Planeswalkers.

Strange creatures, these folk.

With just a thought they can step between worlds, cover great distances in the blink of an eye, then return before you even knew they were gone. But beyond this wondrous and unique power, they are also capable spellcasters, powerful fighters, master shapechangers, and mad-scientist inventors.

As different as grains of sand on a beach, these super-powerful beings share two things. The first is the "Spark," or that exceptional things that sets them apart from the rest of the creatures in the multiverse and makes them capable of ascending to a station just below that of a god. If you have it, then you can become a planeswalker. If you don't, then you can't. It's as simple as that.

The second is a seed of madness. Planeswalkers vary in power level and in their shades of insanity. Some are quite functional and interact with mortal beings without causing too much harm. Others, namely Urza, are like mammoths who don't know how large they really are and accidentally step on everything and squash it to a pulp.

Here's a list of some of the most prominent planeswalkers in Dominarian history and what they're up to -- or when they got the axe.

Bo Levar: Dead. He was a cigar smuggler and boat captain. When still mortal, Bo Levar ran a corsair from the continent of Terisiare to all points abroad. He was caught in the blast at the end of the Brothers' War and ascended shortly thereafter -- almost at the same time as Urza. While he was alive, he had been known to keep company with the merfolk in the Eliterates artists' colony and also with traders and pirates of Mercadia and Urborg. Near the end of the Dominarian Apocalypse, he sacrificed himself to save his merfolk friends, and to this day they sing songs and recite poems about his bushy goatee and his famous, underwater-burning cigars.

Daria: Dead. Daria was Taysir's daughter. She accompanied Urza's crusaders into the depths of Phyrexia during the war on dominaria. Though she was quite powerful, she was betrayed by Tevesh Szat while planting one of the soul bombs. She died before they set off even the bomb that destroyed phyrexia.

Dyfed: Dead. Dyfed was the mysterious planeswalker who allied with Yawgmoth when he betrayed the Thran people and created a disease to control the population. It was Dyfed who showed Yawgmoth new worlds, including Mercadia, Pyrulea and Phyrexia. She eventually facilitated Yawgmoth's move to Phyrexia by helping him create a planar gate. Yawgmoth betrayed her, though, and in an attempt to obtain her planeswalker spark, the ruler of Phyrexia killed her by cutting her into little bits and taking her apart piece by piece.

Freyalise: Alive. Though she is not really a goddess, many of the elves worship her as one. She brought about the end of the long Dominarian Ice Age and participated in the assault on Phyrexia with Urza and his gang. She is currently out playing around in the multiverse, though she is known to stop by to visits the elves in Keld now and again.

Glacian: Dead. He was the genius whose inventions provided the basis of the Thran's rise to greatness. He left his mark on Dominaria by developing and creating the mana rig at Shiv, which provided the technology and the Thran metal to build such things as the fittings for the living ship Weatherlight and the Null Moon itself. Though he never ascended in traditional form, his essence was transferred into the Might- and Weak- stones, where he lived out the rest of his days. When these stones were fused into Urza's head, it was Glacian's voice constantly tormenting the already half-crazed planeswalker that drove Urza to the brink time and time again.

Guff, Commodore: Dead. Commodore Guff was the keeper of the great libraries and a fiction writer extraordinaire. Had he realized the true extent of his power, Commodore Guff could have been one of the most powerful being Dominia had ever seen. But instead of turning to evil, he used his powers only for good. He sacrificed himself at the end of the Phyrexian Invasion in order to save Dominaria. He was swallowed by the great black cloud of Yawgmoth as he erased his history books and revised the ending of the world.

Karn: Alive. The metal man ascended in the climactic moment that ended the Phyrexian invasion. One of the most recent ascensions, Karn is still in his infancy as a planeswalker. He created a plane of his own, made entirely of metal, called Mirrodin. He is out exploring the sights and still discovering how to use his new powers.

Taysir: Dead. Until his death, Taysir was the oldest, perhaps most powerful planeswalker to ever live. He tried to save Urza, who was influenced by Yawgmoth, but was betrayed by the planeswalker. Urza triggered the kill rubic Taysir's the titan suit, which sucked the life from the planeswalker.

Teferi: Alive. Teferi attended Urza's wizards' school on Tolaria, the Tolarian Academy. Though he is perhaps the most even-tempered and socially well-mannered (and adjusted) planeswalker the multiverse has ever seen, he had without a doubt the most painful and traumatic ascension of all. Caught in the blast when Urza's time machine experiment went haywire, Teferi was trapped in a slow-time bubble for nearly forty years. Worse, that entire time, he was on fire, living through the horror of the explosion in slow-time for four full decades. When the invasion hit, he phased a large portion of the continent Jamuraa and the land of Shiv to another time, saving them from Yawgmoth. He resides there now.

Tevash Szat: Dead. Tevash Szat was the black dragon lord. Completely evil, he betrayed Daria and kristina, who aided Urza during the assault on Phyrexia. Unfortunately for Szat, Urza had anticipated his deception, and he killed the dragon planeswalker by using Tevash's evil essence to fuel the soul bombs that were to be used to destroy Yawgmoth's world.

Urza: Dead. Definitely the most written about, perhaps the most loathsome, and arguably the most important planeswalker in Magic history, Urza has been many things to many people. His story is too long and involved to cover it all in summary, but if there is one thing that sets him apart from the others, it's his 4,000 year long obsession with Yawgmoth and the eventual invasion of Dominaria. For all of his madness and all the trouble he caused to mortal people, he redeemed himself near the end of the Phyrexian Invasion by sacrificing himself to destroy Yawgmoth and his Phyrexian plague, saving those few who survived the year-long onslaught.

Weatherlight: Dead. It's planeshifting matrix gave the great living ship the power to move from one plane to the next. It was a living airship for over a thousand years before its spirit was awaken. In their first attempt to destroy Yawgmoth, they channelled white mana from the null moon. The intense mana cascade killed Weatherlight's living spirit. When Urza sacrificed himself to save Dominaria -- as was typical -- he caused a heap of collateral damage. The blast destroyed Yawgmoth and saved Dominaria. Now, Weatherlight resides at the bottom of the ocean near Urborg, where it crashed.

Windgrace, Lord: Alive. Lord Windgrace's favorite form was a giant, jet black panther. Since Teferi did not take part, Lord Windgrace was the most well-adjusted planeswalker among those who invaded Phyrexia. His exact whereabouts are unknown, but he was last seen in Hurloon among the minotaurs.