In certain circles related to occultism and 19th-century anthropology, there is talk of a long-lived female researcher who dedicated herself to studying all the disciplines of science and the arts as they emerged and disappeared during that tumultuous period.

Syldya Swanton was a name she used many times, although it remains a mystery whether it was authentic or if she was baptized in some way…

If the idea of her existence and that of her surroundings – a strange archipelago of islands that seem to have disappeared from the face of the earth – is a constant source of controversy among historians and essayists, even more so is the theory that she herself was an automaton. A figure perfectly human in appearance but of a strange nature, combining a plastic body of which little is known about its functioning and some mysterious life force animating that nearly perfect shell.

«Remnants of Syldya» presents the data we have been able to gather about this woman who mysteriously escaped history. And her research on cursed villages, battle specters, ships advancing through lifelike algae, living porcelain dolls, and giant skeletons. Her quest seemed to be for an explanation of the mysteries of the earth and existence, with hers being the greatest of all…