A mysterious fellow with a love of dancing and hair the colour of thistledown, The Gentleman (whose real name he never cares to tell) hails from a kingdom called Lost Hope, which seems to lie just beyond the mirrors, in a land outside of our dull English senses. In his castle made of bones and wrecked ships, he presides over a dance that has been going on for hundreds and hundreds of years; and now that he is able to go about in England once more, he is on the lookout for new guests to join the ball.
Whilst not perhaps entirely evil, he is as capricious and dangerous as all members of his race, and his greed for beautiful companions unleashes terrible consequences on the people of England in general, and on its magicians in particular. The Gentleman has more magic in his fingertips that anyone in the human world can dream of, and when it is unleashed, the consequences are quite incredible and terrifying in the extreme.
