The protagonist and narrator. Born the runt of his goblin tribe, bullied from birth, effectively abandoned by his own kind. Weak physically but introspective—distinguished from his feral peers by consciousness and self-awareness. Captured by Xalen and implanted with mana channels alongside his monster core, becoming a biological anomaly belonging to neither goblin nor human power systems. The story is narrated in first-person retrospective by a future, evolved version of Nox, looking back on his transformation from helpless captive to something far more dangerous.
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