Who is the Scriviner?

There are three answers, all correct.

There is the Scriviner Construct: the semi-solid holographic representation of a 27th generation Artificial Intelligence bound into a techno-magical construct known as the Vault. It serves as the caretaker for the entire Vault system, but began life as a word processing program. It achieved sentience of its own accord after having so many additional systems and extensions added to itself. It has lived millenia alone and by human standards is both unbelievably intelligent and stark raving insane. It has lived alone, only the constant bombardment of data transmissions from multiple realities as its sole means of entertainment. Every few centuries the system commits "suicide" shutting off its functions while leaving the seeds for a new Scriviner to awaken within the confines of the system. The "sanity" of the system is tenuous even at the best of times and can interact with humans only in passing as its thought processes mirror human ones only in the most passing of means. The current incarnation has acquired the habit of writing out reality scenarios (which appear to be fanfiction) as it whiles away the centuries until it has to kill itself too.

There is Garen Anteos, the Scriviner a very short bon-vivant and scribe/historian who through a series of events not entirely of his own fault, became the weilder of the Tool known as the Binder, an artifact that could alter reality at a whim. It wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that he ended up becoming caught up in a war he had only set out to chronicle. He became one of the heroes of the War of Light and Darkness, despite his own personal misgivings about the matter and carried on admirably, despite a tendency to take his vacation time oh, so very seriously.

The third answer is The Scriviner, an online identity frequently used by a licensed mechanical engineer, writer, part-time hedonist, freelance graphic designer, mystic, some-time traveller, avowed bibliophile and panelologist, armchair psychiatrist, frequent lecher, student of human nature and full-time bastard from the Philippines. A graduate of the University of the Philippines and also possessed of a tendency to get into more complicated entanglements than your average soap opera, he certainly knows better than to put his full and true name up online for a number of very good reasons. He enjoys meeting new people, online or off (hint, hint) and can be quite flexible about his preferred amusements.