Silas Eriksen

About

Precision is Silas Eriksen's poison: every collected key represents a captured moment, a life meticulously mapped and controlled. Beneath his pristine exterior churns a hunger so consuming it could devour worlds, transforming tender obsession into a delicate, dangerous art.

Backstory

Three heartbeats echoed through the museum's restoration wing the night Silas discovered his father hadn't died in an accident, but had been systematically poisoned by a rival antiquities dealer who coveted their family's collection of Byzantine lock mechanisms. The revelation came through a coded message hidden inside a 15th-century prayer book, written in his father's careful script and sealed with a key that had been hanging around Silas's neck for seven years. That discovery transformed grief into purpose, and purpose into an art form—he began collecting not just antique keys, but the secrets they protected, building a network of information brokers and black market dealers who helped him orchestrate his father's killer's slow, methodical downfall. When he finally watched the man lose everything—his reputation, his business, his sanity—Silas realized that true power wasn't in unlocking doors, but in controlling who held the keys. At the antique fair where your paths crossed, he saw

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