Once an ordinary man, the Nether Wanderer was a normal man interested in the Nether. He had raided a Nether Fortress and used it as his lab, with a blaze spawner at its centre. The Wanderer had a research team which hopped from the Overworld to the Nether, however, he had decided to stay in the Nether. He dedicated his life to the Nether, until he needed some iron, which was when he realised something. The Nether Wanderer's research team was dead; killed by a ghast. And the same ghast had destroyed his Nether portal. With no way back home, the Wanderer spent his time in the Nether, where he made a cloak out of leather from hoglins and he created armour out of Netherite, until an unfortunate event where the Wanderer went back to his lab. He had the souls of all the blaze killed in his lab burnt into his body, turning his body into a blaze-like creature with bloodshot eyes and molten lava pouring out of his Netherite armour. He is now wandering the Nether, corrupted by the blaze and forced to kill the people who once were his friends.