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 # Relic and Ruin Law
 
-Relic and ruin law is the collection of local procedures used to enter, secure, investigate, close, and remove material from dungeon sites. It is not a continent-wide code. Each polity acts through its own offices, customs, rulers, courts, temples, and coercive capacity. Shared practice emerges because ruins cross borders, hazards propagate, Techpriesthoods travel, and stolen relics remain recognizable after local permission has been left behind.
+Relic and ruin law governs what people may do at a dungeon site: enter it, make it safe, investigate it, close it, or carry things away. For a delving party, permission to enter is only the first decision. A recovered object may belong to a custodian, form part of a burial, or still supply water to people above. Finding it does not settle what happens to it.
 
-The governing distinction is simple: entry into a place does not empty the place of prior authority. [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Provenance]] identifies the layers and claims present. Law decides which actor may do what while those layers remain contested.
+There is no continent-wide code. Each polity uses its own offices, customs, rulers, courts, temples, and ability to enforce decisions. Some practices recur because the problems travel: ruins cross borders, hazards spread, Techpriesthoods move between jurisdictions, and a stolen relic can still be recognized after its thief leaves the place that claimed it.
 
-## Layered authority
+[[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Provenance]] establishes what is known about a site's history, uses, and competing claims. Ruin law decides who may act while those claims remain unsettled. Entering a place does not cancel the authority already present there.
 
-### Local polity
+## Who can decide what
 
-The polity that actually governs a site owns admission, route security, criminal enforcement, and response to public danger within its jurisdiction. It may close an entrance, post guards, require notice, search returning parties, quarantine a hazard, evacuate threatened people, or order emergency work. These powers concern access and consequences. They do not make the polity technically competent, erase foreign title, convert burials into treasure, or prove that every deep structure lies inside its lawful border.
+Several authorities may have legitimate business in the same chamber. Each controls a different part of the decision.
 
-A public-danger order should name the observed danger, affected boundary, authorized acts, responsible office, duration, and review condition. In an emergency, action may precede a full hearing. Once immediate danger is contained, the order must not survive merely because closure has become administratively convenient.
+### The local polity: access and public danger
 
-### Techpriesthoods and custodians
+The polity that actually governs the site controls admission, route security, criminal enforcement, and the response to public danger within its jurisdiction. It can close an entrance, post guards, require notice, search returning parties, quarantine a hazard, evacuate threatened people, or order emergency work.
 
-[[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthoods]] retain bounded authority over the operation of named systems they can competently identify. They may stop unsafe work, prescribe an isolation boundary, preserve configuration evidence, or refuse an activation outside known limits. They do not own the ruin, its movable contents, its output, or every machine inside it.
+Those powers let it control access and respond to consequences. They do not give its officials technical knowledge, erase foreign ownership, or make burial goods available for salvage. Control of the entrance also does not prove that every structure beneath it lies within the polity's lawful border.
 
-[[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic custodians]] retain whatever possession, service, sacred, recovery, title, or handoff claims apply to a particular relic. A component found in a new chamber may still belong to an active system or an earlier custody chain. The custodian's record travels with the claim; it does not grant police power over the entire route.
+An order issued for public danger should state:
 
-### Cults, kin, and the dead
+- what danger has been observed;
+- the boundary affected;
+- which acts are authorized;
+- which office is responsible;
+- how long the order lasts;
+- what condition requires review.
 
-Cults, households, descendants, mortuary offices, and bound hierarchies retain claims over identified bodies, funerary goods, covenant records, divine remains, and sites whose disturbance changes an active binding. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] governs those procedures. Kinship does not automatically create ownership of an Ark chamber; site authority does not turn the dead into unclaimed material.
+An emergency may require action before a full hearing. Once the immediate danger is contained, officials need a continuing justification for the order. Administrative convenience is not enough to keep a site closed.
 
-A manifestation can demand a hold without proving its identity. Officials must preserve the behavior, available records, competing explanations, and immediate hazard. Containment may be necessary. Destruction for the purpose of making the claim easier to decide is not neutral adjudication.
+### Techpriesthoods and relic custodians: systems and particular objects
 
-### Dependents, workers, and residents
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthoods]] have limited authority over the operation of specific systems they can competently identify. A Techpriest may stop unsafe work, specify what must be isolated, preserve evidence of how a system was configured, or refuse an activation beyond known limits.
 
-Communities retain claims grounded in active service, habitation, labor, access, and exposure to danger. People who draw water from a buried work or breathe air moved through it may lack title and still be the first parties harmed by removal. Tunnel residents, caretakers, porters, guides, scavengers, and informal settlers often know site behavior omitted from official maps.
+That competence does not confer ownership of the ruin, its movable contents, its output, or every machine found inside it.
 
-Marginal status does not make every assertion true. It makes exclusion from notice a defect when the omitted person bears the consequence. A lawful entry process that consults title holders and ignores everyone downstream has mapped paper authority rather than the ruin.
+[[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic custodians]] hold claims concerning particular relics. Depending on the relic, these may concern possession, service, sacred obligations, recovery, ownership, or the terms of a handoff. A component discovered in a newly opened chamber may still belong to a working system or an earlier custody chain.
 
-### Delving parties
+The custodian's record supports that claim wherever the object is found. It does not give the custodian police power over the whole route used to reach it.
 
-A delving party owns only the expedition rights granted by the local authority and the obligations agreed in its [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|compact]]. It may acquire possession through recovery. It receives title only to residual movable salvage that remains after prior claims, active dependencies, custody restrictions, remains, and hazard costs have been addressed under the governing jurisdiction.
+### Cults, kin, and the dead: remains and continuing obligations
 
-There is no universal adventurers' guild, delver immunity, or finder-keeps title. A sponsor cannot contract around a claim held by someone who never joined the compact.
+Cults, households, descendants, mortuary offices, and bound hierarchies may retain claims over identified bodies, funerary goods, covenant records, divine remains, and places where disturbance changes an active binding. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] governs how those claims are handled.
 
-## Admission before descent
+A family connection does not automatically confer ownership of an Ark chamber. Equally, authority over the chamber does not make its dead unclaimed material.
 
-A normal admission process begins with a petition identifying the site, proposed entrance, objective, expected duration, participants, sponsor, known hazards, and intended removals. The local authority compares it with available provenance, land and route claims, Techpriest records, active services, burials, prior closures, and neighboring jurisdictions.
+A manifestation can demand that work stop while its claim is considered, even before its identity has been proved. Officials must preserve a record of its behavior, the available supporting records, competing explanations, and any immediate hazard. They may need to contain it. Destroying it merely to simplify the dispute destroys part of what they were supposed to judge.
 
-Admission may be broad enough to explore and map while requiring separate approval to break seals, disturb bodies, activate systems, divert flows, or remove named classes of material. This prevents an entry grant from becoming a blank deed. The grant should also state who can stop the work, which events require immediate notice, and where recovered material must be presented before division.
+### Residents, dependents, and workers: use and exposure
 
-Applicants may be required to post supplies, labor, hostages, surety, or another guarantee against rescue and repair costs. No form is universal. A guarantee should answer a named risk rather than serve as a price by which wealthy parties purchase permission to externalize any harm they can afford.
+People can have a claim because they live in a site, maintain it, work there, use its routes, depend on its services, or face danger from changes to it. Ownership is only one basis for being heard.
 
-## Procedure below
+A settlement drawing water from a buried work may have no title to the machinery. Its residents can still be the first to suffer when someone removes a part. The same applies to people breathing air moved through an old system. Tunnel residents, caretakers, porters, guides, scavengers, and informal settlers may also know behavior that official maps omit.
 
-The expedition marks its authorized threshold, records the initial state, and maintains a chain between discoveries and their locations. Opening a route, moving a component, encountering habitation, finding remains, changing an output, or triggering a manifestation changes the legal facts and must be logged when survival permits.
+Their position does not make every assertion true. But failing to notify someone who will bear the consequences makes the admission process defective. Consulting every title holder is insufficient if the people downstream never hear that their water route is about to be disturbed.
 
-Certain discoveries impose a hold:
+### Delving parties: expedition rights and possible salvage
 
-- evidence that the site remains inhabited or actively used;
+A delving party has the expedition rights granted by the local authority and the obligations accepted in its [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|compact]]. Recovery may give the party possession of an object. Ownership comes later, and only for movable salvage left after the governing jurisdiction has addressed prior claims, active dependencies, custody restrictions, remains, and hazard costs.
+
+There is no universal adventurers' guild, immunity for delvers, or rule that the finder keeps what they find. A sponsor and party cannot use their compact to cancel the claim of someone who never agreed to it.
+
+## Getting permission to descend
+
+A normal application identifies the site, proposed entrance, purpose of the expedition, expected duration, participants, sponsor, known hazards, and intended removals. The local authority checks this against the available provenance, land and route claims, Techpriest records, active services, burials, previous closures, and neighboring jurisdictions.
+
+Permission can allow exploration and mapping while reserving more consequential acts for separate approval. Breaking seals, disturbing bodies, activating systems, diverting flows, or removing specified classes of material may each require another decision. This keeps permission to enter from becoming permission to dispose of everything inside.
+
+The grant should also identify who may stop work, which events must be reported immediately, and where recovered material must be presented before anyone divides it.
+
+Applicants may have to provide supplies, labor, hostages, surety, or another guarantee against rescue and repair costs. No single form is universal. The guarantee should cover an identified risk. It should not let a wealthy party buy permission to leave others with whatever damage it can afford to cause.
+
+## Discoveries that change the permission
+
+On entering, the expedition marks the threshold covered by its authorization and records the site's initial condition. As it proceeds, it keeps discoveries tied to their locations.
+
+The record must change when the party opens a route, moves a component, encounters habitation, finds remains, changes an output, or triggers a manifestation. These events change the legal facts, so they must be logged when survival permits.
+
+Some discoveries require a **hold**: the affected action stops while the new issue is addressed. These include:
+
+- evidence of continuing habitation or active use;
 - a body, burial, covenant archive, or possible divine remain;
 - a component still attached to a functioning system;
-- an environmental or magical effect extending beyond the admitted boundary;
-- a seal whose purpose cannot be distinguished from containment;
+- an environmental or magical effect reaching beyond the boundary covered by admission;
+- a seal that may be containing something dangerous, where its purpose cannot be distinguished;
 - behavior consistent with a possible mind, Projection, or supervising process.
 
-A hold stops the affected action, not necessarily the entire expedition. The party may withdraw, stabilize immediate danger, preserve evidence, or continue elsewhere within scope. Emergency rescue always remains possible; it does not silently authorize salvage along the route.
+A hold need not stop the whole expedition. The party may withdraw, stabilize immediate danger, preserve evidence, or continue elsewhere within its authorized scope.
 
-## Return, inventory, and claims notice
+Emergency rescue remains possible. Permission to rescue someone does not quietly become permission to collect salvage along the way.
 
-Recovered objects return first to a declared inspection place rather than directly to the sponsor's treasury. The party presents the expedition log, provenance context, changes made, casualties, hazards carried out, and every item removed. Fixed infrastructure remains legally attached to its site unless a competent authority has approved severance.
+## Bringing material back
 
-Notice goes to identifiable custodians, affected communities, kin or cult claimants, land and route authorities, and specialists whose systems were disturbed. Claimants must identify the object or site, the basis of the claim, the remedy sought, and evidence that survives review. A ruler's seal, priestly formula, family story, maintenance mark, and delver's possession are all evidence; none is self-proving in every jurisdiction.
+Recovered objects go first to a declared inspection place. They do not pass directly into the sponsor's treasury.
 
-Items may be held, returned, isolated, repaired, buried, copied, divided, or released as residual salvage. A custody hold should be bounded by a reason and review date. Indefinite impoundment is title by exhaustion unless the continuing hazard or claim can be shown.
+The party presents every removed item alongside its expedition log, the context in which the material was found, changes made to the site, casualties, and hazards brought out with it. Fixed infrastructure remains legally part of its site unless a competent authority has approved its separation.
 
-## Hazard costs and salvage order
+Identifiable custodians, affected communities, kin or cult claimants, land and route authorities, and specialists whose systems were disturbed must receive notice. A claimant must identify the object or site, explain the basis of the claim, state the remedy sought, and provide evidence that can withstand review.
 
-Before movable salvage is divided, the adjudicating authority identifies costs caused by the expedition or necessary to make its recovery safe: rescue, containment, replacement of removed support, treatment of exposed people, restoration of interrupted service, guarded storage, safe burial, and repair of the access route. These costs do not excuse criminal or sacrilegious acts; they prevent profit from being calculated as though everyone outside the compact absorbed consequence for free.
+Evidence takes many forms: a ruler's seal, a priestly formula, a family story, a maintenance mark, or the delver's possession. None proves the case by itself in every jurisdiction.
 
-The order of decision is:
+The resulting decision may hold, return, isolate, repair, bury, copy, divide, or release an item as residual salvage. A custody hold should have a stated reason and review date. Without a demonstrable continuing hazard or claim, indefinite impoundment lets the holder acquire control simply by outlasting everyone else.
 
-1. rescue living people and secure continuing public danger;
-2. preserve and return identified bodies, persons, bindings, and custody claims under their owner procedures;
-3. stabilize active systems and compensate or restore service dependencies where the law recognizes them;
-4. return material with established title or bounded custody;
-5. assess necessary hazard, rescue, and restoration costs;
-6. release only the remaining movable material for allocation under the delving compact or local salvage custom.
+## Paying for recovery and deciding what remains
 
-The order does not guarantee that every polity values claims equally. It names the authorities that a coherent judgment must confront instead of allowing discovery to erase them.
+Before dividing movable salvage, the adjudicating authority identifies costs caused by the expedition or required to make the recovery safe. These can include rescue, containment, replacement of removed support, treatment of exposed people, restoration of interrupted services, guarded storage, safe burial, and repair of the access route.
 
-## Refusal, appeal, and override
+Charging these costs does not excuse a crime or sacrilege. It prevents the party and sponsor from counting their profit as though everyone outside the compact owed them free rescue, repairs, and suffering.
 
-A Techpriest may refuse unsafe operation. Kin or cult representatives may demand a hold on identified remains. Workers may refuse a route whose actual hazard exceeds the admission record. Delvers may refuse a sponsor's instruction outside the compact. Residents may challenge a removal that threatens active service.
+Decisions follow this order:
 
-The local polity owns the appeal path: court, council, ruler, lineage hearing, cult forum, negotiated assembly, or another recognized venue. Appeals should preserve the contested object and the evidence necessary to revisit the claim. Where rival jurisdictions exist, parties may accept a neutral witness or temporary shared custody without creating a higher universal court.
+1. Rescue living people and secure any continuing public danger.
+2. Preserve and return identified bodies, persons, bindings, and custody claims through the procedures of the authorities responsible for them.
+3. Stabilize active systems, and compensate or restore those who depend on their services where the law recognizes those dependencies.
+4. Return material whose ownership or limited custody has been established.
+5. Assess necessary hazard, rescue, and restoration costs.
+6. Release the movable material that remains for allocation under the delving compact or local salvage custom.
 
-Immediate public danger permits override. The overriding authority must name the danger, use the narrowest available act, preserve a record, and return to ordinary claims afterward. “Emergency” is not a permanent solvent for refusal. Equally, an unsupported objection cannot hold a settlement inside a spreading poison while claimants debate prestige.
+Polities do not necessarily give these claims equal weight. The sequence identifies what a coherent judgment must address before awarding salvage; discovery cannot make the other authorities disappear.
 
-## Offences and enforcement failure
+## Refusal, appeal, and emergency action
 
-Common offences include concealed removal, false provenance, breach of a seal, trafficking a held relic, abandonment of injured workers, failure to report an exported hazard, destruction of a custody mark, and presenting attached infrastructure as movable salvage. Local law decides penalties.
+Different participants can refuse different acts:
 
-Enforcement can itself become extraction. Rulers classify profitable depths as public danger and grant access to clients. Temples expand burial claims across inhabited works. Techpriests turn bounded safety objections into hereditary exclusion. Sponsors charge hazard costs to porters while retaining the recovered material. Officials recognize titled witnesses and criminalize residents whose only record is continued use.
+- A Techpriest may refuse unsafe operation.
+- Kin or cult representatives may demand a hold on identified remains.
+- Workers may refuse a route whose actual danger exceeds what the admission record described.
+- Delvers may refuse a sponsor's instruction outside the compact.
+- Residents may challenge removal that threatens an active service.
 
-Appeal matters because every layer can counterfeit the language of another. The check is consequence: who has evidence, who can act, who bears risk, which authority is actually in scope, and whether the decision remains reviewable after the urgent moment passes.
+The local polity determines where such disputes are heard. The venue may be a court, council, ruler, lineage hearing, cult forum, negotiated assembly, or another recognized body. An appeal should preserve the contested object and enough evidence to reconsider the claim.
+
+Where jurisdictions compete, the parties may agree to a neutral witness or temporary shared custody. That agreement does not establish a universal court above them.
+
+Immediate public danger can justify overriding a refusal. The authority doing so must identify the danger, take the narrowest available action, keep a record, and return to ordinary claims afterward. Emergency power cannot remain in force indefinitely simply because someone once invoked it. An unsupported objection likewise cannot leave a settlement in spreading poison while claimants argue over prestige.
+
+## Offences and misuse of enforcement
+
+Common offences include:
+
+- concealing a removal;
+- falsifying provenance;
+- breaching a seal;
+- trafficking a relic under a hold;
+- abandoning injured workers;
+- failing to report a hazard carried out of the site;
+- destroying a custody mark;
+- presenting attached infrastructure as movable salvage.
+
+Local law sets the penalties.
+
+The people enforcing the law can also use it to take what they want. Rulers may declare profitable depths a public danger and then admit favored clients. Temples may extend burial claims across inhabited works. Techpriests may turn a limited safety objection into hereditary control over access. Sponsors may make porters pay hazard costs while keeping the recovered material. Officials may accept titled witnesses and criminalize residents whose only record is that they have continued to use the place.
+
+Appeal is necessary because each authority can borrow another's justification. A claim made in the name of safety, burial, ownership, or service must still be checked against the evidence: who can act, who bears the risk, what the claimed authority actually covers, and whether the decision can be reviewed once the urgent moment has passed.
 
 ## Historical stress: the reused service gallery
 
-Consider a Ring service gallery damaged at the Fall, repaired as a refuge, fortified during the War of the Magi, used for cult burial, and later tapped as a settlement's water route. A ruler admits delvers through the old military breach after being told the site is an abandoned arsenal.
+Consider a Ring service gallery damaged at the Fall. It is repaired as a refuge, fortified during the War of the Magi, used for cult burial, and later tapped to supply a settlement with water. A ruler is told that it is an abandoned arsenal and admits delvers through the old military breach.
 
-Ruin law separates the resulting claims. The polity can secure the route and answer unstable masonry. A Techpriest can stop removal of a valve connected to the water system. Kin and cult can hold disturbance of the burial wall. Residents can demand notice before the flow changes. Delvers can recover movable war stores whose prior owners and hazards no longer survive, but only after those claims and costs are heard. The compact cannot convert the entire gallery into salvage by naming it the objective.
+Each part of that history creates a different question.
 
-The exact site is unresolved. The stress case tests the law against a history Kalsa's foundations make recurrent: Ark function, survival reuse, war, worship, public dependence, and profitable forgetting in the same depth.
+The polity can secure the route and respond to unstable masonry. A Techpriest can stop the party from removing a valve still connected to the water system. Kin and cult representatives can demand a hold before the burial wall is disturbed. Residents can demand notice before anyone changes the flow.
 
-## Dungeon consequences
+The delvers may recover movable war stores whose prior owners and hazards no longer survive, but only after the other claims and costs have been heard. Naming the whole gallery as the expedition's objective does not make the whole gallery salvage.
 
-Ruin law creates work before and after the fight. Parties escort claim witnesses, map a hazard boundary, recover an inventory, protect an inspection place, pursue trafficked parts, deliver an appeal across a closed border, or re-enter a site because the first removal changed a public system.
+The exact site remains unresolved. This is a stress case for the law, using a sequence that Kalsa's foundations make recurrent: an Ark function survives through refuge, war, worship, and public dependence, until someone stands to profit by treating the depth as abandoned.
 
-A lawful victory can still disappoint the sponsor. The recovered object may return to a custodian, remain sealed with a possible person, pay for containment, or be installed into the village whose water the expedition endangered. An unlawful recovery can still save lives and force a court to confront an obsolete rule. The procedure exists to keep those consequences legible, not to guarantee that every correct act was previously permitted.
+## What this means for dungeon work
+
+Ruin law gives parties work before and after a fight. They may escort witnesses to a claim, map the boundary of a hazard, recover an inventory, protect an inspection place, pursue trafficked parts, carry an appeal across a closed border, or return underground because their first removal changed a public system.
+
+Following the law can still leave a sponsor disappointed. A recovered object may go back to its custodian, remain sealed with a possible person, pay for containment, or be installed in the village whose water the expedition endangered.
+
+Breaking the law can still save lives and force a court to confront an obsolete rule. The procedures make it possible to identify those consequences and decide who must answer for them. They do not guarantee that every correct act already had permission.
 
 ## Unresolved
 
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 # Luck — Selza'a
 
-Luck, signature 001 and Sequence I, arose spontaneously before Prometheus designed the other Gifts. It constantly and unconsciously bends small causal variations toward the user's benefit. Its direct influence cannot be detected; over long periods, tiny biases can produce enormous outcomes.
+Selza'a is the society of the isolated Luck Crown, a fog-hidden city where families govern their own territories and cooperate over water, routes, and defense. There is no central government. A resident's family relations help determine where they can live, which stores and water supplies they can use, and who will protect them.
 
-Luck Beasts are described as simple, solitary, territorial, and survival-oriented. They can found God Beasts called **dimna** in the seed. Opposition to a Luck Beast's survival tends to become opposition to one's own fortune. These mechanics and their uncertainty remain owned by [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. A family tradition cannot identify a bearer merely by naming one.
+Luck complicates every dispute. It continually bends small events toward its user's benefit without conscious direction or a detectable act of magic. Over generations, those small advantages can have enormous consequences. Residents can inspect a broken windtrap or record a neglected duty. They cannot inspect Luck itself to find out whom it favored, or at whose expense.
 
-## Place
+## The city and its terrain
 
-The Luck Crown lies far coldward on a desert plateau within the northern coastal mountains. Fog conceals the city; windtraps provide precipitation, and the source says inhabitants cultivate senses other than sight. Sound, touch, scent, air movement, remembered paths, and maintained markers matter in a city where sight is unreliable. The exact city and region names remain unresolved.
+The Luck Crown stands far coldward, on a desert plateau within the northern coastal mountains. Fog conceals it, and windtraps provide precipitation. The exact names of the city and its surrounding region remain unresolved.
 
-Isolation prevented conquest and preserved both strong Luck expression and substantial internal human variation. It also made water, safe routes, hosted entry, and knowledge of the fog matters of territorial power. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Family territories]] are therefore use systems as much as borders: dwellings, cistern access, windtrap work, paths, gathering grounds, workshops, shrines, and obligations to defend shared structures.
+The source says inhabitants cultivate senses other than sight. Sound, touch, scent, air movement, remembered paths, and maintained markers all help people navigate where vision is unreliable. Ordinary travel therefore depends on knowledge that a resident or host may possess and a newcomer may lack.
 
-The source says some may enter but none may leave. Whether this is law, divine containment, geographic effect, or outsider belief remains unresolved. The escaped Luck bearer belongs to [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]], not standing canon.
+Isolation prevented conquest. It also preserved strong Luck expression alongside substantial internal human variation. Within the city, control of water, safe routes, hosted entry, and knowledge of the fog gives families territorial power. Their [[Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|territories]] encompass practical arrangements for using dwellings, cisterns, windtraps, paths, gathering grounds, workshops, and shrines, together with duties to defend shared structures.
 
-## Families and distributed government
+The source says that some may enter but none may leave. It does not settle whether this is a law, divine containment, an effect of the geography, or an outsider belief. The escaped Luck bearer remains a proposal in [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]], not an established resident or event.
 
-Selza'a identity is organized around family territory and the propagation of seltanzda or dimna. Blood descent matters because Luck expression and Beast relations appear in families, but a family also includes adoption, marriage, clients, dependents, hosted outsiders, work partners, and people whose expression is weak, mixed, or Null. Present canon does not make lineage a scale of personhood or moral worth.
+## Luck, Beasts, and family belief
 
-The seed describes no central government. Families govern their own membership, stores, territory, and protection under varied internal arrangements. Boundary compacts govern shared paths, cisterns, windtraps, and restitution. Wider federations assemble for external defense, major works, or hazards too large for one territory. They dissolve or narrow when the named work ends.
+In the author classification, Luck has signature 001 and belongs to Sequence I. It arose spontaneously before Prometheus designed the other Gifts. Its influence is constant, unconscious, and directly undetectable: it biases small causal variations toward the user's benefit, with potentially enormous results over long periods.
 
-This distributed order is stable because no family can safely assume every misfortune was caused by a rival's Luck. It is volatile because no family can prove the opposite. Records, witnesses, material inspection, risk pools, reciprocal restraint, and third-family mediation exist in the gap. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]].
+Luck Beasts are described as simple, solitary, territorial, and concerned with survival. They can found God Beasts, called **dimna** in the seed. Someone who threatens a Luck Beast's survival tends to endanger their own fortune in doing so. The mechanics and their unresolved limits belong to [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]].
 
-## Long fortune and territorial survival
+Families derive part of their identity from propagating seltanzda, called dimna in the Luck tradition. The precise linguistic and metaphysical relationship between those terms remains unresolved. A family may understand a dimna as an ancestor, a territorial protector, the continuity of a lineage, or a God Beast. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|The cosmology note]] determines what can be asserted about Beasts; family doctrine records how people understand and live with them.
 
-Selza'a conflict unfolds inside pressures broader than any accusation. A dimna
-does not need to issue a plan for paths, marriages, breakdowns, births, shelter,
-and hostile mistakes to accumulate around its continued survival. Families can
-prosper for generations without knowing which turns were protection, ordinary
-competence, or cost displaced across a boundary.
+Rites can focus attention, preserve memory, assign obligations, and change relationships in the lower world. They cannot establish that a particular child belongs to a Beast, that prosperity proves divine favor, or that a rival's accident was a magical attack. Naming someone a Luck bearer in a family tradition does not identify one.
 
-Several dimna can press upon the same catchment, pass, or marriage network.
-Their effects do not meet as visible spells. One family's safe detour can leave
-another family carrying the failed bridge; an outsider repeatedly prevented
-from departing may be prisoner, protected guest, or a lever kept inside a
-territorial God’s reach. Selza'a traditions disagree because the Gift supplies
-no report that could settle those categories.
+## How families govern
 
-Family government therefore controls information as well as land. Hosts limit
-which routes a guest learns. Mediators carry claims without revealing every
-store or refuge. Marriage can connect two survival histories and can be treated
-as peace, infiltration, or an attempt to make a rival dimna protect the same
-descendants. A feud becomes most dangerous when both families reorganize daily
-life around defeating the other's fortune: each has made the rival's survival
-part of its own causal field.
+Family membership reaches beyond blood descent. Descent matters because Luck expression and Beast relations appear in families, but families also include adopted people, spouses, clients, dependents, hosted outsiders, and work partners. People with weak, mixed, or Null expression belong within this society. Current canon does not rank personhood or moral worth by lineage.
 
-[[Spoilers/Foundations/Oracle Ecology#Luck and large attractors|Oracle Ecology]]
-owns the author comparison. Selza'a institutions possess stories, repeated
-outcomes, shrine relations, and material evidence—not a view of the whole
-attractor.
+Each family governs its membership, stores, territory, and protection according to its own internal arrangements. Where interests cross, families make boundary compacts: agreements about shared paths, cisterns, windtraps, and restitution. For external defense, major works, or hazards beyond one territory's capacity, they form wider federations. Those federations dissolve or reduce their role when the specified work ends.
 
-## Territory and water
+Uncertainty about Luck both steadies and threatens this arrangement. A family cannot safely treat every misfortune as a rival's attack, but neither can it prove that a rival's Luck played no part. Families use records, witnesses, material inspection, pooled resources for losses, reciprocal restraint, and mediation by a third family to act despite that uncertainty. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] owns these procedures.
 
-Families hold overlapping kinds of claim rather than absolute ownership of everything within a line. A household may hold a dwelling. A work group may maintain a windtrap. Several families may share a catchment. A traveler may hold passage through a host. A shrine may sit inside one territory while serving descendants in another.
+## Land, routes, and water
 
-Boundaries are maintained through visible and nonvisual markers, witness memory, work records, and use. Fog can move, sound can carry strangely, and a path can become dangerous without changing anyone's formal line. A boundary therefore names who must respond, not a magical wall around property.
+Territorial claims overlap. A household may hold a dwelling while a work group maintains the nearby windtrap. Several families may share its catchment. A traveler may have passage through a host, and a shrine within one territory may serve descendants living in another. Holding territory does not mean owning everything inside a line.
 
-Windtraps make family autonomy materially interdependent. Upper structures affect lower catchments; delayed maintenance can deprive a rival; one family's repair crew may need access through another's territory. No central water ministry owns the system. Each shared work must name its maintainers, users, contribution shares, inspection access, emergency stop, and repair pool.
+People maintain boundaries through visible and nonvisual markers, witness memory, work records, and continued use. These records identify who must respond when something goes wrong. They cannot make a route safe by themselves: fog shifts, sound carries strangely, and a path may become dangerous while its formal boundary stays exactly where it was.
 
-## Membership, succession, and exit
+Windtraps make family independence dependent on cooperation. An upper structure affects catchments below it. Delaying maintenance can deprive a rival of water, while making a repair may require sending a crew through that rival's territory.
 
-Each family maintains its own record of descent, adoption, marriage, protection, dimna or seltanzda affiliation, territory use, and duty. No single form is universal. A marriage can join households without transferring every territorial claim. Adoption can create full kinship, a work relation, a hosted refuge, or an heir under local custom. The exact terms must be stated because blood alone does not settle them.
+There is no central water ministry. Every shared work must specify:
 
-Succession transfers bounded responsibilities: care of a cistern, representation in a compact, household stores, a shrine, or stewardship of a path. A claimed dimna sign may support a candidate inside that family's doctrine. It does not prove metaphysical selection or grant ownership of every descendant.
+- who maintains it and who uses it;
+- how much each party contributes;
+- who can enter to inspect it;
+- how work or operation can be stopped in an emergency;
+- which pooled resources pay for repairs.
 
-A person may leave one family for another, form a new household under compact, become unaffiliated, or seek hosted protection. Exit can cost housing, stores, water priority, witnesses, and access to risk pools. Families can turn that material dependence into captivity. Internal exit is distinct from leaving the isolated city itself, whose possibility and authority remain unresolved.
+## Joining, inheriting, and leaving
 
-## Feud and reciprocal restraint
+Families keep their own records of descent, adoption, marriage, protection, dimna or seltanzda affiliation, territorial use, and duty. They do not all use the same form or customs.
 
-Families answer threats with threat and may maintain long feuds. A feud is not a free license for every household to interpret coincidence as attack. Compact practice distinguishes material trespass, proven sabotage, neglected duty, shared hazard, and alleged Luck.
+The terms of a relationship matter. Marriage may join households without transferring all their territorial claims. Depending on local custom, adoption may establish full kinship, a work relationship, hosted refuge, or an heir. Blood alone cannot settle which rights and duties follow; those terms must be stated.
 
-Reciprocal restraint can include a pause on armed boundary entry, preservation of damaged objects, neutral access for a domain worker, a ban on naming a magical culprit without evidence, continued water delivery during dispute, and a defined point for review. Families accept these limits because retaliation against an invisible cause can create the very cascade each side fears.
+Succession likewise transfers particular responsibilities. An heir might take charge of a cistern, household stores, a shrine, or a path, or represent the family in a compact. A claimed sign from a dimna may support a candidate under that family's doctrine. It neither proves metaphysical selection nor grants the candidate ownership of every descendant.
 
-Feud remains likely where a family refuses inspection, a harm pattern repeatedly benefits one side, material proof has been destroyed, or restitution fails. Luck can make a bad institution survive. Survival does not make the institution just.
+People may move from one family to another, establish a new household under compact, become unaffiliated, or seek hosted protection. Doing so can cost them housing, stores, water priority, witnesses, and access to pools that cover losses. A family can use that dependence to hold someone captive even where a change of affiliation is possible.
 
-## Mutual defense
+Leaving a family within Selza'a is a separate question from leaving the city. Whether anyone can leave the isolated city, and who or what controls that possibility, remains unresolved.
 
-External threat produces federation. Families contribute guides, defenders, stores, shelter, route knowledge, and warning signals through prearranged compacts. The family closest to an intrusion usually owns immediate response; a wider muster owns collective defense once recognized. No permanent commander gains every territorial authority merely because the threat was real.
+## Fortune across generations
 
-This is the source of the city's famous capacity to remain unconquered. Fog, mountains, distributed supplies, local knowledge, and Luck reinforce one another. The same defense can imprison residents, treat every outsider as a probe, and allow powerful families to call internal dissent an external threat.
+A dimna need not give instructions for events to favor its continued survival. Routes, marriages, breakdowns, births, shelter, and an enemy's mistakes can accumulate toward that result. A family may prosper for generations without knowing which successes came from protection, which from ordinary competence, and which left someone across a boundary paying the cost.
 
-## Ordinary life
+Several dimna may influence the same catchment, mountain pass, or network of marriages. Their effects do not appear as spells visibly striking one another. One family takes a safe detour; another is left dealing with the failed bridge. An outsider repeatedly prevented from departing could be a prisoner, a protected guest, or someone retained because their presence gives a territorial God a way to affect events. Selza'a traditions disagree about such cases. The Gift supplies no account that could settle them.
 
-Most days concern water, maintenance, food, work, kin, trade, navigation, and the management of ordinary risk. Residents inspect cloth and vanes, clear catchments, mark safe paths, carry sound signals, negotiate guest access, pool stores after accidents, and trade across territories whose boundaries may be easier to hear than see.
+For this reason, family government controls knowledge as well as territory. Hosts restrict which routes guests learn. Mediators carry claims between families without disclosing every store or refuge. Marriage can connect two families' histories of survival, and people may regard it as peace, infiltration, or an attempt to make a rival dimna protect descendants shared by both families.
 
-A person with strong Luck may never know it. A Null keeper may preserve a windtrap for decades. A mixed-style child may be claimed by several family stories. A poor resident may contribute labor to a compact while holding no durable use claim. An outsider may depend on a host who can withdraw protection. Institutions matter because the Gift itself supplies no testimony about who deserves what.
+Feuds become especially dangerous when both sides arrange daily life around defeating the other's fortune. Each family's choices then turn on the rival's survival, bringing that survival into the events its own Luck may influence.
 
-## Dimna and seltanzda
+[[Spoilers/Foundations/Oracle Ecology#Luck and large attractors|Oracle Ecology]] owns the author model of these accumulated pressures. Selza'a institutions have stories, repeated outcomes, shrine relations, and physical evidence. They cannot see the full pattern of possible events being drawn toward a dimna's survival.
 
-The seed says families derive identity from propagating seltanzda, called dimna in the Luck tradition. Their exact linguistic and metaphysical relationship remains unresolved. A family may treat a dimna as ancestor, territorial protector, lineage continuity, or God Beast. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|The cosmology note]] owns what can be asserted about Beasts.
+## Harm, evidence, and feud
 
-Family rites can align attention, preserve memory, distribute obligations, and change lower-world relationships. They do not prove that a child belongs to a Beast, that a successful family is divinely favored, or that a rival's accident was magical attack.
+Families answer threats with threats, and feuds can last. Compact practice nevertheless distinguishes different causes of harm: material trespass, proven sabotage, neglected duty, a shared hazard, and an allegation of Luck. A feud does not authorize every household to declare coincidence an attack.
 
-## Evidence and restitution
+Apparent coincidence is not proof. Prophecy may find a persistent bias in forecasts, but it cannot identify the source of that bias. Responsibility still rests on evidence of actions, access, breached duties, ordinary causes, and preserved records.
 
-Apparent coincidence is not proof. Prophecy may infer a persistent bias in forecast space but cannot identify the source. Material action, access, breached duty, ordinary causation, and preserved records remain the basis of responsibility.
+Under [[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]], immediate safety comes before blame. Household reserves, family stores, shared-work pools, and travel bonds spread losses when responsibility cannot honestly be assigned. If later evidence proves sabotage or neglect, costs can shift accordingly. No magical culprit needs to be invented to make the accounts balance.
 
-[[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] restores immediate safety before attempting blame. Household reserves, family stores, shared-work pools, and travel bonds spread losses that cannot be assigned honestly. Later findings can shift costs toward proven sabotage or neglect without requiring a fictional magical culprit.
+Families may agree to reciprocal limits while a dispute is examined. These can include suspending armed entry across boundaries, preserving damaged objects, admitting a neutral worker with relevant expertise, forbidding the naming of a magical culprit without evidence, continuing water deliveries, and setting a definite review point. Retaliating against an invisible cause can set off the very sequence of disasters both sides fear.
 
-## Historical consequence: the Broken Windtrap Settlement
+Restraint does not always hold. Feud remains likely when a family refuses inspection, repeated harm benefits the same side, someone has destroyed material evidence, or restitution fails. Luck can help an unjust institution survive; continued survival provides no verdict on its justice.
 
-[[Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Its polity consequence is that collective defence gained a reciprocal-restraint path before armed crossing, while the cleared keeper and poor households exposed how distributed correction can stop feud without restoring standing or lost work.
+## Defense without a central ruler
 
-## Historical consequence: the road that returned
+External threats bring families into federation through prearranged compacts. They contribute guides, defenders, stores, shelter, knowledge of routes, and warning signals. The family nearest an intrusion usually directs the immediate response. Once a wider muster is recognized, it directs collective defense.
 
-Families around [[Spoilers/Events/The Road That Returned|the Road That
-Returned]] inherited cut paths, numbered stones, guide claims, and abandoned
-depots. These became warning routes and defensive stores as well as levers over
-water, work, and refuge access.
+That authority has limits. A real threat does not give a permanent commander every family's territorial powers.
 
-Some family recitations say the dimna taught an invader to build the means of
-its own defeat. Road workers answer that people did the learning, carrying, and
-coordination. Ju'onai audits preserve the unpaid claims and abandoned works.
+The city's famous resistance to conquest depends on fog, mountains, dispersed supplies, local knowledge, and Luck reinforcing one another. Those defenses can also be used against residents. They can make the city a prison, turn every outsider into a suspected probe, and let powerful families present internal dissent as an external threat.
 
-## Institutional failure and dungeon seams
+## Daily work and unequal security
 
-The distributed order fails when territory becomes ownership of people, a family monopolizes a shared windtrap, a risk pool excludes those unable to prepay, a prophetic inference becomes an accusation, or collective defense makes exit impossible. It also fails quietly when powerful families can absorb accidents and poor households must sell future labor to survive them.
+Most residents spend their days securing water and food, maintaining structures, working, trading, tending kin, finding their way, and managing ordinary risks. They inspect cloth and vanes, clear catchments, mark safe paths, carry sound signals, negotiate guest access, and pool stores after accidents. Trade crosses territories whose boundaries can be easier to hear than to see.
 
-The Luck Crown's buried Ring levels, sealed catchments, forgotten family paths, old windtrap foundations, and dimna shrines create dungeon seams. A ruin may sit beneath several territories. A recovered compact may alter water rights. An impossible run of accidents may mark a failing machine, a hostile human intervention, a territorial Beast, or all three. Delvers cannot solve the dispute by declaring the luckiest survivor guilty.
+A person's contribution and their apparent Luck need not match family stories about either. Someone with strong Luck may never know it. A Null keeper may maintain a windtrap for decades. Several families may claim a mixed-style child through competing accounts of the child's affiliation.
 
-The story of a bearer who leaves the city remains only in [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]]. A dungeon or campaign may adopt it; this polity note does not.
+Material security also varies. A poor resident may owe labor to a compact while holding no lasting right to use what it maintains. A hosted outsider may depend on protection their host can withdraw. Institutions decide how these people are treated; the Gift gives no testimony about what anyone deserves.
+
+## What the Broken Windtrap Settlement changed
+
+[[Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns the facts of that event. For Selza'a government, its lasting consequence was a procedure for reciprocal restraint before collective defense became an armed crossing.
+
+The settlement also exposed the limits of correction by distributed authorities. They could stop a feud without restoring everything it had damaged. The keeper was cleared, yet standing remained damaged; poor households had lost work that the settlement did not fully restore.
+
+## What families inherited from the returned road
+
+Around [[Spoilers/Events/The Road That Returned|the Road That Returned]], families inherited cut paths, numbered stones, guide claims, and abandoned depots. They put these to use as warning routes and defensive stores. Control of the old works also gave families leverage over access to water, work, and refuge.
+
+The meaning of that inheritance remains disputed. Some family recitations say a dimna taught an invader to construct the means of its own defeat. Road workers credit the people who learned, carried supplies, and coordinated. Ju'onai audits preserve the unpaid claims and abandoned works.
+
+## Where the system fails—and what delvers encounter
+
+Family government fails when territorial rights become ownership of people, when one family monopolizes a shared windtrap, or when a risk pool refuses people who cannot pay in advance. It fails when a prophetic inference is treated as an accusation, or collective defense prevents exit.
+
+Other failures attract less notice. Wealthy families can absorb accidents from their own reserves while poor households must sell future labor to survive the same losses.
+
+The Luck Crown also contains places where dungeon exploration meets these unresolved claims: buried Ring levels, sealed catchments, forgotten family paths, old windtrap foundations, and dimna shrines. A ruin may lie beneath several territories. An old compact recovered there may change who has water rights.
+
+Even an apparently impossible succession of accidents leaves several explanations open. Machinery may be failing, a human may be interfering, a territorial Beast may be acting, or all three may be involved. Delvers cannot settle responsibility by declaring the luckiest survivor guilty.
+
+A dungeon or campaign may adopt the story of a bearer who leaves the city. That story remains only in [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]]; this polity note does not establish that it happened.
 
 ## Unresolved