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==Story==
The dragon-worshipping Planeswalker Sarkhan Vol
is a native of Tarkir, where dragons had gone
extinct long before his birth. Obsessed with their
fury and predatory majesty, Sarkhan learned as
much as he could about his world's ancient
dragons, even going so far as to join a group of
infamous shamans who venerated the apex
predators. He had a talent for battle and gained
status as a warrior in the Mardu clan, but he soon
tired of the petty quarrels of the battlefield.
After one victory against a rival clan, Sarkhan had
an experience that changed his life:
"The spirit of a long-dead dragon appeared to him,
whispered a spell into his mind, and then vanished
forever. With the incantation of the spell, a huge
dragon made of fire streaked out of Sarkhan's
body and invaded the battle, blasting the
battlefield with a torrent of fire. Fascinated,
Sarkhan watched as his men and those of his
enemy were burned to Cinders. It was a display of
ultimate rage and power that surpassed anything
he had ever seen. It stoked a passion in him that
had never before flared to life, and along with it,
his Planeswalker spark."—''From the novel Alara Unbroken by Doug Beyer''
Thereafter, Sarkhan traveled from plane to plane,
looking for a dragon to whom he could dedicate
his life. On Jund, a shard of the plane of Alara, he
found a land ruled by tyrannical hellkites and
other mighty dragons. There, he declared his fealty
to the dragon Planeswalker [[Nicol_Bolas,_God-Pharaoh|Nicol Bolas]].
Disillusioned by his servitude to the villainous,
conniving, woefully undragonlike Bolas, Sarkhan
fell into madness. He was led back to Tarkir by a
voice in his mind, a voice he believed belonged to
the long-dead spirit dragon Ugin. At the spot
where Ugin died, aided by the Jeskai khan Narset
at the cost of her life, Sarkhan found what he did
not even know he was seeking: a way to travel
back through time to the moment of Ugin's death
at Nicol Bolas's hands and prevent the spirit
dragon from falling. Instantly pulled back to the
present, Sarkhan found himself in a world ruled by
mighty Dragonlords, a world in which both Ugin
and Narset were still alive.
The Tarkir of Sarkhan's birth, the world that
seemed to him bereft of dragons, is gone. In its
place is a vibrant world where dragons fill the
skies. Sarkhan himself is now utterly unique, free
in ways that few people are: a man who was never
born, a Planeswalker without a home world, a
human who can take the form of a dragon. Most
importantly, his mind is once again his own, free
of the influences of both Bolas and Ugin.
==Bugs==