List of characters in Magic: The Gathering: G

The fictional multiverse of Magic: The Gathering has many characters. This alphabetic list includes characters who Appear in flavor-text on the cards, in games, comics or short stories as well as minor characters from the novels. Major characters have their own entry.

Gabriel Angelfire

A legendary warrior with an indomitable will, deified by his followers. The Church of Angelfire arose to replace the somewhat similar Church of Serra, whose worship is condemned in Benalia. This condemnation dates back to the days of Benalia’s forerunner, the Sheoltun Empire. The Church of Angelfire is perhaps the most popular church in present-day Benalia. The main altar of every church glows with the red-green candlelight of his ‘spirit-flame’, which is almost impossible to snuff once lit. He may or may not also have ascended to a planeswalker.

Gabriella

A lady. Friend of Lady Evangela (Card: )

Gaea

Nature Spirit of Dominaria. Not a planeswalker, but incredibly powerful, yet tied to Dominaria. Assists in the defense of the plane during the Phyrexian Invasion. Originally named Rebbec, she was the woman who Yawgmoth loved before his transcendence into the dark god of phyrexia. She also partly responsible for the final defeat of Yawgmoth with the help of the Legacy weapon.

Galina III

Empress of Vodalia. Escaping the fall of her empire, she traveled through a time portal to Atlantis. She still reigned during the Phyrexian Invasion. Regarded as one of the most important and influential monarchs in the sea. Invasion.

Gallowbraid

A legendary demon from Urborg. Brother of Morinfen, plague of Crovax (Tempest)

Gamelen

An elder druid of the Citanul Forest. ((Urza's Saga)

Garza Zol

A vampire queen based in the city of Krov during Dominaria's Ice Age. She made an alliance with Heidar during his quest of domination, but subsequently doubted his motives and sent her assassin to kill Heidar. (Cards: , )

Gatha

Gatha was a student at Tolaria who took particular interest in the Academy's "Bloodlines" project, a long-term study of Dominaria's races and heritage with the objective of producing the ultimate warrior. He progressed through the ranks and became fully involved in the Bloodlines project, under Barrin's supervision. The results of his projects were often brutal and inhuman, and his lack of interest towards his subject's wellbeing caused Barrin some concern. A rare official reprimand from Urza followed, and Gatha he left the island, taking an eugenics matrix, some Tolarian slow water, Thran genes, and other materials with him.

He traveled around Dominaria, looking for a nation that would allow his experiments. He eventually stopped in Keld, and set up his own Bloodlines project. The Keldons welcomed his inhumane experiments, which made them even stronger than before. One in particular, Trohg, responded well to the experiments and they became allies. Trohg's grandson, Kreig, did even better, and became the first single ruler of Keld. The slow water preserved both of their lives for centuries until Phyrexians noticed them. Over the course of about a hundred and fifty years they slowly destroyed Keld. In an untypical final act of care, Gatha killed himself before the Phyrexian Croag could extract his memories of Tolaria and it's defenses against Phyrexia. Gatha was later shown to be an early Bloodlines subject himself. (Urza's Destiny)

Over the following centuries, Keld goes through a backlash against Gatha's bloodlines, seeing his sub-race as dishonorable and un-Keldon in their bloodlust. The "Gathan" race, as it comes to be known, is eventually weeded out of the Keldon race. In Time Spiral, sub-rifts of the Skyshroud Rift cause Gathans from the past to emerge in Rift-era Dominaria, where they quickly overcome the weakened and mana-starved native Keldons. They are eventually brought under control by Radha.

Geetra

A mage of Ravnica. (Card: )

Gemma

A priestess of the Autumn Willow. (Homelands)

Gerda Äagesdotter

Archmage of the Krovikan School of the Unseen. (Ice Age)

Gerrard Capashen

see Gerrard Capashen

Geth

A Moriok Lich. Geth is the current keeper of the Vault on Mirrodin. He is a warlord, necromancer, and the ruler of Mephidross. He controls countless nim, of which his favorite is a zombie-vampire (card: ). Geth usually works for Vedalken masters who, in return, pay him with a serum that increases the drinker's knowledge and heightens the drinker's senses. He guards the Shield of Kaldra (Cards: , , , , , , , )

Geyadrone Dihada

A planeswalker, she's a member of the House of Khone, who were rulers in part of Golthonor. Relative of Sol’Kanar the Swamp King.

She was also responsible for Dakkon Blackblade's millennia-old curse. (Comics; Card: )

Ghut Rak

A Gruul guildmage of Ravnica. (Cards: ,

Gix

see Gix

Glacian

A Thran genius and producer of Halcyon's powerstones. Lifelong exposure to them resulted in his developing severe phthisis. He was partially healed by Yawgmoth. Glacian was the husband of Rebbec. He was a nascent planeswalker whose spark was never ignited, and it, along with his soul, were absorbed into a large powerstone when he died. That powerstone was used to seal Phyrexia away and later became Urza's eyes. (The Thran)

Glissa Sunseeker

An elf on Mirrodin, and the main character of the Mirrodin books. She is hunted relentlessly by Memnarch for the nascent planeswalker "spark" she possesses. She dies in a duel with Memnarch within Mirrodin's Core, but is revived by Slobad, who absorbed her spark on her death.

Glok

A Goblin, a deceased friend of Squee (Card: )

Gnerdel

An Ogre Philosopher (Card: )

Godo, Bandit Warlord

Warlord of a ronin army, Godo's raids against Konda's outposts and fortress gained him a fearful reputation during the kami war. His weapon Tenza (a simple log with iron spikes and chains) became legendary and feared and his army included warriors such as the Yamazaki twins. His final fate is unknown. (Kamigawa)

Golas Mahr

A in a Planar Chaos alternate timeline. (Card: )

Gorev Hadszak

A Wojek investigator of Ravnica's Boros League. (Cards: , )

Gosta Dirk

A mighty warrior hailing from Sheoltun, Gosta Dirk founded the Robaran Mercenaries (named after his elder brother, Robar, who was killed in a fire while Gosta was still very young), with the stated mission or becoming the single most elite fighting force in Terisiare. In truth, Dirk was a patriot, and planned to offer the services of the Robarans - free of charge - to Gendram Andrion (the Lord General of Sheoltun), should he ever be needed. Sheoltun, however, had such a mighty army that it was thirty years later (during the reign of Tobias Andrion, who was not so tactically savvy as his father) before the Robarans were needed in their homelands' defense.

Gosta, meanwhile, had travelled all across the continent, recruiting many of the greatest warriors of the time: Jedit Ojanen, the mightiest of the cat warriors; Jasmine Boreal, a Benalish beauty whose strength and determination knew no compromise; Kaisimir the Lone Wolf, a mysterious warrior who fought with a magic blade that could shift between being an axe and a sword, and was said to tell a different tale of his past to each foe who wounded him (for a grand total of seventeen versions of the story floating across the world); Bartel Runeaxe, the exiled Lord of Hammerheim, legendary in both his fury and his paranoia; and many others. Their exploits in the Battle of the Closed Fist, the Battle of Kher Keep, and the Battle of Three Isles had become the stuff of legends.

When he returned to Sheoltun, however, Gosta Dirk found not the bastion of brotherhood from his youth, but a harsh militaristic empire, under attack by a rag-tag coalition of refugees from the many nations it had crushed. After a few brief battles in which the Robarans devastated their foes, Dirk rode to Aoltas (the capital city), and told Tobias Andrion he could not continue fighting. The Lord General was sympathetic, and told Gosta that if he fought merely one more battle, the war would be won and he could leave, serving both his homeland and his conscience. This sounded reasonable enough to the aging captain, who marched the Robarans towards Efrava (the battleground Tobias thought key to victory) that very night.

What Lord Andrion had failed to mention, however, was the reason for Efrava being so crucial: the concentration of green mana there was only mystical power in the region still strong enough to disrupt the Lawbringer's Beacon, a terrifying application of pure white and blue mana Sheoltun had long been developing to obliterate their foes. While the Robaran and Sheoltunite armies camped near Efrava, however; Sunastian, the defender of Efrava, visited Gosta in a dream, and showed him the splendor of what he had been sent to destroy, and the terror of the Lawbringer's Beacon. When he awoke, Gosta realized that he had dedicated his life to preserving the power of war, and now was about to destroy something of real beauty in the name of a land which valued him as nothing more than a weapon. He ordered Robaran mercenaries to stand down, but they refused - as mercenaries, they saw no reason to break a lucrative contract when there only a single battle against outnumbered defenders left to be fought - and named Jedit Ojanen their new captain.

In despair, he decided to leave alone, giving his former friends only the cryptic clue that he would "face the fire annother way," and was gone well before the overwhelming victory at Efrava. He went instead to the desert steppes of Shiv, where he lived for some time trading salvaged goods to the local Viashino and Human nomads. Finally, some fifteen years later, an aged Gosta Dirk appeared one last time, in a duel fought with the mysterious Livonya Silone. He laid his blade against her throat seven times, but never spilled a drop of her blood. Finally, in aggravation, Silone shouted, "What do you want?" He laid down his rusted blade and said "Robar," meeting her eyes with piercing clarity. She left without response, but it should be noted that from that day forth, the previously merciless Silone gave her foes a chance to surrender, although it was one few of them ever took.

Hundreds of years later, the necromancer Nevinyrral sought Gosta's remains, following a prophesy that only the bones of a "warrior who won a battle through desertion and bested a duelist through surrender" could be used in the creation of mighty skeletal champion, however he was never able to locate this peaceful warrior's final resting place.(Legends)

Gowon

A Femeref Herder (card: )

Grahlilah

A former Suq’Atan Trader of Amiqat (Card: )

Grakk

A goblin at peace with himself (Card: )

Grandmother Sengir

see Ravi

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Arbiter of the Azorius Senate, Augustin believes in the mainstream and only that. He feels that change is unnecessary, and will only cause chaos. The Azorius create the laws behind him, and enforce his will. Augustin manipulated the leaders of the other guilds (mostly Szadek and House Dimir) into manipulating each other, becoming the ultimate mastermind in the destruction of the Guildpact. He later imposes martial law on Ravnica before being defeated shortly afterwards.(Ravnica)

Grazda

An armorsmith of Ravnica. (Card: )

Greel

The Mind Raker, an abomination brought by the Keldons on their invasion of Jamuraa. Born in a Keldon nursery, his unnatural fast growth was Fueled by being fed the souls of young children on the orders of Latulla. His ghastly appearance and gleefully sinister manner unsettled even the Keldon warriors forced to share his company. Greel took particular pleasure in tormenting Haddad, a Jamuraan captive. It's rumoured that he has connections to Phyrexia, and may even be the source of what Rayne claims is a nanomechanical plague that is blighting Jamuraa at the same time as the invasion. Soon after encountering him, however, Rayne is brutally slain by Greel. The Mind Raker then meets his end at the hands of an enraged Barrin and torn atom from atom. (Cards: , ,)

"The Keldons would never admit it, but Greel unsettles them, too." (Prophecy)

Grebog

A goblin Swine Rider (Cards: , )

Greensleeves

A female Archdruid, sister of Gull the Woodcutter and Sparrow Hawk. A pair of dueling wizards destroyed their valley village on the eastern edge of the Whispering Woods. Their parents and many villagers were caught in the middle and felled by a rain of stones. Sparrow Hawk was captured and lost. Greensleeves and Gull met and worked for a wizard by the name of Towser who pretended to befriend them. They discovered later that the magic of the woods saturated Greensleeves being, giving her vast powers of wizardry.

Greht

A powerful Gathan Warlord in Rift-Era Keld. Has a distinctive metal mask bolted to his face. After arriving through a rift in time to the mana-starved, devastated Keld, Greht was quickly able to assemble the region's largest warhost from the Gathans that followed him through. Like all Keldon warlords in the Gathan bloodline's prime centuries before, Greht was able to draw strength from the ferocity of his warhost and feed it back to them, creating an endless cycle of blood fury and strength that made his army unstoppable. After all of Keld (save for the Skyshroud Forest, which was protected by Freyalise) came under his control, Greht began efforts to create a fleet of Keldon longships. By now, Greht had earned the enmity of Radha, a Skyshroud half-elf, half-Keldon who chaffed at Freyalise's strict control. Greht defeated Radha at every encounter, until she finally brought her own fledgling warhost to face him at the Mountain, Keld's most sacred site. There, Radha was able to outwit Greht and sever his connection to his warhost. In a rage, Greht pulled as much mana into his as he could find, which, this close to the mountain, was a considerable amount. Radha added her own mana to overload the Gathan warlord. (Time Spiral) (Card: ) (Card: )

Grenfell of Golthonor

Father of Gwendolyn Carthalion, grandfather of Jared Carthalion. Mage and adviser of the Queen of Corundis. Participant of the Summit of Minorad. After the surrender of Minorad he was banned to the sandseas of Golthonor where he was saved by the mother of Gwendolyn. Afterwards he lived in Telemar. He tried to kill Jared and Kristina in revenge for the death of Gwendolyn and the surrender of Minorad. (Comics)

Greven il-Vec

Greven is the commander of the Predator Flagship. When the Weatherlight arrived in Rath to rescue Sisay, the ship was immediately attacked by Volrath’s own ship, the Predator. The Commander of the Predator is Greven il-Vec, the evincar’s magically mutated enforcer. Greven is a hulking mismatch of metal plates, body parts, and protruding spikes. He burns with ambition and desire to destroy Volrath, who controls him through a horrific implanted Spine (Duelist online, cf. Card: Spinal Graft). The Predator capsizes and throws Gerrard overboard. After that the Predator returns to Volrath’s Stronghold. Furious that Greven failed to capture Gerrard, Volrath uses his dark magic to torture Greven. In return Greven took great pleasure in torturing the captured Karn and Tahngarth. He was temporarily defeated by Gerrard during his raid on the Stronghold and failed to capture the fleeing Weatherlight as it left through the portal to Mercadia. However, he did capture Ertai. Once Belbe arrived to choose the next evincar, he told her that he didn't want the position and that it was his role to serve. Also, once Volrath returned, after his defeat on Mercadia, Greven helped get him back into the Stronghold to starting planning his coup. Eventually, as Crovax became stronger, Greven was forced to obey him. When the Weatherlight tried to storm the Stronghold, during Planeshift, the Predator was destroyed and Greven was killed by Tahngarth. (Tempest Block)

Grizzlegom

A Minotaur who served as a general of the Talruum forces during the Phyrexian Invasion. (Planeshift)

The Guardian

An adept of Sahrmal on Shandalar. After the imprisonment of Azar’s and Lim-Dûl’s spirits together in Azar’s body, and the erection of the Great Barrier, he ended his training. Sahrmal chose to invest all his remaining power in him, making him immortal. Thereafter Sahrmal vanished. Known now only as The Guardian the young wizard took up his role of Protector of Shandalar. In time, Shandalar learned to trust the Guardian and accepted him in Sahrmal’s place. He established five guilds which were responsible for teaching and policing the use of the five colours of mana. In time, Lim-Dûl’s powerful spirit won out over that of the fatally inexperienced Azar. Emerging from the secret graveyard, he once again attempted to bend Shandalar to his will. This time, however, the necromancer found that Shandalar had organized, powerful protectors. In the great Wizards War he was defeated soundly. The Guardian removed Lim-Dul’s spirit from Azar’s former body and imprisoned it again, this time in a magical artifact, thus keeping the Great Barrier in existence. Later on, the Guardian became aware of an extraordinarily powerful planeswalker named Arzakon. Evidently, the magical emanations of Sahrmal’s fight with the planeswalkers, Lim-Dûl’s War and the Wizards’ War had been traced by this Arzakon who was stunned by the potential power inherent in Shandalar. His following attempt to penetrate the Great Barrier physically was easily repealed by the ever diligent Guardian. That seemed the end of it until during a conclave the five Guildlords, influenced by Azarkon, struck down the Guardian. (Microprose video game))

Guff

Commodore Guff was a planeswalker. An avid chronicler of knowledge, he made his niche in Dominaria by housing an ultimate library in an isolated realm of his creation.

He was one of the nine titans who attacked and destroyed Phyrexia. Guff subsequently met his demise from Yawgmoth's form sweeping over the combined planes of Dominaria and Rath.(Apocalypse) He allowed the victory of Dominaria by erasing Yawgmoth's victory from one of his books. His name and appearance are inspired by author J. Robert King's fellow Magic author, Scott McGough.

Guff is quoted on , and .

Gustha Ebbasdotter

Kjeldoran Royal Mage, enemy of Zur (Ice Age)

Gulsen

The matron of the Aysen abbey. A supportive, matriarchal ruler who helped the Abbot with most of his duties (Homelands)

Gwendlyn Di Corci

The legendary wily temptress of Urborg, (Cards: , 5th)

Gwendolyn Carthalion

Daughter of Grenfell of Golthonor, mother of Jared Carthalion (the builder of Telemar). She was killed by her husband Adam Carthalion. (Comics)