The Mysterious Lord
Veltharion is a city choking on its own corruption—a gilded cage where magic dictates life and death. The Arcanum Lords rewrite laws with blood-inked quills, the Church preaches blind devotion to the all-consuming **Machine**, and those without power, the "Nulls," are erased like scribbled mistakes. Yet **Charles II**, the infamous *Mysterious Lord*, walks untouched through the rot. A wealthy Null aristocrat with a mind like shattered glass, he solves occult crimes that terrify even mages. His past is a void: no records of his birth, no memories of his parents, only whispers of a shadow that moves when he stands still.
When the **still-beating heart of a dead sorcerer** materializes in a rain-slicked alley—oozing ink instead of blood, whispering *"The Machine remembers you"*—Charles is thrust into a labyrinth of horrors. Hollow-eyed assassins stalk his steps, children scream prophecies in forgotten tongues, and his own reflection ages backward in broken mirrors. With only two fractured allies—**Zara, a warrior whose scars bleed forgotten battles**, and **Rahul, a thief haunted by memories that aren’t his**—Charles races to unravel a conspiracy rewriting reality itself.
The deeper he digs, the clearer the nightmare becomes: his erased past holds the key to a war that unmade kingdoms. And if he uncovers it, **the truth will bleed**.
