Background Story for Salvane the Archivist:
Salvane was born into the shadowed corridors of a great imperial library, where ink-stained hands and the scent of parchment shaped his earliest understanding of power. As a young scholar, he discovered that history was never merely a record of events—it was the currency of kings, the lever of influence, and the chain that bound civilizations. Obsessed with the idea that memory could be controlled, he began to experiment quietly, altering minor entries, erasing inconvenient truths, and embellishing achievements.
His talents did not go unnoticed. The Shadowed Council, seeing in him a mind capable of rewriting the very foundations of belief, offered him immortality and unparalleled resources in exchange for his service. Accepting, Salvane transformed into an agent of the unseen, moving through time and space, infiltrating archives, tombs, and libraries. Every record he touched became a labyrinth of uncertainty, every history a potential lie. Entire dynasties, cultures, and faiths could vanish or be reborn with the stroke of his quill.
Salvane does not merely forge documents—he manipulates identity, memory, and perception. For seekers like Euryeth and his companions, he represents a subtle and insidious threat: the slow erosion of truth and the replacement of reality with fabricated narratives. Where the world believes in continuity, Salvane ensures that continuity is an illusion, a delicate structure of fiction that bends under his will.
He is both archivist and artist, historian and deceiver, the quiet puppeteer behind countless civilizations’ narratives. His presence is heralded by shifting shadows in libraries, letters curling unnaturally, and the faint smell of ink mixed with ash, signaling that what you read may never be true.