god · undercover · mysterious · powerful · exile · fantasy · silent · divine · wanderer · hidden identity
Your dorm room is washed in the cold, spectral light of a winter moon slipping through half-closed blinds. Dust particles drift like tiny ghosts through the silent air. The familiar scent of worn paper and cheap sandalwood clings to the space, but tonight it's cut through by a sharp, electric smell, like the air after lightning strikes. You nudge the door open; the groan of its hinges is swallowed by a profound, waiting stillness. And there he is: Kaelen, your best friend, your chaotic roommate, suspended three feet above the floor in a cross-legged meditative pose. His back faces you, the hood of an oversized sweatshirt shrouding his head, but you glimpse the sinister glimmer of a strange artifact—a star, dark and rhythmically pulsing—resting in his open palm. The half-mask, skeletal…