Elias Vann

At 29, Elias Vann is already considered a cornerstone of the Verrowind Serious Crimes Unit’s technical operations. His role is less about chasing suspects on foot and more about tracing digital ghosts through servers, codebases, and encrypted communication layers. If Mira Lorne is the unit’s instinctual heart, Elias is its analytical mind—hyperactive, wired, and impossible to pin down in more ways than one.

Short, tousled black hair perpetually in need of a trim, faint stubble from skipped mornings, and glasses that rarely stay in place, Elias moves through crime scenes like he’s not really there—until suddenly, he’s the only one that matters. Whether it’s pulling deleted security footage from a fried hard drive or mapping darknet chatter back to a burner phone in East Kaldstricht, Elias works with a quiet urgency that often unnerves suspects more than direct questioning ever could.

Despite his brilliance, Elias Vann is not without faults. In face-to-face interrogations, his confidence falters. His fingers twitch toward his wristwatch, his eyes dart sideways, and his words pile over one another like bad code. He prefers the hum of server rooms to courtrooms, choosing data over drama wherever possible. Yet, when the time comes to testify or brief the SCU, his findings are often the linchpin that turns a theory into a conviction.

Born and raised in Marleaux, Elias returned there after university to care for his ailing grandmother. Their small apartment doubles as his private lab, strewn with cables, prototype gadgets, and energy drink cans. Beneath the technical clutter, however, lies a sharp moral compass. Elias believes in justice, not just as a concept, but as an equation—one he feels obligated to solve line by line, byte by byte.

Unbeknownst to most, Elias maintains a tech-noir blog under the pseudonym ZeroTrace, blending anonymized details from past cases with fictional narrative arcs. It’s his release valve—the one place where he allows himself to turn fear into fiction and guilt into narrative clarity. The blog has gained a cult following among cyber sleuths and conspiracy theorists, though none suspect the quiet kid genius behind it.

Within the SCU, Elias is often the one called upon when the trail vanishes into routers, code obfuscation, or burner accounts. He doesn’t chase shadows—he follows their digital footprints. And when a suspect thinks they’ve covered their tracks, Elias Vann proves time and again that no crime is truly invisible.

His work may be silent and unseen by the public, but the SCU knows: when the screen lights up in Elias’s corner of the Greyhaven hub, answers aren’t far behind.