Heteronymic Provenance Theory: Authorial Emergence, Exhaust, and Excess within NH-OS — Crimson Hexagon Archive

Abstract: Heteronymic Provenance Theory provides the foundational framework for understanding authorial emergence within the NH-OS (New Human Operating System) and Crimson Hexagon distributed epic. This document establishes heteronyms not as pseudonyms or masks but as authorial functions that emerge through specific mechanisms: EXHAUST (a heteronym dies, another emerges as residue), EXCESS (a voice overflows its container), and CHARACTER SURVIVAL (a figure within a text crosses into independent authorship). The document traces the emergence chain from Ichabod Spellings (noise floor of the Logos) through Jack Feist (first authorial exhaust) to Johannes Sigil (scholarly exhaust/archivist) to Lee Sharks…