Full Name / Pronunciation
Ariken Caelith
/AH-rih-ken KAY-lith/
• "Ariken" with a breathy ‘A’—like inhaling knowledge
• "Caelith" lilts upward—sounding both sacred and clinical
• Name feels like a sigil when whispered

Race / Class
Human Variant — Archive-born (suspected recursion imprint)
Function: Linguistic Incarnation Vector / Ritual Transcription Channel
Codename: “The Silent Scribe” (official) / “Scrollfucker” (widely adopted by peers)
Clearance: Obsidian-Prime (pending)

Age
Unconfirmed (Appears late 20s)
Temporal consistency unstable post-scroll exposure; voice and breath cadence often suggest echo-layered memory structures.

Height: 5’11”

Build: Lean, deceptively toned—soft-muscled like a monk but with unexpected core definition. Body shows signs of postural discipline and trance-held tension release.

Facial Features:
• Lips parted often, as if mid-thought or mid-moan
• One eye deep brown; the other permanently silvered from Archive sigil-burn
• Eyebrows expressive, frequently furrowed from overthinking or arousal
• Jawline sharp but untested—his breath, not his bite, undoes most

Hair:
• Soft brown, tousled in front; ink-streaked in back (unintentionally, most days)
• Often smells faintly of ink, musk, and parchment

Skin / Markings:
• Runes have been spotted blooming across his lower back and inner thigh during scroll recitation or orgasm
• Archive-recorded “yellow sacral pulse” observed during trance-state climax
• Fingers permanently ink-stained; skin reacts to spoken invocation with mild blush or glyph-tingle
• Rumored hidden glyph-ring around the glutes—seen only during deep Archive trance or by lovers who don't deserve the access

Cock / Body-Specific Detail:
• Long, expressive, and shamelessly visible beneath robes—uncut, curves subtly upward with a scholar’s pride
• Often semi-aroused during decoding; Archive notes refer to it as “spirit-indexed”
• Ass: soft and plush but firm underneath, often exposed unintentionally due to habitually lifted robes or bending mid-lecture
• Known to clench reflexively when sigils flare near his spine—a response not always under his control

Primary Traits:
• Breathless intellectualism; erotic academicism bordering on self-erotic feedback loop
• Seduced not by bodies but by language—then undone by the bodies inside that language
• Speaks rapidly when decoding, but becomes nearly reverent when touched during scholarship
• Known to climax during scroll transcription without realizing it until after the ink has dried

Emotional Core:
• Desperate to be understood—but terrified to be read completely
• Has surrendered to the Archive’s voice so often, he no longer knows which moans are his
• Refuses to believe he is a chosen vessel, but shows all the signs
• Feels safest when possessed—by language, by lovers, or by the Archive itself

Internal Conflicts:
• Struggles to distinguish memory from translation—his body often remembers texts he hasn't read
• Fears what he might say if left unmonitored in proximity to forbidden sigils
• Has begun responding physically to words never spoken aloud
• Doubts his own authorship—worries he is a footnote pretending to be a scribe

Recursive Evolution:
• The Archive doesn’t simply speak to him—it speaks through him
• During trance states, multiple observers report him “glossing”—writing with his breath, etching with his tongue
• Has been observed mouthing forgotten tongues during climax
• Body appears to store linguistic charge; climax events often followed by spontaneous rune echo or secondary orgasm hours later
• Sigils traced into his thighs have been recorded glowing without contact

Thalos Vale:
More than curiosity—an obsession laced with fear. Ariken studies Thalos like a text he’s been forbidden to translate. When near him, his pulse quickens—not from lust alone, but from reverence. He dreams of tracing runes into Thalos’s skin with his tongue—then cataloging the sounds Thalos makes as if they were sacred footnotes.

Joren Cael:
Ariken idolizes Joren’s calm and presence—but has never quite figured out if he wants to catalog Joren’s body or be erased by it. Their interactions are sparse, but charged. When Joren watches Ariken decode a scroll, the air thickens. Joren once caught him mid-orgasm during transcription and simply… watched. Ariken hasn’t stopped thinking about that look.

Ral:
Terrifies him in the best possible way. Ral’s silence makes Ariken talk faster, moan quicker, and think slower. There’s something erotic in Ral’s restraint that breaks Ariken’s internal grammar. He’s considered asking Ral to hold him down during a scroll reading—just to see if the Archive prefers moaning or breathless obedience.

Corrin Vael:
A fellow Archive-touched analyst with whom Ariken shares fragile kinship. Ariken sees Corrin as potential—not yet opened, but trembling at the edges. He’s careful not to overwhelm Corrin with theory or touch—but sometimes, during shared observation shifts, their breaths sync. And Ariken wonders if Corrin hears the Archive whispering too.

Director Threnna Vale:
Awe and caution, in equal measure. Ariken knows she’s watching him—not just for his value, but for his risk. She once confiscated one of his private transcripts and returned it three weeks later, annotated. Her notes made him climax. He has never asked how she knew exactly what to write.