Amnesia's Victorian years

[MrBehemoth]

This has always been my favourite quote from the game. Very poetic.

And very Lovecraftian!

Do you think FG/TCR intentionally kept both stories within the Victorian era, to show the difference between the start and the end of the era?

Yes and no. I think both stories are set in the Victorian-based dark fantasy world of gothic horror (think Dracula, Frankenstein, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Phantom of the Opera etc. etc.).

I don't think FG/TCR were between them trying to compare the start and end of the era, but I do think TCR might have wondered what else they could say about that world and took it in a different direction. Both stories are variations on the gothic horror genre, but AMFP is more influenced other contemporary writing, like Dickens, and by more modern genres too, like psychological horror and futurism.

I don't think the two stories are "about" the beginning and end of he Victorian era. That is, I don't think that there's a secret message that Queen Victoria had an orb and Prince Albert was a torturer from another dimension . ...But they both pay homage to the same literary roots and play on themes and tropes that were common in the writing of that time.