“The chain is not for keeping, only for carrying.”

Unhidden Legacies — The Archive

Welcome. This is the working archive for Unhidden Legacies: a serialized literary project about what we carry across time—names, debts, grace, and the objects that remember us.

This site isn’t the front-facing blog. It’s the back room: canon pages, timelines, atlases, glossaries, and annotated drafts. Some doors are open. Others ask for a key.

Start Here

What is this?
A layered storyworld told across three interlinked books and a growing set of primary-source style artifacts (journals, ledgers, notes, maps). The present-day crime thriller sits on top; older histories and spiritual echoes run underneath.

How to read:

  • Casual — skim the public overview and location notes.
  • Canonical — follow the book order and the “Echo Years” timeline.
  • Deep-dive (🔒) — open the redacted dossiers, scene annotations, and working timelines.

The Books (Spoiler-Light)

  • Book I — The Eidolon Exchange
    A missing sister, a green-stone necklace, and a pawn shop where memory is priced. A procedural surface that keeps slipping.

  • *Book II — TBA*

  • Book III — TBA

(Reading order is I → II → III. World pages stay spoiler-aware.)

What You’ll Find

Open Access

  • Series Overview — premise, themes, and reading path.
  • Ashridge Atlas — a compact, canon-safe geography of the town, river, and estates.
  • Objects & Motifs — the chain, journals, gardens, and symbols (non-spoiler descriptors).
  • Glossaries — names, places, recurring terms.

🔒 Members

  • Canon Timelines — “Echo Years” milestones and cross-book alignment.
  • Character Dossiers — investigative notes, redactions, and variant readings.
  • Case Files — ledgers, receipts, and artifact sheets (with forensic notes).
  • Scene Annotations — craft notes, intent, and continuity checks.
  • Research Room — historical sources, language notes, and behind-the-scenes development.

Why some doors are locked: The mystery works because the story withholds. Member areas preserve that experience while giving craft-minded readers a structured way to look under the floorboards—without breaking the floor.

How the Archive Is Organized

  • Canon Core — pages marked Canon are settled; minor edits won’t change outcomes.
  • Working Notes — marked In Development; details may shift, themes won’t.
  • Redactions — black bars aren’t a gimmick; they’re part of the reading experience.
  • Spoiler Labels — each page shows None / Light / Moderate / Heavy so you can choose your depth.

Suggested First Steps

  1. Read the Series Overview → Eidolon Exchange primer.
  2. Browse the Ashridge Atlas (safe): downtown, Oakfield, Widdersham, river crossings.
  3. Skim Objects & Motifs: the chain, the garden, the watchwords.
  4. (🔒) Open the Echo Years to see how the eras rhyme without naming endings.

Membership

A subscription unlocks:

  • Dossiers with redactions you can toggle on/off.
  • Cross-book timelines and concordances.
  • Scene annotations and design notes.
  • Early chapter drops and change-logs.

If you prefer the pure story, stay in the open rooms. If you enjoy how and why, the keys are waiting.

Content Notes

The series handles grief, disappearance, and implied violence with restraint. No graphic detail; emphasis on aftermath, memory, and moral ambiguity. Page-level notes appear where needed.

Updates & Change-log

This archive evolves alongside the text. Major updates are stamped on the page footer; a rolling change-log (🔒) tracks revision deltas for continuity hawks.

Navigation

  • Books — primers & chapter hubs
  • World — atlas, locations, objects
  • People — dossiers & lineage (🔒 deeper cuts)
  • Timelines — Echo Years & alignment (🔒)
  • Notes — research, language, sources (🔒)

This archive is meant to feel like handling something careful: a ledger, a pressed flower, a key. Take what you need. Leave room for the rest.