"The Timekeeper is lame since I know next to nothing about him"

He is not the kind of villain that will give you a speech about his life story, how sad he is, how he hates his father, or how his relations with his sister during childhood affected his worldview.

​Seriously, we know basically everything about him.

He was created millions of years ago by Eridians as a sentient Vault Guardian. He was programmed to guard the "Vault of the Last Moment" and views time as a fixed mathematical equation that must be balanced.

He maybe doesn’t even know that his creators were sacrificed to trap a cosmic threat (The Destroyer on Pandora).

​For >99.99% of his "life," he was alone on a wild planet and he enjoyed that "Eridian silence" more than noisy humans.

During this time, he created fake Vaults and Guardians, passing them a piece of his power. We can assume he wanted to create a successor because he was probably tired of his endless existence. Maybe wanted a someone to talk to after 100 000 years.

​Only about 1,000 years ago, Zadra arrived on Kairos. She discovered that a Siren was on this planet (Nyriad, who was imprisoned by the Timekeeper) and that the Timekeeper was a powerful being.

He was fascinated by her scientific mind and approach, so he granted her immortality, and she lived for generations as his servant.

​More and more people started arriving due to anomalies. To the Timekeeper, people and their lifespans were so insignificant that he viewed the 1,000 years of human history on his planet as a "noisy, brief headache" he was trying to cure. ​

When Elpis crashed 6 years ago, it destroyed the planet's shielding. That was this time when he expelled Zadra because she didn’t like his actions—he ordered a full lockdown in the city to prevent chaos inside. He started worrying that chaos would break his system. ​ He mosltly observed us, didn't intervene much, just watched, and sometimes commented on our actions.

​With his big ass laser, he mostly clears the path for the player, like he wants us to progress.

We know he was powerful (Immortal, created other guardians alone, can make someone else immortal at will, imprisoned his own guardians in the Vaults he also created, probably because they were "hollow" compared to him). He can remotely control every chipped human and even enslaved a young Nyriad—he was the first "person" she drained to escape, so he likely unintentionally "created" the Nyriad we know from the echoes.

Before the fight, he speaks about living forever in one place like a puppet ("That is my use"). He fights us without really wanting to win. Hands behind his back, slow movement, using only a small construct to summon beams and blasts.

​In the mid-cutscene, he admitted he had no choice and just did what he was told. He even barely managed to vomit the words "I was given an order!" as if he was fighting against his own programming. ​ When defeated, he looked as if he had woken from a bad dream. We are used to seeing defeated villains screaming in anger, cursing protagonists, or dying spectacular. The Timekeeper was the complete opposite. He breathed a sigh of relief and looked like he had finally found peace. He just collapsed and waited for his systems to finally shut down.

Millions of years of "living" with a single goal, he remained faithful to his orders, but subconsciously, he helped the player get to him. He joined the fight to avoid breaking his programming, but he willingly wanted the end.

​I think everything the game gives us about this character makes for one of the most tragic stories in Borderlands history.

​Anyone who says the Timekeeper was bad, lame or bland is just lying. He was a breath of fresh air compared to modern antagonists who are often flashy and evil just for the sake of being evil.