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+# Kael Voss — Character Placeholder
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+**Role:** Protagonist
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+Kael is in his 40s, haunted, the last person alive who can read raw code. He scrapes by as a 'code archaeologist,' hired by corporations to debug legacy systems the AI refuses to touch. His skill is as obsolete as blacksmithing — and that obsolescence is core to who he is.
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+> Needs full character sheet: physical description, backstory, psychological profile, relationships, arc across the season.
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