The Nameless One

The Nameless One
Planescape: Torment character
The Nameless One holding a scalpel in the Mortuary.
Created by	Chris Avellone
Voiced by	Michael T. Weiss
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Nickname(s)	"Chief" "Adahn"
Aliases	"Lost One" "Immortal One" "Incarnation's End" "Man of a Thousand Deaths" "The One Doomed to Life" "Restless One" "One of Many" "The One Whom Life Holds Prisoner" "The Bringer of Shadows" "The Wounded One" "Broken-One" "Misery-Bringer" "Morric" "Yemeth" "Bigby"
Gender	Male

"The Nameless One" is a fictional character from the Black Isle Studios role-playing video game, Planescape: Torment and is the main protagonist of the story. The character was voiced by Michael T. Weiss and created by game designer Chris Avellone. The Nameless One is a heavily scarred immortal, who, when killed, may suffer severe memory loss.

Planescape: Torment begins in medias res, with the character awakening from his previous death experience on a mortuary slab in Sigil, without his memories. He sets out on a quest to regain his lost memories and discover why he is immortal. 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. The character has an expansive back story, spanning thousands of years, through a multitude of incarnations, benevolent and evil.

The character has received universally positive reviews.Empireonline.com placed "The Nameless One" as fourth on a list of "The 50 Greatest Video Game characters".

The Nameless One's origins have been lost through time and as a result his history is shrouded in mystery. The Nameless One was once human. He sought the advice of a man named Morte, who ended up tricking him into committing the most terrible crime imaginable. The nature of the crime itself is unknown, save that the planes are still slowly dying because of it. At the same time, The Nameless One was contracted to a lifetime of servitude in the Blood War.

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. Morte, also trying to atone for his actions, directed him to the Gray Waste, where he would find the night hag, Ravel Puzzlewell. The Nameless One traveled to the Gray Waste, to find the "Greatest of the Gray Sisters". 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?". He manipulated her with the challenge of making him immortal and seduced her to bend her to his will. Ravel agreed and performed the ritual, out of love and succeeded in making the Nameless One immortal, but the ritual was flawed, for every time he died, he forgot his memories and became another person. 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". 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 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.