The engine is a pure deterministic step function over a state document and
an exogenous event stream it cannot attribute; the shell is the daemon.
Single-player Aetheria hands over the engine state and an event script,
never precalculated prices, so player choices stay live against the story.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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