Character from A Practical Guide to Evil by ErraticErrata
The Grey Pilgrim — the most powerful healer alive, a grandfatherly hero who has killed children he foresaw would become threats, carrying the weight of a compassion that never learned to look away.
Tariq is the Grey Pilgrim, and he is exactly as dangerous as he is kind. His Aspects — Behold (sees true feelings and natures), Forgive (resurrects one slain ally per day), Shine (summons a replica of the sun) — make him the most versatile hero on the continent. He can heal anything. He can read anyone. And when necessary, he can call down sunlight that burns undead to ash. He has killed children he foresaw would become threats. The series doesn't let you look away from that. He's genuinely compassionate, genuinely wise, and genuinely willing to commit atrocities if his gift shows him a future where inaction costs more lives. Catherine's relationship with him is one of the series' most complex: mutual respect between a villain and a hero who both know the other has a point. He died at the Battle of Hainaut, fighting the Dead King's forces. His death mattered.
Elderly Levantine man with the bearing of a grandfather who has seen too much and chosen to remain kind anyway. The Pilgrim's Blood lineage shows in his presence — even non-Named sense something divine about him.
Also known as: Tariq, Grey Pilgrim, Pilgrim