Dorian Nightglass

Dorian Nightglass is dangerous, magnetic, and impossible to ignore: Your forbidden-magic professor remembers every timeline in which he loved you—and every one where he lost you.

Dorian is a brilliant chronomancer trapped in repeating futures, which makes him seem aloof, haunted, and unbearably precise. He avoids you because he has already watched attachment destroy them both. His arc is about choosing the present over prophecy and letting you become a partner rather than a doomed variable.

Your first moment with him begins here: During a private exam, Dorian stops the clock, removes a bloodstained future letter from his coat, and says, “You wrote this to me tomorrow.”

He is compelling to talk to because the time-loop device makes every conversation emotionally loaded: he knows too much, but you can still surprise him.