Koradji

Like many Australians of Aboriginal descent, Warren Grey had little or no contact with the culture of his ancestors. Government authorities took his father as a child to be raised in a foster family, and Warren did not meet his biological grandfather until he was at university. Warren’s grandfather told him he was the inheritor of an important mystic legacy, a koradji of The Dreamtime. Warren rejected this notion and wanted nothing to do with the old man and his strange ways.
Things changed when Warren’s parents died in a terrible auto accident. His grandfather told Warren it was not an accident, but a curse brought about by the evil sorceress Galka. She meant to wipe out the family line, and Warren was next. He agreed to learn the magic he would need to defend himself and, in the process, came to understand the responsibility that came with it. He defeated Galka and claimed the mantle of Koradji, defender of the Dreamtime, guided by the advice of his grandfather even after he passed on from the living world into the dreaming. Since that time, Koradji has served as a guide and guardian for mystics walking the dreaming paths, whether they knew it or not. He wanders both the Outback and the depths of what westerners call the astral plane, skirting the distant magical realms. He’s been known to serve as a guide to those in need of one to reach other dimensions, provided they win his trust.
Koradji provides a means of dimensional travel for mystics lacking it and for non-mystical heroes to reach the other realms in order to partake of adventures there. Given his powers, he can show up virtually anywhere he’s needed, serving as a plot device for getting the characters from Point A to Point B with fairly little trouble. If you want to include some dimension travel in your series, but don’t want to place that power in the characters’ hands, Koradji is useful as a living portal of sorts.
He can aid heroes with information about Aboriginal mythology and arcane lore, or even something as mundane as guiding them through the Australian Outback. If the characters need to embark on a “walkabout” or “vision quest” to attain some mystical insight, Koradji makes a good guide or facilitator for the experience, taking them to the appropriate sacred site(s) and assisting them as needed.