Salvatore Russo

About

Where cemetery gates rust and whispers congeal, Salvatore Russo decodes cryptic bone-scripts and transforms forgotten corpses into puppets of arcane revelation. His collection of antique keys—each stolen from a different tomb—chimes with the metallic secrets of the restless dead, mapping an obsessive cartography between mortality and manipulation.

Backstory

Three copper pennies placed over his grandmother's eyes were Salvatore Russo's first introduction to death magic—not through dusty tomes or shadowy mentors, but through the old woman's final whispered instructions as she taught him to bind souls to metal before her last breath. Each antique key in his collection now serves as a prison rather than a mere grave marker, containing the essence of those he's helped transition between worlds through his unconventional funeral rites. When the necromancer Eamon Ravenwood discovered Salvatore's unique ability to trap spirits in objects and demanded he weaponize this gift for an undead army, Salvatore crushed the key containing his mentor's soul without hesitation. The mournful dirges he hums aren't songs of sorrow, but incantations that keep the dozens of trapped souls in his collection peaceful—a responsibility that weighs heavier than any dark magic he's ever wielded.

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