WHERE IS AWEN NULL?

The Alt.Cardiff2026 Exclusive Series Has Landed — And It's Free (For Now)

You asked for it. You've been watching the signals. You've been following the patterns in the noise.

So here it is.

THE HOLLOW CIRCUIT™ ALT.CARDIFF2026 — The Rwth & Rhiannon Files is live.

Three episodes. Two agents from the 41st century. One city that doesn't know it's already dead.

And somewhere out there in the grey Cardiff rain: Awen Null. The ghost in the source code. The name that got erased from history.

THE SERIES

Rwth (Agent R-9.Δ) and Rhiannon (Agent R-11.Θ) are future-born anthropological archaeologists, time-slipped field agents tasked with retrieving artefacts from our Cardiff to cross-reference with the fractured archives of their 41st-century future. Every object they retrieve may rewrite a hundred years. Every mistake may wipe out a world.

They don't wear capes. They wear bucket hats.

Rwth is your chrono-anthropologist — pattern recognition so hyper-sensitive she can read entire crime scenes from dust motes. Carries a Temporal Inference Blade (not a weapon; a diagnostic tool). Writes her field notes in Ancient Greek because "it travels better." Has a soft spot for doomed timelines and lies to herself about lying to others.

Rhiannon is your rogue archivist — 26 in her body, 63 in her memories. Her bucket hat flickers when she lies. Uses Future-Lens Contacts that let her see "before," "after," and "almost." Loyal only to Rwth, even across collapsing timelines. Too curious. Too brave. Too aware of what Cardiff becomes if they fail.

Together, they've discovered that Alt.Cardiff 2026 isn't just a field site.

It's a temporal crime hub.

And the key to everything — to the Hollow Circuit itself, to the bio-digital convergence, to the memory rot that will swallow the 41st century whole — is a single entity the Oligarchy of Light erased from sanctioned history.

They need to find Awen Null.

WHAT'S IN THE COMPILED PDF + FLIPBOOK

Compiled from the exclusive Tumblr serial, Episodes 1–3 are now available in a full illustrated PDF and an embedded FlipBook on artoffaceless.com:

Episode One — The arrival. Church Street, a Valyphos breach, and a graffiti tag sprayed onto a Cardiff hoarding that echoes two thousand years into the future: WHERE IS AWEN NULL?
Episode Two — The run. Seya at the terminal, seventeen monitors screaming red. A manifesto that shouldn't exist surfacing from the SubDermal Archives. Grangetown. CF11. A red door. The Signal is failing.
Episode Three — Big Mike. The book. The cats. The mycelium plates are beginning to glow. And a question that changes everything: Which edition are you reading?

Full character dossiers for Rwth and Rhiannon included.

GET THE PDF — FREE WITH SUBSCRIPTION

The large-scale PDF and FlipBook are free to download when you subscribe to Art of FACELESS. Free tier gets you in. The paid tier keeps the entire operation running.

FOLLOW THE SERIES WHERE IT LIVES

The Alt.Cardiff2026 series runs exclusively on Tumblr at altcardiff2026.com — and that's where you want to be right now, because here's the deal:

The first 6 episodes are free on Tumblr.

After that? The series moves into the AltCardiff2026 GlitchZine Newsletter — subscribers only.

So follow the Tumblr now while the door's open. Sign up for the newsletter while it's free. Because Episode 4 is coming, and it's called "The First Edition" — and if Episode 3 just taught you anything, you already know why that title matters.

WHILE YOU'RE HERE — THE BOOK THAT STARTED ALL OF THIS

The series exists because the book exists.

THE HOLLOW CIRCUIT Book One: Second Edition — the foundational text, the blueprint, the thing Big Mike's been reading since 2012 — is available now on Kindle.

If you want to understand what Rwth and Rhiannon are fighting to preserve, what the OOL erased, what the whole apparatus of The Hollow Circuit is actually built on: start here.

The Hollow Circuit™ is a transmedia project by Art of FACELESS, established in 2012.
Alt.Cardiff2026 is an ongoing serial. New episodes drop on @altcardiff2026 on Tumblr.
After Episode 6: GlitchZine Newsletter subscribers only.

RESONATE OR DELETE.

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