Radha's History
Radha is the granddaughter of the Keldon warlord Astor and an elf of Skyshroud. She had the potential to be a Planeswalker, but lost the opportunity during the events of the Mending. She now leads the tribes of Keld as their Grand Warlord.
Radha was always a fiercely independent elf, disputing and even ridiculing
Freyalise's xenophobic stance against her people. She aided the planeswalker Teferi during his attempts to save Dominaria from the time rifts, and eventually abandoned her home and drove the Gathans from Keld.
During the events leading to the Mending, Radha was approached by planeswalker
Jeska, who asked her for help with closing the time rifts due to Radha possessing a dormant Spark. Radha refused, and the two barbarian women fought, although the result was never in question. Every blow Radha managed to land instantly healed and before long Jeska began to grow tired of the confrontation before instinctively using her latent
Phage powers. Radha was tethered and taken by Jeska to Zhalfir, where the planeswalker used her to channel mana into the rift, closing it. Radha was greatly weakened by this act. Jeska then took her to Yavimaya to close another rift. Radha met
Multani there, who created a bond between her and Yavimaya, allowing her to use green mana again and filling the vacancy in Radha's soul created by the destruction of Skyshroud. Jeska then used Radha again to close the rift in Yavimaya. During the Zhalfirin rift closing, Radha and Jeska's minds merged, allowing the two women to experience the lives of each other. Radha's temper was changed by dealing with Jeska and participating in world-scale events. On Madara, Jeska was taken by Leshrac, who sent his shadow assassin Dinne il-Vec to deal with the mortals (Radha,
Venser,
Jhoira and
Teferi). Radha fought the shadow warrior and by using newly reestablished green mana abilities, she anchored him in the physical world with a green healing spell, then burned him to ash with her Keldon magic. After Leshrac was defeated and the Madaran rift closed by
Nicol Bolas, the party went to Otaria to close the last rift. Radha and Venser willingly accompanied Jeska to the heart of the rift and lent their powers to the planeswalker. Jeska's final act closed the Otarian rift, as well as all others, beginning the Mending. Radha did not get to join Venser in becoming the first of the Neuwalkers, as repeatedly closing time rifts with Jeska had permanently extinguished her planeswalker's spark, making it impossible for her to ascend.
Radha returned to her camp afterward. Her hotheadedness, cruelty, and blood thirst were changed by her recent experiences, and she became a more rational, and a bit more caring being. She traveled up the sacred Keldon Peak known simply as the Mountain to retrieve Astor's famous daggers, and claimed her Keldon heritage by bonding herself to the Mountain. With Skive and Dassene as her lieutenants, she became the leader of the joint new nation of Keldon elves and humans who was attempting to restore Keld to its former glory. Radha eventually defeated the last Gathan warlord and became the Grand Warlord of Keld. She used the opportunity to quietly revolutionize Keld, abolishing the taking of slaves as plunder and encouraging Keldons to learn industries and crafts instead of only being warriors.
Sixty years after the Mending, Radha walked a precarious path to restore the original character of Keld while existing in a time of relative peace. She was captured under unknown circumstances by the Cabal, and was forced to fight in the Stronghold's fighting pit. It was only by the timely arrival of
Gideon Jura, that she managed to escape. During the escape, she ended up killing the cleric known as Whisper. She helped Gideon and
Chandra Nalaar to find the Blackblade, and organized the spirits of Urborg in their attack on the Cabal.
In 4562 AR, Radha led the Keldon delegation at the peace summit at Oyster Bay to end hostilities with Benalia in the Ice Rime Hills. The summit was interrupted when the planeswalkers
Karn and
Teferi divulged the imminent threat of a New Phyrexian invasion, leading to several of the Benalish knights being revealed as Phyrexian sleeper agents. Radha departed soon after to begin readying her nation for war and reawoke the Golden Argosy, which she discovered still held her grandfather, Astor, in suspended animation. She would first see action in the war during
Danitha Capashen's attempt to rescue her father from
Ertai, using the Argosy's flight capabilities to drop Keldon warriors onto the back of a Phyrexian engine. She next led her troops from the Argosy during the Battle of the Mana Rig, fighting the Compleated Weatherlight in the skies over the battlefield.
