The Man Without Magic, also called the Avacur, was a man who wandered around and emerged in the public sphere in Arcaitia. He was only ever known to be an old man and no one ever knew his past or where he came from. When asked—and cornered—about his origin, he would reply paraphrastically and with rhetorical aphorisms. He travelled the land and aided people much as magi do, but he also spoke with and encouraged the people much as priests and firars do. When the authorities questioned him, disturbed by his pronouncements or concerned he was in secret a powerful wizard waiting for the right moment to unveil his might, he would debate with them briefly, leave them with puzzling questions and analogies, and then withdraw from them. (His debates are thus much studied by philosophers.)