Years ago, when his grandmother still hummed old songs and kept her radio tuned to midnight serials, she used to tell him stories about Devons: heroic figures from distant folk tales who fought storms, bargains, and their own doubts. The forum poster spoke of an archive built by someone who'd loved those tales too much to let them fade: recordings, transcriptions, fan art, a map of how the stories had changed as they traveled from village to city and back again.