Phantom Stranger

Disclaimer
No one knows where this guy comes from. Popular belief among occult scholars is that he himself has forgotten, having cast some powerful effect on himself or having made some powerful pact to conceal his identity.

But there are theories...

First Tale: The Fallen
One tale postulates that the Stranger was the eighth archangel (named either Dumah or Azrael) who sided with neither Heaven nor Hell during Lucifer's rebellion and instead became the Archangel of Death, watching over the souls of those who perished in the battle. When Lucifer struck down the archangel Raguel, the Presence forbade Dumah/Azrael from accepting Raguel's soul, but yet the Archangel of Death did anyway and so was cast out of Heaven and stripped of his purpose, thud condemned to find new meaning for his existence.

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 * Appearances of Phantom Stranger
 * Character Gallery: Phantom Stranger