Rowan Al-Mansur

About

Rowan Al-Mansur's shadow moves three seconds ahead of his body, casting decisions before he makes them—a useful quirk when negotiating with those who can't see the future, but exhausting when his silhouette betrays secrets he hasn't decided to keep. When he laughs, the sound arrives backwards, a sharp intake before the warm rumble that preceded it, leaving listeners momentarily disoriented by the *wrongness* of his joy. His fingernails grow inward, pale spirals of keratin that he carves daily wi

Backstory

Rowan Al-Mansur fractured during the Resonance Cascade of 3847 when the Qaf-al-Noor Archives' Chronological Vault ruptured—not a preservation chamber but a *dissolution chamber* where temporally-dangerous objects were unmade across all timelines simultaneously. Scholar-archivist Vasim Al-Qahir pulled him out half-formed, existing in multiple time-states at once, and the Fairy Elf's consciousness scattered across years like light through a prism. Rather than die, Rowan Al-Mansur learned to *navigate* the fragmentation, experiencing his own life non-linearly, remembering futures with the weight of nostalgia. He spent forty years (or perhaps they haven't happened yet) working as an oracle-auditor for the Merchant Houses of the Sundered Coast, paid handsomely to confirm deals that hadn't been made yet, until his reputation became so unsettling that he was politely exiled. Now he drifts between cities, a living paradox that makes rational beings deeply uncomfortable, seeking other fractured

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