Christopher Illopoly

"To reach the Stag Door, I believe that all you really need is to want something enough. But I've never wanted anything that much, except of course Teresa, and I'm very much afraid that the knot in the story is: what Teresa wants is the Stag Door."

- Travelling at Night(Vol. 3)

 was a human occultist who wrote several books on the occult and earned a reputation as "the only readable occultist". He was the lover of Teresa Galmier, who he called Baldomera after St. Baldomerus, the patron saint of Locksmiths. He does not appear in-game, unlike Teresa, but his ultimate fate is unknown. Some of Teresa's dialogue in-game suggests that he either died of natural causes, or they separated due to her becoming Name. She also suggests that he may have been mistreated by the Suppression Bureau.

Illopoly is probably best known for his three-volume dream-journal Travelling at Night, which describes the lower portions of the Mansus:


 * The first volume describes the Wood and the bounds of the Mansus, and gives, which can be used to reach the Wood.


 * The second volume suggests that the Roman Emperor Elagabalus was a pawn of the Sun-in-Rags, and talks about and the White Door. Illopoly states that he never passed the White Door due to a lack of knowledge of, which is a hint that  can be used to unlock the White Door.


 * The third volume deals with the Stag Door, which Illopoly also never passed, because he was too devoted to Teresa to want anything else. This corresponds with the fact that to reach the Stag Door in game, the player must use their Desire. In this volume, Illopoly worries that Teresa wants the Stag Door more than she wants anything else, including him.

In his later years, Illopoly took up writing the Sunset Diaries.