Name: Daneera
Author: RavenoftheBlack
Status: Public, In Use

Daneera is a green-aligned planeswalker with a fierce love of nature, and forests in particular. She is primarily a summoner, and befriends forest creatures that she then summons to her aid in combat. Daneera considers herself a protector of the natural order.

==Physical Appearance==

Daneera is a human woman of average height, perhaps five foot six, with a slim but athletic build. She is strong for her size and very quick, with arms and legs toned through years of constant forest living. She has light brown eyes and dark brown hair, which is brushed only rarely. Her features are pleasant but sharp, and she can often appear harsh, although her disposition is usually positive.

==Powers and Abilities==

Daneera's primary power lies in her summoning. She is a talented and reasonably powerful summoner, and tends to prefer larger, apex predators as her allies. Daneera has a innate ability to connect on an emotional level with animals, and Daneera will always befriend a creature before using it in battle. She refuses to force a creature into fighting for her.

Daneera is also known to use enchantments to boost her physical abilities such as strength, speed and dexterity. Although she prefers to use creatures in battle, she will, when the situation demands it, enhance herself mystically and fight one on one with her long knife. She is an adept physical combatant and can hold her own in melee combat, particularly when enchanted.

==History==

Daneera was born to a dying plane, one where nature had long since been buried beneath cold, unfeeling stone streets and houses. She grew up loving the idea of forests, a mythical concept to her cold, dead world. All her life, Daneera dreamt of being immersed in a genuine, natural wood, and when her spark finally ignited, she found her dream realized. She fell in love with nature and its forces immediately, and strove to master life in the forests.

Eventually, Daneera found her way to the forest plane of Arbagoth, and the Endless Green became a new home for the fledgling planeswalker. She took to spending weeks or even months at a time in the various forests of the Multiverse, perfecting her skills at hunting and survival and befriending the denizens of the wild. She would occasionally sell her services to aid those trying to protect the forests, or going freelance against those who wished to destroy it.

==Appears In==

The Planes of the Dual-Walkers
How to Trade a Planeswalker

Having just read through the Homelands document again, some of this feels very familiar, what with the whole "won't summon things that aren't her friends" thing. Not too much here we couldn't infer, but her past is interesting. Maybe Szat can develop the dying world a bit more. Since you know. Szat. And dying worlds.

I have been summoned. This is part of what made me dredge up Virsin for the salvage-block, though I think Daneera's home is indicated as more of a failed Ravnica, something that destroyed itself by doing what Rav did.

To a point. Honestly, I haven't put a great deal of thought into it, though I don't envision quite the scale that Ravnica has achieved.

For some reason, I imagine her home plane to have been smaller than Ravnica. But also, the way I'm reading it, the world somehow literally cut off all its green mana ties and that that is the reason why it is dying.

I don't have anything pithy to say, so I'll just say "yea."

I always find the official canon's straight green characters a challenge to differentiate, so kudos for finding a unique take here.