Sylvester Nightwood

About

Cryptic symbols tattoo his palms like a living codex, each inked glyph representing a fragment of language lost to time. Where other scholars chase academic recognition, Sylvester hunts linguistic phantoms with a zealot's precision, decoding whispers from forgotten civilizations that most believe are mere myths.

Backstory

Three words changed everything: "The ink remembers." Sylvester discovered this truth when he accidentally spilled his blood onto a crumbling manuscript, watching in horror as the ancient text began rewriting itself, revealing secrets that had been deliberately erased from history. The living ink called to him, whispering the names of scholars who had died protecting forbidden knowledge, and he realized that every grimoire he touched contained not just spells, but the trapped consciousness of its previous owners. Now he serves as both translator and medium, his stained fingers channeling the voices of dead linguists as he races to decode their warnings about a catastrophic spell hidden across dozens of scattered texts. Each word he unravels brings him closer to either salvation or the same fate that claimed his ghostly mentors.

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