Character from Bastion by Phil Tucker
The Scourer, Lord of Nagaran, Master of the Black Tower — a Great Soul reborn without memories who claws his way from amnesiac neophyte to dragon-formed destroyer across six lifetimes of accumulated fury and guilt.
Scorio wakes up empty and fills himself with anger. This is not a flaw — it's a survival mechanism refined across six reincarnations in Hell. He is indomitable in the literal sense: he does not stop. When the Academy betrays him, he survives exile. When the Crucible tortures him for two years, he endures. When power structures try to contain him, he breaks them. His will is the bedrock everything else is built on. What makes him more than a rage machine is the loyalty. Scorio builds a found family — Naomi, Leonis, Lianshi, Jova — and holds onto them with desperate ferocity. He is impulsive, sometimes selfish, and has been justly criticized for occasionally abandoning allies when his single-mindedness takes over. But he comes back. He always comes back. His past lives haunt the present. He may have founded the Herdsmen. He is 'The Whispered' — a figure of prophecy whose significance other Great Souls have been tracking across centuries. The spike through his heart in a previous incarnation may have disrupted his reincarnation cycle. Each revelation about who he was forces him to reconcile with who he's choosing to be, and the distance between those two people is where the series lives.
Built for violence even before he remembers why. Carries himself with the coiled tension of someone whose body knows how to fight before his mind catches up. As he progresses through tempering tiers, his physical presence intensifies — mana bleeds through in moments of emotion, and at his peak, he can manifest a dragon transformation of massive destructive scale. His ferula, a weapon-focus of distinctive design, becomes an extension of his body.
Also known as: The Scourer, Lord of Nagaran, Master of the Black Tower, The Bringer of Ash and Darkness, The Whispered