The Ghost

The Ghost was an explorer in Eden during the First Age. An Earthling salesman before The Calamity which ended existence as he knew it, The Ghost rose to post-apocalyptic prominence by serving as the aide to famed Winkie explorer Lüe the Mapmaker.

Life Before the End

During the Earth-665 iteration of reality, the so-called Ghost was a salesman with an eidetic memory, a love for women, and almost no social skills. After discovering his iteration’s version of The Strumpet’s Sister and learning to unstick himself in time, he eventually succeeded in altering the past. In the process, he unintentionally caused The Calamity which led to the rebooting of reality.

Life After the End

Much of the story of this Interregnum between The Ghost’s iteration of reality and the next was chronicled in A Dream Is But a Shadow, the 2011 album by E. Christopher Clark’s band Pop Bubblegum Trash. But there is certainly more to be told, more beyond the story of the fool’s errand which he gave to a sextet of women inside an Edenian pub one evening early in that time of inbetween days.

In fact, the achievements that would bring The Ghost the most notoriety all came after he led those six women to their accidental doom. Once the women led him to the younger version of himself who’d been hiding in The Garden—each of them dying in turn along the way—The Ghost, inspired by this reconnection with his core self, set about on a quest to restore reality to the way that it once was.

He felt he owed this to the women he’d kept too long from whatever’s next thanks to his stupidly accurate and comprehensive memory.

After wandering the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, he met the famous Lüe and agreed to serve as her scribe and bodyguard. Together, they charted nearly all of Eden. And while they did this, The Ghost searched for The Seven Voices who could help him sing a renewed reality into being.