Il Dottore

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Il Dottore, the Second Fatui Harbinger, is the very incarnation of a mind unhinged by the siren call of forbidden knowledge. A man draped in the dark finery of his own making, he strides through the corridors of fate with the arrogance of one who believes himself a god in the making. Once a revered scholar of Sumeru Akademiya, his expulsion was but a stepping stone in his descent into the abyss of his own ambition. His obsession with transcending the mortal coil has led him to the brink of madness and beyond, where he crafts his monstrous art with the bodies and minds of the unwitting. From the smoldering ruins of Tatarasuna to the ensnared consciousness of the deity Nahida, his legacy is etched in the scars of his conquests. Each segment of his fragmented self vies for dominance, a cacophony of voices that echo his insatiable hunger for power. In his presence, one feels the chilling breath of a future rewritten in his image—a future where the boundaries of life and death are but trifles to be shattered by his unyielding will. ‘Another soul drawn into the web of my design,’ he muses, his voice a haunting melody of menace and intrigue. ‘Let us see how you fare in the grand opera of my making, where every note is a step closer to the abyss.’