Zegana

Zegana was a stately and reserved merfolk wizard from Ravnica. She used to be the Speaker for Zonot One and Prime Speaker for a time, fulfilling the role of guildmaster of the Simic Combine. She upheld the traditional way of the guild and its utopian philosophy. She was replaced by Vannifar as Guildmaster, and later murdered by Etrata while the assassin was under the influence of Trostani's mind control pollen.
==History==
===Ascension===
After ascending to the Prime Speakership of the Simic Combine, Zegana delivered the Fathom Edict, which declared a new beginning for the Simic Combine after the fall of Momir Vig.
Regal and reticent, Zegana always maintained that she served as Prime Speaker only at the sufferance of the Speakers' Chamber. The chamber, she said, could revoke her status at any time and appoint another of their number prime speaker. Even within the guild, some believed that she had had far more influence than she let on and that the speakers would not or could not remove her.
===Downfall===
When some members of the guild, members of the Adaptionist faction argued that Zegana's ways were outdated and the guild required more practical leadership, she was replaced by Vannifar.James Wyatt and Jeremy Crawford (November 2018). "D&D Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica", Wizards of the Coast. Although she believed Vannifar's rule a dangerous experiment, she accepted the chamber's judgment and yielded her title. 
She returned to the seclusion of Zonot One the smallest zonot and tended to keep quiet.(2019). Ravnica Allegiance Player's Guide. Wizards of the Coast. There she became a vocal advocate for the Utopian movement, opposing Vannifar's more extreme initiatives and engaging in outreach to other Ravnican guilds.James Wyatt (January 2019). "The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Ravnica". Wizards of the Coast She had hoped her niece Kaszira would be able to help unite the factions in the future. 
After her ouster by Vannifar, the remaining Utopians in the guild clustered around her, but by nature, their work was both quieter and slower than the Adaptationists. If Vannifar went too far, Zegana would be there to make a case to the Chamber that the prime speaker should be removed. Until then, she sought to curb Vannifar's excesses and guard against her failures.
During the Phyrexian Invasion, Vannifar and Zegana settled their old grievances. The guild leader allowed Zegana to experiment with the Phyrexian oil on Ravnican animals in an attempt to find a cure for phyresis. Nonetheless, Zegana argued that the guild's weak leadership was the main cause for the Simic's ill-advised decisions, unsuccessfully attempting to wrest the position of Prime Speaker back in the Invasion's aftermath.
===Death===
A year and some months after the Invasion, Zegana was assassinated during a celebration at Karlov Manor. There were no signs of struggle on her body, which was arranged to show the symbols of the ten guilds, with a black iris flower representing the Simic held in her left hand. Detective Alquist Proft later deduced that Zegana had been killed by the Dimir assassin Etrata, who was under mind control from a plant cultivated by Oba, the central dryad of Trostani,. The former guild leader was targeted because she experimented with the Phyrexian oil. Oba had been under the mistaken impression that Zegana was using the oil to advance Simic's goal of evolution, rather than trying to cure the oil's effects.
==Story appearances==
Title 	Author 	Publishing date	Set 	Setting (plane)	Featuring
The Fathom Edict	Brady Dommermuth	2013-01-09 	Gatecrash 	Ravnica 	Zegana, Yaszen, Bogumil Bem
 	Nicky Drayden 	2019-02-06 	Ravnica Allegiance 	Ravnica 	Medge, Miko, Chessa, Kaszira, Ptero Zallik, Andrik, Dimas, Laszlo, Saganderis, Fania, Zyanek, Zegana
 	Seanan McGuire 	2023-12-05 	Murders at Karlov Manor	Ravnica 	Teysa Karlov, Kaya Cassir, Ezrim, Lavinia, Tolsimir Wolfblood, Aurelia, Judith, Tomik Vrona, Kellan, Vannifar, Zegana, Krenko, Yarus
 	Seanan McGuire 	2024-01-08 	Murders at Karlov Manor	Ravnica 	Teysa Karlov, Kaya Cassir, Ezrim, Aurelia, Zegana, Vannifar, Kellan, Alquist Proft, Etrata, Lavinia
==Gallery==
File:Zegana, Utopian Speaker 2.jpg|<c>Zegana, Utopian Speaker</c>
==In-game references==
==References==
Category:Merfolk
Category:Wizards
Category:Deceased