CRITICAL AFTERWORD

Relation-only, per the workplan's minimum: the critical apparatus for this volume is Johannes Sigil's “The Epic Without Hero: Toward a Theory of Epic for the Algorithmic Age” (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18208811) — the distributed-epic thesis under which this cycle reads. Companion apparatus: THE STAKES — A Scientific Analysis (10.5281/zenodo.18621736) and Counterfeit Orthodoxies: Manifesto (10.5281/zenodo.19639052). All three are wired isReviewedBy in this record's metadata.