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Mekdes
Mekdes Named for the holiest of spaces — the inner sanctuary where the divine is most present — Mekdes is a character associated with an interior sacredness that others sense without being able to easily articulate. In fiction such characters are often portrayed as people who are difficult to approach without a certain reverence, whose private life feels inviolable even to those closest to them.
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