The Wanderer

Originally a regular human boy, he was possessed by the spirit of Arúmil, who awakened a deep ether elemental affinity within him.

Since the spirit of the Grey Emperor was too weakened to actually take over his mind, the boy spent centuries as an immortal adventurer, before being stripped of all his powers when Arúmil regained an autonomous body.

During his time as the immortal Wanderer he got involved with various events of importance around the Worldplane.

The reason Arúmil was able to bond with him was the deep hidden hatred the boy had within him due to having been mistreated by his peers, as well as the sense of superiority he felt towards them due to what he perceived as lack of intelligence on their part. Both were attributes the Grey Emperor identified with and could play into very well. Ironically though, the bonding indirectly led to circumstances and events that counteracted these very two tendencies in the boy, causing the Emperor to remain unable to take over his mind.

Personality and traits

He is naturally friendly and adventurous, but becomes bitter and develops a superiority complex due to his treatment by peers. Arúmil's attempt at taking over his mind, and subsequent adventures and immortality help bring back his previous personality.

He is very curious and like Garth and Echan wants to understand the underlying principles of reality, although being more motivated to amuse himself keeps him from progressing as consistently in that regard as they do. Nonetheless, when, upon finally meeting face to face with the gods, and asking them why the world is the way that it is, they don't understand the question, as there is no reason and things have merely arbitrarily come to be in such a way, he is distrraught by the lack of a satisfying answer.

He is obsessed with creating a world with no suffering. At first he is only able to manipulate ether as pure energy (in the form of magical attacks or barriers), but later on learns how to use his elemental affinity to heal wounds and eventually even bringing people to life. When he becomes powerful enough to effectively bestow his immortality on others, he begins a crusade as a moral judge, deciding who is worthy of being granted eternal life. When he comes to point of complete cosubstantiality with the human soul (and thus can perceive others' minds as if they were his own) he decides that everyone is morally imperfect and decides the only way to end all suffering is to destroy the Worldplane. He accomplishes physically breaking an infinitely large object by reaching cosubstantiality with all of the ether reserves across all of reality, therefore having essentially infinite energy at his disposition.

After his apotheosis and the shattering of the Worldplane, his only remaining interest becomes competing with Surtur over who is more powerful, cycling through different timeline versions of him to face off against.