Heidar

"Your downfall was not your ignorance, your weakness, or your hubris, but your warm blood."

- Heidar

Heidar is the leader of the Rimewind Cult and main villain of the Coldsnap set of Magic: the Gathering. He is a powerful cryomancer, a wizard with the power to freeze any object. Fearing the Thaw, an event that would end the Ice Age on Dominaria, Heidar planned to undo this event and bring a new and worse version of the Ice Age.

History
After the Thaw was brought to his attention, he sent his agents to find anything on his home continent of Terisiare that could help him achieve his goal. They discovered a horde of phyrexians frozen inside the Ronom Glacier. Heidar wanted to use them to aid his plans, but they were asleep and only certain incantations would wake them up. From an allience with the zombie giant Haakon, the incantations were found as well as the knowledge vaults of the necromancer Lim-Dûl. Unfortunatly for him, he needed elementalists who can aid him. In order to get them, he forged another allience with Garza Zol, the vampire plague queen and the ruler of Krov. In return, Heidar would help Garza destroy the partnership between the Balduvians, Kjeldorans, and Yavimayans. Heidar awoke the phyrexians and gave them magic-infused ice crystals. Once the Balduvians invaded his land, he unleashed the phyrexians upon them and the Balduvians were slaughtered. They escaped Rimewind and terrorized the rest of the continent. As a result, the Kjeldorans sought revenge for their fallen allies, but Haakon and his knights held them off. Unbeknownst to Heidar, the phyrexian's magic was corrupting him and turing him insane. As a result, he started attacking both allies and enemies with little awareness. Garza Zol, seeing the danger Heidar and his danger his machines brought, murdered Heidar. Without their leader, the phyrexians ran loose, but were slain by the Kjeldorans and the Yavimayans. They also killed the rest of the cultists and returned the Thaw to its normal course.

Quotes
"The umber stain of the Thaw will be bleached away. Once again the world will be sharp, white, perfect!"

- Heidar

"Thick hides and layered armor won’t help when I freeze you from the inside out."

- Heidar

"Guard, fetch me a mallet."

- Heidar

"Tresserhorn is ours now. Dredge the lake and bring me all the bones you find. We’ll build you a new army, the likes of which Terisiare has never"

- Heidar making a deal with Haakon