My Maan

I just realized I haven't really laid out my character's backstory yet so just to clear things up...

Maan Budakhan is completely human and at the age of fifty seven he was a victim of the Bhopal crisis. For reasons unexplained he was the only survivor and now at the age of eighty four he has not aged at all thus suggesting that he has been made either immortal or simply rejuvenated.

Maan appears throughout the game, to offer advice to the player character trying to find his wife who has reportedly run off to the heart of the site of the incident, with a cult. This cult believes that the incident was the first effort by their unseen leader to wipe out the major religions of India and ultimately ushering in a new age of human existence where there are no differences of faith to divide people. Ultimately Maan's role is to show the player character-a Hindu-the fact that in the grand scheme of things all theistic religions might as well be the same and that they can never lead or protect you, to or from life's various pleasures and pains.

Maan doesn't need to eat but he sleeps whenever the pain of existence gets too great for him. On these occasions he resides within the area surrounding the wreckage of the plant and the plant itself. He possesses no superhuman powers in particular however as a result of the incident he is very strong and doesn't loose a fight, nor does he feel any physical pain. Although he is close to blind he is still able to sense more than most due to all his remaining senses being heightened. He still regularly suffers punishing emotional flashbacks that cause him to wreck all in his path for brief periods. On these occasions, if he is near any other life-forms, he anticipates this and retreats to a deserted area of the plant.