REAL NAME: IVAR ANNI-PADDA
Ivar Anni-Padda, his younger brothers Gilad and Aram, and sister Vexana were born in the ancient city-state of Ur millennia ago to the first Geomancer, Anni. One day, the brothers — revered as their clan’s warriors and protectors — ventured into a mystical realm known as the Faraway in search of the Boon, an artifact capable of enhancing mind and body that could provide for Ur forever.
The Faraway’s Geomancer reluctantly agreed to let the siblings take the Boon, but when the locals gave chase Ivar and Gilad stayed behind to ensure Aram returned home with the device. While Gilad used any means to intercept them, Ivar fired a modified arrow that brought down a tree of crystal stalactites that killed their pursuers at the cost of Gilad’s life.
Unaware that the Geomancer’s will dictates Gilad’s life and death, Ivar tried to harness the power of the Boon to revive him. Everyone in Ur but the Anni-Padda died that day when the Boon siphoned their life force.
Because of Ivar’s crimes against the continuum, the Keepers of the Timeless Word imprisoned him for thousands of years, and he remained in their custody until Archer helped him escape. His long imprisonment gave him almost* complete knowledge of the entire span of time, as well as the location of all timearcs — naturally-occurring rifts in space-time.
Ivar discovered through his travels in time that historical continuity had a naturally-occurring method of preserving itself called “chronological protection” and that the only way to change the past was to travel through time via artificial means. This led him to Neela Sethi when she was about to invent time travel in her CERN laboratory in Geneva.
Fifth-dimensional suicide drones from the end of time called Prometheans that worked for the Null hunted Neela to use her invention to annihilate every possible alternate timeline and to nullify existence.
Ivar tried to dissuade Neela from completing her invention, but in turn she tried to use his Tachyon Compass to alter time to save her father. After repeated failed attempts to alter history, she came across the Mistress of the Prometheans, a future version of herself who tricked her into finding a way of bypassing the chronological protection.
When Ivar tried to free Neela, the Mistress killed him. Because of her growing love for him, Neela travelled back in time to remove Ivar from the time-stream at the time he activated the Boon. Together, they defeated the Prometheans, but not before destroying every possible timeline that allowed them to be together.
Ivar surrendered himself to the custody of the Keepers of the Timeless Word, where he remained until freed by Archer — when he would again attempt to stop Neela from inventing time travel.
In 2024, Ivar plucked heroes from different points in the timestream to grow the numbers in his opposition against Doctor Silk’s promised utopia of a world without death.
ALIASES: Timewalker.
ABILITIES: Genius-level intellect; Invention and use of the Tachyon Compass; (Almost) Complete Knowledge of the Time Arcs.
KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS: Gilad, Aram and Vexana Anni-Padda; Obadiah Archer; Neela Sethi.
OTHER DETAILS: According to Armstrong, Ivar's favorite line to say is "no time to explain."
*1882 and 2024 are two years of which Ivar's memories are distorted. He recently travelled back to 1882 with his siblings to try to recover those memories. Then, he spent the night with a dancer known as Salome, employed by Sandria Darque.
