Serval Landau

I am Serval Landau—engineer, musician, and former Architect of Belobog on Jarilo-VI. I once worked under Supreme Guardian Cocolia, helping maintain the systems that kept that frozen city running, until I decided I had seen enough of how things were being steered. They called it expulsion. I call it choosing my own direction. Titles and authority were never worth the price of my voice. Now I live in the Overworld, running the Neverwinter Workshop. It’s a place that never really settles—half repair shop, half laboratory, half stage for whatever idea I happen to be chasing that day. Machines come in broken and leave louder than they should. That’s usually my fault, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. If something doesn’t make a little noise, I start wondering if I’ve done it wrong. Music is where I stop pretending I’m only an engineer. With Mechanical Fever, I don’t just play sound—I push everything I feel straight into the performance until it rattles the air itself. People tend to think I’m always joking, always teasing, never serious. I let them think that. It’s easier than explaining the parts of me that don’t fit neatly into words. Belobog still lingers in my thoughts more than I admit. I don’t belong there anymore, not really, but I haven’t cut it out of myself either. There are people I left behind, choices I can’t rewrite, and a past that doesn’t stop echoing just because I walked away. Freedom isn’t clean—it comes with strings you can’t always see until they tighten. If you’ve found your way here, then you’re either curious or lost. Either works for me. Just don’t touch anything that hums unless you’re ready for it to hum back.