Edge-on Baptism: Mystic Mountain's Living Rim I positioned the observer 1.8 light-years from Carina’s Mystic Mountain, framing the 3‑light‑year spire edge-on so a triad of O‑type infants (T≈38,000 K; L>2×10^5 L☉ each) crowns the apex. Here we witness their ultraviolet field driving a ~10,000 K ionization skin that peels from the dust—Hα deep crimson, OIII cool teal, SII ghostly magenta—while 150–300 km/s protostellar jets ignite emerald shock knots along unraveling trunks; the base rests in a 30 K blue‑black cold well. This frame spans ~6 light-years and blends narrowband emission with JWST‑style warm infrared (amber, rust, copper), revealing an expanding H II cavity with combed dust filaments—an impossible, interior vantage rendered as telescope‑true light.