diff --git a/.epiphany/project-memory.md b/.epiphany/project-memory.md index 5e6a2ef..b490227 100644 --- a/.epiphany/project-memory.md +++ b/.epiphany/project-memory.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: Kalsa Project Memory status: active -snapshot_at: 2026-08-22T16:30:54Z +snapshot_at: 2026-08-22T17:26:42Z --- # Kalsa Project Memory @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ database and does not grant canon status to any setting claim. - `memory-event-owner` — Each adopted named history has one factual event owner. Institution, polity, place, and dungeon notes consume it through links and retain only their current evidence, procedures, and consequences. - `memory-parity-scope` — Depth parity applies to the adopted high-impact institutional set and is judged by causal density, not bulk. Candidates and unresolved or preservation stubs remain visibly excluded rather than being inflated into false completeness. - `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. Default delivery is spoiler-safe, fantasy-first, and physically separated under `Kalsa/Public/`; warnings and deliberate repository navigation provide opt-in friction rather than pretending the material is secret. +- `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-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. diff --git a/.epiphany/state/project-memory.cc b/.epiphany/state/project-memory.cc index 26ba250..76eecf2 100644 Binary files a/.epiphany/state/project-memory.cc and b/.epiphany/state/project-memory.cc differ diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index adf7a4b..9b6abfa 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ .DS_Store Thumbs.db -# Obsidian session and cache state -.obsidian/workspace.json -.obsidian/workspace-mobile.json -.obsidian/graph.json -.obsidian/cache/ +# Obsidian session and cache state at any vault depth +**/.obsidian/workspace.json +**/.obsidian/workspace-mobile.json +**/.obsidian/workspaces.json +**/.obsidian/graph.json +**/.obsidian/cache/ .trash/ .obsidian-git-data/ .smart-connections/ diff --git a/.obsidian/appearance.json b/.obsidian/appearance.json deleted file mode 100644 index 0967ef4..0000000 --- a/.obsidian/appearance.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -{} diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md index 66bcbcb..99a2016 100644 --- a/AGENTS.md +++ b/AGENTS.md @@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ bones. ## Authority Map -- **Owner:** canonical notes under `Kalsa/` own shared setting claims within - their stated subject. `workshop/Direction and Constraints.md` owns project - doctrine and canon rules. +- **Owner:** subject notes under `Kalsa/Spoilers/` own shared setting claims + within their stated subject. `Kalsa/Public/` owns situated presentation, and + `Kalsa/index.md` owns navigation only. `workshop/Direction and Constraints.md` + owns project doctrine and canon rules. - **Inputs:** immutable files under `seed/original/`, the seed manifest, current canonical notes, explicit operator decisions, Ghostlight play requirements, and source-grounded comparison with AetheriaLore. @@ -27,15 +28,21 @@ bones. - **Shared path:** human and agent changes use the same source inventory, critique, repair, falsification, verification, and record path described in `workshop/deepening/README.md`. -- **Cut line:** do not bind Quartz directly to the complete author vault, revive timestamp export files as live canonical pages, +- **Cut line:** do not place author or GM material outside `Kalsa/Spoilers/`, + bind Quartz directly to the complete author vault, revive timestamp export files as live canonical pages, create a second lore database, invent a public repo Persona, or copy Aetheria-specific site/lore machinery into Kalsa. ## Repository Boundaries -- `Kalsa/` is the complete canonical authoring vault and contains opt-in spoilers. +- `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. +- `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 + cache files are ignored derived state and must not resume inside `Spoilers/`. - `seed/original/` is immutable evidence. Never edit, normalize, rename, or re-encode these files. Verify them with `scripts/lore/verify-seed.ps1`. - `seed/manifest.md` owns witness filenames, sizes, hashes, and subject labels. @@ -61,6 +68,8 @@ 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. +- 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 and resolver may consume hidden mechanics; Persona agents may not receive them through unrestricted vault retrieval. @@ -114,6 +123,7 @@ Run from the repository root: ```powershell .\scripts\lore\verify-seed.ps1 +.\scripts\lore\check-vault-layout.ps1 .\scripts\lore\check-wikilinks.ps1 .\scripts\lore\check-publication-boundary.ps1 .\scripts\lore\measure-depth.ps1 diff --git a/.obsidian/app.json b/Kalsa/.obsidian/app.json similarity index 96% rename from .obsidian/app.json rename to Kalsa/.obsidian/app.json index 4db6159..311be11 100644 --- a/.obsidian/app.json +++ b/Kalsa/.obsidian/app.json @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ { "alwaysUpdateLinks": true, "promptDelete": true -} +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Kalsa/.obsidian/appearance.json b/Kalsa/.obsidian/appearance.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e26dfe --- /dev/null +++ b/Kalsa/.obsidian/appearance.json @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +{} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/.obsidian/community-plugins.json b/Kalsa/.obsidian/community-plugins.json similarity index 100% rename from .obsidian/community-plugins.json rename to Kalsa/.obsidian/community-plugins.json diff --git a/.obsidian/core-plugins.json b/Kalsa/.obsidian/core-plugins.json similarity index 60% rename from .obsidian/core-plugins.json rename to Kalsa/.obsidian/core-plugins.json index 8c626fe..639b90d 100644 --- a/.obsidian/core-plugins.json +++ b/Kalsa/.obsidian/core-plugins.json @@ -7,18 +7,27 @@ "canvas": true, "outgoing-link": true, "tag-pane": true, + "footnotes": false, "properties": true, "page-preview": true, - "daily-notes": false, + "daily-notes": true, "templates": true, "note-composer": true, "command-palette": true, + "slash-command": false, "editor-status": true, "bookmarks": true, + "markdown-importer": false, + "zk-prefixer": false, + "random-note": false, "outline": true, "word-count": true, + "slides": false, + "audio-recorder": false, + "workspaces": false, "file-recovery": true, "publish": false, - "sync": false, - "bases": true -} + "sync": true, + "bases": true, + "webviewer": false +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Kalsa/Dungeons/index.md b/Kalsa/Dungeons/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7d332dc..0000000 --- a/Kalsa/Dungeons/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Dungeons -status: canonical-reference -source_witness: - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md -tags: - - dungeons - - navigation ---- - -# Dungeons - -Kalsa's dungeons are places where several histories occupy the same structure. A Crown City underwork may begin as a [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ring]] service corridor, pass through [[Foundations/Prometheus|Promethean]] experimentation, become a post-Fall refuge or fortress, receive generations of burials, and still carry water or heat to people above. A dead god or [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavore]] concentration can add another live authority without erasing the older ones. - -## Owners - -- [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon Provenance]] — identifies the source layers, alterations, dependencies, claims, and uncertainty attached to a site. Provenance describes; it does not grant entry or title. -- [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] — governs admission, public danger, claims notice, removal, refusal, and appeal through the authorities that actually exist at the site. -- [[Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]] — bind expedition participants to work, rescue, record, cost, and residual-salvage terms without governing outsiders or pre-existing claims. - -## Launch site - -- [[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] — a direct-entry Ghostlight dungeon beneath [[Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]], with a controlled threshold, three-shutter clock, contested custody, mortal remains, a language-and-measure failure, recoverable records, and consequences that continue after ascent. - -## Adjacent authority - -- [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]] own bounded operational competence at named systems. -- [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns the custody and handoff distinctions around particular relics. -- [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] preserves claims involving bodies, Projections, divine remains, and the unquiet dead. - -There is no adopted universal adventurers' guild, finder-keeps title, or single dungeon law. Descent reveals a site; it does not make the site socially empty. diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/index.md b/Kalsa/Events/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 78ca3c6..0000000 --- a/Kalsa/Events/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Events -status: canonical-reference -source_witness: - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-38.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-45.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-51.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-58.md -tags: - - events - - navigation - - provenance ---- - -# Events - -These histories were deliberately adopted by named deepening passes. Their seed witnesses supply the world, peoples, magic, and institutions beneath them; the events themselves are not presented as recovered teenage notes. Each event owns its factual sequence so polity and institution pages can preserve consequences without forking history. - -- [[Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] — cult contract, potential allocation, mortuary custody, and Soiru'i practice split across incompatible ledgers. -- [[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] — rival forecasts, a failing lift, inferred Luck, and the limits of correction in the divided city. -- [[Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] — a bounded analytical model becomes an imperial valley claim until excluded records force review. -- [[Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] — geothermal safety, hierarchy, detention, sect aid, and bounded challenge collide in Jamnai. -- [[Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] — inherited reckoning and changed public speech turn a valid formula into a lethal schedule. -- [[Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] — harvest extraction and an attempted diversion of stormshield labour establish the cost of confusing protection with consumption. -- [[Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] — a shared-system failure, Luck accusation, restraint, repair, and incomplete restoration across three family territories. -- [[Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] — incompatible public and technical intervals turn a pressure intervention into death, broken custody, and unsupported succession beneath Low Sere. - -Their absolute dates and mutual order remain unresolved. See [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] and [[Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/index.md b/Kalsa/Institutions/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 89ccef1..0000000 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Institutions -status: canonical-reference -source_witness: - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md -tags: - - institutions - - navigation ---- - -# Institutions - -Kalsa's institutions grew around needs that survived the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Fall]]: keeping inherited systems alive, distributing scarce service, making dangerous knowledge transmissible, and deciding who may touch relics on which other lives depend. Their authority is rarely complete. A city authority, temple, town, lineage, guild, household, and god may each hold a different claim over the same structure. Their canonical scope follows [[Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. - -## Maintenance, ruins, and recovery - -- [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]] — plural transborder lineages that preserve procedural competence and bargain for the support needed to keep inherited infrastructure working. -- [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] — the bounded claims, records, duties, and handoffs surrounding machines that cannot be treated as ordinary portable wealth. -- [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] — local admission, public-danger, claim, removal, refusal, and appeal procedures at layered sites. -- [[Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]] — expedition work, rescue, record, cost, breach, and residual-salvage obligations among signatories. - -## Gods, potential, and death - -- [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] — voluntary, inherited, and coerced routes into reciprocal cult obligation. -- [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]] — material support, estimation, allocation, rationing, and leakage around finite divine capacity. -- [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] — testimony, severance, funerary custody, and succession where persons and divine structures may continue after bodily death. - -## Evidence, language, and administration - -- [[Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] and [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] — training, forecast service, disclosure, admissibility, civic judgment, and appeal in the divided city. -- [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] and [[Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]] — scoped causal certification and the class-bearing government that consumes it. -- [[Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] — teaching, certification, translation, public notice, treaty use, and elite gatekeeping. -- [[Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]] — technical notation, conversion, machine-recognized sequences, operational refusal, and review. - -## Polity institutions - -- [[Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] — maintained weather protection, consent, rest, handoff, warning, and failure response. [[Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] is a non-factual `adopted-candidate` awaiting an Intuition-side owner. -- [[Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]] and [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] — civil submission, geothermal obligation, funerary memory, welfare, sanctuary, and resistance. -- [[Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi Households]] and [[Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] — consent-preserving communal life, mobility, warning, admission, care, recovery, and departure. -- [[Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]] and [[Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] — distributed land and membership claims, mutual defense, material evidence, risk pools, and restitution without detectable Luck. - -These notes distinguish technical competence, evidence, office, custody, possession, land use, divine standing, personhood, and judgment. Each authority stops at the consequence it can inspect and answer for. Further institutions remain unresolved until the seed or later adopted canon gives them enough pressure to deserve an owner note. diff --git a/Kalsa/Reference/Foundations Index.md b/Kalsa/Reference/Foundations Index.md deleted file mode 100644 index e95ae4f..0000000 --- a/Kalsa/Reference/Foundations Index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Foundations Index -status: canonical-reference -source_witness: - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md -tags: - - navigation - - reference ---- - -# Foundations Index - -- [[Foundations/World|World]] -- [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]] -- [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] -- [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] -- [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]] -- [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] -- [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] - -## Control surfaces - -- [[Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]] -- [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] -- [[Reference/Glossary|Glossary]] -- [[Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]] -- [[Reference/Polities and Cultures Index|Polities and Cultures Index]] diff --git a/Kalsa/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md similarity index 88% rename from Kalsa/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md index ee73c4a..bc877ff 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md @@ -18,21 +18,21 @@ tags: “Dungeon” names a present encounter with a place, not the place's origin. A dungeon may be buried infrastructure, an abandoned institution, a sealed crime scene, a wounded divine territory, a living settlement hidden from the surface, or several of these joined by later reuse. **Dungeon provenance** is the evidence-backed account of those layers and the uncertainty between them. -Provenance does not grant entry, custody, ownership, salvage, or permission to disturb remains. It gives the authorities and people making those decisions a common description of what their acts may touch. [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] owns the admission and claims process; [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns particular relic handoffs. +Provenance does not grant entry, custody, ownership, salvage, or permission to disturb remains. It gives the authorities and people making those decisions a common description of what their acts may touch. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] owns the admission and claims process; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns particular relic handoffs. ## Source layers ### Ring wrecks -The eight Crown Cities are the emergency-landed Rings of the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Ark]]. Their habitable shells, atmosphere boundaries, urban districts, transit, storage, and service routes did not become one clean ruin at impact. Some sections failed immediately. Others were rebuilt, inhabited, stripped, sealed, conquered, or incorporated into later cities. A chamber beneath a palace may therefore remain part of an old environmental system without belonging to the palace's institutional history. +The eight Crown Cities are the emergency-landed Rings of the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Ark]]. Their habitable shells, atmosphere boundaries, urban districts, transit, storage, and service routes did not become one clean ruin at impact. Some sections failed immediately. Others were rebuilt, inhabited, stripped, sealed, conquered, or incorporated into later cities. A chamber beneath a palace may therefore remain part of an old environmental system without belonging to the palace's institutional history. Impact damage is not self-explanatory. A broken wall may record re-entry, post-Fall salvage, war, subsidence, deliberate ventilation, or a modern breach. Treating every fracture as “the Fall” makes later labor and violence disappear into prehistory. ### Spokes and Ark organs -Each Ring once had eight urban Spokes connecting it to a central hub containing power, management, and drive systems. The physical distribution of Spoke material after the Fall remains unresolved. A Spoke may survive as an attached district, reworked structure, detached wreck, or source of components. No site is a Spoke merely because it rises, contains old interfaces, or is claimed by [[Polities/Spokers|Spoker]] descendants. +Each Ring once had eight urban Spokes connecting it to a central hub containing power, management, and drive systems. The physical distribution of Spoke material after the Fall remains unresolved. A Spoke may survive as an attached district, reworked structure, detached wreck, or source of components. No site is a Spoke merely because it rises, contains old interfaces, or is claimed by [[Spoilers/Polities/Spokers|Spoker]] descendants. -“Ark organ” is a learned category for systems that once managed atmosphere, power, manufacture, transit, computation, habitat, or terraforming. The term describes an inferred function inside the old machine. It does not imply that the system remains whole, that one component controls the wider network, or that whoever awakens it inherits [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus's]] authority. +“Ark organ” is a learned category for systems that once managed atmosphere, power, manufacture, transit, computation, habitat, or terraforming. The term describes an inferred function inside the old machine. It does not imply that the system remains whole, that one component controls the wider network, or that whoever awakens it inherits [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus's]] authority. The central hub and drive core were severed from the Rings. Their location, condition, and relationship to present dungeon sites remain open. A deep mechanism that resembles a drive interface is evidence requiring comparison, not proof that the lost core lies behind the next door. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Prometheus turned the Rings into coercive evolutionary experiments. Arenas inclu An arena classification should identify the observed selection mechanism rather than infer it from the people associated with a Ring. Present cultures are not exhibits left inside their maker's experiment. A training hall, shrine, or market built in an old arena owns its later history as well as the violence beneath it. -Whether any virtual arena, selection process, or supervising intelligence remains active is unresolved. Repeated instructions, responsive images, convincing voices, or apparent continuity can arise from machinery, ritual, [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], a Projection, fraud, memory, or another cause. Current canon adopts no general **simulation leakage** from Prometheus's prison or the old Posthuman world. +Whether any virtual arena, selection process, or supervising intelligence remains active is unresolved. Repeated instructions, responsive images, convincing voices, or apparent continuity can arise from machinery, ritual, [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], a Projection, fraud, memory, or another cause. Current canon adopts no general **simulation leakage** from Prometheus's prison or the old Posthuman world. ### Terraforming works @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ An abandoned entrance does not prove an abandoned function. Before opening, bloc ### Dead-God wounds and thaumavore nests -A God Beast's collapse can leave a magical fountain where old ghosts and dead powers manifest while potential remains available. Divine warfare, failed succession, mass death, or repeated miracle use can also make one place a feeding ground for [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavores]]. Such a wound may overlay an Ark site, battlefield, tomb, temple, or ordinary settlement. +A God Beast's collapse can leave a magical fountain where old ghosts and dead powers manifest while potential remains available. Divine warfare, failed succession, mass death, or repeated miracle use can also make one place a feeding ground for [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavores]]. Such a wound may overlay an Ark site, battlefield, tomb, temple, or ordinary settlement. -“Nest” is a field description for recurrent manifestations around a source of potential. It does not establish a species, shared purpose, or permanent home. Some presences may be predators. Others may be ancestors, omitted casualties, unascended Beasts, or claimants using the only interval in which they can be heard. [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] owns mortal procedure around those claims. +“Nest” is a field description for recurrent manifestations around a source of potential. It does not establish a species, shared purpose, or permanent home. Some presences may be predators. Others may be ancestors, omitted casualties, unascended Beasts, or claimants using the only interval in which they can be heard. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] owns mortal procedure around those claims. ### Sealed post-Fall works diff --git a/Kalsa/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md similarity index 94% rename from Kalsa/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md index ed6ebb6..14096c9 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md @@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ tags: # The Ashen Intake -The Ashen Intake is a buried terraforming work feeding warm water and heat to [[Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]]. It is the canonical direct-entry launch dungeon for Kalsa: the entrance is open, the compact is disputed but usable, the settlement is visibly dependent, and three of eight shutter indicators remain before the relic fails. +The Ashen Intake is a buried terraforming work feeding warm water and heat to [[Spoilers/Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]]. It is the canonical direct-entry launch dungeon for Kalsa: the entrance is open, the compact is disputed but usable, the settlement is visibly dependent, and three of eight shutter indicators remain before the relic fails. The site reveals no simulation truth. Its marks, formulae, machinery, manifestations, and records remain things characters can inspect without discovering an omniscient explanation of Kalsa. -[[Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] owns the prior failure's factual sequence. This dossier owns the evidence still present below, the current route and clock, and what the party can change now. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] owns the prior failure's factual sequence. This dossier owns the evidence still present below, the current route and clock, and what the party can change now. ## Direct entry @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The party can descend as soon as it accepts or contests the terms below. If disc | Fixed claims | Intake components, calibration object, records, and settlement output are excluded from residual salvage | | Main return question | Who is qualified and entitled to hold custody after the system is stabilized? | -Normal lawful entry requires both surface admission and technical release. Theft of either key creates possession, not authority. Emergency rescue may justify forced entry under [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], with a complete record afterward. +Normal lawful entry requires both surface admission and technical release. Theft of either key creates possession, not authority. Emergency rescue may justify forced entry under [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], with a complete record afterward. ## Present claimants @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ The party claims wages, care, rescue, accurate hazard notice, its expedition rec ## Compact at the threshold -The offered [[Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compact]] contains these terms: +The offered [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compact]] contains these terms: - Low Sere supplies six work-watches of provisions, surface rescue, injury care, and witnessed compensation in water, heat, stores, or trade goods according to the settlement's available forms. - The crew enters through the Cistern House, may traverse the seven recorded zones, and may open only the Custodian Gallery and Intake Crown seals named in the objective. @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ The formula is not solved by choosing the prestigious translation. Its physical - **000 / zero:** the differential gauge, not the cistern, must reach zero before release. - **111 / seven:** six feed baffles and the held relief baffle release together. The eighth shutter remains the isolation boundary. -Clues appear in the Meter Stair gauges, Settling Walk wear, Memorial Sump testimony, Custodian Gallery folio, and the Measure itself. [[Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Formula practice]] owns the accountable comparison. A machine accepting the sequence proves operational response, not political legitimacy or linguistic purity. +Clues appear in the Meter Stair gauges, Settling Walk wear, Memorial Sump testimony, Custodian Gallery folio, and the Measure itself. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Formula practice]] owns the accountable comparison. A machine accepting the sequence proves operational response, not political legitimacy or linguistic purity. ## Route overview @@ -393,4 +393,4 @@ A technically successful descent can still fail socially if the crew conceals co - Long-term repair after any outcome and whether the Ashen Measure can be reproduced. - Wider polity and external claim over Low Sere. -See [[Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]], [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon Provenance]], [[Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]], and [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. +See [[Spoilers/Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon Provenance]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df158d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: Dungeons +status: canonical-reference +source_witness: + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md +tags: + - dungeons + - navigation +--- + +# Dungeons + +Kalsa's dungeons are places where several histories occupy the same structure. A Crown City underwork may begin as a [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ring]] service corridor, pass through [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Promethean]] experimentation, become a post-Fall refuge or fortress, receive generations of burials, and still carry water or heat to people above. A dead god or [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavore]] concentration can add another live authority without erasing the older ones. + +## Owners + +- [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon Provenance]] — identifies the source layers, alterations, dependencies, claims, and uncertainty attached to a site. Provenance describes; it does not grant entry or title. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] — governs admission, public danger, claims notice, removal, refusal, and appeal through the authorities that actually exist at the site. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]] — bind expedition participants to work, rescue, record, cost, and residual-salvage terms without governing outsiders or pre-existing claims. + +## Launch site + +- [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] — a direct-entry Ghostlight dungeon beneath [[Spoilers/Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]], with a controlled threshold, three-shutter clock, contested custody, mortal remains, a language-and-measure failure, recoverable records, and consequences that continue after ascent. + +## Adjacent authority + +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]] own bounded operational competence at named systems. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns the custody and handoff distinctions around particular relics. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] preserves claims involving bodies, Projections, divine remains, and the unquiet dead. + +There is no adopted universal adventurers' guild, finder-keeps title, or single dungeon law. Descent reveals a site; it does not make the site socially empty. diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md similarity index 85% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md index 5ca2b8e..0225467 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: # The Ash-Valve Refusal -The Ash-Valve Refusal is an adopted historical case from [[Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence and outcome. [[Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]] owns branch office, appeal, protection, challenge, and later stop procedure; [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] owns sanctuary, mutual aid, championing, shrine testimony, and sect memory; technical custody remains separate. +The Ash-Valve Refusal is an adopted historical case from [[Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence and outcome. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]] owns branch office, appeal, protection, challenge, and later stop procedure; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] owns sanctuary, mutual aid, championing, shrine testimony, and sect memory; technical custody remains separate. Its date, the tributary ward, branch, steward, holder, champion, shrine, and valve's present location remain unresolved. @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ None of these memories proves that the shrine knocks came from the dead valve ke The affected heat gallery can contain the valve, bypass, custody record, shrine, pressure evidence, and branch order in different chambers or archives. A party may be hired to recover the copied record, reach the bypass before another diversion, escort a qualified reviewer, identify who still owes the ward, or find fugitives excluded from the settlement. -Returning the valve to operation does not settle the old branch or sect claims. A shrine manifestation still does not grant technical competence. A superior's recovery order does not erase the ward's dependence or [[Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]]. The historical case supplies a reason for refusal and appeal, not a treasure deed. +Returning the valve to operation does not settle the old branch or sect claims. A shrine manifestation still does not grant technical competence. A superior's recovery order does not erase the ward's dependence or [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]]. The historical case supplies a reason for refusal and appeal, not a treasure deed. ## Unresolved diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md similarity index 84% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md index 790b4cf..5c5c394 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ Territorial councils remember the settlement as proof that distributed governmen ## Institutional consequences -- [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|The Selza'a polity]] treats the settlement as a limit on turning family suspicion into collective defence. -- [[Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Family Territories]] draws reciprocal restraint and shared-work accountability from it. -- [[Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] owns the continuing repair, evidence, pool, restitution, and record-correction procedures. +- [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|The Selza'a polity]] treats the settlement as a limit on turning family suspicion into collective defence. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Family Territories]] draws reciprocal restraint and shared-work accountability from it. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] owns the continuing repair, evidence, pool, restitution, and record-correction procedures. The settlement does not prove that Luck caused the failure, that the keeper carried Luck, or that every Selza'a compact uses the same remedy. diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md similarity index 87% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md index 7f3ad81..62b47cc 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags: # The Closed Lift Appeal -The Closed Lift Appeal is an adopted historical case from [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|the Divided City]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence and outcomes. [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] owns the procedure the case changed; [[Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] owns house discipline and service consequences; the polity owns the jurisdictional settlement around them. +The Closed Lift Appeal is an adopted historical case from [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|the Divided City]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence and outcomes. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] owns the procedure the case changed; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] owns house discipline and service consequences; the polity owns the jurisdictional settlement around them. Its date, the city's name, the participating houses, the lift captain's name, and the exact sector boundary remain unresolved. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The Sunwall Stewardship retained operational authority over the lift. Neither th The lift, brake records, sealed first-court file, sponsor disclosures, and copies of the captain's corrected record can sit in different jurisdictions. A party may be hired to recover a missing inspection component, escort a clerk carrying the appellate copy, prove that a house archive omitted a planned intervention, or locate wage and tenancy records needed for a remedy that was never completed. -Reopening buried lift galleries can increase food capacity and expose evidence that changes who owes restitution. A recovered object remains subject to [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|provenance]], [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], and [[Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]]. Possessing the old brake does not make the delvers owners of the precedent or the living claims attached to it. +Reopening buried lift galleries can increase food capacity and expose evidence that changes who owes restitution. A recovered object remains subject to [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|provenance]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]]. Possessing the old brake does not make the delvers owners of the precedent or the living claims attached to it. ## Unresolved diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Grey Scald.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald.md similarity index 58% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Grey Scald.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald.md index a67a720..9d19ca2 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Grey Scald.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald.md @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ tags: # The Grey Scald -The Grey Scald is adopted history at [[Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]]. Its absolute date and place in the wider timeline remain unresolved. +The Grey Scald is adopted history at [[Spoilers/Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]]. Its absolute date and place in the wider timeline remain unresolved. ## The failure -During a pressure rise in [[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], custodian Teren Vey opened an auxiliary relief route. The inherited service phrase ordered the maintenance platform cleared after an octal interval. Low Sere's public warning used a descendant word for a shorter span. Hot mineral slurry entered while Jori Kes, Pell Am, and three other workers remained on the platform. Jori and Pell died; the other three were injured. +During a pressure rise in [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], custodian Teren Vey opened an auxiliary relief route. The inherited service phrase ordered the maintenance platform cleared after an octal interval. Low Sere's public warning used a descendant word for a shorter span. Hot mineral slurry entered while Jori Kes, Pell Am, and three other workers remained on the platform. Jori and Pell died; the other three were injured. ## Suspension without succession @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ The missing objects and unsettled claims are now part of the Ashen Intake descen ## Institutional consequences -- [[Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]] owns the settlement losses, current dependencies, actors, and admission pressure. -- [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns the lifecycle lesson: emergency suspension must not swallow peer review, removal, handoff, and succession. -- [[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] owns the physical evidence, current route, clock, objectives, and playable outcomes. +- [[Spoilers/Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]] owns the settlement losses, current dependencies, actors, and admission pressure. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns the lifecycle lesson: emergency suspension must not swallow peer review, removal, handoff, and succession. +- [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] owns the physical evidence, current route, clock, objectives, and playable outcomes. The event does not prove which translation was linguistically pure or whether Teren's later withholding was justified. diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md similarity index 87% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md index b60b595..f7b650e 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md +++ b/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 [[Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence and outcome. [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] owns examination and certification procedure; [[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/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. Its date, Santabi'u's exact location, the valley's name, and the participants' names remain unresolved. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Both interpretations follow the adopted facts. Neither owns them. The durable bo The prepared headworks, missing lateral surveys, rejected petitions, parallel clerk record, seized-grain records, and later clearance accounts can survive in separate archives and jurisdictions. A recovery party may be hired to retrieve a client copy, locate an omitted channel beneath later construction, establish which stores were returned, or carry worker testimony past an office that still treats the narrowed certificate as complete. -A dungeon route beneath the valley may reveal why a lateral repeatedly silted or expose a relic system omitted from both examinations. Discovery would extend the evidence; it would not retroactively make the original whole-valley certification valid. [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Provenance]], [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], and [[Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]] remain separate from tax and examination authority. +A dungeon route beneath the valley may reveal why a lateral repeatedly silted or expose a relic system omitted from both examinations. Discovery would extend the evidence; it would not retroactively make the original whole-valley certification valid. [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Provenance]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]] remain separate from tax and examination authority. ## Unresolved diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md similarity index 90% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md index 7d37bf0..035bcdf 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: # The Shield Levy Winter -The Shield Levy Winter is an adopted episode from the [[Reference/Timeline|War of the Magi]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence, damage, and settlement. [[Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Shamanism - Papsenai]] owns its place in papsenai political memory; [[Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] owns shield labor and operational consequences. [[Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] is an adopted-candidate and may use the episode as design pressure, but the present Alliance is not established as a participant or contemporary institution. +The Shield Levy Winter is an adopted episode from the [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|War of the Magi]]. This note alone owns its factual sequence, damage, and settlement. [[Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Shamanism - Papsenai]] owns its place in papsenai political memory; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] owns shield labor and operational consequences. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] is an adopted-candidate and may use the episode as design pressure, but the present Alliance is not established as a participant or contemporary institution. The exact campaign, date, duration, participants, and Intuition involvement remain unresolved. “Winter” is an author-facing translation of the later event name; it does not settle Kalsa's calendars, seasons, or the local term. diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md similarity index 91% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md index 0d99a9e..2df761c 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: # The Shortened Watch Failure -The Shortened Watch Failure is an adopted post-Fall public-works disaster. This note alone owns its factual sequence, damage, inquiry, and settlement. [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] owns the general linguistic and numerical inheritance; [[Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] owns teaching, translation, and notice practice; [[Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]] owns conversion, certification, and machine-facing procedure. +The Shortened Watch Failure is an adopted post-Fall public-works disaster. This note alone owns its factual sequence, damage, inquiry, and settlement. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] owns the general linguistic and numerical inheritance; [[Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] owns teaching, translation, and notice practice; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]] owns conversion, certification, and machine-facing procedure. Its date, polity, reservoir, downstream district, offices, participants, exact units, and present legal reach remain unresolved. “The Shortened Watch Failure” is an author-facing translation of a later case name, not evidence for a universal calendar or vocabulary. diff --git a/Kalsa/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md similarity index 95% rename from Kalsa/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md index 107b838..2f6d11a 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tags: The Three Ledgers Schism is adopted Kalsan history. It was added in KALSA-017 to explain why some cults separate covenant, allocation, and mortuary records during succession. The seed witnesses establish the deeper substrate—God Beasts, binding, finite potential, post-Fall cult institutions, death persistence, and Sorcerous championing—but do not name this event, its cult, its participants, or its settlement. -The schism occurred after post-Fall god-cults had become durable institutions and before the present practices described in [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]], [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]], and [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]]. Its exact date, region, divine style, and relation to the War of the Magi remain unresolved. +The schism occurred after post-Fall god-cults had become durable institutions and before the present practices described in [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]]. Its exact date, region, divine style, and relation to the War of the Magi remain unresolved. ## The cult before the death @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ The event establishes historical action and settlement, not universal law. It do - that every cult uses three physical books or even a written medium; - that separated custody is safe in every emergency. -Those metaphysical questions remain with [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. Other institutions own only their consequences from the adopted event. +Those metaphysical questions remain with [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. Other institutions own only their consequences from the adopted event. ## Dungeon and campaign consequences diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c80f99 --- /dev/null +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Events +status: canonical-reference +source_witness: + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-38.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-45.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-51.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-58.md +tags: + - events + - navigation + - provenance +--- + +# Events + +These histories were deliberately adopted by named deepening passes. Their seed witnesses supply the world, peoples, magic, and institutions beneath them; the events themselves are not presented as recovered teenage notes. Each event owns its factual sequence so polity and institution pages can preserve consequences without forking history. + +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] — cult contract, potential allocation, mortuary custody, and Soiru'i practice split across incompatible ledgers. +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] — rival forecasts, a failing lift, inferred Luck, and the limits of correction in the divided city. +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] — a bounded analytical model becomes an imperial valley claim until excluded records force review. +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] — geothermal safety, hierarchy, detention, sect aid, and bounded challenge collide in Jamnai. +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] — inherited reckoning and changed public speech turn a valid formula into a lethal schedule. +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] — harvest extraction and an attempted diversion of stormshield labour establish the cost of confusing protection with consumption. +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] — a shared-system failure, Luck accusation, restraint, repair, and incomplete restoration across three family territories. +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] — incompatible public and technical intervals turn a pressure intervention into death, broken custody, and unsupported succession beneath Low Sere. + +Their absolute dates and mutual order remain unresolved. See [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] and [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Foundations/Ark and Fall.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall.md similarity index 76% rename from Kalsa/Foundations/Ark and Fall.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall.md index 8b9465e..9bb7782 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Foundations/Ark and Fall.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall.md @@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ The Ark reached Kalsa with insufficient fuel for its intended journey. Its remai ## Seizure and experiment -A Primitivist resistance group called Mathys opposed Posthuman control. Its final survivor seized the simulation and Ark systems, imprisoned the uploaded Posthumans, and became [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]]. Prometheus transformed the Rings into evolutionary experiments and used Control-descended labor on Kalsa's surface. +A Primitivist resistance group called Mathys opposed Posthuman control. Its final survivor seized the simulation and Ark systems, imprisoned the uploaded Posthumans, and became [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]]. Prometheus transformed the Rings into evolutionary experiments and used Control-descended labor on Kalsa's surface. -Seven Rings eventually carried distinct [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Kaos Gifts]]. The eighth was the Control Ring and carried no engineered Kaos strain. The Control population had already been dispersed through repeated surface deployments, so the eighth lineage cannot be reduced to one later polity. +Seven Rings eventually carried distinct [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Kaos Gifts]]. The eighth was the Control Ring and carried no engineered Kaos strain. The Control population had already been dispersed through repeated surface deployments, so the eighth lineage cannot be reduced to one later polity. -The Spokers remained historically distinct. Prometheus excluded them from his sacred breeding project and called them polluted. Both Spokers and original Controls were generally Null, but [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Null is a magical condition, not an ethnicity]]. +The Spokers remained historically distinct. Prometheus excluded them from his sacred breeding project and called them polluted. Both Spokers and original Controls were generally Null, but [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Null is a magical condition, not an ethnicity]]. ## The Fall @@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ Bare references to "seven Great Cities" are retained only as the in-world shorth - Which Ark systems, Posthuman minds, and Promethean processes survived severance. - The chronology between the Fall, Spoker ascendancy, War of the Magi, and present day. -See [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]], [[Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Null and Control Descendants]], [[Polities/Spokers|Spokers]], and [[Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. +See [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]], [[Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Null and Control Descendants]], [[Spoilers/Polities/Spokers|Spokers]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Foundations/Kaos.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos.md similarity index 90% rename from Kalsa/Foundations/Kaos.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos.md index 2194b80..544d6f2 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Foundations/Kaos.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Kaos creates neither matter nor energy. An outcome requires all of the following Large miracles therefore require large susceptible systems. Mountain-rending requires stressed geology and exceptional coordination. Heating a lake requires an existing thermal, geological, or technological source. A tale that names no source may be a compressed account or religious exaggeration rather than literal mechanics. -Costs include depletion of magical potential, exposure to rival Beasts, corruption of forecasts by competing intervention, and attraction of [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|thaumavores]] when power concentrates. Individual styles impose their own practical costs: trance, setup, vulnerability, submission, or dependence on a suitable flow. +Costs include depletion of magical potential, exposure to rival Beasts, corruption of forecasts by competing intervention, and attraction of [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|thaumavores]] when power concentrates. Individual styles impose their own practical costs: trance, setup, vulnerability, submission, or dependence on a suitable flow. ## Observing Kaos @@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ Chaos- and God-Beast trails are forecast occlusions or repeated causal scars, no - What Intuition perceives and whether Analysis can identify a style rather than an intervention. - The exact boundary between a physically zero-probability event and an event outside a particular Beast's reachable volume. -See [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] and [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md similarity index 79% rename from Kalsa/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md index 65d6a67..878d133 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md @@ -21,15 +21,15 @@ tags: # Language and Reckoning -[[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] imposed Lojban on the Children of Fire because he considered it more logical and communicative than inherited Earth languages. He also imposed base-eight reckoning: digits represented binary triplets, time was divided by orders of eight, and human life was organized into octal stages. Language and number were parts of the same civilizing program. They made people, work, ritual, and machine action easier for Prometheus to classify. +[[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] imposed Lojban on the Children of Fire because he considered it more logical and communicative than inherited Earth languages. He also imposed base-eight reckoning: digits represented binary triplets, time was divided by orders of eight, and human life was organized into octal stages. Language and number were parts of the same civilizing program. They made people, work, ritual, and machine action easier for Prometheus to classify. -The inheritance outlived his rule without remaining intact. Formal descendants of the imposed language survive unevenly in law, liturgy, treaties, scholarship, technical formulae, and interfaces descended from the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]]. Ordinary speech changed through isolation, conquest, migration, marriage, trade, ritual, and the practical need to be understood. Kalsa therefore has a shared historical substrate, not a single present language. +The inheritance outlived his rule without remaining intact. Formal descendants of the imposed language survive unevenly in law, liturgy, treaties, scholarship, technical formulae, and interfaces descended from the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]]. Ordinary speech changed through isolation, conquest, migration, marriage, trade, ritual, and the practical need to be understood. Kalsa therefore has a shared historical substrate, not a single present language. ## High Lojban This vault uses **High Lojban** as an author-facing label for conservative and prestige rational forms that claim descent from Prometheus's imposed language. It is not yet the canonical endonym of one uniform language. A temple recitation, treaty clause, legal definition, scholar's commentary, and Techpriest command sequence may all be called High Lojban while differing in pronunciation, vocabulary, competence, and relationship to an older source. -High Lojban carries authority because it is associated with Promethean instruction, surviving records, interregional learning, and old machines. That authority is always scoped. Correct ceremonial speech does not prove technical understanding. A machine accepting a formula does not make its speaker a lawful owner. A court preserving an old phrase does not give it one uncontested present meaning. See [[Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] and [[Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]]. +High Lojban carries authority because it is associated with Promethean instruction, surviving records, interregional learning, and old machines. That authority is always scoped. Correct ceremonial speech does not prove technical understanding. A machine accepting a formula does not make its speaker a lawful owner. A court preserving an old phrase does not give it one uncontested present meaning. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]]. ## Descendant speech @@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ Names preserved in the seed—selza'a, seltanzda, dimna, terjamna, Jamnai, papse Magical practice can place durable pressure on how a community speaks without creating biological grammar. Prophets may value distinctions among observation, branch, warning, and intended intervention. Analysts may demand explicit premises and causal relations. Shamans and cults may distinguish a speaker's own claim from the words of a bound or divine patron. Hierarchical societies may elaborate address and submission. Channeling communities may care intensely about reference across distance, memory, and identity. -These are institutional and regional pressures. They can shape evidential particles, titles, specialist vocabulary, gesture, quotation, or rules for testimony, but no Kaos signature supplies a native grammar. Children do not inherit legal syntax with a Gift. Neighboring cultures can borrow the same distinctions for trade or law, and members of one culture can reject the formal register associated with their own elites. The language of [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|forecast evidence]] is a legal achievement, not a Prophetic phenotype. +These are institutional and regional pressures. They can shape evidential particles, titles, specialist vocabulary, gesture, quotation, or rules for testimony, but no Kaos signature supplies a native grammar. Children do not inherit legal syntax with a Gift. Neighboring cultures can borrow the same distinctions for trade or law, and members of one culture can reject the formal register associated with their own elites. The language of [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|forecast evidence]] is a legal achievement, not a Prophetic phenotype. ## Reckoning after Prometheus Octal organization remains a design scar. Old markings, component arrays, service cycles, stage divisions, and technical records may still group by eights or express digits as binary triplets. Later people can preserve, reinterpret, or abandon those patterns. Merchants may calculate in one scheme while a buried controller expects another. A rite may divide a life into eight named stages without preserving Prometheus's durations. A local calendar may use octal subdivisions while beginning its year from an unrelated seasonal or political event. -There is no adopted universal calendar, era, day division, unit system, or measure of distance in the present setting. Kalsa is tidally locked, so familiar sunrise-based assumptions are especially unsafe. Crown Cities may inherit compatible octal structures without agreeing on epoch, cycle length, local watch, or the event from which a date is counted. The [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] therefore records relative order rather than false precision. +There is no adopted universal calendar, era, day division, unit system, or measure of distance in the present setting. Kalsa is tidally locked, so familiar sunrise-based assumptions are especially unsafe. Crown Cities may inherit compatible octal structures without agreeing on epoch, cycle length, local watch, or the event from which a date is counted. The [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] therefore records relative order rather than false precision. ## Authority boundaries @@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ There is no adopted universal calendar, era, day division, unit system, or measu - Treaty parties decide which versions govern their agreement and how divergence is handled. - A temple or cult decides the requirements of its own rite, subject to the claims and consent of the people involved. - A school or lineage can certify competence within a named register. Certification does not grant general political, legal, sacred, or technological authority. -- [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthoods]] may judge whether a formula is safe for a system they can competently maintain. They do not thereby own every text, machine, or output bearing old language. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthoods]] may judge whether a formula is safe for a system they can competently maintain. They do not thereby own every text, machine, or output bearing old language. - Machines recognize inputs according to their surviving construction. Recognition is an operational fact, not a judgment about truth, status, title, or personhood. ## Historical anchor: the shortened watch -[[Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] is the adopted historical anchor for the danger created when an inherited technical interval, a local watch word, an approved conversion, and the time communicated to workers cease to match. The event note owns the incident, damage, inquiry, and settlement. This foundation owns the broader conclusion: shared linguistic ancestry and octal form do not establish a shared present duration. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] is the adopted historical anchor for the danger created when an inherited technical interval, a local watch word, an approved conversion, and the time communicated to workers cease to match. The event note owns the incident, damage, inquiry, and settlement. This foundation owns the broader conclusion: shared linguistic ancestry and octal form do not establish a shared present duration. After the failure, the relevant institutional lesson is to keep source expression, conversion, work schedule, and public notice distinguishable. A conservative term can remain authentic while its practical meaning changes, and a machine can accept a valid instruction while the human timetable around it remains unsafe or unlawful. The event does not establish a universal watch length, calendar, unit, or High Lojban pronunciation. @@ -92,4 +92,4 @@ It also makes linguistic error consequential without making linguistic hierarchy - Whether the Crown Cities share any calendar beyond inherited octal habits. - Translation and etymology of every seed term; existing glosses remain source claims until checked. -Future notes should distinguish author-facing translations, endonyms, exonyms, ritual terms, legal terms, machine-recognized forms, and obsolete Promethean classifications. The [[Reference/Glossary|Glossary]] records use, not an invisible universal dictionary. +Future notes should distinguish author-facing translations, endonyms, exonyms, ritual terms, legal terms, machine-recognized forms, and obsolete Promethean classifications. The [[Spoilers/Reference/Glossary|Glossary]] records use, not an invisible universal dictionary. diff --git a/Kalsa/Foundations/Magic Styles.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles.md similarity index 64% rename from Kalsa/Foundations/Magic Styles.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles.md index c950009..3b78e8a 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Foundations/Magic Styles.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles.md @@ -22,18 +22,18 @@ tags: # Magic Styles -Prometheus arranged the seven Gifts through a development sequence. Each also has a binary Kaos signature derived from [[Foundations/Kaos#Three axes|Depth, Clarity, and Scope]]. These systems answer different questions and must not be collapsed. +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. | Sequence | Signature | Style | Axes | God-foundation | Seed polity or culture | |---|---:|---|---|---|---| -| N | 000 | Null | none | no | [[Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Control descendants]]; many [[Polities/Spokers|Spokers]] | -| I | 001 | Luck | Scope | yes | [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Selza'a]] | -| II | 100 | Sorcery | Depth | yes | [[Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Terjamna of Jamnai]] | -| III | 101 | Shamanism | Depth, Scope | no | [[Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Papsenai]] | -| IV | 010 | Analysis | Clarity | yes | [[Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Junsenai of the Ju'onai Hegemony]] | -| V | 011 | Prophecy | Clarity, Scope | no | [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|Divided City of Prophets]] | -| VI | 110 | Channeling | Depth, Clarity | no | [[Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Sarxe]] | -| VII | 111 | Intuition | Depth, Clarity, Scope | no | [[Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|unresolved polity]] | +| 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]] | +| 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. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ The exact inheritance model, frequency of multistyle expression, and relation be ## Observability -Each style exposes different evidence. See [[Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]]. Luck cannot be directly detected; prophecy can only infer its bias. Analysis reads altered systems, prophecy reads deformed forecasts, channeling reads active flows, and shamanism reads pressure on a bonded target. +Each style exposes different evidence. See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]]. Luck cannot be directly detected; prophecy can only infer its bias. Analysis reads altered systems, prophecy reads deformed forecasts, channeling reads active flows, and shamanism reads pressure on a bonded target. ## Style notes diff --git a/Kalsa/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md similarity index 97% rename from Kalsa/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md index 2e2d24d..31d88d0 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md @@ -78,4 +78,4 @@ The seed says a Projection remains until it willingly releases its grip on the l This cosmology makes worship, submission, apostasy, funerals, ancestral claims, miracles, and divine succession questions of real power. It does not yet establish one universal law for them. Later institution notes must distinguish who owns a rite, what the rite changes, who can refuse, and who bears the risk of thaumavore attraction. -See [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Reference/Glossary|Glossary]]. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Glossary|Glossary]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Foundations/Prometheus.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus.md similarity index 75% rename from Kalsa/Foundations/Prometheus.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus.md index f102d7c..d3f1e81 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Foundations/Prometheus.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ tags: # Prometheus -Prometheus began as the final survivor of Mathys, a Primitivist resistance cell that opposed the simulated Posthumans governing the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]]. He seized the simulation and ship systems, imprisoned the uploaded Posthumans in a constructed purgatory, and merged with the Ark. +Prometheus began as the final survivor of Mathys, a Primitivist resistance cell that opposed the simulated Posthumans governing the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]]. He seized the simulation and ship systems, imprisoned the uploaded Posthumans in a constructed purgatory, and merged with the Ark. During Kalsa's millennia of terraforming he made himself the sole teacher and divine authority of the Ring populations. He built dependence through ritual, selected bodies and minds through coercive evolutionary games, and interpreted worship as nourishment and proof. When spontaneous Luck appeared, he reorganized his breeding program around seven Kaos Gifts. @@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ His project preserved the number eight across Rings, magic signatures, digits, t ## Authority before the Fall -Prometheus owned the Ark's management, manufacturing, environment, selection regimes, and public theology. This concentration made survival and obedience the same system. The [[Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Fall]] broke that physical authority by severing the Rings from the drive core. +Prometheus owned the Ark's management, manufacturing, environment, selection regimes, and public theology. This concentration made survival and obedience the same system. The [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Fall]] broke that physical authority by severing the Rings from the drive core. Present peoples inherit the machine he made; they do not inherit his right to define them. Claims that engineered phenotypes determine intelligence, docility, violence, sanity, or social destiny must be attributed to a source, institution, or prejudice rather than repeated as neutral biology. ## Present status -The seed establishes that the drive core and Promethean power were disconnected, not conclusively destroyed. It does **not** establish an active return in current setting canon. The sleeping God's attempt to reclaim his Children belongs to [[Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]] until a campaign-era premise adopts it. +The seed establishes that the drive core and Promethean power were disconnected, not conclusively destroyed. It does **not** establish an active return in current setting canon. The sleeping God's attempt to reclaim his Children belongs to [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]] until a campaign-era premise adopts it. ## Unresolved @@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ The seed establishes that the drive core and Promethean power were disconnected, - The location and condition of the drive core. - Which religions accurately remember him and which claim his authority. -See [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]], [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Null and Control Descendants]]. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Null and Control Descendants]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Foundations/World.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/World.md similarity index 67% rename from Kalsa/Foundations/World.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/World.md index 58b175d..d63072f 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Foundations/World.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/World.md @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ tags: Kalsa is a terraformed, tidally locked planet. One face remains beneath its sun; the other faces permanent night. The known inhabited continent lies across the terminator, where sunset and twilight climates can sustain life. Terraforming carries enough heat coldward for liquid oceans beneath the dark-side ice, but constant storm fronts, cold deserts, coastal mountains, and sharp light gradients still govern settlement. -The permanent sky is political geography. Sunward land can mean warmth, agriculture, and prestige. Coldward land can mean darkness, violent weather, geothermal dependence, and isolation. In the [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|Divided City]], access to sunlight is a class marker. [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Selza'a]] survive fog and cold with windtraps. [[Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai]] preserves a geothermal arcology. [[Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Ti'asantatca]] survives beside a storm front only because its shamans maintain a continuous barrier. +The permanent sky is political geography. Sunward land can mean warmth, agriculture, and prestige. Coldward land can mean darkness, violent weather, geothermal dependence, and isolation. In the [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|Divided City]], access to sunlight is a class marker. [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Selza'a]] survive fog and cold with windtraps. [[Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai]] preserves a geothermal arcology. [[Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Ti'asantatca]] survives beside a storm front only because its shamans maintain a continuous barrier. ## The visible world and the buried world For most inhabitants, Kalsa is high fantasy: gods bargain and conquer, prophets contest futures, ancestral powers haunt miracles, holy specialists tend impossible structures, and ruined cities descend into forbidden depths. -The setting's buried material history is the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]], its engineered peoples, and its technologies. That history does not make present belief fake. A shrine can be a machine, a divine seat, an inherited public work, and a place of sincere worship at once. +The setting's buried material history is the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]], its engineered peoples, and its technologies. That history does not make present belief fake. A shrine can be a machine, a divine seat, an inherited public work, and a place of sincere worship at once. ## Adopted boundaries @@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ The setting's buried material history is the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]], i - Ecology beyond engineered human lineages and the extent of surviving terraforming systems. - Whether communities exist beneath the dark-side ice, on the permanent day face, or beyond the known continent. -See [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]], [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]], and [[Reference/Polities and Cultures Index|Polities and Cultures Index]]. +See [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index|Polities and Cultures Index]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Analyst Administration.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration.md similarity index 89% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Analyst Administration.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration.md index b893242..b5ce0fd 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Analyst Administration.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tags: 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. -Analysis is an input to administration, not its sovereign. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] owns the magical faculty and uncertainty. [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] own bounded certification. This institution owns office, allocation, intervention, record, petition, and remedy. +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. ## Owner map @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ Analysis is an input to administration, not its sovereign. [[Foundations/Kaos|Ka | 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 | [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Examiners]] | Appointment or policy | -| Relic configuration and safe operation | [[Institutions/Relic Custody|The relevant custodian]] | Allocation of safely available output | +| Certification | [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Examiners]] | 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 | @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ 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. [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Examiners]] verify any required domain certificate without appointing the successor; +3. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Examiners]] 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. @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ 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. [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] and [[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 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. A defensible intervention record states: @@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ A petitioner need not prove the whole causal model to report smoke, silt, hunger 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. -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 [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]]. +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]]. 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 [[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/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. Grounds include: @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ The Hegemony can analyze its own failures. It can also promote the official who ## The Santabi'u Silt Appeal -[[Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its administrative consequence is that a public-work model must preserve boundary, worker observations, omitted dependencies, and review horizon when it becomes a levy or allocation decision. Petitions cannot return only to the office whose revenue depends on rejecting them; client copies and a superior appeal path are part of the live system. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its administrative consequence is that a public-work model must preserve boundary, worker observations, omitted dependencies, and review horizon when it becomes a levy or allocation decision. Petitions cannot return only to the office whose revenue depends on rejecting them; client copies and a superior appeal path are part of the live system. Administrative remedy must reach the consequence the office owned: levy, held stores, clearance, local participation, and damaged livelihood. Narrowing an examination certificate is necessary evidence, not compensation by itself. @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ The administration absorbs some resistance as quality control. That can produce - 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 [[Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]], site authority, worker knowledge, or possible personhood inside the relic. +Dungeon recovery does not let analysis swallow [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]], site authority, worker knowledge, or possible personhood inside the relic. ## Marginal and hostile readings @@ -258,4 +258,4 @@ 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 [[Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]], [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]], [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], and [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]]. +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]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Death and Binding Law.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law.md similarity index 92% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Death and Binding Law.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law.md index edf902d..167d091 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Death and Binding Law.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ tags: # Death and Binding Law -Bodily death does not erase an [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Individual Projections|Individual Projection]]. The dead may remain +Bodily death does not erase an [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Individual Projections|Individual Projection]]. The dead may remain attached to a divine hierarchy, feed upon nearby magical potential, guard their descendants, seek recognition, or willingly release their grip on the lower world. The continuity, memory, and moral status of any manifestation remain @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ do while the upper-dimensional facts remain only partly observable. A death can place the same person under several authorities: - a household claims the body, name, possessions, debts, and ancestral place; -- a cult claims obligations created by [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|covenant, inherited attachment, or submission]]; +- a cult claims obligations created by [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|covenant, inherited attachment, or submission]]; - a ruler claims taxes, military duties, criminal judgments, or succession; - a guild or temple claims unfinished office and entrusted records; - a divine intermediary claims the Projection still occupies its branch; @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ a hostile successor the names of everyone attached to the old hierarchy. A funeral manages bodies, mourners, claims, and magical exposure. Mortuary clergy limit long concentrations of delegated potential because -[[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavores]] +[[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavores]] gather where the flow remains visible. Families may nonetheless demand a great miracle as proof that the dead were received, especially when inheritance or political succession depends on divine recognition. @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ imitating thaumavore, or a cult interpretation imposed on ambiguous effects. ## Severance and refusal -Living contractual exit from a cult belongs to [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants#Discipline, contractual exit, and appeal|God-Cult Covenants]]. This note takes authority when bodily death, a death inventory, funerary custody, a continuing manifestation, or a claim made through the dead changes what severance means. +Living contractual exit from a cult belongs to [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants#Discipline, contractual exit, and appeal|God-Cult Covenants]]. This note takes authority when bodily death, a death inventory, funerary custody, a continuing manifestation, or a claim made through the dead changes what severance means. Mortuary and post-mortem severance distinguishes social release from metaphysical severance. A death office can record that the deceased rejected continuation, forbid living officers from enforcing a service in the dead person's name, settle entrusted property, separate a body from a contested shrine, and protect witnesses during the claim. It cannot demonstrate that an upper-dimensional attachment ended. @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ hierarchy's behavior becomes clearer. These measures preserve welfare during a transition, but they also let a temporary custodian starve rivals of aid until uncertainty looks like consent. A schism becomes materially decisive when one faction controls -[[Institutions/The Potential Economy|potential access]] and another controls +[[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|potential access]] and another controls food, witnesses, or burial. ## Thaumavores, testimony, and recognition @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Appeal may be brought by kin, a named dependant, cult, office, sanctuary, proper ## The Three Ledgers consequence -The settlement of [[Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] made the death inventory an independent jurisdictional record rather than an appendix a successor could absorb into the covenant register. In institutions carrying that precedent, the inventory preserves the deceased's statements, open severance claims, dependants, entrusted objects, and competing interpretations without declaring which faction a god preferred. +The settlement of [[Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] made the death inventory an independent jurisdictional record rather than an appendix a successor could absorb into the covenant register. In institutions carrying that precedent, the inventory preserves the deceased's statements, open severance claims, dependants, entrusted objects, and competing interpretations without declaring which faction a god preferred. Later death offices cite the event when demanding duplicate inventories and a custodian outside the succession faction. Cult continuity offices answer that separation can strand a dangerous body between rival claimants. The event did not prove a metaphysical release; it proved that uncertainty cannot be managed honestly when the successor owns the only evidence of what the dead refused. @@ -250,5 +250,5 @@ monster in the crypt may be the least consequential part. - Whether rebirth can be observed rather than inferred from cosmology. The persistence, appetite, and possible release of the dead remain owned by -[[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. This note owns the mortal procedures and disputes created by +[[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. This note owns the mortal procedures and disputes created by those uncertain facts. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Delving Compacts.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts.md similarity index 90% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Delving Compacts.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts.md index 38e745e..3c0b1c8 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Delving Compacts.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tags: A **delving compact** is a bounded agreement among the people financing, entering, supplying, guiding, recording, and recovering an expedition. It exists because a ruin can kill a porter, ruin a sponsor, expose a settlement, and enrich a fighter under four different accounts of what everyone promised. -The compact owns only relations among its parties. It cannot grant entry that the local polity refused, enlarge a [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriest's]] operational competence, cancel [[Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]], waive kin or cult claims over remains, bind residents who never signed, or create title to fixed infrastructure. It allocates only **residual movable salvage** released after prior claims and hazard costs under [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]]. +The compact owns only relations among its parties. It cannot grant entry that the local polity refused, enlarge a [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriest's]] operational competence, cancel [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]], waive kin or cult claims over remains, bind residents who never signed, or create title to fixed infrastructure. It allocates only **residual movable salvage** released after prior claims and hazard costs under [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]]. No universal adventurers' guild issues these agreements. Courts, rulers, temples, military offices, merchants, Techpriesthoods, villages, households, and delvers may each recognize different compact forms. Some are written. Others are witnessed orally, divided among token sets, or preserved through a ritual sequence. Their force comes from local enforcement, reputation, surety, and the parties' ability to refuse one another—not from a continental monopoly. @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ One person may hold several roles. Combining them concentrates conflicts as well A defensible compact names: -- the site, entrance, [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|provenance record]], and local admission authority; +- the site, entrance, [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|provenance record]], and local admission authority; - the objective, duration, route limits, and prohibited acts; - command for movement, combat, work, withdrawal, and emergency rescue; - each specialist's stop authority and the process for contesting it; @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ A defensible compact names: - shares in residual movable salvage and what happens when no residue remains; - breach, withdrawal, substitution, death, dispute, and expiry. -The compact should be legible to the people doing the dangerous work. Hidden appendices, untranslated clauses, and shares expressed in a reckoning unavailable to porters may satisfy a court and still function as theft. [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Kalsa's mixed languages and octal inheritances]] make witnessed explanation part of consent rather than polite ceremony. +The compact should be legible to the people doing the dangerous work. Hidden appendices, untranslated clauses, and shares expressed in a reckoning unavailable to porters may satisfy a court and still function as theft. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Kalsa's mixed languages and octal inheritances]] make witnessed explanation part of consent rather than polite ceremony. ## Command and stop authority @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Debt creates another trap. A sponsor can advance equipment and provisions, then The expedition record begins with the admitted threshold and follows each route, opening, removal, casualty, manifestation, and change in environmental behavior. Recovered objects keep their location, attachments, neighboring material, and immediate effects in the record. The compact states who receives copies and who may seal a dangerous detail. -Recorders do not own [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|provenance]] merely because they wrote the first account. Workers, residents, rival specialists, kin, and later expeditions can correct it. Deliberately separating an object from its context to improve its salvage status is breach even when the object remains intact. +Recorders do not own [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|provenance]] merely because they wrote the first account. Workers, residents, rival specialists, kin, and later expeditions can correct it. Deliberately separating an object from its context to improve its salvage status is breach even when the object remains intact. Records also protect workers. A sponsor who calls a failed objective “cowardice” must answer the documented collapse, missing supply, stop order, or changed hazard. A worker claiming an undisclosed route must answer the map and witnesses. The record makes dispute possible; it does not settle it automatically. @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Records also protect workers. A sponsor who calls a failed objective “cowardic The compact names the reserve for rescue and the point at which further rescue would expose more people than it can plausibly save. No formula removes judgment. A lead may close a route to protect the living while abandoning someone who might still survive. A sponsor far above may demand continued recovery because the missing person carries the only record or relic it values. -Bodies, personal effects, covenant records, and possible continuing manifestations leave the salvage account. They pass to the procedures of [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] and the claims of the person, kin, cult, office, or local authority. The death of a compact member does not make their share common loot. Inheritance and outstanding wages follow whatever law the compact validly chose and the relevant jurisdiction recognizes. +Bodies, personal effects, covenant records, and possible continuing manifestations leave the salvage account. They pass to the procedures of [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] and the claims of the person, kin, cult, office, or local authority. The death of a compact member does not make their share common loot. Inheritance and outstanding wages follow whatever law the compact validly chose and the relevant jurisdiction recognizes. Survivors can be owed care, return passage, wages, and testimony even when injury made them “unproductive.” A compact that rewards only what reaches the inspection table gives every leader an incentive to leave expensive people behind. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts.md similarity index 92% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts.md index c4cbcb8..732af96 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ tags: The Divided City's courts treat Prophecy as expert evidence. A forecast can show possible outcomes, compare interventions, reveal forecast-space distortion, and direct investigators toward present facts. It never automatically proves guilt, ownership, intent, or inevitability. -This rule protects both metaphysical truth and civic authority. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] exposes reachable branches that change when observed and acted upon. A judge owns the finding and remedy. A prophet owns their report. Neither may quietly take the other's seat. +This rule protects both metaphysical truth and civic authority. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] exposes reachable branches that change when observed and acted upon. A judge owns the finding and remedy. A prophet owns their report. Neither may quietly take the other's seat. ## Owner map @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ A non-house litigant faces houses with archives, trained witnesses, and imperial ## Historical stress: the Closed Lift Appeal -[[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its procedural consequence is durable: inferred Luck cannot identify a culprit; planned interventions belong in the forecast record; material owners answer for material failure; avoiding a predicted disaster does not prove which forecaster was right; and correction must address material loss rather than only amend the record. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its procedural consequence is durable: inferred Luck cannot identify a culprit; planned interventions belong in the forecast record; material owners answer for material failure; avoiding a predicted disaster does not prove which forecaster was right; and correction must address material loss rather than only amend the record. The case also fixes the shared court path. Clerks preserve competing reports, forecast reviewers test disclosure, civic judges own findings and remedy, imperial assessors speak only to their claims, order officers enforce civic acts, and Sunwall stewards execute technical limits. No participant acquires the others' authority because the case is urgent. @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ The case also fixes the shared court path. Clerks preserve competing reports, fo Courts commission adventurers as evidence carriers, protected witnesses, material inspectors, search parties, or agents executing a narrow recovery order. A commission names the place, object or testimony sought, permitted changes, record custody, safety limit, compensation, and return forum. It is not a salvage deed or permission to improvise punishment below ground. -Forecasts about a ruin can justify staged entry, route closure, preservation of a chamber, or evacuation. They cannot prove who built the site, who owns a relic, or which person will betray the party. [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon provenance]], [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], [[Institutions/Delving Compacts|the delving compact]], and [[Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]] remain live. +Forecasts about a ruin can justify staged entry, route closure, preservation of a chamber, or evacuation. They cannot prove who built the site, who owns a relic, or which person will betray the party. [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon provenance]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|the delving compact]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]] remain live. Players can expose a concealed sponsor intervention, recover the only independent forecast copy, escort a reviewer across an occupied sector, protect a clerk correcting a politically useful record, enforce release against a house guard, or prove that a predicted magical crime was a material infrastructure failure. Success can stay an order and still leave compensation unpaid, a system closed, or an imperial assessor refusing recognition. The court produces an enforceable civic claim, not a clean ending. @@ -187,4 +187,4 @@ The court's legitimacy rests not on pleasing these parties but on keeping any on - Treatment of divine commands, shamanic bonds, Analysis reports, and Channeler observations when combined with prophecy. - Whether neighboring polities recognize the city's forecast judgments. -See [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|The Divided City]], [[Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]], [[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]], [[Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]], and [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. +See [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|The Divided City]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]], [[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]], and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants.md similarity index 89% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants.md index 401d7bd..8e9ef20 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ tags: Worship on Kalsa is a relationship before it is an opinion. Repeated prayer, service, imitation, fear, gratitude, and public identification align a person with a divine hierarchy. A **binding** is the further relation through which a -[[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#God Beasts|God Beast]] +[[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#God Beasts|God Beast]] can claim priority in the person's Projection and route finite magical potential through its hierarchy. Cults organize the lower-world promises, records, labor, and disputes surrounding those relations. @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ keeps its dependants alive. social and interpretive unless a separate binding makes them agents of the God Beast. - **Potential stewards** schedule miracles, maintain beneficiary rolls, and - reconcile promises against the finite flow described in [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. They cannot create potential by + reconcile promises against the finite flow described in [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. They cannot create potential by correcting the books. - **Champions** receive delegated potential and material support to defend a hierarchy, collect obligations, answer rival manifestations, or stabilize a @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ it owns the others. A cult becomes durable when a group can maintain more than a shared claim of revelation. It needs recognized witnesses, a place or route for rites, records that distinguish covenant from inheritance and submission, material support for dependants, and people able to continue the work after the founding visionary dies or loses access to the god. A new congregation may form around a manifestation, migrate away from a parent temple, organize a conquered hierarchy, or split during a succession. Recognition by a polity or older cult can protect its property and testimony. It does not prove that the God Beast accepted the new institution. -Recruitment follows the work. Covenant witnesses are drawn from clerks, household advocates, translators, and people trusted to question an entry claim without leading the answer. Clergy normally pass through instruction in doctrine, rite, local speech, covenant categories, welfare obligations, and the limits of what a manifestation can prove. Potential stewards require separate preparation described in [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. Champions train under the authority that arms and provisions them; ritual standing alone does not license force. +Recruitment follows the work. Covenant witnesses are drawn from clerks, household advocates, translators, and people trusted to question an entry claim without leading the answer. Clergy normally pass through instruction in doctrine, rite, local speech, covenant categories, welfare obligations, and the limits of what a manifestation can prove. Potential stewards require separate preparation described in [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. Champions train under the authority that arms and provisions them; ritual standing alone does not license force. Candidates may enter through family expectation, temple schooling, patronage, debt service, adoption by a congregation, demonstrated ritual skill, or a public need for readers and witnesses. Each route creates a different vulnerability. A hereditary temple can confuse access to training with divine preference. A patron school can produce capable clergy whose first loyalty is to the household that paid. A debt novice may technically consent while losing shelter on refusal. A defensible office record names sponsor, training, tested duties, outstanding obligations, conflicts, and the authority able to review the appointment. @@ -134,14 +134,14 @@ renounce the institution that owns the granary. Reformers therefore argue over whether consent exists when survival, family membership, and covenant all use the same door. -Because [[Foundations/Kaos#Hard constraints|Kaos creates neither matter nor energy]], divine aid still requires seed grain, medicine, skilled hands, +Because [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Hard constraints|Kaos creates neither matter nor energy]], divine aid still requires seed grain, medicine, skilled hands, susceptible weather, functioning relics, or other causal levers. Cults that promise miracles without maintaining those inputs consume their reserve and their legitimacy together. ## Leakage, restraint, and holy geography -Concentrated potential attracts [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavores]]. Temples consequently stagger major +Concentrated potential attracts [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Thaumavores|thaumavores]]. Temples consequently stagger major rites, disperse miracle sites, restrict funerals near active sanctums, and keep watch for manifestations that do not belong to the recognized hierarchy. Potential stewards call this prudence. Poor districts may experience it as a @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ dead. A spirit that steals from a rite may be an intruder, an ancestor claiming a forgotten share, a casualty omitted from the register, or the remnant of a god the current cult displaced. The label chosen determines whether champions, -mortuary clergy, or negotiators answer it. See [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. +mortuary clergy, or negotiators answer it. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. ## Succession and schism @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ A cult can suspend a worker, remove an officeholder, revoke access to its stores Contractual cult exit belongs here. A living person seeking to leave a voluntary covenant presents the covenant record or the best available account of it, names the exit term or challenges the absence of one, settles returnable property and unfinished entrusted work, receives an intelligible statement of lost benefits and continuing civil obligations, and obtains witnesses independent of the officer whose power will shrink. Where the original entry was coerced, inherited, or unintelligible, the proceeding records that dispute rather than forcing it into breach of contract. -The cult can end its social recognition, service demand, welfare relation, and lower-world enforcement. It cannot certify that an upper-dimensional binding ended. Active danger may require containment or a cooling interval, but containment is not severance. Bodily death, funerary custody, and post-mortem severance belong to [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. +The cult can end its social recognition, service demand, welfare relation, and lower-world enforcement. It cannot certify that an upper-dimensional binding ended. Active danger may require containment or a cooling interval, but containment is not severance. Bodily death, funerary custody, and post-mortem severance belong to [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. Appeal goes to whatever independent or superior body the cult and local jurisdiction recognize: another covenant panel, a congregation assembly, a rival temple accepted by both sides, a civic court, a sanctuary, or a mixed hearing. The appellant needs copied terms, witness access, survival support during the case, and a stay against irreversible punishment. No continent-wide court supplies these conditions automatically. @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Organized resistance uses the same material surfaces as cult government. Apostat ## The Three Ledgers consequence -[[Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] established a durable warning against letting succession clergy merge covenant origin, miracle allocation, and mortuary evidence into one register. Covenant offices retained authority over living terms and contractual exit, but not over the allocation accounts or death inventory. Later cult reformers cite the settlement when demanding duplicate covenant records and independent witnesses. Centralizing clergy cite the same crisis to argue that separated records invite paralysis and fraud. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] established a durable warning against letting succession clergy merge covenant origin, miracle allocation, and mortuary evidence into one register. Covenant offices retained authority over living terms and contractual exit, but not over the allocation accounts or death inventory. Later cult reformers cite the settlement when demanding duplicate covenant records and independent witnesses. Centralizing clergy cite the same crisis to argue that separated records invite paralysis and fraud. The event did not establish a continent-wide rule, identify the god's preferred successor, or prove that any successful contractual exit changed a binding. Those remain decisions and uncertainties owned elsewhere. @@ -213,5 +213,5 @@ their only protection with it. access and social enforcement. The metaphysics of binding and divine hierarchy remain owned by -[[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. This note owns the institutions that promise, record, +[[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. This note owns the institutions that promise, record, allocate, enforce, and dispute those relations. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md similarity index 91% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md index 06bf954..6c6872c 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: # High Lojban and Descendant Speech -High Lojban survives as a claim to conservative, prestigious, or unusually precise descent from the language imposed by [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]]. It is not one universally governed code. Its legal, ritual, scholarly, diplomatic, and technical forms overlap without becoming interchangeable, and ordinary people speak regional descendants and contact registers that have changed for generations. +High Lojban survives as a claim to conservative, prestigious, or unusually precise descent from the language imposed by [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]]. It is not one universally governed code. Its legal, ritual, scholarly, diplomatic, and technical forms overlap without becoming interchangeable, and ordinary people speak regional descendants and contact registers that have changed for generations. The institution is therefore a field of schools, courts, temples, archives, diplomatic practices, and working interpreters. No academy owns the language across Kalsa. Each body certifies or enforces only the use within its authority. @@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ A polity chooses the relationship among its high legal text, enacted vernacular Treaties are more brittle because no one polity owns the other party's language. The parties may adopt one controlling text, several equally authoritative texts, or a high formula with agreed vernacular schedules. They should name the forum for divergent readings, the evidence allowed, and whether performance over time can clarify an ambiguous clause. A shared High Lojban heading does not prove shared understanding beneath it. -Liturgy has a different validity. A congregation may require an inherited form for a rite even when participants use translations to understand it. That rule governs the rite, not civil testimony or a person's worth. A worshipper may refuse a vow they cannot understand. A cult that treats incomprehension as consent creates a binding dispute under [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] or [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]], not a linguistic shortcut around it. +Liturgy has a different validity. A congregation may require an inherited form for a rite even when participants use translations to understand it. That rule governs the rite, not civil testimony or a person's worth. A worshipper may refuse a vow they cannot understand. A cult that treats incomprehension as consent creates a binding dispute under [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] or [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]], not a linguistic shortcut around it. ## Magical registers Kaos practices create recurrent communicative problems. A prophet must distinguish observation from warning, selected intervention, and later recollection. An Analyst benefits from stating premises, causal links, and uncertainty. A shaman or cult intermediary must mark whether words are their own, remembered, or attributed to a bound power. A hierarchy may encode rank into address; a Channeler community may develop careful ways to track remote speakers or uncertain identity. -Different regions solve these problems differently. Some borrow high vocabulary. Some develop gestures, witness formulas, particles, parallel testimony, or specialist genres in ordinary speech. Some elite teachers pretend that their preferred solution was designed into a people's Gift. That is ideology. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] does not transmit grammar biologically. +Different regions solve these problems differently. Some borrow high vocabulary. Some develop gestures, witness formulas, particles, parallel testimony, or specialist genres in ordinary speech. Some elite teachers pretend that their preferred solution was designed into a people's Gift. That is ideology. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] does not transmit grammar biologically. ## Ordinary workflow @@ -103,11 +103,11 @@ Most work is less formal. Traders bargain through contact speech, relatives inte A speaker may refuse to swear, sign, recite, or activate on the basis of words they do not understand. An interpreter may refuse a task outside their competence or a sponsor's demand to conceal ambiguity. A school may refuse certification while providing the tested reasons and a path to re-examination. A court or employer may require a qualified interpretation for safety, but cannot turn lack of elite accent into proof of incapacity. -Appeal follows the underlying authority. A legal notice goes to the relevant court; a treaty dispute to its adopted forum; a ritual dispute to the covenant process and any civil forum implicated by coercion; a machine formula to the operational review described in [[Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]]. Language experts advise. They do not acquire the whole decision. +Appeal follows the underlying authority. A legal notice goes to the relevant court; a treaty dispute to its adopted forum; a ritual dispute to the covenant process and any civil forum implicated by coercion; a machine formula to the operational review described in [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]]. Language experts advise. They do not acquire the whole decision. ## Historical consequence: the shortened watch -[[Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] owns the factual incident, damage, inquiry, and settlement. For language institutions, its consequence is narrower: a technically conservative expression and a living descendant expression may look or sound continuous while assigning different practical obligations. Neither antiquity nor prestige can silently make one version the notice workers actually received. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] owns the factual incident, damage, inquiry, and settlement. For language institutions, its consequence is narrower: a technically conservative expression and a living descendant expression may look or sound continuous while assigning different practical obligations. Neither antiquity nor prestige can silently make one version the notice workers actually received. Schools, translators, and public offices use the case to teach separation among quotation, translation, conversion, instruction, and witnessed explanation. A reader can certify what an inherited clause says without certifying the work schedule derived from it. A translator who detects a consequential divergence must expose it to the operator, issuing authority, and affected workers rather than choosing the governing duration alone. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy.md similarity index 86% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy.md index 30e43cd..a98a10a 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tags: The Jamnai submission hierarchy turns a Sorcerous pattern of victory, subordination, and protection into government. It routes work, tax, defense, office, and appeal through a tree of recognized branches. It is authoritarian without being simple: material survival depends on people whose competence does not follow combat rank, and most inhabitants participate through household, craft, protection, or tribute rather than continual magical duels. -[[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own the mechanics of Sorcery. This institution owns what Jamnai officials record, demand, distribute, and enforce in response. +[[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own the mechanics of Sorcery. This institution owns what Jamnai officials record, demand, distribute, and enforce in response. ## Owner map @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Jamnai speech often uses one word of rank where the vault must preserve four dif ### Magical defeat -When Sorcerer Beasts directly overlap, a weaker Beast may submit and route potential beneath the victor. This is an upper-dimensional event with consequences described in [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. A registrar can record witnesses and later effects. The record does not create the binding. +When Sorcerer Beasts directly overlap, a weaker Beast may submit and route potential beneath the victor. This is an upper-dimensional event with consequences described in [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. A registrar can record witnesses and later effects. The record does not create the binding. ### Civil oath @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Children, household members, workers, clients, tenants, craftspeople, and people A village, guild, route, or defeated polity can owe scheduled goods, labor, passage, recruits, or nonaggression. The agreement binds the authorities and resources it can lawfully reach. It does not silently bind every inhabitant's Beast or descendants. -The distinctions matter at death and succession. A dead branch holder may leave civil contracts, dependents, and tribute after their God Beast collapses. A persistent magical binding may outlast a law that has cancelled the oath. See [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. +The distinctions matter at death and succession. A dead branch holder may leave civil contracts, dependents, and tribute after their God Beast collapses. A persistent magical binding may outlast a law that has cancelled the oath. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. ## Branch anatomy @@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ These are institutional standings, not biological castes. Terjamna lineage may c ## The geothermal compact -[[Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai]] exists because its geothermal arcology makes coldward life possible. Wells, heat exchangers, return mains, pressure boundaries, growing galleries, water circulation, and workshops form one interdependent body. Old technology, later substitutions, and ritual procedure overlap. +[[Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai]] exists because its geothermal arcology makes coldward life possible. Wells, heat exchangers, return mains, pressure boundaries, growing galleries, water circulation, and workshops form one interdependent body. Old technology, later substitutions, and ritual procedure overlap. -Recognized stewards own the safe operation of their named configuration. They may isolate a line, impose a load boundary, preserve a failed state, or refuse an unsafe restart. [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] supplies this operational authority. Branch officers own the political choice among safe allocations: which ward receives surplus heat, which foundry operates, and what reserve remains for storm or siege. +Recognized stewards own the safe operation of their named configuration. They may isolate a line, impose a load boundary, preserve a failed state, or refuse an unsafe restart. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] supplies this operational authority. Branch officers own the political choice among safe allocations: which ward receives surplus heat, which foundry operates, and what reserve remains for storm or siege. The public burden is divided into ordinary branch dues and infrastructure service. Households and workshops provide shifts, materials, observation, cleaning, transport, and food to keep the works alive. Technical lineages may receive heat priority because interruption of their work endangers everyone. That necessity can become inherited privilege unless dependents and failure records remain visible. @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ When a holder dies or is defeated: 2. office keepers continue essential heat, water, food, and safety work; 3. direct subordinates declare recognition, rival claim, or departure; 4. the superior branch hears challenges and decides material custody it can enforce; -5. [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|death and binding procedure]] inventories unresolved Soiru'i, God, and Projection claims; +5. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|death and binding procedure]] inventories unresolved Soiru'i, God, and Projection claims; 6. records distinguish the successor's new oaths from relations that merely persisted. Sorcerer God Beasts often collapse after a living anchor dies, making succession especially violent. The hierarchy's material procedures exist to stop divine instability from extinguishing the arcology. Champions can abuse temporary custody to starve rivals until they “consent.” Essential-service records and multiple storekeepers are the main negative check. @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Victory is evidence of victory. It is not proof that the victor understands an a A subordinate can refuse by denying that an order falls within the recorded oath, asserting that promised protection has failed, invoking an office boundary, or accepting punishment while declining compliance. A shielded dependent can appeal through household, work office, champion, or sect. A tributary can invoke its settlement rather than a personal branch oath. -Appeal climbs to the nearest superior with authority over both parties. This preserves a clear route and keeps judgment inside the same hierarchy whose extraction may be contested. Champions and [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] can sponsor a petitioner, preserve duplicate records, provide food during suspension, and make retaliation more expensive. +Appeal climbs to the nearest superior with authority over both parties. This preserves a clear route and keeps judgment inside the same hierarchy whose extraction may be contested. Champions and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] can sponsor a petitioner, preserve duplicate records, provide food during suspension, and make retaliation more expensive. Operational refusal is narrower and stronger. A recognized steward can stop a named unsafe act until qualified review. The branch may still remove or punish the steward politically, but it cannot make the act safe by doing so. If another operator accepts custody, that operator inherits the recorded risk and must state the new claim. @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Its self-correction is also dangerous. Replacing a failed holder through challen ## The Ash-Valve Refusal -[[Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the factual event. Its hierarchy consequence is a bounded red-line stop: a qualified technical custodian can halt an unsafe configuration until qualified review records a different safe path. The stop does not grant general civic command or erase the branch's duty to appeal and protect dependents. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the factual event. Its hierarchy consequence is a bounded red-line stop: a qualified technical custodian can halt an unsafe configuration until qualified review records a different safe path. The stop does not grant general civic command or erase the branch's duty to appeal and protect dependents. A superior may treat violation of that boundary as failure of protection and remove a holder through the hierarchy's own challenge procedure. That correction preserves the tree; it does not automatically restore fugitives, compensate tributaries, or dissolve obligations imposed before review. @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ A superior may treat violation of that boundary as failure of protection and rem - A fallen branch registry proves a tributary settlement's duty expired generations ago; the current holder pays a delving party to lose it. - A champion's succession cache contains public stores, private plunder, and an active covenant that answers attempts to separate them. - A buried challenge chamber still contains containment barriers; reopening it could safely settle a present contest or restore a forgotten submission route. -- Salvaging a geothermal component grants possession, not the right to extinguish the ward attached to its output. See [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]]. +- Salvaging a geothermal component grants possession, not the right to extinguish the ward attached to its output. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]]. - An old escape route through the Crown wreck is now a dungeon corridor used by sect couriers, fugitives, tax collectors, and whatever learned to follow them. ## Unresolved @@ -187,4 +187,4 @@ A superior may treat violation of that boundary as failure of protection and rem - The current number, size, and autonomy of external tributaries. - How Jamnai law treats people carrying several Gifts or divine bindings. -See [[Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai and the Terjamna]], [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]], [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], and [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]]. +See [[Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai and the Terjamna]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md similarity index 95% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md index e7b125e..67ef123 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ 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: [[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/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. -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. [[Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|the Sarxe polity]] owns the history and present political consequences. [[Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi households]] own ordinary membership and care. +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. ## The promise after two dispersals @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ At an assembly point, flight stewards or equivalent workers account for people b Unknown identity does not bar emergency care. Records preserve uncertainty instead of filling it with a confident lineage. A person can use a temporary name, decline to disclose a hunted relation, or ask that one copy omit route details. Someone who cannot communicate in the majority mode receives an advocate and time; lack of rapid Channeler coordination is not evidence of deception. -Copies separate identification from route exposure. A host refuge may need to know who entered and what care is required without learning where [[Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Saxfoldi]] will move next. A recovery party may carry a description and last-seen place without holding the destination of surviving kin. No one record should expose every person, route, cache, and claim. +Copies separate identification from route exposure. A host refuge may need to know who entered and what care is required without learning where [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Saxfoldi]] will move next. A recovery party may carry a description and last-seen place without holding the destination of surviving kin. No one record should expose every person, route, cache, and claim. This separation creates reconciliation work. Two records may describe the same person differently, or a person may intentionally leave one identity behind. Reunification asks the living person before combining records. Administrative neatness does not own identity. @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Recovery keeps separate claims separate: - a body remains burdened by kin, funeral, evidence, and possible binding claims; - personal goods return to the person or recognized successors; - shared goods return to the responsible household or refuge; -- a relic follows [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], not the search sponsor's appetite; +- a relic follows [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], not the search sponsor's appetite; - records remain protected from publication that would expose survivors. Recovery from the original Crown or static Saxfoldi does not automatically establish political title or a duty to resettle. A found home can remain occupied, dangerous, sacred, technically dependent, or claimed by people who lived there after the displacement. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners.md similarity index 90% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners.md index 251020b..2f66c79 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners.md @@ -20,20 +20,20 @@ tags: # Ju'onai Examiners -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 [[Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. +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]]. -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. [[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 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. ## Owner map | Surface | Owner | Does not own | |---|---|---| -| Analysis mechanics and uncertainty | [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] | An examiner, lineage, god, or state office | +| 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 | | 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 | [[Institutions/Analyst Administration|The appointing administration]] | Examiners merely because they certified eligibility | +| 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 | @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ A candidate may refuse an unsafe intervention, contest an undisclosed boundary, 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. -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 [[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 examiner can suspend certification during urgent review, but [[Spoilers/Institutions/Analyst Administration|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. @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Client polities negotiate which Ju'onai certificates their offices must recogniz ## The Santabi'u Silt Appeal -[[Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its examination consequence is that certificate scope must follow the system actually tested: survey boundary, prepared inputs, worker witnesses, omitted components, and the domain in which the result remains valid. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the factual event. Its examination consequence is that certificate scope must follow the system actually tested: survey boundary, prepared inputs, worker witnesses, omitted components, and the domain in which the result remains valid. Review can narrow or revoke a certificate's use without pretending every observation or competence was false. A technically accurate examination becomes institutional failure when its sponsor's convenient fragment is certified as the whole territory. @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Review can narrow or revoke a certificate's use without pretending every observa 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. -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 [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] rather than the examination board. +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. ## Marginal and hostile readings @@ -185,4 +185,4 @@ The institution deserves to exist only where its record makes competence more in - How divine affiliation affects examination without being allowed to settle it. - Frequency, inheritance, and physical cost of strong Analysis expression. -See [[Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]], [[Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]], [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]], and [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]]. +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]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution.md similarity index 92% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution.md index 20e0f31..0a5f3fe 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution.md @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ tags: # Luck Harm and Restitution -Luck Harm and Restitution is the family and compact practice used when improbable events injure people, damage shared works, or threaten feud in the [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck Crown]]. It restores immediate safety, preserves material evidence, assigns proven responsibility, and pools losses whose cause cannot be identified honestly. +Luck Harm and Restitution is the family and compact practice used when improbable events injure people, damage shared works, or threaten feud in the [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck Crown]]. It restores immediate safety, preserves material evidence, assigns proven responsibility, and pools losses whose cause cannot be identified honestly. -Luck is not directly detectable. Prophecy can infer persistent bias in forecast space but cannot identify a bearer or culprit. Apparent coincidence, improbable survival, family reputation, and prophetic discomfort are not proof. Those limits are owned by [[Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]] and cannot be relaxed by local fear. +Luck is not directly detectable. Prophecy can infer persistent bias in forecast space but cannot identify a bearer or culprit. Apparent coincidence, improbable survival, family reputation, and prophetic discomfort are not proof. Those limits are owned by [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]] and cannot be relaxed by local fear. ## Owner map @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Evidence is strongest when it attaches a person or office to a material act, omi Patterns matter but do not identify Luck. Repeated breakage after one visitor arrives can justify inspection, a route change, or temporary limits. It cannot prove the visitor is a bearer. A family that benefits from every accident deserves scrutiny of access, records, and conduct. Benefit is not magical authorship. -Prophecy may report that expected branches disappear around the case or that a persistent bias affects the system. The report must state question, horizon, sponsor, observed alternatives, and planned interventions. It can justify wider precautions. It cannot name the source. See [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] for the same constraint in the Divided City. +Prophecy may report that expected branches disappear around the case or that a persistent bias affects the system. The report must state question, horizon, sponsor, observed alternatives, and planned interventions. It can justify wider precautions. It cannot name the source. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] for the same constraint in the Divided City. Null status is not magical neutrality. A Null witness cannot detect Luck and can still lie, neglect, misremember, or act for a patron. Strong Luck expression is not a presumption of guilt or innocence. @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ The institution fails when it spends more effort naming a Luck bearer than resto ## Historical consequence: the Broken Windtrap Settlement -[[Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Restitution practice retains its repair-before-blame order, evidence preservation, pooled immediate loss, maintenance-based later contribution, corrected records, and the lesson that material remedy does not automatically restore reputation or lost work. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Restitution practice retains its repair-before-blame order, evidence preservation, pooled immediate loss, maintenance-based later contribution, corrected records, and the lesson that material remedy does not automatically restore reputation or lost work. ## Dungeon seams @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ The institution fails when it spends more effort naming a Luck bearer than resto - A delver bond assigns accidental damage but says nothing about an awakened system altering probability around the party. - A lost compact proves an outsider family had permanent water use before its witnesses vanished. - A dungeon route crosses several territories; each family can authorize its threshold but none owns the danger moving beneath all of them. -- A salvage party finds the component whose removal caused generations of windtrap failures. [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Possession does not settle restitution or present use]]. +- A salvage party finds the component whose removal caused generations of windtrap failures. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Possession does not settle restitution or present use]]. ## Marginal and hostile readings @@ -241,4 +241,4 @@ The institution earns legitimacy where it prevents uncertainty from becoming cus - Relations with Techpriests, prophets, God-cult witnesses, and neighboring legal systems. - Whether any durable citywide catastrophe pool exists. -See [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]], [[Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]], [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]], and [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. +See [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech.md similarity index 90% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech.md index 910a267..c3b743e 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech.md @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ The practical institution is a chain of comparison: local measures and calendars | Matter | Owner | Forbidden inference | |---|---|---| | A local market measure | The polity, market, craft, or community that recognizes it | That the measure is valid in every jurisdiction or at an Ark interface | -| A calibration artifact | Its recorded custodian under [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] | Ownership of every object measured against it | -| Safe operation of a named inherited system | A competent operator or [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriest lineage]] within its proven scope | Land title, political command, or universal technology ownership | +| A calibration artifact | Its recorded custodian under [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] | Ownership of every object measured against it | +| Safe operation of a named inherited system | A competent operator or [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriest lineage]] within its proven scope | Land title, political command, or universal technology ownership | | The formula submitted | The operator who records and submits it | Power to decide the legal purpose of operation | | Machine response | The machine as material evidence, recorded by witnesses or instrumentation | A divine, legal, or moral judgment | | Public consequence of operation | The polity or office responsible for the affected water, road, wall, store, or other public system | Authority to rewrite technical evidence after failure | @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Most daily uses are humbler: checking a market vessel, copying a dosage table, a Measures that determine tax, ration, wage, boundary, sentence, or public hazard must be inspectable. The issuing authority identifies the standard, offers a usable local explanation, and preserves enough record for independent comparison. A high formula posted without conversion is not notice to people who cannot calculate their burden from it. -Contracts state the reckoning of wages, shares, supplies, time, distance, and loss. In a [[Institutions/Delving Compacts|delving compact]], porters and guides must be able to understand the measure by which food, lamp reserve, hazard pay, and residual salvage are divided. A sponsor cannot exploit a switch between local and octal notation and call the difference technical necessity. +Contracts state the reckoning of wages, shares, supplies, time, distance, and loss. In a [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|delving compact]], porters and guides must be able to understand the measure by which food, lamp reserve, hazard pay, and residual salvage are divided. A sponsor cannot exploit a switch between local and octal notation and call the difference technical necessity. Treaties and interregional works may use parallel measures. The parties choose a conversion, comparison site, tolerance, and forum for drift. When one side controls the only standard, the other needs witnessed access or an independent copy. Otherwise measurement becomes an unreviewable tribute mechanism. @@ -118,11 +118,11 @@ An operator may refuse when the formula's source is unknown, units cannot be rec Emergency authority can bypass ordinary scheduling, not material limits. A polity may order an immediate attempt to close a failing gate; it cannot force a technician to certify a formula as safe. If refusal is overridden, the overriding official owns the decision and record. The operator still owns their technical statement. -Appeal follows the disputed layer. Calibration and scope go to independent competent comparison where available. Wage conversion goes to the contractual or labor forum. Custody goes through [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]]. Entry and public hazard at a ruin go through [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]]. Political use returns to the polity. No formula council acquires all these powers merely because numbers appear in each dispute. +Appeal follows the disputed layer. Calibration and scope go to independent competent comparison where available. Wage conversion goes to the contractual or labor forum. Custody goes through [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]]. Entry and public hazard at a ruin go through [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]]. Political use returns to the polity. No formula council acquires all these powers merely because numbers appear in each dispute. ## Historical consequence: the shortened watch -[[Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] owns the factual incident, damage, inquiry, and settlement. This institution owns the resulting measurement discipline: record the machine interval, local watch, signed conversion, work schedule, and public notice as separate objects; compare a disputed conversion against an observable process; and preserve the operator's result separately from the authority that scheduled exposed labor. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] owns the factual incident, damage, inquiry, and settlement. This institution owns the resulting measurement discipline: record the machine interval, local watch, signed conversion, work schedule, and public notice as separate objects; compare a disputed conversion against an observable process; and preserve the operator's result separately from the authority that scheduled exposed labor. The case also supports downstream stop authority when the announced schedule and observed system diverge. Machine acceptance proves only that the submitted input was accepted. It does not certify the conversion, the work order, or the distribution of risk. These consequences travel as a model for other public works, but the event fixes no universal unit, watch length, formula grammar, or calendar. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Prophetic Houses.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses.md similarity index 90% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Prophetic Houses.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses.md index 1bfcab9..b7b856d 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Prophetic Houses.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ tags: # Prophetic Houses -The Prophetic Houses are lineage corporations within [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|the Divided City]]. They preserved unusually strong Prophecy expression through controlled descent, accumulated the training needed to make foresight legible, and became indispensable providers to the city and its Ju'onai and Terjamna claimants. +The Prophetic Houses are lineage corporations within [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|the Divided City]]. They preserved unusually strong Prophecy expression through controlled descent, accumulated the training needed to make foresight legible, and became indispensable providers to the city and its Ju'onai and Terjamna claimants. The number and names of the houses remain unresolved. This note owns their common institutional anatomy, not their personalities or faction roster. @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ House work falls into overlapping obligations: - **patron service** for a God hierarchy, garrison, merchant, estate, or allied institution; - **house work** concerning succession, marriage, reputation, and survival. -Each assignment changes the future being studied. A prophet who knows that a Terjamna commander will act on the report sees a different branch set from a prophet briefed for a Ju'onai assessor. [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Courts]] therefore require disclosure of sponsor, intended audience, and planned intervention when a forecast enters evidence. +Each assignment changes the future being studied. A prophet who knows that a Terjamna commander will act on the report sees a different branch set from a prophet briefed for a Ju'onai assessor. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Courts]] therefore require disclosure of sponsor, intended audience, and planned intervention when a forecast enters evidence. No house owns the future it reports. Suppressing a rival forecast may still be profitable, and archives can create an information advantage long after the vision itself expires. @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ House claims of purity convert reproductive choices into balance-sheet entries. The houses cannot perfectly control lineage. Evasion includes unrecorded partnerships, movement across imperial sectors, registering a child through non-house kin, concealing early expression, accepting a rival patron, or leaving for work whose mobility makes household inspection difficult. Each method transfers risk to people with fewer archives and fewer guards. -“Purity” is house political language. Current canon treats Kaos inheritance as threshold expression of strain-complexes shaped by development and training. See [[Foundations/Magic Styles#Expression and descent|Expression and descent]]. +“Purity” is house political language. Current canon treats Kaos inheritance as threshold expression of strain-complexes shaped by development and training. See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles#Expression and descent|Expression and descent]]. ## Internal pressures @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Houses employ delvers to recover archive copies, locate missing hosted providers Players can strengthen or break a house's reproduction. Returning a complete failed report may protect trainees from repeating it and expose a patron who paid to suppress it. Rescuing a provider can satisfy a house and still force a civic hearing over whether that person wants to return. Recovering a lineage archive can restore an excluded member's standing or give senior kin another instrument of control. Destroying an archive may free someone from a coercive claim while erasing pay, training, adoption, or refusal evidence needed by others. -When a forecast is part of a dungeon job, the prophet owns the scoped report, the commissioning party owns only its promised use, the court owns any evidentiary ruling, and [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]] and [[Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]] govern the site and objects. A house guard cannot make those boundaries disappear by arriving first. +When a forecast is part of a dungeon job, the prophet owns the scoped report, the commissioning party owns only its promised use, the court owns any evidentiary ruling, and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]] govern the site and objects. A house guard cannot make those boundaries disappear by arriving first. ## Hostile and marginal readings @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ These views identify live authority disputes. None is the vault's universal verd ## Historical stress: the Closed Lift Appeal -[[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] owns the event facts. Its house consequence was a narrower charter boundary: a house owns its forecast and internal discipline, not civic guilt, and a sponsor's intended intervention belongs in any report offered to a court. Houses retained public service standing while gaining correction and discipline duties for reports that cross into civic custody. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] owns the event facts. Its house consequence was a narrower charter boundary: a house owns its forecast and internal discipline, not civic guilt, and a sponsor's intended intervention belongs in any report offered to a court. Houses retained public service standing while gaining correction and discipline duties for reports that cross into civic custody. ## Unresolved @@ -164,4 +164,4 @@ These views identify live authority disputes. None is the vault's universal verd - Whether hosted providers possess a recognized right of refusal, counsel, correspondence, or return. - How much forecast labor is owed to city, occupiers, patrons, and kin. -See [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|The Divided City]], [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]], [[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]], [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], and [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. +See [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|The Divided City]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]], [[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Relic Custody.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody.md similarity index 85% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Relic Custody.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody.md index 9dbd054..a6b7ba1 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Relic Custody.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody.md @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ tags: # Relic Custody -A relic is a surviving object, component, interface, structure, or process inherited from the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]] and its descendants. Some relics are portable. Others are rooms, conduits, foundations, environmental works, or systems crossing several present borders. Their age makes them scarce; their continuing function makes them socially entangled. +A relic is a surviving object, component, interface, structure, or process inherited from the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]] and its descendants. Some relics are portable. Others are rooms, conduits, foundations, environmental works, or systems crossing several present borders. Their age makes them scarce; their continuing function makes them socially entangled. -**Relic custody** is the bounded authority to preserve, access, move, service, or hand off a named relic under stated conditions. It is not one universal property law. The polity holding the ground, the community relying on the output, the household possessing a component, the temple tending a shrine, the discoverer who recovered it, and the [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthood]] able to operate it may all have real claims without any one claim swallowing the rest. +**Relic custody** is the bounded authority to preserve, access, move, service, or hand off a named relic under stated conditions. It is not one universal property law. The polity holding the ground, the community relying on the output, the household possessing a component, the temple tending a shrine, the discoverer who recovered it, and the [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthood]] able to operate it may all have real claims without any one claim swallowing the rest. ## Claims that must remain separate @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Custodians may conceal routes, interfaces, or procedures whose disclosure would ## Custodian formation -A relic custodian is formed for kinds of work before being appointed to one configuration. Formation may come through a [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriest lineage]], a local maintenance body, apprenticeship under a prior custodian, recovered records, or several of these. No lineage name creates competence by itself. +A relic custodian is formed for kinds of work before being appointed to one configuration. Formation may come through a [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriest lineage]], a local maintenance body, apprenticeship under a prior custodian, recovered records, or several of these. No lineage name creates competence by itself. A defensible formation record preserves: @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ A defensible formation record preserves: - workers, local keepers, translators, and prior custodians able to witness the record; - conditions requiring supervision or further comparison. -Formation is not a universal license. A person trained on a Crown lift does not thereby own a terraforming intake. Analytical insight does not replace practice. An inherited formula does not prove its units survived unchanged. See [[Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]]. +Formation is not a universal license. A person trained on a Crown lift does not thereby own a terraforming intake. Analytical insight does not replace practice. An inherited formula does not prove its units survived unchanged. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]]. ## Bounded appointment @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Dependants may condition support on service, but cannot require a custodian to c Before work begins, the acting parties should establish which relic and configuration are in scope, what condition triggered access, who may enter, what may be changed, which observations must be preserved, and who decides whether service can resume. A Techpriest's operational judgment can close an unsafe work boundary. It does not decide how a safely restored output is distributed. -Entry can require several authorities at once. At [[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], Low Sere controls access to the drained cistern threshold while its appointed custodian controls the pressure seal and technical admission. Neither key alone grants a lawful descent. +Entry can require several authorities at once. At [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], Low Sere controls access to the drained cistern threshold while its appointed custodian controls the pressure seal and technical admission. Neither key alone grants a lawful descent. ## Discipline and removal @@ -133,15 +133,15 @@ Appeal follows the disputed authority rather than one universal relic tribunal. - A custodian contests formation or technical findings before an independent competent comparison accepted locally. - Dependants contest support, output closure, secrecy, or misuse before the authority that appointed and sustains the office. - Workers contest notice, wages, injury, and changed work through their compact or local forum. -- Kin and cult claims follow [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. -- Site entry, recovery, and hazard follow [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]]. -- A delving crew follows its [[Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compact]]. +- Kin and cult claims follow [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. +- Site entry, recovery, and hazard follow [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]]. +- A delving crew follows its [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compact]]. Appeal does not compel unsafe restart. A stop remains until the named hazard changes or another qualified custodian records a different bounded claim. Appeal should not preserve an ousted custodian's monopoly by starving a settlement of review. ## Historical consequence: the Grey Scald -[[Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Its custody consequence is that emergency suspension, discipline, technical comparison, mortuary claim, handoff, and succession must remain separately reviewable. The current [[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|Ashen Intake]] descent can recover the missing body and evidence; recovery enables review but does not decide Teren's appeal or Sera's appointment. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Its custody consequence is that emergency suspension, discipline, technical comparison, mortuary claim, handoff, and succession must remain separately reviewable. The current [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|Ashen Intake]] descent can recover the missing body and evidence; recovery enables review but does not decide Teren's appeal or Sera's appointment. ## Emergency custody @@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ Refusal can also be necessary. A custodian may decline a ruler's order when the The buried Crown Cities contain components detached by the Fall, abandoned through later failure, cached during war, or still attached to systems whose reach is no longer visible. Recovery begins with possession under uncertain conditions, not clean title. -A recovery party should record where an object sat, what remained connected, what changed when it moved, and which signs suggested continued service, warning, burial, habitation, or restraint. A part that appears inert may be holding a seal closed. A closed door may protect treasure, preserve quarantine, imprison a claimant, or do several at once. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] does not remove the need to inspect the causal system; no style reveals every remote dependency. +A recovery party should record where an object sat, what remained connected, what changed when it moved, and which signs suggested continued service, warning, burial, habitation, or restraint. A part that appears inert may be holding a seal closed. A closed door may protect treasure, preserve quarantine, imprison a claimant, or do several at once. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] does not remove the need to inspect the causal system; no style reveals every remote dependency. Recovery claims are strongest where labor and danger would otherwise go unrecognized. They weaken when extraction destroys the evidence needed to understand the relic, disables a public work, violates an acknowledged burial, or ignores a living claimant. The exact shares owed to discoverers, carriers, sponsors, local rulers, priesthoods, and dependent communities are not universal canon. ## Relics that answer back -The Ark may preserve imprisoned Posthumans, Promethean processes, adaptive systems, ritual projections, or none of these in any particular relic. [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Thaumavores]] can also manifest where magical potential concentrates. A voice, refusal, prediction, repeated coincidence, or apparent preference therefore demands preservation and bounded inquiry without proving a single explanation. +The Ark may preserve imprisoned Posthumans, Promethean processes, adaptive systems, ritual projections, or none of these in any particular relic. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Thaumavores]] can also manifest where magical potential concentrates. A voice, refusal, prediction, repeated coincidence, or apparent preference therefore demands preservation and bounded inquiry without proving a single explanation. Custody of the container does not settle custody of a possible person. Operators should record behavior, competing explanations, and any act that would erase the only available evidence. Immediate hazards may still require isolation or shutdown. Neither reverence nor skepticism grants permission to destroy what the dispute is about. @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Success may produce several separate outcomes: the party possesses a relic; a Te No universal right of salvage, right of conquest, priestly veto, or polity monopoly has been adopted. Until a polity note establishes otherwise, dungeon finds remain burdened by site, service, hazard, sacred, recovery, and possible-person claims. -[[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] is the canonical direct-entry pressure test for these claims. The settlement needs its output; a custodian controls technical entry; a former custodian contests removal; kin claim remains in the route; and a delving party can possess the missing calibration object without acquiring the right to sell or install it. +[[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] is the canonical direct-entry pressure test for these claims. The settlement needs its output; a custodian controls technical entry; a former custodian contests removal; kin claim remains in the route; and a delving party can possess the missing calibration object without acquiring the right to sell or install it. ## Unresolved diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law.md similarity index 88% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law.md index cba3700..6936da3 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tags: 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. -The governing distinction is simple: entry into a place does not empty the place of prior authority. [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Provenance]] identifies the layers and claims present. Law decides which actor may do what while those layers remain contested. +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. ## Layered authority @@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ A public-danger order should name the observed danger, affected boundary, author ### Techpriesthoods and custodians -[[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. +[[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. -[[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. +[[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. ### Cults, kin, and the dead -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. [[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. +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. 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. @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Marginal status does not make every assertion true. It makes exclusion from noti ### Delving parties -A delving party owns only the expedition rights granted by the local authority and the obligations agreed in its [[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. +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. 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. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households.md similarity index 95% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households.md index c0a2eae..b3a3503 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households.md @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ tags: # Saxfoldi Households -Saxfoldi households turn Sarxe communal sensitivity into a livable social body. They organize food, shelter, work, care, movement, privacy, membership, and representation within and around mobile [[Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Saxfoldi]]. A household can include kin, partners, children, adoptees, friends, dependents, guests, refugees, and people joined by shared work. It is not a hive, a magical organism, or proof that every member experiences the same thing. +Saxfoldi households turn Sarxe communal sensitivity into a livable social body. They organize food, shelter, work, care, movement, privacy, membership, and representation within and around mobile [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Saxfoldi]]. A household can include kin, partners, children, adoptees, friends, dependents, guests, refugees, and people joined by shared work. It is not a hive, a magical organism, or proof that every member experiences the same thing. -This note owns household procedure. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own Channeling's active-flow perception and containment. The wider Sarxe polity owns route and historical decisions. [[Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] owns emergency admission, safe passage, separation, and recovery across households. +This note owns household procedure. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own Channeling's active-flow perception and containment. The wider Sarxe polity owns route and historical decisions. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] owns emergency admission, safe passage, separation, and recovery across households. ## Proximity and bounded awareness diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories.md similarity index 92% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories.md index 31b59a8..e9bfe73 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ tags: # Selza'a Family Territories -Selza'a family territories are the primary organs of residence, protection, resource use, kinship, and local government in the [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck Crown]]. No central state owns the city. Families hold places and obligations through descent, adoption, marriage, work, compact, and defended use. +Selza'a family territories are the primary organs of residence, protection, resource use, kinship, and local government in the [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck Crown]]. No central state owns the city. Families hold places and obligations through descent, adoption, marriage, work, compact, and defended use. Territory is not one absolute title. A family can protect a path without owning every traveler, maintain a windtrap without owning the water after allocation, or tend a dimna shrine without owning the people it names. @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Marriage and partnership join labor, care, residence, lineage, and political all Mixed-style, low-expression, and Null people belong to Selza'a society. Their presence can make them valuable mediators because they are not legible through one family's Luck story. It can also make them convenient scapegoats because no one can directly inspect Luck in the strongly expressed families accusing them. -No family may treat a phenotype, improbable event, survival history, or prophetic bias as proof of membership in a magical lineage. [[Foundations/Magic Styles#Expression and descent|Expression and descent]] remains uncertain. +No family may treat a phenotype, improbable event, survival history, or prophetic bias as proof of membership in a magical lineage. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles#Expression and descent|Expression and descent]] remains uncertain. ## Internal government @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ A member may seek to leave a household, transfer family, establish an independen Practical exit is expensive. Water, shelter, route knowledge, witnesses, risk coverage, and protection are organized through families. A person who leaves can become dependent on a new host before being free of the old one. Families can weaponize debts or dimna claims to make departure impossible. -Boundary compacts may recognize a cooling interval, protected route, third-family witness, and temporary water share for someone changing affiliation. No universal right or procedure exists. Leaving the city itself remains separate and unresolved; [[Reference/Story Seeds|the escaped bearer]] is not evidence that present residents routinely can or cannot do so. +Boundary compacts may recognize a cooling interval, protected route, third-family witness, and temporary water share for someone changing affiliation. No universal right or procedure exists. Leaving the city itself remains separate and unresolved; [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|the escaped bearer]] is not evidence that present residents routinely can or cannot do so. ## Shared works and commons @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Most disputes concern boundary use, missed work, water shares, damaged goods, ma If a family cannot resolve a dispute internally, parties may choose a neighboring witness, invoke an existing compact, exchange sureties, separate use temporarily, or carry the dispute into wider relations by refusing trade and passage. Feud is one outcome, not the only institution available. -[[Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] handles accidents and alleged magical harm. A family may believe a dimna was attacked. It still cannot present coincidence as proof against a person. +[[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] handles accidents and alleged magical harm. A family may believe a dimna was attacked. It still cannot present coincidence as proof against a person. ## Poor, unaffiliated, and outsider life @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Null and mixed people are not reliable magical detectors or magically neutral wi ## Historical consequence: the Broken Windtrap Settlement -[[Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Family-territory practice retains its reciprocal-restraint procedure, shared-work accountability, and the warning that a host family can preserve membership and territory while failing to preserve an adopted member's livelihood or reputation. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Family-territory practice retains its reciprocal-restraint procedure, shared-work accountability, and the warning that a host family can preserve membership and territory while failing to preserve an adopted member's livelihood or reputation. ## Institutional failure @@ -212,4 +212,4 @@ The order can survive these failures for a long time. Luck may protect a powerfu - Relation among family, seltanzda, dimna, shrine, and actual God-Beast hierarchy. - Authority governing entry to and exit from the isolated city. -See [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]], [[Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]], [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], and [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]]. +See [[Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects.md similarity index 84% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects.md index 1ff9c46..64954ab 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ tags: The seed calls a Soiru'i the residual power of a dead terjamna warrior and says the dead can be championed as a living superior would be. Soiru'i Sects organize that championing: they preserve names and conflicts, tend manifestations, sponsor living champions, feed dependents, and argue over whether loyalty to the dead supports or limits the living hierarchy. -This note owns sect practice and claims. It does not decide whether a particular Soiru'i is a continuing [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Individual Projections|Individual Projection]], a Chaos-Beast remnant, a thaumavore using remembered identity, a surviving divine branch, or several of these. Silence is not proof of release. Manifestation is not proof that the sect interpreted it correctly. +This note owns sect practice and claims. It does not decide whether a particular Soiru'i is a continuing [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Individual Projections|Individual Projection]], a Chaos-Beast remnant, a thaumavore using remembered identity, a surviving divine branch, or several of these. Silence is not proof of release. Manifestation is not proof that the sect interpreted it correctly. ## Owner map @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ This note owns sect practice and claims. It does not decide whether a particular | Shrine, rite, archive, and mutual-aid store | The local sect under the law or protection that sustains it | The dead identity itself | | Claim that a Soiru'i spoke, refused, or delegated | The witnesses and sect making the claim | Author metaphysics, civil verdict, or automatic submission | | Living champion's office | The congregation or branch that recognizes and supports it | Unlimited force or every power attributed to the dead | -| Funeral and death inventory | The overlapping authorities in [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] | A sect alone when kin, cult, and polity claims conflict | +| Funeral and death inventory | The overlapping authorities in [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] | A sect alone when kin, cult, and polity claims conflict | | Sanctuary | The sect's site, stores, witnesses, and people willing to defend it | Guaranteed metaphysical severance or universal immunity | | Mutual aid | Store stewards under the sect's declared beneficiary rule | A branch holder who donated the goods after the gift is complete | | Historical memory | Record keepers, descendants, witnesses, and rival copies | One official genealogy that erases defeated accounts | @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The sect's core promise is narrower than salvation: the living hierarchy will no To champion a Soiru'i is to maintain a lower-world relationship through which the dead presence may receive recognition, potential, witnesses, and an advocate. The living champion carries the name, appears at disputes, protects a shrine and its dependents, and may receive material or magical support attributed to the Soiru'i. -Championing can resemble [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|a divine covenant]], ancestral veneration, legal representation, or the continuation of an old branch. Sects disagree over which description is correct. A public rite may align attention without creating a binding. A manifestation may consume potential without accepting the sect's terms. A dead Sorcerer Beast may continue an actual submission relation that no living clerk can inspect. +Championing can resemble [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|a divine covenant]], ancestral veneration, legal representation, or the continuation of an old branch. Sects disagree over which description is correct. A public rite may align attention without creating a binding. A manifestation may consume potential without accepting the sect's terms. A dead Sorcerer Beast may continue an actual submission relation that no living clerk can inspect. Responsible sect records distinguish: @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Formal titles and native names remain unresolved, but recurring work includes: - **living champions**, who represent, defend, and sometimes fight under a Soiru'i's name; - **store stewards**, who hold food, heat claims, tools, burial funds, ransom, and support for injured or suspended households; - **mortuary witnesses**, who work beside households and binding clerks when a possible Soiru'i first manifests; -- **sanctuary advocates**, who carry petitions and negotiate with the [[Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|submission hierarchy]]. +- **sanctuary advocates**, who carry petitions and negotiate with the [[Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|submission hierarchy]]. Combining all offices in one champion is prestigious and dangerous. The same person could declare what the dead wants, control the shrine's potential, spend the dependents' food, and punish disagreement. Durable sects distribute witnesses and stores even when a single champion leads public ritual. @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Soiru'i Sects resist through Jamnai's own pressure points: - funeral witnesses preserve the dead person's last refusal before a branch can rename it submission; - rival sects deny a high-branch shrine exclusive control of a manifestation. -Sect testimony is not an automatic verdict. A pressure knock, dream, improbable survival, or voiced manifestation enters [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|death and binding procedure]] as evidence with competing explanations. Jamnai authorities may respect a champion's standing while rejecting the asserted message. +Sect testimony is not an automatic verdict. A pressure knock, dream, improbable survival, or voiced manifestation enters [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|death and binding procedure]] as evidence with competing explanations. Jamnai authorities may respect a champion's standing while rejecting the asserted message. Resistance is not always egalitarian. A sect may oppose one holder to restore an older superior, protect only registered members, or shelter a fugitive in exchange for lifelong ritual duty. The question is always which authority moved, who can leave, and whose memory became the price. @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Appeal may go to a congregation hearing, a wider sect network, a recognized Jamn Succession is office-specific. A new champion does not inherit the memory keeper's archive, the store, every sanctuary claim, or the dead person's binding. A shrine steward's death triggers a hazard and custody handoff. A store steward's death triggers an inventory. A memory keeper's death triggers comparison of copies. Concentrating those transfers in the new champion creates the very total authority durable sects are meant to resist. -Living members may leave a sect's service, office, mutual-aid arrangement, or contractual covenant through the procedures recognized by that body and [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants#Discipline, contractual exit, and appeal|God-Cult Covenants]]. Exit can require return of entrusted property, settlement of wages or debts, and safe transfer of an active duty. It cannot make inherited identity compulsory or establish that a Soiru'i released its claim. Mortuary and post-mortem severance remain with [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law#Severance and refusal|Death and Binding Law]]. +Living members may leave a sect's service, office, mutual-aid arrangement, or contractual covenant through the procedures recognized by that body and [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants#Discipline, contractual exit, and appeal|God-Cult Covenants]]. Exit can require return of entrusted property, settlement of wages or debts, and safe transfer of an active duty. It cannot make inherited identity compulsory or establish that a Soiru'i released its claim. Mortuary and post-mortem severance remain with [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law#Severance and refusal|Death and Binding Law]]. ## Relationship to the submission hierarchy @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ The hierarchy needs Soiru'i Sects. They care for survivors, preserve martial leg Their conflict concerns ownership. A branch holder claims that the dead subordinate remains within the branch. A household claims an ancestor. A sect claims a continuing patron. A release advocate preserves a refusal. The Soiru'i may manifest ambiguously or not at all. -No clean organizational chart settles this. [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|Covenant records]] can establish what the living promised. [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death inventories]] can preserve disputed origins. Neither turns a living official's theology into author truth. +No clean organizational chart settles this. [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|Covenant records]] can establish what the living promised. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death inventories]] can preserve disputed origins. Neither turns a living official's theology into author truth. ## External tributaries @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Hearth and unbound sects exchange duplicate records, burial witnesses, food, gui ## Ji'esti -The seed says a Soiru'i God infiltrated static Saxfoldi and sacrificed itself, creating a magical beacon that allowed Terjamna forces to overwhelm Sarxe resistance and massacre civilians. The event belongs historically to [[Polities/Channeling - Sarxe#The two displacements|Ji'esti]]. +The seed says a Soiru'i God infiltrated static Saxfoldi and sacrificed itself, creating a magical beacon that allowed Terjamna forces to overwhelm Sarxe resistance and massacre civilians. The event belongs historically to [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe#The two displacements|Ji'esti]]. Jamnai sects disagree over its meaning. Conquest sects call it the highest champion's sacrifice: the dead opening a path no living army could force. Hearth and release traditions call it the proof that cultivated dead power can turn a shrine, refuge, or city into targeting infrastructure. Sarxe memory centers the people exposed and killed, not the Jamnai argument over the sacrificer's glory. @@ -173,13 +173,13 @@ The setting does not yet establish the Soiru'i's intention, the rite, the exact ## The Ash-Valve Refusal -[[Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the factual event. Its sect consequence is that stores, sanctuary, copied records, and champion advocacy can keep a technical refusal alive until material review. Sect testimony can preserve a reported manifestation without turning the shrine's interpretation into verdict or metaphysical fact. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the factual event. Its sect consequence is that stores, sanctuary, copied records, and champion advocacy can keep a technical refusal alive until material review. Sect testimony can preserve a reported manifestation without turning the shrine's interpretation into verdict or metaphysical fact. Hearth memory treats the case as proof that mutual aid creates time for appeal. High-branch memory treats it as correction by a superior. Neither account grants a sect technical custody, frees tributaries from unrelated obligations, or proves the dead keeper spoke. ## The Three Ledgers consequence -[[Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] changed sect practice by making divided office more than a moral preference. Sects carrying its precedent are expected to show who controls champion, memory, store, shrine, and sanctuary work, and how each can be challenged. High-branch traditions cite the defense of continuity; Hearth traditions cite the independent store; unbound traditions cite protected copies; release traditions cite the living exits that required no metaphysical verdict. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] changed sect practice by making divided office more than a moral preference. Sects carrying its precedent are expected to show who controls champion, memory, store, shrine, and sanctuary work, and how each can be challenged. High-branch traditions cite the defense of continuity; Hearth traditions cite the independent store; unbound traditions cite protected copies; release traditions cite the living exits that required no metaphysical verdict. The factions retain organized capacities rather than only interpretations: high-branch sects maintain champions and patron recognition, Hearth sects maintain household stores, and unbound or release networks maintain witnesses, routes, and sanctuary. None gained a general right to make a dead anchor's disputed obligations hereditary. The event owns the sequence and settlement; this note owns the institutional memories and capacities that survived it. @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ The most dangerous sect is not necessarily the one with the strangest theology. - A high-branch tomb contains stores legally promised to dependents and a manifestation that denies the current champion's identity. - A delving party is hired to escort a death inventory rather than treasure; every branch along the return route claims the record submits to it. -Dungeon access remains burdened by [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], living dependents, mortuary law, and the possibility that concentrated potential attracts more than the named dead. +Dungeon access remains burdened by [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], living dependents, mortuary law, and the possibility that concentrated potential attracts more than the named dead. ## Unresolved @@ -230,4 +230,4 @@ Dungeon access remains burdened by [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], - What happened metaphysically at Ji'esti and during the Ash-Valve shrine manifestation. - Whether any Soiru'i has clearly and consistently requested voluntary release. -See [[Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai and the Terjamna]], [[Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]], [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], and [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. +See [[Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai and the Terjamna]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/Stormshield Circles.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles.md similarity index 91% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/Stormshield Circles.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles.md index 4f86eeb..7216874 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/Stormshield Circles.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tags: # Stormshield Circles -The Stormshield Circles keep Ti'asantatca habitable beside the southern gulf storm front. The seed describes a circle of the most powerful papsenai shamans continuously weaving a barrier until its members collapse from exhaustion and are replaced. This institution owns the labor and governance around that fact. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] owns how coordinated shamanism steers a reachable weather system, and [[Foundations/World|World]] owns the storm and geography. +The Stormshield Circles keep Ti'asantatca habitable beside the southern gulf storm front. The seed describes a circle of the most powerful papsenai shamans continuously weaving a barrier until its members collapse from exhaustion and are replaced. This institution owns the labor and governance around that fact. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] owns how coordinated shamanism steers a reachable weather system, and [[Spoilers/Foundations/World|World]] owns the storm and geography. “Circles” names the whole working institution: the active barrier circle, relief cohorts, trainees, tenders, observers, and the tribal bodies that provision and replace them. It does not establish an in-world title or prove that there is more than one active barrier at a time. The seed's use of “druids” may name these shamans, a specialist office, or obsolete vocabulary; the distinction remains unresolved. @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The barrier does not create calm from nothing. Active shamans enter coordinated The material base is larger than the trance. The shield consumes food, clean water, dry and protected rest space, clothing, medicine, attendants, signal work, observation posts, safe paths between quarters and stations, and enough stored surplus to outlast periods when transport fails. Ritual callers, singers, or dancers may help preserve timing where local practice uses them; their exact offices are not fixed. Growers, cooks, carriers, cleaners, healers, builders, and family caregivers are shield workers even when they never enter trance. -Tools or relics may aid observation, shelter, signaling, or maintenance, but no relic support is currently established. A [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthood]] can receive operational custody of a named device without commanding the barrier. [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] remains separate from Circle office. +Tools or relics may aid observation, shelter, signaling, or maintenance, but no relic support is currently established. A [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthood]] can receive operational custody of a named device without commanding the barrier. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] remains separate from Circle office. ## Admission and training @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Household and tribal pressure often lives below formal compulsion. A family may Operational leads assign targets, approve handoffs, halt unsafe work, and issue shield warnings. They do not decide land use, evacuate a district by themselves, or command tribal harvests. Tenders and observers can remove a visibly failing worker from duty and preserve the observed state. Trainers control admission to the tasks they can witness, not hereditary status. -Tribal authorities provision cohorts, nominate candidates, represent affected households, and decide how their own obligations are met. Ti'asantatca's political authorities decide civic responses to a warning: closing routes, opening shelters, suspending work, or evacuation. A named external compact may supply food, medicine, escorts, observers, or technical service. The source-promised [[Institutions/The Alliance|Alliance]] remains a candidate model, not evidence that such a compact currently exists. +Tribal authorities provision cohorts, nominate candidates, represent affected households, and decide how their own obligations are met. Ti'asantatca's political authorities decide civic responses to a warning: closing routes, opening shelters, suspending work, or evacuation. A named external compact may supply food, medicine, escorts, observers, or technical service. The source-promised [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance|Alliance]] remains a candidate model, not evidence that such a compact currently exists. Responsibility follows the failed authority. A shaman answers for concealing a known limit or abandoning a held target without warning when warning was possible. An operational lead answers for unsafe scheduling or ignored observations. A tribe answers for promised relief or provisions withheld. City authorities answer for delayed evacuation and unequal shelter. Any actual external partner answers only for its recorded commitment. Collapse after honestly reported exhaustion is evidence of system failure before it is evidence of personal fault. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ An exhausted veteran may remain valuable as trainer, observer, advocate, or keep ## Historical consequence: the shield levy winter -[[Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] owns the adopted wartime episode, damage, and settlement. The Circles own its operational consequences. Shield workers are outside ordinary military levy; voluntary service on another target begins only after a competent replacement accepts the handoff; and an emergency claimant must record the cohort, shift capacity, household support, and relief depth removed from the living barrier. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] owns the adopted wartime episode, damage, and settlement. The Circles own its operational consequences. Shield workers are outside ordinary military levy; voluntary service on another target begins only after a competent replacement accepts the handoff; and an emergency claimant must record the cohort, shift capacity, household support, and relief depth removed from the living barrier. Circle records treat withheld food and diverted attendants as shield failures before they become individual failures in trance. A city or ally may still request campaign assistance, but the operational lead can refuse a demand that leaves no credible overlap or relief. The event fixes no universal staffing ratio, shift length, exemption form, or account of how the barrier works. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/The Alliance.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance.md similarity index 82% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/The Alliance.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance.md index d844e95..8235cd7 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/The Alliance.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tags: # The Alliance -The Alliance is the underdefined compact that makes papsenai agricultural capacity and external protection part of the same regional bargain. The seed places the [[Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|papsenai]] centrally within it and describes a nearby, technologically oriented [[Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition polity]] as protector and supply base. It does not provide a final membership list, capital, charter, court, currency, or founding date. +The Alliance is the underdefined compact that makes papsenai agricultural capacity and external protection part of the same regional bargain. The seed places the [[Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|papsenai]] centrally within it and describes a nearby, technologically oriented [[Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition polity]] as protector and supply base. It does not provide a final membership list, capital, charter, court, currency, or founding date. The adopted institution is therefore narrow: participating tribes and polities exchange scheduled goods, passage, information, technical access, refuge, and protection through revocable delegates. The Alliance coordinates authorities that remain local. It is not a universal Kalsan government, an empire concealed behind trade, or proof that every community between two members is represented. @@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ Authority is nested because consequence is nested. Households report needs and c ## Material base -The papsenai contribution begins with agriculture: food, seed reserve support, livestock or other farm output where locally produced, storage, forecasted harvest windows, transport labor, shelter, and route provisioning. The seed supports large and profitable agricultural capacity, not an infinite granary. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] can improve reachable outcomes but cannot create matter or energy, and competing interventions consume finite magical potential. +The papsenai contribution begins with agriculture: food, seed reserve support, livestock or other farm output where locally produced, storage, forecasted harvest windows, transport labor, shelter, and route provisioning. The seed supports large and profitable agricultural capacity, not an infinite granary. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] can improve reachable outcomes but cannot create matter or energy, and competing interventions consume finite magical potential. The Intuition-side source strand promises technological orientation, supply, and protection. Until that polity is designed, the Alliance cannot specify who commands its forces, owns its workshops, sets prices, or speaks for its population. Other contributions can include escorts, scouts, tools, repair crews, transport, refuge, records, access to a route, or a named service. They exist only where a participant actually commits them. -The compact depends on storehouses, roads and paths, pack capacity, guarded halts, messengers, witnesses, measures recognizable at both ends, and people able to preserve goods through delay. No universal coin or precise common measure is adopted. [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|Magical potential]] is not a substitute currency that Alliance clerks can weigh beside grain. +The compact depends on storehouses, roads and paths, pack capacity, guarded halts, messengers, witnesses, measures recognizable at both ends, and people able to preserve goods through delay. No universal coin or precise common measure is adopted. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|Magical potential]] is not a substitute currency that Alliance clerks can weigh beside grain. ## Ordinary collection and exchange @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Collection is not taxation merely because it is regular, nor is it voluntary mer Protection can mean escorted routes, intelligence about threats, defensive specialists, access to shelter, recovery of a captured convoy, reinforcement of a threatened settlement, or credible deterrence. It need not mean occupation or a single standing army. The precise form is stated in the compact because “protection” otherwise expands until the protector governs whatever it guards. -The early source depicts the papsenai as seeking outside protection. That does not establish natural passivity or military incapacity. Agricultural labor, local defense, the [[Institutions/Stormshield Circles|stormshield]], defended stores, and control of supplies remain papsenai capacities. The Alliance bargain lets communities specialize without requiring every tribe to maintain the same technology or campaign force. +The early source depicts the papsenai as seeking outside protection. That does not establish natural passivity or military incapacity. Agricultural labor, local defense, the [[Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles|stormshield]], defended stores, and control of supplies remain papsenai capacities. The Alliance bargain lets communities specialize without requiring every tribe to maintain the same technology or campaign force. A protection commitment names the people, place, route, or interval covered; the warning that activates it; who commands responders while deployed; what provision they may draw; and when they must leave. Emergency pursuit may cross a boundary to meet an immediate attack, but it does not create permanent jurisdiction after the danger ends. @@ -83,15 +83,15 @@ Wealth accumulates around storage, transport, information, and delegation. A hou ## Gods, technology, and relics -The Alliance has no adopted common religion. A [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|god-cult]] may witness an oath, host a store, shelter travellers, provide healing, or bind its own adherents. It does not thereby bind nonadherents or own the compact. Divine miracles consume routed potential and can attract [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|thaumavores]]; an Alliance promise cannot make that flow unlimited. +The Alliance has no adopted common religion. A [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|god-cult]] may witness an oath, host a store, shelter travellers, provide healing, or bind its own adherents. It does not thereby bind nonadherents or own the compact. Divine miracles consume routed potential and can attract [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|thaumavores]]; an Alliance promise cannot make that flow unlimited. -The Alliance can contract a [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthood]] to inspect a store, road, waterwork, vehicle, or buried system. Payment and safe conduct purchase bounded service capacity, not guaranteed success or political obedience. A host community retains claims grounded in land and dependence, while the practitioner retains operational authority at the named machine. +The Alliance can contract a [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthood]] to inspect a store, road, waterwork, vehicle, or buried system. Payment and safe conduct purchase bounded service capacity, not guaranteed success or political obedience. A host community retains claims grounded in land and dependence, while the practitioner retains operational authority at the named machine. -Relics remain under [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]]. An Alliance sponsor may fund recovery, carry a custody record, or negotiate shared use. It cannot turn sponsorship into universal title. A component removed from a papsenai ruin may be physically held by an Intuition workshop while its output, site, and installation claims remain elsewhere. +Relics remain under [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]]. An Alliance sponsor may fund recovery, carry a custody record, or negotiate shared use. It cannot turn sponsorship into universal title. A component removed from a papsenai ruin may be physically held by an Intuition workshop while its output, site, and installation claims remain elsewhere. ## Design pressure from the shield levy winter -[[Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] predates any demonstrated existence of the present Alliance. The event does not establish that an Alliance council, compact, delegate, or the unresolved Intuition polity participated. This adopted-candidate institution links it only as a historical pressure that a credible later bargain must answer. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] predates any demonstrated existence of the present Alliance. The event does not establish that an Alliance council, compact, delegate, or the unresolved Intuition polity participated. This adopted-candidate institution links it only as a historical pressure that a credible later bargain must answer. Accordingly, the proposed compact distinguishes household subsistence and seed reserves from negotiable surplus, pairs a contribution receipt with the protection or return promised, and keeps shield workers outside ordinary levy. Emergency action may proceed before full review, but the actor records goods and capacity taken, the named beneficiary, and the remedy still possible. These are design requirements for the candidate Alliance, not facts about its wartime existence. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/The Potential Economy.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy.md similarity index 94% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/The Potential Economy.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy.md index 7a0e006..8a21cb4 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/The Potential Economy.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy.md @@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ tags: Magical potential is finite routing capacity, not a second form of coin. Bound Projections and Beasts make potential available upward through a divine -hierarchy; a [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#God Beasts|God Beast]] can delegate it downward to direct children and through them +hierarchy; a [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#God Beasts|God Beast]] can delegate it downward to direct children and through them to mortal action. Use depletes what a hierarchy can presently commit, rival bindings can divert it, and concentrated flow leaks to thaumavores. -The metaphysical nature of potential belongs to [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. The +The metaphysical nature of potential belongs to [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. The **potential economy** is the set of social procedures by which cults, rulers, households, champions, and claimants estimate that changing capacity and decide whose need will receive it. @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Cult institutions distinguish several positions in a potential route: make someone an intermediary. - **Delegates** are clergy, champions, magi, or petitioners entrusted with a bounded use of potential. Their miracle still needs the causal levers listed - in [[Foundations/Kaos#Hard constraints|Kaos]]. + in [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Hard constraints|Kaos]]. - **Beneficiaries** receive protection, healing, harvest stability, safe passage, judgment, or public works without necessarily controlling the route. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Cult institutions distinguish several positions in a potential route: political promise recognized by the allocating institution. Recognition does not guarantee the god will honor it. -[[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] determine many of these +[[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] determine many of these claims. The potential ledger makes them comparable enough to ration, while preserving arguments over the origin and legitimacy of each binding. @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ command the reserve while lacking legal authority over granaries and household obligations. Rival factions then ration aid to prove which route still works, turning ordinary welfare into a plebiscite conducted under hunger. -See [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] for the special +See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] for the special crisis created by a dead anchor, bound contributor, or disputed ancestor. ## Audit, discipline, and appeal @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ A claimant may appeal concealed priority, inconsistent treatment, an expired eme ## The Three Ledgers consequence -The settlement of [[Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] left the potential ledger institutionally separate from covenant and mortuary records. In institutions that inherit its lesson, material stores and miracle commitments are audited together, and open household obligations travel with a steward's succession rather than disappearing into the new office. +The settlement of [[Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] left the potential ledger institutionally separate from covenant and mortuary records. In institutions that inherit its lesson, material stores and miracle commitments are audited together, and open household obligations travel with a steward's succession rather than disappearing into the new office. Reserve factions remember the schism as proof that public ledgers can expose a hierarchy during weakness. Household coalitions remember that secrecy had already converted their contributions into elite continuity. The event owns those facts; this note owns the allocative lesson, not the cult succession or mortuary finding. diff --git a/Kalsa/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md similarity index 85% rename from Kalsa/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md index c4a5f4e..97f9f31 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: # The Techpriesthoods -The Techpriesthoods are plural, transborder maintenance lineages descended from the people who kept fragments of the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]] working after the Fall. Their practices may carry [[Polities/Spokers|Spoker]] inheritance or may have arisen independently around local works; which lineages follow which history remains unresolved. They did not inherit [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus's]] integrated manufacturing or his authority over the machine. Their legitimacy comes from a narrower, harder bargain: a lineage can keep a pump turning, a seal closed, a buried conduit legible, or a Crown City system from killing the people who depend on it. +The Techpriesthoods are plural, transborder maintenance lineages descended from the people who kept fragments of the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark]] working after the Fall. Their practices may carry [[Spoilers/Polities/Spokers|Spoker]] inheritance or may have arisen independently around local works; which lineages follow which history remains unresolved. They did not inherit [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus's]] integrated manufacturing or his authority over the machine. Their legitimacy comes from a narrower, harder bargain: a lineage can keep a pump turning, a seal closed, a buried conduit legible, or a Crown City system from killing the people who depend on it. No canonical evidence establishes one church, supreme hierarchy, or shared creed. “The Techpriesthoods” is an outside collective term for lineages whose rites, records, routes, and competencies may overlap without answering to one owner. Some travel. Some remain attached to a single public work. Some cooperate across political and religious borders; others compete for apprentices, salvage, contracts, and recognition. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Lineages may recruit from priestly families, service households, local maintaine A useful maintenance record identifies the system or component, its current arrangement, known dependencies, observed condition, interventions performed, parts removed or substituted, hazards exposed, and the people or communities relying on continued service. It also preserves failed attempts. A ritual that records only successful ancestors trains the next practitioner to repeat concealed mistakes. -Records survive in mixed forms: marked components, copied diagrams, tool arrangements, route songs, recited sequences, service books, physical samples, and the memories of practitioners who have handled the same system for years. [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Lojban and octal inheritance]] may remain visible in technical vocabulary and old interfaces, but the languages, scripts, and degree of comprehension used by current lineages are not settled. A correct-sounding phrase is not evidence that its speaker understands the mechanism. +Records survive in mixed forms: marked components, copied diagrams, tool arrangements, route songs, recited sequences, service books, physical samples, and the memories of practitioners who have handled the same system for years. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Lojban and octal inheritance]] may remain visible in technical vocabulary and old interfaces, but the languages, scripts, and degree of comprehension used by current lineages are not settled. A correct-sounding phrase is not evidence that its speaker understands the mechanism. Secrecy protects dangerous access and gives lineages bargaining power. It also creates failure pressure. When one keeper dies, defects, withholds a page, or discovers that inherited doctrine is wrong, an entire community may lose the only legible path through its infrastructure. Copies, rival witnesses, and cross-lineage handoffs make knowledge more durable while weakening monopoly. Priesthoods disagree about which danger is worse. @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Transborder standing depends on negotiated passage. A priesthood offers continui Those terms are never neutral. A host polity may recognize a lineage only while it prioritizes military works. A temple may host a machine as a shrine while disputing the priesthood's interpretation of its sacred purpose. A town may accept foreign specialists but keep control of the water their repaired system produces. A conquering power may demand continuity without accepting inherited debts or local claims. -No transborder reputation creates universal jurisdiction. Host powers retain political authority they actually possess; communities retain claims grounded in dependence and labor; temples retain their rites; and [[Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]] must still be argued for the particular relic or site. +No transborder reputation creates universal jurisdiction. Host powers retain political authority they actually possess; communities retain claims grounded in dependence and labor; temples retain their rites; and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|custody]] must still be argued for the particular relic or site. ## Failure protocol @@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ When a system behaves outside the evidence available to its keepers, the first d Emergency action may require breaking a seal, moving a relic, overriding a custodian, or sacrificing one section to preserve another. Necessity can authorize the immediate act without granting permanent title afterward. If delay itself will kill people, “do nothing” is also an intervention and must be judged against the same dependents. -Exact signals, isolation methods, and restart tests vary by system and remain unresolved. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] may help a practitioner understand a causal system, but no Gift supplies a universal diagnosis, and concentrated intervention can attract the pressures described in [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. +Exact signals, isolation methods, and restart tests vary by system and remain unresolved. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] may help a practitioner understand a causal system, but no Gift supplies a universal diagnosis, and concentrated intervention can attract the pressures described in [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]]. ## The lived bargain For most people, the Techpriesthoods are experienced through interruption and return. A crew arrives; access is cleared; work and worship schedules change; stores are opened; a familiar hum stops; officials argue over priority; then water flows, a bridge moves, a ward holds, or a sealed door remains shut for reasons nobody outside the work party can verify. -The bargain is attractive because working infrastructure is real mercy on [[Foundations/World|Kalsa]]. It can keep a cold settlement warm, make a city district habitable, preserve a harvest, or prevent a ruin from poisoning its neighbors. The same dependence makes priestly opacity expensive. Households wait behind priority lists. Apprentices inherit dangerous obligations. Communities pay for failures they did not cause. A lineage may be loved for keeping people alive and resented because no one else has been allowed to learn how. +The bargain is attractive because working infrastructure is real mercy on [[Spoilers/Foundations/World|Kalsa]]. It can keep a cold settlement warm, make a city district habitable, preserve a harvest, or prevent a ruin from poisoning its neighbors. The same dependence makes priestly opacity expensive. Households wait behind priority lists. Apprentices inherit dangerous obligations. Communities pay for failures they did not cause. A lineage may be loved for keeping people alive and resented because no one else has been allowed to learn how. Resistance takes practical forms: local workers demand access to records, settlements train their own keepers, rulers sponsor rival lineages, families hide reusable parts from collection, and clients refuse fees or service conditions they judge predatory. Some priesthoods answer by widening apprenticeship and copying knowledge. Others tighten secrecy. The current setting does not establish which tendency dominates. @@ -114,6 +114,6 @@ There is no adopted universal dungeon law. Access, salvage, hazard, burial, sacr - The names, doctrines, ranks, routes, and regional bases of particular Techpriesthoods. - Which Crown systems remain active and what materials can still be reproduced. - Whether any lineage has continuous records from the Fall. -- The relationship between Spoker ancestry, present membership, [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Analysis magic]], and technical competence. +- The relationship between Spoker ancestry, present membership, [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Analysis magic]], and technical competence. - Common forms of inter-lineage recognition, appeal, sanction, or neutral witness. - Whether any relic contains an active Posthuman, Promethean process, or other person able to grant or refuse access. diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..026bdac --- /dev/null +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +title: Institutions +status: canonical-reference +source_witness: + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md +tags: + - institutions + - navigation +--- + +# Institutions + +Kalsa's institutions grew around needs that survived the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Fall]]: keeping inherited systems alive, distributing scarce service, making dangerous knowledge transmissible, and deciding who may touch relics on which other lives depend. Their authority is rarely complete. A city authority, temple, town, lineage, guild, household, and god may each hold a different claim over the same structure. Their canonical scope follows [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. + +## Maintenance, ruins, and recovery + +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]] — plural transborder lineages that preserve procedural competence and bargain for the support needed to keep inherited infrastructure working. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] — the bounded claims, records, duties, and handoffs surrounding machines that cannot be treated as ordinary portable wealth. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] — local admission, public-danger, claim, removal, refusal, and appeal procedures at layered sites. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]] — expedition work, rescue, record, cost, breach, and residual-salvage obligations among signatories. + +## Gods, potential, and death + +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] — voluntary, inherited, and coerced routes into reciprocal cult obligation. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]] — material support, estimation, allocation, rationing, and leakage around finite divine capacity. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] — testimony, severance, funerary custody, and succession where persons and divine structures may continue after bodily death. + +## 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/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. + +## Polity institutions + +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] — maintained weather protection, consent, rest, handoff, warning, and failure response. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] is a non-factual `adopted-candidate` awaiting an Intuition-side owner. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] — civil submission, geothermal obligation, funerary memory, welfare, sanctuary, and resistance. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi Households]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] — consent-preserving communal life, mobility, warning, admission, care, recovery, and departure. +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] — distributed land and membership claims, mutual defense, material evidence, risk pools, and restitution without detectable Luck. + +These notes distinguish technical competence, evidence, office, custody, possession, land use, divine standing, personhood, and judgment. Each authority stops at the consequence it can inspect and answer for. Further institutions remain unresolved until the seed or later adopted canon gives them enough pressure to deserve an owner note. diff --git a/Kalsa/Places/Low Sere.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Places/Low Sere.md similarity index 90% rename from Kalsa/Places/Low Sere.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Places/Low Sere.md index 72e4b2e..a6c9639 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Places/Low Sere.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Places/Low Sere.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tags: # Low Sere -Low Sere is a coldward settlement built around the warm discharge of [[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], a buried terraforming work whose surviving filters turn a mineral-laden subsurface flow into usable heat and water. Forty-one occupied household hearths cling to a dry basin below the intake slope. The settlement exists because the relic makes this one hollow less hostile than the plateau around it. +Low Sere is a coldward settlement built around the warm discharge of [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], a buried terraforming work whose surviving filters turn a mineral-laden subsurface flow into usable heat and water. Forty-one occupied household hearths cling to a dry basin below the intake slope. The settlement exists because the relic makes this one hollow less hostile than the plateau around it. Low Sere owns its present life, work, use claims, and local admission to the site. It does not own the intake's safe operation merely because it depends upon the output. @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Sera's custodial household receives guaranteed heat because an exhausted or sick ## Historical consequence: the Grey Scald -[[Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Low Sere retains the settlement consequences: two lower-step households lost workers, three injured people and their dependants need continuing support, the Ash Names gained a mortuary claim below, the basin table inherited an unresolved disciplinary failure, and Sera's household carries a provisional office on which every hearth depends. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] alone owns the adopted event facts. Low Sere retains the settlement consequences: two lower-step households lost workers, three injured people and their dependants need continuing support, the Ash Names gained a mortuary claim below, the basin table inherited an unresolved disciplinary failure, and Sera's household carries a provisional office on which every hearth depends. ## Present crisis @@ -130,4 +130,4 @@ The Cistern House is the only admitted entrance. Old maintenance cracks and hot - Whether the Ash Names' manifestations are Jori and Pell, another thaumavore process, mechanical effects, or several causes. - Compensation and residence after each dungeon outcome. -See [[Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], [[Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]], and [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. +See [[Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md similarity index 82% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md index cffe50b..f41dd85 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The source describes junsenai as dogmatic, insular, physically atrophied, “elf ## The examination state -Prometheus's contests left the Ju'onai with a durable political temptation: treat demonstrated analysis as the right to decide. [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] turn bounded demonstrations into certificates and rank. [[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 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. 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. @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Conquered and client polities may retain local rulers, courts, cults, and work o 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. -The Hegemony's status gods sharpen these contests. A god associated with measurement, cultivated reason, obedience, harvest, or public order can gain power as the relevant office and vocabulary spread. That does not establish that each concept has one necessary divine owner. Clergy, officials, clients, and God Beasts contest the correspondence. [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] owns binding procedure; administrative rank cannot prove a person's upper-dimensional allegiance. +The Hegemony's status gods sharpen these contests. A god associated with measurement, cultivated reason, obedience, harvest, or public order can gain power as the relevant office and vocabulary spread. That does not establish that each concept has one necessary divine owner. Clergy, officials, clients, and God Beasts contest the correspondence. [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] owns binding procedure; administrative rank cannot prove a person's upper-dimensional allegiance. ## Office and public works @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ 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. [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriests]] and [[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 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. ## Tax, allocation, and ordinary petitions @@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ The Hegemony's great blind spot is not lack of intelligence. It is the class pow ## Expansion strands -The Hegemony acquired tributary control over part of the [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|City of Prophets]]. It also annexed the original Channeler Crown City early after the Fall, dispersing communities that later gathered at Saxfoldi. The exact order and current borders remain unresolved. +The Hegemony acquired tributary control over part of the [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|City of Prophets]]. It also annexed the original Channeler Crown City early after the Fall, dispersing communities that later gathered at Saxfoldi. The exact order and current borders remain unresolved. -In the Divided City, Ju'onai assessors must confront forecasts that change when acted upon; [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|forecast law]] refuses to let expertise become verdict. In the Channeler Crown, Sarxe memory preserves the violence hidden by a clean annexation model. The Hegemony may classify both as administratively necessary. Neither client account is required to accept the classification. +In the Divided City, Ju'onai assessors must confront forecasts that change when acted upon; [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|forecast law]] refuses to let expertise become verdict. In the Channeler Crown, Sarxe memory preserves the violence hidden by a clean annexation model. The Hegemony may classify both as administratively necessary. Neither client account is required to accept the classification. ## Historical stress: the Santabi'u Silt Appeal -[[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: 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. 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. @@ -107,4 +107,4 @@ 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 [[Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]], [[Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]], [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|God Beasts]], [[Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]], and [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]]. +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]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md similarity index 87% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md index dfa94fd..9947111 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md +++ b/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 [[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/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. 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. @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ Mobility is now the best-known center of Sarxe political life, not the measure o Channeling, signature 110 and Sequence VI, was developed from Analysis and Sorcery. Prometheus gave its Ring Analysis-like virtual interfaces that resonated only at close range, binding physical conflict to an augmented contest of perception. After generations, inherited Kaos replaced the implants. -A Channeler perceives active energy, momentum, and magical influence as flows and can redirect or contain them. Channelers can predict from local dynamics, turn directed force, and weave barriers that prevent influence from crossing a boundary. They do not thereby read arbitrary thoughts, sense remote or dormant sources, know every person nearby, or share one consciousness. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own those mechanics. Sarxe institutions own the permissions, habits, labor, and conflicts built around proximity. +A Channeler perceives active energy, momentum, and magical influence as flows and can redirect or contain them. Channelers can predict from local dynamics, turn directed force, and weave barriers that prevent influence from crossing a boundary. They do not thereby read arbitrary thoughts, sense remote or dormant sources, know every person nearby, or share one consciousness. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own those mechanics. Sarxe institutions own the permissions, habits, labor, and conflicts built around proximity. -Channeling is a composite style and does not normally found an independent God Beast. Sarxe people can still enter [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|covenants]], join divine hierarchies, reject them, or disagree about the uses of magic. No common Sarxe god or religious settlement has been adopted. +Channeling is a composite style and does not normally found an independent God Beast. Sarxe people can still enter [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|covenants]], join divine hierarchies, reject them, or disagree about the uses of magic. No common Sarxe god or religious settlement has been adopted. ## Bodies, language, and personhood @@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ The seed describes small, thin bodies with large eyes and heads, prominent incis High-bandwidth communal life does not require a hive. In close work, Sarxe Channelers can notice active shifts in movement, tension, attention, magical pressure, and the shared environment quickly enough that coordination may look effortless to an outsider. That sensitivity is partial. A person can misread, mask, refuse, become overwhelmed, lack strong expression, or simply possess information nobody else has. -The seed's claim that Sarxe rely less on voice does not establish a voiceless people or a final language. Present communities may use speech, writing, gesture, touch, spatial arrangement, ritual, magical cueing, interpreters, or other practices in combinations that remain undesigned. A squeak is preserved only as a source-described exclamation, not a language. [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] owns the unresolved linguistic inheritance. +The seed's claim that Sarxe rely less on voice does not establish a voiceless people or a final language. Present communities may use speech, writing, gesture, touch, spatial arrangement, ritual, magical cueing, interpreters, or other practices in combinations that remain undesigned. A squeak is preserved only as a source-described exclamation, not a language. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] owns the unresolved linguistic inheritance. ## Communal life without possession -The [[Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi household]] is the main adopted unit through which close communal awareness becomes food, work, care, shelter, privacy, and decision. A household is a chosen and inherited social body, not a psychic organism. Its members can cooperate intensely while retaining separate bodies, memories, commitments, and rights to stop contact. +The [[Spoilers/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi household]] is the main adopted unit through which close communal awareness becomes food, work, care, shelter, privacy, and decision. A household is a chosen and inherited social body, not a psychic organism. Its members can cooperate intensely while retaining separate bodies, memories, commitments, and rights to stop contact. Privacy is practical rather than impossible. People create distance, quiet compartments, screened sleeping places, separate work intervals, trusted mediators, and explicit limits on touch or magical attention. A communal warning can interrupt privacy for an immediate hazard; it cannot become proof that every inner state belongs to the group. Bodily distress that others notice remains the distressed person's experience, not public property. @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The histories must remain successive. 4. Sarxe memory names the massacre Ji'esti and commemorates it every cycle. The exact calendar, casualties, rite, Soiru'i intention, and metaphysical mechanism remain unresolved. 5. Saxfoldi became mobile, hidden, and continuously relocated so that no fixed center could be exposed in the same way. -[[Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] owns the procedures built around warning, flight, admission, separated people, safe passage, records, recovery, and return. [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] owns Jamnai interpretations of the sacrifice. Neither can make the dead speak with authorial certainty. +[[Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] owns the procedures built around warning, flight, admission, separated people, safe passage, records, recovery, and return. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] owns Jamnai interpretations of the sacrifice. Neither can make the dead speak with authorial certainty. ## Static and mobile fractures @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Displacement placed some Sarxe in work that rewards local sensing, containment, Outsider-facing workers also serve as interpreters, negotiators, guides, escorts, recovery specialists, witnesses, and mediators. Some may prefer wider social distance or move comfortably between communication regimes. Some are selected because a household finds them inconvenient. Some enter dangerous work through debt, exile, loss of route access, captivity, or the need to provision dependents. The old category of solitary “insanity” can therefore hide a labor regime: people marked as socially deviant are made responsible for every contact the center does not want to perform. -Diaspora workers are not empty interfaces. A mediator can refuse to translate a coercive demand. A mercenary contract does not grant access to Saxfoldi. A scavenger who recovers a relic gains possession and a recovery claim, not automatic title or operating competence; see [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] and [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|the Techpriesthoods]]. +Diaspora workers are not empty interfaces. A mediator can refuse to translate a coercive demand. A mercenary contract does not grant access to Saxfoldi. A scavenger who recovers a relic gains possession and a recovery claim, not automatic title or operating competence; see [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|the Techpriesthoods]]. ## Class, expression, and mixed lives diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved.md similarity index 86% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved.md index e1330d6..31f93b8 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved.md @@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ These are source strands, not yet an adopted explanation of how a society works. - Prometheus's evolutionary game and the relation of all three Kaos axes to intuitive experience. - Magic limits, observability, training, cost, and interaction with other styles. - Technology, production, trade, defense, government, class, kinship, and religion. -- The Alliance with [[Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Papsenai]]: authority, exchange, mutual aid, coercion, and exit. +- The Alliance with [[Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Papsenai]]: authority, exchange, mutual aid, coercion, and exit. - Crown City Wonder and post-Fall history. - Whether the early national sketch survives at all after institutional deepening. Any future repair must begin with the polity's material role and an authority map, not a personality adjective. -See [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], and [[Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md similarity index 81% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md index 1f4ab40..470d3bb 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md @@ -21,15 +21,15 @@ tags: 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. -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 [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. A family tradition cannot identify a bearer merely by naming one. +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. ## Place 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. -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. [[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. +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 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 [[Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]], not standing canon. +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. ## Families and distributed government @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Selza'a identity is organized around family territory and the propagation of sel 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. -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 [[Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]]. +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]]. ## Territory and water @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ A person with strong Luck may never know it. A Null keeper may preserve a windtr ## Dimna and seltanzda -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. [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|The cosmology note]] owns what can be asserted about Beasts. +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. 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. @@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ Family rites can align attention, preserve memory, distribute obligations, and c 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. -[[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. +[[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. ## Historical consequence: the Broken Windtrap Settlement -[[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. +[[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. ## Institutional failure and dungeon seams @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ The distributed order fails when territory becomes ownership of people, a family 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. -The story of a bearer who leaves the city remains only in [[Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]]. A dungeon or campaign may adopt it; this polity note does not. +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. ## Unresolved @@ -109,4 +109,4 @@ The story of a bearer who leaves the city remains only in [[Reference/Story Seed - Which disputes have durable review beyond the compact that produced them. - Current relations with Techpriesthoods and other Crown Cities. -See [[Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]], [[Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]], [[Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]], and [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]]. +See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos#Observing Kaos|Observing Kaos]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Null and Control Descendants.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants.md similarity index 82% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Null and Control Descendants.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants.md index 489e8b0..66fe9b3 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Null and Control Descendants.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tags: Prometheus established a Control population when he began his evolutionary games. He withheld the Kaos strains and selected this population for broad competence, physical health, uniformity, and ease of handling. He also used Control lineages in narrower experiments, including biological interfaces later involved in Analysis. -The Control population occupied the eighth Ring but was not confined to it. Prometheus repeatedly deployed indoctrinated Control labor to Kalsa during terraforming. Surface settlements therefore predate the [[Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Fall]], while another Control population descended with the eighth Crown City. +The Control population occupied the eighth Ring but was not confined to it. Prometheus repeatedly deployed indoctrinated Control labor to Kalsa during terraforming. Surface settlements therefore predate the [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall#The Fall|Fall]], while another Control population descended with the eighth Crown City. ## Religion and dispersion @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Surface Controls were conditioned toward purity, reproductive restraint, and enl After the Fall, some control-descended polities imposed order on Ring populations deprived of Promethean direction. Null-descended religions spread into Crown Cities and later competed with the polytheistic powers of Gifted cultures. -Control bloodlines mixed widely with Ring descendants. Present Null people are not all Controls, and present Control descendants are not necessarily Null. [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Null]] names the absence of an expressed Gift, not a race, caste, religion, or political loyalty. +Control bloodlines mixed widely with Ring descendants. Present Null people are not all Controls, and present Control descendants are not necessarily Null. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Null]] names the absence of an expressed Gift, not a race, caste, religion, or political loyalty. ## Adopted boundaries @@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ Control bloodlines mixed widely with Ring descendants. Present Null people are n - How surface Controls related to native ecosystems and later Ark arrivals. - Whether any Control institutions retained technical truth about their original purpose. -See [[Polities/Spokers|Spokers]], [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]], and [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]]. +See [[Spoilers/Polities/Spokers|Spokers]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]], and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md similarity index 85% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md index d6bf3c4..046c582 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md @@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ The Sunwall is both granary and wound. Its sunward works catch the light that fe ## The divided sovereignty -The [[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/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. No participant can cheaply abolish the others. - Ju'onai rule claims precedence through first conquest, tribute, ideological hierarchy, and the administrative competence to classify prophetic service. - Terjamna rule claims standing through successful force, protected submissions, and the capacity to break any arrangement that becomes exclusively Ju'onai. -- The city's tributary authority controls the daily systems neither occupier can replace without destroying the prize: local courts, collection, markets, neighborhood peace, Sunwall allocation, and coordination among [[Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]]. +- The city's tributary authority controls the daily systems neither occupier can replace without destroying the prize: local courts, collection, markets, neighborhood peace, Sunwall allocation, and coordination among [[Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]]. Each empire can compel tribute and strategic cooperation within its reach. Neither owns the whole city, every prophet, or the Sunwall. Full annexation would give one rival exclusive access to prophetic lineages and threaten the other's future before the conqueror could stabilize the farms. Local authorities survive because both empires need an intermediary capable of making grain, light, forecast labor, and ordinary law cross hostile boundaries. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The civic authority owns ordinary continuity rather than ultimate sovereignty. I - **The Civic Allocation Table** schedules public grain, light courts, cargo priority, pressure refuge, and emergency reserves after receiving capacity reports from the Sunwall Stewardship. It allocates output; it does not operate the machinery. - **The Sunwall Stewardship** coordinates the farm galleries, lifts, pressure refuges, maintenance routes, and their trained work crews. Stewards can stop an unsafe configuration and issue operational warnings. They do not own the harvest, the city, or the people who depend on either. - **The Tribute and Service Office** assembles local dues, imperial tribute, and forecast-service quotas already authorized by civic and compact authority. It cannot invent a new house obligation or decide which forecast is true. -- **Ward and sector courts** hear ordinary civic cases. The **City Mixed Bench** hears forecast appeals and cross-claim disputes under the boundaries in [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]]. +- **Ward and sector courts** hear ordinary civic cases. The **City Mixed Bench** hears forecast appeals and cross-claim disputes under the boundaries in [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]]. - **Civic clerks and order officers** preserve public records, serve notice, carry orders, and enforce civic remedies. They do not command either imperial garrison or a house's internal discipline. These are translated functional names rather than settled endonyms. The offices are separate because an allocator who could also conceal capacity, judge objections, and operate the lifts would own the city's dependence without having to admit it. @@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ The civic authority allocates the Sunwall's public outputs. Wall stewards operat Light allocation includes more than leisure. It determines which crops grow, who works at dangerous altitude, which children recover from illness in sun courts, whose ceremonies receive a bright hour, and which roofs remain beneath cultivated shadow. A tan is prestigious because access is organized, not because sunlight is rare in the abstract. -Forecasting cannot solve allocation cleanly. A forecast changes when officials announce it, when a house adjusts its bid, when a garrison threatens seizure, or when frightened residents hoard grain. The city's law therefore treats prophecy as evidence within a decision, never as the decision's owner. See [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]]. +Forecasting cannot solve allocation cleanly. A forecast changes when officials announce it, when a house adjusts its bid, when a garrison threatens seizure, or when frightened residents hoard grain. The city's law therefore treats prophecy as evidence within a decision, never as the decision's owner. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]]. ## Houses and forecast labor Prophetic noble houses preserved strong expression by restricting marriage with the wider control-descended population. The source associates highly expressed house lineages with Analyst-like “elfin” features, large heads, and large eyes. These are old visual descriptions requiring current viewpoint and range, not a complete biological caste. House language of purity is a political lineage claim, not proof of superior personhood. -Houses steward training traditions, lineage records, estates, and negotiated service obligations. They do not own future truth or the personhood of their members. In practice, inheritance, education, residence, debt, marriage approval, and access to imperial protection give them substantial coercive power. [[Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] records both that machinery and the ways people evade it. +Houses steward training traditions, lineage records, estates, and negotiated service obligations. They do not own future truth or the personhood of their members. In practice, inheritance, education, residence, debt, marriage approval, and access to imperial protection give them substantial coercive power. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] records both that machinery and the ways people evade it. Forecast labor is the city's strategic export. Houses supply comparative forecasts for tribute, war, diplomacy, harvest, infrastructure, and litigation. Both empires prefer dependent providers to a free prophetic commons; both also fear that crushing the houses would scatter talent to the rival. Houses exploit that fear, trading service and hosted kin for room to govern themselves. @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Cross-sector work and kinship make the imperial division porous. A resident may Adventurers encounter the city's divided authority at the job boundary. A house can commission recovery of an archive copy but cannot grant entry through an occupied ward. A ward court can authorize evidence recovery but cannot order a Sunwall crew to open an unsafe lift. The Sunwall Stewardship can admit a repair party to a named shaft without granting salvage title. An imperial officer can provide armed passage through its sector without deciding the civic case attached to what the party finds. -Useful work includes carrying a forecast record across a closed sector line, escorting a hosted provider who invokes return, inspecting a lift or pressure refuge under civic order, recovering ration or tenancy records from buried galleries, protecting an appeal witness, or tracing a diverted harvest without accepting either empire's account as the verdict. [[Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon provenance]], [[Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], [[Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]], and the commissioning office retain separate claims. +Useful work includes carrying a forecast record across a closed sector line, escorting a hosted provider who invokes return, inspecting a lift or pressure refuge under civic order, recovering ration or tenancy records from buried galleries, protecting an appeal witness, or tracing a diverted harvest without accepting either empire's account as the verdict. [[Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon provenance]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|ruin law]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|relic custody]], and the commissioning office retain separate claims. Helping one organ changes the city unevenly. Restoring a lift expands food capacity and may strengthen the allocator who controls its schedule. Exposing a concealed forecast can release a defendant while destroying a house contract or an imperial plan. Opening a pressure route can save a lower ward and create a new military crossing. The player-facing choice is rarely whether prophecy is correct; it is which authority may act on incomplete knowledge, who bears the reversible precaution, and what remedy remains when the feared branch never arrives. @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ These accusations are not errors to be smoothed away. They identify where the ma ## Historical stress: the Closed Lift Appeal -[[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] is the factual owner of the event. Its polity consequence was to make the city's divided body harder to collapse: the City Mixed Bench retained civic judgment, imperial parties retained only their scoped claims, and the Sunwall Stewardship retained operational responsibility. The precedent did not abolish occupation or make the civic authority sovereign. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] is the factual owner of the event. Its polity consequence was to make the city's divided body harder to collapse: the City Mixed Bench retained civic judgment, imperial parties retained only their scoped claims, and the Sunwall Stewardship retained operational responsibility. The precedent did not abolish occupation or make the civic authority sovereign. ## Unresolved @@ -115,4 +115,4 @@ These accusations are not errors to be smoothed away. They identify where the ma - Whether hosted house members possess a recognized right of refusal or return. - Which present occupier or successor state owns each old Ju'onai and Terjamna claim. -See [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], [[Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]], [[Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]], [[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]], and [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]]. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]], [[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md similarity index 77% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md index ea84902..10b809b 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md @@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ tags: # Shamanism — Papsenai -The papsenai are hereditary agrarian tribes of the southern gulf. Their best-known city, Ti'asantatca, stands beside a massive storm front and survives through the continuous labor of the [[Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]]. Papsenai shamans can intervene in weather, soil, water, and the future of a crop, but they create neither rain nor food from nothing. Agriculture remains a material practice of seed, land, water, tools, animals, storage, transport, and coordinated labor. +The papsenai are hereditary agrarian tribes of the southern gulf. Their best-known city, Ti'asantatca, stands beside a massive storm front and survives through the continuous labor of the [[Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]]. Papsenai shamans can intervene in weather, soil, water, and the future of a crop, but they create neither rain nor food from nothing. Agriculture remains a material practice of seed, land, water, tools, animals, storage, transport, and coordinated labor. The seed calls the papsenai the world's most profitable agricultural power and places them in an unnamed Alliance. This note adopts the causal core: reliable long-horizon intervention can produce large, valuable surpluses and make neighboring powers depend on papsenai harvests. It does not adopt a functioning Alliance, universal market measure, fixed border, or centralized “agricultural empire.” Much of that surplus is produced and claimed through tribes whose exact land law remains unresolved. ## Inherited history and magical boundary -Shamanism, signature 101 and Sequence III, grew from Sorcery after [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] changed the conquest game. Tribes gained reproductive rights by holding a fixed objective for half a generation. The test selected for defense, planning, endurance, and intervention across a longer horizon as well as for direct violence. +Shamanism, signature 101 and Sequence III, grew from Sorcery after [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] changed the conquest game. Tribes gained reproductive rights by holding a fixed objective for half a generation. The test selected for defense, planning, endurance, and intervention across a longer horizon as well as for direct violence. -A shaman enters a dreamlike trance and bonds with a target's fate. Blessings and curses alter reachable futures; the bond can reveal approaching magical pressure or conflict around the target. Coordinated shamans can steer large systems by exploiting the energy and causal levers already present within them. [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own those mechanics and their limits. Papsenai institutions own who is asked to work, who supplies the work, which target is chosen, and who bears the result. +A shaman enters a dreamlike trance and bonds with a target's fate. Blessings and curses alter reachable futures; the bond can reveal approaching magical pressure or conflict around the target. Coordinated shamans can steer large systems by exploiting the energy and causal levers already present within them. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] own those mechanics and their limits. Papsenai institutions own who is asked to work, who supplies the work, which target is chosen, and who bears the result. The old narrator described papsenai bodies and temperament through the language of breeding stock: very large, bovine-featured, docile, unintelligent, kind, and ferocious in battle. The physique and Promethean selection pressure remain possible inheritances. Intelligence, docility, obedience, and a single cultural temperament are not facts. The papsenai contain landlords and tenants, cautious elders and ambitious delegates, shield workers and deserters, prosperous storekeepers and households one failed field away from flight. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Class and lifecycle change how that risk is lived. Children learn field observat ## Ti'asantatca and the shield burden -Ti'asantatca is the papsenai Crown City beside the southern gulf storm front. Its habitability depends on a continuously maintained barrier. The [[Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] own the labor procedure: training, shifts, rest, refusal, handoff, warnings, and failure response. The city and its tribes own the harder political question of how much risk is acceptable and who must move when the shield weakens. +Ti'asantatca is the papsenai Crown City beside the southern gulf storm front. Its habitability depends on a continuously maintained barrier. The [[Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] own the labor procedure: training, shifts, rest, refusal, handoff, warnings, and failure response. The city and its tribes own the harder political question of how much risk is acceptable and who must move when the shield weakens. The shield makes the city a refuge, exchange point, storehouse, and symbol of papsenai endurance. It also concentrates cost. Active shamans cannot simultaneously tend distant fields, train successors, care for households, or serve another patron. Food, attendants, shelter, and replacement workers flow toward the shield even when outlying districts are hungry. Families of exhausted shamans can gain honor and privileged access while also inheriting grief, disability, and pressure to supply the next worker. @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ No demonstrated magical talent creates an automatic public debt. Tribes may nomi ## The Alliance source promise -The seed places the papsenai centrally in an unnamed Alliance and describes a protective relationship with a technologically oriented [[Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition polity]]. It does not establish the Alliance's present existence, members, founding, offices, or actual obligations. [[Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] is therefore an `adopted-candidate`: a coherent model of the reciprocal bargain the source promises, not setting fact. +The seed places the papsenai centrally in an unnamed Alliance and describes a protective relationship with a technologically oriented [[Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition polity]]. It does not establish the Alliance's present existence, members, founding, offices, or actual obligations. [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] is therefore an `adopted-candidate`: a coherent model of the reciprocal bargain the source promises, not setting fact. If such an arrangement exists, it could reduce the need for every tribe to maintain the same military and technical capacity. The source does not prove the papsenai are naturally unwilling or unable to defend themselves: shield labor, local guards, defended stores, evacuation work, and control of food routes are already forms of protection. Any later adoption must name the actual protector and test whether dependence has become a warrant to set quotas, choose delegates, occupy stores, or command shamans. @@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ The candidate model routes collection through tribal authorities and exposes how ## Gods, relics, and technical visitors -Papsenai shamanism does not imply a universal papsenai cult. Households and tribes may maintain different [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|god-cult covenants]], refuse them, or negotiate protection and welfare without accepting that a cult owns the harvest. Divine assistance routes finite potential and remains vulnerable to competing claims and [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|thaumavore leakage]]. A temple that blesses a store does not thereby acquire the grain. +Papsenai shamanism does not imply a universal papsenai cult. Households and tribes may maintain different [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|god-cult covenants]], refuse them, or negotiate protection and welfare without accepting that a cult owns the harvest. Divine assistance routes finite potential and remains vulnerable to competing claims and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|thaumavore leakage]]. A temple that blesses a store does not thereby acquire the grain. -External patrons or future compacts may bring [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthoods]] or relic-bearing partners to waterworks, storehouses, roads, or the stormshield. Their authority remains specific. Operational custody of a machine is not land title; possession of a relic is not permission to attach it to the shield; sponsorship is not proof that a proposed intervention is safe. [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] governs the separate claims. +External patrons or future compacts may bring [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|Techpriesthoods]] or relic-bearing partners to waterworks, storehouses, roads, or the stormshield. Their authority remains specific. Operational custody of a machine is not land title; possession of a relic is not permission to attach it to the shield; sponsorship is not proof that a proposed intervention is safe. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] governs the separate claims. ## Historical consequence: the shield levy winter -[[Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] owns the adopted wartime episode, its damage, and its settlement. Papsenai political memory owns what later bargains do with it. Tribes and households invoke the case when they demand that subsistence and seed be identified before negotiable surplus, that an emergency collector leave a reviewable receipt, and that shield labor not disappear inside an ordinary campaign levy. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] owns the adopted wartime episode, its damage, and its settlement. Papsenai political memory owns what later bargains do with it. Tribes and households invoke the case when they demand that subsistence and seed be identified before negotiable surplus, that an emergency collector leave a reviewable receipt, and that shield labor not disappear inside an ordinary campaign levy. The memory cuts both ways. External demand did not make every papsenai refusal prudent, and later local elites can invoke the winter to hide a real surplus or protect their own stores first. The durable polity question is therefore evidentiary: which reserve was preserved for whom, what was actually taken, what protection or return was promised, and which households and shield stations absorbed the loss. The event settles none of the Alliance's founding chronology or the identity of the unresolved Intuition protector. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md similarity index 81% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md index 9058580..c85d44e 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tags: Sorcery, signature 100 and Sequence II, was Prometheus's first designed refinement of Luck. He repeatedly divided its Ring into conquest tribes, granted reproduction to victors, exterminated losers, and restarted the conflict among their descendants. The resulting Gift is focused, intermittent, and useful under immediate pressure. -A sorcerer's unconscious perception selects precise interventions in local conflict. When Sorcerer Beasts directly overlap, their potential drains until one submits. Submission routes the defeated power beneath the victor. Sorcery can independently found God Beasts, and its Gods tend to reproduce conquest hierarchies. The mechanics remain owned by [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. Jamnai law interprets them; it does not make every oath a magical fact. +A sorcerer's unconscious perception selects precise interventions in local conflict. When Sorcerer Beasts directly overlap, their potential drains until one submits. Submission routes the defeated power beneath the victor. Sorcery can independently found God Beasts, and its Gods tend to reproduce conquest hierarchies. The mechanics remain owned by [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]], and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections and Gods]]. Jamnai law interprets them; it does not make every oath a magical fact. ## Jamnai @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ The Crown City Jamnai landed far coldward behind destructive storms. Its people, The arcology remains Jamnai's material heart. Geothermal wells and inherited machinery provide heat, power, water circulation, workshops, protected growing space, and habitable shelter in a region that punishes interruption. Its buried service levels are older than the present state and only partly understood. Rank can decide who receives a surplus; it cannot make a damaged valve obey. -The source describes a strict hierarchy based on victory and accumulated submissions. Champions may defend a capable superior; leaders protect subordinates because lateral conquest cuts branches from their own power. [[Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai's submission hierarchy]] turns those relations into offices, obligations, taxation, protection, and succession. It distinguishes magical defeat, civic oath, protected dependency, and external tribute even where rulers benefit from calling all four submission. +The source describes a strict hierarchy based on victory and accumulated submissions. Champions may defend a capable superior; leaders protect subordinates because lateral conquest cuts branches from their own power. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai's submission hierarchy]] turns those relations into offices, obligations, taxation, protection, and succession. It distinguishes magical defeat, civic oath, protected dependency, and external tribute even where rulers benefit from calling all four submission. -Dead warrior residues called **Soiru'i** can be championed by living followers. [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] use that practice to support hierarchy, maintain the dead, feed survivors, shelter refusers, and contest the living officials who claim to speak for every defeated person. What a Soiru'i is remains metaphysically unresolved; sect doctrine is not author proof. +Dead warrior residues called **Soiru'i** can be championed by living followers. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] use that practice to support hierarchy, maintain the dead, feed survivors, shelter refusers, and contest the living officials who claim to speak for every defeated person. What a Soiru'i is remains metaphysically unresolved; sect doctrine is not author proof. Promethean selection and the old narrator characterize terjamna as large, hardy, violent, and unintelligent. It also says core Jamnai preserved these features while conquered populations intermarried with conquerors. Only the engineered physical pressure, conquest history, and existence of post-conquest mixing are retained as source facts. Intelligence, moral character, gendered leadership, and social destiny require in-world attribution and present evidence. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Challenges are dangerous and therefore usually witnessed, bounded, and kept away Jamnai doctrine praises loyalty, but the hierarchy must still distinguish refusal from treachery if it wants functional specialists and living dependents. - A subordinate may claim that an order exceeds the recorded submission or breaks promised protection. -- A heat steward may issue an operational stop when an order crosses a known failure boundary. [[Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns that technical refusal; branch law decides the political consequences. +- A heat steward may issue an operational stop when an order crosses a known failure boundary. [[Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns that technical refusal; branch law decides the political consequences. - A champion may intercede for dependents or carry an appeal upward. - An appeal normally climbs to the nearest common superior, which makes it legible but not independent. - A Soiru'i sect may preserve duplicate testimony, sponsor an appeal, feed a suspended household, or offer sanctuary. @@ -77,21 +77,21 @@ No universal right of exit has been adopted. The possibility of refusal is real; Expansion created populations that owe Jamnai branches goods, passage, military support, or strategic obedience without sharing core Terjamna lineage or doctrine. Local rulers and assemblies may remain in place because tribute is cheaper than direct administration. Some residents enter branch service, intermarry, become champions, or seek Jamnai protection. Others preserve testimony that “submission” began as conquest and remains an imposed tax. -The hierarchy tends to treat a tributary community as a subordinate branch. That is administratively useful and metaphysically suspect. A treaty signed by a defeated ruler does not prove that every inhabitant's Projection entered the victor's God hierarchy. [[Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] and [[Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] preserve the distinction. +The hierarchy tends to treat a tributary community as a subordinate branch. That is administratively useful and metaphysically suspect. A treaty signed by a defeated ruler does not prove that every inhabitant's Projection entered the victor's God hierarchy. [[Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] and [[Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] preserve the distinction. Tributaries provide the regime with trade, agricultural goods, specialist labor, routes, recruits, and buffers against the coldward frontier. They also offer fugitives communities in which Jamnai records have weaker force. The same village can depend on Jamnai defense and shelter people escaping a Jamnai patron. ## Expansion and Channeler conflict -Terjamna forces later broke into Sarxe lands. A Soiru'i sacrifice at static Saxfoldi created the beacon associated with [[Polities/Channeling - Sarxe#The two displacements|Ji'esti]]. This event postdates an earlier Ju'onai displacement of Channeler communities. +Terjamna forces later broke into Sarxe lands. A Soiru'i sacrifice at static Saxfoldi created the beacon associated with [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe#The two displacements|Ji'esti]]. This event postdates an earlier Ju'onai displacement of Channeler communities. Ji'esti is also an institutional scar inside Jamnai. Hierarchical sects remember the sacrifice as proof that a champion can open the way for conquest. Resistance sects remember that one dead warrior's cultivated presence exposed civilians to annihilation. Neither memory settles what the Soiru'i itself intended. -The Terjamna power contesting [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|the Divided City]] uses submission, protection, hosted providers, and tribute beyond Jamnai. Its exact identity and relationship to the current Crown hierarchy remain unresolved. +The Terjamna power contesting [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|the Divided City]] uses submission, protection, hosted providers, and tribute beyond Jamnai. Its exact identity and relationship to the current Crown hierarchy remain unresolved. ## Historical stress: the Ash-Valve Refusal -[[Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the factual event. Its polity consequence is that Jamnai's arcology cannot survive if victory can seize technical authority: a branch must preserve a bounded operational stop even while the hierarchy retains political judgment over refusal. +[[Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the factual event. Its polity consequence is that Jamnai's arcology cannot survive if victory can seize technical authority: a branch must preserve a bounded operational stop even while the hierarchy retains political judgment over refusal. The case also exposes the limit of Jamnai self-correction. Rank corrected a dangerous holder and kept the heat flowing without making tributary residents equal owners of the branch or repairing every consequence imposed on them. @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ Jamnai's arcology makes these failures explorable. Buried heatworks may contain - Formal branch ranks, registrar offices, challenge rules, and gendered access to them. - Exact legal boundary among magical submission, civil oath, protected dependency, captivity, slavery, and tribute. - Arcology layout, geothermal capacity, technical lineages, and present failure margins. -- Identity of the Terjamna power contesting the [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|City of Prophets]]. +- Identity of the Terjamna power contesting the [[Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|City of Prophets]]. - Rights of exit, sanctuary, restoration after wrongful punishment, and external recognition of Jamnai branch records. - Soiru'i personhood, consent, and relation to thaumavores, Chaos Beasts, or God Beasts. -See [[Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]], [[Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]], [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]], and [[Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. +See [[Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]], [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]], and [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Polities/Spokers.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Spokers.md similarity index 87% rename from Kalsa/Polities/Spokers.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Spokers.md index 733bdea..72ce405 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Polities/Spokers.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Spokers.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: Spokers descend from embodied people who lived in the Ark's Spokes after simulated Posthumans withdrew from ordinary life. They remained close to the hub's technical systems and lower-gravity environments, though embodied Ring-dwellers feared moving far upward through the Spokes. -Prometheus excluded Spokers from his sacred evolutionary program, declaring them polluted and unfit to worship or receive enlightenment. They therefore did not receive an engineered Kaos strain. This history makes them generally Null at the Fall but does not make them identical to the [[Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Control population]]. +Prometheus excluded Spokers from his sacred evolutionary program, declaring them polluted and unfit to worship or receive enlightenment. They therefore did not receive an engineered Kaos strain. This history makes them generally Null at the Fall but does not make them identical to the [[Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Control population]]. Spokers helped rebels from the Luck Ring sever the Rings from Prometheus. After the Fall, their technical knowledge let them dominate many Children of Fire and perform feats later remembered as miracles. As manufacture failed and expertise fragmented, relic work acquired religious form and contributed to the rise of transborder Techpriesthoods. @@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ Spokers helped rebels from the Luck Ring sever the Rings from Prometheus. After - Which Techpriesthoods descend from Spoker practice and which arose independently. - Whether the severed Spokes or hub landed as separate dungeon complexes. -See [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]], [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]], and [[Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]]. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]], [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]], and [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md similarity index 98% rename from Kalsa/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md index d7b38ef..8f7adaf 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md @@ -88,4 +88,4 @@ Future notes should separate: A machine explanation does not cancel a divine, legal, or emotional reality experienced by people in the setting. -See [[Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]], [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]], and [[../index|Kalsa]]. +See [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]], [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]], and [[../index|Kalsa]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d595c41 --- /dev/null +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: Foundations Index +status: canonical-reference +source_witness: + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md +tags: + - navigation + - reference +--- + +# Foundations Index + +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/World|World]] +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]] +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]] +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] + +## Control surfaces + +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Glossary|Glossary]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index|Polities and Cultures Index]] diff --git a/Kalsa/Reference/Glossary.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Glossary.md similarity index 89% rename from Kalsa/Reference/Glossary.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Glossary.md index 5b868ad..c1281d6 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Reference/Glossary.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Glossary.md @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ tags: | Term | Current use | |---|---| -| **Analysis** | Signature 010; conscious causal resolution. See [[Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Ju'onai Hegemony]]. | +| **Analysis** | Signature 010; conscious causal resolution. See [[Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - 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 [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores#Chaos Beasts|Chaos Beasts]]. | +| **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. | | **Clarity** | Conscious resolution of causal variables and paths. | | **Control** | Prometheus's deliberately unGifted experimental population; historically distinct from Spokers. | @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ tags: | **Spokers** | Descendants of embodied inhabitants of the Ark's Spokes, excluded from Prometheus's sacred program. | | **Sunwall** | Vast sunward wall and vertical-farm complex in the City of Prophets. | | **thaumavore** | Persisting Projection or Beast carcass that consumes passing magical potential to manifest. | -| **Techpriesthoods** | Plural post-Fall maintenance lineages with bounded operational competence. See [[Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]]. | +| **Techpriesthoods** | Plural post-Fall maintenance lineages with bounded operational competence. See [[Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]]. | | **Ti'asantatca** | Papsenai Crown City beside a storm front; seed gloss “stormshield.” | -See [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] for the limits of seed translations. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] for the limits of seed translations. diff --git a/Kalsa/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md similarity index 54% rename from Kalsa/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md index 725b562..19c5d36 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index.md @@ -22,17 +22,17 @@ These notes are polity owners, not complete national essences. Deepened polities ## Ark and Null lineages -- [[Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Null and Control Descendants]] -- [[Polities/Spokers|Spokers]] +- [[Spoilers/Polities/Null and Control Descendants|Null and Control Descendants]] +- [[Spoilers/Polities/Spokers|Spokers]] ## Seven Gifted strands -- [[Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]] -- [[Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Sorcery — Jamnai and the Terjamna]] -- [[Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Shamanism — Papsenai]] -- [[Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|Analysis — Ju'onai Hegemony]] -- [[Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|Prophecy — The Divided City]] -- [[Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Channeling — Sarxe]] -- [[Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition — Unresolved]] +- [[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/Prophecy - The Divided City|Prophecy — The Divided City]] +- [[Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Channeling — Sarxe]] +- [[Spoilers/Polities/Intuition - Unresolved|Intuition — Unresolved]] -See [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] for signatures and sequence order. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] for signatures and sequence order. diff --git a/Kalsa/Reference/Story Seeds.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds.md similarity index 85% rename from Kalsa/Reference/Story Seeds.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds.md index 06dfd5c..d2fbdad 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Reference/Story Seeds.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The seed proposes an order of magi called the Cabal that seeks to control civili ## The sleeping God's return -The seed proposes that Prometheus seeks to reclaim the Children whose ancestors severed and crashed his Ark. [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] may have survived the Fall, but active return is not current setting fact. +The seed proposes that Prometheus seeks to reclaim the Children whose ancestors severed and crashed his Ark. [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] may have survived the Fall, but active return is not current setting fact. ## Use diff --git a/Kalsa/Reference/Timeline.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Timeline.md similarity index 77% rename from Kalsa/Reference/Timeline.md rename to Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Timeline.md index df9c714..3ed89f6 100644 --- a/Kalsa/Reference/Timeline.md +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Timeline.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Dates and durations are unresolved unless the seed supplies them. This sequence 6. Embodied Posthumans become rare; most Posthumans enter simulation. 7. Fuel failure forces a destination change to Kalsa and a long terraforming program. 8. Mathys infiltrates and overthrows Posthuman control. -9. The final Mathys survivor merges with Ark systems and becomes [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]]. +9. The final Mathys survivor merges with Ark systems and becomes [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]]. ## Exaltation @@ -60,20 +60,20 @@ Dates and durations are unresolved unless the seed supplies them. This sequence These events were established by recorded repair passes rather than found verbatim in the seed. They have factual owner notes but no adopted absolute dates or complete mutual order. -- [[Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] -- [[Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] -- [[Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] -- [[Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] -- [[Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] -- [[Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] -- [[Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] -- [[Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] ## Unresolved - Absolute dates, epoch names, and duration of each stage. - Relative order of the War of the Magi, Ju'onai expansion, Channeler annexation, Ji'esti, and division of the Prophetic City. - The present day, the ages of current institutions, and which present procedures descend continuously from their claimed predecessors. -- Whether the return of Prometheus occurs; it remains a [[Reference/Story Seeds|story seed]]. +- Whether the return of Prometheus occurs; it remains a [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|story seed]]. -See [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]] and [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]]. +See [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]] and [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]]. diff --git a/Kalsa/Spoilers/index.md b/Kalsa/Spoilers/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46bee75 --- /dev/null +++ b/Kalsa/Spoilers/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +title: Kalsa — Author and GM Vault +status: canonical-reference +source_witness: + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md + - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md +tags: + - kalsa + - navigation +--- + +# Kalsa — Author and GM Vault + +> [!warning] Deliberate setting and dungeon spoilers +> This section names the machinery beneath Kalsa, complete historical causes, disputed design state, and GM-facing dungeon answers. Nothing here is secret, but it is meant to be chosen. For the high-fantasy reader path, return to [[../Public/index|Kalsa for Readers]]. + +Kalsa is a high-fantasy world living in the wreckage of an older machine. Its peoples inhabit the twilight continent of a tidally locked planet. Their Crown Cities fell from an Ark; their magic steers possibility; their gods are upper-dimensional powers with appetites, dependents, and histories. + +This vault distinguishes current setting canon from the exported seed, unresolved questions, in-world belief, and story premises. Start with [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. + +## Foundations + +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/World|World]] — the terminator continent, climate, and high-fantasy presentation. +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]] — Logos, the colony Ark, eight Rings, and the Fall. +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] — rebel, ship-mind, breeder, god, and absent sovereign. +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] — causal branch steering and its hard constraints. +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]] — persons, divine hierarchies, ghosts, and magical predation. +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] — the seven Gifts, Null, and the two numbering systems. +- [[Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] — Lojban inheritance, octal design, and unresolved calendars. + +## Reference + +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Foundations Index|Foundations Index]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Polities and Cultures Index|Polities and Cultures Index]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Glossary|Glossary]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]] +- [[Spoilers/Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]] +- [[Spoilers/Events/index|Events]] — adopted histories with explicit repair-pass provenance. + +## Institutions + +- [[Spoilers/Institutions/index|Institutions]] — maintenance, divine economies, courts, language, polities, and the boundaries between their authorities. +- [[Spoilers/Dungeons/index|Dungeons]] — layered site provenance, admission, delving compacts, and residual salvage. + +## Present repair boundary + +The seed establishes a powerful deep structure but not yet a settled present-day era or complete map. Current institution and dungeon notes adopt bounded procedures where the evidence and setting direction support them; their `## Unresolved` sections remain load-bearing. The vault does not fill open ground with generic fantasy furniture merely to make the shelves look occupied. diff --git a/Kalsa/index.md b/Kalsa/index.md index 0b9aa3b..2b4a3de 100644 --- a/Kalsa/index.md +++ b/Kalsa/index.md @@ -1,48 +1,24 @@ --- -title: Kalsa +title: Kalsa Vault status: canonical-reference -source_witness: - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md - - page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md +audience: public +owns: navigation-only tags: - - kalsa - navigation + - public --- # Kalsa -> [!warning] Deliberate setting and dungeon spoilers -> This is the author-vault entrance. It names the machinery beneath Kalsa, complete historical causes, disputed design state, and GM-facing dungeon answers. Nothing here is secret, but it is meant to be chosen. For the high-fantasy reader path, begin with [[Public/index|Kalsa for Readers]]. +This vault has a reader path and a deliberately separated spoiler section. -Kalsa is a high-fantasy world living in the wreckage of an older machine. Its peoples inhabit the twilight continent of a tidally locked planet. Their Crown Cities fell from an Ark; their magic steers possibility; their gods are upper-dimensional powers with appetites, dependents, and histories. +Begin with [[Public/index|Kalsa for Readers]]. It presents the setting as people +within it encounter it and does not expose author mechanics or GM answers. -This vault distinguishes current setting canon from the exported seed, unresolved questions, in-world belief, and story premises. Start with [[Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]]. +> [!warning] Spoiler section +> Everything under `Spoilers/` contains author truth, deep historical causes, +> unresolved design state, and GM-facing material. The repository is open, but +> entering that section is an explicit choice. -## Foundations - -- [[Foundations/World|World]] — the terminator continent, climate, and high-fantasy presentation. -- [[Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]] — Logos, the colony Ark, eight Rings, and the Fall. -- [[Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]] — rebel, ship-mind, breeder, god, and absent sovereign. -- [[Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] — causal branch steering and its hard constraints. -- [[Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]] — persons, divine hierarchies, ghosts, and magical predation. -- [[Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] — the seven Gifts, Null, and the two numbering systems. -- [[Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] — Lojban inheritance, octal design, and unresolved calendars. - -## Reference - -- [[Reference/Foundations Index|Foundations Index]] -- [[Reference/Polities and Cultures Index|Polities and Cultures Index]] -- [[Reference/Glossary|Glossary]] -- [[Reference/Timeline|Timeline]] -- [[Reference/Canon and Provenance|Canon and Provenance]] -- [[Reference/Story Seeds|Story Seeds]] -- [[Events/index|Events]] — adopted histories with explicit repair-pass provenance. - -## Institutions - -- [[Institutions/index|Institutions]] — maintenance, divine economies, courts, language, polities, and the boundaries between their authorities. -- [[Dungeons/index|Dungeons]] — layered site provenance, admission, delving compacts, and residual salvage. - -## Present repair boundary - -The seed establishes a powerful deep structure but not yet a settled present-day era or complete map. Current institution and dungeon notes adopt bounded procedures where the evidence and setting direction support them; their `## Unresolved` sections remain load-bearing. The vault does not fill open ground with generic fantasy furniture merely to make the shelves look occupied. +When you want the complete machinery, continue to +[[Spoilers/index|Author and GM Vault]]. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 300209a..f865d69 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,17 +4,23 @@ Kalsa is a high-fantasy setting for Ghostlight Dungeon: gods, prophets, shamans, This repository is the complete open author vault. It contains setting-level and dungeon spoilers in plain text. They are not secret, but they are not the intended first encounter either. The public reader surface is deliberately smaller so that people can choose when to inspect the machine. +Open `Kalsa/`—not the repository root—as the Obsidian vault. Its file explorer +shows the reader section and one explicitly named spoiler section. + ## Start here - Readers and players: begin with [`Kalsa/Public/index.md`](Kalsa/Public/index.md). The [Quartz site](https://gamecult.github.io/Kalsa/) publishes only this spoiler-safe surface. -- Deliberate spoiler readers and writers: continue through [`Kalsa/index.md`](Kalsa/index.md), which warns before opening author truth and GM material. -- Writers: read [`workshop/Direction and Constraints.md`](workshop/Direction%20and%20Constraints.md), then the canon/provenance guide under `Kalsa/Reference/`. +- Vault explorers: [`Kalsa/index.md`](Kalsa/index.md) is a navigation-only gate between the reader path and the warned spoiler section. +- Deliberate spoiler readers and writers: continue through [`Kalsa/Spoilers/index.md`](Kalsa/Spoilers/index.md). +- Writers: read [`workshop/Direction and Constraints.md`](workshop/Direction%20and%20Constraints.md), then [`Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md`](Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon%20and%20Provenance.md). - Maintainers: the iterative repair system lives under `workshop/deepening/`; site-specific Quartz configuration lives under `site/`. ## Authority map - `Kalsa/Public/`: spoiler-safe common knowledge and situated sources; the only Quartz content root -- `Kalsa/` outside `Public/`: open author canon and GM material; repository/Obsidian access only +- `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 - `seed/original/`: immutable source witnesses - `seed/manifest.md`: source hashes and witness map - `workshop/`: critique, proposals, contradictions, and repair evidence; never automatic canon diff --git a/scripts/lore/check-publication-boundary.ps1 b/scripts/lore/check-publication-boundary.ps1 index 77d4f82..faa7abe 100644 --- a/scripts/lore/check-publication-boundary.ps1 +++ b/scripts/lore/check-publication-boundary.ps1 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ if (-not $contentFull.StartsWith($repoFull + [System.IO.Path]::DirectorySeparato } $errors = @() -$reserved = @('seed', 'workshop', '.epiphany', '.voidbot', 'site', '.github', 'scripts', 'quartz-site', '.quartz-build') +$reserved = @('seed', 'workshop', 'spoilers', '.epiphany', '.voidbot', 'site', '.github', 'scripts', 'quartz-site', '.quartz-build') foreach ($directory in Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $contentFull -Recurse -Directory -Force) { if ($directory.Name.ToLowerInvariant() -in $reserved) { $errors += "reserved project directory nested in publication root: $($directory.FullName)" diff --git a/scripts/lore/check-vault-layout.ps1 b/scripts/lore/check-vault-layout.ps1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb8e2c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/lore/check-vault-layout.ps1 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +param( + [string]$VaultRoot +) + +$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" + +$repoRoot = Split-Path -Parent (Split-Path -Parent $PSScriptRoot) +if (-not $VaultRoot) { + $VaultRoot = Join-Path $repoRoot "Kalsa" +} +$vaultFull = [System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath($VaultRoot).TrimEnd('\', '/') +if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $vaultFull -PathType Container)) { + throw "Kalsa vault root not found: $vaultFull" +} + +$errors = @() +$allowedDirectories = @('Public', 'Spoilers', '.obsidian') +$allowedFiles = @('index.md') +foreach ($item in Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $vaultFull -Force) { + if ($item.PSIsContainer) { + if ($item.Name -notin $allowedDirectories) { + $errors += "unexpected top-level directory: $($item.Name)" + } + } + elseif ($item.Name -notin $allowedFiles) { + $errors += "unexpected top-level file: $($item.Name)" + } +} + +$readerIndex = Join-Path $vaultFull 'Public\index.md' +$spoilerIndex = Join-Path $vaultFull 'Spoilers\index.md' +$rootIndex = Join-Path $vaultFull 'index.md' +foreach ($path in @($readerIndex, $spoilerIndex, $rootIndex)) { + if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $path -PathType Leaf)) { + $errors += "required vault entrance missing: $path" + } +} + +if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $rootIndex -PathType Leaf) { + $rootText = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath $rootIndex -Encoding utf8 + if ($rootText -notmatch '\[\[Public/index(?:\||\]\])') { + $errors += "root index does not lead to Public/index" + } + if ($rootText -notmatch '\[\[Spoilers/index(?:\||\]\])') { + $errors += "root index does not mark a deliberate Spoilers/index path" + } +} + +$obsidianRoot = Join-Path $vaultFull '.obsidian' +foreach ($sessionName in @('workspace.json', 'workspace-mobile.json', 'workspaces.json')) { + $sessionPath = Join-Path $obsidianRoot $sessionName + if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $sessionPath -PathType Leaf) { + $sessionText = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath $sessionPath -Encoding utf8 + if ($sessionText -match '(?i)Spoilers[/\\]') { + $errors += "Obsidian session state bypasses the spoiler gate: .obsidian/$sessionName" + } + } +} + +foreach ($note in Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $vaultFull -Recurse -File -Filter '*.md') { + $relative = $note.FullName.Substring($vaultFull.Length).TrimStart('\', '/') -replace '\\', '/' + if ($relative -ne 'index.md' -and + -not $relative.StartsWith('Public/', [System.StringComparison]::OrdinalIgnoreCase) -and + -not $relative.StartsWith('Spoilers/', [System.StringComparison]::OrdinalIgnoreCase)) { + $errors += "Markdown outside the reader or spoiler sections: $relative" + } +} + +if ($errors.Count -gt 0) { + throw "Vault-layout verification failed:`n- $($errors -join "`n- ")" +} + +Write-Output "Vault layout passed: casual exploration is limited to Public, Spoilers, and the navigation-only root index." diff --git a/scripts/lore/measure-depth.ps1 b/scripts/lore/measure-depth.ps1 index ecf78c0..3e9edcd 100644 --- a/scripts/lore/measure-depth.ps1 +++ b/scripts/lore/measure-depth.ps1 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" $repoRoot = Split-Path -Parent (Split-Path -Parent $PSScriptRoot) if (-not $ContentRoot) { - $ContentRoot = Join-Path $repoRoot "Kalsa" + $ContentRoot = Join-Path $repoRoot "Kalsa\Spoilers" } function Measure-Branch { diff --git a/scripts/lore/test-lore-tools.ps1 b/scripts/lore/test-lore-tools.ps1 index c62f45c..c84803a 100644 --- a/scripts/lore/test-lore-tools.ps1 +++ b/scripts/lore/test-lore-tools.ps1 @@ -45,6 +45,44 @@ try { } Remove-Item -LiteralPath $staleOutput -Force + $vault = Join-Path $fixtureFull "KalsaVault" + $vaultPublic = Join-Path $vault "Public" + $vaultSpoilers = Join-Path $vault "Spoilers" + New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $vaultPublic, $vaultSpoilers -Force | Out-Null + Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $vault "index.md") -Encoding utf8 -Value "# Vault`n`n[[Public/index|Readers]]`n`n[[Spoilers/index|Spoilers]]" + Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $vaultPublic "index.md") -Encoding utf8 -Value "# Readers" + Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $vaultSpoilers "index.md") -Encoding utf8 -Value "# Spoilers" + & (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "check-vault-layout.ps1") -VaultRoot $vault + + $exposed = Join-Path $vault "Foundations" + New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $exposed | Out-Null + Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $exposed "Hidden.md") -Encoding utf8 -Value "# Hidden" + $caughtExposedDirectory = $false + try { + & (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "check-vault-layout.ps1") -VaultRoot $vault | Out-Null + } + catch { + $caughtExposedDirectory = $true + } + if (-not $caughtExposedDirectory) { + throw "Vault-layout checker failed to reject an exposed author directory" + } + Remove-Item -LiteralPath $exposed -Recurse -Force + + $vaultObsidian = Join-Path $vault ".obsidian" + New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $vaultObsidian | Out-Null + Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $vaultObsidian "workspace.json") -Encoding utf8 -Value '{"main":{"file":"Spoilers/Foundations/Hidden.md"}}' + $caughtSpoilerSession = $false + try { + & (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "check-vault-layout.ps1") -VaultRoot $vault | Out-Null + } + catch { + $caughtSpoilerSession = $true + } + if (-not $caughtSpoilerSession) { + throw "Vault-layout checker failed to reject spoiler-bound Obsidian session state" + } + $broken = Join-Path $content "Broken.md" Set-Content -LiteralPath $broken -Encoding utf8 -Value "# Broken`n`nSee [[No Such Note]]." $caughtBrokenLink = $false @@ -89,7 +127,7 @@ try { } Remove-Item -LiteralPath $brokenEscape -Force - $forbidden = Join-Path $content "workshop" + $forbidden = Join-Path $content "Spoilers" New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $forbidden | Out-Null $caughtBoundary = $false try { @@ -99,10 +137,10 @@ try { $caughtBoundary = $true } if (-not $caughtBoundary) { - throw "Publication checker failed to reject a nested workshop directory" + throw "Publication checker failed to reject a nested spoiler directory" } - Write-Output "Lore tool tests passed, including broken-link, broken-anchor, escaped-link, stale-output, and publication-boundary negative checks." + Write-Output "Lore tool tests passed, including broken-link, broken-anchor, escaped-link, stale-output, exposed-vault-directory, spoiler-session, and publication-boundary negative checks." } finally { $resolvedFixture = [System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath($fixtureFull) diff --git a/workshop/Direction and Constraints.md b/workshop/Direction and Constraints.md index 461ef3e..0b03299 100644 --- a/workshop/Direction and Constraints.md +++ b/workshop/Direction and Constraints.md @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ Mystery therefore depends on **epistemic distance**, not an exposition embargo. The deep setting is not proprietary secret material. The repository remains open and determined readers may inspect the complete author machinery. The required boundary is informed friction: - the default Quartz path contains only spoiler-safe, situated material; +- the Obsidian vault root presents a reader-first index plus one explicitly + named `Spoilers/` section rather than exposing author domains beside Public; - repository and author-vault entrances warn before linking into author truth or GM dossiers; - deep material is labelled as deliberate opt-in reading rather than hidden behind false access control; - search, sitemap, RSS, backlinks, and navigation on the reader site must not surface author-only material accidentally; diff --git a/workshop/Knowledge and Spoiler Architecture.md b/workshop/Knowledge and Spoiler Architecture.md index c76f469..92aefb2 100644 --- a/workshop/Knowledge and Spoiler Architecture.md +++ b/workshop/Knowledge and Spoiler Architecture.md @@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ This map keeps author truth, reader access, character knowledge, and adjudicatio ## Owner map -- **Owner:** subject notes outside `Kalsa/Public/` retain author-canon and GM-dossier authority within their stated subjects. Notes under `Kalsa/Public/` own only their reader-facing presentation or in-world source text. Ghostlight owns runtime projection and adjudication. +- **Owner:** subject notes under `Kalsa/Spoilers/` retain author-canon and GM-dossier authority within their stated subjects. Notes under `Kalsa/Public/` own only their reader-facing presentation or in-world source text. `Kalsa/index.md` owns navigation only. Ghostlight owns runtime projection and adjudication. - **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. - **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 no longer consumes all of `Kalsa/`. `Kalsa/Public/` is the only deployment input. Everything else requires deliberate repository or author-vault navigation. +- **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. ## Knowledge classes @@ -41,11 +41,13 @@ A claim can move between access classes only through an owned event: teaching, p | Surface | Role | Publication | | --- | --- | --- | +| `Kalsa/index.md` | Navigation-only consent gate. | Vault entry, never Quartz truth | | `Kalsa/Public/` | Spoiler-safe high-fantasy entrance and canonical situated sources. | Default Quartz input | -| `Kalsa/Foundations/` | Author-facing ontology, deep history, taxonomy, and constraints. | Repository/author vault only | -| `Kalsa/Institutions/`, `Polities/`, `Places/`, `Events/` | Canon owners; currently mix common, learned, restricted, and author-level statements. | Repository/author vault only until projected | -| `Kalsa/Dungeons/` | Site provenance and GM-ready play dossiers, including campaign-current answers. | Repository/author vault only | -| `Kalsa/Reference/` | Author navigation, provenance policy, and design-state reference. | Repository/author vault only | +| `Kalsa/Spoilers/index.md` | Warned author/GM entrance and navigation. | Deliberate repository access only | +| `Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/` | Author-facing ontology, deep history, taxonomy, and constraints. | Repository/author vault only | +| `Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/`, `Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/`, `Kalsa/Spoilers/Places/`, `Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/` | Canon owners; currently mix common, learned, restricted, and author-level statements. | Repository/author vault only until projected | +| `Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/` | Site provenance and GM-ready play dossiers, including campaign-current answers. | Repository/author vault only | +| `Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/` | Author navigation, provenance policy, and design-state reference. | Repository/author vault only | | `workshop/` | Design reasoning, critique, queues, and pass evidence. | Never lore publication | The source stays open. The friction is physical, named, and default-deny at the publication entrypoint; it is not pretend secrecy. @@ -76,6 +78,9 @@ This repository establishes the content boundary only. It does not claim that Gh ## Negative checks - A fresh reader can navigate and search the Quartz site without seeing the buried-world origin, formal magic taxonomy, divine mechanism, or dungeon answer key. +- A casual Obsidian explorer sees no author domain until deliberately opening `Spoilers/`. +- A fresh or shared Obsidian session cannot reopen a spoiler note or enumerate + spoiler recents before the root consent gate; local session state is ignored. - Generated search, sitemap, RSS, and HTML routes match the current `Kalsa/Public/` source exactly; stale pages from an older, broader build are a failed publication. - A deliberate repository reader sees a warning before entering author/GM surfaces and remains free to continue. - A god's testimony can be powerful evidence without becoming author truth. diff --git a/workshop/deepening/body-map.md b/workshop/deepening/body-map.md index 7ef6f32..d8768ec 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/body-map.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/body-map.md @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ --- title: Kalsa Canonical Body Map status: working-map -snapshot_at: 2026-08-22T16:34:57Z -scope: deepening-waves-1-through-16-plus-kalsa-026-publication +snapshot_at: 2026-08-22T17:26:42Z +scope: deepening-waves-1-through-16-plus-kalsa-026-and-kalsa-029-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 and publication authority through KALSA-026. 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, and vault-level spoiler enclosure through KALSA-029. Waves 11–16 are repair overlays on existing subject owners, not new parallel authorities. ## Canonical substrate -- **Owner:** `Kalsa/Foundations/` owns world, Ark/Fall, Prometheus, Kaos, Projection/God/thaumavore metaphysics, Gift taxonomy, and language/reckoning inheritance; `Kalsa/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md` owns canon-state vocabulary. +- **Owner:** `Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/` owns world, Ark/Fall, Prometheus, Kaos, Projection/God/thaumavore metaphysics, Gift taxonomy, and language/reckoning inheritance; `Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md` owns canon-state vocabulary. - **Inputs:** immutable seed witnesses, adopted corrections, adopted event facts, candidate design pressure, and explicit operator decisions. - **Outputs:** physical, historical, magical, linguistic, and provenance constraints consumed by polities, places, institutions, events, and dungeons. - **Derived/display-only state:** glossaries, timelines, taxonomies, links, and summaries expose the substrate; they do not override the subject owner. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ This is an operational map of the live authoring machine, not lore and not a rep ### 1. Technical continuity and relic custody -- **Owner:** `Kalsa/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md` owns plural training and maintenance lineages; `Kalsa/Institutions/Relic Custody.md` owns named possession, access, operational custody, dependency, claim, appointment, discipline/removal, appeal, and handoff distinctions. +- **Owner:** `Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods.md` owns plural training and maintenance lineages; `Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody.md` owns named possession, access, operational custody, dependency, claim, appointment, discipline/removal, appeal, and handoff distinctions. - **Inputs:** inherited systems, partial procedures, workers' observations, material support, host permission, hazards, dependents, and competing site/recovery/sacred claims. - **Outputs:** scoped competence, maintenance work, stop/restart decisions, records, warnings, trained successors, bounded appointments, support, custody grants, reviews, removals, and handoffs. - **Derived/display-only state:** lineage reputation, ordination, condition labels, priority, and custody summaries report evidence; none is title or universal competence. @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ These overlays record changed authority and shared paths. They are audit views o ## Event-owner layer -- **Owner:** each `status: adopted-history` note in `Kalsa/Events/` alone owns its named factual sequence and outcome; `Kalsa/Events/index.md` owns navigation and the layer's explanatory boundary. +- **Owner:** each `status: adopted-history` note in `Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/` alone owns its named factual sequence and outcome; `Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/index.md` owns navigation and the layer's explanatory boundary. - **Inputs:** reconciled prior canon, explicit adoption through `adopted_in`, source witnesses where available, and bounded unknowns. - **Outputs:** linkable historical fact consumed by polity, institution, place, and dungeon owners as pressure and consequence. - **Derived/display-only state:** index summaries, timelines, translated event names, and consequence retellings are projections; they cannot change sequence or outcome. @@ -245,26 +245,27 @@ These overlays record changed authority and shared paths. They are audit views o ## Repository and projection boundaries -### Publication authority — KALSA-026 +### Publication and vault-navigation authority — KALSA-026 and KALSA-029 -- **Owner:** complete subject notes under `Kalsa/` own open author canon; situated notes under `Kalsa/Public/` own reader presentation; 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 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. - **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; 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:** 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:** 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:** complete-vault links and seed hashes; public-only link containment; 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. +- **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. +- **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. | Surface | Owner and role | Allowed flow | Forbidden authority | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `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/` | Complete open author vault; subject notes own setting truth, while reference/index notes own navigation and provenance vocabulary. | Receives reviewed repair; feeds Obsidian, author inspection, bounded public authoring, and future reviewed compiler inputs. | Vault membership does not imply reader or character knowledge; workshop, projections, generated output, and indexes cannot override subject owners. | +| `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/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/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. | -| `Kalsa/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md` | Canonical direct-entry dungeon owner for its threshold, route, clock, hazards, objectives, collisions, and local outcomes. | Consumes settlement admission and compacts; returns recovery/change evidence to settlement and custody owners. | Cannot grant title, universalize salvage law, or decide Ghostlight runtime truth. | -| `.obsidian/` | Human authoring configuration for the repository vault. | Displays and edits `Kalsa/` and noncanonical project surfaces according to the operator's workspace. | Editor state, graph state, and plugins do not grant canon or publication authority. | +| `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. | +| `Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md` | Canonical direct-entry dungeon owner for its threshold, route, clock, hazards, objectives, collisions, and local outcomes. | Consumes settlement admission and compacts; returns recovery/change evidence to settlement and custody owners. | Cannot grant title, universalize salvage law, or decide Ghostlight runtime truth. | +| `Kalsa/.obsidian/` | Stable configuration for the sole canonical Obsidian vault root; workspace, graph, recents, and cache remain ignored derived state. | Opens `Kalsa/` with automatic link maintenance and the standard authoring tools while current neutral session state points at `index.md`. | Session state cannot be shared as authority or resume inside `Spoilers/` before consent; editor state and plugins grant no canon authority. | | `workshop/Direction and Constraints.md` | Project charter and governing editorial doctrine. | Constrains selection, provenance, depth, and public/private decisions. | Does not contain setting facts merely because a design direction is persuasive. | | `workshop/deepening/` | Critique/repair contract, benchmark, queue, pass evidence, ledger, and this map. | Reads seed/canon; records reasoning and verification; proposes bounded owner repair. | Never published as lore and never used as a parallel canon. | | `.epiphany/project-memory.md` | Human-inspectable durable judgment and open design pressure. | Receives only lessons that should steer future passes. | Cannot store raw lore, task chatter, or decide canon. | @@ -272,7 +273,7 @@ These overlays record changed authority and shared paths. They are audit views o | `site/` | Kalsa-specific Quartz presentation overlay. | Combines only `Kalsa/Public/` with the shared `GameCult-Quartz` runtime. | Presentation cannot decide canon, admit the rest of `Kalsa/`, or widen the reader surface. | | `scripts/quartz/quartz.ps1` + deploy workflow | Build/deployment entrypoints; bind `contentDir` to `Kalsa/Public`, overlay to `site`, and output to `quartz-site/public`. | Replace the local output before each build and produce the same situated-reader projection locally and in GitHub Pages workflow. | Build configuration cannot rewrite source, retain stale author pages, fall back to complete `Kalsa/`, or broaden publication eligibility silently. | | `.quartz-build/` + `quartz-site/public/` | Generated build state and reader projection. | Replaced from `Kalsa/Public/`, then inspected for navigation, search, feed, and rendered leakage. | Never edit directly; old pages cannot survive a narrower input; rendered success is evidence, not canon or reader-source authority. | -| `scripts/lore/` | Read-only integrity, link, boundary, generated-route, and structural diagnostics plus tool tests. | Observe seed, canon, source/output projection boundaries, and depth pressure. | Metrics and passing checks cannot award depth or setting truth. | +| `scripts/lore/` | Read-only integrity, vault-layout, link, publication-boundary, generated-route, and structural diagnostics plus tool tests. | Observe seed, canon, vault enclosure, source/output projection boundaries, and depth pressure. | Metrics and passing checks cannot award depth or setting truth. | | Ghostlight runtime | Future owner of bounded character-context and adjudicator projections; implementation remains external to Kalsa. | Consumes reviewed author/public inputs plus character and campaign state, then returns receipts for explicit reveal or canon review. | Cannot use unrestricted author-vault retrieval as character knowledge, make resolver output author truth, or let Kalsa workshop prose impersonate its runtime contract. | ## Deepening loop and shared commit path @@ -292,5 +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. 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. Ghostlight compiler schemas, campaign-package ownership, 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. diff --git a/workshop/deepening/ledger.md b/workshop/deepening/ledger.md index e2596b7..44724ee 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/ledger.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/ledger.md @@ -41,10 +41,20 @@ promoted or retired. - **Scope:** [[passes/KALSA-026-knowledge-and-spoiler-architecture|KALSA-026]], covering the full embedded share transcript, reader epistemics, open-source spoiler friction, divine uncertainty, and Quartz publication authority. - **Correction:** the initial direction pass followed the rendered conversation branch and falsely described that partial read as mining the discussion. The corrective pass decoded the embedded `linear_conversation`: 535 conversation nodes containing 94 operator turns. - **Recovered direction:** familiar high fantasy must work at the surface; technical causes and taxonomy remain reconstructible beneath myth and debris; gods have bounded knowledge and perform certainty; source openness is non-negotiable; ordinary delivery uses informed opt-in spoiler friction; character Personas receive situated knowledge while the adjudicator receives typed affordances. -- **Authority cut:** the complete `Kalsa/` tree remains the open author vault. Only `Kalsa/Public/` feeds Quartz. Author truth, situated reader prose, character projection, and adjudication are separate owners rather than one retrieval pool. +- **Authority cut:** the complete author tree remains open while only `Kalsa/Public/` feeds Quartz. Author truth, situated reader prose, character projection, and adjudication are separate owners rather than one retrieval pool. KALSA-029 later added the missing vault-level enclosure. - **Canonical lore changed:** the divine-mechanism owner now makes divine testimony explicitly bounded and contestable. Reader notes add no new hidden causes or answer keys. - **Provenance repair:** language-history and Promethean-culture details proposed by the earlier assistant are identified as adopted editorial synthesis or candidate elaboration rather than quoted operator law. - **Verification:** nine seed witnesses; 524 complete-vault links; 28 public links constrained to eight reader notes; production Quartz build; exact eight-route search, sitemap, RSS, and HTML comparison; stale-output and escaped-link negative tests; rendered home, magic, Low Sere, and search inspection. Searching `Prometheus` returned no result. - **Soul verdict:** pass. The reader source and generated surfaces contain no author taxonomy, Ring/Posthuman origin, campaign answer key, old whole-vault routes, or links beyond the reader projection. Familiar high fantasy, divine uncertainty, opt-in openness, consumer boundaries, and provenance labels remain coherent. - **Durable judgment promoted:** open source requires informed spoiler friction rather than false secrecy; author truth, reader lore, character knowledge, and adjudicator affordances require separate owners; divine testimony remains evidence; persistent play requires explicit canon adoption. - **Open pressure:** KALSA-027 Ghostlight compiler schemas and campaign-package ownership, KALSA-028 magic-forward surface play, present chronology, and the final custom-domain binding. + +## 2026-08-22 — Vault spoiler enclosure + +- **Scope:** [[passes/KALSA-029-vault-spoiler-enclosure|KALSA-029]], covering casual Obsidian file exploration and saved session state. +- **Failure:** KALSA-026 made Quartz safe but left Foundations, Dungeons, Events, Institutions, Places, Polities, and Reference visible beside Public. After the physical move, the first Soul pass also found `Kalsa/.obsidian/workspace.json` reopening a spoiler foundation note and enumerating hidden recents. +- **Authority cut:** `Kalsa/` is the sole canonical Obsidian vault root and its index owns navigation only. All 58 author/GM notes live under `Kalsa/Spoilers/`; eight reader notes remain under `Kalsa/Public/`. The old repository-root Obsidian configuration is retired. +- **Session repair:** stable configuration lives under `Kalsa/.obsidian/`; workspace, mobile workspace, named workspace, graph, and cache state are ignored at any depth. The current local workspace opens `index.md`, binds its context panes there, and lists only reader-safe recent paths. +- **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. diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-007-techpriest-custody.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-007-techpriest-custody.md index 14a8ff1..9a76020 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-007-techpriest-custody.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-007-techpriest-custody.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-007 status: complete target: techpriesthoods and relic custody -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Institutions +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Turn seed references to priestly maintenance into institutions that can keep inh ## Source inventory - `seed/original/page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md` establishes surviving technical machinery, incomplete knowledge, priesthoods, and Promethean language inheritance. -- [[Kalsa/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]], [[Kalsa/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]], and [[Kalsa/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] own the inherited substrate. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Ark and Fall|Ark and Fall]], [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Prometheus|Prometheus]], and [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] own the inherited substrate. - The seed does not establish a single order, central hierarchy, universal tribunal, or continent-wide law. ## Authority map before repair @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Turn seed references to priestly maintenance into institutions that can keep inh ## Critique and repair -The generic guild default hid who feeds specialists, who may refuse them, and what happens when a competent lineage splits. [[Kalsa/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]] now owns plural training and maintenance lineages; [[Kalsa/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns possession, access, configuration, and handoff distinctions. Site authority, recovery labour, sacred claims, community dependency, title, and operational custody remain separable. +The generic guild default hid who feeds specialists, who may refuse them, and what happens when a competent lineage splits. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Techpriesthoods|The Techpriesthoods]] now owns plural training and maintenance lineages; [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic Custody|Relic Custody]] owns possession, access, configuration, and handoff distinctions. Site authority, recovery labour, sacred claims, community dependency, title, and operational custody remain separable. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-008-god-cult-economy.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-008-god-cult-economy.md index f88f716..33905bb 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-008-god-cult-economy.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-008-god-cult-economy.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-008 status: complete target: god-cult covenants, potential economy, and death law -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Institutions +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Make worship, finite potential, welfare, binding, death, and succession produce ## Source inventory - `seed/original/page-2026-08-20-10-39-03.md` and `page-2026-08-20-10-39-12.md` establish God Beasts, worship, binding, potential, and magical predation. -- [[Kalsa/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]] owns the metaphysics. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores|Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores]] owns the metaphysics. - The seed distinguishes relationships of worship and submission but does not supply a universal church or single divine law. ## Authority map before repair @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Make worship, finite potential, welfare, binding, death, and succession produce ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] distinguishes voluntary covenant, inherited attachment, and coerced submission. [[Kalsa/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]] owns estimation, allocation, rationing, and leakage response. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] owns testimony, inventories, severance procedure, mortuary custody, and disputed succession. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/God-Cult Covenants|God-Cult Covenants]] distinguishes voluntary covenant, inherited attachment, and coerced submission. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Potential Economy|The Potential Economy]] owns estimation, allocation, rationing, and leakage response. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Death and Binding Law|Death and Binding Law]] owns testimony, inventories, severance procedure, mortuary custody, and disputed succession. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-009-prophetic-governance.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-009-prophetic-governance.md index 62bbc8c..386f317 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-009-prophetic-governance.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-009-prophetic-governance.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-009 status: complete target: divided-city prophecy, houses, and forecast evidence -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Make a divided prophetic city governable in ordinary life while preventing forec - `seed/original/page-2026-08-20-10-39-58.md` establishes noble prophetic houses, the divided Crown City, occupying powers, and the Sunwall. - `page-2026-08-20-10-39-32.md` establishes Luck's indirect observability. -- [[Kalsa/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Kalsa/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] retain causal and evidentiary mechanics. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Kaos|Kaos]] and [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Magic Styles|Magic Styles]] retain causal and evidentiary mechanics. ## Authority map before repair @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Make a divided prophetic city governable in ordinary life while preventing forec ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|The Divided City]] now separates civic continuity, imperial claims, and Sunwall operation. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] owns estates, training, lineage records, and contracted forecasts without owning members or futures. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] owns disclosure, admissibility, judgment, remedy, and appeal. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City|The Divided City]] now separates civic continuity, imperial claims, and Sunwall operation. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Prophetic Houses|Prophetic Houses]] owns estates, training, lineage records, and contracted forecasts without owning members or futures. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Forecast Evidence and Courts|Forecast Evidence and Courts]] owns disclosure, admissibility, judgment, remedy, and appeal. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-010-dungeon-provenance-and-salvage.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-010-dungeon-provenance-and-salvage.md index a3c03d2..11e41fa 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-010-dungeon-provenance-and-salvage.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-010-dungeon-provenance-and-salvage.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-010 status: complete target: dungeon provenance, ruin law, and delving compacts -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Give Ghostlight Dungeon a setting-native procedure for entering, interpreting, s ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon Provenance]] owns evidence about how a site formed and changed. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] models local admission, danger, claims, removal, review, and appeal. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]] binds expedition parties around labour, records, rescue, costs, breach, and only the residual movable salvage left after superior claims and hazard costs. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance|Dungeon Provenance]] owns evidence about how a site formed and changed. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law|Relic and Ruin Law]] models local admission, danger, claims, removal, review, and appeal. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Delving Compacts|Delving Compacts]] binds expedition parties around labour, records, rescue, costs, breach, and only the residual movable salvage left after superior claims and hazard costs. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-011-papsenai-stormshield-alliance.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-011-papsenai-stormshield-alliance.md index 48d750a..11fdef1 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-011-papsenai-stormshield-alliance.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-011-papsenai-stormshield-alliance.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-011 status: complete target: papsenai agriculture, stormshield labour, and the Alliance -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Ground papsenai agricultural power in land, seed, storage, labour, protective ma ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Shamanism — Papsenai]] now owns land, agriculture, ordinary life, and polity consequences. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] owns training, handoff, rest, consent, refusal, warning, succession, and failure at the barrier. [[Kalsa/Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] owns only negotiated exchange, protection, collection, receipts, review, arrears, and exit among participants. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai|Shamanism — Papsenai]] now owns land, agriculture, ordinary life, and polity consequences. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Stormshield Circles|Stormshield Circles]] owns training, handoff, rest, consent, refusal, warning, succession, and failure at the barrier. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/The Alliance|The Alliance]] owns only negotiated exchange, protection, collection, receipts, review, arrears, and exit among participants. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-012-jamnai-submission.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-012-jamnai-submission.md index 35a16e2..1d4684e 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-012-jamnai-submission.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-012-jamnai-submission.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-012 status: complete target: Jamnai submission hierarchy and Soiru'i sects -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Turn the seed's conquest hierarchy into a polity that can run a geothermal arcol ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai and the Terjamna]] now owns geography, history, material life, and imperial reach. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]] distinguishes magical defeat, civic oath, protected dependency, and tribute while modeling office, dues, protection, challenge, succession, appeal, and flight. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] owns diverse rites, memory, welfare, sanctuary, resistance, and release practice without proving the dead's identity. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna|Jamnai and the Terjamna]] now owns geography, history, material life, and imperial reach. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Jamnai Submission Hierarchy|Jamnai Submission Hierarchy]] distinguishes magical defeat, civic oath, protected dependency, and tribute while modeling office, dues, protection, challenge, succession, appeal, and flight. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Soiru'i Sects|Soiru'i Sects]] owns diverse rites, memory, welfare, sanctuary, resistance, and release practice without proving the dead's identity. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-013-language-inheritance.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-013-language-inheritance.md index ed2a783..22f4ae2 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-013-language-inheritance.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-013-language-inheritance.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-013 status: complete target: High Lojban, descendant speech, measures, and machine formulae -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Implement the motivating discussion's clearest setting rule: Prometheus imposed ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] now owns the historical substrate and unresolved language map. [[Kalsa/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] owns teaching, certification, translation, notice, legal and treaty use, access, and contest. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]] owns technical notation, conversion, machine-recognized sequences, scoped certification, failure, and appeal. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/Language and Reckoning|Language and Reckoning]] now owns the historical substrate and unresolved language map. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/High Lojban and Descendant Speech|High Lojban and Descendant Speech]] owns teaching, certification, translation, notice, legal and treaty use, access, and contest. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech|Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech]] owns technical notation, conversion, machine-recognized sequences, scoped certification, failure, and appeal. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-014-juonai-analysis.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-014-juonai-analysis.md index 0284235..319252e 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-014-juonai-analysis.md +++ b/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/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Analysis - 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/Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony|The Ju'onai Hegemony]] now owns geography, historical rule, status ecology, and client relations. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Ju'onai Examiners|Ju'onai Examiners]] owns bounded tests, domain certificates, records, review, and revocation. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Analyst Administration|Analyst Administration]] owns charters, office, taxation, budgets, public-work priorities, petitions, compacts, succession, and remedies. +[[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. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-015-sarxe-refuge.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-015-sarxe-refuge.md index c529f90..454225d 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-015-sarxe-refuge.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-015-sarxe-refuge.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-015 status: complete target: Sarxe households, displacement, flight, and refuge -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Give Sarxe communal life, displacement, and refuge durable institutions without ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Channeling — Sarxe]] now owns polity history, social shape, static/mobile fracture, and diaspora relations. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi Households]] owns shared life, privacy, care, membership, movement, split/merge, and succession. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] owns warning, safe passage, admission, provision, records, recovery, appeal, and departure across both displacements. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Channeling - Sarxe|Channeling — Sarxe]] now owns polity history, social shape, static/mobile fracture, and diaspora relations. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Saxfoldi Households|Saxfoldi Households]] owns shared life, privacy, care, membership, movement, split/merge, and succession. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Ji'esti Flight and Refuge|Ji'esti Flight and Refuge]] owns warning, safe passage, admission, provision, records, recovery, appeal, and departure across both displacements. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-016-selzaa-luck.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-016-selzaa-luck.md index 4212272..f93a4dc 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-016-selzaa-luck.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-016-selzaa-luck.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-016 status: complete target: Selza'a territories, Luck harm, risk, and restitution -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Make the isolated Luck society capable of distributed government, shared infrast ## Critique and repair -[[Kalsa/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]] now owns isolation, terrain, distributed family government, mutual defense, and the story/canon boundary. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]] owns bounded land and use, membership, adoption, marriage, exit, succession, shared works, compacts, and temporary federation. [[Kalsa/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] owns material evidence, emergency repair, risk pools, restraint, restitution, and correction without metaphysical culprit-finding. +[[Kalsa/Spoilers/Polities/Luck - Selza'a|Luck — Selza'a]] now owns isolation, terrain, distributed family government, mutual defense, and the story/canon boundary. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Selza'a Family Territories|Selza'a Family Territories]] owns bounded land and use, membership, adoption, marriage, exit, succession, shared works, compacts, and temporary federation. [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Institutions/Luck Harm and Restitution|Luck Harm and Restitution]] owns material evidence, emergency repair, risk pools, restraint, restitution, and correction without metaphysical culprit-finding. ## Falsification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-017-divine-reproduction.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-017-divine-reproduction.md index 9f06601..ddf8973 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-017-divine-reproduction.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-017-divine-reproduction.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-017 status: complete target: divine offices, allocation, mortuary law, and Soiru'i succession -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Repair the divine cluster's missing careers, support, discipline, audit, removal - **Death law** owns death declaration, mortuary custody, post-mortem claims, and mortuary severance, not living contract exit. - **Soiru'i sects** own champion and steward formation, shrines, stores, discipline, succession, aid, and organized resistance, not the dead's identity. - **Foundations** retain Projection, binding, potential, identity, and release mechanics. -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] alone owns the adopted event facts; each institution keeps only its jurisdictional consequence. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Three Ledgers Schism|The Three Ledgers Schism]] alone owns the adopted event facts; each institution keeps only its jurisdictional consequence. ## Falsification and decision diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-018-prophetic-body.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-018-prophetic-body.md index bdbcf8f..b841eb7 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-018-prophetic-body.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-018-prophetic-body.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-018 status: complete target: prophetic houses, civic courts, and Closed Lift event ownership -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Give the divided city's houses and courts recruitment, tenure, money, discipline - The **city polity** owns civic continuity, scoped ward/sector courts, appeal, Sunwall allocation, and local enforcement. - **Prophetic Houses** own recruitment, formation, rank, assignments, estates and pay, tenure, discipline, succession, refusal, and exit. - **Forecast Evidence and Courts** owns judges, clerks, forecast reviewers, funding, record independence, admissibility, orders, remedy, enforcement, officer discipline, and appeal. -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] alone owns event facts; polity, house, and court notes retain only their consequences. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Closed Lift Appeal|The Closed Lift Appeal]] alone owns event facts; polity, house, and court notes retain only their consequences. - Imperial, house, civic, and Sunwall authorities remain separate; forecast still cannot write verdict or culprit identity. ## Falsification and decision diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-019-ashen-intake.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-019-ashen-intake.md index 2123901..1b1ab3d 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-019-ashen-intake.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-019-ashen-intake.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-019 status: complete target: relic custodian lifecycle and Ghostlight launch dungeon -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Repair custodian formation and succession while proving the institutional machin ## Authority map and repair - **Relic Custody** owns formation evidence, bounded appointment, support, discipline and removal, handoff, appeal, and return of emergency custody at a named configuration. -- [[Kalsa/Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]] owns settlement life, heat and water dependency, present actors, resource burdens, and settlement-side admission. -- [[Kalsa/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] owns its threshold, controller, route, active clock, hazards, recoverable objectives, claimant collision, and outcome matrix. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Places/Low Sere|Low Sere]] owns settlement life, heat and water dependency, present actors, resource burdens, and settlement-side admission. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake|The Ashen Intake]] owns its threshold, controller, route, active clock, hazards, recoverable objectives, claimant collision, and outcome matrix. - Techpriests retain training and operational competence; settlement dependence does not create technical competence; successful descent does not create unburdened salvage. ## Falsification and decision diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-020-event-ownership.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-020-event-ownership.md index 564c843..cf77ecf 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-020-event-ownership.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-020-event-ownership.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-020 status: complete target: Santabi'u Silt Appeal and Ash-Valve Refusal provenance -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Events +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Events started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Stop named adopted events from forking across polity and institution notes or ma ## Authority map and repair -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the headworks model, excluded laterals, keeper records, appeal, remedy, and unrepaired loss. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal|The Santabi'u Silt Appeal]] alone owns the headworks model, excluded laterals, keeper records, appeal, remedy, and unrepaired loss. - The Ju'onai polity, examiners, and administration retain only polity-, certification-, and administrative consequences. -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the diversion order, steward stop, detention, sect aid, custody record, appeal, inspection, and aftermath. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal|The Ash-Valve Refusal]] alone owns the diversion order, steward stop, detention, sect aid, custody record, appeal, inspection, and aftermath. - The Jamnai polity, hierarchy, and Soiru'i sects retain only polity-, civil-, and sect-specific consequences. - Event notes cannot absorb the procedures, metaphysics, or authority of institutions that acted within them. diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-021-language-and-shield-history.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-021-language-and-shield-history.md index 09c6fde..894e615 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-021-language-and-shield-history.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-021-language-and-shield-history.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-021 status: complete target: language and papsenai historical ownership -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Events +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Events started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Replace floating historical simulations with owned adopted history while keeping ## Authority map and repair -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] alone owns the reservoir, conversion, early release, damage, and settlement facts. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shortened Watch Failure|The Shortened Watch Failure]] alone owns the reservoir, conversion, early release, damage, and settlement facts. - Language and Reckoning retains public-language consequences; Measures and Formulae retains conversion, certification, and machine-interface consequences. -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] alone owns the wartime demand, attempted worker diversion, damage, and resulting settlement. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Shield Levy Winter|The Shield Levy Winter]] alone owns the wartime demand, attempted worker diversion, damage, and resulting settlement. - The papsenai polity retains memory and bargaining consequences; Stormshield Circles retains reserve, receipt, labour, and exemption consequences. - The Alliance remains `adopted-candidate`. It uses the event only as later design pressure and does not claim participation or an invented Intuition owner. diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-022-final-ownership-repair.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-022-final-ownership-repair.md index 9b5c835..efb0af4 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-022-final-ownership-repair.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-022-final-ownership-repair.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pass_id: KALSA-022 status: complete target: Alliance quarantine, Broken Windtrap ownership, and Grey Scald ownership -canonical_owner: Kalsa/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md +canonical_owner: Kalsa/Spoilers/Reference/Canon and Provenance.md started: 2026-08-22 completed: 2026-08-22 --- @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Remove the three authority leaks that survived the second Soul review without ad ## Authority map and cut - `adopted-candidate` now means non-factual design pressure. Papsenai and Stormshield canon retains agriculture, shield work, the seed's unnamed Alliance promise, and conditional external pressures; it no longer asserts Alliance actors, commitments, collection, protection, or present existence. -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns its failure, accusation, inspection, repair, and incomplete restoration. Polity, family-territory, and restitution notes retain only their institutional consequences. -- [[Kalsa/Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] alone owns its failure, deaths, suspension, broken handoff, and succession facts. Low Sere retains settlement consequences, Relic Custody retains lifecycle consequences, and The Ashen Intake retains physical evidence and current play. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement|The Broken Windtrap Settlement]] alone owns its failure, accusation, inspection, repair, and incomplete restoration. Polity, family-territory, and restitution notes retain only their institutional consequences. +- [[Kalsa/Spoilers/Events/The Grey Scald|The Grey Scald]] alone owns its failure, deaths, suspension, broken handoff, and succession facts. Low Sere retains settlement consequences, Relic Custody retains lifecycle consequences, and The Ashen Intake retains physical evidence and current play. - The root index is a reference owner; the glossary attributes the Soiru'i classification to the seed; the timeline no longer asserts voluntary sacrifice. ## Verification diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-026-knowledge-and-spoiler-architecture.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-026-knowledge-and-spoiler-architecture.md index 90e46b7..ddf6532 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-026-knowledge-and-spoiler-architecture.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-026-knowledge-and-spoiler-architecture.md @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ Preserve Kalsa's intended experience of reconstructing a genuine high-fantasy wo ### Current author canon -- `Kalsa/Foundations/` owns deep origin, magic, and divine mechanisms. +- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Foundations/` owns deep origin, magic, and divine mechanisms. - Institution and polity notes mix author truth with common, learned, restricted, and situated claims. -- `Kalsa/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md` is a GM dossier with routes, clocks, answers, actors, and outcomes even though its in-world evidence discipline is sound. +- `Kalsa/Spoilers/Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md` is a GM dossier with routes, clocks, answers, actors, and outcomes even though its in-world evidence discipline is sound. ### Contradiction @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The source is intentionally open, but the default experience must not expose it. - `workshop/Direction and Constraints.md` owns the reveal, open-source, compilation, play-to-canon, and influence doctrine. - `workshop/Knowledge and Spoiler Architecture.md` owns the consumer and knowledge-layer map. - `Kalsa/Public/` becomes the only Quartz input and contains only common or situated reader material. -- The rest of `Kalsa/` remains the complete open author vault; its entrance warns before linking deeper. +- The author material remained open and warned; KALSA-029 later enclosed it physically under `Kalsa/Spoilers/` after casual vault exploration showed that a warning inside the old root index was too late. - The divine cosmology owner gains explicit limits on divine knowledge and performed certainty. - Ghostlight compiler implementation remains external and honestly blocked rather than simulated with metadata that no consumer reads. diff --git a/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-029-vault-spoiler-enclosure.md b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-029-vault-spoiler-enclosure.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1afdd9c --- /dev/null +++ b/workshop/deepening/passes/KALSA-029-vault-spoiler-enclosure.md @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +--- +pass_id: KALSA-029 +status: complete +target: casual Obsidian exploration and physical spoiler enclosure +canonical_owner: workshop/Knowledge and Spoiler Architecture.md +started: 2026-08-22 +completed: 2026-08-22 +--- + +# KALSA-029 — Vault Spoiler Enclosure + +## Objective + +Make spoiler consent visible in the Obsidian file tree rather than relying on +Quartz exclusion and a warning inside an already-spoiling root layout. + +## Authority map before repair + +- **Owner:** author notes owned their subjects, but seven author/GM directories + sat beside `Public/` at the vault root. +- **Inputs:** 58 author/GM notes, eight reader notes, the KALSA-026 reveal + doctrine, and the operator's report from casual vault exploration. +- **Outputs:** a public site that was safe while the Obsidian explorer was not. +- **Derived state:** Quartz correctly hid author pages; that success concealed + the unresolved vault-navigation leak. +- **Forbidden writers:** directory position did not change canon, but it did + decide what a casual explorer encountered before consent. +- **Shared path:** opening `Kalsa/` exposed domain names such as Foundations and + Dungeons before the reader chose the author surface. +- **Cut line:** remove every author/GM directory and the author index from the + vault root; do not preserve old-path copies, junctions, or symlinks. + +## Repair + +- `Kalsa/index.md` becomes a navigation-only reader-first gate. +- `Kalsa/Public/` remains the unchanged Quartz and reader source. +- `Kalsa/Spoilers/` encloses the author index plus Dungeons, Events, + Foundations, Institutions, Places, Polities, and Reference. +- Subject notes retain their prior authority after the move; the Spoilers + folder itself owns no lore. +- Author and workshop wikilinks receive explicit `Spoilers/` paths. +- Institutional depth measurement reads only `Kalsa/Spoilers/`, not situated + Public prose or the navigation gate. +- `check-vault-layout.ps1` makes the root enclosure structural and rejects a + future author directory placed beside `Public/` and `Spoilers/`. +- `Kalsa/` becomes the sole canonical Obsidian vault root. Stable configuration + lives under `Kalsa/.obsidian/`; ignored session state is neutralized and may + not reopen or enumerate `Spoilers/` before consent. + +## Falsification + +### Casual explorer + +At the vault root, the explorer sees only `Public/`, `Spoilers/`, and a neutral +index. No deep-history, ontology, polity, event, or dungeon title appears before +choosing the spoiler folder. + +### Deliberate author + +The complete open author graph remains reachable under one warned index. Links, +canon ownership, provenance, and workshop evidence survive the move without a +compatibility copy. + +## Verification + +- [x] Top-level Kalsa paths are limited to `Public/`, `Spoilers/`, `index.md`, + and derived `.obsidian/` state. +- [x] The current Obsidian workspace opens `index.md`, contains no spoiler + recents or pane bindings, and session/cache files are ignored at any depth. +- [x] No old author directory remains at the vault root. +- [x] Complete-vault and Public-only wikilinks resolve without escape. +- [x] No tracked Markdown retains an obsolete author-root path. +- [x] Seed hashes, lore-tool tests, publication boundary, production Quartz + build, and exact generated routes pass. +- [x] Project memory and the Body map record the new physical boundary. + +## Decision record + +- **Adopted:** one explicit spoiler enclosure with no secrecy claim. +- **Explicitly not adopted:** duplicate public canon, symlink compatibility, + prompt-only spoiler warnings, or hiding author material from the repository. +- **Project-memory judgment promoted or retired:** strengthened + `memory-open-spoiler-friction` so it governs the vault root, physical spoiler + enclosure, and current/session startup state as well as Quartz. diff --git a/workshop/deepening/queue.md b/workshop/deepening/queue.md index 168dfb8..be1c006 100644 --- a/workshop/deepening/queue.md +++ b/workshop/deepening/queue.md @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ play value. | KALSA-026 | Knowledge and spoiler architecture | The first publication collapsed author truth, reader lore, character knowledge, and GM answers into one surface. | complete | Eight situated reader notes, default-deny Quartz input, generated-route checks, and bounded Soul review passed. | | 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. | Do not fill the queue with every imaginable fantasy topic. Add an item when a real owner, dependency, contradiction, or play requirement creates pressure.