diff --git a/src/Marten/EventStorage/ClosedShapeEventDocumentStorage.cs b/src/Marten/EventStorage/ClosedShapeEventDocumentStorage.cs
index e645d46d38..6e3beeb6a5 100644
--- a/src/Marten/EventStorage/ClosedShapeEventDocumentStorage.cs
+++ b/src/Marten/EventStorage/ClosedShapeEventDocumentStorage.cs
@@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ public override Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation QuickAppendEvents(StreamAction
             : StringStorage.QuickAppendEvents(stream);
     }
 
+    // #4968: route stream archive through the shared Weasel seam. Marten only ever archives (never
+    // un-archives through this path), so pass archived: true; the dialect's factory builds the Postgres
+    // ArchiveStreamOperation.
+    public override Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation ArchiveStream(object streamId, string tenantId)
+    {
+        return Events.StreamIdentity == StreamIdentity.AsGuid
+            ? GuidStorage.ArchiveStream(streamId, tenantId, true)
+            : StringStorage.ArchiveStream(streamId, tenantId, true);
+    }
+
     public override Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation InsertStream(StreamAction stream)
     {
         return Events.StreamIdentity == StreamIdentity.AsGuid
diff --git a/src/Marten/EventStorage/Dialects/PostgresEventStoreDialect.cs b/src/Marten/EventStorage/Dialects/PostgresEventStoreDialect.cs
index bfce25ac5b..931faea0ab 100644
--- a/src/Marten/EventStorage/Dialects/PostgresEventStoreDialect.cs
+++ b/src/Marten/EventStorage/Dialects/PostgresEventStoreDialect.cs
@@ -12,12 +12,14 @@
 using Marten.Events.CodeGeneration;
 using Marten.Events.Schema;
 using Marten.Exceptions;
+using Marten.Events.Operations;
 using Marten.Services;
 using Marten.Storage;
 using Marten.Storage.Metadata;
 using Npgsql;
 using NpgsqlTypes;
 using Weasel.Postgresql;
+using Weasel.Storage;
 
 namespace Marten.EventStorage.Dialects;
 
@@ -716,4 +718,34 @@ private static string BuildUpdateStreamVersionSql(EventGraph graph) =>
     /// </summary>
     private static string BuildAssertStreamVersionSql(EventGraph graph) =>
         $"select version from {graph.DatabaseSchemaName}.{StreamsTable.TableName} where id = ";
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// #4968: vend the shared Weasel.Storage.Events auxiliary-operation seam. Marten routes the stream
+    /// ARCHIVE operation through it, single-sourcing the invocation contract with Polecat. Tombstone and
+    /// progression stay Marten-local and are intentionally left null:
+    /// <list type="bullet">
+    /// <item>Tombstone — Marten's <see cref="EstablishTombstoneStream"/> ESTABLISHES the tombstone
+    /// bookkeeping stream (keyed only by tenant, no stream id) rather than hard-deleting a stream, so it
+    /// does not match the seam's <c>TombstoneStream(streamId, tenantId)</c> hard-delete contract.</item>
+    /// <item>Progression — Marten's <see cref="Marten.Events.Daemon.Progress.UpdateProjectionProgress"/>
+    /// guards its update with the sequence FLOOR (<c>where last_seq_id = floor</c>), which the seam's
+    /// <c>UpdateProgress(name, sequence, upsert)</c> factory signature cannot carry; routing it would drop
+    /// the optimistic-concurrency guard.</item>
+    /// </list>
+    /// </summary>
+    public EventAuxiliaryOperations BuildAuxiliaryOperations(EventRegistry registry)
+    {
+        var graph = (EventGraph)registry;
+        return new EventAuxiliaryOperations(
+            ArchiveStream: (streamId, tenantId, archived) =>
+            {
+                if (!archived)
+                {
+                    throw new NotSupportedException(
+                        "Marten does not support un-archiving a stream; only archive is issued through the event-store seam.");
+                }
+
+                return new ArchiveStreamOperation(graph, streamId) { TenantId = tenantId };
+            });
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Marten/Events/EventDocumentStorage.cs b/src/Marten/Events/EventDocumentStorage.cs
index 3a435803f3..9e375a2a3f 100644
--- a/src/Marten/Events/EventDocumentStorage.cs
+++ b/src/Marten/Events/EventDocumentStorage.cs
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ public abstract Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation AppendEvent(EventGraph events,
     public abstract IQueryHandler<StreamState> QueryForStream(StreamAction stream);
     public abstract Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation UpdateStreamVersion(StreamAction stream);
     public abstract Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation AssertStreamVersion(StreamAction stream);
+    public abstract Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation ArchiveStream(object streamId, string tenantId);
 
     public string StreamStateSelectSql => Marten.EventStorage.StreamStateSql.Build(Events);
 
diff --git a/src/Marten/Events/EventStore.Archiving.cs b/src/Marten/Events/EventStore.Archiving.cs
index ca04a3979b..3986d0146f 100644
--- a/src/Marten/Events/EventStore.Archiving.cs
+++ b/src/Marten/Events/EventStore.Archiving.cs
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ internal partial class EventStore
 {
     public void ArchiveStream(Guid streamId)
     {
-        var op = new ArchiveStreamOperation(_store.Events, streamId){TenantId = _session.TenantId};
+        var op = _session.EventStorage().ArchiveStream(streamId, _session.TenantId);
         _session.QueueOperation(op);
     }
 
     public void ArchiveStream(string streamKey)
     {
-        var op = new ArchiveStreamOperation(_store.Events, streamKey){TenantId = _session.TenantId};
+        var op = _session.EventStorage().ArchiveStream(streamKey, _session.TenantId);
         _session.QueueOperation(op);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Marten/Events/IEventStorage.cs b/src/Marten/Events/IEventStorage.cs
index cf6f48c063..4439e981b9 100644
--- a/src/Marten/Events/IEventStorage.cs
+++ b/src/Marten/Events/IEventStorage.cs
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ public interface IEventStorage: ISelector<IEvent>, ISelector<StreamState>, IDocu
 
     Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation QuickAppendEvents(StreamAction stream);
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// #4968: create a storage operation to archive (soft-delete) a single stream and its events,
+    /// routed through the shared Weasel.Storage event-store auxiliary-operation seam.
+    /// </summary>
+    Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation ArchiveStream(object streamId, string tenantId);
+
     Weasel.Storage.IStorageOperation QuickAppendEventWithVersion(StreamAction stream,
         IEvent e);
 }
diff --git a/src/Marten/Internal/Sessions/DocumentSessionBase.ProjectionStorage.cs b/src/Marten/Internal/Sessions/DocumentSessionBase.ProjectionStorage.cs
index d10cabacbb..fbb50ed7d2 100644
--- a/src/Marten/Internal/Sessions/DocumentSessionBase.ProjectionStorage.cs
+++ b/src/Marten/Internal/Sessions/DocumentSessionBase.ProjectionStorage.cs
@@ -200,51 +200,55 @@ public void StoreProjection(TDoc aggregate, IEvent lastEvent, AggregationScope s
 
     public void ArchiveStream(TId sliceId, string tenantId)
     {
-        var op = archiveOperationBuilderFor<TId>()(sliceId);
-        op.TenantId = tenantId;
+        // #4968: unwrap to the raw stream id and build the archive operation through the shared Weasel
+        // seam (session.EventStorage().ArchiveStream) rather than instantiating ArchiveStreamOperation here.
+        var streamId = streamIdUnwrapperFor<TId>()(sliceId);
+        var op = _session.EventStorage().ArchiveStream(streamId, tenantId);
 
         _session.QueueOperation(op);
     }
 
-    private static ImHashMap<Type, object> _archiveBuilders = ImHashMap<Type, object>.Empty;
+    private static ImHashMap<Type, object> _archiveStreamIdUnwrappers = ImHashMap<Type, object>.Empty;
 
-    private Func<TId, ArchiveStreamOperation> archiveOperationBuilderFor<TId>()
+    // #4968: resolve the raw stream id (Guid/string) from TId, unwrapping a strong-typed id. The archive
+    // operation itself is now built through the dialect's seam factory, so this only handles id extraction.
+    private Func<TId, object> streamIdUnwrapperFor<TId>()
     {
-        if (_archiveBuilders.TryFind(typeof(TId), out var raw))
+        if (_archiveStreamIdUnwrappers.TryFind(typeof(TId), out var raw))
         {
-            return (Func<TId, ArchiveStreamOperation>)raw;
+            return (Func<TId, object>)raw;
         }
 
-        Func<TId, ArchiveStreamOperation> builder = null;
+        Func<TId, object> unwrapper;
         if (((IMartenSession)_session).Options.Events.StreamIdentity == StreamIdentity.AsGuid)
         {
             if (typeof(TId) == typeof(Guid))
             {
-                builder = id => new ArchiveStreamOperation(((IMartenSession)_session).Options.EventGraph, id);
+                unwrapper = id => id;
             }
             else
             {
                 var valueType = ValueTypeInfo.ForType(typeof(TId));
                 var unWrapper = valueType.UnWrapper<TId, Guid>();
-                builder = id =>  new ArchiveStreamOperation(((IMartenSession)_session).Options.EventGraph, unWrapper(id));
+                unwrapper = id => unWrapper(id);
             }
         }
         else
         {
             if (typeof(TId) == typeof(string))
             {
-                builder = id => new ArchiveStreamOperation(((IMartenSession)_session).Options.EventGraph, id);
+                unwrapper = id => id;
             }
             else
             {
                 var valueType = ValueTypeInfo.ForType(typeof(TId));
                 var unWrapper = valueType.UnWrapper<TId, string>();
-                builder = id =>  new ArchiveStreamOperation(((IMartenSession)_session).Options.EventGraph, unWrapper(id));
+                unwrapper = id => unWrapper(id);
             }
         }
 
-        _archiveBuilders = _archiveBuilders.AddOrUpdate(typeof(TId), builder);
-        return builder;
+        _archiveStreamIdUnwrappers = _archiveStreamIdUnwrappers.AddOrUpdate(typeof(TId), unwrapper);
+        return unwrapper;
     }
 
     //TODO fix in IProjectionStorage