Gordy

"May I interest you... in a scone?"

Gordy, also known as The Undying Lord, is a lich from another world and the father of Rainer. He lives in The Crypt and commands a undead army, including the skeletons Tibia and Gherkin.

Physical Description
Normally, Gordy is a man with a shaved head, primarily dark skin, and patterns of lighter-colored skin across his face (presumably vitiligo). In his "work clothes," Gordy wears a black cloak and has a skeletal face with intricately black lines painted across the skull. He speaks with a much raspier voice while in this form.

History
Gordy has possessed necromantic powers since birth, which frightened both himself and his biological family, leading to his abandonment. His (suspiciously unnamed) adopted parents found him during their travels, raised him while sharing their extensive knowledge of necromancy, and Gordy learned that power was not inherently good or bad, because any type of power—including necromancy—could be used to do good or evil.

He states that planar travel runs in his family, presumably passed on from his adoptive parents. He can theoretically create a portal to another plane, though he needs to have access to an additional source of magic to do so.

Gordy wanted to pay that kindness forward, so he came to the world of Nua and adopted Rainer, passing on the same upbringing and teachings about necromancy and love that his parents had given him. He also found the purpose in Nua of helping the "unquiet dead" who were feared by all Nua's residents, and the "Undying Lord" alias arose as a way to make sure people left him alone.

As an outsider, he has never participated in Nua's hero/villain system, and considers the world's bureaucracy to be bullshit. He hates the restrictions and expectations forced on Rainer as she grows up there, and promises to help Fitzroy with no strings attached, but requests that Fitzroy treat the undead with the same kindness he would display towards a living being.

Trivia

 * He does not have a pulse.
 * He mailed skeletons to Fitzroy's dorm room in a box
 * Someone confused him with a Xorn