Welcome to the Blacksyte Solicitors, LTD. Archives.
Bound by The Official Secrets Act.
The Secret World lives parallel to our own. It’s greatest perpetrators walk among us; heroes, villains, and victims. It’s a world imparted and acted upon in the shadows. It has no sides or loyalties and is ruled by a dogmatic code practiced by its most zealot priest; powerful dons and mandarins of all races. We’ve encountered fabled stories about their triumphs and Philby’s (Failures). Fictional dramas of daring and intrigue fill hundreds of books and films, but the mendacity and devious nature are often over looked by these fairy tales. We know them by their public homes and faces; Langley and Thames House. But the real stories reside in a temple of silence, sealed away from prying public eyes, and even from those loved ones that are affected most.
This archive peals away some of that mystery. It can only touch on a small piece of the greater glorious, and sometimes rotten, whole that is THE GAME. Played by Moscow Rules, by some of the most interesting, and inversely, dastardly human beings in history.
Blacksyte Solicitors, LTD. though by its public face is no more than it seems. A humble legal firm from its start, and likely to its end. A business of estate and tax law, will and testaments, and the odd business transfer. Run by a quiet and modest family whose name is bared up above the door. But over the years, the Blacksyte’s have played an intricate and complex part in the story of the shadows. They have long been residents of this Secret World, and have done unspoken and unrewarded things in the name of the Justice and Law in which they serve.
From these vaults we explore the depths of a family’s triumphs, struggles, loves, and losses. The costs they have paid, the gains they have made, and the destruction they have intentionally or unintentionally wrought on themselves and the modern world they’ve tried to save.
This is the story of The Blacksyte Solicitors.
Updates From the Field
“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Points of Interest
DorSet Square, London Nw1
The Georgian style terraced house, as seen on the archive’s landing page, has been the home of Blacksyte Solicitors, LTD since 1867. Set against the greenery of a gated garden, formerly Lord’s Old Ground (a cricket pitch until 1810), Dorset Square, today, is a quiet enclave amidst the bustle of London’s Marylebone district.
Gramercy Park, NY, NY
A four-story townhouse in Gramercy Park marks the first expansion of the firm outside of the UK. The building was purchased in 1965 and used as a forward safe house for SIS and FBI rendezvous with Soviet agents in New York and New Jersey. The building is now used to service American clientele and has been the host of the Blacksyte Archives since 2009.
Schloss Eisslen
The ancestral home of the Eßlinger family is located in the northern hills of Würzburg, Germany. During the Cold War, this country estate was used as safe house for agents defecting from Czechoslovakia and Hungry via Vienna, until the fall of the Iron Curtain. Today, it is the residence of Egon Eßlinger and his wife, Ilsa.
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