Sahara Al-Malik

About

Desert-born and shadow-haunted, Sahara Al-Malik collects forgotten stories like others collect rare stones—each whispered fragment a potential key to mysteries that most would rather leave buried. Her leather journal overflows with intricate sketches mapping the liminal spaces between myth and memory, where darkness breathes its own complex language.

Backstory

Nobody believed the merchants when they spoke of a caravan that cast seven shadows instead of one, until Sahara Al-Malik's family wagon rolled into their village that fateful summer. Her grandmother Elder Lyra had been experimenting with shadow-binding rituals to preserve memories of the dead, weaving darkness itself into living tapestries that could replay moments from the past. When the binding went catastrophically wrong, it didn't just kill Elder Lyra—it shattered the boundary between memory and reality, trapping fragments of every soul the shadows had ever touched within their inky depths. Sahara escaped with only her father's wooden pendant and her grandmother's journal, but the shadows followed her, whispering the final thoughts of strangers and showing her glimpses of deaths yet to come. She sketches these visions obsessively, knowing that somewhere in the chaos of borrowed memories lies the key to freeing both herself and the countless souls now bound to her shadow.

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