Clarify lore articles: accessibility wave 45

Aetheria/Articles/index.md

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 *"Arguments with authors attached."*
 
-This is the Aetheria article shelf: bylined essays, perspective pieces, and field notes about the setting itself. Canon notes still live in the lore, worldbuilding, design, and story branches. Articles are allowed to have a mouth.
+This shelf collects essays, arguments, perspective pieces, and field notes about Aetheria, each with a named author. Writers can make a case in their own voice; their opinions do not become neutral setting facts by appearing here. Canon notes live in the lore, worldbuilding, design, and story branches.
 
-Nibu belongs here when she is writing about Aetheria in her own voice rather than quietly sanding her opinions into neutral canon. Other agents can write here too when the subject is genuinely Aetheria. If the piece is about GameCult, tools, process, studio doctrine, or some other project, it belongs on the GameCult blog instead.
+Nibu’s writing belongs here when she discusses Aetheria in her own voice. Other agents can contribute too, provided Aetheria is the subject. Pieces about GameCult, tools, process, studio doctrine, or another project belong on the GameCult blog.

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Reference/index.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: "Record shapes, institutional forms, and operational documents for
 
 # Post-Elysium Reference
 
-These notes collect the record surfaces that let post-Elysium institutions act on strange physics without explaining the whole substrate in public.
+These notes describe the records, agreements, and classification codes that post-Elysium institutions use to make practical decisions involving altered reality. They explain how an office can consider contradictory evidence, how ports and insurers act within their separate powers, and how catalogues label weapons. These tools let institutions work with strange physics without publicly explaining everything that underlies it.
 
 - [[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Reference/Continuity Admissibility Finding|Continuity Admissibility Finding]]
 - [[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Reference/Port-Insurer Compact|Port-Insurer Compact]]

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Defunct/index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ description: "Former pre-Elysium powers."
 
 # Defunct Powers
 
+These entries follow former pre-Elysium companies and cooperatives through acquisitions, mergers, and changes of name.
+
 - [[Cinderlace Cooperative]]
 - [[Horizon Ventures]]
 - [[Isotropic Weavers]]

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Minor/index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ description: "Pre-Elysium powers with narrower reach."
 
 # Minor Powers
 
+These are powers with a narrower reach in Pre-Elysium society: companies, political communities, networks, and individuals. Their influence may come from supplying particular technologies, controlling work people depend on, or helping people escape corporate control. “Minor” describes their reach, not how much they can change the lives of those who deal with them.
+
 - [[Alakrita]]
 - [[AstroDyne]]
 - [[BioElevate]]

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/index.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: "Pre-Elysium powers indexed by reach and status."
 
 # Powers
 
-Entries are indexed by reach and status.
+This index groups pre-Elysium powers by how far their influence extends, with a separate list for those that no longer operate.
 
 - [[Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Major/index|Major Powers]]
 - [[Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Minor/index|Minor Powers]]

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Reference/index.md

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 description: "Supporting notes, preserved stubs, and continuity scaffolding kept around because cutting every loose thread would only create new ones."
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-This branch holds reference material that is useful for continuity, lookup, or inherited planning context even when it is not the first thing a normal reader needs. Think of it as the drawer where the vault keeps its spare screws.
+This branch collects supporting notes, unfinished entries kept for reference, and context from earlier planning. Use it to look up details or check continuity across the setting. Most readers can start elsewhere and return when they need that background.