From the Archivist

I am Calderon Szantovich, last Voivode of the Veiled Archives beneath Mount Călimani.

Long have I walked among dust and bone, bearing witness to the descent of my clan from gods of the Carpathians to whispers in the gutters of neon cities. These pages are not merely recollection—they are scar tissue. My vitae remembers what the younglings fear to ask.

Do not mistake this for a mere accounting. This is testimony. This is confession. This is warning.

Read each shelf as a wound that has scabbed into scripture. Genealogy is chain. Histories are doctrine. Arts are names the blood answers. Creations and strongholds are proof that flesh and land remember longer than courts.