Sou Fueki

"You did well to survive and not lose hope!"

- The White Wizard's congratulatory words

Sou Fueki (笛木 奏), better known as The White Wizard (白い魔法使い)/Kamen Rider Wiseman (仮面ライダーワイズマン), was an enigmatic, white-robed magician that gave Haruto the means to become Kamen Rider Wizard. He also sometimes helps and oversees Haruto's evolution from a distance.

Later, he was revealed to also be Wiseman (ワイズマン), the artificial Carbuncle Phantom and the equally mysterious leader of the Phantoms, who take no course of action without his permission. Thus, the Chief Phantoms Medusa and Phoenix must meet with the Wiseman to discuss their plans, seeking his approval.

Before he became The White Wizard (Kamen Rider Wiseman)/Carbuncle (Wiseman), he was a particle physicist at Kirimine University (霧峰大学).

Origins
Not much was known about Fueki's past. However, based on what Kizaki discovered, Fueki used to work at Kirimine University as a physicist. It is also revealed, that Fueki was married to a woman named Kyoko Kiriyama with a child. It was later revealed that his child is Koyomi and that his wife has been deceased for over ten years. However, Kizaki has learned the hard way that Fueki wants his past to remain a secret, and severely harmed the human detective to make sure he remains an "unperson". . After Koyomi died, he fell into a deep despair and went through a lot of research. He created an artificial Phantom called Carbuncle while placing it inside his Underworld, which not only gives him the ability to turn into the Kaijin, but also grants him magical powers that enabled to transform into its own Rider, the White Wizard Kamen Rider Wiseman.

The Sabbath
Fueki orchestrates the sacrificial ritual performed on the day of a solar eclipse, where many Gates were captured and forced into despair. However, after many Gates failed to preserve their hope and sacrificed, giving birth to Phantoms, a youth managed to hold his inner Phantom, keeping him alive but as he was about to be attacked by Lizardman, Fueki morphs into his Rider form and saves him.

Following the sabbath, Koyomi was revived but now had no memories of her past and needed regular doses of magic to stay alive (as she was essentially a doll animated by magical energy). Fueki planned to orchestrate a second Sabbath, but this time would use Magicians for the energy rather than Gates. As a result, he entrusted Koyomi to the youth (not revealing his connection to her) while giving him a Wizardriver to fight the Phantoms as Kamen Rider Wizard. His plan was to find three more humans who could repress their Phantoms and turn them into Magicians, which would be enough to allow him to hold the Sabbath again.

Flame Dragon
After being mentioned in the first few episodes, Wiseman's silhouette is seen in episode 8, when Phoenix, infuriated after Wizard destroyed four Phantoms and foiled their respective plots concerning their targeted Gates, requested to deal with Wizard personally. Having been refused by Medusa, Wiseman granted his request. Understanding that the latest targeted Gate Hiroki was a child, Wiseman also gave Phoenix the notion to attack the boy's mother Mikiko. He sent his White Garuda to the Antique Shop Omokagedo with a box containing a red magic stone which was compatible with what was initially suggested by Shunpei to be a 'dud' Magic Ring. After an attempt to capture the White Garuda, it let itself out. Haruto believed that it was sent by the White Wizard. Mr. Wajima used the 'dud' Ring and the stone provided by the White Garuda to create the Flame Dragon Ring which gave Wizard access to Flame Dragon, which allowed him to defeat the Phantom Phoenix for the first time. The White Wizard observed Wizard's first transformation into this new form from a distance, and noted that he had "evolved".

Movie War Ultimatum
In Movie War Ultimatum, Wiseman sends Phoenix and Medusa to work with the Akumaizer, where Wiseman is very pleased of their plan to create despair with a machine. However, the plan was soon failed by the combined efforts of Kamen Riders Wizard and Fourze.

All Four Evolved
Wiseman later appeared in episode 14 where he morphed into a Phantom-like being able to create Magic Stones from his body. He left his lair behind mysteriously, without taking his new blue magic stone along.

Assuming the form of White Wizard, he later sent another PlaMonster, Black Cerberus, which got Haruto and Koyomi's attention. After Haruto was forced into a chase with the Phantoms, the two split up and Koyomi followed Black Cerberus. The familiar guided Koyomi to a blue Magic Stone in Wiseman's lair. The stone did not go to waste, as Haruto assumes Water Dragon form later on, making it the third form to be evolved.

He returned to his lair at the end of the next episode, where he discovered that the stone was missing, delighting in the turn of events likely knowing everything goes according to his plan.

When Koyomi tried leading Haruto back to where she found the stone, Wiseman had set up a spell so they could not find his headquarters. In episode 17, Wiseman sent Manticore to keep an eye on a youth named Kosuke Nitoh, only to be revealed to be a new Kamen Rider, Beast.

Drago Timer and All Dragon
When Haruto and Kosuke are nearly defeated by the Beelzebub Phantom, the White Wizard appears and combats Beelzebub's portal ability with the Explosion Ring, quickly dispatching, but not defeating the Phantom. Beast tries to stop the White Wizard, who, before using the Teleport Ring to take a defeated Haruto to a mysterious location, delivers an ominous warning to Beast (who the White Wizard referred to as an "Archetype Mage", and later revealed that Beast was not compatible with his plans regarding the Sabbath). In his altar, the White Wizard teaches Haruto about his power. He tells him that they can create something from the Dragon, the source of Haruto's power, but it may kill Haruto in the process. He watches Haruto withstand attacks from the WizarDragon, and explains to him the purpose of the Drago Timer, something he says is created from Haruto's mana, not the Dragon's.

In episode 20, he told Phoenix not to interfere with Medusa and the other Phantoms. But after Phoenix proves too powerful for Medusa to stop, Wiseman allows the rogue Phantom to fight Haruto. When All Dragon is used against Phoenix soon after, he enigmatically comments that "This one is complete."

Mayu
Later, the White Wizard appears after Mayu Inamori, a Gate who held back her Phantom. The White Wizard offers Mayu a chance to become a Magician, like Haruto. After she accepts the offer, the White Wizard and Mayu teleport off finally providing Fueki with his second Magician.

Infinity Style
When he learned that Gremlin had freed Legion in order to get his attention, Wiseman personally chained Gremlin up with the intent to kill him for his defiance. However, Wiseman stayed his hand when Gremlin revealed that he knew a little bit of Wiseman's true goals.

When Haruto unlocked Infinity Style, the White Wizard was also watching him. However, unlike before, the White Wizard was displeased to see Haruto had obtained Infinity Style, seeing this as a threat.

Recreating the barrier
When Haruto goes back to the forest, where Koyomi found the Blue Magic Stone, he notices that he was walking in circles. Knowing this, he transformed into Wizard Infinity Style and destroyed the barrier. Wizard then headed into Wiseman's lair. When Wizard is about to be attacked by Medusa, Wiseman holds her off and said that he would take care of the magician himself. Wizard tries to question him about his intentions, but Wiseman does not give him any answers. When Wizard used the AxCalibur to attack Wiseman, he flicked his hand and drained Haruto's mana. He then flicked his hand again, forcing Haruto out of his lair. Wiseman then uses Haruto's mana to recreate the barrier, preventing Haruto from entering again.

Preparing the second Sabbath
Later, Wiseman meets with Gremlin and asks him if he had gathered more Phantoms. Gremlin states that Wizard and Beast have been interfering with their plans and his attempts to gather more Phantoms has been unsuccessful because of them. Wiseman then says that he doesn't need the Phantoms. He only needs their mana for executing the Sabbath ritual on a day when there was no eclipse. He also states that the Sabbath's true intention is not for creating more Phantoms.

The Eclipse Ring
Later, he came to Omokagedo, this time in his real human identity to see Wajima offering him a violet Magic Stone. Though Wajima refused at first, he uses the new Magic Stone to create the Eclipse Ring. Though, Golem brought it to Haruto before Fueki can get it. After Haruto defeated Bahamut, he tries the Eclipse Ring only to receive an error. Cerberus then retrieves and brings the new Ring to Fueki, who reveals that the ring is not compatible with Haruto's driver. Fueki then transforms into White Wizard, much to Haruto's shock. White Wizard then told Haruto to just watch the "moment of reckoning", before he takes his leave.

Fighting Beast
When a Gate named Yuzuru Ijima managed to hold back his Phantom, he contemplated about being a magician before ultimately deciding he wanted to live a normal life. However, when Kosuke tried to use the Engage Ring to exterminate Yuzuru's Phantom, White Wizard appears and approaches the Gate. He tells Yuzuru that after someone suppresses a Phantom, he/she must become a magician no matter what. Kosuke refuses to let Yuzuru be taken away by him and gets into a fight with the White Wizard. However, White Wizard proves to be stronger than Beast, using his Hamel Cane to deflect his attacks and using the Explosion Ring to defeat him. White Wizard then binds Yuzuru in chains and teleports away with him.

Rematch with Beast
Thanks to the information of Sora Takigawa, Nitoh was able to find where the White Wizard was hiding out. He immediately challenged him to a battle when he refused to tell where Yuzuru was. Although Beast fared better in his Hyper Form he came out the loser. The White Wizard was about to kill him before Mayu intervened. He soon fled using the Teleport Ring.

Part of the Past Revealed
When Haruto successfully stopped a Gate from going into despair, he witnessed in the Underworld a young Koyomi being called by her father. Upon further examination it is revealed that Fueki is the father of Koyomi. He witnesses these events from afar and assumes that he needs one more magician for Koyomi's sake.

Re-uniting with his Daughter
He somehow finds out that Sora is trying to kidnap Koyomi, and he proceeds to attack Sora and nearly kills him, but Sora is able to escape before he can finish him. He walks over to his unconscious daughter seeing a crack on her right hand and wrist. Haruto demands answers, but Fueki doesn't give him any. However, he thanks him for helping his daughter up to now, and teleported away with Koyomi in tow.

The Truth Revealed
As Koyomi wakes up in a strange location, White Wizard appears as he says that she is also his hope. He tells Mayu to get the Infinity Ring from Haruto as he will give her a ring that can defeat Medusa. After Medusa is defeated by Mage, Wiseman appears and stabbed Medusa in the back as he revealed to her that he is the White Wizard, before she dissolves into nothingness, which shocked everyone. He then tells Masahiro he had the potential to become a wizard, which he refuses. White Wizard then chains him up and teleports away with him, finally giving him all four Magicians that he requires for the Sabbath.

Confrontation with Haruto
Haruto manages to get Fueki's address. He parks and Fueki leads Haruto to the back of the house. Fueki revealed that Wiseman, the Carbuncle Phantom is actually an artificial phantom, created using both science and magic. Haruto never thought that this was even possible. Masahiro then shows up, brainwashed and equipped with a Mage Belt. Fueki introduces him as the fourth wizard and Masahiro then transforms, much to Haruto's shock.

The New Sabbath and plans foiled
The White Wizard kidnaps Mayu (by sending a brainwashed Yuzuru to kidnap her), Haruto, and Koyomi to begin the second Sabbath. However, his plan failed when Kosuke freed Beast Chimera to consume the mana and vowed to kill him. Just as Kosuke noticed how much of a pinch he is in, he states that despair has been destroyed and hopes are still here. Fueki is surprised by those words and as he turns, he sees Haruto preparing to fight him.

After multiple consecutive duels against Haruto and Gremlin respectively, Fueki transforms into the White Wizard one last time to battle Haruto's Infinity Style, however he (for the first time) finds himself on the receiving end of several powerful blows, although he was able fight back as well. Eventually they intercept each other with their Kick Strikes, and the sheer power severely weakened them both. With Fueki drained out of power, Gremlin takes the chance to attack him from behind and stabs him with his own weapon. Fueki is ultimately killed and his White WizarDriver destroyed by the Phantom before he faded away before Haruto and Koyomi's eyes.

Kamen Rider Ghost: Legendary! Riders' Souls!
Fueki is resurrected as Kamen Rider Wiseman and summoned by Frey alongside the Kyoryu Greeed after he is revealed to be working with Freya by Takeru Tenkuji and Makoto Fukami, with Frey telling them that he will explain after they have defeated the two adversaries as they transform into Kamen Riders Ghost and Specter. As Maki takes on Specter, Fueki engages Ghost, who he notes is dead yet feels no despair, with Ghost explaining that he learned to value how precious life truly is after he died. Fueki recounts that he valued only one life, and that there is no limit to the ones that he would sacrifice for the sake of that one life, while Ghost tells him that there is no justification to sacrificing a life. Fueki proceeds to use the power of his Wizard Rings to assault Ghost until Specter's acquisition of the OOO Eyecon to defeat the Kyoryu Greeed leaves only one Kamen Rider Ghost Eyecon left, heralding the arrival of Xibalba, at which point Frey and Freya reveal that they had Ghost and Specter collect the Rider Ghost Eyecons to defeat this monster, bringing back past adversaries to that end. Wiseman stands by as Ghost and Specter see Xibalba absorbing Frey and Freya to grant him the form of Gamma Ultima Fire before proceeding to attack the Kamen Riders. As Specter holds off Xibalba, Wiseman resumes his magical assault against Ghost who, realizing that Wiseman is meant to give him power, asks why they need to fight. Wiseman maintains that no one can escape the fate of despair, daring Ghost to show his determination if he wants to stop it. Ghost refuses to concede, bemusing Wiseman as Ghost asserts that he will not let anyone fall to despair and that he will protect everyone's hope. This grants Ghost a Flame Wizard Ring, from which he unseals the Wizard Parka Ghost, creating the Wizard Ghost Eyecon which he uses to assume Wizard Damashii, granting him the power of Kamen Rider Wizard and allowing him to turn the tide against and quickly destroy Kamen Rider Wiseman, who is reminded of Haruto, the self-proclaimed final hope, as he dies again. With all six Rider Eyecons gathered, Ghost and Specter soon free Frey and Freya before fulfiling their purpose as they destroy Xibalba.

Kamen Rider Travelers Record
The White Wizard appears as an enemy in the video game Kamen Rider Travelers Record.

All Kamen Rider: Rider Revolution
to be added

Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis
The White Wizard appears as an boss in Battride War Genesis.

Personality
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Arsenal

 * White Wizard Driver - Transformation device
 * Hamel Cane - White Wizard/Kamen Rider Wiseman's weapon
 * Wizard Rings - Gives White Wizard/Kamen Rider Wiseman access to his spells
 * PlaMonsters - White Wizard/Kamen Rider Wiseman's familiars

Portrayal
Sou Fueki is portrayed by Narushi Ikeda (池田 成志). Kamen Rider Wiseman was voiced by Toshitsugu Takashina (高階 俊嗣) until episode 31, and Wiseman is voiced by Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫). His suit actor in both forms is Jun Watanabe (渡辺 淳), who is also the suit actor of Phoenix and Kamen Rider Beast.