Hans Voralberg

Hans Voralberg is the brother of Anna Voralberg and the heir of "Voralberg Mechanical Toy and Puppet Factory". As a boy he made a fascinating discovery but an accident left him in a coma for some time. After his physical recovery he developed an interest for Automatons and Mammoths. Mentally, he never really recovered and his mind got stuck at the age of a ten-year-old. Despite being mentally challenged he started to show special skills with the creation of the Automatons and even helped his father in the factory.

He suddenly disappeared from Valadilène and was presumed dead, until Kate Walker shows up and starts the events in Syberia.

Hans was born on February 9, 1920.

When he was a 10-year-old boy, on May 13, 1930, he and his sister Anna discovered a cave in the mountains, with ancient representations of mammoths inside. Hans climbed a peak in the cave to get a mammoth doll that was there, but he fell and hit his head and he went into a coma. He only regained consciousness on May 20, 1930, and the first thing he said was the name of his sister Anna. Since then, the boy became taciturn and solitary, no longer lively and cheerful. He spoke little and was addicted to Anna's proximity, becoming nervous if she wasn't with him. He began to fantasize and get lost in his thoughts very often, as well as continually drawing mammoths. Not long after he turned 11, Hans was reported to have mental retardation.

The boy was also taken to be treated in Paris, but this did not help, because even in the big capital the doctors confirmed that nothing could be done anymore.

In 1932, he began working in the factory with his father, and also built his first gift for Anna, a model of a mammoth that could move.

When Anna was proposed by her father to go to university, Hans was very angry, knowing that he could not bear his sister's distance. But when she returned for the Christmas holidays, the boy began to talk nonstop again, as he did before the accident. He built a ballerina and gave it to Anna for happiness. Years later, in 1937, Hans built an automated kitchen, so that their maid Gertrud would not tire, since she had osteoarthritis.

The boy's "obsession" with mammoths reappeared in 1938, when he expressed for the first time his desire to leave Valadilène to go in search of mammoths. His father, on discovering this, became so angry that he locked him in the laboratory, preventing him from seeing anyone but Gertrud, who brought him food. Locked up, he invented a method of communicating with his beloved sister, namely the cylinder automatons, which were given to the young woman by Gertrud. Hans fled from Valadilène and his father faked the man's death because he didn't want anyone to know about his escape.

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