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Celia

Celia is a survivor of the post-Change world and lives in the tunnels under The Magnus Institute. She follows Melanie King and Georgie Barker as a member of the post-Change cult, but respects their wishes to not be called saviours. Prior to the Change, she was known as Lynne Hammond and would experience regular nightly visits by a flaming ghost woman before she moved to a different flat.

## History

Prior to the Change, Celia was known as Lynne Hammond and lived in a flat in Clapton in 2016. While living there, she would be regularly woken up at night by the smell of smoke. This happened a number of times before she began to ignore it, at which point she started seeing the flaming ghost of a young woman. The ghost would only appear briefly, and Hammond would simply go back to sleep. As the visits continued the ghost woman would reach out to Hammond, and at one point was able to singe some hair off her arm. Hammond moved out of the flat shortly after and did not see the ghost woman again.

In 2017, Lynne Hammond contacted The Magnus Institute on the advice of a friend, assuming she would receive financial compensation for sharing her experience. She gave her statement to Martin Blackwood.

Sometime after the Change, Lynne Hammond fell victim to a Domain that took her name from her. Upon being rescued by Melanie and Georgie, she gave herself the new name Celia and joined the cult that had formed around them. Celia seems to believe that Melanie and Georgie have the power to save the world, but does not have the same level of fanaticism toward them as some other members of the cult and is respectful of their aversion to religious terms.

Celia is a curious woman who seems interested in connecting with other survivors, and who is often nervous about her surroundings. When John and Martin arrive at the tunnels, Celia asks them what Domain they had been trapped in before being rescued. She is friendly with Laverne.

Despite giving a statement to Martin before the Change, she does not seem to remember him. It is unclear how much of her memory she retained since being rescued from the Domain that had trapped her.

## Episode Appearances

Celia has appeared in the following episodes. **Bold** marks episodes where she has given a statement.

* MAG 190: Scavengers
* MAG 191: What We Lose (mentioned)
* MAG 194: Parting
MAG 118: The Masquerade

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Original recordings of the Magnus Institute's visit to the House of Wax, Great Yarmouth, and an internal management dispute.

## Recording

Martin is gleefully burning statements while pointedly talking to an empty room. After three statements, Elias shows up and orders him to stop. Martin taunts him through the locked door and Elias is forced to go look for the key.

He returns shortly and confronts Martin about his newfound interest in arson. They argue and Elias realises that Martin is intentionally wasting his time. He resolves to deal with him in the same manner as Melanie and Martin steels himself as Elias prepares to deliver the perfect bit of emotionally devastating information.

He talks of Martin’s mother. How Martin spent years caring for her and yet she was the one that asked to be moved into a nursing home and now she refuses his visits. She simply hates him and Martin does not know why. Of course, it is not really his fault. He was only 8 or 9 years old when she became ill and his father left them. Martin does not even really remember what he looks like.

Martin’s composure begins to falter as Elias tells him, he need only look in a mirror to find out *exactly* what his father looked like. His mother never recovered from being abandoned and all these years she has been seeing the face of a man she hates as Martin cared for her. Elias forces the raw knowledge of how she feels into his mind and Martin is reduced to tears. Elias simply orders him not to burn any more statements as he leaves.

Martin barely manages to compose himself before Melanie shows up. She is distraught at the state Elias has left him in but she got what she needed from his office while Martin was distracting him. Melanie wants to take another stab at killing Elias but Martin convinces her to leave with him.

In the House of Wax, John, Daisy, Tim, and Basira have been planting explosives. Daisy is setting up the last of them when music starts playing from the main room.

They realise that the wax figures around them are not made from wax but from meat and they risk a peek into the main room to see the Anglerfish and a choir of skinless people. John had assumed it simply ate its victims after skinning them but, clearly, you do not need skin to sing.

Tim wants to try and save the people in the meat choir but John does not want to risk it. Daisy finishes setting the explosives while they argue and hands John the detonator. Before they can make their next move, Nikola Orsinov calls for the audience to take their places and announces that the show has begun.

The Unknowing starts and the world goes wrong.

## Continuity

* **Related Entity:** The Eye and The Stranger
* The statements burned by Martin on tape are:
	+ #0071304, Ivo Lensik (MAG 8: Burned Out)
	+ #0020406, Harold Silvana (MAG 35: Old Passages)
	+ #0140207, Dylan Anderson (MAG 103: Cruelty Free)
	+ #9830203, Benjamin Hatendi (MAG 86: Tucked In)
	+ He also threatens to burn statement #8163103, Albrecht von Closen (MAG 23: Schwartzwald), but Elias intervenes before he can follow through.
Jude Perry

**Jude Perry** is an avatar of The Desolation and a member of The Cult of the Lightless Flame.

## Description

Jude is described as a squat, muscular Asian woman with close-cropped hair. She frequently wears light clothing such as tank tops even in cold weather and has a large back tattoo of a screaming man who appears to be wreathed in the fires of hell.

After her transformation into an avatar, her body is made of a wax-like substance that allows her to mould her appearance however she wants, which means that she looks much younger than she is.

## History

Before dedicating herself to the Desolation, she was a stockbroker, who didn't care whether her investments became anything or not. She claimed that the closest thing she had to a god was cocaine and she was "an acolyte to alcohol." She lived with her then-girlfriend and states that she became listless after the thrill of money no longer excited her.

In 1989, she met Agnes Montague and became enamoured with her. She joined The Cult of the Lightless Flame and murdered several coworkers, destroying their lives before eventually dousing herself with petrol and lighting herself on fire in 1991 to complete her transformation into an avatar.

In 2017 she met John and gave him her statement. She then burned his hand after giving him the location of Mike Crew, marking him by The Desolation, because she found him annoying.

In the post-change world, she and Arthur Nolan were the ruling avatars of the Tenement Block Domain. She was then found and killed by John as revenge, using his Eye powers to smite her.

## Known Powers

Like others of the Lightless Flame, her physical body is made of a wax-like material that can be easily moulded into different shapes and features. She can cause extreme pain and burns with her touch.

## Episode Appearances

**Bold** marks episodes where Jude has given a statement.

* MAG 87: The Uncanny Valley
* MAG 88: Dig (mentioned)
* **MAG 89: Twice as Bright**
* MAG 120: Eye Contact (mentioned)
* MAG 139: Chosen (mentioned)
* MAG 169: Fire Escape
* MAG 171: The Gardener (mentioned)

## Trivia

* Her last words were: "You're no better than me."

## Reference

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 MAG 89: Twice as Bright
2. ↑ MAG 169: Fire Escape
3. ↑ MAG:169 Fire Escape - Transcript
Jan Kilbride

Jan Kilbride was an astronaut recruited by the Fairchilds for the Daedalus space station.

## History

Jan was approached by Mr. Fairchild, a representative of the Stratosphere Group, about a year before the mission aboard the Daedalus. He had submitted his application a few times but never really expected anything to come of it, while he did possess the requisite skills but he thought he simply wasn’t exceptional enough. Mr. Fairchild referenced his psychiatric profile a few times during their interview but, not wishing to jeopardise his chances, Jan did not press him too hard on the exact reason he was chosen.

In September 2007, Jan arrived on the Daedalus with his fellow astronauts Carter Chilcott and Manuela Dominguez. He and Manuela had their own experiments to perform while Chilcott was locked away in an isolation study.

Jan noted that his experiments seemed largely pointless as they were repeats of other experiments already conducted in space. His mental state gradually deteriorated as he experienced strange phenomena aboard the station and his personal statement culminated with a spacewalk where he found himself floating away from the station. He was confronted with a vast shadowy shape that blotted out the stars and he reflects that such a being could easily kill him without even noticing.

Manuela Dominguez (MAG 135) eventually brings Jan and Carter back to Earth once her own work is finished. Jan gives a statement to the Magnus Institute on February 10 2008 (MAG 106).

In September 2007 (MAG 99), Gertrude Robinson comments that she has a plan to stop The Buried's ritual and it involves Jan in some way.

On June 17, 2008 (MAG 97), the Sunken Sky begins in Bucoda, Washington. Next to the Pit, Jackson Ellis sees an older woman and in the car next to her, a man with strikingly blue eyes who had been crying. In MAG 129, the knowledge of how Gertrude stopped the ritual is pushed into John's mind: she needed to throw a body touched by The Vast into the pit and killed and dismembered Jan to do so.

## Episode Appearances

**Bold** marks episodes where Jan has given a statement.

* MAG 97: We All Ignore the Pit (implied)
* MAG 99: Dust to Dust
* **MAG 106: A Matter Of Perspective**
* MAG 129: Submerged
* MAG 135: Dark Matter
Key of Solomon

The *Key of Solomon* is a grimoire dating back to the 14th or 15th century. An 1863 copy was owned by Jurgen Leitner.

## History

Dominic Swain discovered an eBay listing from 2007 for the book while researching Leitner. The book had been owned by MacGregor Matthews and Jurgen Leitner. The auction was won by grbookworm1818, who was later revealed to be Gertrude Robinson.

### Destruction

In 2015, Gertrude and Leitner attempted to experiment with the book in the tunnels underneath The Magnus Institute but destroyed the book when it proved to still be too volatile.

## Contents

One recovered section reads: “They have for adversaries the Satariel, or concealers, the Demons of absurdity, of intellectual inertia, and of Mystery.”

## Known Owners

* MacGregor Matthews (MAG 4)
* Jurgen Leitner (MAG 4)
* Gertrude Robinson (MAG 66)
Gabriel

Gabriel, also known as the Worker of Clay, was an avatar of The Spiral.

## Description

Deborah Madaki describes Gabriel as short and squat, has knobbly little arms that almost reach his knees, eerie pale eyes, and spiral-grooved fingerprints. He kept his black hair short because "he thought no one would notice how greasy it was". His face also appeared to be made of clay, as it moved behind his teeth and eyes, and his eyes looked like they were always about to escape his skull.

Despite his unnerving interactions with Deborah, he comes off as kind and mild-mannered.

## History

**1972**: MAG 136 mentions someone called Gabe who worked with Neil Lagorio, creating clay sculptures for use in stop-motion. They stop working together in 1972 after their first stop-motion film, *The Labyrinth of the Minotaur*.

**2004**: Gabriel attends an adult sculpting class in the spring of 2004, working with the teacher Ray Quinton and the students; Deborah, Mary, and Bill. He leaves after overcoming an artist's block with Deborah's unwilling assistance.

**2009-2011**: One week before Deborah gives her statement to Gertrude, she receives a letter from Gabriel about his “new job” in Sannikov Land. According to Michael in MAG 101, Gabriel has worked for decades on constructing The Great Twisting, the centrepiece of The Spiral’s ritual.

The ritual fails and his work collapses after Shelley is merged with the Distortion, and Gabriel tears out his veins to dissolve himself in crimson mud.

## Episode Appearances

* MAG 126: Sculptor's Tool
* MAG 136: The Puppeteer (possibly)

## Notes

* The exact date of The Great Twisting is unclear. Gertrude Robinson had lost all her assistants by 2011, and according to MAG 126, The Great Twisting took place some time after October 2009, placing the ritual's collapse between October 2009 and 2011. This conflicts with the events detailed in MAG 167, which suggests that Michael was merged with the Distortion before the death of Agnes Montague, which occurred in 2006.

## Trivia

* In MAG 126, Gabriel creates a clay sculpture depicting the Distortion and refers to them as a "good friend", indicating the two were close.
Graham Folger

Graham is described as having a round face with deep blue eyes and short-cut dark hair. He smokes and wears deodorant to cover the smell. Graham's parents, Desmond and Samantha, both died in a car crash on the M1 on August 4th 2001, leaving their inheritance and flat to Graham.

At the time of the statement, he was enrolled in a criminology class at Birkbeck University. In this class he met Amy Patel, the statement giver for MAG 3. Later, as mentioned in the statement, Amy happened into Graham on the bus one night and discovered they lived close by each other. During the walk Amy falls somehow and sustains a concussion. Because of this Graham takes her to his house to recover. There it is revealed that Graham has hundreds of notebooks kept on bookshelves in his house. Is it also shown the he is in possession the The Web Table, having said to have a passion for antique furniture.

Later in the statement, Amy goes on to describe her "hobby" of watching Graham through the window of her adjacent flat and viewing the strange and paranoid things he does. One night, 7th April 2006, Amy witnesses the NotThem sneak through a window into Grahams flat and murder/replace him.

NotGraham is described as a few inches shorter than Graham with a long, square face and curly blond hair. When police go to investigate they find nothing out of the usual and even compare NotGraham to a passport which has been changed to match his new appearance.

## **Notes**

* Graham is mentioned to be gay in MAG 3
* Jonny confirmed in the 3rd part of the season 5 Q&A that Oliver Banks is his ex boyfriend.
David from Research

**David** is a researcher for The Magnus Institute.

## Description

Not much is known about him. However, Tim Stoker judges his choice of clothing. In MAG 160.02, Jonny Sims explains that he wears jeans that are slightly shorter than appropriate paired with sandals.

## References

1. ↑ https://play.acast.com/s/themagnusarchives/mag160.2-season4q-apart2
MAG 121: Far Away

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Statement of Oliver Banks, given to an unconscious Jonathan Sims. Statement recorded by subject directly.

## Statement

Oliver continues the story of his prophetic dreams of death started in MAG 11, recounting how he began to see the pulsing vines that foretold a person's death during his waking hours, and the terrible chill he felt when he touched or brushed against one. He starts to isolate himself to avoid having to see people's fates, but he cannot escape it entirely.

During this time, Oliver discovers Point Nemo, a point on the ocean that is the furthest possible place on earth from all human civilization. He fantasizes about going there, though the vines prevent him from visiting it in his dreams. When he learns of a scientific voyage going to Point Nemo, he finds a member of the team who is fated to die in a motorcycle accident, a chemist named Dr. Thomas Pritchard, and steals his identity, disposing of the corpse.

Oliver keeps to himself during the voyage, but is finally able to enjoy empty waves and dreamless sleep for months. However, when they actually reach their destination, the vines return, huge and towering out of the sea, engulfing all of the crew. Oliver is struck by a moment of terrible clarity and understanding of fate and his purpose. He hijacks the boat, shooting the captain and forcing the crew to drive the boat to where the vines originate from. There, the boat is struck by falling satellite debris, killing everyone aboard, him included.

Oliver concludes by telling John's comatose body that he has yet to make the choice to embrace The Eye as Oliver chose to embrace The End. John is now not human enough to be claimed by death, but too human to survive, and he cannot move forward until the choice is made.

## Post-Statement

At this point Oliver is confronted by Georgie Barker, who is instantly suspicious and hostile towards him, instinctively recognizing him as something "evil". As he leaves, she seems to realize something and goes to chase him down.

In the now-empty hospital room, static fills the recorder as Jonathan Sims begins to breathe again.

## Continuity

* **Related Entity:** The End and The Web
	+ Oliver implies that he came to visit Jonathan at the behest of The Web, and mentions that he is going along with what "she" (possibly Annabelle Cane or The Mother) wants, though he is unclear on who this refers to.
* Oliver Banks is the real name of 'Antonio Blake', who previously gave a statement to Gertrude Robinson in MAG 11.
* Oliver mentioning that he saw the vines when awake explains his actions in MAG 42: Grifter's Bone, where he mistakes the vines leading into the statement giver's ears for earphones.
* Consulting the case numbers reveals that John has been in his coma for just over six months since the end of Season 3. This is confirmed in the next episode.
Darkashadow(pony)

Darkashadows(Pony)
this pony is hated other ponies because of him hiding in the shadows and has no friends apart from the mane 5 (Rainbow dash, Applejack, Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy

## History

When he was a fillie he was bullied and his parents died. At flight Campeche bullies started picking on his older brother and then his brother fell off the edge and died. Since the day his older brother died he has been alone with no friends or family for 10 years. Due to his loneliness and bad childhood/filliehood he is both paranoid and sad. For now he lives the present as a gruardian to the mane 5 instead of living in the past being a sad lonely mare.

## Fun facts

He has robotic hooves and is really intelligent And his main is always covering his right eye

## Popular Quotes/Catch frases

I will beat your face in if you hurt... MY.. Friends.

Like I said pinkie you are too weak to make even a scratch on me ya wimp

## other friends

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Carrot Top
Derpy
Vinyl Scratch
Dinky

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## The fall

After the fall in September everypony is dead and this messed him up he live a boring life and he is terrorized by the dead bodies. Although he is the only survivor The Living Tombstone is still alive.

## Rainbow Factory

Shadow can kill who ever because everyone else is dead the end

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MAG 113: Breathing Room

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Statement of Adelard Dekker, regarding the near-death and subsequent activities of Justin Gough.

## Pre-Statement

John, Martin, and Melanie investigate Gertrude's storage unit, which is packed with unmarked cardboard boxes. They find the remnants of gorilla skin she destroyed, a notebook full of nonspecific names and dates, and a large amount of plastic explosives. Then Melanie notices the sound of the tape recorder, and she and Martin shout at John for bringing it along.

## Statement

Adelard Dekker has delivered the plastic explosives on Gertrude's behalf, to evade some sort of surveillance. He warns her of something "that might come to nothing," and delivers it in the form of a statement.

Dekker was alerted to a series of suspicious deaths while researching what he calls "a new emergence." The victims apparently died in their sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning, but there was no carbon monoxide found in their homes. In addition, each victim was found with badly damaged vocal cords and blood in their throat. All three scenes had shown evidence of a second person in the home.

Dekker investigated the matter and concluded that the perpetrator was Justin Gough, an avatar of The End. Gough had given himself severe carbon monoxide poisoning on a camping trip, and was clinically dead for 52 seconds while being treated in hospital. When Justin regained consciousness, he was deeply distressed and spoke of awful visions and some sort of terrible debt he now had to pay. After being discharged, Justin quit his job and became a recluse, as far as anyone could determine.

Dekker staked out Justin's flat and caught him leaving under cover of night. Justin had cherry-red blood dripping from his nose and did not appear to be breathing. He walked, and Dekker followed him, to a house in Hackney Wick, where Justin walked inside and directly into the bedroom. Dekker found Justin sitting in a corner, apparently asleep, while the man sleeping in the bed began to gasp as if being smothered.

Dekker concluded that dreams were similar enough to a near-death experience that Justin was using them to attack his victims. He also felt sure that Justin was too far gone to easily kill. Instead, he used a metal skewer from the kitchen to lobotomize Justin, which he hoped would render him unable to dream. When the police eventually came to take Justin away, Justin was not even able to speak.

## Post-Statement

John explains he found the note tucked into the case of explosives, and wonders if Gertrude ever even read it. He also finds it oddly refreshing to once again be completely baffled by a statement.

Basira found records of Justin Gough in a care home until 2015, but no sign of him after that date. Several staff of the care home died of carbon monoxide poisoning around the time Justin disappeared.

## Continuity

* **Related Entity:** The End

* In MAG 134: Time of Revelation the "new emergence" that Dekker is investigating is revealed to be a fifteenth Entity, The Extinction.
Eric Delano

Eric Delano was Mary Keay’s husband and the father of Gerard Keay. He worked at The Magnus Institute as an assistant to Gertrude Robinson.

## History

Eric always loved ghosts and was fascinated with the mystery and sense of secret knowledge to them. After he graduated with a Masters in library science, this fascination led him to apply for a vacant assistant archivist position at the Magnus Institute.

He began working as Gertrude’s assistant in the 1960s when she took over the position after the death of the old archivist, Angus Stacey. He worked alongside Fiona Law, Emma Harvey, and, eventually, Michael Shelley.

He is noted as the one who typed up the statement of the man who wasn't there,  and sent it to Gertrude along with a request for sick leave due to persistent migraines. Jonathan estimates that the statement was written in the 1980s or 90s.

After a few years at the Institute, he met Mary Keay and became romantically involved with her. After they were married, she explained The Entities, their rituals, and the Institute to him. After their son Gerard was born, Eric decided to leave the Institute. It took him two years to figure out how to leave but he eventually set himself free by completely destroying his eyes.

Five years into their marriage and shortly after he blinded himself, Mary killed him by stabbing him in the chest with garden shears. She bound him to the Skin Book and brought him out to bounce ideas off of him, while never actually listening to him.

On July 3rd, 2008, Mary Keay visited Gertrude Robinson to make a statement and gift her Eric’s page. She told her "I've always found a singular devotion too restrictive. Just ask Eric, or what's left of him".

On July 21st, 2008, Gertrude summoned Eric, and he gave a statement recounting his time in the Archives, his relationship with Mary, his death and its aftermath. He revealed that he was able to free himself from the Eye and the Archives by blinding himself and Gertrude then destroyed his page.

## Episode Appearances

**Bold** marks episodes where Eric has given a statement.

* MAG 85: Upon the Stair (mentioned)
* MAG 137: Nemesis (mentioned)
* **MAG 154: Bloody Mary**
* MAG 158: Panopticon (mentioned)
* MAG 167: Curiosity

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 MAG 154: Bloody Mary
2. ↑ MAG 167: Curiosity
3. ↑ MAG 85: Upon the Stair
Book of the Dead

*You may be looking for MAG 70: Book of the Dead*

The Book of the Dead is the name given to an untitled book with paranormal properties that predicts the owner's death (not to be confused with Mary Keay's Catalogue of the Trapped Dead). It has no known author. Instead of a title, there is a quote on the cover:

> ***Life is a current which cannot be fought. It is a march with one destination. You cannot cease your step, nor move your course, to one that skirts the journey's termination.***
>
>

> Below this, a hand-written note says: *You have already read too much.*
>
>

The first few pages were written in hand-written Latin but started to change into some more recognisable Middle English until eventually, it changed to current-day English.

## Properties

This book predicts and catalogues the future death of the reader in gruesome detail. Cause of death appears to change and date of death draws closer every time it is re-read.

## Known Owners

* Julian (MAG 70)
* Christopher (MAG 70)
* Alexander Willard (MAG 70)
* Philip Doah (MAG 70)
* Masato Murray
Characters

This lists all recurring characters who have their own page. See Characters/Episode for a comprehensive list of all named characters sorted by episode and Characters/Historical for a list of characters who are based on real historical figures. You can go to this Google Sheet for a full list of characters, sorted by alphabet
MAG 124: Left Hanging

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Statement of Julian Jennings, regarding a cable car journey up the Untersberg mountain range in Austria.

## Statement

Julian Jennings and his mother became closer after his father died of pancreatic cancer in 2001. In 2003 the two of them started to go on holidays together, mostly to mountains because Julian's mother loved them so much. For their 2012 holiday they went to Untersburg, Austria for the second time, where they got into a cablecar with Simon Fairchild.

Julian is afraid of heights and dislikes cablecar rides, although he has never told his mother. Two minutes before the car should have arrived at the top, it stopped without warning and thick mist enveloped it. Simon Fairchild opened the apparently locked door of the cablecar, winked at Julian, and fell backward out of it.

The car began to move again, without coming to the top as it should have. It stopped very suddenly, and when it was done swinging the driver went to the door to try to close it. Julian heard something crawling along the cable and saw his mother looking at something behind him before she screamed. Something landed on the roof of the car and a long grey arm grabbed the driver out of it, after which the thing knocked on the roof and laughed.

After some time the green light on the control panel came on and Julian managed to get to it and start the cable car again, and it arrived at the top of the track. No-one believed Julian when he told the police what had happened, and his mother refused to admit that she had seen the same things he did.

## Post-Statement

Simon Fairchild is especially disquieting to John because he takes so much joy in tormenting and killing people. John has not bothered to do any research on this statement and bemoans the fact that his assistants would not help him if he asked. He comes across Martin in the hall and tries to make conversation, but Martin seems uninterested and says he is too busy to talk.
Breekon & Hope (company)

Breekon & Hope Deliveries is a shipping company that often appears in connection with esoteric and paranormal occurrences. It was founded by Alfred Breekon and taken over in 1993 by two agents of The Stranger who began calling themselves "Breekon" and "Hope". Alfred Breekon was killed three years later after receiving a strange box, which he presumably opened in 1996 after giving his statement to the Magnus Institute. The company continued to operate under the management of "Breekon" and "Hope" until it officially shut down in 2013.

## History

Sometime before 1993, Breekon & Hope was founded by Alfred Breekon. Breekon had intended to name his company "Breekon & Sons", but named it "Breekon & Hope" as a joke about his lack of children. This was regularly misinterpreted by clients who assumed that Breekon had a partner named Hope. Breekon & Hope was a successful company and had a shipping range of over 1100 kilometers.

In 1993, Breekon was visited by two strange men who began calling themselves "Breekon" and "Hope" after speaking with him. He gave them the keys to a white Citroën C15, the oldest of the company's delivery vans. The men began making strange deliveries which Breekon would have to answer for.

After the two men became affiliated with Breekon & Hope, Breekon would find his own handwriting on shipping logs and manifests regarding deliveries he could not remember happening. By May 1996, several delivery drivers had disappeared, and Breekon had received a package marked "return to sender" that he did not remember sending. Some time later he was found dead of unknown causes, seemingly eaten from the inside out.

After Breekon's death, Breekon & Hope was managed by "Breekon" and "Hope". The company became increasingly affiliated with the Stranger but continued to ship items related to other entities, including the web table Adelard Dekker had delivered to an entity that claimed to be Carl Moore. Although the individuals "Breekon" and "Hope" continued to make deliveries, the company Breekon & Hope ceased operations after it entered liquidation in 2009 and officially shut down in 2013.

## Known Deliveries

* 1995: The contents of a house contaminated with mould are moved to a depot.
* 1996: A strange cardboard box with contents that sound like shifting sand is apparently sent by Alfred Breekon. Its item description is "goodbye".
* 1996: An unvarnished coffin is delivered to Joshua Gillespie.
* 1998: An unvarnished coffin is picked up from Joshua Gillespie.
* 2002: The delivery of an unvarnished coffin is briefly interrupted when the van it is being transported in is stopped by police.
* 2009: A pale yellow stole is delivered to The Oratory on Woodstock Road.

## Trivia

* In MAG 61, a "normal-looking" man named Tom was identified as a delivery driver for Breekon & Hope. This is likely the same Tom as Not-Sasha's boyfriend.

## References

1. ↑ MAG 96: Return to Sender
2. ↑ MAG 96: Return to Sender

Driving distance between Aberdeen and Penzance is 1106km
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 MAG 61: Hard Shoulder
4. ↑ MAG 78: Distant Cousin
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 MAG 2: Do Not Open
6. ↑ MAG 93: Contaminant
7. ↑ MAG 20: Desecrated Host
Cast and Crew

The cast and crew involved in the creation of The Magnus Archives.

## Cast

* Alasdair Stuart as Peter Lukas
* Alexander J. Newall as Martin Blackwood and Jared Hopworth
* Alice Adzowa as Sarah Baldwin
* Anil Godigamuwe as Arun
* Ben Meredith as Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus
* Beth Eyre as Lucia Wright
* Brock Winstead as Max Mustermann
* Bryn Monroe as Brian Finlinson
* Carrie Cohen as Mary Keay
* Chioma Nwalioba as Annabelle Cane
* Duarte Bandeira as Floyd Matharu
* Evelyn Hewitt as Not-Sasha
* Evelyn Lockley as Jess Tyrell
* Fay Roberts as Alice "Daisy" Tonner
* Fran Bushe as Tessa Winters
* Francesca Renèe Reid as Julia Montauk
* Frank Voss as Basira Hussain
* Guy Kelly as Michael Crew
* Hannah Brankin as Jane Prentiss, Laura Popham, and Rosie Zampano
* Hannah Walker as Jude Perry
* Harvey Kesselman as Sergeant Walter Heller
* Helen Gould as Laverne
* Ian Hayles as Trevor Herbert
* Imogen Harris as Helen Richardson and Helen
* James Ross as "John Smith"
* Jenny Haufek as The Guest
* Nikola Orsinov as Jessica Law
* John Henry Falle as Arthur Nolan
* Jon Gracey as Gerard Keay
* Jonathan Sims as Jonathan Sims
* Karim Kronfli as Simon Fairchild
* Katie Davison as Naomi Herne
* Layla Mannings as Manuela Dominguez
* Lottie Broomhall as Sasha James
* Lowri Ann Davies as Celia/Lynne Hammond
* Luke Booys as Michael and Michael Shelley
* Lydia Nicholas as Melanie King
* Mabel Syrup as Dr Jane Doe
* Marguerite Kenner as Unnamed cult member
* Martin Corcoran as Dr. Lionel Elliot and Breekon
* Martyn Pratt as Robin Lennox
* Michael LeBeau as Timothy Stoker
* Paul Sims as Jurgen Leitner
* Peng Wei as Zhang Xiaoling
* Perdita Stott as Karolina Górka
* Ray Chong Nee as Mikaele Salesa
* Richard Davies as Police Officer
* Richard Soames as Eric Delano
* Russell Smith as Oliver Banks
* Sasha Sienna as Georgie Barker
* Steven Violich as Kurt Anderson and Hope
* Sue Sims as Gertrude Robinson
* Tim Ledsam as Jordan Kennedy
* Tim Meredith as additional voices
* Will Harvey as Callum Brodie

## Crew

### Art

* Anika Khan
* Mark Anzalone

### Editors

* Alexander J. Newall
* Annie Fitch
* Brock Winstead
* David Devereux
* Ed von Aderkas
* Elizabeth Moffatt
* Ian Hayles
* James Austin
* Jeffrey Nils Gardner
* Jen Jacobs
* Maddy Searle
* Michael LeBeau
* Nico Vettese
* Tessa Vroom

### Producers

* Alexander J. Newall
* April Sumner
* Jonathan Sims
* Lowri Ann Davies
* Mike LeBeau
* Murray Porter
* Story Sylwester

### Sensitivity Consultants

* Alexander Linde Nielsen
* Helen Gould
Daniel Rawlings

Daniel Rawlings is a minor character in The Magnus Archives, first appearing in MAG 1 as a victim of the Anglerfish who disappeared in December of 2006 from Old Fishmarket Close in Edinburgh.

He reappears in MAG 54 as the owner of the Trophy Room, a taxidermy shop in June 2013. His eyes are now glassy and empty, suggesting that he has been taxidermied. In MAG 96 it is revealed that he was eventually killed by Gertrude Robinson when she stole the Gorilla Skin from the store.

In MAG 119, we learn his skin was possessed by the same being that inhabits the skin of Sarah Baldwin during season 3, referred to as one of "hundreds of shells."

## Episode Appearances

* MAG 54: Still Life
* MAG 96: Return to Sender (mentioned)
MAG 0.2: Pre-Launch Trailer

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The Magnus Institute's new Archivist makes his first attempt to record a statement.

## Pre-Statement

Jonathan Sims has been struggling to record certain statements because of severe distortions. He has unearthed an old tape recorder and is making a test recording of an old fragmented statement to see if the archaic technology has better luck than digital recordings. The statement comes from someone named Jacob, no second name given.

## Statement

"It'll get you too. You can stare all you want. Make your notes and your enquiries. But all your beholding will come to nothing. When the time arrives, and all is darkness and butchery, you'll wish you had stopped listening and run."

## Post-Statement

John considers the statement too fragmentary to be useful but asks Elias Bouchard to let him know if the recording was successful, in which case they can start recording the rest of the statements.

## Continuity

* The statement refers to several entities: The Eye, The Dark, and possibly The Flesh, The Slaughter, or The Hunt.
* It may also be foreshadowing the completion of The Mass Ritual in MAG 160.
* In MAG 80, Jurgen Leitner mentions one of his assistants, Jacob Feng, who fell victim to a pamphlet called A Disappearance. The pamphlet may be related to The Lonely; notably, the pamphlet's powers of hiding seem directly opposed to the powers of The Eye. It is not yet clear if Jacob Feng is the same Jacob who made this statement.
Act III Finale Trailer

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The Final act begins.

## Recording

Arun finishes reading a poem from the basement's limited library. Celia expresses concern over Georgie and Melanie being above ground, but Arun reassures her that they cannot be harmed. Celia has a feeling that something is happening, causing Laverne to admit that she went too close to the stairs and realised that there were more watchers, four or five as opposed to the previous two.

Arun encourages the others to have faith in their prophets. An unnamed person mentions that people named Song and Christopher were not protected by their cult leaders. Celia repeats her fears, but Laverne shares her doubts that anything can get worse, since the world has already ended.

## Trivia

* The poem read by Arun is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
* Lowri is the producer of The Magnus Archives and previously voiced the statement giver "Lynne Hammond" in MAG 100.
Eye Symbology

Eye symbology and symbols appear to be a recurring theme in the statements of the Magnus Archives. Specifically, stylised open eye symbols and closed eye symbols appear occasionally.

## Open Eye Symbols

### Intricate Painting of Open Eye (MAG 4)

Gerard Keay painted a painting of an eye that his mother, Mary Keay, stored at their shop, Pinhole Books. The painting was incredibly detailed, with intricate patterns and symmetry with the caption "*grant us the sight that we may not know, grant us the scent that we may not catch, grant us the sound that we may not call*".

### Gerard Keay's Tattoos and Pendant (MAG 12)

Gerard Keay has open eye tattoos on each of his joints and over his heart. This appears to have protected his points from the flames that burnt him. He also had a lighter with an open eye symbol etched on it. Lesere Saraki, author of the statement, believes he had a brass pendant with an eye symbol on it, although this was not seen. On the CCTV from St Thomas Hospital there was a single frame of a human eye at 03:22:52, although it is not clear what part of the events that coincided with.

### Small Open Eye Engravings in Johann von Württemberg (MAG 23)

On all the bookshelves in Johann von Württemberg's mausoleum were small engravings of open eyes.

## Closed Eye Symbols

### Silver pendant from the People's Church of the Divine Host (MAG 9)

Julia Montauk's mother had a silver pendant which was of a hand with a stylised closed eye symbol on it. Robert Montauk's last victim had the same pendant. It is possible, although not proven, that all his victims had the same pendant and were all linked somehow. The pendant is from the People's Church of the Divine Host and it is possible that the victims are all linked to that church.

### Hither Green Dissenters (MAG 25)

When Mark Bilham was exploring the house of Natalie Ennis, he found a piece of paper. On one side it said "Hither Green Dissenters", and the other side it had a curved line with four straight lines coming off one side of it, like a stylised eye.

## Other Eyes

### Meat Eyes (MAG 18)

The pile of moving meat in Toby Carlisle's room "opened all its eyes" according to Christof Rudenko.

### Oratory Window (MAG 20)

Edwin Burroughs felt like the great glass window in the Oratory was a giant eye, looking at him.
Extinguished Sun

The Extinguished Sun is the ritual for The Dark.

## Overview

The Extinguished Sun is one of the more complex rituals to be performed, involving multiple groups of The Peoples Church of the Divine Host all over the globe. It involves a "week of horrors"; one week of night with thousands of sacrifices culminating at the eclipse of Ny-Ålesund, where a special focal object was to replace the sun, plunging the world into darkness. The ritual in 2015 used a sun made out of darkness made by Manuela Dominguez.

## Known Components

* A Sacrifice: A symbolic creature of the dark was to be killed, and its blood used to fuel the ritual. The Sacrifice for the 2015 ritual was The Still and Lightless Beast.
* A Channeling point: Usually a powerful avatar of the dark, the main pulling force of the ritual. Maxwell Rayner was the Channeling Point of the 2015 ritual.
* A Focal Object: A object meant to replace the sun if the ritual was to succeed. The object used in the 2015 ritual was The Dark Star.
* The Church: The entirety of The Peoples Church of the Divine Host was to help channel and guide the ritual.
* The Sacrifices: Thousands of people meant to continue powering the ritual by being killed one by one.

## The 2015 ritual

The 2015 ritual was the most recent ritual of the dark, with Maxwell Rayner as The Channeling Point, The Still and Lightless Beast as The Sacrifice, and The Dark Star as The Focal point. The Church had come very close to completing the ritual this time, as no outside interference actually happened. The ritual collapsed under its own strain, leaving many cultists dead, and the others began bickering about what went wrong and started to fall apart. In the aftermath, Manuela Dominguez was tasked with guarding the Dark Star, which she did until Jonathan Sims and Basira Hussain encountered her. John destroyed the Dark Star and Manuela was taken by Helen.

## Other notes

This ritual is the oldest known ritual, as Maxwell already devised it long before Smirke made his list of 14.

This ritual failed for no apparent reason, as Gertrude Robinson had not made any preparations to stop it and no other avatars have had any plans. The reason was revealed in MAG 160, the entities are too closely interconnected to summon individually, and all rituals will fail on their own.
MAG 170: Recollection

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The recollections of Martin Blackwood. Recorded in Situ.

## Recording

Martin is lost. He is in a house full of fog as he finds a tape recorder and begins speaking to it. He rambles and struggles to remember things, he is unsure where he is or why he is there. He has been trying to find somewhere nice to sit but every chair he finds is uncomfortable, and there is an unpleasant damp, sort of chemical smell in the air.

Ever so often a swell of static rises and he seems to forget again, he is surprised to see the tape recorder and greets it repeatedly. He talks to it of various disjointed recollections from his past:

He fancies his new boss but his boss does not seem to care for him.

He has started lying on his CV and he is worried about being found out, but they really need the money.

They really should keep quiet so they do not wake his mum. He knows she loves him but there is so much to do and he is always forgetting things. He always thinks of her face when he has done something wrong but right now he cannot remember what she looked like.

He was terrified of being found out during his job interview and he only remembers the interviewer's eyes, but he got the job in the end.

His grandfather died when he was nine. At the funeral, there was a photo of a young man on the coffin it almost looked like his granddad but Martin could not quite recognise him. He was distraught to realise he could not remember his granddad's face.

He mentions running into other people when wandering this house. They were all thin, grey, and faded. They did not seem to remember much and asked Martin who they were or if there was anyone left who even cared about them. Unable to answer, Martin eventually ran from them.

Martin is not sure if there is anyone who cares about him either. He is scared, he feels like he is losing himself in the fog and he is not sure if he even minds because so much of what is behind the fog is painful.

He wonders if he asked the fog to come, but that is not true. He is here because he was too slow and the fog caught up to him when he was following John.

He remembers John and clings to the memory. He reminds himself, he is Martin Blackwood and he is not alone anymore. He did not choose to be here, he has friends, he's in love and he refuses to forget that.

In the distance, John calls for him and they quickly find each other again. John is apologetic, he thought Martin had been just behind him when they got separated and even when he tried to use his Knowing to locate him, it was hard to find him through the fog.

John realises something about this place and lets Martin know that he would understand if he just wanted to stay here and forget everything that hurts. Martin admits that it is comforting here but it is not a good comfort, it is the kind that makes you faded and distant. It is The Lonely, but it is not him anymore.
MAG 0.3: Launch Trailer

## Launch Trailer

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The Magnus Institute's new Archivist attempts to record the statement of Nathan Watts.

## Recording

Jonathan Sims starts to record the statement of Nathan Watts when he hears a noise. He calls out, inquiring if anyone is there and stating that the Archives are off limits. He asks if Martin is there and swears that he will peel him if he has brought another dog into the Archives.

He leaves to investigate and a mysterious voice is heard. It chants "Vigilo. Audio. Opperior." several times but fades as John comes back. He mutters to himself about IKEA shelves and notices that the tape recorder is still running. He decides to start over and turns it off.

## Continuity

* The chanted Latin translates to "I watch. I listen. I wait."

* This chant parallels the official description of episode description of MAG 160: "Vigilo, Audio, Supervenio", which roughly translates to "I watch. I listen. I surpass."
* Martin let a dog into the Archives in The Magnus Archives Liveshow.
Ghost Hunt UK

*Ghost Hunt UK* is a YouTube channel within The Magnus Archives universe.

It is the creation of Melanie King, and investigated known paranormal events and hauntings.

Although Melanie had a team of different people working on the show, including co-host, camera, and sound personnel, they all departed after research on the Cambridge Military Hospital in MAG 28.

The final episode was a solo expedition by Melanie King to an abandoned train graveyard in Rotherham (MAG 76), although filming ended in disaster and the episode was likely never released.

After this event, the show was cancelled.

## Personnel

* Melanie King - Host
* Andy Caine - Co-Host
* Peter Warhol - Sound
* Antonia "Toni" Farron - Camera
* Sarah Baldwin - Sound (temporarily)
Bonus Content

This page lists all the bonus content for the Magnus Archives offered by the Rusty Quill Patreon.

**Note: these links are merely for ease of navigation. You will need to be a patron of the listed level to actually access the content.**

## Rusty Knight -  $5 level

### Q&A Episodes

* MAG 100.5 - Assistants Round Table (extended cut)
* MAG 120.1 - Season 3 Q+A (extended cut)
* TMA Season 4 Q&A, Patreon Extras, Part 1

### Rusty Bits

Bite-sized footage from behind-the-scenes at Rusty Quill.  A mix of The Magnus Archives and other shows.

* Rusty Bits #1
* Rusty Bits #2
* Rusty Bits #3
* Rusty Bits #4
* Rusty Bits #5
* Rusty Bits #6
* Rusty Bits #7
* Rusty Bits #8
* Rusty Bits #9
* Rusty Bits #10
* Rusty Bits #11
* Rusty Bits #12

### Fluff Competition

* Winner #1 - Epiphany
* Winner #2 - Expenses
* Winner #3 - In the Public Eye
* Winner #4 - Ostriches

## Rusty Noble - $10 level

### Martin’s poetry

A selection of Martin’s poems written by Anil Godigamuwe, edited by Jonathan Sims, and performed by Alex Newall.

* Draw State (by Blackwood Esq)
* Filed Away (by MKB)
* Yonder (by K Blackwood)
* Visitors (by Martin K)
* Rains (by Mr. Blackwood)
* Biscuits (by M.K.B.)
* A Country Walk (by M. K. Blackwood)
* Streets (by Martin K Blackwood)

### Deluxe Transcripts

In-universe transcripts, with handwritten notes by the Archivist and the occasional supplemental material.

* MAG001 - Anglerfish - Deluxe
* MAG002 - Do Not Open - Deluxe
* MAG003 - Across the Street - Deluxe
* MAG004 - Page Turner - Deluxe
* MAG005 - Thrown Away - Deluxe
* MAG006 - Squirm - Deluxe
* MAG007 - The Piper - Deluxe
* MAG008 - Burned Out - Deluxe
* MAG009 - A Father’s Love - Deluxe
* MAG010 - Vampire Killer - Deluxe
* MAG011 - Dreamer - Deluxe
* MAG012 - First Aid - Deluxe

### Miscellaneous

* TMA Outtakes: The Sims Collection
* Magnus Bloopers: Technical Pause
* Magnus Bloopers Special
* MAG 101 bloopers
* The Magnus Bloopers
* The Magnus Archive - Main Theme
* What the Ghost? - The Devil’s Dance, an episode of Georgie Barker's podcast.
* The Rusty Quill Studio Tour, see the room where the magic happens.
* Asking Alex Anything! a live AMA held on the Rusty Quill Discord server.
* The Magnus Recording Yurt, the podcast's humble beginnings.
* Artefact Storage, a partial manifest of paranormal artefacts.