Emperor Jagang

Emperor Jagang is the ruler of the Imperial Order and the only known living dreamwalker. Dreamwalkers were created by wizards during the ancient war as a weapon to be used against their enemies. A dreamwalker has the power to enter the minds of other people and enforce his will upon them. The gifted are especially susceptible, but with time a dreamwalker can enter the mind of any living person. Once there, he has access to their every thought and is able to do everything from taking control of their body to killing them. There are only two counters to this power: 1) through a special bond to the Lord of D'Hara, created by Alric Rahl during the ancient war, or 2) being born pristinely ungifted, which is an unintended result of the creation of number 1. Also, witches can block the attempts.

Jagang is a huge, muscle covered man. His head is shaved bald, increasing his already imposing appearance, while his eyes are completely black with no pupils, whites or iris's. Jagang's neck is thick and often descirbed as resembling a bulls. Many jewelled rings cover the massive hands of the Emperor of the Imperial Order, while a gold chain runs from a ring looped through his nose to either ear.

As the protege of the founder and spiritual leader of the Fellowship of Order, Brother Narev, Jagang is a firm believer that mankind is evil and that people should bend to the will of others in need, no matter the cost to themselves. For example, if a man has an urge for a woman, in Jagangs view, it is the womans duty to allow him to exercise those urges.

It was through his power as a dreamwalker that Jagang was able to work his way into a position of power in the Old World. He then managed to unite through warfare the many fractured tribes therein and forge the powerful Imperial Order. His mission now is nothing short of world domination, as he struggles to bring all men under the control of the Order. His main adversaries in this goal are Richard Rahl, the Master of D'Hara, and his wife Kahlan Amnell, the Mother Confessor. His second desire, to end all magic, makes every user of magic who isn't under his control his enemy. This is an ironic and contradictory goal since his very power must use the latent magic in humanity to exert his control.

As a young boy Jagang was nothing more than a street tough living in alleys of Altur'Rang. One day he saw a wealthy looking man and decided to kill him and take his money. The man turned to him and simply smiled, knowing he could kill the boy with a though. Instead, he flicked the boy a coin and was on his way. Jagang had several encounters with the same man, before one day, he finally asked why the man hadn't killed him.

Brother Narev, as the man was called, told Jagang of the philosophies of the Fellowship of Order and took him as his protege, possilby seeing the hidden talent of a dream walker within Jagang, teaching him everything he knew, eventually placing him as the Emperor of the entire Imperial Order, while Narev himself became the spiritual leader of the Order.

As Jagang's mastery of his talent grew, he used his ability as a dream walker to crawl into gifted people's minds and bend them to his will. Over the next twenty years, Jagang would patiently usurp control of the entire Old World. Jagang even walked the halls of the Palace of the Prophets in the minds of young wizards, learning everything he could of prophecy.