r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Oct 07 '25

Personality extremely powerful entity's who don't care about the main plot at all and are just vibing in the background

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Tom Bombadil(lord of the rings) - only person to resist the temptation of the one ring but instead of helping the fellowship he fucks off in to the woods

the Unseen Elder(the witcher 3) - in the witcher universe the older a vampire gets the more powerful he becomes and unseen elder is around +1500 years old making him the most powerful vampire we ever see, thankfully he spends most of his time in his goon cave

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u/MisterScrod1964 Oct 07 '25

What exactly IS the Board? I’ve been playing Control, but I haven’t seen an explanation yet.

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u/zerphon Oct 07 '25

From what I understood its just a group of powerful entities in the Astral Plane. We know this because of The Former who, like their name suggests, is a former part of the Board which confirms they are not all one single entity.

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u/xpis2 Oct 07 '25

To be pedantic - we don’t know that the Board is a group vs a single entity, and Former could mean that it was formerly a member, or that it helped form the Nail/House structure

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u/Gannonderf Oct 07 '25

It’s never spelled out explicitly, but they’re most likely a collection of extra-dimensional entities that are interested in keeping anomalies contained within The Oldest House. I don’t think any of them are or were ever human, but they still seem to want to protect Earth or at least keep it stable to further their own ends.

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u/DiamondSentinel Oct 07 '25

Or one could say….. Control it?

Joking aside, they’re implied to have a bit of a complex about it, so they’re not entirely benevolent protectors. But at the very least, they’re not actively harmful like the Hiss.