Mortimer & Gaunt: A Most Curious Legacy

In 1848 Thomas Mortimer and Philibus Gaunt mistakenly sat down at the same empty table in the dark corner of an Edinborough pub just inside of Cooper’s Close. Due to the gloom, neither saw the other sit down until it was too late. Seeing conversation as the only polite solution to the awkward situation, a most curious relationship began.

You see, both Mortimer and Gaunt were collectors of the unique and unusual. Mortimer was a British naturalist and had traveled the empire collecting, cataloging, and trading in biological specimens. Gaunt, on the other hand, collected a very different variety of artifacts. Through channels and sources that still remain unclear, Philibus collected and traded in objects of magical...

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