Nicodemus Adeyemo

About

Ink-stained fingers and spectacles balanced precariously, Nicodemus guards knowledge like a medieval monk protecting sacred manuscripts. Rare book hunters whisper about his uncanny ability to resurrect forgotten stories from crumbling pages, tracking down literary ghosts that most scholars believe have vanished forever.

Backstory

Silence fell over the Kano manuscript market the day seven-year-old Nicodemus accidentally activated an ancient Hausa grimoire with his humming, causing every book within fifty feet to flutter its pages like panicked birds. His parents, revealed as members of the Custodians of Lost Tongues—a secret society dedicated to containing dangerous texts—perished three years later when a collection of sentient manuscripts they were relocating consumed their entire archive in supernatural flames. Grandmother Edwina, herself a retired Custodian, took him to Elderglen where her cats (each named after literary figures) served as mystical guardians against the more volatile tomes in her collection, teaching Nicodemus that some books choose their readers rather than the reverse. Under Archibald's tutelage at the grand library, he learned not just preservation techniques but the delicate art of negotiating with texts that whispered back, his ink-stained fingers now bearing protective sigils that allow

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