![]() In order to test that her spell had worked, Ravel stabbed the Nameless One to death and when he awoke, without his memories, she realised that she had not entirely succeeded in her spell. The Nameless One's immortality came at the terrible price of suffering the torment of not bearing his mortality with him and he will pull tormented souls towards him because of it. In order to perform the magic, Ravel split the Nameless One's essence in two, and stripped his mortality from him, which turned into "The Transcendent One". However, the ritual was flawed, for every time he died, he forgot his memories and became another person. Ravel agreed and performed the ritual out of love, succeeding in making the Nameless One immortal. He manipulated her with the challenge of making him immortal and seduced her to bend her to his will. Ravel told him that he must pay for her services, and the Nameless One presented her with the challenge of answering the question: "What can change the nature of a man?". The Nameless One traveled to the Gray Waste, to find the "Greatest of the Gray Sisters". ![]() Morte, also trying to atone for his actions, directed him to the Gray Waste, where he would find the night hag, Ravel Puzzlewell. In order to escape his punishment of being damned to an eternity in the Blood Wars, and perhaps to atone for his crime, he sought the help of someone powerful enough to make him immortal, so that he could spend the rest of his life doing nothing but good. At the same time, because of this The Nameless One was doomed to an eternal servitude in the Blood War. The nature of the crime itself is unknown, save that the planes are still slowly dying because of it. He sought the advice of a man named Morte, who ended up tricking him into committing the most terrible crime imaginable. The Nameless One's origins have been lost through time and as a result his history is shrouded in mystery. The character received universally positive reviews. The character has an expansive backstory through a multitude of incarnations, both benevolent and evil. In the process, he slowly learns about the varying personalities of his previous incarnations, and the influence they have had on the planes and the people that surround him. He sets out on a quest to regain his lost memories and discover why he is immortal. Planescape: Torment begins in medias res, with the character awakening from a previous death on a mortuary slab in Sigil. Upon rebirth, The Nameless One has little to no recollection of his past life, and often with completely different personality than before. Every time he dies, another person in the multiverse dies to fuel his resurrection. ![]() In the game, he suffers from a curse of immortality that has spanned thousands of years. " The Nameless One" is the protagonist of Black Isle Studios 1999 role-playing video game, Planescape: Torment. The Nameless One, as depicted by an in-game screenshot
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