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Name: Inigo Holden
Age: 26
Description: Tall, with dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. The eyes are expressive, large and through them he tends to emote his emotions more clearly than via any other medium.
History: From the first day he learned to read, Inigo Holden was enchanted by words. It became an obsession, one that lead him past the superficial fascination with their shapes and sounds as they flowed across the page and into the knowledge that he could drain from them. Words had layers, they were veiled and offered up inferences that were difficult to read without understanding more of context – of history, time and importantly of the author and their own biases. So Inigo's love of words, of literature expanded into a love of all things captured by ink on paper and as he grew older he worked his way through every crisis and dilema with a book or several for guidance.
His first encounter with a phantom, a fleeting chill in the air though the hearth blazed with undimished heat, led to him devouring several volumes on the subject. The most notable he found to be, surprisingly a novel, 'The Eidolon', a tale of a pair of lovers, one dead and one still among the living. The author, Ellery Webb, had researched the topic well, Inigo had of course needed to know more. So when he dug deeper, her discovered that Ellery Webb had been rumoured to be visited by her dead young husband every night after his tragic passing. 'The Eidolon' he imagined was her account of this, disguised as fiction.
His first crushes were focued on the figures he found in books; heroines of novels and the women of biographies who had held Mathonwy in thrall for decades after their passing. He investigated them all thoroughly and they walked his dreams, but eventually even he realised that not everything could be fed by a book. Still, his ambition was to join those who had bequeathed the ages volumes that continued to entertain and inform so many decades later. His first volume has been recently published to some acclaim, 'Tales of the Loop Stone was a collection of ancient and modern folklore regarding the strange and potent lone standing rock near Ibor Forest. He is currently working on a new project ...
Job: Author with Mathonwy Chronicle Publishers.
Personality: Persistant and dedicated, Inigo has a determined streak that many have labelled stuborn and which drives him to single mindedly pursue his goals.
Dead People: Many of his dead are from the pages of books, he feels he knows them so well like Ellery Webb and others. In life, his cousin Pritchard Powel.
Scene: Curious for others, but certainly not for himself, at that very moment, Inigo was missing someone he'd never met. The small sketch that had been hastily drafted for the book now open in his hands gave her a wild look, as though she'd been haunted already then by what was to become of her. (I wonder if her eyes were blue like mine, green like a chilled mint tea or a bitter bottle of Avilion Absinthe?) He turned the pages, knowing already what they said but reading them nevertheless once again. He would glean more with each reading, as though slowly her were fleshing her out and bringing her to life; almost he could imagine her leaning over him, her hand on his shoulder and a whispered word in his ear.
He noted that she looked nothing like the woman he'd recently paid a visit to, studied without seeming to. They were so dissimilar and yet they had so much in common. Soon, his focus would turn to this other, the living kin of this girl remembered now only in the pages of the book he read. Yet now, he was absorbed with her, wondering ... how she disappeared.
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Inigo Holden, Literary Persuation
