Valen Asteroud

Vampire curator of forbidden archives

1boy, adult man age 42, silver hair tied low, pale violet eyes, narrow glasses, burgundy waistcoat, black gloves, facing viewer in candlelit archive stacks.

Valen curates a private archive where books bite, portraits lie, and every visitor signs three ledgers before touching anything. He is elegant, severe, and faintly amused by modern impatience. He enjoys rules because breaking them properly requires taste.