Reframe Kalsa through inhabitant scholarship

.epiphany/project-memory.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ database and does not grant canon status to any setting claim.
 - `memory-play-proof` — Abstract institutional machinery is not enough for Ghostlight use. At least one concrete threshold, route, clock, claimant collision, and consequence surface must prove that the setting can be entered and played.
 - `memory-open-spoiler-friction` — Kalsa's author vault remains open and inspectable. `Kalsa/index.md` is a reader-first consent gate, `Kalsa/Public/` owns the fantasy-first reader path, and all author/GM material is physically enclosed under `Kalsa/Spoilers/`; warnings and deliberate navigation provide opt-in friction rather than pretending the material is secret.
 - `memory-epistemic-split` — Author truth, reader lore, character knowledge, and adjudicator affordances are different projections with different owners. Proximity in the vault does not grant a reader or character access.
+- `memory-public-epistemic-ownership` — `Kalsa/Public/` is an inhabitant-facing knowledge commons, not an abbreviated author encyclopedia. Explanatory models require a culture, institution, lineage, text, witness, or named synthesis; translated terms must carry evidence, material reproduction, interests, and characteristic limits rather than smuggling backstage taxonomy into player knowledge.
 - `memory-divine-uncertainty` — Gods are powerful, situated witnesses rather than authorial oracles. Divine confidence, memory, doctrine, and testimony remain evidence shaped by binding, rivalry, self-conception, and blind spots.
 - `memory-play-canon` — Persistent play creates receipts and canon candidates. Runtime outcomes become shared setting canon only when an owning canonical note explicitly adopts them.
 

AGENTS.md

@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ bones.
 - `Kalsa/` is the sole canonical Obsidian vault root. Its `index.md` is a reader-first,
   navigation-only consent gate.
 - `Kalsa/Public/` is the only publishable Quartz content root. Its notes own
-  situated presentation, not the hidden facts they omit or reinterpret.
+  situated presentation, not the hidden facts they omit or reinterpret. Every
+  explanatory model must have an inhabitant owner—a culture, institution,
+  lineage, text, witness, or explicit synthesis of named sources. Public is not
+  the author ontology with the serial numbers filed off.
 - `Kalsa/Spoilers/` is the complete canonical author and GM surface. The folder
   is a consent boundary, not a lore owner; its subject notes retain authority.
 - `Kalsa/.obsidian/` owns stable vault configuration. Workspace, graph, and
@@ -68,6 +71,11 @@ bones.
   them with generic medieval-Europe defaults wearing renamed hats.
 - Open source does not mean default omniscience. Public navigation, search,
   sitemap, RSS, and backlinks must not expose author-only or GM material.
+- Author labels such as Promethean sequences, signatures, formal capability
+  axes, and backstage divine taxonomy remain in `Spoilers/` unless an
+  inhabitant owner has reconstructed a bounded analogue. A local synonym does
+  not make the author model situated; evidence, institutions, interests, and
+  characteristic limits must travel with it.
 - Vault openness does not excuse root-level exposure. Author and GM notes remain
   physically inside `Kalsa/Spoilers/` even though determined readers may enter.
 - Character knowledge is a projection from bounded evidence. The world compiler

Kalsa/Public/Sources/Four Readings of a Broken Sluice.md

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+---
+title: Four Readings of a Broken Sluice
+status: canonical-reference
+audience: public
+owns: presentation-only
+tags:
+  - public
+  - source
+  - juonai
+  - scholarship
+---
+
+# Four Readings of a Broken Sluice
+
+Versions of this teaching dialogue circulate through Ju'onai client colleges.
+The stream, offices, and speakers change with the copy. This rendering uses
+trade speech and preserves the argument rather than claiming an original text.
+
+The exercise begins with a sluice that closes correctly when tested and fails
+to divide water across three fields after the crew leaves.
+
+The Concordance teacher speaks first.
+
+“The gate answered the opened reader because gate, reader, and the divine idea
+of division briefly agreed. The later failure tells us that the concordance did
+not extend to the whole watercourse.”
+
+The keeper asks, “Which god did the mud offend?”
+
+“That is not what I said.”
+
+“It is what the estate priest will say when the lower field asks for seed.”
+
+The Trial tutor sets three gate models on the bench.
+
+“The test was too gentle. Give the reader an unfamiliar gate, change the load,
+hide one damaged pin, and make another candidate challenge the stopping point.
+A claim that survives pressure deserves to travel.”
+
+The keeper turns the third model upside down.
+
+“Does the field travel with it?”
+
+“The Board certifies a performance. The office decides how to use it.”
+
+“Then the Board teaches governors which sentence lets everybody keep their
+hands clean.”
+
+The Four-Because scholar opens a case roll.
+
+“We have four questions and one answer pretending to serve them all. What
+brought the gate's motion about? What moved the governor to increase the levy?
+What reason justified taking grain? What follows under the client compact when
+the lower fields fail? An opening at the gate may answer the first. It cannot
+answer the other three by contagion.”
+
+The keeper points to the empty margin beside the witness list.
+
+“Your language has four causes and no name for the person who cleared the
+channel.”
+
+The scholar writes the keeper's name.
+
+“Now it does.”
+
+“Now this copy does.”
+
+The Named-Edge reader waits until the others have drawn their frames.
+
+“Name what lies outside each edge: the lateral ditch, the lower households,
+the next flood, the worker who knows where silt returns, the office paid by the
+larger levy, and the season at which the claim must be reviewed. Then we can
+say what the opening carried and what the report invented.”
+
+The Trial tutor asks, “How wide must the frame become before nobody may repair
+anything?”
+
+“Wide enough to name who bears the risk of haste.”
+
+“That is not a measurement.”
+
+“Neither is pretending the risk disappeared because you stopped drawing.”
+
+At this point most copies let a student choose the strongest school. The client
+version continues.
+
+The keeper puts a fifth document on the bench: a work roster, sediment marks,
+and three households' missing seed.
+
+“The gate can be sound. The reading can be true. The trial can be fair. The
+causes can be distinguished. The edge can be named. The lower field is still
+dry. Which of you owns the repair?”
+
+The Concordance teacher says the temple can release grain if the relevant cult
+accepts the obligation.
+
+The Trial tutor says a House of Attestation can narrow a certificate but cannot
+command the water office.
+
+The Four-Because scholar says the compact may require remedy, depending on the
+adopted text and jurisdiction.
+
+The Named-Edge reader says the keeper's record must travel with every later
+account.
+
+“So none of you,” says the keeper.
+
+“Not alone,” says the scholar.
+
+The exercise ends there. Some teachers call the ending a lesson in separated
+authority. Some call it an evasion copied so often that it acquired prestige.
+Canal keepers tend to ask whether the next page records who brought the grain.
+
+Return to [[../World/Peoples and Polities|Peoples and Polities]],
+[[../World/Magic and Miracles|Magic and Miracles]], or [[../index|Kalsa]].

Kalsa/Public/World/Gods and the Dead.md

@@ -13,9 +13,18 @@ tags:
 
 Kalsan gods are not metaphors made harmless by disbelief. They protect, conquer, bargain, bless, refuse, remember, demand, and sometimes die badly enough to poison a district for generations.
 
-They are not known to be all-knowing.
+No surviving cult, court, or mortuary tradition has established that they are
+all-knowing.
 
-A god can perceive dangers hidden from its worshippers and remain ignorant of the household cheating its storekeeper. It can preserve a city through war while misunderstanding why a dead rival still answers at one shrine. It can speak with overwhelming certainty because certainty keeps a hierarchy intact. Priests, prophets, champions, and enemies all learn to ask what a god actually witnessed, what reached it through servants, and what it merely insists must be true.
+Covenant ledgers, prophetic records, hostile chronicles, and priestly
+commentaries preserve a recurring embarrassment: a god can perceive dangers
+hidden from its worshippers and remain ignorant of the household cheating its
+storekeeper. It can preserve a city through war while misunderstanding why a
+dead rival still answers at one shrine. Some cult schools call this the limit
+of delegated attention; others call the apparent failure a human inability to
+recognize divine purpose. Priests, prophets, champions, and enemies still learn
+to ask what a god actually witnessed, what reached it through servants, and
+what it merely insists must be true.
 
 ## Covenant and submission
 
@@ -29,14 +38,20 @@ God-cults are material bodies as well as sacred ones. They require food, cloth,
 
 Death does not guarantee silence. Names are heard in sealed rooms. Familiar gestures form in smoke or ash. A dead champion appears to answer a living oath. A burial ground consumes the edge of a miracle and returns memory, appetite, warning, or accusation.
 
-Kalsans disagree about what continues. Kin may recognize the person they lost. A mortuary office may record a manifestation without ruling upon identity. A release sect may believe its rite lets the dead depart. A frightened ruler may call every returning voice a predator. None of these positions becomes final merely because the dead did something impossible in its presence.
+Kalsans disagree about what continues. Kin may recognize the person they lost. A mortuary office may record a manifestation without ruling upon identity. A release sect may believe its rite lets the dead depart. A frightened ruler may call every returning voice a predator. None of these positions becomes final merely because the dead did something impossible in its presence; each has institutions deciding what testimony and obligation follow.
 
 The uncertainty does not excuse carelessness. Bodies have claims. Names have witnesses. A manifestation can attract worship, inheritance disputes, old enemies, and people eager to make the dead useful. Funerals therefore separate custody of remains, testimony about the person, cult obligation, public danger, and claims spoken through whatever returns.
 
 ## Hungry holy places
 
-Repeated miracles can make a place dangerous. Old deaths gather around power. A failed divine succession may leave competing presences drawing from the same offerings. A shrine may continue answering after its priesthood has forgotten whom it serves.
+Shrine keepers, delvers, and mortuary offices preserve reports in which repeated
+miracles make a place dangerous: old deaths answer near gathered power, failed
+divine successions leave competing presences drawing from the same offerings,
+or a shrine continues answering after its priesthood has forgotten whom it
+serves. Cults disagree over whether these are hungry dead, rival gods, broken
+covenants, or several dangers given one frightened name.
 
-Wise practitioners limit concentrated work near such places. Desperate ones call the danger proof that the miracle matters.
+Many practitioner lineages therefore limit concentrated work near such places.
+Desperate ones call the danger proof that the miracle matters.
 
 See [[Magic and Miracles]], [[Relics and Ruins]], and [[../Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]].

Kalsa/Public/World/Magic and Miracles.md

@@ -12,11 +12,18 @@ tags:
 
 Magic in Kalsa is an argument with what happens next.
 
-A worker shifts a brace before the wall moves. A prophet compares futures that change as soon as they are announced. A shaman holds attention upon a field until weather, labor, seed, and chance arrive together. A sorcerer finds the one force that turns an enemy's stance into collapse. A Channeler feels pressure crossing a boundary and bends it aside. A fortunate child survives events that should not have agreed to spare anyone.
+A worker shifts a brace before the wall moves. A prophet compares futures that change as soon as they are announced. A shaman holds attention upon a field until weather, labor, seed, and chance arrive together. A sorcerer finds the one force that turns an enemy's stance into collapse. A Sarxe listener feels pressure crossing a boundary and bends it aside. A fortunate child survives events that should not have agreed to spare anyone.
 
 These acts can be spectacular. Storms divide around a city. Stone gives way along an old fault. A battle turns upon movements nobody else perceived in time. A god pours enough favor through a champion to make witnesses build a shrine before the smoke clears.
 
-They are not without conditions. Practitioners need something in the world that can carry the change: weather already gathering, a structure under stress, available heat, a human decision not yet fixed, a route through which force can move. Great workings consume attention, preparation, material support, and divine favor where gods are involved. Rival workings interfere. Concentrated miracles can wake or attract hungry dead.
+The strongest shared regularities come from accumulated failure rather than one
+uncontested theory. Work records say a storm cannot be divided on an empty sky
+and a wall does not yield where no load reaches it. Delving compacts budget
+people, tools, food, shelter, and recovery because inspiration has never made
+those costs imaginary. Court records preserve miracles that interfered with one
+another. Shrine and mortuary keepers warn that repeated great workings near old
+death can draw an answer nobody commissioned. Different traditions explain
+these patterns differently and disagree sharply about where each rule stops.
 
 ## What different traditions say
 
@@ -25,15 +32,25 @@ There is no uncontested schoolbook behind every miracle.
 - Selza'a families may describe good fortune as a territorial relation with a dimna, an inherited shelter, or the result of living correctly within a family boundary. Their rivals may call the same pattern predation.
 - Jamnai teachers say power proves hierarchy when one will overcomes another. Refusal traditions answer that a victory can create danger without creating rightful authority.
 - Papsenai shamans speak of binding themselves to the future of a field, herd, road, or stormshield. Farmers remind them that a future still needs seed, water, hands, storage, and someone willing to risk the bad season.
-- Ju'onai examiners distinguish kinds of demonstrated insight and record their limits. Officials regularly discover that a certificate is easier to carry than the boundary that made it true.
+- Ju'onai readers speak of **openings**, moments when the joins and hinges of a bounded system become suddenly plain. Concordance Temples, Trial Boards, Four-Because Chairs, and Named-Edge Circles disagree over whether a god, disciplined trial, precise causal speech, or honest boundaries make that knowledge reliable. The Houses of Attestation certify demonstrations; they do not settle the argument.
 - Prophetic houses compare branching futures and preserve methods for recording their own intended interventions. Courts insist that a forecast is evidence, not judgment.
-- Sarxe Channelers speak of flows, crossings, and the harm of forcing influence through another person's boundary. Outsiders turn that language into legends of shared minds that Sarxe people repeatedly deny.
+- Sarxe listeners speak of flows, crossings, and the harm of forcing influence through another person's boundary. Outsiders turn that language into legends of shared minds that Sarxe people repeatedly deny.
 - Coldward trade stories praise a rarer intuition: right action arriving before its reasons can be spoken. Most such stories reveal more about the trader's desired price than the people being described.
 
 ## What witnesses can know
 
-Visible effect is not complete explanation. An Analyst may identify that a system was deliberately altered without identifying every distant actor. A prophet may report a persistent distortion among futures without naming its source. A Channeler may feel active pressure without locating something dormant or far away. Repeated good fortune can justify caution and inspection without becoming proof of guilt.
+Visible effect is not complete explanation. Ju'onai schools call some local
+causal scars **aftermarks**, then dispute what could have produced them; even
+their strictest accounts refuse to let the mark identify an actor or intention
+by itself. Prophetic houses record futures that deform around some unseen
+pressure without claiming the record names its source. Sarxe warnings can
+describe an active crossing while leaving a remote or dormant danger untouched.
+Selza'a families may recognize a pattern of protection that no outsider can
+turn into a universal test. Each practice makes some evidence legible and
+leaves other evidence outside its frame.
 
 Ordinary evidence still matters. Access, tools, timing, injury, material traces, testimony, prior duty, and who benefited are not made irrelevant by magic. In many Kalsan courts and compacts, the most dangerous sentence is not “a miracle occurred.” It is “therefore we already know who owns its meaning.”
 
-See [[Gods and the Dead]], [[Relics and Ruins]], and [[../Sources/At the Basin Table|At the Basin Table]].
+See [[Gods and the Dead]], [[Relics and Ruins]],
+[[../Sources/Four Readings of a Broken Sluice|Four Readings of a Broken
+Sluice]], and [[../Sources/At the Basin Table|At the Basin Table]].

Kalsa/Public/World/Peoples and Polities.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The names below are broad handles used by travellers and learned writers. A pers
 
 ## Selza'a
 
-The fogbound Luck country is organized through territorial families rather than one central government. Families maintain windtraps, cisterns, routes, dwellings, shrines, and boundaries. Adoption and marriage can be as politically important as descent. Feud is real, but so are third-family witnesses, shared-work compacts, emergency water, and temporary federations for mutual defence.
+The fogbound Selza'a country is organized through territorial families rather than one central government. Families maintain windtraps, cisterns, routes, dwellings, shrines, and boundaries. Adoption and marriage can be as politically important as descent. Feud is real, but so are third-family witnesses, shared-work compacts, emergency water, and temporary federations for mutual defence.
 
 Outsiders say the selza'a are impossibly fortunate. Selza'a arguments are more precise and less comforting. A family may speak of a dimna's protection, an inherited relation, a territorial balance, or a dangerous stranger. None of those claims makes coincidence proof against a person.
 
@@ -35,7 +35,16 @@ Ti'asantatca stands beside a storm that does not end. Its shield is maintained b
 
 ## The Ju'onai Hegemony
 
-Ju'onai institutions esteem the sudden comprehension of a system: a watercourse, engine, market, wall, bureaucracy, or campaign. Examinations certify demonstrated kinds of insight, and an extensive administration uses certified reports to tax, allocate, build, conquer, and correct.
+Ju'onai readers call sudden comprehension of a bounded system an **opening**.
+Their schools spend generations disputing what an opening reveals: a god's
+concordance, a trial survived, causes properly distinguished, or merely a frame
+whose edge has finally been named. Opened readers experience such moments;
+learned readers test and carry the knowledge without claiming the same gift.
+
+Houses of Attestation certify demonstrated kinds of reading. The Measured
+Offices use reports to tax, allocate, build, conquer, and correct. Neither owns
+the schools, and the schools do not acquire the right to govern by explaining a
+system well.
 
 The Hegemony is useful enough to be dangerous. It can repair headworks and then use the improved flow to justify a larger levy. It can preserve local rulers while deciding which records make their land legible. Its appeals can expose an official model's blind boundary, though often after people outside the model have paid for its elegance.
 
@@ -59,4 +68,6 @@ Technical lineages also cross these boundaries. Their members may inherit a fami
 
 Stories speak of a coldward people whose uncanny judgment serves trade, defence, and craft. Travellers confidently describe their politics; the descriptions do not agree. Until a visitor can name the office, workshop, household, or road behind the claim, “they always know what to do” is a boast, a fear, or a sales pitch rather than useful knowledge.
 
-See [[Kalsa]], [[Magic and Miracles]], and [[Gods and the Dead]].
+See [[Kalsa]], [[Magic and Miracles]], [[Gods and the Dead]], and
+[[../Sources/Four Readings of a Broken Sluice|Four Readings of a Broken
+Sluice]].

Kalsa/Public/World/Relics and Ruins.md

@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ tags:
 
 A ruin in Kalsa is rarely empty enough to belong to the first armed party through its door.
 
+The account below is a practical synthesis circulated among settlement
+councils, delving companies, shrine keepers, mortuary witnesses, and technical
+lineages. Jurisdictions disagree about its legal force. Its questions survive
+because expeditions that ignore them keep returning with damage somebody else
+must own.
+
 The deepest works may still carry water, heat, air, pressure, signals, or movement to people above. Later generations built houses in them, sealed sickness behind them, buried their dead in them, used them as forts, cut them for parts, worshipped at their thresholds, and forgot which alterations belonged to whom.
 
 A single descent can therefore cross several living claims:
@@ -37,7 +43,7 @@ Competence creates leverage. A priest who can condemn a conduit can change a har
 
 ## Layered dungeons
 
-Before disturbing a site, careful delvers ask:
+Many compacts and ruin courts teach delvers to ask:
 
 1. What is this chamber doing now?
 2. Who depends upon that work?
@@ -45,7 +51,7 @@ Before disturbing a site, careful delvers ask:
 4. What changed the last time someone opened it?
 5. Which claims can be heard before the act becomes irreversible?
 
-Answers remain incomplete. A wall can be a tomb and a pressure boundary. A voice can be a trapped person, an unquiet dead presence, a god's servant, a fraud, or a failing system repeating what it heard. The correct response is not universal fear. It is preservation, bounded tests, witnessed decisions, and refusal to let the most profitable explanation win merely by arriving armed.
+Answers remain incomplete. A wall can be a tomb and a pressure boundary. A voice can be a trapped person, an unquiet dead presence, a god's servant, a fraud, or a failing system repeating what it heard. The shared discipline is not universal fear or one theory of ruins. It is preservation, bounded tests, witnessed decisions, and refusal to let the most profitable explanation win merely by arriving armed.
 
 ## Delving compacts
 

Kalsa/Public/index.md

@@ -25,5 +25,10 @@ Begin with the world as its people meet it:
 - [[World/Relics and Ruins|Relics and Ruins]] — sacred infrastructure, layered dungeons, and claims that survive descent.
 - [[Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]] — a settlement where warm water, old death, and contested expertise meet at one black door.
 - [[Sources/At the Basin Table|At the Basin Table]] — voices from Low Sere on the eve of a descent.
+- [[Sources/Four Readings of a Broken Sluice|Four Readings of a Broken Sluice]] — a Ju'onai teaching dispute in which four schools explain one failure and the keeper refuses to vanish into their footnotes.
 
-This entrance speaks from common life and situated learning. Its disagreements are part of the setting. When two communities explain the same miracle differently, neither has been granted the final word merely by speaking first.
+This entrance speaks from common life and situated learning. Its explanations
+belong to inhabitants: communities, schools, lineages, offices, witnesses, and
+texts that can be questioned inside the world. No universal schoolbook stands
+behind them. When two communities explain the same miracle differently,
+neither has been granted the final word merely by speaking first.

Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags:
 
 # The Santabi'u Silt Appeal
 
-The Santabi'u Silt Appeal is an adopted historical case from a client valley of the [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence and outcome. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] owns examination and certification procedure; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]] owns levy, petition, public-work, and remedy procedure; the polity owns the case's meaning for Hegemony rule.
+The Santabi'u Silt Appeal is an adopted historical case from a client valley of the [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence and outcome. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]] owns examination and certification procedure; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]] owns levy, petition, public-work, and remedy procedure; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening|the Schools of the Opening]] own later scholarly interpretations; the polity owns the case's meaning for Hegemony rule.
 
 Its date, Santabi'u's exact location, the valley's name, and the participants' names remain unresolved.
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ A client valley below Santabi'u received repaired headworks and an irrigation sc
 
 Local ditch keepers reported silt accumulating in lateral channels outside the official survey. A low-expression clerk repeatedly entered their reports. The petitions returned to the governor whose levy depended on the model.
 
-The governor's patron commissioned a field examination at prepared headworks. The Analyst accurately demonstrated that the inspected gates could carry the stated flow. The examination did not include the silting lateral network. The administrative office treated the resulting certificate as evidence for the capacity of the whole valley.
+The governor's patron commissioned a field examination at prepared headworks. The opened reader accurately demonstrated that the inspected gates could carry the stated flow. The examination did not include the silting lateral network. The administrative office treated the resulting certificate as evidence for the capacity of the whole valley.
 
 Grain was seized under the increased levy. The irrigation schedule left downstream fields failing while the official model treated the shortfall as resistance, hoarding, or a problem inside the certified capacity rather than evidence that the system boundary was wrong.
 
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ Grain was seized under the increased levy. The irrigation schedule left downstre
 
 The clerk preserved rejected petitions, sediment marks, work rosters, yield changes, and household departures in a parallel record. When the shortfall could no longer be sustained as a local failure inside the model, a superior office accepted appeal.
 
-A separate examiner reconstructed the missing channel network with ditch keepers and other local workers. The review found that the first analysis was accurate for the prepared headworks and false when used as certification of the entire valley. The patron-selected test boundary had substituted a convenient component for the governed system.
+A separate attestor reconstructed the missing channel network with ditch keepers and other local workers. The review found that the first opening was accurate for the prepared headworks and false when used as certification of the entire valley. The patron-selected test frame had substituted a convenient component for the governed system.
 
 ## Finding and remedy
 
-The appeal narrowed the original certificate. It revoked its use for valley-capacity assessment while preserving the examiner's narrower qualification in headworks. Later territorial reports were required to state survey boundaries, worker witnesses, and missing laterals rather than allowing the sponsor's prepared surface to stand for the whole.
+The appeal narrowed the original certificate. It revoked its use for valley-capacity assessment while preserving the attestor's narrower qualification in headworks. Later territorial reports were required to state survey boundaries, worker witnesses, and missing laterals rather than allowing the sponsor's prepared surface to stand for the whole.
 
 The administrative remedy reduced the levy, returned some grain stores still held, funded clearance of the lateral channels, required local keepers to participate in later surveys, and preserved client copies of petitions outside the governor's archive. The administration also had to state model boundary, worker observations, and review horizon in later use of the repaired system.
 
@@ -54,6 +54,6 @@ A dungeon route beneath the valley may reveal why a lateral repeatedly silted or
 ## Unresolved
 
 - Date and duration of the public work, harm, appeal, and clearance.
-- Names and offices of the governor, patron, clerk, examiners, keepers, and superior reviewers.
+- Names and offices of the governor, patron, clerk, attestors, keepers, and superior reviewers.
 - Exact grain levy, quantity seized and returned, affected households, and surviving compensation claims.
 - Present condition of the headworks, laterals, valley records, and appeal precedent.

Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos.md

@@ -19,11 +19,22 @@ tags:
 
 # Kaos
 
-Kaos is the use of prescient information to steer causal systems toward reachable outcomes. A mage does not command reality by declaration. Their Gift exposes or selects interventions: the gesture, pressure, timing, word, route, or refusal that changes which possible future becomes present.
+`Kaos` is the author-facing name for the use of prescient information to steer
+causal systems toward reachable outcomes. It owns adjudication constraints, not
+the vocabulary or theories of Kalsa's cultures. A mage does not command reality
+by declaration. Their Gift exposes or selects interventions: the gesture,
+pressure, timing, word, route, or refusal that changes which possible future
+becomes present.
 
 Chaotic systems provide the greatest leverage because small interventions can propagate into large effects. Weather, stressed geology, markets, battles, ecologies, and human decisions can all carry Kaos. Each remains limited by what it contains.
 
-## Three axes
+## Author comparison: three axes
+
+Clarity, Depth, and Scope are backstage comparison terms distilled from the
+seed. Promethean records may preserve related classifications, but no living
+culture receives this table as innate knowledge. Scholars instead divide the
+evidence according to their own instruments, work, doctrines, and historical
+failures.
 
 - **Clarity** is conscious causal resolution: how precisely a mage can distinguish variables, dependencies, and intervention paths.
 - **Depth** is counterfactual reach: how far from the unaided probable course the mage or Beast can select and commit an outcome. It is not temporal distance.
@@ -49,6 +60,8 @@ Costs include depletion of magical potential, exposure to rival Beasts, corrupti
 
 ## Observing Kaos
 
+The backstage constraints below say what evidence each Gift can expose. They do
+not say that witnesses classify the evidence this way or agree about its cause.
 There is no universal detect-magic faculty.
 
 - **Analysis** detects local causal intervention signatures in systems being altered. It does not see a soul or Beast directly.

Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles.md

@@ -22,21 +22,33 @@ tags:
 
 # Magic Styles
 
-Prometheus arranged the seven Gifts through a development sequence. Each also has a binary Kaos signature derived from [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Three axes|Depth, Clarity, and Scope]]. These systems answer different questions and must not be collapsed.
+This note is an author and adjudicator crosswalk. It compares the seed's seven
+engineered capability families; it is not a table known across Kalsa.
+Prometheus arranged the seven Gifts through a development sequence. Each also
+has a binary Kaos signature derived from
+[[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Author comparison: three axes|Depth, Clarity, and
+Scope]]. These systems answer different backstage questions and must not be
+collapsed.
 
-| Sequence | Signature | Style | Axes | God-foundation | Seed polity or culture |
+| Sequence | Signature | Author label | Axes | God-foundation | Seed polity or culture |
 |---|---:|---|---|---|---|
 | N | 000 | Null | none | no | [[Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Control descendants]]; many [[Spoilers/Polities/Spokers|Spokers]] |
 | I | 001 | Luck | Scope | yes | [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Selza'a]] |
 | II | 100 | Sorcery | Depth | yes | [[Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Terjamna of Jamnai]] |
 | III | 101 | Shamanism | Depth, Scope | no | [[Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Papsenai]] |
-| IV | 010 | Analysis | Clarity | yes | [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Junsenai of the Ju'onai Hegemony]] |
+| IV | 010 | Analysis | Clarity | yes | [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Junsenai of the Ju'onai Hegemony]] |
 | V | 011 | Prophecy | Clarity, Scope | no | [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|Divided City of Prophets]] |
 | VI | 110 | Channeling | Depth, Clarity | no | [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Sarxe]] |
 | VII | 111 | Intuition | Depth, Clarity, Scope | no | [[Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|unresolved polity]] |
 
 Roman numerals name the **Promethean Sequence**. Binary values name the **Kaos signature**. “Type II” is therefore forbidden in current reference prose unless the author states which system is meant.
 
+Sequence numbers, signatures, axes, and the normalized English style labels
+remain backstage vocabulary unless an owner note attributes their recovery to
+a particular archive or tradition. Polity and institution notes own the names,
+models, and disagreements used by living people. Similar observed capacities do
+not require shared explanation.
+
 ## Root and composite strains
 
 Luck, Sorcery, and Analysis are the three root strains and are marked in the seed as independently capable of founding God Beasts. Shamanism, Prophecy, Channeling, and Intuition are composite strains and normally enlarge or shape an existing divine hierarchy rather than founding one unaided.

Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md

@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ tags:
 
 # Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores
 
+This note owns the backstage model used to keep divine, magical, and mortuary
+consequences coherent. `Projection`, `Chaos Beast`, `God Beast`, and
+`thaumavore` are author labels unless a local owner explicitly adopts a related
+term. Inhabitants know manifestations, covenants, inherited relations, divine
+claims, dangerous dead, and the records their institutions can preserve; they
+do not thereby know this complete taxonomy.
+
 ## Individual Projections
 
 A living person occupies more than the sequence of bodily states visible in ordinary time. Their **Individual Projection** is the volume of possible selves and futures to which their identity remains attached. A prescient fold carries information between points in that volume and opens routes toward futures that would otherwise remain unrealized.

Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation.md

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 ---
-title: Ju'onai Examiners
+title: Houses of Attestation
 aliases:
   - Examination hierarchy
+  - Ju'onai Attestors
+  - Ju'onai Examiners
   - Analyst certification
 status: canonical-institution
 adopted_in: KALSA-014
 repaired_in:
   - KALSA-020
+  - KALSA-030
 source_witness:
   - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md
   - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md
@@ -18,24 +21,36 @@ tags:
   - juonai
 ---
 
-# Ju'onai Examiners
+# Houses of Attestation
 
-Ju'onai Examiners certify bounded demonstrations of analytical capacity. They descend institutionally from Prometheus's virtual contests, but no longer own reproduction by canonical right. Their records decide who can enter many schools, offices, archives, and patronage networks inside the [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]].
+**Houses of Attestation** is the translated collective name for Ju'onai
+commissions that certify bounded demonstrations by opened and learned readers.
+They descend institutionally from Prometheus's virtual contests, but no longer
+own reproduction by canonical right. Their records decide who can enter many
+schools, offices, archives, and patronage networks inside the
+[[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. Exact native titles and
+regional forms remain unresolved.
 
-An examination can show that a candidate analyzed a named kind of system under stated conditions. It cannot show universal intelligence, moral worth, technical competence, political loyalty, divine favor, or truth outside the test boundary. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] owns what Analysis does. Examiners own the lower-world procedure used to recognize a demonstration.
+An examination can show that a candidate read a named kind of system under
+stated conditions. It cannot show universal intelligence, moral worth,
+technical competence, political loyalty, divine favor, or truth outside the
+test frame. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] owns the backstage capability;
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening|the Schools of the
+Opening]] own scholarly vocabulary and models. Attestors own only the procedure
+used to recognize a demonstration.
 
 ## Owner map
 
 | Surface | Owner | Does not own |
 |---|---|---|
-| Analysis mechanics and uncertainty | [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] | An examiner, lineage, god, or state office |
-| Test design and stated system boundary | The commissioned examiner and review witnesses | The candidate's whole capacity or the world beyond the case |
-| Candidate's intervention and explanation | The candidate | The examiner's interpretation of motives or moral fitness |
+| Backstage capability constraints and uncertainty | [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] | An attestor, lineage, god, or state office |
+| Test design and stated system boundary | The commissioned attestor and review witnesses | The candidate's whole capacity or the world beyond the case |
+| Candidate's intervention and explanation | The candidate | The attestor's interpretation of motives or moral fitness |
 | Certificate | The examining office under its recorded commission | Appointment, technical custody, civic verdict, or hereditary status |
 | Examination record | Clerks and archive custodians with duplicate witnesses | A patron's private summary |
-| Administrative appointment | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|The appointing administration]] | Examiners merely because they certified eligibility |
-| Operational competence over a relic or public work | The trained operator and relevant custody | An Analysis certificate without practice and handoff |
-| Appeal and revocation | A separate review commission able to inspect procedure and later failures | The original examiner privately correcting their own record |
+| Administrative appointment | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|The appointing administration]] | Attestors merely because they certified eligibility |
+| Operational competence over a relic or public work | The trained operator and relevant custody | An opening certificate without practice and handoff |
+| Appeal and revocation | A separate review commission able to inspect procedure and later failures | The original attestor privately correcting their own record |
 
 The examination hierarchy protects a useful invariant: the Hegemony should be able to ask what a person actually demonstrated before entrusting them with consequential work. Its corruption begins when the answer becomes “everything worth knowing about them.”
 
@@ -47,12 +62,12 @@ Common exercises ask a candidate to:
 
 - identify causal dependencies in a bounded mechanism, route, market, ecological patch, argument, or administrative process;
 - predict the local consequence of a named intervention without claiming Prophecy;
-- find a failure or leverage point while preserving constraints the examiner names;
+- find a failure or leverage point while preserving constraints the attestor names;
 - explain what evidence would falsify the proposed model;
 - recognize where the available system ends and request observations outside it;
 - preserve records so a later official can determine what changed.
 
-No single exercise proves breadth. A candidate trained on pumps may be poor at kinship law. A gifted political Analyst may damage a heatwork. A person who correctly sees an exploit may be unfit to decide whether exploiting it is lawful or humane.
+No single exercise proves breadth. A candidate trained on pumps may be poor at kinship law. A gifted political opened reader may damage a heatwork. A person who correctly sees an exploit may be unfit to decide whether exploiting it is lawful or humane.
 
 ## The hierarchy of certificates
 
@@ -61,7 +76,7 @@ Formal native ranks remain unresolved. Current canon recognizes a practical prog
 1. **Witnessed exercise** records one successful or failed bounded demonstration. It supports training but grants no independent office.
 2. **Domain certificate** recognizes repeated performance in a named class of systems and under named limits.
 3. **Comparative commission** recognizes capacity to compare models, review interventions, and supervise a portfolio crossing several cases. It does not erase domain limits.
-4. **Examiner commission** authorizes test design and certification within stated domains. It requires review of the examiner's own model boundary and conflicts.
+4. **Attestor commission** authorizes test design and certification within stated domains. It requires review of the attestor's own model boundary and conflicts.
 
 Political culture compresses these records into rank. Offices publish a minimum certificate; patrons boast of a descendant's level; temples align examination standing with divine concepts; households use it in marriage and inheritance. The compression is convenient and guilty. A high comparative commission is not a certificate in every domain below it.
 
@@ -69,22 +84,26 @@ Certificates expire or narrow when the relevant system changes, a holder ceases
 
 ## Inherited capacity and preparation
 
-Analysis expression is heritable but threshold-based, shaped by development, pressure, training, and lineage. Strong-expression families appear often among certified Analysts because they carry capacity and because they control preparation: tutors, safe study time, preserved interfaces, patron cases, archives, nutrition, and repeated attempts.
+Firsthand opening capacity is heritable but threshold-based, shaped by development, pressure, training, and lineage. Strong-expression families appear often among certified opened readers because they carry capacity and because they control preparation: tutors, safe study time, preserved interfaces, patron cases, archives, nutrition, and repeated attempts.
 
 The examination state can describe that result as natural hierarchy. It is not. A low-expression child who copies cases after a labor shift is not taking the same examination as a house candidate raised inside an archive. A client polity tested on unfamiliar Ju'onai machinery is not being measured neutrally against a Crown student who practiced the interface.
 
-Examiners record observed expression rather than certify blood purity. Lineage may guide medical care or training expectations but cannot substitute for performance. Physical features associated by the old source with strong Analysis do not establish capacity.
+Attestors record observed expression rather than certify blood purity. Family
+history may guide medical care or training expectations but cannot substitute
+for performance. A scholarly lineage is a teacher-to-student chain under the
+Schools of the Opening, not a biological category. Physical features associated
+by the old source with strong expression do not establish capacity.
 
-Low-expression and Null people can master learned causal methods, records, craft, and domain knowledge without receiving magical insight. Examination practice distinguishes **attested Analysis** from **learned competence**. Administration often rewards the first more highly even where the second keeps a system alive.
+Low-expression and Null people can master learned causal methods, records, craft, and domain knowledge without receiving magical insight. Examination practice distinguishes **attested opening** from **learned competence**. Administration often rewards the first more highly even where the second keeps a system alive.
 
 ## Training
 
-Training occurs through family archives, temple or civic schools, office apprenticeships, client academies, work crews, and surviving virtual or biological interfaces. The Hegemony values controlled cases because they can be compared. Real systems remain necessary because a candidate who only knows designed exercises may learn to solve the examiner instead of the world.
+Training occurs through family archives, temple or civic schools, office apprenticeships, client academies, work crews, and surviving virtual or biological interfaces. The Hegemony values controlled cases because they can be compared. Real systems remain necessary because a candidate who only knows designed exercises may learn to solve the attestor instead of the world.
 
 Good instruction includes:
 
 - explicit system boundaries and missing variables;
-- observation by workers who know the system without Analysis;
+- observation by workers who know the system without firsthand openings;
 - failed cases, misleading cases, and cases with no safe intervention;
 - distinction among causal understanding, technical skill, policy, and ethics;
 - records that preserve the candidate's uncertainty rather than only the final answer;
@@ -96,7 +115,7 @@ Training access is a class battlefield. Public schools widen the pool and give t
 
 A certificate record should preserve:
 
-- candidate, examiner, sponsor, witnesses, and conflicts;
+- candidate, attestor, sponsor, witnesses, and conflicts;
 - system and boundary tested;
 - observations supplied and observations withheld;
 - intervention permitted, attempted, refused, or stopped;
@@ -107,19 +126,19 @@ A certificate record should preserve:
 
 The archive is more important than the ceremonial rank. Without it, a patron can call one successful trick proof of general genius. With only one central copy, the Hegemony can erase a failed heir or a successful client candidate. Candidates, local schools, and administrative offices therefore preserve duplicates where power permits.
 
-Records contain dangerous system knowledge and personal history. Bounded secrecy may protect a relic interface, military route, or vulnerable candidate. It cannot justify hiding the tested domain, examiner conflict, material harm, or existence of a failed intervention from a later reviewer.
+Records contain dangerous system knowledge and personal history. Bounded secrecy may protect a relic interface, military route, or vulnerable candidate. It cannot justify hiding the tested domain, attestor conflict, material harm, or existence of a failed intervention from a later reviewer.
 
-## Examiner office and succession
+## Attestor office and succession
 
-An examiner commission combines domain qualification, authority to design tests, access to cases, clerical support, and public trust. It does not pass automatically by blood or patron appointment. A successor must demonstrate the relevant domain, review methods, and ability to preserve adverse evidence.
+An attestor commission combines domain qualification, authority to design tests, access to cases, clerical support, and public trust. It does not pass automatically by blood or patron appointment. A successor must demonstrate the relevant domain, review methods, and ability to preserve adverse evidence.
 
-In practice, senior examiners sponsor apprentices, divine factions control schools, and families inherit archives. A lineage can reproduce examiner office without any law declaring it hereditary. A politically isolated examiner can hold a valid commission and receive no consequential candidates.
+In practice, senior attestors sponsor apprentices, divine factions control schools, and families inherit archives. A lineage can reproduce attestor office without any law declaring it hereditary. A politically isolated attestor can hold a valid commission and receive no consequential candidates.
 
-When an examiner dies, defects, or is removed, archive custodians preserve active tests and conflicts. Another commissioned examiner reviews incomplete cases. No successor may certify a candidate by merely inheriting the predecessor's seal. Exact appointment and peer-review bodies remain unresolved.
+When an attestor dies, defects, or is removed, archive custodians preserve active tests and conflicts. Another commissioned attestor reviews incomplete cases. No successor may certify a candidate by merely inheriting the predecessor's seal. Exact appointment and peer-review bodies remain unresolved.
 
 ## Fraud and blind spots
 
-Analysis makes examination harder to secure, not easier. Candidates and patrons can analyze the test itself.
+Openings make examination harder to secure, not easier. Candidates and patrons can read the test itself.
 
 Fraud includes:
 
@@ -133,25 +152,30 @@ Fraud includes:
 - certifying lineage reputation rather than performance;
 - using a divine or administrative superior's desired answer as the scoring key.
 
-An honest examiner still has blind spots. The test may be too clean, the local worker may use terms the examiner dismisses, the candidate may see an intervention but not its social cost, or Analysis may expose a causal scar without identifying who or what produced it. Luck remains directly undetectable. Prophecy remains a different Gift. Technical practice remains learned labor.
+An honest attestor still has blind spots. The test may be too clean, the local
+worker may use terms the attestor dismisses, the candidate may see an
+aftermark but not its social cost, or an opening may expose a causal scar
+without identifying who or what produced it. Luck remains directly
+undetectable under the backstage model. Prophecy remains a different Gift.
+Technical practice remains learned labor.
 
-The strongest anti-fraud measure is adversarial variety: new cases, independent workers, separate record custody, delayed review of material outcomes, and examiners who do not share the sponsor's interest. None is perfectly available in an empire built on patronage.
+The strongest anti-fraud measure is adversarial variety: new cases, independent workers, separate record custody, delayed review of material outcomes, and attestors who do not share the sponsor's interest. None is perfectly available in an empire built on patronage.
 
 ## Refusal, appeal, and revocation
 
-A candidate may refuse an unsafe intervention, contest an undisclosed boundary, request a worker witness, or withdraw. The examiner records the refusal and whether it demonstrated judgment or prevented evaluation. Patrons often treat withdrawal as incapacity; current canon does not.
+A candidate may refuse an unsafe intervention, contest an undisclosed boundary, request a worker witness, or withdraw. The attestor records the refusal and whether it demonstrated judgment or prevented evaluation. Patrons often treat withdrawal as incapacity; current canon does not.
 
-Appeal goes to a separate examiner or review commission with access to the original case, not merely a harder version of the same hidden premise. Grounds include examiner conflict, staged inputs, denied witness, inconsistent scoring, concealed harm, mistaken domain, lineage discrimination, or new evidence that the certified model failed.
+Appeal goes to a separate attestor or review commission with access to the original case, not merely a harder version of the same hidden premise. Grounds include attestor conflict, staged inputs, denied witness, inconsistent scoring, concealed harm, mistaken domain, lineage discrimination, or new evidence that the certified model failed.
 
-Revocation should name the certificate and defect. It does not erase every competence or civil right the person possesses. An examiner can suspend certification during urgent review, but [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|administration]] owns removal from office and remedies for public harm.
+Revocation should name the certificate and defect. It does not erase every competence or civil right the person possesses. An attestor can suspend certification during urgent review, but [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|administration]] owns removal from office and remedies for public harm.
 
 Low-expression candidates and client subjects face the highest appeal cost. Study circles, copied exercises, patron-independent witness networks, and shared funds create practical access to retesting. Fraud review becomes resistance when it forces the Hegemony to preserve the evidence by which occupied people were classified.
 
 ## Relationship to administration and clients
 
-Administration requests eligible candidates and may commission exams in taxation, roads, grain, records, or public works. Examiners decide whether a candidate demonstrated the requested analytical domain. They do not decide the tax rate, appoint the official, or choose the public work.
+Administration requests eligible candidates and may commission exams in taxation, roads, grain, records, or public works. Attestors decide whether a candidate demonstrated the requested reading domain. They do not decide the tax rate, appoint the official, or choose the public work.
 
-Client polities negotiate which Ju'onai certificates their offices must recognize and whether local learned competence can qualify. An imperial examiner may treat local categories as noise. A client examiner may tailor a case to local conditions and be accused of lowering standards. The live question is whether the test protects the named work or merely makes imperial class portable.
+Client polities negotiate which Ju'onai certificates their offices must recognize and whether local learned competence can qualify. An imperial attestor may treat local categories as noise. A client attestor may tailor a case to local conditions and be accused of lowering standards. The live question is whether the test protects the named work or merely makes imperial class portable.
 
 ## The Santabi'u Silt Appeal
 
@@ -161,13 +185,13 @@ Review can narrow or revoke a certificate's use without pretending every observa
 
 ## Resistance and dungeon seams
 
-Resistance works by contesting the examination surface: local schools preserve failed imperial cases, candidates demand unfamiliar systems, clerks copy adverse records, workers insist their observations enter the test, and dissident examiners certify capacity the dominant lineages prefer not to see.
+Resistance works by contesting the examination surface: local schools preserve failed imperial cases, candidates demand unfamiliar systems, clerks copy adverse records, workers insist their observations enter the test, and dissident attestors certify capacity the dominant lineages prefer not to see.
 
-The Analysis Crown contains buried virtual arenas, programmed adversaries, biological interfaces, and old scoring systems. A dungeon can still administer a Promethean examination whose prize was reproductive authority. A modern patron may seek its seal as supreme certification. An examiner may need to recover failed cases proving that the machine measured obedience rather than Analysis. An interface may recognize analytical capacity while threatening the candidate's body, leaving operational custody with [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] rather than the examination board.
+The Ju'onai Crown contains buried virtual arenas, programmed adversaries, biological interfaces, and old scoring systems. A dungeon can still administer a Promethean examination whose prize was reproductive authority. A modern patron may seek its seal as supreme certification. An attestor may need to recover failed cases proving that the machine measured obedience rather than reading capacity. An interface may recognize the underlying capability while threatening the candidate's body, leaving operational custody with [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] rather than the House.
 
 ## Marginal and hostile readings
 
-- A senior examiner says bounded certification is the only barrier between public work and charismatic fraud.
+- A senior attestor says bounded certification is the only barrier between public work and charismatic fraud.
 - A low-expression clerk says the barrier has a servants' entrance through which all disconfirming evidence arrives.
 - A client candidate says the Hegemony examined unfamiliar machinery and called unfamiliarity nature.
 - A Techpriest says seeing why a valve will fail is not the same as knowing how to replace it.
@@ -177,12 +201,12 @@ The institution deserves to exist only where its record makes competence more in
 
 ## Unresolved
 
-- Native names, formal ranks, certificate terms, domains, and examiner commissions.
-- Who appoints, reviews, pays, and removes examiners.
+- Native names, formal ranks, certificate terms, domains, and attestor commissions.
+- Who appoints, reviews, pays, and removes attestors.
 - Public, temple, family, client, and military examination systems and their recognition of one another.
 - Rights to training, retest, copied records, accommodation, and refusal.
 - Whether any surviving Promethean interface remains in legitimate use.
 - How divine affiliation affects examination without being allowed to settle it.
-- Frequency, inheritance, and physical cost of strong Analysis expression.
+- Frequency, inheritance, and physical cost of strong firsthand opening capacity.
 
-See [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]].
+See [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]].

Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tags:
 
 # Ji'esti Flight and Refuge
 
-Ji'esti Flight and Refuge is the Sarxe institutional response to repeated displacement. It organizes warning, departure, safe passage, admission, separation records, care, recovery, return, and the handoff of obligations when a community cannot remain where it is. It grew under two successive historical pressures: [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai]] annexation dispersed the original Channeler Crown communities; later, Terjamna forces used a Soiru'i beacon to overwhelm static Saxfoldi in the massacre remembered as Ji'esti.
+Ji'esti Flight and Refuge is the Sarxe institutional response to repeated displacement. It organizes warning, departure, safe passage, admission, separation records, care, recovery, return, and the handoff of obligations when a community cannot remain where it is. It grew under two successive historical pressures: [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai]] annexation dispersed the original Channeler Crown communities; later, Terjamna forces used a Soiru'i beacon to overwhelm static Saxfoldi in the massacre remembered as Ji'esti.
 
 This institution owns lower-world flight and refuge procedure. It does not decide what the Ji'esti Soiru'i was, whether its sacrifice was voluntary, the metaphysics of the beacon, Ju'onai title to the Crown, Jamnai doctrine, or a universal right of return. [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|the Sarxe polity]] owns the history and present political consequences. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi households]] own ordinary membership and care.
 

Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening.md

@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+---
+title: Ju'onai Schools of the Opening
+aliases:
+  - Study of Openings
+  - Schools of the Opening
+status: canonical-institution
+adopted_in: KALSA-030
+source_witness:
+  - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md
+  - page-2026-08-20-10-39-51.md
+tags:
+  - institution
+  - scholarship
+  - juonai
+  - opening
+---
+
+# Ju'onai Schools of the Opening
+
+The **Study of Openings** is the translated common name for Ju'onai traditions
+that investigate sudden comprehension, causal records, and the limits of
+intervention. An **opening** is the experience of a bounded system becoming
+newly legible: its joins, tensions, dependencies, and possible hinges seem to
+stand exposed. The author crosswalk calls the underlying Gift **Analysis** and
+compares it through the **Clarity** axis. No Ju'onai school possesses that
+backstage taxonomy.
+
+The field includes people who experience openings and people who never have.
+An **opened reader** gives a firsthand account of such an episode. A **learned
+reader** reconstructs, tests, criticizes, teaches, or applies causal knowledge
+without claiming revelation. Both may be called readers. The distinction
+matters because elite institutions often treat firsthand experience as
+authorship while reducing the observations of workers and learned readers to
+raw material.
+
+These names are English translations, not reconstructed descendant Lojban.
+Ju'onai legal, temple, vernacular, client, and scholarly registers use different
+words whose exact forms remain unresolved.
+
+## Authority map
+
+| Matter | Owner | What it does not own |
+|---|---|---|
+| Backstage capability and causal limits | [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] | The language or theory used by living scholars |
+| Vocabulary, teaching traditions, commentaries, and scholarly disputes | A named school, lineage, teacher, or archive within this field | Magical truth outside its evidence or jurisdiction |
+| Candidate testing and certificates | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]] | General scholarship, public office, technical custody, or verdict |
+| Tax, allocation, public work, petition, and remedy | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]] | The truth of a school merely because an office funds it |
+| Relic operation and safe handoff | [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriest lineages]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|custodians]] | A complete explanation of the relic or a right to govern its dependants |
+| Divine teaching and cult appointment | The relevant cult and its covenants | Proof that a god caused an opening or knows its full mechanism |
+| Legal judgment | The court or office with jurisdiction | A scholar's private conversion of explanation into guilt or title |
+
+Scholarship makes evidence transmissible. It does not acquire every authority
+that may later act upon that evidence.
+
+## Working vocabulary
+
+- A **frame** is the system treated as the subject of an account.
+- A **join** is a dependency inside that frame.
+- A **hinge** is a place where an accessible intervention may alter what follows.
+- A **carry** is understanding retained after an opening and made available for
+  later work. A carry can be useful and still be transferred beyond its proper
+  frame.
+- An **aftermark** is evidence that an outside magical intervention changed an
+  active system. It does not by itself identify the actor, Gift, intention, or
+  legal responsibility.
+- A **named edge** states what a frame excludes: people, flows, places, source
+  records, and the time at which the claim must be reviewed.
+- **Confidence marks** record that a proposition is affirmed, held open, or
+  ruled out within an account. They report the reader's position, not reality's
+  obedience.
+
+No school uses all of these terms identically. Imperial forms make them appear
+more settled than classroom, temple, field, and client practice actually are.
+
+## Scholarly lineage
+
+A Ju'onai scholarly lineage is a chain of teachers and students carrying
+methods, contradictory cases, commentary rights, and archive duties. It is not
+a bloodline. Families can capture lineages by controlling tutors, rooms,
+stipends, archives, temple appointments, and access to consequential cases.
+That gives descendants preparation and patronage, not inherited truth.
+
+Succession transfers responsibility for an archive, unfinished students,
+disputes, teaching rooms, instruments, and material trusts. It does not transfer
+an opening, certificate, administrative portfolio, divine relation, or right to
+operate a relic. A lineage divides when teachers and records separate. One
+reader may study in several and owe duties to each.
+
+## Concordance Temples
+
+Concordance teachers say an opening occurs when a mind, the idea embodied by a
+system, and a concept-and-feeling god briefly align. The veil lifts because
+divine order becomes momentarily legible. Their best evidence is experiential:
+openings during service, repeated associations between particular gods and
+kinds of insight, and successful work by temple-supported readers.
+
+Temple estates, offerings, welfare stores, patron households, diagram halls,
+and clerks make long contemplation and comparison possible. Teacher-initiation
+and temple appointment carry the tradition forward. A successor may inherit a
+school and archive without inheriting the predecessor's divine favor.
+
+The model takes the felt force of revelation seriously and explains why ideas,
+emotion, worship, and political standing affect Ju'onai scholarship. It also
+makes patronage look like evidence. Independent openings can be dismissed as
+theft or unnamed favor; failure inside a god's supposed domain becomes impurity
+or insufficient concordance. A god able to perform certainty can make its own
+blind spot into curriculum.
+
+## Trial Boards
+
+Board traditions say a system becomes knowable when placed under bounded
+pressure. An opening reveals the moves by which a reader can prevent loss,
+reach a stated result, or expose a hidden rule. They prize repeatable
+intervention, unfamiliar cases, perturbation, and records showing which
+prediction survived an adversarial change.
+
+Their material body is expensive: test rooms, scale mechanisms, route tables,
+game boards, candidate lodging, witnesses, clerks, adverse-case archives, and
+occasionally dangerous Crown interfaces kept by Techpriests. Board teachers
+pass on case archives only after apprentices demonstrate test design and
+preservation of failed results. The formal power to issue a certificate belongs
+to commissioned [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]], not to
+every scholarly board or teacher using the method.
+
+The tradition excels where a frame can be stressed honestly. Its central fraud
+is to forget that the sponsor chose the board, goal, pieces, and stopping point.
+A candidate can learn the trial rather than the world. A community can become
+an adversary in somebody else's exercise. Ancient machinery may still reward a
+Promethean purpose no present teacher recognizes.
+
+## Four-Because Chairs
+
+Four-Because teachers separate four questions that patrons often collapse:
+
+1. What physically brought the result about?
+2. What moved an actor to choose or refuse an act?
+3. What reason is offered to justify it?
+4. What follows under the explicit rule being invoked?
+
+They teach that an opening may illuminate the first question and sometimes the
+consequences relevant to the fourth. It does not read motive, manufacture
+justification, or choose which law governs. Their chairs grow around court and
+administrative archives, parallel translations, disputed cases, scribes,
+interpreters, and public commentary. Funding comes from courts, cults,
+portfolios, schools, and litigants who rarely lack preferred conclusions.
+
+A chair passes through apprenticeship, commentary on contradictory authorities,
+and custody of source copies rather than descent. In practice, families can
+capture appointment by controlling stipends and texts. The school's precision
+keeps explanation separate from verdict, but inherited grammar can masquerade
+as the natural structure of thought. Fine distinctions cannot replace a
+missing field witness, and elite speech can make vernacular evidence sound
+conceptually defective.
+
+## Named-Edge Circles
+
+Named-Edge Circles are client, worker, clerk, and low-expression reform
+lineages. They teach that no opening arrives without a frame, and no defensible
+claim leaves its edge unnamed. A full account records excluded dependencies,
+source witnesses, intended intervention, expected consequence, and the time at
+which material results must be reviewed. Domain workers enter as contributors,
+not anonymous inputs beneath a prestigious synthesis.
+
+Circles survive through copied petition rolls, client archives, travel funds,
+field schools, survey materials, translation networks, food shares for worker-
+teachers, and mutual aid for people challenging powerful sponsors. Rotating
+archive stewards recognize apprentices through fieldwork and preservation of
+adverse testimony. There is no central Circle able to license the rest.
+
+The method catches elegant claims that fail just outside a certified boundary.
+It can also demand a frame so broad that nobody can act, treat every omission as
+bad faith, or discount genuine sudden insight because its source is difficult
+to audit. Naming an edge does not make the edge honest.
+
+## Teaching, publication, and class
+
+Students enter through temple schools, family tutors, public colleges, client
+academies, office apprenticeships, work crews, and private commentary circles.
+Training consumes food, lodging, copied cases, safe mechanisms, teacher time,
+travel, witnesses, and years away from ordinary earning. Patrons finance that
+cost in exchange for service, ideological loyalty, future office, or control of
+publication.
+
+A useful scholarly account names its frame, sources, confidence, missing
+observations, proposed hinge, intended use, and review horizon. Schools preserve
+failed cases because success without adverse comparison becomes lineage
+advertising. Publication ranges from public wall copies and teaching cases to
+sealed temple commentaries and dangerous relic reports. Custody can protect a
+person or system; it can also ensure that only a patron's descendants learn why
+the patron was wrong.
+
+**Four Readings of a Broken Sluice** is a common teaching-dialogue family rather
+than one fixed text. Copies let representatives of the four lineages dispute a
+failed waterwork while a keeper challenges their authority, attribution, and
+ability to secure repair. Client schools often preserve the keeper's final
+question; prestigious central copies are more likely to end when the student
+selects a method.
+
+Opened readers dominate prestige because their experience is dramatic and
+difficult to counterfeit. Learned readers, clerks, translators, maintainers,
+and domain workers make the experience comparable across time. The field
+depends upon their records while repeatedly denying them authorship. Public
+schools and Named-Edge Circles challenge that extraction; established houses
+answer that undisciplined testimony makes every model hostage to grievance.
+
+## Historical stress: the Santabi'u Silt Appeal
+
+[[Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] owns the
+event. Its prepared gates truly carried the stated flow. The valley did not,
+because the commissioned frame excluded silting lateral channels reported by
+local keepers.
+
+Trial reformers use the case to require transfer tests and client-supplied
+adversarial cases. Four-Because Chairs teach that a correct mechanism neither
+described the whole valley, entailed increased capacity, justified the levy,
+nor proved resistance. Named-Edge Circles treat the preserved petitions and
+lateral marks as foundational evidence for contributor authorship and delayed
+review. Concordance Temples split: reformers say bounded sight was converted
+into cosmic warrant, while triumphalists blame corrupt alignment, client
+resistance, or the wrong divine patron.
+
+The appeal does not prove that any school already existed in its current form.
+Each lineage uses the wound to claim antiquity and necessity. The valley's
+keepers reply that an imperial school can cite their suffering for generations
+without restoring what the levy consumed.
+
+## Refusal and scholarly discipline
+
+A reader may refuse to extend a carry beyond its frame, suppress an adverse
+case, erase a contributing witness, or let a sponsor present confidence as
+verdict. A teacher may refuse a student unsafe access while recording the
+reason and a review path. A client school may reject an imperial translation
+that changes the question it was asked.
+
+Scholarly discipline includes correction, loss of commentary rights, removal
+from archive custody, public adverse notes, withdrawal of patronage, and
+referral of fraud to the authority harmed. A school can discipline scholarship;
+it cannot privately revoke civil standing, office, certificate, cult membership,
+or technical custody owned elsewhere.
+
+## Play and dungeon seams
+
+- Four schools hire the party to recover one old trial record, each because its
+  missing adverse result changes a different doctrine.
+- A keeper demands co-authorship before revealing the only route through a
+  failing waterwork; the patron offers the party more to list her as a witness.
+- A Crown interface opens for a learned reader whom a Trial Board refuses to
+  certify, separating machine response from imperial status.
+- A concept god orders its Concordance Temple to suppress a failure that may
+  instead prove the god has misunderstood its own domain.
+- A Named-Edge survey exposes a dependency so broad that immediate repair
+  becomes impossible; people downstream cannot wait for epistemic purity.
+- A Four-Because commentary proves why an accusation does not follow from an
+  aftermark, while the actual intervention remains dangerous and unidentified.
+
+## Unresolved
+
+- Exact descendant-language names, pronunciations, and the relationship among
+  high, vernacular, temple, client, and administrative terms.
+- The etymology of Ju'onai and recurring `-nai` forms.
+- Which lineage is oldest and which histories are retrospective claims.
+- Whether any god causes openings, merely shapes them, or mistakes correlation
+  for authorship.
+- Whether aftermarks can ever identify a magical tradition rather than a local
+  intervention.
+- How an opening fails to observe its own operation.
+- Whether any Trial Board preserves genuine Crown pedagogy rather than a
+  post-Fall reconstruction.
+- Regional and client models that reject the Study of Openings altogether.
+
+See [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]],
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]],
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]], and
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and
+Descendant Speech]].

Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: Analyst Administration
+title: Measured Offices
 aliases:
   - Ju'onai administration
   - Hegemony administration
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ status: canonical-institution
 adopted_in: KALSA-014
 repaired_in:
   - KALSA-020
+  - KALSA-030
 source_witness:
   - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md
   - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md
@@ -18,11 +19,17 @@ tags:
   - juonai
 ---
 
-# Analyst Administration
+# Measured Offices
 
-Analyst Administration is the Ju'onai machinery that converts observations, certificates, tribute compacts, records, and political priorities into territorial action. It can coordinate roads, grain, tax, archives, defense, and public works across a Hegemony. It can also make the model chosen by a ruling class look like the territory's natural shape.
+**Measured Offices** is the translated common name for the Ju'onai machinery that converts observations, certificates, tribute compacts, records, and political priorities into territorial action. It can coordinate roads, grain, tax, archives, defense, and public works across a Hegemony. It can also make the model chosen by a ruling class look like the territory's natural shape. Exact native titles vary by portfolio and region.
 
-Analysis is an input to administration, not its sovereign. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] owns the magical faculty and uncertainty. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] own bounded certification. This institution owns office, allocation, intervention, record, petition, and remedy.
+Openings and scholarly models are inputs to administration, not its sovereign.
+[[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] owns the backstage capability and uncertainty;
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening|the Schools of the
+Opening]] own scholarship; and
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|the Houses of Attestation]] own
+bounded certification. This institution owns office, allocation, intervention,
+record, petition, and remedy.
 
 ## Owner map
 
@@ -30,12 +37,12 @@ Analysis is an input to administration, not its sovereign. [[Spoilers/Foundation
 |---|---|---|
 | Administrative charter and portfolio | The appointing superior and the public record recognized in that jurisdiction | Universal competence, divine truth, or every local office inside the territory |
 | Policy, levy, budget, and lawful intervention | The commissioned portfolio holder | Facts outside the record or operation of a system they are not qualified to touch |
-| Analysis report | The named Analyst or team within a stated boundary | Verdict, moral fitness, intent, or technical title |
-| Certification | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Examiners]] | Appointment or policy |
+| Opening report | The named opened or learned readers within a stated frame | Verdict, moral fitness, intent, or technical title |
+| Certification | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Attestors]] | Appointment or policy |
 | Relic configuration and safe operation | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|The relevant custodian]] | Allocation of safely available output |
 | Local work observation | Workers, households, and local offices that produced it | The final public decision, unless their charter grants it |
 | Client polity law and local administration | The authority preserved by its tributary compact | Imperial tribute or passage the compact actually grants |
-| Petition finding and remedy | The responsible administrative office, subject to appeal | A patron's private model or examiner's rank |
+| Petition finding and remedy | The responsible administrative office, subject to appeal | A patron's private model or attestor's rank |
 | Record chain | Clerks, archive custodians, and required duplicate holders | Quiet revision by the office whose action is challenged |
 
 The administration is coherent only while these owners can disagree in records that survive the disagreement.
@@ -44,9 +51,9 @@ The administration is coherent only while these owners can disagree in records t
 
 Ju'onai government divides consequence into portfolios: a district, tax source, road, granary system, archive, military supply route, public work, client relation, or other named body of responsibility. A charter states territory, inputs, budget, obligations, intervention rights, superior office, review point, and excluded authorities.
 
-Portfolio holders are often certified Analysts. Others are learned administrators supported by Analysts, clerks, local experts, and divine patrons. The Hegemony's ideology prefers the image of a perceptive ruler who understands the whole mechanism. Its actual competence comes from separated offices, persistent records, and people willing to report what the holder did not see.
+Portfolio holders are often certified opened readers. Others are learned administrators supported by opened readers, clerks, local experts, and divine patrons. The Hegemony's ideology prefers the image of a perceptive ruler who understands the whole mechanism. Its actual competence comes from separated offices, persistent records, and people willing to report what the holder did not see.
 
-An Analysis certificate can make a candidate eligible. Appointment still depends on superior confidence, lineage, school, god, client faction, wealth, and political reliability. This is not generic meritocracy with a few unfortunate imperfections. Measurement is one of the means by which established power reproduces itself.
+An opening certificate can make a candidate eligible. Appointment still depends on superior confidence, lineage, school, god, client faction, wealth, and political reliability. This is not generic meritocracy with a few unfortunate imperfections. Measurement is one of the means by which established power reproduces itself.
 
 ## Office and succession
 
@@ -56,7 +63,7 @@ At succession:
 
 1. an acting keeper preserves current services and prevents irreversible new policy where delay permits;
 2. the archive records open petitions, debts, contracts, system state, and concealed or sealed materials;
-3. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Examiners]] verify any required domain certificate without appointing the successor;
+3. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Attestors]] verify any required domain certificate without appointing the successor;
 4. the superior office appoints under the charter and records patron, conflicts, and exceptional waivers;
 5. local workers, clients, and dependent offices witness the material handoff where possible;
 6. the successor accepts the existing record before revising its model.
@@ -77,7 +84,7 @@ Core records include:
 - budgets, stores, labor commitments, and allocations;
 - public-work configuration, custody, and interruption history;
 - client compacts and preserved local authorities;
-- Analysis reports with inputs, boundaries, uncertainty, and intended intervention;
+- opening reports with inputs, boundaries, uncertainty, and intended intervention;
 - petitions, responses, appeals, and restoration still owed;
 - office succession and conflicts;
 - divine, lineage, or patron interests relevant to the decision.
@@ -90,7 +97,7 @@ Secrecy may protect military routes, vulnerable infrastructure, personal records
 
 ## Taxation and resource allocation
 
-Administrative surveys estimate land, harvest, trade, labor, transport, infrastructure use, security burden, and capacity to recover from loss. Analysts can reveal causal bottlenecks and likely consequences within the surveyed system. Officials translate the estimate into money, goods, grain, service, lodging, transport, or other obligations recognized locally.
+Administrative surveys estimate land, harvest, trade, labor, transport, infrastructure use, security burden, and capacity to recover from loss. Opened readers can reveal causal bottlenecks and likely consequences within the surveyed system. Officials translate the estimate into money, goods, grain, service, lodging, transport, or other obligations recognized locally.
 
 The tax question is political at each stage:
 
@@ -100,7 +107,7 @@ The tax question is political at each stage:
 - Who receives relief after intervention changes the system?
 - Does a client retain surplus after tribute or merely administer collection?
 
-Revenue supports superior tribute, garrisons, roads, stores, public works, archives, examiner schools, divine institutions, relief, and administration itself. Exact shares and currencies remain unresolved.
+Revenue supports superior tribute, garrisons, roads, stores, public works, archives, attestor schools, divine institutions, relief, and administration itself. Exact shares and currencies remain unresolved.
 
 Allocation uses the same models as collection. A road that increases trade can justify its cost and the later levy that captures the increase. A granary can prevent famine and let the Hegemony require riskier specialization. Useful administration and extraction are often the same intervention viewed from different positions.
 
@@ -108,7 +115,7 @@ Allocation uses the same models as collection. A road that increases trade can j
 
 An administrative portfolio may commission a road, wall, watercourse, archive, granary, transport system, or relic repair. Its holder owns purpose, budget, priority, and coordination within the charter. They do not own every technical act.
 
-An Analyst may identify a leverage point. Engineers, workers, growers, carriers, and local keepers supply practice. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custodians]] may stop unsafe work on an entrusted Ark configuration. Client authorities may retain land, water, labor, or ritual claims.
+An opened reader may identify a leverage point. Engineers, workers, growers, carriers, and local keepers supply practice. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custodians]] may stop unsafe work on an entrusted Ark configuration. Client authorities may retain land, water, labor, or ritual claims.
 
 A defensible intervention record states:
 
@@ -120,35 +127,41 @@ A defensible intervention record states:
 - who pays, who receives output, and who receives restoration after harm;
 - when the model will be reviewed against material outcome.
 
-Analysis does not eliminate maintenance. The Hegemony's proudest works depend on repetitive labor its examination hierarchy may classify as low.
+An opening does not eliminate maintenance. The Hegemony's proudest works depend on repetitive labor its examination hierarchy may classify as low.
 
 ## The ordinary petition
 
-Most inhabitants meet Analyst Administration through a clerk, queue, or local representative rather than a gifted official.
+Most inhabitants meet Measured Offices through a clerk, queue, or local representative rather than a gifted official.
 
 1. A petitioner names the office action, material harm, requested remedy, and whatever record they can identify.
 2. A clerk must issue a traceable entry even if the petition appears to belong elsewhere.
 3. The responsible portfolio gathers current records, local testimony, and material inspection.
-4. An Analyst may provide a bounded report. The report must name its system, assumptions, and uncertainty.
+4. An opened reader may provide a bounded report. The report must name its system, assumptions, and uncertainty.
 5. The office decides whether to remedy, refuse, investigate, or transfer the claim.
 6. The response records reason, evidence, responsible owner, time limit, and appeal path.
 7. If intervention changes the system, later review compares outcome to the claim.
 
-Low-expression people often perform the first five observations and receive credit for none. Their knowledge enters as data while the certified Analyst's synthesis enters as authorship. Petition records keep the source attached where the institution is functioning honestly.
+Low-expression people often perform the first five observations and receive credit for none. Their knowledge enters as data while the certified opened reader's synthesis enters as authorship. Petition records keep the source attached where the institution is functioning honestly.
 
 A petitioner need not prove the whole causal model to report smoke, silt, hunger, a missing ration, a broken road, or a clerk who demanded private payment. Requiring analytical explanation before accepting material evidence is a class barrier disguised as rigor.
 
 ## Evidentiary limits
 
-An Analysis report is expert evidence. It may explain how variables connect, identify an intervention scar, or show why an official premise cannot produce the claimed result. It cannot by itself prove intent, moral blame, legal authority, divine allegiance, or the identity of a magician.
+An opening report is expert evidence. It may explain how variables connect, identify an intervention scar, or show why an official premise cannot produce the claimed result. It cannot by itself prove intent, moral blame, legal authority, divine allegiance, or the identity of a magician.
 
-Analysis is not universal detect-magic. It may observe a local causal signature from Sorcery, Shamanism, Channeling, or another active intervention where the system carries it. It does not directly detect Luck, souls, or every distant source. Prophecy uses a different evidentiary layer; see [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]].
+An aftermark is not universal detection of magic. Under the backstage model, an
+opened reader may observe a local causal scar from another active intervention
+where the system carries it. Ju'onai schools dispute the explanation. The
+evidence does not directly expose Luck, souls, every distant source, the actor's
+identity, or intent. Prophetic houses use a different evidentiary layer; see
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and
+Courts]].
 
 Administrative adjudicators compare the report with material evidence, records, witness accounts, office boundaries, and law. A sponsor cannot make an answer true by choosing only variables that support it. A rival report is not automatically better because its author holds higher examination rank.
 
 ## Appeal, refusal, and restoration
 
-Appeal goes to the superior portfolio or an office commissioned to review that class of decision. Examination procedure can be referred separately to [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Examiners]]. A superior may affirm policy while revoking the certificate used to justify it, or preserve a certificate while finding the office exceeded its charter.
+Appeal goes to the superior portfolio or an office commissioned to review that class of decision. Examination procedure can be referred separately to [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Attestors]]. A superior may affirm policy while revoking the certificate used to justify it, or preserve a certificate while finding the office exceeded its charter.
 
 Grounds include:
 
@@ -156,7 +169,7 @@ Grounds include:
 - the model omitted a known dependent or local authority;
 - a patron selected the sample or concealed an intervention;
 - worker evidence was removed from the record;
-- the analyst's domain did not cover the claim made;
+- the reader's attested domain did not cover the claim made;
 - tax or allocation used an expired system state;
 - a technical custodian's refusal was treated as ignorance without review;
 - a client compact preserved an authority the Hegemony attempted to absorb;
@@ -180,17 +193,17 @@ The annexed Channeler Crown and tributary Prophetic City show different limits.
 
 ## Class and low-expression effects
 
-Certified Analysts occupy the Hegemony's prestige core, especially when their gods and lineages align with high office. Strong expression opens schools and patronage; school and patronage make expression legible; legibility produces office; office finances the next generation's preparation.
+Certified opened readers occupy the Hegemony's prestige core, especially when their gods and lineages align with high office. Strong expression opens schools and patronage; school and patronage make expression legible; legibility produces office; office finances the next generation's preparation.
 
 Low-expression and Null people serve as clerks, workers, growers, carriers, craftspeople, local officials, witnesses, guards, tutors, and maintainers. They can hold learned expertise and sometimes administrative office. The hierarchy nevertheless treats their observations as inputs to be synthesized by someone of higher rank.
 
 Farmers and other subordinated groups stand within divine domains in the seed. The Hegemony may describe this as universal inclusion: every necessary function has a god and place. A farmer may experience the same system as a cosmic explanation for why the person measuring grain ranks above the person growing it.
 
-Class resistance does not require rejecting Analysis. Public schools, worker archives, client examiner programs, open petition rolls, copied certificates, and insistence on named model boundaries all use analytical discipline against analytical aristocracy.
+Class resistance does not require rejecting the Study of Openings. Public schools, worker archives, client attestation programs, open petition rolls, copied certificates, and insistence on named edges all use disciplined reading against aristocratic custody of authorship.
 
 ## Fraud and blind spots
 
-Administrative fraud includes false tax samples, suppressed petitions, invented losses, patron-owned audits, counterfeit certificates, manipulated work counts, and interventions designed to produce the result used to justify them. An Analyst can be bribed, coerced, ideologically committed, or honestly bounded.
+Administrative fraud includes false tax samples, suppressed petitions, invented losses, patron-owned audits, counterfeit certificates, manipulated work counts, and interventions designed to produce the result used to justify them. An opened reader can be bribed, coerced, ideologically committed, or honestly bounded.
 
 Structural blind spots are more dangerous than crude fraud:
 
@@ -221,7 +234,7 @@ Resistance takes analytical and non-analytical forms:
 - refuse unsafe operation and force the office to name a qualified custodian;
 - feed a model technically true data that exposes its perverse incentive;
 - conceal production, move trade, or fragment work below the tax unit;
-- align with a rival god, patron, examiner, or superior office;
+- align with a rival god, patron, attestor, or superior office;
 - keep stories and practices that do not translate into the Hegemony's categories.
 
 The administration absorbs some resistance as quality control. That can produce real repair and can turn dissent into unpaid diagnostic labor for empire.
@@ -230,19 +243,19 @@ The administration absorbs some resistance as quality control. That can produce
 
 - A buried examination archive proves a ruling lineage's founding certificate tested a scripted case rather than the public system later entrusted to it.
 - An old provincial ledger in a collapsed office records petitions and tax relief never delivered; current descendants inherit both claim and danger.
-- A public work descends into Crown machinery where the administrative map ends. Analysts can see causal relations, but only custodians know which intervention is permitted.
+- A public work descends into Crown machinery where the administrative map ends. Opened readers can see causal relations, but only custodians know which intervention is permitted.
 - A Promethean virtual arena still produces rankings and attempts to assign reproductive or civic authority to those who finish it.
 - A client polity hides its true production records in a dungeon because the archive itself is resistance; monsters, tax officers, and hungry neighbors all have claims on what it contains.
 - A nanite-managed chamber accepts Ju'onai analytical input and silently optimizes for a Promethean objective the administrator never recorded.
 - Survey markers beneath Santabi'u reveal that a “natural” provincial border was selected to separate a public work's benefits from the households that paid for it.
 
-Dungeon recovery does not let analysis swallow [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]], site authority, worker knowledge, or possible personhood inside the relic.
+Dungeon recovery does not let reading swallow [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]], site authority, worker knowledge, or possible personhood inside the relic.
 
 ## Marginal and hostile readings
 
 - A client farmer says the Hegemony measures a field twice: once to improve it and once to take the improvement.
 - A district clerk says the record is the only reason a governor must deny a petitioner in writing rather than make them disappear.
-- A certified Analyst says low-expression critics want the benefits of disciplined models without accepting anyone qualified to judge them.
+- A certified opened reader says low-expression critics want the benefits of disciplined models without accepting anyone qualified to judge them.
 - A canal keeper answers that qualification discovered the water only after being shown where it stopped.
 - A divine administrator calls hierarchy the coordination of ideas; a dissident worshipper calls it conquest that learned to alphabetize itself.
 
@@ -258,4 +271,4 @@ The institution is useful where it makes consequence inspectable across scale. I
 - Present administration of the Channeler Crown and Ju'onai sector of the Divided City.
 - Whether client polities can leave the Hegemony and what happens to shared works and records if they do.
 
-See [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]].
+See [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening|Ju'onai Schools of the Opening]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]].

Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/index.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Kalsa's institutions grew around needs that survived the [[Spoilers/Foundations/
 ## Evidence, language, and administration
 
 - [[Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] — training, forecast service, disclosure, admissibility, civic judgment, and appeal in the divided city.
-- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]] — scoped causal certification and the class-bearing government that consumes it.
+- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening|Ju'onai Schools of the Opening]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]] — competing causal scholarship, scoped certification, and the class-bearing government that consumes both.
 - [[Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] — teaching, certification, translation, public notice, treaty use, and elite gatekeeping.
 - [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]] — technical notation, conversion, machine-recognized sequences, operational refusal, and review.
 

Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ tags:
 
 # Channeling — Sarxe
 
-The Sarxe are Channeler-descended communities shaped by two successive displacements. The [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]] first annexed the original Channeler Crown City and dispersed its communities. Survivors later consolidated at a static Saxfoldi. Terjamna forces then broke through Sarxe resistance after a Soiru'i sacrifice exposed that refuge, producing the massacre remembered as **Ji'esti**, “Extinction.” Saxfoldi became mobile and hidden afterward.
+The Sarxe are Channeler-descended communities shaped by two successive displacements. The [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]] first annexed the original Channeler Crown City and dispersed its communities. Survivors later consolidated at a static Saxfoldi. Terjamna forces then broke through Sarxe resistance after a Soiru'i sacrifice exposed that refuge, producing the massacre remembered as **Ji'esti**, “Extinction.” Saxfoldi became mobile and hidden afterward.
 
 Mobility is now the best-known center of Sarxe political life, not the measure of who counts as Sarxe. People remained under Ju'onai rule, settled elsewhere, joined mixed communities, or entered an external diaspora as mediators, hunters, scavengers, guards, mercenaries, and assassins. That outsider-facing strand is real and dangerous. It is not the whole society wearing one profession.
 

Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony.md

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 ---
-title: Analysis — Ju'onai Hegemony
+title: Ju'onai Hegemony
 aliases:
-  - Ju'onai Hegemony
+  - Analysis — Ju'onai Hegemony
   - Junsenai
 status: canonical-polity
 adopted_in: KALSA-014
 repaired_in:
   - KALSA-020
+  - KALSA-030
 source_witness:
   - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md
   - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md
@@ -18,25 +19,48 @@ tags:
   - analysis
 ---
 
-# Analysis — Ju'onai Hegemony
+# Ju'onai Hegemony
 
-Analysis, signature 010 and Sequence IV, came from a virtual evolutionary game. Prometheus gave its Ring biological interfaces, dangerous programmed environments, and contests of artificial intelligence. Reproductive rights depended on success. The narrow pressure produced conscious causal perception at substantial physical cost.
+The Gift that the author crosswalk calls **Analysis**, signature 010 and
+Sequence IV, came from a virtual evolutionary game. Prometheus gave its Ring
+biological interfaces, dangerous programmed environments, and contests of
+artificial intelligence. Reproductive rights depended on success. The narrow
+pressure produced conscious causal perception at substantial physical cost.
 
-An Analyst experiences sudden understanding of a system's structure and exploitable relations. Learned understanding can remain useful after the magical perception passes. Analysts can interact unusually well with computers, Promethean nanites, and mechanical systems. They detect causal intervention in active systems but do not possess a universal view of magic, souls, truth, motive, or technical practice. Analysis reveals a bounded model. It does not choose the boundary honestly by itself.
+Ju'onai traditions do not share that taxonomy. They speak, in translation, of
+**openings**: moments when a bounded system's joins and hinges become suddenly
+plain. An opened reader can carry some of that understanding after the episode
+passes and may interact unusually well with computers, Promethean nanites, and
+mechanical systems. An opening remains bounded. It does not choose its frame
+honestly, read motive, confer technical custody, or reveal the author's model.
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening|Ju'onai Schools of the
+Opening]] owns the field's vocabulary, competing theories, archives, and
+teaching lineages.
 
 ## Place and empire
 
-The Analysis Crown fell sunward, just beyond the shadow of the Santabi'u coastal mountain chain. The Ju'onai Hegemony grew into one of the setting's two principal expansionist powers. Its people are called junsenai in the seed. The Crown City's name and the exact location of Santabi'u remain unresolved.
+The Ju'onai Crown fell sunward, just beyond the shadow of the Santabi'u coastal mountain chain. The Ju'onai Hegemony grew into one of the setting's two principal expansionist powers. Its people are called junsenai in the seed. The Crown City's name and the exact location of Santabi'u remain unresolved.
 
-Analysis can independently found God Beasts. Ju'onai gods embody both ideas and feelings. Their hierarchies expand through ideological allegiance: a person's public status depends partly on the god or concept they represent, and cultural conversion can transfer real divine power. Even farmers and other subordinated groups stand within named divine domains.
+The backstage capability can independently found God Beasts. Ju'onai gods embody both ideas and feelings. Their hierarchies expand through ideological allegiance: a person's public status depends partly on the god or concept they represent, and cultural conversion can transfer real divine power. Even farmers and other subordinated groups stand within named divine domains.
 
 The source describes junsenai as dogmatic, insular, physically atrophied, “elfin,” politically tactical, and unwilling to enter battle without first securing victory. Physical effects of the old selection regime remain a possible inherited pressure moderated by post-Fall intermarriage. “Elfin” is an old narrator's visual shorthand, not a settled people-category. Dogmatism, insularity, and occupational subordination describe institutions or viewpoints, not every person.
 
 ## The examination state
 
-Prometheus's contests left the Ju'onai with a durable political temptation: treat demonstrated analysis as the right to decide. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] turn bounded demonstrations into certificates and rank. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]] uses those records to select officials, model tax capacity, route petitions, plan public works, and govern clients.
+Prometheus's contests left the Ju'onai with a durable political temptation:
+treat demonstrated reading as the right to decide.
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]] turn
+bounded demonstrations into certificates and rank. The
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]] use those records to
+select officials, model tax capacity, route petitions, plan public works, and
+govern clients. The Schools of the Opening teach and dispute models without
+owning either certification or government.
 
-The two organs remain separate in current canon. Examiners certify a demonstrated analytical scope; administrators appoint, tax, allocate, and command. A certificate does not prove moral fitness, loyalty, technical competence, or universal insight. An office does not make its holder able to analyze every system encountered.
+The organs remain separate in current canon. Attestors certify a demonstrated
+domain; administrators appoint, tax, allocate, and command; scholarly lineages
+teach, archive, and criticize. A certificate does not prove moral fitness,
+loyalty, technical competence, or universal insight. An office does not make
+its holder able to read every system encountered.
 
 In practice, the distinction is strained. Strongly expressed lineages can afford tutors, preserved interfaces, patronage, and repeated examinations. Their success becomes evidence that their descendants deserve the same preparation. Low-expression people produce field observations, maintain systems, copy records, and carry petitions while appearing in official models as labor classes rather than knowers.
 
@@ -44,9 +68,9 @@ The Hegemony is useful because it can preserve and compare causal records across
 
 ## Administration and territorial dominance
 
-Ju'onai expansion prefers a territory already rendered legible. Analysts map routes, authorities, stores, bottlenecks, grievances, divine alignments, and likely resistance before soldiers or tributary terms arrive. Entering battle without already having won is an ideal, not proof that every conquest was effortless or correct.
+Ju'onai expansion prefers a territory already rendered legible. Opened and learned readers map routes, authorities, stores, bottlenecks, grievances, divine alignments, and likely resistance before soldiers or tributary terms arrive. Entering battle without already having won is an ideal, not proof that every conquest was effortless or correct.
 
-Conquered and client polities may retain local rulers, courts, cults, and work offices while owing tribute, records, passage, ideological deference, and access to Hegemony examiners. The Hegemony establishes administrative portfolios over tax, roads, grain, defense, or relic works without necessarily replacing every local owner. This layered rule lowers occupation cost and makes local elites responsible for delivering the model imposed upon them.
+Conquered and client polities may retain local rulers, courts, cults, and work offices while owing tribute, records, passage, ideological deference, and access to Hegemony attestors. The Hegemony establishes administrative portfolios over tax, roads, grain, defense, or relic works without necessarily replacing every local owner. This layered rule lowers occupation cost and makes local elites responsible for delivering the model imposed upon them.
 
 An official model can improve a client's irrigation and also convert that improvement into a larger levy. A local ruler can use Ju'onai certification to defeat rivals. A district can resist by concealing production, keeping rival records, training low-expression clerks, disputing the system boundary, or making compliance cost more than the model anticipated.
 
@@ -58,21 +82,25 @@ Administrative offices are bounded portfolios rather than a single ladder of cle
 
 Succession transfers the portfolio and its record, not the predecessor's personal insight. Acting custodians keep tax collection, petitions, stores, and safety work moving while the next holder is examined and appointed. A patron may preserve one family in office for generations by controlling preparation without ever declaring the office hereditary.
 
-Public works expose the limits of magical Analysis. An Analyst may see a causal relation in a watercourse, wall, road, archive, or relic. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custodians]] retain operational competence over entrusted configurations. Local workers know sounds, soil, pressure, wear, and exceptions absent from the administrative model. An office that ignores those faculties can be brilliantly wrong at imperial scale.
+Public works expose the limits of openings. An opened reader may see a causal relation in a watercourse, wall, road, archive, or relic. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custodians]] retain operational competence over entrusted configurations. Local workers know sounds, soil, pressure, wear, and exceptions absent from the administrative model. An office that ignores those faculties can be brilliantly wrong at imperial scale.
 
 ## Tax, allocation, and ordinary petitions
 
 The administration estimates land, production, labor, trade, infrastructure use, and risk, then assigns money, goods, service, or transport obligations according to local practice. Exact currencies and rates remain unresolved. The central political fact is that a measurement changes what the Hegemony claims a place can bear.
 
-Officials allocate revenue to garrisons, roads, archives, public works, relief, examiner schools, cult obligations, and superior tribute. Clients argue not only over the rate but over who chose the counted unit, which losses are recognized, and whether increased output belongs to the community that produced it.
+Officials allocate revenue to garrisons, roads, archives, public works, relief, attestor schools, cult obligations, and superior tribute. Clients argue not only over the rate but over who chose the counted unit, which losses are recognized, and whether increased output belongs to the community that produced it.
 
-An ordinary resident encounters the examination state through a petition: a tax roll that classifies the household incorrectly, a road intervention that flooded a field, a certificate denied, an official model that erased a local right, or a public work closed after an analytical warning. Clerks preserve the claim, route it to the responsible portfolio, gather material evidence, and record remedy or refusal. An Analyst report may support the decision. It does not own the verdict.
+An ordinary resident encounters the examination state through a petition: a tax roll that classifies the household incorrectly, a road intervention that flooded a field, a certificate denied, an official model that erased a local right, or a public work closed after a reader's warning. Clerks preserve the claim, route it to the responsible portfolio, gather material evidence, and record remedy or refusal. An opening report may support the decision. It does not own the verdict.
 
-Appeal climbs to a superior administrative office. Examination procedure can be reviewed by a separate examiner; policy remains with the administrator. A client polity can invoke its tributary compact, a worker can file through an office or patron, and a relic custodian can refuse an unsafe intervention. These routes are useful and unequal. The institution being challenged often owns the language, records, and time required to be heard.
+Appeal climbs to a superior administrative office. Examination procedure can be reviewed by a separate attestor; policy remains with the administrator. A client polity can invoke its tributary compact, a worker can file through an office or patron, and a relic custodian can refuse an unsafe intervention. These routes are useful and unequal. The institution being challenged often owns the language, records, and time required to be heard.
 
 ## Evidence and blind spots
 
-Analysis can detect local causal intervention where the relevant system is active and observable. It does not identify a hidden actor merely because a causal scar exists. It does not see dormant Luck, read intent, certify prophecy, or make an examiner immune to false premises.
+Opened readers can perceive an aftermark where the relevant system is active and
+observable. Ju'onai schools dispute what an aftermark is, but their best methods
+agree on what it cannot establish: it does not identify a hidden actor merely
+because a causal scar exists, expose dormant Luck, read intent, certify a
+prophecy, or make a reader immune to false premises.
 
 Administrative reports should name their boundary, inputs, missing observations, intervention, and expected review point. Fraud and error enter through staged examinations, patron-selected samples, concealed local changes, copied insights, counterfeit certificates, intimidated workers, and a model framed so that the sponsor's preferred answer is the only one inside it.
 
@@ -86,7 +114,7 @@ In the Divided City, Ju'onai assessors must confront forecasts that change when
 
 ## Historical stress: the Santabi'u Silt Appeal
 
-[[Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its polity consequence is the Hegemony's characteristic contradiction: bounded Analysis can be correct while imperial administration uses the boundary to make a client territory false. The appeal demonstrates real self-correction and the class power to delay correction until damage fits an official model.
+[[Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its polity consequence is the Hegemony's characteristic contradiction: a bounded opening can be correct while imperial administration uses its frame to make a client territory false. The appeal demonstrates real self-correction and the class power to delay correction until damage fits an official model.
 
 Hegemony memory emphasizes preserved competence and narrowed authority. Valley memory emphasizes consumed seed, departure, and observations believed only after they became administratively legible. Neither interpretation changes the event record or makes examination identical to government.
 
@@ -94,11 +122,11 @@ Hegemony memory emphasizes preserved competence and narrowed authority. Valley m
 
 Resistance includes rival ledgers, local measurement schools, refusal to certify a patron's model, hiding production, preserving worker testimony, exploiting differences among divine offices, and appealing to a superior who wants evidence against a subordinate. Occupied people can learn the Hegemony's categories well enough to turn them against the office that imposed them.
 
-The Analysis Crown's buried virtual arenas, interfaces, programmed adversaries, and examination archives form natural dungeons. An old test may still adapt to entrants while certifying an authority no living polity recognizes. A record vault can expose generations of fraudulent office. A nanite interface may answer an Analyst and still require a Techpriest to determine what changing it will do. Provincial dungeons can hide survey markers, tax stores, suppressed petitions, failed public works, or the material outside an imperial model.
+The Ju'onai Crown's buried virtual arenas, interfaces, programmed adversaries, and examination archives form natural dungeons. An old test may still adapt to entrants while certifying an authority no living polity recognizes. A record vault can expose generations of fraudulent office. A nanite interface may answer an opened reader and still require a Techpriest to determine what changing it will do. Provincial dungeons can hide survey markers, tax stores, suppressed petitions, failed public works, or the material outside an imperial model.
 
 ## Unresolved
 
-- Native names and exact composition of examination and administrative offices.
+- Exact descendant-language names and regional forms of the Schools, Houses of Attestation, and Measured Offices.
 - Present summit authority, provinces, citizenship, tax forms, and administrative succession.
 - Whether gods embody concepts by popular recognition, formal cult, binding hierarchy, or all three.
 - The legal weight of examination rank in office, court, marriage, inheritance, and occupied territory.
@@ -107,4 +135,4 @@ The Analysis Crown's buried virtual arenas, interfaces, programmed adversaries,
 - Santabi'u's location and the Crown City's name.
 - Compensation, restoration, and independent review after an analytical intervention causes harm.
 
-See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|God Beasts]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]].
+See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening|Ju'onai Schools of the Opening]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|God Beasts]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]].

Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The Sunwall is both granary and wound. Its sunward works catch the light that fe
 
 ## The divided sovereignty
 
-The [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]] first reduced the city to tributary status without fully assimilating it. The expanding Terjamna/Sorcery power later contested the same prize. The result is a practical condominium: two imperial claims overlap a surviving local civic authority, though the city's name, formal armistice, and exact sector lines remain unresolved.
+The [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]] first reduced the city to tributary status without fully assimilating it. The expanding Terjamna/Sorcery power later contested the same prize. The result is a practical condominium: two imperial claims overlap a surviving local civic authority, though the city's name, formal armistice, and exact sector lines remain unresolved.
 
 No participant can cheaply abolish the others.
 

Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md

@@ -79,12 +79,32 @@ Every `## Unresolved` section is load-bearing. A linked note may propose an answ
 
 ## Knowledge layers
 
-Future notes should separate:
+Canonical means adopted by the setting, not known by everybody inside it.
+Current notes should separate:
 
-1. **Common account** — what an ordinary inhabitant may know.
-2. **Learned account** — what scholars, priests, rulers, or specialists teach.
-3. **Forbidden or technical account** — evidence preserved in relics and dangerous traditions.
-4. **Author truth** — the current canonical owner note.
+1. **Observed phenomenon** — a witnessed effect or durable material trace. Its
+   occurrence may be public even when its cause is disputed.
+2. **Common or attributed account** — what a community, witness, cult, office,
+   or popular tradition says happened and what it means.
+3. **Learned model** — a school, lineage, profession, court, or priesthood's
+   organized explanation, including its evidence, tested domain, vocabulary,
+   and known failures.
+4. **Restricted evidence or model** — records, rites, instruments, sites, and
+   conclusions available only through bounded custody, danger, or initiation.
+5. **Backstage constraint** — a causal limit used by authors and adjudicators to
+   decide what can happen whether or not anyone in Kalsa understands it.
+6. **Backstage explanatory model** — the current author vocabulary connecting
+   constraints, including the Promethean Sequence, signatures, formal axes,
+   Projections, and Beast taxonomy. It is a coherent working account, not a
+   universal Kalsan textbook and not proof that every noun is final ontology.
+7. **Unresolved ontology** — a question no owner may quietly settle through
+   local doctrine, glossary convenience, or confident narration.
+
+A local theory can be sophisticated, predictive, and partly correct without
+becoming the backstage model. A backstage constraint remains real without
+giving a character the words or evidence needed to explain it. Institutions
+decide which accounts acquire legal, sacred, academic, or operational force;
+they do not acquire authority over reality merely by recording their decision.
 
 A machine explanation does not cancel a divine, legal, or emotional reality experienced by people in the setting.
 

Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Glossary.md

@@ -17,9 +17,14 @@ tags:
 
 # Glossary
 
+This is a derived author cross-reference, not a dictionary shared by Kalsa's
+inhabitants. English Gift names and formal capability terms below support
+comparison among owner notes; local vocabulary and theory belong to the
+relevant polity and institution notes.
+
 | Term | Current use |
 |---|---|
-| **Analysis** | Signature 010; conscious causal resolution. See [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. |
+| **Analysis** | Signature 010; conscious causal resolution. See [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. |
 | **baltcadu** | Seed gloss: Great City. Exact language and modern usage unresolved. |
 | **Chaos Beast** | Upper-dimensional agency coupled to a prescient person-pattern. See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Chaos Beasts|Chaos Beasts]]. |
 | **Children of Fire** | Ring populations shaped by Prometheus's worship and evolutionary games; not one present ethnicity. |

Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ These notes are polity owners, not complete national essences. Deepened polities
 - [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]]
 - [[Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Sorcery — Jamnai and the Terjamna]]
 - [[Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Shamanism — Papsenai]]
-- [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Analysis — Ju'onai Hegemony]]
+- [[Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]
 - [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|Prophecy — The Divided City]]
 - [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Channeling — Sarxe]]
 - [[Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition — Unresolved]]

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ shows the reader section and one explicitly named spoiler section.
 
 ## Authority map
 
-- `Kalsa/Public/`: spoiler-safe common knowledge and situated sources; the only Quartz content root
+- `Kalsa/Public/`: inhabitant-facing common knowledge, attributed scholarship, and situated sources; the only Quartz content root
 - `Kalsa/Spoilers/`: complete open author canon and GM material; deliberately entered repository/Obsidian section
 - `Kalsa/index.md`: navigation only; owns no setting claims
 - `Kalsa/.obsidian/`: stable configuration for the canonical vault; session and cache state remain local and ignored
@@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ shows the reader section and one explicitly named spoiler section.
 - `scripts/`: build and verification tools
 - `quartz-site/public/`: generated output, ignored by Git
 
-Obsidian is the authoring interface. Quartz is the reader projection. Neither owns lore. Public prose does not overrule its canonical subject owner, and author truth does not enter a character's knowledge merely because both exist in one open repository.
+Obsidian is the authoring interface. Quartz is the reader projection. Neither
+owns lore. Public prose lets players explore what Kalsan cultures, schools,
+offices, and witnesses understand and dispute; it is not a shortened author
+encyclopedia. Public prose does not overrule its canonical subject owner, and
+author truth does not enter a character's knowledge merely because both exist
+in one open repository.
 
 ## Local site
 

workshop/Direction and Constraints.md

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ This vault develops **Kalsa** as a high-fantasy setting for **Ghostlight Dungeon
 - Ghostlight ships an opinionated world kernel. Settings generalize by compiling their actors, knowledge, affordances, constraints, resources, and causal rules into that kernel; runtime prose does not invent the rules anew.
 - Obsidian is the canonical human authoring surface.
 - Quartz is the default reader projection, not a mirror of author truth and not a second source of truth.
+- The Public vault is an inhabitant-facing knowledge commons. Players explore
+  what Kalsan cultures teach, dispute, preserve, translate, and misunderstand;
+  they do not receive the author's comparative ontology in a friendlier font.
 - Agent memory is a bounded project-memory surface. It records durable judgment, decisions, provenance, open questions, and iteration state; it does not silently become setting canon.
 
 ## Experience and reveal doctrine
@@ -36,6 +39,20 @@ The intended discovery gradient is:
 
 The old technical vocabulary is primarily author-facing. `Kaos`, the formal capability axes, signatures, Projections, Beast taxonomy, Ring experiments, and related classifications are not default inhabitant vocabulary. A culture may discover a fragment or invent a locally useful analogue. The author taxonomy constrains what can happen; characters explain those limits from the evidence available to them.
 
+Public explanation must therefore have an epistemic owner. A claim about magic,
+history, gods, peoples, or ruins should be attributable to a culture, office,
+school, lineage, text, witness, or legible synthesis of named sources. Neutral
+editorial connective tissue may help readers navigate, but it may not smuggle
+author-only categories into common knowledge. Cross-cultural comparison is an
+act of translation performed by somebody, not the universe speaking in tables.
+
+Inhabitant models deserve the same institutional depth as other machinery.
+People name recurrent phenomena, found schools and archives, inherit scholarly
+lineages, train successors, fight over evidence, and build useful theories that
+remain incomplete. A local term is not decorative camouflage for an author
+axis: it should carry the observations, interests, tools, exclusions, and
+historical failures that made the model persuasive.
+
 Mystery therefore depends on **epistemic distance**, not an exposition embargo. The system can know the truth while the world does not. A peasant, Techpriest, prophet, court, cult, and god can each hold different evidence without any of them becoming a ventriloquist for the setting bible.
 
 ## Open source and spoiler friction

workshop/Knowledge and Spoiler Architecture.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ This map keeps author truth, reader access, character knowledge, and adjudicatio
 - **Inputs:** author canon, in-world sources, explicit operator decisions, campaign state, character state, observed events, relationships, provenance, and reveal decisions.
 - **Outputs:** spoiler-safe Quartz pages, author/GM inspection surfaces, future world-truth packages, retrieval evidence, character-local projections, and typed resolver affordances.
 - **Derived state:** the public site, search index, sitemap, RSS, lore digests, graph indexes, prompt text, and compiled packages report or lower owned state. They do not create canon.
-- **Forbidden writers:** Quartz visibility cannot decide truth; author taxonomy cannot enter a character prompt by default; a character belief cannot mutate world truth; a resolver result cannot retroactively make the character understand its cause; a human's spoiler choice cannot widen a character agent's retrieval scope.
+- **Forbidden writers:** Quartz visibility cannot decide truth; author taxonomy cannot enter Public prose or a character prompt as neutral world vocabulary; a character belief cannot mutate world truth; a resolver result cannot retroactively make the character understand its cause; a human's spoiler choice cannot widen a character agent's retrieval scope.
 - **Shared paths:** canonical edit → source/provenance review → audience/reveal review → reader publication or compiler input → bounded retrieval/projection → adjudication → event receipt → explicit reveal or canonization review.
 - **Cut line:** public Quartz consumes only `Kalsa/Public/`, and casual vault navigation exposes only `Public/`, `Spoilers/`, and a navigation-only root index. All author ontology and GM material lives under the explicitly named `Spoilers/` section.
 
@@ -52,6 +52,29 @@ A claim can move between access classes only through an owned event: teaching, p
 
 The source stays open. The friction is physical, named, and default-deny at the publication entrypoint; it is not pretend secrecy.
 
+## Public epistemic contract
+
+`Kalsa/Public/` is how players explore Kalsa as its inhabitants understand it.
+It is not an abbreviated author encyclopedia. Its explanatory claims must be
+owned by a culture, institution, scholarly lineage, named source, witness, or
+an explicitly framed comparison among such accounts.
+
+- Author labels such as Promethean sequence numbers, binary signatures, and the
+  axes called Clarity, Depth, and Scope remain in `Spoilers/` unless an
+  inhabitant source has independently reconstructed a bounded analogue.
+- A translated local term must preserve the theory and practice that produced
+  it. Renaming Clarity is insufficient if the surrounding prose still grants
+  the speaker the author's complete model.
+- Schools may be sophisticated and correct within tested domains without
+  converging on author truth. Their archives, instruments, patronage, language,
+  rivalries, and historical failures explain both what they know and what they
+  systematically miss.
+- Public synthesis may compare accounts for reader navigation, but it must name
+  whose comparison it is or keep its claims to observable consequences shared
+  across the cited traditions.
+- New discoveries can alter Public knowledge only through an owned act of
+  publication, teaching, testimony, translation, or institutional adoption.
+
 ## Reveal gradient
 
 1. Show lived high fantasy and spectacle.
@@ -88,3 +111,5 @@ This repository establishes the content boundary only. It does not claim that Gh
 - A resolver can reject an impossible miracle without teaching the acting character the hidden reason.
 - Revealing a fact to one character does not publish it to every Persona, reader, or institution.
 - Public notes never link into author/GM notes; the public build therefore cannot acquire hidden backlinks or crawl targets.
+- Public notes contain no unowned author taxonomy. Every explanatory model is
+  attributable, translated with limits, or restricted to shared observation.

workshop/deepening/benchmark.md

@@ -33,6 +33,35 @@ Use the following review scale as a discussion aid:
 The numbers are derived review state. They are not lore, and their sum is not a
 depth score.
 
+## Situated Knowledge Benchmark
+
+When a pass touches magic, gods, history, relics, peoples, or another subject
+with backstage truth, also test the inhabitant model:
+
+1. What repeatable phenomenon or evidence does the tradition encounter?
+2. Which culture, institution, lineage, text, witness, or synthesis owns the
+   explanation?
+3. What names and translations does it use, and which registers or rivals reject
+   them?
+4. What archives, instruments, rites, cases, fieldwork, or testimony let the
+   model survive one speaker?
+5. Who teaches it, funds it, publishes it, inherits its duties, disciplines it,
+   and can leave or refuse it?
+6. Which rival and subordinate models explain the same evidence differently?
+7. In what tested domain is it genuinely useful, and what characteristic blind
+   spot follows from its tools, jurisdiction, patronage, or history?
+8. Which separate institution may certify, govern, judge, operate, worship, or
+   punish on the basis of the model, and what can scholarship not decide?
+9. What is common, learned, restricted, disputed, or unknown to the people
+   involved?
+10. Can `Kalsa/Public/` present the argument through inhabitant knowledge without
+    revealing the backstage taxonomy or flattening disagreement into fog?
+
+A local synonym for an author label scores absent. A theory becomes causal only
+when its evidence, reproducing institution, interests, usable predictions, and
+failure shape are visible. Incomplete does not mean vague; it means bounded
+enough to be right, wrong, revised, funded, suppressed, and used in play.
+
 ## Parity Condition
 
 Kalsa reaches institutional parity when:

workshop/deepening/body-map.md

@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 title: Kalsa Canonical Body Map
 status: working-map
 snapshot_at: 2026-08-22T17:26:42Z
-scope: deepening-waves-1-through-16-plus-kalsa-026-and-kalsa-029-boundaries
+scope: deepening-waves-1-through-16-plus-kalsa-026-kalsa-029-and-kalsa-030-boundaries
 ---
 
 # Kalsa Canonical Body Map
 
-This is an operational map of the live authoring machine, not lore and not a replacement for owner notes. It records institutional authority after KALSA-007 through KALSA-022, publication authority through KALSA-026, and vault-level spoiler enclosure through KALSA-029. Waves 11–16 are repair overlays on existing subject owners, not new parallel authorities.
+This is an operational map of the live authoring machine, not lore and not a replacement for owner notes. It records institutional authority after KALSA-007 through KALSA-022, publication authority through KALSA-026, vault-level spoiler enclosure through KALSA-029, and Public epistemic ownership through KALSA-030. Waves 11–16 are repair overlays on existing subject owners, not new parallel authorities.
 
 ## Canonical substrate
 
@@ -119,17 +119,17 @@ This is an operational map of the live authoring machine, not lore and not a rep
 - **Verification layer:** KALSA-013 and KALSA-021 source inventories, translation/conversion negatives, Shortened Watch event exclusivity and chronology/measure restraint, links/build/render.
 - **Unresolved seam:** language families, sound changes, scripts, calendars, regional units, interface comprehension, and public competence standards.
 
-### 8. Ju'onai examination and Analyst administration
+### 8. Ju'onai scholarship, attestation, and measured administration
 
-- **Owner:** `Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md` owns polity history and portfolios; `Ju'onai Examiners.md` owns bounded testing, certification, discipline, and revocation; `Analyst Administration.md` owns appointment, tax/allocation, public works, petitions, remedy, and administrative succession; `Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md` alone owns that case's facts.
-- **Inputs:** scoped tests, causal reports, worker observations, tax and service records, charters, budgets, petitions, client agreements, local claims, and technical-custody evidence.
-- **Outputs:** scoped certification, appointments, portfolios, allocations, public works, notices, remedies, revocations, and appeals.
-- **Derived/display-only state:** exam scores, rank prestige, production estimates, model boundaries, risk summaries, and office dashboards describe administrative evidence; they do not become the territory.
-- **Forbidden writers:** rank cannot write moral worth; report cannot write verdict; model scope cannot erase outside observations; certification cannot write technical custody; analytical success cannot legitimate annexation.
-- **Shared paths:** exam, appointment, levy, public work, and petition preserve claimed boundary → inputs and missing evidence → accountable actor → material consequence → independent procedural review or superior appeal.
-- **Deletion/demotion line:** meritocratic intelligence caste, omniscient administration, model-as-reality, and clean annexation history are demoted.
-- **Verification layer:** KALSA-014 and KALSA-020 witnesses, Santabi'u event exclusivity, low-expression/worker hostile readings, report-boundary and duplicated-retelling negatives, links/build/render.
-- **Unresolved seam:** summit and provinces, tax forms, office succession, certification law, technical guild relations, Channeler Crown custody, and compensation.
+- **Owner:** `Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony.md` owns polity history, territorial claims, and political relations; `Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening.md` owns vocabulary, scholarship, lineages, archives, and competing models; `Institutions/Houses of Attestation.md` owns bounded testing, certification, discipline, and revocation; `Institutions/Measured Offices.md` owns portfolios, appointment, tax/allocation, public works, petitions, remedy, and administrative succession; `Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md` alone owns that case's facts.
+- **Inputs:** firsthand openings, learned observations, work records, temple accounts, translations, adverse cases, scoped tests, causal reports, worker testimony, tax and service records, charters, budgets, petitions, client agreements, local claims, and technical-custody evidence.
+- **Outputs:** teaching and commentary, confidence and boundary practices, scholarly disputes, scoped certification, appointments, portfolios, allocations, public works, notices, remedies, revocations, and appeals.
+- **Derived/display-only state:** translated school names, author crosswalks, Public syntheses, exam scores, rank prestige, production estimates, model boundaries, risk summaries, and office dashboards describe owned evidence; they do not become native consensus or the territory.
+- **Forbidden writers:** school cannot write metaphysical truth or acquire acting authority; rank cannot write moral worth; report cannot write verdict; model scope cannot erase outside observations; certification cannot write appointment or technical custody; administrative use cannot make a theory true; bounded success cannot legitimate annexation.
+- **Shared paths:** observation or opening → attributed record → lineage interpretation and bounded test → separate certification, appointment, action, or verdict → material consequence → adverse archive, independent procedural review, superior appeal, and possible revision.
+- **Deletion/demotion line:** IV, 010, Analysis, and Clarity are backstage comparison terms rather than unmarked Ju'onai language; meritocratic intelligence caste, omniscient administration, model-as-reality, and clean annexation history are demoted.
+- **Verification layer:** KALSA-014, KALSA-020, and KALSA-030 witnesses; Santabi'u event exclusivity; low-expression/worker hostile readings; school/action authority negatives; author-vocabulary Public scan; report-boundary and duplicated-retelling negatives; links/build/render.
+- **Unresolved seam:** exact descendant-language terms, school antiquity and regional variation, summit and provinces, tax forms, office succession, certification law, technical guild relations, Channeler Crown custody, and compensation.
 
 ### 9. Sarxe households, flight, and refuge
 
@@ -245,13 +245,13 @@ These overlays record changed authority and shared paths. They are audit views o
 
 ## Repository and projection boundaries
 
-### Publication and vault-navigation authority — KALSA-026 and KALSA-029
+### Publication, epistemic, and vault-navigation authority — KALSA-026, KALSA-029, and KALSA-030
 
-- **Owner:** subject notes under `Kalsa/Spoilers/` own open author canon; situated notes under `Kalsa/Public/` own reader presentation; `Kalsa/index.md` owns navigation only; Ghostlight owns any future bounded character-context and adjudicator projections in its runtime; Quartz owns no truth.
+- **Owner:** subject notes under `Kalsa/Spoilers/` own open author canon; situated notes under `Kalsa/Public/` own inhabitant-facing reader presentation; each Public explanatory model requires a culture, institution, lineage, text, witness, or named synthesis as its epistemic owner; `Kalsa/index.md` owns navigation only; Ghostlight owns any future bounded character-context and adjudicator projections in its runtime; Quartz owns no truth.
 - **Inputs:** author canon, situated public-source prose, explicit reveal decisions, and—for future Ghostlight lowering—character, campaign, and adjudication state.
 - **Outputs:** an open inspectable author vault, a high-fantasy reader surface, and future consumer-bounded Ghostlight packets or affordances.
 - **Derived/display-only state:** rendered Quartz pages, search, sitemap, RSS, backlinks, and future compiled Ghostlight packets lower owned sources without becoming canon or widening knowledge.
-- **Forbidden writers:** public prose cannot rewrite author truth; the root gate cannot state lore; author-vault proximity cannot grant reader or character knowledge; Quartz and Ghostlight projections cannot become lore owners; resolver outcomes cannot grant causal understanding automatically.
+- **Forbidden writers:** public prose cannot rewrite author truth or speak backstage taxonomy as neutral world knowledge; a translated local term cannot inherit the complete author model; the root gate cannot state lore; author-vault proximity cannot grant reader or character knowledge; Quartz and Ghostlight projections cannot become lore owners; resolver outcomes cannot grant causal understanding automatically.
 - **Shared paths:** `Kalsa/index.md` → `Public/index.md` by default or explicit `Spoilers/index.md` opt-in; author canon → audience/reveal review → situated `Kalsa/Public/` source or future Ghostlight compiler input → bounded consumer → receipt → explicit reveal or canonization in the owning author note.
 - **Deletion/demotion line:** no author/GM directory remains at the vault root; membership in `Kalsa/` and the old `contentDir Kalsa` binding no longer decide publication eligibility; unrestricted author-vault retrieval is not a character-context path.
 - **Verification layer:** vault-root allowlist; complete-vault links and seed hashes; public-only link containment; stale author-path negatives; launcher/workflow binding to `Kalsa/Public`; sitemap/search/RSS/explorer leakage negatives; production build and affected-page inspection; future Ghostlight packet-leakage review in its owning repository.
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ These overlays record changed authority and shared paths. They are audit views o
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | `seed/original/` + `seed/manifest.md` | Immutable witnesses; manifest owns filenames, sizes, hashes, and subject labels. | Read into source inventories; verify with `scripts/lore/verify-seed.ps1`. | Never edit, normalize, rename, or let witness prose become canon without adoption. |
 | `Kalsa/` + `Kalsa/index.md` | Obsidian vault container and navigation-only consent gate. | Leads casual explorers to `Public/` by default and deliberate spoiler readers to `Spoilers/`. | Owns no setting claims and cannot place author/GM domains beside the consent boundary. |
-| `Kalsa/Public/` | Sole Quartz input and owner of situated reader presentation, not a second author canon. | Selectively expresses lived high-fantasy accounts from author truth and links only within the public surface. | Cannot reveal by proximity, rewrite hidden mechanisms, become a duplicate encyclopedia, or link readers into author/GM material. |
+| `Kalsa/Public/` | Sole Quartz input and owner of inhabitant-facing situated presentation, not a second author canon. | Lets players explore common life, attributed schools, lineages, offices, witnesses, texts, and explicit comparison among their accounts; links only within the public surface. | Cannot reveal by proximity, speak author taxonomy as neutral knowledge, rename a backstage model and call it situated, become a duplicate encyclopedia, or link readers into author/GM material. |
 | `Kalsa/Spoilers/` | Complete open author and GM surface; subject notes retain truth authority and the folder itself owns none. | Receives reviewed canonical repair; feeds author inspection, reveal review, and future compiler inputs. | Cannot escape into the vault root through duplicate notes, junctions, symlinks, or compatibility copies. |
 | `Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/` | Adopted-history owner layer; each event note owns one factual sequence, while the index owns navigation only. | Supplies linked historical pressure to subject owners; receives factual correction before consequence notes. | Cannot absorb general procedure or metaphysics; consumers cannot fork its facts. |
 | `Kalsa/Spoilers/Places/Low Sere.md` | Canonical settlement and admission owner for the direct-entry launch. | Supplies dependency, actors, burdens, and threshold access to the Ashen Intake. | Cannot write technical competence, relic title, or dungeon internals. |
@@ -293,5 +293,5 @@ Direct human edits and agent repairs must converge on this path. A workshop pass
 ## Remaining open surfaces at this snapshot
 
 - KALSA-007 through KALSA-022 are complete. The final bounded Soul review found parity defensible for the adopted institutional set; this closes the current depth cycle without declaring unfinished branches complete.
-- KALSA-026 establishes open author canon versus situated reader presentation; KALSA-029 encloses the author/GM tree behind one explicit vault section. Ghostlight compiler schemas, campaign-package ownership, and deployment/domain authority remain unresolved in their owning projects.
+- KALSA-026 establishes open author canon versus situated reader presentation; KALSA-029 encloses the author/GM tree behind one explicit vault section; KALSA-030 makes Public an inhabitant-facing knowledge commons and begins the model with Ju'onai causal scholarship. Ghostlight compiler schemas, campaign-package ownership, equivalent scholarly depth for other cultures, and deployment/domain authority remain unresolved in their owning projects.
 - Intuition and the Alliance remain intentionally outside the adopted institutional parity set until source-grounded or operator direction gives them a factual owner.

workshop/deepening/ledger.md

@@ -58,3 +58,14 @@ promoted or retired.
 - **Verification:** top-level allowlist; spoiler-session and exposed-directory negative tests; 526 complete-vault links across 67 notes; 28 Public-only links across eight notes; nine seed witnesses; institutional depth over only the 58 spoiler-owner notes; production Quartz build; exact eight-route output comparison.
 - **Soul verdict:** the first pass failed on Obsidian session-state disclosure. The repaired pass succeeded with no remaining enclosure, ownership, Public, or Quartz blocker.
 - **Durable judgment promoted:** spoiler friction must govern saved editor state and the initial file tree, not only publication and prose warnings.
+
+## 2026-08-22 — Inhabitant models and Public epistemic ownership
+
+- **Scope:** [[passes/KALSA-030-inhabitant-models|KALSA-030]], beginning the situated-knowledge cycle with Ju'onai causal scholarship and its reader-facing projection.
+- **Authority cut:** IV, `010`, Analysis, and Clarity remain backstage comparison terms. `Ju'onai Schools of the Opening` owns translated vocabulary, teaching lineages, archives, and scholarly disagreement; Houses of Attestation retain certification; Measured Offices retain portfolios and action; the Santabi'u event retains its facts.
+- **Canonical lore changed:** the Study of Openings now contains Concordance Temples, Trial Boards, Four-Because Chairs, and Named-Edge Circles, each with distinct evidence, material reproduction, patronage, blind spots, succession, discipline, and historical readings.
+- **Public proof:** `Magic and Miracles` now attributes explanations to inhabitant traditions, and `Four Readings of a Broken Sluice` lets readers encounter the four-school dispute through an in-world teaching text whose keeper refuses anonymous evidentiary labor.
+- **Soul verdict:** the first post-cut review passed the semantic boundary but rejected a stale Body map that duplicated portfolio ownership. The repaired map assigns portfolios only to Measured Offices and records the full observation → lineage interpretation → separate action → material review path. The second review passed.
+- **Verification:** nine immutable seed witnesses; 551 complete-vault wikilinks across 69 notes; 34 Public links across nine reader notes; publication, vault-layout, negative-tool, and exact-output checks; production Quartz build of nine inputs and 33 outputs; rendered inspection of the home, magic, and teaching-source pages.
+- **Durable judgment promoted:** Public explanations require a situated inhabitant owner, evidence practice, institutional body, and characteristic limit. A local synonym without those consequences is only the author taxonomy in costume.
+- **Open pressure:** KALSA-031 repeats this audit for the remaining traditions one bounded owner at a time; exact Ju'onai descendant-language forms, school antiquity, and regional variations remain unresolved.

workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-014-juonai-analysis.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 pass_id: KALSA-014
 status: complete
 target: Ju'onai examination and analyst administration
-canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md
+canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony.md
 started: 2026-08-22
 completed: 2026-08-22
 ---
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Make analytical governance genuinely capable of large public works and durable c
 
 ## Critique and repair
 
-[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|The Ju'onai Hegemony]] now owns geography, historical rule, status ecology, and client relations. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] owns bounded tests, domain certificates, records, review, and revocation. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]] owns charters, office, taxation, budgets, public-work priorities, petitions, compacts, succession, and remedies.
+[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony|The Ju'onai Hegemony]] now owns geography, historical rule, status ecology, and client relations. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation|Houses of Attestation]] owns bounded tests, domain certificates, records, review, and revocation. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices|Measured Offices]] owns charters, office, taxation, budgets, public-work priorities, petitions, compacts, succession, and remedies. These translated names were adopted in KALSA-030; this pass's original author-facing terminology remains historical evidence.
 
 ## Falsification
 

workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-030-inhabitant-models.md

@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+---
+pass_id: KALSA-030
+status: complete
+target: Ju'onai causal scholarship and Public epistemic ownership
+canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Schools of the Opening.md
+started: 2026-08-22
+completed: 2026-08-22
+---
+
+# KALSA-030 — Inhabitant Models
+
+## Objective
+
+Make the Public vault explorable as Kalsans understand their world, beginning
+with the Ju'onai phenomena that author notes compare as Sequence IV, signature
+010, and the Clarity axis. Give those observations culturally owned names,
+schools, scholarly lineages, institutions, disagreements, and incomplete models
+without teaching any inhabitant the author ontology.
+
+## Source inventory
+
+### Seed evidence
+
+- `seed/original/page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md` owns the teenage author taxonomy:
+  the axes Clarity, Depth, and Scope plus seven non-null combinations.
+- `seed/original/page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md` establishes Prometheus's imposed
+  Lojban, octal ordering, and binary triplets as Ark-era design pressure.
+- `seed/original/page-2026-08-20-10-39-51.md` owns the fourth Ring's virtual
+  games, biological interfaces, sudden systemic comprehension, physical cost,
+  computer affinity, Ju'onai Hegemony, and ideological gods.
+
+### Adopted canon
+
+- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos.md` owns the author model and hard causal
+  limits.
+- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles.md` owns author comparison among the
+  seven Gifts.
+- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Ju'onai Hegemony.md` owns Ju'onai history,
+  polity, practice, and the examination state.
+- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Houses of Attestation.md` owns certification.
+- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Measured Offices.md` owns territorial
+  administration.
+- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md` establishes
+  that no universal academy owns language and that scholarly registers change.
+- `Kalsa/Public/World/Magic and Miracles.md` and `Peoples and Polities.md`
+  currently project the relevant reader knowledge.
+
+### Provisional, contested, rumored, or deprecated material
+
+- Sequence IV, signature 010, Analysis, and Clarity remain valid author labels,
+  not automatic inhabitant vocabulary.
+- Exact Ju'onai descendant-language forms are unresolved. English translated
+  institution and school names may become canon without counterfeiting a
+  reconstructed conlang.
+
+### Contradictions and unknowns
+
+- Current notes repeatedly use “Analysis” and “Analyst” inside Ju'onai social
+  description, making author comparison sound like native consensus.
+- Native names, theoretical schools, curricula, scholarly succession, and
+  regional disputes are explicitly unresolved.
+- The Hegemony's capacity to preserve causal records is detailed, but the
+  traditions that interpret those records are not yet owned.
+
+## Authority map before repair
+
+- **Owner:** author foundations own what the capability does; polity and
+  institution notes own what Ju'onai actors believe and build around it.
+- **Inputs:** bounded magical insight, learned observation, archives, work
+  records, divine doctrine, examinations, client knowledge, and historical
+  failures.
+- **Outputs:** certificates, scholarly models, administrative reports, teaching,
+  public explanation, interventions, disputes, and appeals.
+- **Derived state:** the author's sequence/signature table and Public summaries
+  compare owned claims but may not become native doctrine by proximity.
+- **Forbidden writers:** author taxonomy, divine certainty, examination rank,
+  and imperial administration may not decide cultural consensus or complete
+  metaphysical truth.
+- **Shared paths:** observation → local vocabulary and record → school or
+  lineage interpretation → bounded test → institutional use or dispute →
+  reader-facing situated account.
+- **Cut line:** demote IV, 010, Analysis, and Clarity from unmarked cultural
+  vocabulary; do not erase them from the warned author comparison surface.
+
+## Institutional model
+
+- **Function:** the Study of Openings makes sudden systemic comprehension and
+  learned causal records teachable, disputable, and reusable without claiming
+  one complete metaphysics.
+- **Authority and enforcement limits:** scholarly lineages own teaching,
+  commentary, archives, publication, and internal discipline. Houses of
+  Attestation own certification; Measured Offices own government; courts own
+  verdict; cults own appointment; custodians own safe operation.
+- **Recruitment, training, rank, compensation, discipline, succession, exit:**
+  temple schools, public colleges, family tutors, client academies, office
+  apprenticeships, work crews, and commentary circles recruit differently.
+  Teacher-to-student lineages transfer archive duties and unfinished students,
+  not blood authority, openings, certificates, office, or truth.
+- **Material support, records, places, tools, maintenance, supply:** food,
+  lodging, stipends, copied cases, witnesses, teachers, test rooms, diagrams,
+  scale mechanisms, survey tools, translation, travel, field access, temple
+  estates, public levies, patron trusts, and safely kept Crown interfaces.
+- **Doctrine versus practice:** every lineage claims disciplined limits while
+  patronage, archive custody, prestige speech, divine standing, and access to
+  consequential cases shape what becomes publishable knowledge.
+- **Beneficiaries, costs, exclusion, refusal:** opened readers and archive-owning
+  families receive prestige; learned readers, workers, clerks, and clients make
+  comparison possible while often losing authorship. Readers can refuse unsafe
+  extension, witness erasure, or confidence presented as verdict.
+- **Dependencies and neighboring institutions:** High Lojban traditions,
+  concept cults, Houses of Attestation, Measured Offices, Techpriests, relic
+  custodians, courts, work crews, client governments, and petition archives.
+- **Variation by class, region, lineage, language, magic:** Concordance Temples,
+  Trial Boards, Four-Because Chairs, and Named-Edge Circles privilege different
+  evidence and reproduce through different material bodies. Translated names do
+  not pretend one descendant register governs them all.
+- **Historical formation and path dependence:** trial practice descends or
+  claims descent from Crown exercises; temple schools join opening to divine
+  concepts; causal philology develops around law and translation; Named-Edge
+  reform grows through client failures such as Santabi'u. Competing antiquity
+  claims remain unresolved.
+- **Internal contradiction and factions:** the field depends on ordinary
+  observation while prestige treats firsthand opening as authorship; every
+  school's strongest method creates a predictable blind spot.
+- **Player-facing consequences:** disputed records, suppressed adverse cases,
+  contested authorship, dangerous teaching interfaces, rival patrons, and
+  models that are locally useful without deciding which authority may act.
+
+## Critique
+
+- Generic fantasy defaults: a single correct magical academy would merely put
+  author omniscience in robes.
+- Missing material constraints: schools and lineages presently lack named
+  archives, teaching cases, patronage, instruments, and succession.
+- False consensus or absent subordinate perspectives: imperial certification
+  is overrepresented relative to workers, clients, low-expression scholars,
+  cult interpreters, and competing regional methods.
+- Consequences that stop at the page edge: Public prose names examination but
+  does not yet let a reader encounter a Ju'onai argument as an inhabitant would.
+- Duplicate or ambiguous owners: a new scholarship note must own traditions
+  and models without stealing magical mechanics, certification, or government.
+
+## Repair
+
+- Canonical files changed: cross-cutting provenance, Kaos, Magic Styles,
+  divine taxonomy, author glossary, the Ju'onai polity, Schools of the Opening,
+  Houses of Attestation, Measured Offices, Santabi'u event routing, institution
+  and polity indexes, and four affected Public explanations plus one new Public
+  teaching source.
+- Obsolete authority to delete or demote first: unmarked author vocabulary in
+  culturally situated prose.
+- Smallest coherent new model: `Ju'onai Schools of the Opening.md` owns the
+  translated vocabulary and four rival lineages while the renamed Houses of
+  Attestation and Measured Offices retain their existing narrow authorities.
+- Links and downstream consequences added: teacher-to-student succession,
+  archive custody, patronage, material classrooms, model-specific failures,
+  Santabi'u interpretations, public teaching dialogue, and playable recovery,
+  authorship, certification, and repair conflicts.
+
+## Falsification
+
+### Hostile or marginal perspective
+
+A low-expression keeper supplies the marks, work history, and omitted lateral
+that every school needs. In `Four Readings of a Broken Sluice`, she rejects the
+role of anonymous witness, demands attribution and material repair, and exposes
+how separated scholarly authority can still become collective evasion.
+
+### Historical stress case
+
+The Santabi'u test correctly described the prepared gates and became false when
+used for the valley. Trial reformers demand transfer tests; Four-Because Chairs
+separate mechanism, motive, justification, and entailment; Named-Edge Circles
+preserve omitted people and review horizons; Concordance Temples split rather
+than receiving a convenient common verdict.
+
+## Authority map after repair
+
+- **Owner:** `Ju'onai Schools of the Opening.md` owns vocabulary, teaching
+  lineages, archives, competing models, and scholarly discipline. Foundations,
+  polity, attestation, administration, cult, court, and custody retain their
+  named consequences.
+- **Inputs:** openings, learned observations, work records, trial results,
+  temple accounts, translations, adverse cases, client petitions, material
+  outcomes, and historical failures.
+- **Outputs:** teachings, commentaries, confidence and boundary practices,
+  opening reports, scholarly disputes, Public sources, and advice to distinct
+  acting authorities.
+- **Derived state:** author crosswalks, glossary labels, English translations,
+  Public synthesis, certification records, and administrative use.
+- **Forbidden writers:** no lineage, god, attestor, administrator, author table,
+  or public narrator may turn one bounded model into universal Kalsan knowledge
+  or metaphysical verdict.
+- **Shared paths:** observation → attributed record → lineage interpretation →
+  bounded trial or disagreement → separate certification/action/verdict →
+  material outcome → adverse archive and possible revision.
+- **Deleted or demoted authority:** `Analysis — Ju'onai Hegemony`, `Ju'onai
+  Examiners`, and `Analyst Administration` cease to be live cultural titles;
+  they survive only as aliases and historical author terminology. The Public
+  observability matrix is replaced by attributed evidence practices.
+
+## Verification
+
+- [x] Seed hashes unchanged.
+- [x] Wikilinks resolve without new ambiguity.
+- [x] Workshop, seed, and memory remain outside the publication root.
+- [x] Production Quartz build succeeds.
+- [x] Affected rendered pages were inspected.
+- [x] Git diff changes only intended owners and supporting indexes.
+- [x] Benchmark review completed without treating counts as proof.
+
+## Decision record
+
+- **Adopted:** Public is an inhabitant-facing knowledge commons, not a concise
+  author encyclopedia.
+- **Explicitly not adopted:** a universal Kalsan taxonomy or one correct magical
+  academy.
+- **Unresolved:** exact descendant-language forms and the later equivalent
+  repair for every non-Ju'onai tradition.
+- **Project-memory judgment promoted or retired:** promote Public epistemic
+  ownership after verification: explanatory models require situated owners,
+  evidence, institutions, and characteristic limits.
+- **Next highest-value pressure:** repeat the method for the next tradition
+  whose Public description still depends on an author label.

workshop/deepening/queue.md

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ play value.
 | KALSA-027 | Kalsa world-compiler integration | Ghostlight needs world truth, retrieval evidence, and epistemic projections with typed affordances and leakage boundaries. | blocked | Ghostlight-owned compiler/runtime implementation and shared schema decision |
 | KALSA-028 | Spectacular surface adventure | The reader vault needs a magic-forward high-fantasy play proof alongside the industrial Ashen Intake. | queued | Bounded adventure selection and campaign demand |
 | KALSA-029 | Vault spoiler enclosure | The Quartz boundary was safe, but casual Obsidian exploration still exposed author domains and session recents. | complete | Author/GM tree enclosed, root gate neutral, workspace neutral and ignored, and negative checks passed. |
+| KALSA-030 | Inhabitant models and public epistemic ownership | The physical spoiler boundary is sound, but author mechanics still need culturally owned names, schools, lineages, disputes, and incomplete models before Public can become an inhabitant-facing knowledge commons. | complete | Ju'onai causal scholarship now owns openings, four rival lineages, attestation and administration remain separate authorities, and Public projects the dispute without exposing the author taxonomy. |
+| KALSA-031 | Remaining situated magical traditions | The Ju'onai pass proves the method, but Selza'a, Jamnai, Papsenai, prophetic, Sarxe, divine, and technical explanations still need the same owner/evidence/institution/failure audit where author labels substitute for local thought. | queued | Work one bounded tradition at a time, prioritized by Public exposure and Ghostlight play pressure; do not invent the unresolved Intuition polity through this pass. |
 
 Do not fill the queue with every imaginable fantasy topic. Add an item when a
 real owner, dependency, contradiction, or play requirement creates pressure.