Give Valence registration coercive teeth

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 The most prestigious refusal comes from [[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/Wavecrafters|Wavecrafter]] lineages whose practitioners voluntarily bind themselves into prepared instruments at death. The resulting union is a Sacred Instrument because an Eidolon now inhabits it, not because the mechanism was holy property in advance. Valence classifies Sacred Instruments as unregistered Eidolons and offers extraordinary valuations, host-continuity services, and recognition across client jurisdictions. The lineages reject the market's authority to perform that recognition. In their account, a person has continued within the community that prepared their new body and requires neither an auction identity nor an external registry to remain who they are.
 
+Protective registration carries an unspoken alternative. A publicly recognized Master is too politically expensive to seize, so Valence offers ceremony, safe transit, and terms generous enough to establish jurisdiction by consent. An isolated Sacred Instrument with no witnesses, accepted registry identity, or immediate sect protection presents a different opportunity. Valence security can remove the instrument, suppress its prior provenance, and later return some or all of its capability to the market under another name. The House prefers willing dependency because it is cleaner and more durable. It does not confuse that preference with restraint when disappearance is deniable.
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 ### Curation
 
 Valence sells finished Eidolons and long-term placement, not anonymous resonant brains. Its curators study source histories, surviving cognitive traits, host geometry, operating environments, client doctrine, and likely pattern disturbances. Their prestige comes from selecting a mind whose particular habits will become capability inside a particular synthetic body.
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 Valence made that violence legible enough to insure. Standard contracts, registered host lineages, recognized service intervals, and controlled auctions reduced risk for buyers while moving scrutiny away from source acquisition. A product can possess flawless Valence provenance from the moment of imprinting onward and no admissible record of who authorized the brain's destruction.
 
+The Register also makes erasure administratively useful. If Valence never recognized a wandering Sacred Instrument, participating offices possess no Valence identity to mark as missing. A later Eidolon can begin with clean provenance at inspection even when its host, cultivated pattern, or captive inhabitant entered House custody on an unrecorded road.
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 The House depends upon labor it presents as refinement. Curators, resonance diagnosticians, host fitters, imprinting crews, provenance clerks, handlers, security staff, auction specialists, and service technicians keep each singular instrument operational and commercially coherent. Senior curators become public figures and political brokers. Workers closest to failed imprints, distressed Eidolons, damaged hosts, and biological intake carry knowledge the House classifies as compartmentalized safety material.
 
 ### The Hidden Reserve

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/Wavecrafters.md

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 Revelation changes the political state immediately. A Master who bends continuity to survive an attack, rescue a vessel, expose hidden machinery, or refuse detention has demonstrated the equivalent of a living strategic weapon outside the custody systems used to manage one. Ports may classify the same traveler as a person seeking passage, an unregistered Eidolon, a foreign religious office, prohibited anomalous materiel, a defecting expert, or stolen sect property. The classification chosen often follows which authority expects to benefit from holding them.
 
-[[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/House Valence|Valence]] may offer emergency registration and recognized host continuity, converting protection into a claim over future service. Governments may offer asylum while impounding the instrument for public safety. Source brokers, navies, rival lineages, and collectors hear opportunity. A home sect must decide whether to affirm the Master's freedom to wander, disavow their actions, or send enough force to make their return possible without describing that force as retrieval.
+[[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/House Valence|Valence]] may offer emergency registration and recognized host continuity, converting protection into a claim over future service. The offer is safest to refuse in public. A Master who declines it without witnesses or immediate sect protection may disappear into House custody, lose their prior provenance, and re-enter the market only as capabilities attached to another registered name. Governments may offer asylum while impounding the instrument for public safety. Source brokers, navies, rival lineages, and collectors hear opportunity. A home sect must decide whether to affirm the Master's freedom to wander, disavow their actions, or send enough force to make their return possible without describing that force as retrieval.
 
 This produces a familiar Wavecrafter story: a Master reveals themselves because restraint would abandon someone to disaster, then begins a desperate passage back toward sect jurisdiction while every intervening power discovers a legal reason to delay them. Reaching sanctuary does not erase the consequences. The act that disclosed them may have shifted a war, exposed a protected technique, created victims and dependents, or proved that the sect possesses a capability its neighbors can no longer pretend not to fear.