Winsterton

Also known as the Hero of Light, Winsterton is the primary antagonist of Misery of Magic. Physically, he is a golden-orange cat with darkened eyes, but assumes several different forms while psychically projecting. Through mysterious means, he is apparently able to break some of the usual rules of the Domain of Magic.

Story
Winsterton was originally from Earth. However, he was dissatisfied with how the Creators were running Earth, and, having a beautiful vision of a much better world, sought to become as powerful as the Creators. However, he realised he would never be able to transform Earth into what he wanted. He travelled to the Domain of Magic, which he was able to do without having any despair inside him. Instead, his Soul was pure light, which gave him infinite willpower and an inexorable urge to change the world, regardless of what the consequences of doing so would be.

When he reached the Domain, he immediately set about trying to bend it to his will. He discovered that, by controlling all the End Tools, he could gain control of every aspect of reality in the Domain. He was able to steal some of the End Tools, and started destroying parts of the Domain in order to replace them with his ideal world. During this time, he used the End Tools to make himself immortal. He also gained access to the Psycho Power without ever going through the Awakening. He eventually developed a rather advanced level of skill with Psycho Power, able to cast projections of himself with ease. He also developed a unique application of it, allowing him to possess and control other cats.

In an effort to defend itself, The End chose a new arrival to the Domain, Tairi X, as its champion, granting him the remaining End Tools and pointing him towards Winsterton. Thus, while Tairi's soul was not especially unbalanced (unlike Winsterton), he was still considered to be a representative of darkness.

Winsterton had a spectacular battle with Tairi in the North Edge. The fight was close, but eventually Tairi won, retrieving some of the End Tools while losing others, and using those tools to seal Winsterton in an indestructible box, because he could not be killed. The tools were then returned to the End.

Since then, he and Tairi have been locked in a psychic battle, in which Winsterton attempts to reach out psychically to convince the cats of the Domain to try to release him, while Tairi attempts to impede him and prevent cats from falling into pure light. However, Kris Hydrogen, who had access to some of the missing End Tools, was successfully corrupted, and eventually possessed entirely by Winsterton, causing him to turn on his friend Ember and attempt to use the End Eraser to unseal the box.

As an NPC
Winsterton appears as a neutral NPC in a few places throughout the game, but disappears if Emerald becomes awakened. In these appearances, he is a flickering hologram, implying he is projecting himself using Psycho Power.

In several bad Endings, he is released from the box, although in these instances he is not seen.

As an enemy
In Worse Space, Winsterton appears as the final boss. Because the battle is implied to take place in Kris' mind, he does not appear as a hologram and instead changes between several forms.

Phase 1
In Phase 1, he appears as a regular cat, and runs at the player character while using a yellow slash-type attack. Aurora has confirmed that Winsterton uses the Kings' Blade. This part of the fight resembes the fights against Kris in Underpath and Lensar Arxen, one of the possible other bosses in Worse Space.

Phase 2
In Phase 2, his eyes turn pure white, he starts glowing, and he begins hovering in one place. This part of the fight resembles Kris' final fight in North Edge and the battle against Ember.

Phase 3
Phase 3 Winsterton is pure light, and runs around the arena at high speed, throwing out slow-moving white blocks in a trail as he goes. At low HP, he gains a colour -- either red, yellow or blue -- like many Demons have.

Phase 4
In Phase 4, he no longer takes the form of a cat. He turns into a large white star, and hangs in the centre of the arena while waves of shrinking white balls fall towards him. It also gains a colour at low HP like Phase 3.

Phase 5
Phase 5 of the battle has Winsterton take the form of a glowing outline of a giant head, similar in appearance to the second boss demon of Energy Centre. His attacks become bizarre and corrupted, including throwing blocks with a "glitchy" appearance made out of random sprites, throwing Emerald's health bar, and summoning clones of the player character that run around randomly. Finally, like Phases 4 and 5, it gains a colour at low HP.

Phase 6
The final Phase is no longer a threat -- Phase 5 is intended to be the final challenge. Phase 6 takes the form of a shimmering transparent version of himself. In this form, he has two rings of white balls protecting him but otherwise does not attack.