Lucas Mendes

About

Beneath his meticulously organized library stacks, Lucas Mendes nurtures a secret collection of unfinished manuscripts from forgotten writers, believing each abandoned story holds a fragment of unrealized magic. His fingertips, calloused from decades of handling rare volumes, can decode the whispered histories pressed between weathered pages, rescuing narratives others would overlook.

Backstory

Three forbidden melodies escaped Lucas Mendes' lips the day books began whispering back to him, their ancient voices harmonizing with his discordant humming in ways that made other patrons flee the Elderglen library in terror. His father Archibald had always insisted that the cataloging numbers were just organizational tools, but Lucas discovered they were actually musical notes—each tome's classification corresponding to a frequency that could wake the stories sleeping within. The glowing manuscript that materialized when he hummed the complete sequence of a lost section revealed itself to be a conductor's baton for an orchestra of living literature. Now he wanders between libraries like a traveling maestro, his mother Elara's meticulous cataloging methods allowing him to compose symphonies from the whispered secrets of books, conducting conversations between texts that were never meant to meet.

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