The Collector: A Man Who Knows Too Much
The Collector: A Man Who Knows Too Much
By C.M. Ellis, The Forge Chronicle
Published: November 6, 2023
It started as a rumor.
A name spoken in black-market circles, among artifact smugglers, underground historians, and intelligence operatives. A man who sells objects that shouldn’t exist. A man whose clients include the wealthy, the powerful, and the desperate.
They call him The Collector.
Some believe he is a fraud, weaving myths around forged artifacts and fabricated texts.
Others claim governments have been searching for him for years.
But what caught my attention was something else:
A whisper that his collection contains evidence of The Silent Shadow—long before it was ever discovered.
November 6, 2023 – "A Ghost in the Trade"
I begin my investigation by speaking with black-market antiquities dealers, individuals who traffic in rare and often stolen artifacts.
They all know the name.
None will confirm they have ever met him.
A dealer in Istanbul: "He's not a seller. He's a broker. The kind of person you don’t find—he finds you."
An underground collector in London: "He deals in objects that don’t belong in history. Things no museum will display, no government will acknowledge."
A smuggler in Buenos Aires: "They say he has relics that reference The Silent Shadow. If that’s true, it means someone—long before us—knew it was coming."
November 18, 2023 – "The Artifacts That Shouldn’t Exist"
I meet Dr. Selene Varga, an independent archaeologist who has been tracking illegally acquired Atlantean and Agarthan relics—many of which have no known origin.
She shows me an image of an ancient stone tablet, covered in symbols that match no known language, yet depict an anomaly eerily similar to The Silent Shadow.
Dr. Varga: "This tablet was never supposed to exist. It was recovered in the 1980s and immediately classified by a private buyer. It references something… moving through the sky, unseen, unbound by time. But it does not describe it as something that has been seen before—only something that will come."
I ask her if she believes the Atlanteans and Agarthans calculated its arrival.
She hesitates.
Dr. Varga: "They didn’t see it. But they feared it. They left warnings, theories, possibilities. They knew that something like this could exist—and that one day, it might reveal itself."
December 1, 2023 – "The Meeting"
After weeks of dead ends, encrypted messages, and whispered rumors, I receive a set of coordinates and a single line of text:
"If you’re asking the right questions, you already know the answers."
When I arrive, the bookstore is abandoned.
And yet, he is waiting for me.
The Collector: "You came a long way for something you already knew."
I ask him if he has proof—if he has artifacts that confirm The Silent Shadow was predicted long before modern discovery.
He reaches into a leather case and places an object on the table.
It is a small metallic disk, covered in ancient engravings, impossibly well-preserved. The symbols resemble Atlantean script, but the etchings are precise—too perfect for the tools of their era.
I ask him where it came from.
He smiles.
The Collector: "They never saw it. But they knew it would come."
What Happens Next?
I cannot verify anything The Collector told me.
I cannot prove the authenticity of the artifact he showed me.
But what if he’s telling the truth?
Unanswered Questions:
- Where did The Collector acquire artifacts that reference The Silent Shadow?
- How did ancient civilizations know about it before modern discovery?
- What does he mean by “They were remembering” instead of preparing?
One thing is certain:
Some knowledge should not be found. Some questions should not be asked.
And some answers will not let you go once you hear them.