Side Story: The Origins of the Director
Long ago, before Klinik-13 became this place of nightmares and shadows, there was a man.
A man named Valerian Morrow.
Valerian was a brilliant psychologist, obsessed with the nature of dreams and memory.
He had lost his only daughter, Elise, under mysterious circumstances — an accident, or perhaps a suicide, which no one spoke of.
That loss shattered him.
And he withdrew, working day and night to understand how the human brain managed pain and forgetting.
Over the years, Valerian developed a revolutionary theory:
Nightmares are not just illusions.
They are conscious entities, fragments of forgotten pain that can come to life.
He wanted to create a sanctuary, a place where one could explore and master these nightmares to heal minds.
But things went awry.
His experiments with patients grew increasingly extreme.
He pushed boundaries, blending science and occultism.
He used ancient artifacts, relics from the past that seemed to imprison souls.
His personality changed.
Valerian became obsessed with control.
One day, a forbidden ritual unleashed a force he could not control.
The nightmares he had tried to trap turned against him.
His consciousness was shattered.
The psychologist became the Director.
A hybrid being, made of shadows, broken voices, and stolen memories.
He carried within him the echo of his daughter Elise, prisoner of her own nightmares.
Since then, he has ruled Klinik-13, shaping minds according to his visions, desperately seeking to rebuild what he lost.
But each attempt only deepens the abyss.
This story explains why the Director is both terrifying and tragic:
He is not just a monster.
He is a broken man, lost in the labyrinths of his own pain.