If the numerous stories told at the fair are to be believed, Master Eckart used to run a travelling circus with a seventh-generation travelling curiosity show. This is probably also the reason for his constant preoccupation with more off-the-wall topics such as spiritualism, telekinesis and thought transference, as well as otherworldly skills such as escapology and trickery. He obsessively absorbs all knowledge relating to these topics.
This path through life led to numerous experiences that are granted to few, but which are not wished upon everyone and which taught him to draw the line between light and shadow. The question that runs like a red thread through his life is whether he chose this life himself or whether this life found him, i.e. whether fate led him.