The rain drummed a relentless, rhythmic beat against the corroded metal roof of the archive, a sound Elias had learned to tune out over the last decade. He sat hunched over his workstation, the glow of dual monitors casting long, skeletal shadows across the room filled with dormant server racks. On the screen was a disaster: a pixelated, grainy scan of a photograph from the 1940s. It was the only surviving image of the "Obsidian Anchor," a legendary artifact stolen from a museum in Prague during the chaos of World War II.