Description
Seylon Vane was a distinguished wizard of middle years with sharp, intelligent features and the bearing of a respected scholar. In life, he dressed in formal academic robes and carried himself with the quiet intensity of someone consumed by intellectual pursuit.
Personality
Seylon was once brilliant, curious, and widely admired for his magical innovations, but his daughter Lyra’s sudden death transformed him into an obsessed recluse. His grief became so all-consuming that he withdrew from the world entirely, willing to cross any ethical boundary to undo mortality itself.
Background
Seylon Vane was a distinguished professor at early Hogwarts, renowned not only for his teaching but also as a master craftsman of magical items. His enchanted artifacts were sought after throughout the wizarding world, though he kept his most powerful and dangerous creations hidden from public knowledge, fearing they were too perilous to release.
Story
Though Seylon Vane died centuries ago, his legacy haunts Caoimhe Keelan, Finlay Figgins, and Otto Noxley’s first year at Hogwarts. They discovered Seylon’s Tower hidden beneath The Restricted Section—a secret structure sealed away by the Founders themselves.
Inside, they found Seylon’s journal fragments describing experiments with magically created mini-dragons, alchemy puzzles he designed, and memory pools containing echoes of his work. The tower’s challenges—lightning chambers, spectral proctors, and dragon hatcheries—all bear his genius and obsession.