The taciturn man

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

also known as the gray man, the foreigner, The sorcerer

Dreamer

A foreigner who travels to the ruined circular temple in the jungle with the magical objective of dreaming a man into existence.

In The Circular Ruins (Jorge Luis Borges, 1944)

Possibly the same character

Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.