Queensgate was a major nineteenth-century metropolis at the heart of British America. A city shaped by industry, medicine, superstition, and ambition, it stood at the height of modern progress while contending with forces that defied reason.

What survives of Queensgate exists only as fragments: records, illustrations, correspondence, and artefacts preserved before the city crossed a threshold from which it could not return.

Tome of the Familiars by Erasmus Stefani, Necromancer - rebound by the Shrouded Court

How These Records Survived

The materials contained within this archive were preserved through two extraordinary means.

Much of what remains was transmitted directly by Dr. Silas Galahan, physician and coroner of Queensgate, using experimental devices known as Spectregraph Machines—instruments capable of capturing and transmitting documents, illustrations, and records across realities.

A Rare Artefact, one of only ten GALATYPES produced by Doc Galahan

Other materials arrived through sealed deliveries sent by a clandestine organization known only as the Shrouded Court. Their role in the preservation of Queensgate’s history remains deliberately obscured. Their motives are unknown.

Together, these transmissions form the foundation of the Queensgate Archive.

What the Archive Contains

The Queensgate Archive is not a single narrative, nor a complete account.

It is a collection of preserved materials presented as they existed in their own time: illustrated newspapers, investigative reports, personal letters, recovered plates, and official documents tied to documented events within the city.

From the Queensgate Papers - A Reciept of Alienist, Dr. John Moore

Each item stands independently. Read together, they reveal patterns of occult violence, civic unrest, and encounters with the unnatural that culminated in a profound rupture within Queensgate itself.

This archive does not claim completeness. Only survival.

Method of Record

Queensgate is revealed through records deliberately preserved and transmitted by Doc Galahan, alongside documents, reports, and correspondence authored by others who moved within the city’s shadows.

While Galahan’s perspective shapes the archive, it is not uncontested. Official accounts, personal testimony, and investigative records often conflict, revealing a city where truth depends upon who was permitted to record it.

Whether these records serve as warning, confession, or evidence is left to those who receive them.