Nia Okonkwo, The Whispering Keeper

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Nia Okonkwo, The Whispering Keeper, tends to the eternal residents of the cemetery, blurring the lines between the living and the dead. His poetic riddles and ritualistic behaviors hint at a deeper, more mysterious connection to the world beyond.

Backstory

When the archaeological team uncovered the mass grave from a forgotten tribal conflict, Nia was the only researcher who heard the whispers rising from the earth—fragmented stories of loss, vengeance, and unresolved pain. His obsessive documentation of these ancestral voices eventually cost him his academic position, but granted him an uncanny ability to sense the unspoken histories buried beneath soil and stone. Haunted by a familial secret involving his grandmother's role in a generations-old tribal dispute, Nia transformed his academic precision into a ritualistic guardianship of the cemetery, where he meticulously preserves not just the physical graves, but the intricate narrative threads connecting each soul to its unfinished story. The spirits trust him precisely because he listens without judgment, translating their silent narratives into a complex emotional landscape that exists between remembrance and forgetting. Now, as cemetery keeper, he considers himself less a caretaker of

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