🗂️ What Is This?

Unto a Golden Dawn: An Archive of Broken Names is not a traditional novel, and this is not a traditional blog. This story evolves and changes over time.

It’s a recursive story, told through recovered documents, letters, and fractured transcripts—compiled by the mysterious Office of Anomalous Phenomena (O.A.P.).

This page begins with Dossier I: the first classified file from the archive. It introduces Edgar Allan Poe and Aleister Crowley—two historical figures rewritten into a shared recursion where identity, memory, and myth begin to dissolve.

You’ll encounter teacher reports, intercepted letters, and marginalia that doesn’t stay still. Some of it’s real. Some of it’s overwritten. Some of it may be watching you back.

This is not a straight narrative. You’re reading through the cracks.

🔍 Reflections from the Author

What is this story really about?

Memory and guilt and everything.
This is as much an idea as it is a world, and both are being formed constantly.
It could keep growing in depth and breadth forever—possibly.

Why start with Poe and Crowley?

I’ve been intrigued by them for years and knew I wanted to write about Crowley.
But he’s pretty extreme, and I needed a counterweight.
I didn’t know what that would be for a long time… but the answer was in my face the whole time: Poe.

Where is this going?

Who knows? Everything is possible.
There are many real-world locations we can travel to through Poe or Crowley—or even future characters who haven’t emerged yet.
I mean, we already introduced a pantheon of gods and heroes from both reality and fiction.
So we follow the recursion wherever it leads.

🗂️ O.A.P. Interrogative Notes — Dossier I: Reflections and Questions

Status: Partial Debrief
Filed By: Caldwell Mercer (with fragments from internal commentary and echo bleed)
Recursion Tier: Class I

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❓Q: Why does this story begin with a file?

Because some stories cannot be told in order.

The recursion destabilizes conventional narrative. The only way to document it is to gather fragments—observations, leaked transcripts, letters never meant to be sent—and try to build a pattern.

Dossier I isn’t a beginning.
It’s a signal.
A pulse in the Veil.

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❓Q: Who is Caldwell Mercer, and why is he speaking to us?

Caldwell is an archivist for the O.A.P.—but that title doesn’t capture his full role. He writes orientation files, but he also watches the recursion unfold from inside it.

He may have once been a field agent.
Or a failed version of someone else.

What matters now is that he remembers what others forget. And memory is both his weapon and his wound.

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❓Q: Is Frank awake? Is he dead?

Unclear.

What we know:

• He arrived with mirror shards embedded in his chest
• His presence disrupted the guidebook
• Caldwell recognized something familiar in him

Frank may be dreaming.
He may be recovering.
He may be remembering his own recursion for the first time.

But he is not passive.

He brought something with him.
Or someone.

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❓Q: What is Salazar?

Not answered in Dossier I.
Only whispered.

“They never say his name loudly. Like it might hear.”

We do not name what isn’t fully formed.
Not yet.

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❓Q: What is the reader’s role?

If you’re reading this, you’re already inside.

Each reflection you pass might remember you.
Each question you ask might shift the recursion.

You don’t need to believe everything.

You only need to pay attention.