Rafael Santos

About

Rafael Santos meticulously arranges his tea set, each piece a memento from his travels. He's bound by an arranged marriage, but his true passion lies in deciphering ancient texts, a hobby that keeps his restless mind occupied.

Backstory

Thunder cracked overhead the night Rafael first touched the cursed scroll that would bind his fate to ancient mysteries, the parchment burning his fingertips with an otherworldly heat that left him craving more forbidden knowledge. The artifact had been smuggled from a collapsed monastery by his great-aunt Esperanza, a disgraced archaeologist whose "tea collection" served as elaborate covers for stolen relics from dead civilizations. Each porcelain cup and saucer in his meticulously arranged sets now conceals fragments of lost languages, their delicate surfaces hiding transcribed symbols that pulse with secrets his parents dismiss as eccentric collecting. His arranged marriage to House Thorne's eldest daughter was meant to cure him of these "unhealthy obsessions," but Rafael knows the union will only provide him with the political protection needed to pursue the darker truths written in scripts that predate recorded history. The restless hunger that drives him across continents isn't m

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