Once a lowly Medjay Pharaohguard, the Star Pharaoh that would become the first Mad Priest fell in battle to particularly devastating alien blade to legs. While recovering in the Resurrection Sargophagus, he found himself visited by none other than the Dreamwalker himself, the very deity after which the Pharaohguards model their Jackal-snouted death masks. In a dreamlike state, the Dreamwalker bestowed the Pharaohguard the "gift" of incurable, hounding madness as well as the ability, importantly, to conjur the items of his torment into reality via a pair of optosynthesis tentacles. Before he even completed the Resurrection ritual, the new Mad Priest of the Dreamwalker leapt straight into battle, still bearing his nanite mummy wraps and his Regenerator still in tow. Though the Mad Priest may serve the Dreamwalker, he still aids the Star Pharaohs in battle in the hopes that his own torment may be lessened by spreading it to others.