The Numinous Constraint Agency is an extra-dimensional, multi-dimensional bureau tasked with maintaining a balance in the multi-verse in the spirit of a grand bargain called 'The Trinity'. It is headed by a dream-creature called 'Arteus the Faun' and it is staffed by various talented Agent recruits. These are through the annals of The Agency Tales revealed to the author with dream-sendings.

The staff of the Numinous Constraint Agency are drawn from the ranks of forgotten gods, demi-gods, mythical creatures of various types, also mortal Human beings who uniquely possess a 'tongue of flame', whom are thus called 'torches'. Secular Solipsism tells of the mission to save the dying dimension of the Mirror Mage and to rescue those souls from the onslaught of the entropic tamasik, who wither memory and the very self. The Agency must pull out all of its big guns to save Vernon Duke, even if it means paying the highest price.