Nakor
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Nakor is a fictional vagrant, Magician and trickster in Raymond E. Feist's epic novels. He first appears in Prince of the Blood, and also appears in the Krondor's Son's Saga, the Serpentwar Saga, the Conclave of Shadows and the Darkwar Saga.
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Nakor is of the Isalani, a race of Keshians from the province of Isalan, who are described as having yellowed skin, and known both for mysticism and thievery. Nakor is an eclectic and eccentric character, with somewhat revolutionary views on energy, magic, and the "stuff" that makes up the universe. Though he is a magician of considerable ability, Nakor insists that all magic is merely trickery. He carries a seemingly empty rucksack, though he continually pulls oranges (or apples) from it. He is also a gambler, and a cheat. He is sometimes known as "Nakor the Blue Rider", though he is regularly horseless.
His views on magic are seemingly revolutionary in the world of Midkemia. His thoughts, though mostly abstract, have impacted the perception of magic in that world. Nakor believes that the universe is a big bubble, expanding outwards, and that rifts are bends in the bubble. As a result of his revolutionary thoughts he has split the students of Stardock into a new group, called the blue riders, that follow his teachings.
A large portion of Nakor's knowledge may have been endowed to him by the Codex of Wodar Hospur, and in exchange for it, he was rendered mad for a good part of his life, which explains his eccentric nature. This artifact, thought lost for centuries, is supposed to contain every known fact in the world. He turned it over to the temple of Ishap during the Serpentwar Saga.
Nakor, in the later novels, finds (or is bullied into) accepting a disciple, the Isalani warrior Sho Pi. He also starts up the first temple for the sleeping goddess of good (who, together with the other Greater Gods, imprisoned Nalar on a distant planet, and in the process, sacrificed herself), Arch-Indar. The temple was formed during the Serpentwar Saga books, when Nakor came across a woman named whom he assumes is the avatar of the good goddess herself.
In the Darkwar books, Nakor finds a young man named Ralan Bek. Nakor feels he is important, and explains to Pug that Bek may contain a fragment of Nalar, The Nameless One. Nakor knows this because, admittedly, he also has a fragment of one of the gods in him, though which god it is remains to be seen. It has been surmised that the god in question may be Ba-nath/Kalkin, the God of Pranksters, as the fragment in him induced him to trickery. However, it is ambiguous as Nakor in an earlier series reveals that he carries the legendary Codex of Wodan Hospur, the dead God of Knowledge and throughout the books he is an extremely knowledgeable character (almost certainly because of the Codex) and someone who is driven to find out new things.
In Rise of a Merchant Prince, Nakor reveals to Calis that he is six times older than him. Since Calis was 50 years old at the time, Nakor is probably around 300 years old during that book's timeframe.
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