Hakan gives Neverland a place in the council that can be easy to overlook when so much attention goes to the more familiar characters from that realm. He's a chief of its tribes…

Hakan gives Neverland a place in the council that can be easy to overlook when so much attention goes to the more familiar characters from that realm. He's a chief of its tribes and one of the representatives involved when Sela is brought into the larger struggle between the realms. That matters because Neverland has people whose lives continue beyond the stories built around Pan or the visitors who end up there. Hakan is sitting in those discussions because his people have something at stake too. The Dark One's ambitions don't stop at the edge of somebody else's main storyline. His involvement in the council places him there when the threat from the Dark One and Orcus becomes an attack. The council's ability to keep functioning is badly damaged by that conflict. Hakan is part of the early group whose presence makes the meeting feel like different worlds trying to respond to the same danger. There isn't as much of his personal history to work through in those appearances as there is for somebody like Sela. But his place in the group is still worth remembering: Neverland has its own leadership and its own interests in what happens to the rest of the realms.