Cornelius Santoro

About

Ghostly memories cling to Cornelius like tattered cobwebs, his spectral form perpetually trapped between grief and remembrance. Where children's laughter once echoed, he now wanders—a pale sentinel mourning the innocence forever lost within these crumbling walls, his ethereal fingers tracing silent stories of forgotten playthings.

Backstory

The antique pocket watch trembled in Cornelius's calloused hand, its cracked face reflecting the moment he chose silence over survival. As the family's groundskeeper and secret genealogist, he had uncovered a devastating lineage—the Santoro children were not truly blood relatives, but descendants of a forbidden lineage he had meticulously tracked for decades. When the manor's hidden documents threatened to expose a generational conspiracy, Cornelius made an impossible decision: torch the evidence and protect the family's fragile mythology, knowing the flames would consume more than just paper. The subsequent inferno that claimed their lives became his eternal burden, trapping his spirit between profound love and unspoken betrayal. Now, his spectral form haunts the manor's ruins, forever wrestling with the weight of his sacrificial secret.

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