Voralberg Mechanical Toy and Puppet Factory

**Voralberg Mechanical Toy and Puppet Factory** is a huge automaton factory owned by "Voralberg Manufacturing". The factory is located in Valadilene in the French Alps and is at the root of Valadeline's reputation around the world as the world capital of mechanical toys.

## History

### Before Syberia

The "Voralberg Mechanical Toy and Puppet Factory" was founded in XVIIth century by Charles Voralberg. A large part of the production was devoted to producing theatrical puppets at the time. Since then the reputation of Valadilene and its famous toys just kept growing and growing.

The turn of the XXth century was Valaladilene's golden age as expressed in the factory's impressive architecture. The Voralberg reputation crossed the oceans, dispatching its fine precision mechanisms across the globe to delighted buyers who began to believe that Voralberg automatons had a life of their own.

After the end of the Second World War, the destiny of the factory was in the hands of Rudolph Voralberg's daughter, Anna Voralberg, who was thought to be the last and sole descendant of the prestigious line of craftsmen. This inspiring figure negotiated the business through the end of the war. She breathed the life into production by creating works of art to appeal to experts and enthusiasts alike. Voralberg automatons became rare collector's items with highly innovative mechanisms of unequaled ingeniousness even to this day.

### Syberia

When Anna grew old, since she had no children, she decided to sell the factory to the Universal Toy Company. They contacted the law firm "Marson and Lormont Ass." to send a lawyer to strike a deal with Anna in their name. The law firm sent Kate Walker, but unfortunately Anna died before Kate arrived in Valadilene.

Kate decided to contact the Notary, who revealed that Anna sent him a letter before her death. In this letter she confessed that her father had faked the burial of her brother Hans Voralberg when the boy was 18. It turned out that Hans still lives and he is now the inheritor of the factory. Kate has to find him and get his signature to finish the deal.

While searching through the factory Kate finds train plans and many formal papers in Anna's office as well as a strange device hidden behind a bookcase which is used to play the messages from the Voice Cylindres. Later Kate also finds an unfinished automaton named Oscar in the factory's workshop. She decides to help the automaton finish his making process and uses the assembly line to create his new legs.

After finding a new voice cylinder at the Valadilene cemetary in Hans' grave Kate returns to the factory to listen to it. After doing so the device disconnects it's top part. Kate takes it and leaves the factory.

Later Kate leaves the city and after a long time filled with many adventures she finds Hans Voralberg in Aralbad. The last of the Voralbergs signs the papers, selling the factory. Kate Walker however, instead of finishing her job, decides to join him in his journey to Syberia and never delivers the papers back to New York.

The current ownership of the factory is unknown.

## Gallery

Entrance to the factoryThe machine floorAssembly line on the machine floorThe wheel mechanismFactory's workshopFactory's workshopAssembly line controlsAnna Voralberg's officeEarly concept of the wheel mechanismEarly concept of the assembly line