diff --git a/Kalsa/Public/Sources/At the Second Gate.md b/Kalsa/Public/Sources/At the Second Gate.md index 9f8fef2..749e345 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Public/Sources/At the Second Gate.md +++ b/Kalsa/Public/Sources/At the Second Gate.md @@ -13,34 +13,19 @@ tags: # At the Second Gate -This is the threshold copy Sela Orr issued for Reed Ward. It contains what the -escort can know before delivering the sealed report. +Sela Orr issued these instructions for the escort bringing grain into Reed Ward. They give you only what you can know before delivering the sealed report. -The grain carts wait outside. Reed Ward has one reduced issue left. Iven Tal's -comparison is in your keeping, closed beneath a house seal. The outer cord names -Sela Orr of Reed Ward as its first recipient. The first gate bell is about to -sound. +Reed Ward has one reduced grain ration left to distribute, and the carts are still outside. Your job is to escort the marked load and deliver Iven Tal's report comparing two cargo gates to Sela. The report is closed beneath a house seal; its outer cord names Sela Orr of Reed Ward as the first person to receive it. She has not yet received it, and you have no open report to consult. -Pera Sai rests one hand on the marked lead cart. Her working group promised the -grain to Reed Ward Store. The promise names the load and recipient, not a gate. -She says pressure is gathering around it and refuses to guess aloud at a cause. +Pera Sai stands with one hand on the marked lead cart. Her working group promised this grain to Reed Ward Store. That promise specifies the load and who must receive it, but leaves the choice of gate open. Pera says she feels pressure gathering around the promised grain. She refuses to guess aloud about its cause. -Two routes enter the ward. The surface gate is already receiving ordinary -traffic. The old understore lies below the paving; Daro Venn holds its keys and -counterweight stop. Nothing on the courier's copy grants authority to make him -open it. +You can reach the ward by either of two routes. Ordinary traffic is already passing through the surface gate. The other route runs through the old understore beneath the paving. Daro Venn is down there with its keys and counterweight stop. Your instructions give you no authority to require him to open it. -Your written charge is short: deliver the sealed comparison to Sela, escort -rather than own the marked load, and preserve any new order, stop, or changed -route with the person who issued it. Reed Ward owes the agreed food, pay, and -ordinary injury support. Labor outside the escort bargain or damage to borrowed -equipment returns as a signed claim to Sela and the person whose property or -body bore it. The charge gives no power to open a gate, retarget Pera's -promise, waive a levy, or surrender Reed Ward's claim. +The marked load remains in someone else's ownership while you escort it. If anyone issues a new order, stops the delivery, or changes its route, keep a record of what changed and who directed it. Your charge does not let you open a gate, change the load or recipient specified by Pera's promise, waive a levy, or surrender Reed Ward's claim. -Sela has not received the report. The first bell rope moves above the gate. -Daro is below with the keys; the cord around Iven Tal's comparison is still -uncut. +Reed Ward owes you the agreed food, pay, and ordinary support for injury. Work beyond the escort agreement, or damage to borrowed equipment, must be recorded in a signed claim returned to Sela and to the person whose property was damaged or whose body bore the cost. + +Above the gate, the rope moves for the first bell. Daro still has the keys below. The cord around Iven Tal's comparison remains uncut. Continue to [[../Sources/The Grain at Two Gates|The Grain at Two Gates]], or return to [[../World/Magic and Miracles|Magic and Miracles]] or diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Divine Manifestation and Thaumavore Interception Proposal.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Divine Manifestation and Thaumavore Interception Proposal.md index e4d16e5..73d583a 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Divine Manifestation and Thaumavore Interception Proposal.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Divine Manifestation and Thaumavore Interception Proposal.md @@ -11,14 +11,10 @@ tags: # Divine Manifestation and Thaumavore Interception Proposal -This handoff was adjudicated in KALSA-040. Accepted mechanics now belong to -[[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], -[[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, -God Beasts, and Thaumavores]], and -[[Spoilers/Foundations/Oracle Ecology|Oracle Ecology]]. Allocation, covenant, -and mortuary consequences belong to their existing institution notes. +This is a reference to a retired proposal, reviewed and decided in KALSA-040. It preserves where the proposal went and where to recover it; this note establishes no current setting facts. -[[Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Halo Armament|The Ash-Halo Armament]] owns the adopted -historical case. [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ash-Halo Court|The Ash-Halo Court]] -owns its current playable return. The original proposal remains recoverable in -git commit `eef546d`; this note owns no live setting claim. +The accepted mechanics are now defined in [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]], and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Oracle Ecology|Oracle Ecology]]. The existing institution notes remain responsible for the consequences involving allocation, covenants, and treatment of the dead. + +[[Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Halo Armament|The Ash-Halo Armament]] defines the adopted historical case. [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ash-Halo Court|The Ash-Halo Court]] defines the site's return as a current playable situation. + +The original proposal can be recovered from git commit `eef546d`. diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index.md index cec70be..3d641b1 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ tags: - [[Spoilers/Foundations/Oracle Ecology|Oracle Ecology]] - [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] -## Control surfaces +## Related reference notes - [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]] - [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md index 4e3df00..337a11e 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md @@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ tags: # Polities and Cultures Index -These notes are polity owners, not complete national essences. Deepened polities expose land, labour, office, conflict, and institutional interfaces; preservation and unresolved stubs say plainly where the seed does not yet support that depth. Every note separates Promethean design, magical constraints, remembered institutions, prejudice, and current agency. +These notes describe Kalsa's political communities and cultures. Each is the canonical source for its subject, though none defines everything its people are or can become. + +The more developed notes explain who controls land, who does the work, who holds office, where conflicts arise, and how institutions deal with one another. Notes marked as preservation or unresolved stubs identify what the original setting material leaves unanswered. Throughout, the notes distinguish what Prometheus designed, what magic permits or limits, what institutions are remembered, what prejudice claims about people, and what people choose to do now. ## Ark and Null lineages @@ -35,4 +37,4 @@ These notes are polity owners, not complete national essences. Deepened polities - [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Channeling — Sarxe]] - [[Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition — Unresolved]] -See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] for signatures and sequence order. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] for the Gifts' Kaos signatures and their order in Prometheus's development sequence. diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds.md index d2fbdad..e699847 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds.md @@ -10,20 +10,20 @@ tags: # Story Seeds -The exported history ends with a proposed protagonist and conflict. These claims are preserved here without becoming standing setting fact. +The exported history closes with a proposed story: someone leaves the isolated Luck city, attracts the attention of an order of magi, and may face the return of Prometheus. These premises are preserved for possible use in fiction or play. They are not established facts of the shared setting. ## The escaped Luck bearer -A person from the isolated Luck city chooses to leave with Techpriests. The coincidences surrounding him grow visibly wrong outside the system that had contained his ancestors. +A man from the isolated Luck city chooses to leave with Techpriests. Outside the system that had contained his ancestors, the coincidences surrounding him become visibly wrong. The proposal does not explain what those coincidences look like or how the system had contained them. ## The Cabal -The seed proposes an order of magi called the Cabal that seeks to control civilization and notices the escaped Luck bearer. The Cabal's existence, reach, age, and authority are not current setting canon. +The proposed Cabal is an order of magi that wants to control civilization and notices the escaped Luck bearer. Whether it exists in the shared setting remains undecided, as do its reach, age, and authority. ## The sleeping God's return -The seed proposes that Prometheus seeks to reclaim the Children whose ancestors severed and crashed his Ark. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] may have survived the Fall, but active return is not current setting fact. +In this proposed story, [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] seeks to reclaim the Children—the descendants of those who severed and crashed his Ark. He may have survived the Fall, but his active return is not an established event in the shared setting. ## Use -A campaign or fiction project may adopt, alter, or reject these premises. When adopted, it should name its era and distinguish campaign state from the reusable world vault. +A campaign or fiction project may adopt, change, or reject any of these premises. If it adopts one, it should specify the era and make clear which events and conditions belong to that particular story. Adoption does not make the premise a fact of the reusable world vault.