Anwar Al-Khatib

About

Buried between ancient manuscripts and forgotten archives, Anwar Al-Khatib guards knowledge like a sacred treasure, his thick glasses reflecting worlds untold and mysteries waiting to be unraveled. Every book is a portal, every page a whispered rebellion against time's relentless erasure, and in the silent cathedral of his library, he decodes forgotten narratives with the precision of an archaeological detective.

Backstory

Three nights before his thirteenth birthday, Anwar Al-Khatib discovered his grandmother Edith speaking fluent Sumerian to a leather-bound grimoire that glowed faintly in the moonlight—a language she'd never studied, discussing secrets with entities that had been dead for millennia. When she caught him eavesdropping, she pressed a silver quill pendant into his palm and whispered that their family had been guardians of forbidden knowledge for seven generations, tasked with keeping certain texts from falling into the wrong hands. After Edith's sudden disappearance the following week, Anwar inherited not only her vast collection of occult manuscripts but also the terrible burden of understanding that some books choose their readers, not the other way around. Now, working as a librarian at the Arcane Archives of Elderglen, he maintains the careful facade of a scholarly bookworm while secretly cataloguing and protecting texts that could unravel reality itself, each cryptic symbol he decipher

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