_Shadow of Old Crown Inn_ Male Onyx Gemscale Nethermancer of the Umbra Covenant ![[G_UmbraCovenant.png|32]] Occult Librarian --- Neozoalth stalks the veiled corners of [[Malantak]] like a memory with teeth. His scales glisten black as drowned obsidian, and his breath fogs the air with necromantic fumes. He was once a scholar, you know, a student of the Archives of Luminar before their sigils guttered out like so many dying stars. He believes—_knows_—the Dominion’s fall was not inevitable. That Court Mage Zyndraxal’s barriers should have held. That _knowledge_ failed them, not strength. And so he wanders now, a ghost of old academia, fingers ink-stained and reeking of grave-musk, hunting for lost grimoires and arcane relics. He hires others to destroy his rival Wynreth Belladonna, hiding in the old mill with her green-rot magic. But this too is only a thread in his broader weave. Neozoalth seeks to resurrect the knowledge that once bound shadows at bay. He wants to resurrect the _Dominion_ itself—bone by bone, rune by rune—and if the Scarlet Eye offers him a path to rewrite history, then he'll pry it from the eye socket of the world itself.