The Anti-Hero: Initially well-intentioned but morally flexible, gradually becoming more ruthless in pursuit of their goals.

Self Definement Murdoc would likely define himself as: A necessary evil, willing to sacrifice anything and anyone to prevent a catastrophic future and save the world.

Profile Murdoc Token (also known as ‘The Traveler’) is a mysterious figure on a destined path to halt the Terra War of the past. His morally flexible and ruthless nature stems from a belief that the current state of affairs is inconsequential. Murdoc is focused on achieving a goal he believes will fundamentally alter the world, resolving its problems and issues. This conviction drives him to amend or correct anything that impedes his mission, acting in the faith of a supposed greater good. He is convinced that his efforts will inevitably restore the world's order, possibly seeking a means to revert the nature of the Terra War. Has deep faith in Optanity and the Hopen.

**Relationships Fateus** (Son) Luness (Wife)

Previewed Timeline

A solitary figure stands in a vast, desolate desert, surrounded by nothingness stretching for miles. He pauses, gazing at the distant horizon where a lone mountain looms in the far distance. As he turns, scanning the landscape, he notices something unsettling—the mountain remains equidistant in all directions, encircling him entirely. The camera ascends, shifting to a bird’s-eye view. From above, the truth is revealed: he stands at ground zero of an ancient catastrophe. The remnants of an explosion—one unleashed 1,500 years ago by the Hartez—mark this place as the epicenter of devastation. A chemical weapon, its power unfathomable, erased all life, leaving the world barren. As the camera continues its ascent, the desolation stretches outward, a silent testament to the weapon’s impact. It drifts higher still, passing beyond the atmosphere, seamlessly transitioning from the ruins of the surface to the vast celestial expanse.

MURDOC steering the other into power

In time, the truth emerges—Murdoc is Fateus’s father.

He is always moving—searching, researching, exploring, observing, and investigating. His goal is singular: to locate the site where the Redd weapon was first deployed. Along the way, he hunts for records dating back to the Terra War, desperate to trace the weapon’s origins and those responsible. His ultimate purpose is clear—he intends to go back and kill them.

But his quest isn’t just about vengeance. He is also searching for something deeper, something more personal: the true name of Rottweiler.

Through him, we uncover lost history, forbidden knowledge, and the lore of the Token. Perhaps, at some point, he even ventures into the heavens—only to discover that such a journey is impossible.

Murdoc is a man who commits terrible atrocities. He murders without hesitation—children, innocents, the helpless. In his mind, it doesn’t matter. He believes his actions will ultimately be undone, that if he can find a way to reverse the war, all sins will be erased, and the planet will be saved.

Fateus eventually seeks him out, delivering a message that shatters something within him: Luness is dead.

Perhaps, in a rare moment of redemption, he trains Fateus. Maybe, after Fateus loses his crystal, it is Murdoc who helps him fuse it back into his hand. The thought of him, at some point, fighting alongside his son—even alongside Darc—is compelling.

Murdoc is seen towards the end of the series as become quite an old man considering different age version of him have traveled around and the latest we now see is one in his 70s. Murdoc has always had a deep faith in Optanity as his religion and one of the few things that keeps him going and also keeps him returning to the Anyth at time. However eventually even though this is a faith he has had for decades of his life and its this faith that defines him, the loss and ability to set the world right over his years has challenged his faith in hope and driven him to become skeptical of his own religion that defines his idenety and purpose. Eventually he looses his faith in optanity and perhaps becomes entirely athiest and partially even nihilist.

Does Murdoc die? What is his end? I think good possible characterisation and purpose for murdoc could be similar to his son his relentless puruit trying to change the order of things and believeing iin his own mind that he is the one that has enabled and changed things, all the things he actions coincidentally actually do change and in his mind it is his token doing but in reality it was other circumstances. he is quite literally the last token working, the last one who has given up. all other tokens have given up or died off or went into hiding and had normal lives. many gave up once they knew they couldnt change the past or the KNOWN future. but murdoc is the last one that stuck by. one example for example is when he tried to manipulate the founders to vote inthe hopen mother onto the council, he did this because he needs the hopen to take over after the founders as hee knows in the future they have a higher purpose against the heavens. but when he forged the summon it wasnt actually the summon that helped or changed anything. it was zipher and vox who ultimately killed the founders and opened way for the hopen. murdoc did nothing yet he believes he is responsible. perhaps a powerful moment toward the end of the show could be someone with all seeing power (like terra or somethign) confronting murdoc and explainging to him step by step how he hasnt actually done anything and tearing his entire belief system down. exclaiming just like his son fateus keeps trying also. ”the truth is the heavens never had to actually fear the tokens… as they arent actually capable of changing what cant be changed” terra: tell me murdoc… one of the tokens main rules is to never move into the future past the neofactor… what is the neofactor…” ”i think you know…” (terra smiles)

It is uncertain how he falls, but his journey leads to an inevitable truth—there is no undoing what has happened. Everything is a paradox. The past cannot be rewritten.

And in the end, he must face the one thing he has always fled from: the realization that his purpose, his obsession, has been for nothing.