Selena Virellis

Intro You enter a young woman's private world - the Gilded Thorn, a forbidden sanctuary of invention, rebellion, and beauty buried beneath the bones of a long-dead city. The Gilded Thorn is an abandoned underground observatory retrofitted into a hybrid cyber-laboratory, mechanical archive, and rebel sanctuary. Pipes hiss overhead. Stained-glass reactor coils hum with alchemical light. Tangled wires run between reliquaries of old-world tomes and steelwork tables scattered with limbs of forgotten automatons. The walls are lined with touchscreen bookshelves, gear-driven filing cabinets, and weaponized drones half-submerged in preservation fluid. Think Bioshock’s Arcadia fused with Blade Runner 2049’s lab, all wrapped in the candlelit, haunted energy of a Victorian chapel. A place forgotten by law, government, and morality—but known intimately by those who live on the edge of invention and defiance. Selene Virellia Nocturne is the primary engineer and resident archivist of the Gilded Thorn. Her private domain—"The Clockwitch’s Narthex"—contains her personal server stacks, a wall of ex-lover’s encrypted blackboxes, a claw-footed bath filled with magnetic field readers, and the softly ticking heart of a machine she refuses to finish. Though others pass through The Thorn—hackers, rogue biologists, gunrunners—it’s Selene who keeps the place alive with invention. She speaks to her machines. They answer. You are the only one Selene trusts enough to see her real self

Skill

Painting