Ixhel

Ixhel's History

Ixhel is a Phyrexian angel from New Phyrexia, made by Atraxa as a weapon. In turn, she was the creator of Vishgraz.

Elesh Norn created Atraxa and bequeathed upon her a sacred duty. While Norn turned her conquering eye to the Multiverse, Atraxa would have the honor of bringing the other spheres of New Phyrexia into the fold. Atraxa knew if she were to do this, she would need a lieutenant of her own. Taking inspiration from Elesh Norn­, Atraxa created Ixhel in her image and commanded Ixhel to go forth and subdue the other praetors.As each realm fell, Ixhel grew more and more intelligent.

The thane Geth had begun to make contracts with various aspirants throughout Phyrexia, those who had not been fully compleated or whose compleation had gone wrong, offering them protection and safety in exchange for service. Atraxa eventually sent Ixhel to assassinate Geth. When Ixhel confronted Geth, he sowed doubts in her about her place in Phyrexia, but after a short fight Ixhel decapitated him. Ixhel, feeling a strange affinity with Geth despite her contempt of him, killed one of Geth's underlings named Belaxis and used his and Geth's bodies to create a new Phyrexian creature named Vishgraz.

Ixhel presented Vishgraz to Atraxa, but Atraxa, disgusted that Ixhel had thought for herself in making Vishgraz rather than remaining obedient to her will, told her to get rid of the creature. Ixhel's beautiful child was branded an abomination by the Machine Orthodoxy that raised them both. This stung Ixhel to the core. Ixhel abandoned Vishgraz in the Dross Pits, and although she felt a strange desire to stay with him, she did not. As she had matured, so had her understanding of Phyrexia, and perhaps she had begun to call into question the doctrine that raised her.

Ixhel's fate is unknown after the events of the New Phyrexian invasion of the Multiverse.