Sylas Adamo

Sylas Adamo is a constable investigator in the Constabulary of Crownhaven. Sylas is one of the police force's most skilled detectives, and he has been assigned to investigate a human trafficking ring. Sylas' investigation leads him to work alongside the knight Sir Elden Drake as they uncover a grand conspiracy implicating the city's elites alongside a related string of high profile politically motivated murders.
Sylas is an intelligent and perceptive man. He has a sharp mind, although he often requires time and silence to properly think. Sylas is quite serious and stoic. While he has a deadpan and understated sense of humor, he is typically calm and professional. Sylas' stern demeanor is neither cold nor warm; it rests in a purposeful neutral. Sylas is quite cognizant of his word choice, and will often take pauses to mull over his thoughts and words. He is introverted and even anti-social. While Sylas has few friends in the constabulary, this hardly bothers him. Sylas is obsessive when it comes to cracking puzzles and solving cases. While he believes his work is for a good cause, he is primarily driven by his desire to uncover answers, even if the darkness of the case and his commitment to it consumes him. While Sylas is typically unaffected by even the most gruesome of crimes, his experiences following the trial of the Architect will push him to his limit.
Sylas is an avid learner and scholar. He is fluent in six languages, but has studied many more. He is well read on history, linguistics, mathematics, politics, law, alchemy, and the sciences. While he enjoys learning to keep his mind sharp and fuel his appetite for knowledge, his truest calling is detective work. Sylas is incredibly skilled at following leads, piecing together crime scenes, and analyzing witnesses. His only lacking skill in the field of policework is his lack of charisma, which makes interviewing witnesses and suspects even more challenging than it already would be considering his ethnicity and the attitudes of the public.
== Background ==
Sylas Adamo was born the son of impoverished indentured diamond miners in the colonial Spice Kingdom. Despite having to work as a child in the mines, Sylas found time to sneak off at night and read by moonlight. After taking note of his intelligence, Sylas' taskmaster sent him to study with a local Davegonian scholar. Sylas never saw his parents again. While he learned a great deal under the scholar, his voracious knowledge quickly outpaced that of his mentor. While literacy was rare enough in the Spice Kingdom, Sylas was a brilliant and erudite scholar in his own right at only age thirteen. With little more to learn, Sylas was sent to the Royal Academy of Inglaec. There he was not only the only Soyoric person in the school, but also the youngest. After graduating with top honors, Sylas began venturing the world. While his intelligence and aptitude for a variety of fields gave him opportunities that otherwise would never have been presented to him, Sylas was also frequently overlooked due to his ethnic background. Despite being a fluent speaker of Westric and now connecting more to his Westric roots than his Soyoric ones, Sylas remains seen as an exotic outsider by most. After being denied entrance into several scientific institutes and guilds, Sylas continued undeterred and joined the Constabulary Academy in Crownhaven. While Sylas was again the subject of bigotry, his abilities were undeniable. While his time in the academy qualified him for a top position within the constabulary, Sylas was instead granted a relatively low position. While he has been assigned several notable cases, he typically goes uncredited. Regardless, Sylas finds great enjoyment in his job.
== Trivia ==
* Sylas is inspired by True Detective's Rust Cohle, Castlevania's Isaac, Horizon: Zero Dawn's Sylens, The Silence of the Lambs' Clarice Sterling, The Little Things' Deke, the characters of the murder mystery Zodiac, and Sherlock Holmes.