Dr. Valério's Unsent Letter
- Template
- Document
- Status
- Canon
- Kind
- Letter
- Author
- Dr. Valério
- Found In
- D3
- Hazard
- None
1. Summary
The final letter of Dr. Valério, the Brazilian physician who worked under Hatzinger: a confession of his complicity that asks to be delivered to his family and gives the combination of the safe holding his car keys.
2. Text
His final letter describes his failures, which are set out on his page.
He recalls being physically weak as a child and suffering intimidation from bullies at school.
He recognizes that his fear of authority followed him into adulthood.
The letter expresses profound remorse for the suffering he helped inflict.
He does not deny his personal responsibility.
He also states that Hatzinger manipulated him, and that he has reached a point at which he can no longer tolerate what is happening inside the facility.
The letter references historical moments when individuals close to powerful perpetrators might have acted to stop them.
It concludes with the declaration:
"I will not commit the same mistake."
The document does not explicitly describe his intentions.
His letter anticipates that the institution will present his death as the result of personal instability or depression while concealing the events that preceded it.
He explicitly asks whoever discovers the letter to deliver it to his family so that they can learn the truth.
The letter includes a reference to a personal automobile. He writes that he loved the vehicle, maintained it carefully, and considered driving one of the few remaining pleasures in his life. He states that he no longer has any use for it.
The letter supplies the combination of the private safe that holds the car keys.
3. Context
Dr. Valério, a Brazilian physician educated at Harvard, entered Schwarzwald with the intention of practicing medicine and contributing to scientific progress. He initially admired Hatzinger, but became increasingly disturbed by the human experiments and gradually recognized that Hatzinger's scientific explanations were being used to justify atrocities.
Records left by Dr. Valério reveal his growing moral conflict after discovering these practices. His correspondence also references Dr. Hatzinger.
The letter's closing declaration acquires its meaning from the security recording of Hatzinger's death, and from the newspaper clipping that reports it as an accident.
See: In-World Documents › The Murder Recording
See: In-World Documents › Hatzinger's Death Notice
How the physician died, how he is portrayed and what his story illustrates are told in the chapter and with the character.
4. Gameplay
The letter belongs to the Chapter Six side quest The Unsent Letter, set in D3's medical offices, private research areas, and Hatzinger's office. The quest is to recover Dr. Valério's documents and automobile keys, and optionally to deliver his confession to his family.
If Edmund opens the safe with the combination from the letter, he can recover the keys. The automobile reward, the delivery of the letter and its achievement are described with the chapter.
See: Campaign › 6. Gates Of Hell
See: Systems › Vehicles