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Part 17: Grant or Gareth or Gary or Gavin

The Magnus Archives was a horror podcast. It is now completed. Many of the show’s mysteries were never explained on the show. I intend to explain them. Spoilers for the show, but also spoilers if you wanna solve these mysteries yourself.

Another mystery for you to solve. In Scrutiny Jess goes on a date with a man whose name she can’t remember. She thinks it might be Grant or Gareth or Gary or Gavin. Can you figure out his name? It’s pretty hard, but I’ll give lots of hints.

Hint 1: It’s not Grant, Gareth, Gary or Gavin.

Hint 2: The handshake is a clue.

Hint 3: This is not the only episode the date appears in.

Hint 4: In Threshold John talks about taking a statement from Jess. He says the recorder didn’t turn on. Why didn’t it turn on?

Hint 5: The hand that gripped Jess underground is a clue.

Hint 6: The hand that gripped Jess underground belonged to the date.

Hint 7: What I said in part 16 is relevant…

Hint 8: ...but the date is not the Distortion.

Hint 9, last hint: The reason Jess goes on and on about the name is a clue that the name is important. The name begins with a G.

Solution: The date is Gabriel, the Worker-in-Clay. Helen wants the Eye’s apocalypse to happen. So she wants John to take victims and be strong so he can survive the challenges. We see her encourage John to feed on victims in Threshold and Rotten Core. When John enters the corridor in Flesh, Helen gives him fake memories of having fed on two victims. So in Doomed Voyage when John meets Floyd on the boat, John feeds on him. John has lost his inhibition to feed on random strangers, because he wrongly believes he has already done it twice.

Helen also wants to ruin John’s relationship with his friends. Without other friends, John is more likely to rely on Helen. Helen contacts Gabriel. Gabriel goes on a date with Jess, who is one of his old victims. He gives Jess false memories of John taking her statement. Jess complains to the Magnus Institute and everyone gets mad at John. When John and Basira enter the corridors at the end of Heart of Darkness, Helen gives John false memories of having fed on two more victims, including Jess.

Gabriel makes Jess forget his name, but not perfectly. Grant, Gareth, Gary or Gavin all sound a bit like Gabriel. They sound even more like Gabe, which is what Gabriel is called in the Puppeteer. Maybe Gabriel also changes Jess’ memories of what Gabriel looked like on the date?

In Sculptor's Tool we see Gabriel can change people’s memories. Deborah’s memories of what day of the week sculpture class is changes. Sculptor's Tool also establishes that Gabriel and the Distortion are friends.

The date shakes Jess’s hand. Gabriel shakes Deborah’s hand. Jess gets a bruise on her leg after the hand grabs her. Deborah gets marks on her hand after shaking hands with Gabriel. Deborah says Gabriel's hand is damp. Jess says the hand that grabbed her was like wet sand. Both hands are wrong, one with spiraling fingerprints, one with fingers in the wrong place.

Gabriel thanks Deborah, in a creepy way. The fake John, created by Gabriel, thanks Jess in a creepy way. Fake John says he is from the Magnus Institution rather than the Magnus Institute. That’s Gabriel’s spiral nature shining through, he’s saying institution like in mental institution. John’s recorder doesn’t turn on during those statements, because those statements never happened.

Jess says “Every time I do, every time I get that – panic just rising up my throat, I see him. He’s there. Not when I look properly. But just at the edge. The corner of my eye”. We have heard of no other of John’s victims seeing him when they are awake. Maybe Gabriel does not have the ability to change people’s dreams. Maybe he follows Jess around and gives her memories of having nightmares instead.

The Spiral is next to the Buried on the wheel. (see Part 3). I think Gabriel is part Spiral part Buried, which is why he makes Jess claustrophobic. (I think in Lost Johns’ Cave, the pale hand holding the candle belongs to Gabriel. Lost Johns’ Cave had claustrophobia and false memories. And hands are obviously a theme for Gabriel. I also think Gabriel is responsible for the vase in Lost and Found. A clay vase, a man whose memories don’t match reality, and two creepy hands coming out of the vase. The hands have dirty fingernails, like from working with clay.)

Some might object, didn’t Gabriel die in Another Twist? “The-Worker-of-Clay tore out his veins to dissolve himself in crimson mud. The others of us were cast to all the places that aren’t; some have still not found their way out again.” Not sure dissolving would kill him. This is a guy who can have his face move away from his skull, and have shifting clay beneath. And if I’m right he can also appear inside a vase. Maybe he just dissolved himself temporarily so he wouldn’t be cast to the places that aren’t. And even if he died, he might have come back, like the darkness monster inside Rayner.

Basira also went through the corridor. Was her memories messed with too? I think so. The next time Basira meets Elias, Basira beats him up. I think this is out of character for Basira. I think Helen gave Basira fake memories of being an angrier and more violent person. That way Basira gets even angrier at John.

In Threshold John asks Helen if the Web can manipulate another avatar, meaning John, and make them feed on victims. Helen laughs and laughs. She knows she’s the one that’s been manipulating John to feed.

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