Moira thus serves as the primary setting for Chapter 5, shedding more light on the events of the previous year, particularly that of Erin's supposed death. Having received a vision of Erin during his infiltration of the Keep, Garrett ventured to the abandoned asylum in search of answers. Meanwhile, the asylum staff were either killed by the mutated patients, or fled the island entirely, abandoning the asylum to its no-longer human inhabitants. The Baron and Huntfield, likely being the first to recognize what was happening, spirited Erin back to the City, where they continued to study her in the laboratory beneath Northcrest Manor. Ultimately, the attempts to extract the Primal failed, only further contributing to Erin's mental instability.īy the following year, the resulting Primal corruption has run its course, and most of the asylum's patients have since mutated into freaks. Here, she was subjected to experimentation by Huntfield on the Baron's orders. Eventually, Erin's presence began corrupting the other inmates, and she was eventually transferred to the more isolated levels of the asylum's underground prison. During her initial stay, the Primal's influence caused Erin to snap, and she regularly screamed about hearing voices (possibly hinting at telepathic abilities), even as she attempted to wake Garrett from his coma. Having witnessed her absorbing the unstable energies of the Primal, the Baron wished to study her in order to determine whether the Primal could be extracted. The majority of the staff seem to have disagreed with, even loathed, Huntfield and his methods, repeatedly condemning the underground prison-referred to as "Reformation"-where Huntfield took a sadistic glee in experimenting on asylum patients.Īfter the events of Summersday NRy841, Erin was admitted to the asylum as Patient #18. Huntfield and his fellow psychiatrists as to whether the asylum should be curing or punishing its patients. In the centuries since, the current Northcrest Baron has inherited stewardship of the asylum, and Moira has kept in its admittance such noteworthy patients as Aldous Northcrest and the famous painter Montonessi.ĭuring this time, arguments frequently broke out between Dr.
It is unknown whether the Sneak Thief was ultimately able to escape, or spent his final days at Moira, but he eventually either escaped through or was transferred to the Old Prison beneath the asylum, where the thief left his famous eye behind. His incarceration did not seem to hamper the thief's remarkable abilities, as noted by several other patients. Īt an undetermined point in time, the infamous Sneak Thief was, in fact, captured and admitted to the asylum. The Sneak Thief in particular became especially targeted due to having set in motion the events leading to the Dark Age. Northcrest saw in the asylum a way of exiling the degenerates from society, as opposed to curing them. In the later years, under the reign of Ulysses Northcrest, the asylum started becoming less of a hospital and more of a prison. This dream was ultimately realized with the help of a Bresling Baron, and in BRy459, Moira Asylum officially opened.
In the years to come, the memory of their encounter would inspire Edwina to convert her home into an asylum, where those afflicted with obsessive and kleptomaniac tendencies could be properly understood and treated. Though the Sneak Thief ultimately recovered the Compendium and escaped the mansion undetected, he had left a profound impression upon the Widow Moira. The thief proceeded to travel to the island and infiltrate the manor, meeting the now-widowed Edwina Moira in the process. Having allied himself with the Keepers, the original Sneak Thief snuck aboard the doomed vessel in search of the Compendium, and discovered the artifact's location at Robert's mansion. A rogue Keeper by the name of Gamall had also been seeking the Compendium, and boarded the Abysmal Gale, before slaughtering its entire crew, including Captain Moira.īy the time the ship returned to the City, the captain and most of his crew had risen from the dead as zombies, and the Abysmal Gale was thus placed under quarantine as a plague ship. It was during his subsequent voyage that fate betrayed Captain Moira. Upon returning home, he stashed the Compendium in his hidden office, within the island's underground tunnels. Robert recognized a hidden value in the book, which could not be opened and appeared to instead be a large, book-shaped slab of gold. During one of his voyages, he uncovered an ancient Keeper artifact known as the Compendium of Reproach. In the distant past, during the reign of House Bresling, this building was once the seaside mansion of Robert Moira and his wife, Edwina.Ĭaptain of a ship known as the Abysmal Gale, Robert was by his own admission more pirate than merchant.
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