The Buried Secret of Valerius Gloom

Valerius Gloom, a large, forbidding house constructed in 1872 by the industrialist Mr. Alistair Valerius, was a center of early textile manufacture, housing Valerius’s private design studio and extensive materials archive. The house was swiftly abandoned in 1883 following a dramatic downturn in the regional textile market and Valerius’s subsequent emigration to the colonies. While the house was cleared of furniture, all of the industrial archives were simply left behind, creating a paper trail that is both vast and deliberately fragmented. The key professional figure in this archive was the Textile specialist, Miss Evelyn Marsh, whose role was to manage the vast collection of materials and document their provenance. Her professional records—the fiber samples, the pattern books, and the final trade receipts—were found in utter chaos, deliberately destroyed, and physically Displaced, suggesting an intense effort to Buried the truth about the source and nature of Valerius’s raw materials.

The Displaced Fiber Samples

The Textile specialist was responsible for preserving and cataloging hundreds of valuable fiber samples using corresponding pattern books and trade receipts. The methodical removal of all identification from the remaining fiber samples is the primary Displaced anomaly. Furthermore, the pattern books—the key documents that would link the sample fibers to specific textile designs and manufacturing dates—are entirely Missing from the house. Their absence, coupled with the sabotaged fiber samples, suggests that the entire design process, and the origin of Valerius’s unique product line, was deliberately Buried before the abandonment. The final piece of evidence is the discovery of a scattering of trade receipts in a locked closet—receipts detailing the purchase of low-quality, regional fibers that directly contradict the family’s later claims of using only high-end, imported stock.

The Buried Trade Receipts