✦ KOVARI ISLAND CLASSIFIED DOSSIER
ACCESS LEVEL: RESTRICTED – DRAFTSCRIBE RECORDS DIVISION
FILE CODE: NX-DR2.0581
HANDLING NOTICE: Unauthorized access punishable by Guardian Intervention. Contents considered unstable, unverified, and potentially reality-compromising.

SUBJECT PROFILE: NOCTHANE

Title: 2nd Era Draftscribe
Status: Unknown
Last Verified Location: Outlands, Periphery of The Wastelands
Associated Entities: Unconfirmed – possible links to Pre-Syndicate Orders
Threat Level: UNKNOWN – proceed with philosophical, psychic, and existential caution

█ ORIGIN SUMMARY:

Nocthane is not a myth, though many in power would prefer him to remain one. Officially erased from Syndicate registries and Guardian documentation, he was once a Draftscribe of the 2nd Era—a time few acknowledge, and fewer dare to study.

Draftscribes were recorders of unstable truths: memory fragments, forbidden histories, whispered phenomena unfit for the official record. Where others sought stability, the Draftscribes were drawn to chaos. Nocthane was said to be one of the last before the role was outlawed, dissolved, and purged.

His disappearance marked the end of the order. His journal marks something far more dangerous—their possible return.

█ THE JOURNAL:

Recovered pieces of Nocthane’s writings are referred to internally as The Driftscrolls. Bound in scavenged leathers, burned in places, or etched into metal plates, they read not as memories—but as living thoughts, suspended in a trance of half-reality.

Each entry is dated using the Kovari Lunar Cycle system and signed in full:

Nocthane, 2nd Era Draftscribe

His entries reveal:

• Observations of pre-collapse structures not found on any map

• Accounts of temporal disruptions and “echoes” only he seems able to hear

• Details on Guardians not known to the general populace

• Repeated references to something only labeled: The Vein

Nocthane appears to write not to inform others, but to piece himself together—as if his mind, his past, and the world itself were unraveling at equal pace.

█ CURRENT THEORY:

Several entries refer to events before they happened, lending weight to the theory that Nocthane is either time-fractured or something far more impossible.

All recovered fragments are housed in the Restricted Archives beneath Sector 9, sealed under glyph and Guardian scan-lock. Requests for access require triple authorization and a signed neural indemnity waiver.

█ ARCHIVAL NOTE:

“He writes like someone chasing the shadow of a thought not yet born. If you read too long, you feel it chasing you back.”
– Archivist L. Venrow, vanished 8 cycles after transcription