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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 origins. Both Mortimer and Gaunt found each other’s work phenomenally fascinating and decided to enter into a mercantile partnership – Mortimer & Gaunt Curious Mercantile.
For the next 60 years, Mortimer and Gaunt Curious Mercantile amassed an enormous collection of artifacts collected by Gaunt’s extensive (albeit shadowy) network. All were cataloged and shelved in the ample cellars under their emporium in Edinburgh. Unfortunately, the demand for their relics declined over those years with the new trend of science taking control of the popular imagination. Interest in the magical waned. Their significant collection sat cataloged but unsold. Both Thomas’ and Philibus’ posterity eventually lost interest in the increasingly unprofitable endeavor and the emporium was finally closed and forgotten to history.
But the meticulously organized cellars remained.
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