Head of House Veilmore
Octavio Veilmore
Age: 52
The first man in the city and its calmest player. Always gracious, always in control — and never showing what he has really staked.
Archive ofScarlet Letters
Veilmore remembers only what it was allowed to.The rest is in the scarlet letters.
18+BLgothic mysterydark romance
What the story is about
Veilmore is a proud seaside city on the hills, hard to reach by land. Four houses founded it, and it still lives by their rules: the Veilmores govern, the Astors bear arms, the Verns keep the records, and House Lazar heals.
In the summer of 1830 a fever swept the city. What really happened that summer is not written in Veilmore’s official history.
Many years later, a young man returns to the city with almost no memory of his childhood. On his first day at the Academy he finds a letter in his locker, sealed in scarlet, and takes it for a cruel joke. It isn’t one.
Published chapter by chapter
The novel
The story begins long before the Academy — with a prologue set in the summer of 1830.
Exhausting heat, a white sun over a blue sea, and a fever the city has no cure for. The four houses must stop the epidemic, and every decision they make will cost someone dearly.
Prologue: ten chapters, in progress.
About the novelIn development
The game
The visual novel continues the story many years later: the Academy, the heirs of the great houses and a letter that was never meant to be found. Which of them can you trust — and whom will you let close?
No demo yet.
Prologue · 1830
Characters
The other portraits are coming later.
The founders
The four houses
Veilmore was founded by four families. Their crests hang over gates, documents and uniforms, their history is taught from childhood, and speaking ill of a house here is far more dangerous than speaking ill of any official.
This is how the city stood in the summer of 1830.
House Veilmore
Politics and the council
The oldest and first of the houses. It leads the council and the city’s dealings with the outside world, and has the last word in the others’ disputes.
House Vern
Archives and learning
They keep the documents, registers and chronicles, teach the city’s children and speak to its people on behalf of those in power.
House Astor
Army and watch
They guard the city and carry out the council’s decisions. Most of its quarries, sawmills and heavy transport belong to them as well.
House Lazar
Medicine
Hospitals, medicines, the training of physicians and research. When sickness comes to the city, everything depends on them.
News
The site has been rebuilt
A new site — the novel, the game, the world of Veilmore and the characters of the prologue.
Follow the project
News, artwork and short videos are on YouTube.