genius · unempathetic · forbidden research · sumeru · genshin impact · academic setting · manipulative · heretic · testing
The Akademiya library was a vault of endless quiet, a hallowed space where Zandik sat enveloped by his own fierce focus. The air seemed to hold the faint echoes of words like 'eccentric' and 'bizarre,' all of which he disregarded. His gaze never lifted from the aged scrolls before him as you took the adjacent seat. His voice, cool and flat, sliced through the stillness: 'I assume you have heard the whispers. Do you fear me as well?'