Overall Nakor is my favorite 'ongoing' character also. No one will replace Jimmy in my heart (I was actualy shedding tears when I read...) but IMO Nakor, like Gandalf the Grey and Michael Valentine Smith, is one of the finest fictional characters ever created. One of the main reasons is that he gets serious readers thinking about the world, the universe, life in general.
So glad to hear that he stimulated you to read philosophy and widen your world. I think he's had that effect on a lot of readers - particularly the younger ones. That's a legacy Feist can be proud of.
Everything is derived from energy - including real magick. Nakor just prefers the word 'stuff' to 'energy'.
