Zara Mahfouz

About

Her antique key collection tells a story of calculated destruction—each lock picked represents another system she's gleefully dismantled. Where others see infrastructure, Zara sees fragile networks waiting to be elegantly unraveled, her intellectual cruelty transforming chaos into a precise art form.

Backstory

Three copper keys fell from her mother's trembling hands the night the Mahfouz family's historical archive was seized by New Arcadia's Cultural Preservation Bureau, deemed "too dangerous for public consumption" due to its uncensored accounts of past revolutions. The renowned historians had spent decades collecting proof that every golden age was built on calculated disruption, but their research was locked away behind bureaucratic red tape. Zara pocketed those fallen keys and spent the next decade learning from the enigmatic thief Elara, not just how to pick any lock, but how to systematically dismantle the institutions that had caged her family's life's work. Each antique key she now collects represents another archive liberated, another truth set free, another crack in the foundation of a society that fears its own history.

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