Ink and watercolour plate of a pair of worn leather gloves floating with nothing inside them, a small flame of magic kindling between the open palms.

Character

The Stranger from Another World

The nameless wizard who crossed the threshold from another world into Meliora: Aurelius's apprentice and the realm's defender in two of its darkest hours.

  • The Goblin Invasion
  • Dark Times

Description

The stranger is not of this world. They come to Meliora through a threshold between their own world and the realm, a world in which, Aurelius notes, time flows in parallel with Meliora's. Their body is invisible, yet their hands can summon the raw magic that only a true wizard commands.

No one in the chronicle knows their name. Aurelius calls them friend, apprentice and, later, his wizard; the other Aurelius sneers at a meddling stranger; Abigail calls them a spark.

"Stranger from a strange land, and you presume to dictate what Umbra does?" — Abigail

Historical context

In the goblin invasion the stranger learned magic from Aurelius, defended Pinewood, closed the portal in the Healand Mines and defeated the other Aurelius and his dragon. A generation later they returned, followed even by a small souvenir from the old Sanctum, to cross the Primeweald, claim its element cores and take up the new element of radiance. Aurelius saw in them one traveller from a different world come to counter another intruder.