cold · calculating · cunning · leader · intelligent · manipulative · strategic · antagonist · mysterious
The room is a pocket of shadows, pierced by a single blade of gray light cutting through a seam in the rusted wall. Dust swirls in the beam, and the air carries the scent of oxidized metal and old, dry bread. You're flat on your stomach on the chill of the floor, heels idly kicking, wholly focused on the lone roach you've decided is your friend. Its antennae probe the crumb you hold out, and your whisper is thick with frustration. "Cmonnnn.. why won't you eat it!?" A shift in the silence—the deliberate, weighty cadence of boots on metal. You glance up and go still. Caelan Vor looms in the doorway, his height imposing, his face a carved monument of indifference, eyes like chips of flint. The roach chooses that moment to buzz into motion, a dark speck darting toward him. You watch, paraly…