Tahngarth
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| Name | Tahngarth |
| Birthplace | Talruum, Jamuraa, Dominaria |
| Lifetime | ~4185-4265 AR |
| Race | Minotaur (altered) |
| Sources | Rath and Storm, Mercadian Masques, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse |
Tahngarth was a proud minotaur from Talruum and the first mate aboard the skyship Weatherlight.
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[edit] Weatherlight
As an adolescent, Tahngarth met Sisay, captain of the skyship Weatherlight and a local celebrity ever since she helped fight Kaervek during the Mirage War. Tahngarth joined her crew, quickly proved himself and became Sisay's first mate.
Sisay's goal in life was to collect the items of the Legacy, which could merge into a powerful weapon that could kill the Lord of the Wastes, who was responsible for her parents' death. Unbeknownst to her, the Lord was actually Yawgmoth and she was part of Urza's Bloodline project, designed to create defenders for Dominaria who could fight Yawgmoth's Phyrexian minions when the Phyrexian Invasion began. It could very well be that Tahngarth was a result of said project as well.
Tahngarth became friends with most of the ship's crew, although he could not get along very well with some of them. He especially detested the goblin Squee, whose cowardice and impulsiveness were an abomination in the eyes of the brave and disciplined minotaur. He also had some trouble accepting Gerrard Capashen, especially when the man quit the Weatherlight crew after the death of his friend Rofellos, which Tahngarth saw as giving up.
[edit] Rath and Mercadia
When Sisay was abducted to the plane of Rath by minions of the Lord of the Wastes, Tahngarth convinced Gerrard to rejoin the crew to help his friends. While Gerrard served as the ship's commander he and Tahngarth began to respect one another.
When they planeshifted to Rath, the Weatherlight came under attack of the flying ship Predator. During this battle the silver golem Karn was taken by the attackers and Tahngarth jumped to the other ship to save his friend. Unfortunately he was captured as well after being overpowered by Greven il-Vec.
When Gerrard and the rest of the crew saved their friends, they discovered that Tahngarth had been mutated by the Phyrexians. They had planned for him to be the replacement of the traitorous Vhati il-Dal, but Tahngarth was freed before their mutating and brainwashing was complete. He helped Gerrard free Sisay and the crew escaped to Mercadia, where they fought more Phyrexians and freed the plane's people.
[edit] The Invasion
Shortly after returning to Dominaria the Phyrexian Invasion began. Tahngarth fought in many battles during the initial stages of the war, but when the Rathi Overlay began, he had to face a challenge he found harder than fighting any Phyrexian: confronting his minotaur brethren with his mutated self.
In desperate need of more soldiers, the Weatherlight traveled to Talruum to rally the formidable minotaur warriors there, only to find that the planeswalker Teferi had phased Zhalfir out of the timestream. The crew then went to Hurloon, where they found that the Phyrexians had ravaged the land and were planning to put all surviving minotaur through the same process as Tahngarth. The Weatherlight destroyed their mutation plants' Tahngarth was especially fierce about this. In the aftermath of the battle, the Hurloon survivors all bowed down before Tahngarth and accepted him as their champion, regardless of his mutations.
[edit] Tahngarth's Legacy
For the remainder of the invasion, Tahngarth stayed on the Weatherlight, ever vigilant. He took revenge upon Greven il-Vec in a rematch between Weatherlight and Predator by cleaving the commander's head in two, and aided in rescuing Gerrard from the center of the Stronghold. Even when Yawgmoth himself came to Dominaria and attacked the ship with gigantic tentacles the minotaur refused to give up and kept fighting, using the soul-cleaving halberd blade Gerrard had taken from Yawgmoth's inner sanctum to hack at the tentacles. This brave defiance bought Gerrard, Urza, and Karn enough time to complete the Legacy and destroy Yawgmoth.
After the invasion Tahngarth, Sisay and Squee were left without a ship, for the Weatherlight had been absorbed when the Legacy was completed. However, the thankful people of Dominaria granted them a new ship, which Sisay named Victory, and the three of them headed off for more adventures.
