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| Character | Role | Quick Sketch | |-----------|------|--------------| | | Protagonist, Junior Archivist | Curious, meticulous, a former street artist who still sketches on the margins of her memory logs. Haunted by a fragmented memory of a place she can’t name. | | Eren Valt | Antagonist, Director of the Bureau | Charismatic, ruthless. Believes that humanity’s survival depends on a controlled narrative. He knows more about “The Silence” than he admits. | | Jax “Tink” Kade | Ally, Black‑Market Juq Dealer | Scrappy, witty, an ex‑archivist turned smuggler. He can hack a Juq’s encryption with a handheld “glass cutter.” | | Dr. Liora An | Mentor, Senior Archivist | Wise, ethically ambiguous. She warned Mira about digging too deep, but secretly hopes the truth will free the Archive. | | Astraea (the City) | Almost a character | A metropolis built on floating glass arches, powered by captured aurora light. Its fate is the heart of the mystery. |

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