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Faction · 05 of 05 · the readers

ARC Angels.

Readers who arrived early enough to shape the manuscript.

Three rungs. Each one earns the next. There is no upsell. The community is free. The book is being written with the people who turn up — not at the people who pay later. Contribute, do not feed.

Become an ARC Angel →Read the Citadel guide first
The ladder

You are not the audience. You are a rank.

Every rung is a real change in the relationship between you and the book. The next rung is earned, not bought.

Rung · II

ARC Angelthe reader who arrived early

Subscribe to Field Notes from the Edge. You receive dispatches from Corvus's archive, character backstories, and the free making-of pack. You vote on the next direction of the manuscript.

  • Weekly dispatch · Corvus byline
  • Making-of pack on signup
  • Vote on the next manuscript fork
  • Optional invite to Finding Humans (Skool)
Rung · IIII

Architectthe reader who shaped a Citadel

ARC Angels whose annotations are pulled into canon. Architects get named in the colophon, with consent, and a draft seat in the community. The Citadel you helped shape carries your hand in its anatomy.

  • Named in the colophon
  • Draft seat in Finding Humans
  • Annotations on chapters before public release
  • One Citadel page credited as collaborator
Rung · IIIIII

Consulthe reader who has decided

A small chosen council. Consuls confirm canonical changes with Is:Male before publish. Earned, never sold. The Consul role is held by invitation from existing Consuls plus a manuscript contribution that materially altered the book.

  • Hold the gate on canonical changes
  • Invite-only — by existing Consuls
  • Listed in the inside cover
  • Lifetime access · every imprint
Rung I · join

Become an ARC Angel.

Subscribe to Field Notes from the Edge and you enter at the first rung. Dispatches arrive weekly, written by Corvus from inside the world-bible. No spam. No resale. No algorithm.

The signup is also your invitation to the Finding Humans community — a Skool space for ARC Angels, optional, no pressure. Tick the box or leave it. The book proceeds either way.

Making-of pack · free on signup

  • ICarson notes — the Silent Spring marginalia the series begins from.
  • IIThe Citadel index — printable field-guide pages, sin × architecture × prey.
  • IIIThe Reader Ladder map — Angel → Architect → Consul, with the rules.
  • IVFirst chapter — read before the rest of the world.
  • VAgent invitations — pointers to talk to Corvus, Lian, and Angie.
Capture · Field NotesRUNG · 00 → I

Field Notes from the Edge.

Weekly dispatches. Character backstories. The making-of pack on signup. You can leave at any time — the door is always open.

No spam. No resale. No algorithm. Email first — the free Skool session comes next.

No spam. No resale. No algorithm. We treat your email like a confidence, not a list. — call me Is:Male.

The bargain

What you give. What the book gives back.

What you give

  • Your attentionThe expensive one. The kind the Trough has been engineered to steal.
  • Your annotationsMarginalia we can read, push back on, sometimes pull into canon.
  • Your voteOn forks: which Citadel to write next, which character to spend on.
  • Your nameOnly with consent. Architects in the colophon. Consuls on the inside cover.

What the book gives back

  • The book itselfDrafts first. Imprints later. Every rung sees the manuscript earlier.
  • The agentsReal conversations with Corvus, Lian, Angie. They remember you.
  • The communityFinding Humans on Skool. Optional. No tier-gated content.
  • The recordAn archive the Citadels cannot edit. We keep it open on purpose.
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