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The Wanderer / Bo's Father / Rainer / Rainer The Defiant
Lost Girl character
Rainer, also known as Rainer The Defiant, The Wanderer, Bo's father and Bo's Destiny
First appearance	Fae-ge Against The Machine
Last appearance	Waves
Portrayed by	Kyle Schmid
Information
Nickname(s)	The Wanderer
Aliases	Bo's Father Rainer Rainer The Defiant Bo's Destiny
Species	Unknown
Gender	Male
Spouse(s)	Aife - Wife
Children	Bo - Daughter
Relatives	Unknown
Appeared In	8 Episodes Referenced 3 Episode Appearances
Aligned	Dark Fae
Fate	Last seen in Waves with Bo attacking the Una Mens and killing them

For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).

Lost Girl is a Canadian developed and produced television series which premiered in the 2010 season on the television channel Showcase.

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The Wanderer, properly known as Rainer and Rainer The Defiant, also known as Bo's Father and Bo's Destiny, was the name of a character that appeared in the Lost Girl television series. The role was played by the actor Kyle Schmid. The Wanderer has appeared in a total two Fourth Season episodes. At the time of the third season, the actor playing the role was not revealed but was referenced repeatedly. During the latter half of the Third Season, the character was referenced many times, mainly in connection with a Tarot card of The Wanderer, or the song The Wanderer as performed by Dion. He made only one actual appearance in that season which occurred in the season finale Those Who Wander. In that episode, Tamsin called him Bo's father, and Aife gave some indications of the powers that he has. However, all of the information given is vague and cannot be confirmed, nor was a clear image of his features shown.

At the end of the Third Season finale, he had encountered Tamsin and Dyson, which resulted in their driving over a cliff, the ultimate fate unknown. He also trapped Bo, his daughter, in the Dal Riata and then, using his powers, kidnapped her. After Bo's disappearance, the Wanderer card, which is his calling card, was transformed to show both an image of himself and Bo standing with him, there backs turned to the viewer of the card.

In the Fourth Season, he did not make his first appearance until the episode Destiny's Child, but his actions effected Bo over that time including being responsible for her being aligned with the Dark Fae. The evidence of this was a signed pledge which had Bo's signature and that of a Dark Fae named Rainer, likely being The Wanderer's real name. His real name of Rainer, more formally, Rainer The Defiant, was revealed during the episode Destiny's Child and at the end of the episode when he was confronted by Bo his appearance was revealed for the first time. Upon Bo's freeing of Rainer from the Death Train and his curse, he encouraged Bo to eliminate the Una Mens in Waves and did so.

Character History

Third Season

The history of The Wanderer is unclear and contains many assumptions and questions. Who he is, what kind of Fae he is, his allegiance, age, parents and other vital information is not known. Additionally, his name is also not known or spoken of. It can be assumed however that Aife, his wife would know his name, but she has not revealed it by the end of the Third Season.

At some point in the past, Aife became his wife. However, it is entirely possible that he is the Dark Fae that Aife referred to as holding her captive and torturing her. This brings up the question of Bo's birth as from what Aife has said, she did not love Bo's father and stole Bo away from him. It is possible that he planned for Bo's birth and her gaining her powers as a longer term plan to become the ruler of the Fae, with Aife and Bo at his side, assisting him to rule.

As much as this seemed to match with Aife's statements, according to the memories that Bo saw during her Dawning, he seemed to care for Bo to some extent. telling her guardian that should Bo need anything to call him and as well being seen in Bo's memories singing to her. Whether this was Bo's real memories or fantasy is not clear and does bring to question however Aife's statements about how she was treated.

His history however remains unclear save for some recent events.

He was referred to in several episodes prior to the episode Those Who Wander. His first mention came in the episode Fae-ge Against The Machine where the Wanderer tarot card appeared several times. One when Bo was told to pick a card and chose the Wanderer card. The next when the deck was turned over and all of the cards were seen to be Wanderer cards as well. The final time being a shower of Wanderer cards that surrounded Tamsin reminding her of the mission she had been on for some time.

The next appearance was in The Ceremony. The first hint of his existence was when the song the Wanderer was played to Bo and Dyson when they first arrived in the Temple for Bo's Dawning. During this, Bo witnessed her father holding her in his arms and singing a song to her. His face is never seen, but his voice is and he seems to care about Bo greatly in the vision that is seen. After his departure, Aife is shown killing Bo's guardian and then stealing Bo away saying that he would never have Bo as well. At the end of the episode, another hint about The Wanderer is given when Trick examines a old drawing of a mythical creature which looks something like a Pegasus rearing up while drawing something, likely Chi, from a group of either Fae or humans. As this is shown, the song "The Wanderer" plays which seems to connect the two.

He did not appear physically in the episode Adventures In Fae-bysitting, but his presence was apparent. In some manner he was involved with the events of the episode through a Carousel which was located in a park. When Bo involved herself with a coven of human witches, her father's presence is known. Bo's Father possesses one of the witches and tells Bo that her power is beyond her own comprehension, and that soon the two of them would rule together. Bo's Father then killed the two witches, leaving Bo alone and confused over what she had learned.

His appearance in Hail, Hale was only a fleeting glimpse of the old drawing that Trick had examined at the end of The Ceremony which Trick took with him when he was fleeing the Dal Riata after The Morrigan's actions against humans.

Tamsin was hired by him to locate Bo and return her. She found Bo but then found she did not wish to complete her mission as she was well aware of what happened to those that were taken to The Wanderer. At this refusal, Tamsin was visited by Acacia, a friend and mentor of her who reminded her of the mission she needed to complete. When Tamsin refused again, Acacia was killed and her hand delivered to Tamsin as a warning.

When Tamsin attempted to complete her mission in the season finale Those Who Wander, Bo convinced her to go against The Wanderer's wishes. This eventually ended with Tamsin and Dyson being forced off a road and over a cliff when they encountered him, Tamsin revealing to Dyson that he was Bo's Father moments before the crash occurred.

At the end of Those Who Wander, Bo was cornered by him in the Dal Riata where he first trapped her, then taunted her with one of the tarot cards, before causing the windows and other glass items in the Dal Riata to shatter. Following this, he created a black fog which surrounded Bo and transported her away from the Dal Riata to places unknown. The only evidence being left behind was the shattered glass on the floor of the Dal Riata and a single tarot card, which showed a modified image of the Wanderer with a silhouette of Bo standing beside him.

Fourth Season

Through the first three episodes of the Fourth Season, The Wanderer was not seen, but his actions effected Bo at several points. In Sleeping Beauty School it was revealed that Bo had been transitioned from her normal dimension onto what was described as a Death Train, destination unknown. After Bo escaped in Lovers. Apart. and returned to her normal world, both she and Dyson lost their memories of the events that occurred on the train, likely caused by The Wanderer.

During Let the Dark Times Roll Bo attempted to discover how she became aligned with the Dark Fae and in doing so discovered a pledge that was signed by herself and someone named Rainer, likely being The Wanderer's real name. That pledge, which Bo had no memory of, was the evidence that The Morrigan used to hold Bo as being part of the Dark Fae and also was the evidence that the Una Mens used to confirm her choice. However, the reveal of this information seemed to frighten the Una Mens greatly.

He appeared for the first time during Destiny's Child where much of his backstory was revealed, but more questions were raised. His first appearance was at the beginning of the episode where he was seen attempting to weld the Death Train he was trapped on back together. His features were obscured by a welder's mask and other paraphernalia so that nothing could be seen of him. As the episode progressed it was revealed that Trick had used his powers to write Rainer out of history after making a deal with Tamsin in order for her not to take Rainer's soul to Valhalla as she intended to do. It appeared from the episode that Rainer was Trick's mortal enemy when he was the Blood King as Rainer had attempted to overthrow him at that time. In order to escape the Death Train, Rainer marked Bo and helped to aligned her Dark Fae so that she would "move heaven and earth" to return to him. When Bo did so, she confronted Rainer, but after a brief struggle with him, during which he was fully revealed for the first time, she seemed to come under his influence and helped Rainer to escape the Death Train. Upon returning to the Dal Riata with Bo, Bo then declared that Rainer was "not her father, nor her enemy but is, in fact, her destiny", the two holding hands in full view of Trick, Dyson and Lauren.

Powers and Abilities

• Resurrection- As mentioned by Aife
• Teleportation - As shown when he avoided Tamsin's attempt to run him over
• Telekinesis - As shown when the windows in the Dal Riata were blown out
• Foresight - As shown when he told Bo the moves the Una Mens were going to make against her, allowing her to defeat them.

Appearances in the Lost Girl Series

Third Season

• Fae-ge Against The Machine
• The Ceremony
• Delinquents
• Adventures In Fae-bysitting
• Hail, Hale
• Those Who Wander - Appears in this episode

Fourth Season

• Sleeping Beauty School
• Lovers. Apart.
• Let the Dark Times Roll
• Destiny's Child
• Waves

Information revealed in the series

Little information had been revealed about The Wanderer by the end of Season Three, but the following have been stated or inferred:

• Tamsin had been working for him to find Bo and return Bo. However Tamsin did not complete this assignment.
• He can, according to Aife resurrect others.
• His calling card is the Wanderer Tarot card, and as well the song The Wanderer by Dion.
• He is Bo's Father.
• Aife is his wife.
• He appears to dress in the image of the Wanderer Tarot card.
• Following the events of Destiny's Child, the following were also revealed:
• The Wander's real name is Rainer, more formally, Rainer the Defiant
• Trick describes Rainer as his mortal enemy to Dyson and Lauren.
• Bo claims at the end of the episode that Rainer is not her father, nor her enemy but is, in fact, her destiny.
• When Trick was the Blood King, he used his powers to write Rainer, The Wanderer, out of history.
• Trick made a deal with Tamsin to give her a new life and a chance to redeem herself in exchange for her not taking Rainer's soul to Valhalla, but instead leaving it to Trick's mercy. He would then use his blood to write Rainer out of history, trapping him in eternity and never allowing him to return.
• When Bo met Rainer on the train, he was less than thrilled to meet her as he had seen untold numbers of women before Bo that could not free him from the train.
• Rainer claimed that he had no idea why Bo was kidnapped and brought to him.
• Rainer's power is to have foresight in battle, the ability to see into the future and see the moves that his enemies were going to make against him and counter them.
• Rainer claims that he "put it to good use trying to end Light and Dark."
• Rainer could tell what was happening outside of the train to Bo's friends when she asked about them.
• When Kenzi and Dyson broke the compass in the first episode of the season, it effected Bo in that she no longer remembered Rainer, but her friends did remember her again.
• Bo came up with a plan to free Rainer from his curse which was very complicated and depended on many things going right in order for her to return to the Death Train willing and free him.
• The crows that served Rainer brought Ianka to preform for Bo and Rainer on the Death Train and it was at that point that Bo told ianka to seek her out.
• Bo and Rainer arranged for Huginn to be placed in the container and box that was addressed to her, the plan being that Huginn would bring Bo back to Rainer.
• Bo asked Rainer to sign her pledge to the Dark in order that she would do anything to find out why she signed such a thing which is completely against her nature.
• Bo wrongly assumed that she would be able to get out of the contact with the Dark at the time she came up with her plan, she still being Dark when she returned with Rainer and not, it appears, having that contract cancelled.
• Bo promised Rainer that if he turns out to be a monster, she will kill him.
• With Rainer's help in telegraphing the moves of the Una Mens and also telling Bo how and when to strike, Bo was able to overcome the Una Mens and kill all of them.

External Links

• The Wanderer's page at the Lost Girl Wikia