose, a new god summoned by Basri's faith in Oketra. He destroyed the Chitin Court warriors and bore Temmet's body back to Naktamun.

Ghirapur Grand Prix

After the rise of Ketramose and another new god, Sab-Sunen, Amonkhet rose anew through the collective effort of the living and the dead. The Amonkheti knew toil, so in the new future they were building, they made a conscious effort to make room for sport, leisure, and play as they raised heroes who didn't swing swords in battle alongside those who did. In this spirit, Basri leads the Amonkheti delegation in the second Ghirapur Grand Prix alongside the undead Leonin Zahur and a crew of living and undead charioteers.^[7] These racers rode to win glory and bring acclaim to Naktamun, Hazoret, the new gods, and the people of Amonkhet who still struggle to build a new plane of their own from the ruin of history.

Artifacts acquired

• Basri carries a spear fashioned from one of Oketra's arrows, which he recovered in the Trial of Solidarity, modified with a curved blade.

Planeswalkers met

• Samut^[8]

Non-canon

Planes visited

• Amonkhet
• Avishkar
• Muraganda

Non-canon

• Dominaria^[9] (non-canon)
• Ravnica^[9] (non-canon)

Gallery

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  Devoted Paladin.
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  Basri Ket variant art.
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  Magic: The Gathering Arena avatar.

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