Nathan Rahl

Nathan Rahl is a powerful wizard and an ancestor of Richard Rahl. He is tall, has broad shoulders, and has shoulder length white hair. Despite his extreme old age (nearly 1000 years old), Nathan is still a handsome man, and is in excellent physical condition. Nathan is clever and sometimes deceitful, but his intentions are always pure. He is also a Prophet, a form of wizards that can partially see the future and lay down ways that events could occur, as such had been kept prisoner in the Palace of the Prophets for nearly a thousand years until he and the Prelate of the Sisters of the Light faked their deaths and escaped.

After Richard destroyed the Palace of the Prophets to keep it from falling into the hands of the Imperial Order, Nathan escaped from the control of the Prelate and has since appeared in different places, such as the People's Palace in D'Hara, throughout the course of the series, apparently following his own path dictated by the prophecies he envisions. In Phantom, he was appointed as Lord Rahl because Richard had his gift sealed by Six and Violet.