Taneleer Tivan

Taneleer Tivan is one of the oldest beings in the universe. He hails from the planet Cygnus X-1, a place so ancient that the sun has already gone nova and taken the solar system with it. It exists only in the records of The Watchers and other origin species. He is a member of the informal fraternity known as the Elders of the Universe, the sole survivors of the species that were born and went extinct before the Milky Way was more than a cloud of hot gas.

As the last of his species, Death has spared him from her reaping as long as he has the will to live. He is obsessed with the collection of things-- and living creatures-- that are powerful or utterly unique.

Tivan's home is currently the distant locale known as Knowhere. There he indulges his monomania with the stolen loot of a hundred-thousand worlds, both on display as well as hidden in iterative artificially-created demesnes.

Though his museum contains thousands of artifacts of staggering power, the most potent is surely the Power Stone. It is the pride of his collection, though it is also the one weapon even the Collector fears to use.