Publisher blurb: Welcome to Victoria, a roleplaying game of suspense, action and intrigue, set in the Victorian era, a time characterized by breathtaking bravery, overwhelming hardship and earth-shattering events, the effects of which can still be felt today. This is the world of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale and Charles Babbage, steam power, workhouses, and chimney sweeps, Sherlock Holmes, Jekyll and Hyde, Stanley and Livingstone, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Jack the Ripper. This is the world of Victoria. In the game players take on the roll of anything from a thief living by their wits in Bethnal Green’s deadly back alleys to a hero embroiled in the struggle between shadowy groups for control of the largest empire the world has ever known.