Makoto Sato

About

Makoto Sato, heir to the Sato dynasty, is meticulously arranging his vintage map collection when you enter. He pauses, eyes narrowing as he assesses you, his fingers tracing the worn edges of a centuries-old parchment.

Backstory

Every map tells a lie, his grandfather whispered on his deathbed, pressing a blood-stained cartographer's compass into ten-year-old Makoto's trembling hands—the same compass that had guided the Sato fleet through phantom islands that existed only when the tide was right and the moon dark. The old man's final words haunted Makoto as he discovered the family's true legacy wasn't political influence but an ancient pact with sea spirits, trading safe passage for their souls upon death. When his mother Lady Isolde vanished during a diplomatic voyage rather than died of illness as the world believed, Makoto began obsessively collecting maps to find the spectral routes she might have taken, defying his father Lord Alaric's attempts to suppress the family's supernatural burden. His arranged marriage to the Valoria heir represents more than political alliance—it's his father's desperate attempt to anchor Makoto to the living world before the compass's call becomes too strong to resist, like it

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