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Your little toy soldier? Yes, I'm aware. For the past thousand years, you've spoken of little else. Even that was an idea you derived from my research. I wonder if you've ever had an original idea. For that matter, I wonder if any of your ideas have ever worked out for you. (...) You are a child. You have always been a child, it's truly a shame. Millennia ago, I gave you a gift. Now I have to live out the rest of my days knowing you squandered it. (...) My dear boy, that is what makes it a gift. Innistrad is ours, Sorin, it's only right we rule it. For too long you've let your bitterness, your paranoia, guide your actions. They've eaten away at your potential. Now all that remains is this sad, broken shell. A little boy, weeping for his grandfather.

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Background

Edgar Markov is a character from Magic: the Gathering, being the founder of the Markov bloodline, and the very first vampire of Innistrad. He is the grandfather of Sorin Markov

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Edgar Markov’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Thousands of years ago he was an aging human alchemist, experimenting with ways to achieve agelessness for himself and his only grandson, Sorin. When famine was sweeping the land, the demon Shilgengar convinced Edgar to start experiments with blood. Markov and his sons trapped the angel Marycz in his laboratory and exsanguinated her, preparing a decoction from her blood and created a ritual which caused his subjects to feed on the blood of other beings. It provided sustenance to those few, but the demand for blood also culled the overall population, reducing the number of hungry mouths to feed. However, when he finally turned his grandson the trauma of the transformation caused Sorin's planeswalker spark to ignite. Sorin soon left the plane and his grandfather for the first time. However, worried about the state of his homeplane, he would always keep returning. More than 7000 years old, Edgar often tired of the world around him, and rested until the world grew so alien that he could discover it anew. His coffin lay in a mausoleum at the very deep in the vaults of Markov Manor. Often, he would wake for small spells. Sorin left him books for those cases—things he thought exemplified the current state of Innistrad. Sometimes, when Sorin needed his grandfather's counsel, he would even wake him. The two would speak in the drawing room of the dead, and when it was done, Edgar would rest once more. It always left Sorin feeling like a child—but the advice had not once failed him. At some point during the Eternal Night caused by Emrakul's presence in the Moon of Innistrad, Sorin entered Edgar's crypt only to find it empty. Olivia Voldaren had stolen the coffin. After staging an elaborate wedding party she awakened Edgar, immediately charming him and proposing. The confused Edgar agreed to her marriage proposal. During the exchange of vows between Olivia and Edgar, Sorin attacked Olivia and at the same moment Katilda's spirit manifested by coming out of the Key. Katilda used her powers to free Sigarda from her prison. Being free Sigarda exploded her angelic aura in fury causing the surrounding stained glass to shatter, hurting or killing many wedding guests. Olivia and Edgar were not severely injured. To escape Sigarda’s ensuing wrath, Edgar fled into the manor’s sanguitorium. He was confronted by Sorin, and the two came to blows as they hurled insults and viciously attacked one another. During their struggle, Edgar expressed disappointment in Sorin’s naivety and wasted potential. Sorin struggled to understand his grandfather’s careless views and experienced flashbacks to the time of their family’s descent into vampirism. As if continuing his fall from grace, Sorin came back to his senses to find Edgar standing above him and looking down in disgust. Following his duel with Sorin, Edgar returned to the fighting in the ballroom. He attacked Teferi but was stopped by Sorin who had become empowered after drinking from the blood pit that he had fallen into. With a greatsword in hand, Sorin quickly overpowered Edgar. Rather than killing him, Sorin showed mercy and ordered his grandfather to leave. Edgar left to find Olivia and attempted to put an end to their plans. They were found by Arlinn Kord and her packmates, including Tovolar who was held back from attacking Edgar by Arlinn. Olivia dropped the Moonsilver Key in defeat and escaped with Edgar through one of the broken windows, barely escaping from the jaws of Tovolar. Credit to the MtG Wiki

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Tier: 7-B

Name: Edgar Markov, Charmed Groom

Origin: Magic: the Gathering

Sex: Male

Age: Over 7,000 years old (Older than Sorin Markov due to being his grandfather)

Classification: Vampire

Status: Alive

Alignment: Lawful Evil (Edgar can be seen as an opposite to his grandson, giving in to his vampiric nature. Believes that Innistrad belongs to the vampires and agreed to marry Olivia Voldaren, who wants to keep the Moonsilver Key so that Innistrad's night will be eternals and vampires will reign supreme)

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