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Here's another description for a planeswalker character of mine.
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A young artificer from the plane of Ravnica. Almost completely covered by its vast city, is said to be almost artificial, even though nature lives and flourishes amongst the vast amount of structures. The climate varies from district to district and magic clings to the air itself.

Alexanders lust for power through his childhood was something he had seen as a dream. But as power slowly emerged and he joined one of the ten mightiest guilds of Ravnica, he realized that this would be the beginning to his rise to power. But maybe not the power he thought he would obtain. Little did he know that his powers were going to be taken advantage of, and that the chain of events would turn his life upside down.

Alexander was a savant at engineering and magical infusing, where he made a discovery of a certain metal alloy that reacts differently to each kind of magic infused to it. The young wizard made several trinkets that could enhance and infuse each other in loops, making him able to both store spells and enhance them over time.
A tiny spark stored into a infinity mechanism could turn into a powerful jolt enough to snuff the life out of a human being, just in a manner of minutes.

The Parun of his guild, the great dragon Niv-mizzet found this most exciting, and further investigation was made into the magical metal. As infrastructure to the golems of the guild were reinforced with this metal, it chain-reacted with the great amount of electrical energy that kept the golems running, short-circuiting the whole defense system of the guilds outer rings. In a frantic panic, more were produced without the metal infusion, and Alexander was put up for trial for a mistake he didn't commit.

He was charged for treason amongst the guild even though the testing of the metal had not been properly performed.
In a last attempt to please the mind of the great dragon, Alexander tried to appease and imply better uses for the metal.
The young artificer stood up for his belief and that his potential was wasted if he was to be discarded.
Mizzet called him an arrogant little ant and that no one would miss "just another engineer", which made Alexanders normally calm and calculating mind snap completely. The spell he had stored ever since he had created the infused metal trinket fastened into his glove was released as he attacked his master in a blind rage.

A crack of lightning lept from his large artificer gloves, sending a bolt of raw magical power straight through the dragons skull, shaking his master up almost to the point of feinting. The room lit up to the point where all the other engineers and craftsmen were vision impaired or even blinded by it.
However, the retaliation was a lot stronger than what Alexander would have ever thought, and after a brief battle, he was easily overcome by the dragons mighty fire.

Niv-Mizzet opened his mighty jaws, breathing flames hotter than hellfire itself, eating through whatever deflective or defensive spell that Alexander could muster.
In a final attempt to defend himself, he unloaded another stored up spell, but it was all in vain.
The crack of lightning backfired, but for reasons other than malfunction. The planeswalker spark from inside him awoke, feeding on his enhanced spell, sending his body through the astral plane and away from danger. Away from the prosecution of his guild and away from his last dreams of being an engineer for the Izzet League.

Whatever new plane he'd appear on, would at the least save his life. For the moment.