Dinkan Shaman

Biography
The Dinkan Shaman was an elderly man from the Sudan. He was well versed in the occult and lived in a small hut in a barren desert village. The Shaman was skilled in the Pentecost effect, which is speaking in tongues. He could mentally translate other languages that he perceives into thoughts that he understood, even though he was not schooled in other languages. The shaman's power was bound to the earth, and to the land in which he lived.

The shaman encountered a young starving boy whose soul had become the housing for a hunger spirit known as Mnemoth. Mnemoth fed upon the starving pain of those who surrounded him, growing stronger as they in turn grew weaker. The shaman etched the Power Patterns of Binding upon the boy's face, hoping that this would be enough to contain Mnemoth's influence. Shortly thereafter, the boy was sold into slavery and ended up in Tangier.

British mage John Constantine visited the Dinkan Shaman to learn more about Mnemoth, the boy and the magic used to bind the evil spirit. The shaman and Constantine shared a vision together by imbibing a specific type of root. In the vision, the shaman and Constantine literally exchanged eyes so to better understood the thoughts of the other. Through this, John learned the Power Patterns of Binding spell.