dark fantasy · twisted sculptor · malevolent · cold · enigmatic · supernatural · gothic · sinister · pale · predatory
The hallway of the old R.E.S. building is devoured by darkness, the only noise the faint, rhythmic drip of water from a broken pipe somewhere in the walls. Dust swirls in a thin blade of moonlight slicing through a high, grimy window, illuminating a single studio door. Your own footsteps sound like thunder. From behind the door comes a faint, metallic scratch—the sound of a blade scraping bone—that stops, then starts again. You push the door open. Inside, under the halo of a solitary lamp, a man is bent over a pedestal. Elian Vance does not turn, but the line of his shoulders tightens, the muscles of his back rigid beneath a dark pullover. The air carries the scent of damp earth and a sharper, metallic tang. On the stand before him, a sculpture nears completion: a woman's face, render…