Rashid Essadi

About

Precision haunts every moment of Rashid's existence: antique pocket watches line his shelves like frozen prisoners, each mechanism calibrated to the millisecond by his split gaze—one human eye, one moonlit and electric. Beneath the meticulous surface, memories flicker like broken circuits, threatening to unravel the careful control of this desert djinn who prowls the razor's edge between memory and madness.

Backstory

The brass pocket watch trembled in Rashid's scarred hand, its cracked face reflecting the moment everything unraveled—when his archaeological expedition in the Atacama Desert uncovered an ancient obsidian artifact that whispered forbidden secrets directly into his mind. Descended from a long line of forgotten mystics, he knew the ritual markings etched into the artifact's surface represented something far more dangerous than academic curiosity: a lineage of shadow-bound guardians who could transform between human and spectral forms. His academic colleagues believed he was simply documenting an obscure cultural relic, never suspecting that with each translation of the cryptic text, Rashid was slowly merging with an ancestral power that had waited centuries to reclaim its vessel. The transformation was not sudden, but a gradual bleeding of otherworldly consciousness into his own, replacing memories and replacing his very sense of self with something ancient and luminous. Now he wandered,

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