The Founding Series · Series 001
Five characters. Five limited Founding Editions. Choose one while your favorite is still available.
The cabinet of curiosities
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Founding Edition
Funny, charming, and very certain of whatever he is telling you. Whether certainty has anything to do with truth is another question.
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Claim Father of Lies#001–050 Creator Reserve #051–150 Elite Reserve
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A quieter voice in the conversation, asking what love, truth, freedom, and how we treat one another actually require.
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Claim The Carpenter#001–050 Creator Reserve #051–150 Elite Reserve
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Her name is Sally. She would rather you call her Y. She asks the questions adults often stop asking.
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Definitions matter. Assumptions matter. And an answer has a habit of creating another question.
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Claim The Philosopher#001–050 Creator Reserve #051–150 Elite Reserve
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Looking at humanity from the outside can make some of our most normal ideas look unexpectedly strange.
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Claim The Otherly#001–050 Creator Reserve #051–150 Elite Reserve
Founding Edition No. / Serial
A numbered beginning
Little Dark Why's is a character-driven animated philosophy series about the questions people think they already know the answers to.
The Little Dark Why's Founding Series is the first official collection of numbered digital artwork created for the series. Each Founding Edition has a fixed number of registered copies. When you claim one, your copy receives its own serial number and becomes part of your Little Dark Why's collection.
The artwork can be viewed like other digital artwork, but only registered copies are recognised as official numbered Little Dark Why's collectibles.
From curiosity to collection
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The cast
Five different perspectives. No tidy answers required.
Father of Lies is a recurring character in the animated philosophy series Little Dark Why's. He argues with total confidence and treats certainty as though it settled the question.
The Carpenter is a recurring character in the animated philosophy series Little Dark Why's. He asks what an idea costs in practice rather than whether it sounds correct.
Y, whose given name is Sally, is a recurring character in the animated philosophy series Little Dark Why's. She asks the plain questions the adults around her have stopped asking.
The Philosopher is a recurring character in the animated philosophy series Little Dark Why's. He slows a conversation down to check what its words are actually doing.
The Otherly is a recurring character in the animated philosophy series Little Dark Why's. It views human habits from outside them, which makes ordinary ideas look strange.
Permanent record
Every official numbered edition stays documented after release. When a public edition sells out, its archive page remains visible with its artwork, edition ID, fixed edition size, release history, and sold-out status.
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