Gray Orphan

The Gray Orphan, whom the show also calls Nod, is first heard in a short preview at the end of UC_03. A voice that the transcript labels Nod says "Dreams are anything you make them" UC E3·01:49:46. Nothing more is shown of this character in that episode UC E3·01:49:46.

The Gray Orphan, called Nod, is the spirit of the dreaming realm and the "monarch of the sixth borough" UC E5·01:03:15 UC E5·01:05:12. Alejandro's recap in UC_06 calls Nod "the spirit of hope and dreams" UC E6·00:00:04. In UC_07 Robert Moses tells Pete that "It's this little gray kid that made you this thing, against your will" UC E7·01:53:04. After the blast Nod says "I knew I chose right" UC E7·01:56:13.

At the end of UC_07 Nod is dying in Pete's arms, and UC_08 opens with Pete holding Nod in battle UC E7·01:56:26 UC E8·00:01:16. Nod tells Pete "I'm sorry you didn't get a choice. I needed someone, and there wasn't any way for me to ask" UC E8·00:07:56. Nod wakes on the train as a gray-skinned child with black eyes UC E8·01:46:32. Nod says "My title is the Gray Orphan" UC E8·01:49:18. In UC_09 Nod objects to being called a baby: "I prefer Nod to gray baby" UC E9·00:09:44. Nod rules the realm but says "I don't have any money, I'm a kid", and gives Pete a choice about his magic UC E9·01:00:41 UC E9·01:36:42.

In UC_13 Nod calls the conclave to order UC E13·00:21:06. Contacted by Pete's Mind Link about the Golden Door, Nod says "The door is open, I can't close it" UC E14·02:29:39. In the Blink Nod tells Pete "This is the hour. This is it" UC E15·00:11:43. When Pete calls on Nod in UC_16, everyone regains spell slots, and Nod says "I'm the most powerful child there has ever been" UC E16·01:39:12 UC E16·01:39:27. Nod says "I knew I picked right" UC E17·01:22:40. Nod says "I assumed you wanted him to be here forever", and Pete's father then leaves with Pete UC E17·01:56:24 UC E17·01:56:30.

In Chapter 2 Nod, the Gray Orphan and monarch of the Sixth Borough, is wounded and then taken UC2 E7·00:03:30 UC2 E10·02:18:05. In a dream in UC2_06 Pete banishes the invisible entity, and on top of the Empire State Building he finds Nod withered, holds them, and Brennan says the place and the person were both being devoured UC2 E6·01:06:06 UC2 E6·01:07:06 UC2 E6·01:07:20.

In UC2_07 Pete, flying through Nod in his dreaming state, is shown by the Woman in the Moon to Nod sleeping in a four-poster bed on a lavender cloud, recovering from wounds; Brennan says Nod looks sick from what fed on them and from the pressure pushing the Sixth Borough closer to the waking world UC2 E7·00:02:54 UC2 E7·00:03:30 UC2 E7·00:11:11. Nod says a younger sibling named Nuria was lost to their oldest sibling UC2 E7·00:12:29 UC2 E7·00:12:59. At the bedside in UC2_10 Nod thanks Pete for coming, says they fear the oldest one found them, and later says Kingston healed them UC2 E10·01:37:32 UC2 E10·01:49:49 UC2 E10·02:14:44. Soon after, Pete speaks the oldest sibling's name, "Null, nothing", and a tentacle of pure invisibility seizes Nod by the throat and rips them into the deeper dreaming UC2 E10·02:18:02 UC2 E10·02:18:05.

In UC2_14 Pete finds Nod inside his own heart as a small figure with a black eye, missing teeth and an arm in a sling, who says they are like a hologram and that Kingston is the first Vox Populi to heal something in the Dreaming UC2 E14·00:32:23 UC2 E14·00:34:13. This fragment is the part of Nod given to Pete to make him the Vox Phantasma; it survives as long as Pete lives, and Nod hands Pete a golden dream to take to Kingston UC2 E14·00:33:26 UC2 E14·00:34:41 UC2 E14·00:35:38. In the finale Pete hits Null, opens a portal in it and heals the Sixth Borough, and Null vomits out its second most recent victim Nod, the gray orphan UC2 E18·01:07:27. Nod says "Thanks, Pete! I always knew you'd do it!" UC2 E18·01:08:00.