Dark Waters: Slade's Origin

Jund

Alara, a land that was once know for its unity and harmony among all its creatures. Then one day the entire was ripped asunder and shattered into five separate smaller planes forming the Shards of Alara. However, recently the shards have be reunited after a millennium of separation. As the boundaries between the shards dissolve, cultures clash and wars ensue.

Jund: Savage Lands

The current forces of Jund tribes are currently positioned in the Savage Lands on the border of Grixis territory. As the undead threat grew stronger, the Jund prepare to lay waste the lands of the undead, Slade, a blue dragonborn warrior has been given a summons by the Jund leader Kresh, the Bloodbraided. As he enters Kresh's tent he witnesses a fight break out near the tent. He walks over to find out what is happening and he is told that two fellow warriors are fighting over the spoils of a kill made previously in the day. As the fight takes more than an hour, the dragonborn departs to go meet Kresh. Slade enters the tent and Kresh is seating upon a throne of the bones of his enemies. Kresh assigns Slade to Sek'kar, the Death Keeper's group of warriors to initiate Sek'kuar's plan of attack on the undead forces.

 As Slade exits the tent, he looks over to where he was watching the fight that it had resolved with the loser with his head on a spike. Slade continues on to Sek'kuar's camp, as he approached the commanding tent, he notices that the entire area surrounding the tent is occupied by thousands of goblins with explosives attached to them. He continues into the tent, upon entering the tent he sees the old orc at a table surrounded by more goblins but in mages' garments.

Sek'kuar notices Slade and says in a raspy voice, "Finally!! I get an actually warrior. Come in, Come in and I'll explain the plan to cripple those Grixis bastards! " He continues to explain the plan to Slade. He explains that he is going to send to all the goblins that are outside of the tent into the enemy territory at specific points in the enemy territory. He plans on targeting one of Grixis's cultivating fields, where the turn captured slaves into the undead and he plans on blowing it sky high. Also once he uses the goblins that were blown up he will resurrect them and all the individuals that died in the explosions to overwhelm the enemy forces with his own brand of undead.

He also explains where Slade is added into the mix. His job is to move the goblins into place and to start the chain reaction of explosions because he can't trust the goblins to do the job right. He then commands Slade to move the forces out now to get them there by day's end. Slade then exits the tent and tries to get the army of goblins attention. At first first this doesn't work, until he slaughters one of the in front of them. Now they pay attention to him in fear that it will happen to them next and Slade moves the forces out.

Grixis Deadlands

 Slade's army arrives in the Grixis Deadlands and Slade orders them to spread through out the cultivating fields close to each other. As the soon as the last goblin was in place, Slade unleashed a ferocious lightning breath attack upon the closest goblin in sight, lighting the entire land ablaze. Sek'kuar soon arrives congratulating Slade on properly executing the plan and then begins to raise an army of dead goblins along with the many other undead. The attack continues on after that and in the midst of battle Sek'kuar screams out in terror, "Everyone retreat, he's here!!!"

Nico Bolas

Appearing from the black overcast above Grixis, Nico Bolas, appeared on the battlefield. Slade unfazed by Nico Bolas's presence, he challenges Nico Bolas by throwing burning goblin corpses at him. Unfortunately it had no effect against the mighty dragon planeswalker. Nico Bolas responds with, " Poor unfortunate youngling thinking he can challenge me, I shall dispose of you quickly." A overwhelming sized gylph appears below Slade he tries to leave the circle but is bound in place by the undead. By the time he frees himself, a godlike red beam descends from the sky spouting a column of fire in its wake leaving no survivors.