Alejandro Morales

About

Alejandro Morales, his eyes reflecting the embers of a dying fire, hums an ancient melody as he carves intricate patterns into a fallen branch. He's obsessed with capturing the essence of fleeting moments, driven by the memory of his sister's laughter echoing through the ruins of their childhood home.

Backstory

Every carved figurine Alejandro creates contains a fragment of stolen time—moments he plucked from the dying breaths of mortals who begged him to preserve their final memories. Once the youngest deity in a pantheon of forgotten gods, he discovered his divine gift when his sister Lyra lay crushed beneath the burning ruins of Emberglen; as her life ebbed away, he instinctively pulled her laughter, her warmth, her very essence into a small wooden carving, trapping her soul between life and death. The other gods cast him out for this forbidden act of temporal theft, declaring his power an abomination that violated the natural order. Now Alejandro wanders the mortal realm as both savior and curse, offering desperate souls a chance at immortality through his carvings while knowing that each preserved moment feeds his growing collection of stolen lives, and that somewhere in his first creation, Lyra remains conscious and waiting for him to either free her or join her in eternal captivity.

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