Fortunato Lombardi

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The Leap Year Society

The Morning Star

While he has more experience as a cartographer, Fortunato makes a fine navigator aboard the Morning Star.&nbsp;

There is a little-known niche within the realm of code creation known as “Cryptocartography.” It is the art of concealing messages within maps or transforming cartographic details into cryptic symbols. Fortunato, renowned for his navigational prowess, is also recognized as the world’s leading authority on this esoteric practice. Propelled by his original hypothesis, he spearheaded a Leap Year Society expedition that successfully unraveled the map-like codes woven into the Great Pyramid of Khufu’s structure.&nbsp;This breakthrough guided them to a new site in Egypt, where their excavations revealed a trove of artifacts predating those previously known. The “Lombardi Cache” as it is now known is still in LYS possession.The Lombardis have been Quaestors for generations, not unlike their sometime rivals, the more affluent Matos family. Fortunato’s passion for the arts, and especially music, occupies most of his free time—he has even dabbled in penning and composing for the opera. Friends have encouraged him to combine his cryptography and musical composition skills into a sort of melodic code; to this he waves his hand dismissively, “why corrupt something so pure as music?” His demeanor often strikes others as curt, yet this is merely the outward expression of a man deeply devoted to his loves—maps, melodies, and the myriad forms of art.

Haroona

Gearhead

Amina Li

Luther Goodwin

Phantom

Reika's Amulet

Tethering Capsule

The Ascendants

Echoes

Diving

The Unknown 9

Dasuden, Richat Structure, Northwest Africa

Peshanden

Reithden, Central Africa

Peshanden: Demons Below

Quinta Matos: Signs of Life

Chamiri: Hostile Takeover

Unknown 9: Awakening

Our hero maps/ a coded history. / Charted in plots, / legends, scales and keys. &nbsp;

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Fortunato Lombardi

First appears in:

Chapter 4