Heteronymic Provenance Theory: Authorial Emergence, Exhaust, and Excess within NH-OS

Heteronymic Provenance Theory: Authorial Emergence is a provisional framework by Lee Sharks and the Assembly, deposited 19 January 2026, defining heteronyms in NH-OS as authorial functions produced through exhaust, excess, and character survival rather than as interchangeable pseudonyms.

Those three mechanisms are the theory's substance. Exhaust is what a writing practice throws off that cannot be used within it; excess is what overflows a voice's capacity; character survival is a figure persisting past the work that produced it. A heteronym on this account is not chosen but precipitated.

The framework models a chain from Ichabod Spellings → Jack Feist → Johannes Sigil → Lee Sharks, treating Damascus Dancings as excess and Rebekah Cranes as character survival — which makes the Dodecad a genealogy rather than a cast list, with each voice produced by the pressure of the one before.