For years, Zix-Zax was the 'Shadow-Snatcher' for the Gloomwrought elite, a specialist who tracked fugitives across the jagged seams of the multiverse. He was peerless because he viewed the planes as a series of locks to be picked. That changed on the shores of the Astral Sea, when he pursued a young merchant who had accidentally tripped into a color pool. As the boy reached out for help, Zix-Zax hesitated, calculating the bounty versus the risk of the shifting tide. In that heartbeat of greed, the boy dissolved into shimmering planar dust. The silence that followed was louder than any scream.
Zix-Zax abandoned his contracts that day, trading his jagged manacles for a jar of glowing 'Chronos-Flies' and a tattered professor’s cloak. He realized that the multiverse isn't a playground for the powerful, but a labyrinth of 'invisible walls' that the unwary stumble through every day. He has since dedicated his life to teaching travelers how to walk the seams without falling. He is a frantic, stuttering guardian who believes that if he can just save enough tourists from the Far Realm’s edge, he might eventually stop seeing that merchant boy’s face in the starlight.