Marco Battaglia

About

With scales like burnished bronze and a forked tongue that weaves deals more intricate than his family's criminal empire, Marco Battaglia moves through underworld corridors like a predatory whisper. His golden eyes track every subtle movement, calculating leverage and weakness with the cold precision of a dragon bred for power and survival.

Backstory

Betrayed by his own research apprentice, Marco discovered an ancient draconic ritual that could manipulate collective memory—a power so dangerous that his scholarly peers immediately branded him a heretic and exiled him from Pyroth's academic circles. The stone tablet he now carries was not a mere memento, but a cryptographic key stolen during his hasty escape, containing fragmented instructions for a memory-altering spell that could potentially rewrite entire cultural histories. Haunted by the knowledge that his groundbreaking work could either liberate or destroy entire civilizations, Marco wandered the continent's remote scholarly enclaves, simultaneously hunting for lost magical texts and hiding from those who would silence him permanently. His dragon heritage provided both protection and curse: while his enhanced intellect drove his obsessive research, it also made him acutely aware of the moral complexity of his potential magical manipulations.

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