The old man appeared from nowhere on one of the lowest levels of the Roman Forum on the eighth of Januarius. He spoke a completely unknown language, wore unusual clothes, and claimed to not have a name, so the Romans sent him to a sanatorium in the Alps, where he spent over twenty years without aging. He also carried a bracelet inscribed with Greek-seeming letters and a bracelet that allowed for universal communication and travel between dimensions. Marcus Americanus Scriptor killed him in an alternate universe after being briefly possessed by the old man's mind control powers. Later, it was revealed that the old man was a member of the Great Houses who, with twelve accomplices, had escaped the Second War in Heaven by running away into the alternate Earths; a Cwej-Prime named Abschrift and a sphinx were both sent to search for him.