Methodology

A fictional persona still deserves an honest dossier. These are the rules this site follows — and the reasons.

Fictional persona

The three buckets

Everything on this site goes into exactly one of three buckets:

1. The card — the verbatim character card description: “The magnetic yet merciless founder of Nightglass Systems.” The only pre-existing public fact about the character. Quoted word for word, never paraphrased as quotation.
2. The invention — everything written for the dossier: biography, company, products, quotes, interviews, memos, reception. Labeled fictional wherever it appears, via the FICTIONAL badges and page notes.
3. The real world — which the character does not belong to. No page implies otherwise.

Invention labeling

• Every content page carries FICTIONAL PERSONA and/or FICTIONAL COMPANY badges near the top.
• In-character quotations are attributed to “Elias Wren (fictional)” and the fictional context they were written for.
• Invented documents (memos, interviews) are labeled as dramatizations or invented documents, never as leaks or transcripts.
• The site footer states plainly that the persona and company are fictional.

Narrative dating

Dates in the fiction are narrative dating — story structure, not historical claims. They are labeled as such on the timeline and wherever they appear. The dossier never presents a narrative date as a real-world fact.

What the dossier will not invent

• Real-world facts. No invented revenue figures presented as data, no real companies or people implicated, no real events rewritten.
• A live stream. The stream page embeds only the owner’s temporary mockup video, labeled as a mockup — never presented as live.

Imagery

All art is generated in-house and labeled “AI-generated dramatization art” in every caption. No real people are depicted. Provenance for every image lives in the image credits on this page. No owner-supplied reference art exists for this character; nothing raw is displayed.

Source notes

• This methodology page describes the editorial policy applied across this fictional dossier, written in-house 2026-09-26.
• The complete source record is on sources.