The Healer

The Healer, formerly known as Thomas Mackeray, was a Cwej who took part in the Uprising of the Cwejen. Although sparked by Chris Cwej's assassination of the High President of the Superiors, the Uprising remained relatively peaceful in its initial months, only becoming violent when Mackeray rose to prominence in the movement. An undocumented Cwej of unclear origin, he killed innumerable Superiors, and was considered charismatic and witty. For a time, he operated from his Secret Fort, a mahogany mansion built into a mountainside, with a crocodile-filled moat and drawbridge. Under his leadership, the Cwejen become increasingly spiritual and cult-like; influenced by Kwol's reported vision of a new universe ruled by a chosen human, he promulgated the belief that one of the Cwejen would be elevated to godhood following an apocalyptic event. (PROSE: The Aftermath)

He remained a leader in the Uprising for the next fifty years. Calling himself "the Healer" because he wanted to heal all divisions between Cwejen, he captured the Tower, a vast structure once controlled by the Superiors, and made it the Uprising's new military base. He intended to use Tree of Life, a praxis-producing structure within the Tower, to travel back in time to the early days of the Base of Operations and prevent the Superiors from ever gaining power.

In his first body, the Healer was a Cwej-Prime, though he somewhat altered this body by infusing himself with the biodata of Superior prisoners he had found in the lower levels of the Tower. making him faster, stronger, enabling him to sense the flow of time. He had a broad jaw, wily green eyes, a muscular physique, and - unusually for a Prime - dark hair. He wore purple robes over armour, and a number of differently coloured rings. When Frey shot him in the back with a laser pistol, the Healer regenerated into a female incarnation with short hair. As the Tower was erased from existence, the Healer tossed Cwej a glass shard of the Vicinity, identical to the one he himself carried. (PROSE: Rebel Rebel)