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Kalsa Canonical Body Map	working-map	2026-08-22T16:34:57Z	deepening-waves-1-through-16-plus-kalsa-026-publication

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.

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.
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.
Forbidden writers: polity custom cannot rewrite Kaos; cult law cannot write metaphysics; a translated gloss cannot write a language; publication cannot write canon status.
Shared paths: setting claims enter through seed or adopted design pressure → foundation constraint → bounded subject owner; named factual sequences enter through a single adopted event owner and are consumed elsewhere only by link and consequence.
Deletion/demotion line: Promethean design labels, narrator prejudice, and seed shorthand remain evidence or attributed history unless an owner adopts them.
Verification layer: seed hashes, source witnesses, link resolution, provenance labels, event-ownership review, candidate/history separation, and contradiction review.
Unresolved seam: present date/distance from the Fall, final map and chronology, language families, and which contradictions remain in-world disputes.

Provenance and repair markers

Owner: each subject note owns its claims; status states the live authority class, adopted_in records the first adopting pass, and repaired_in records later material repair passes in order.
Inputs: pass records, source witnesses, operator decisions, and the previous canonical surface.
Outputs: inspectable provenance for adopted canon, adopted history, and adopted candidates without moving subject authority into workshop metadata.
Derived/display-only state: pass numbers are audit pointers. They are not proof, chronology, ownership, or permission for one pass file to overrule a subject note.
Forbidden writers: repaired_in cannot replace adopted_in; workshop state cannot promote a candidate; links to an event cannot fork its facts.
Shared paths: first adoption writes adopted_in; later bounded repair appends repaired_in; status changes require an explicit adoption decision and corresponding pass evidence.
Deletion/demotion line: adopted-candidate remains design pressure rather than setting fact; duplicated event retellings are reduced to links plus owner-specific consequences.
Verification layer: frontmatter checks, pass-file provenance, event-note exclusivity, and candidate/history negative checks.
Unresolved seam: no general promotion policy yet specifies when a candidate such as the Alliance becomes adopted canon.

Wave owner clusters

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.
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.
Forbidden writers: repair skill cannot write land or output ownership, polity rule, divine standing, relic personhood, or blanket technology jurisdiction.
Shared paths: ordinary service, emergency isolation, succession, and rival-lineage review use the same named configuration, dependents, intervention record, and bounded handoff.
Deletion/demotion line: the singular universal tech church and “finder/operator owns relic” assumptions are demoted; competence and claims remain separable.
Verification layer: KALSA-007 and KALSA-019 source inventories, lifecycle/removal/appeal checks, emergency-expiry and anomalous-person negatives, direct-entry handoff, links, and Quartz render/build.
Unresolved seam: particular priesthoods, machine protocols, recognition among lineages, regional custody law, relic-person evidence, and the final Ashen Intake custody outcome.

2. God-cult covenants, potential allocation, and death law

Owner: God-Cult Covenants.md owns social entry, office formation, tenure, discipline, living exit, welfare, records, schism, and resistance; The Potential Economy.md owns estimation, material support, allocation, ledgers, audit, appeal, and steward removal; Death and Binding Law.md owns bodies, funerals, severance claims, succession, and disputed postmortem relations. Projections, God Beasts, and Thaumavores.md retains metaphysics; Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md alone owns that event's facts.
Inputs: voluntary/inherited/coercive entry evidence, routed potential, material stores, clergy/champion labor, testimony, bodies, kin/cult claims, manifestations, and leakage risk.
Outputs: recognized lower-world obligations, formed and supported offices, welfare and miracle schedules, allocations/refusals, audits, discipline and exit decisions, funeral custody, severance findings, successions, and schism consequences.
Derived/display-only state: covenant classifications, potential estimates, eligibility rolls, cult prestige, arrears, and manifestation interpretations remain contestable administrative state.
Forbidden writers: rite, office, ledger, estimate, funeral verdict, or champion cannot prove divine identity, create potential, settle Projection mechanics, or retroactively make conquest voluntary.
Shared paths: entry, allocation, death, severance, and succession preserve origin, witnesses, finite inputs, affected people, review, and appeal through the same record chain.
Deletion/demotion line: worship-as-opinion, potential-as-coin, clergy-as-metaphysical-owner, and universal severance law are demoted.
Verification layer: KALSA-008 and KALSA-017 witnesses, lifecycle/audit/appeal/faction checks, Three Ledgers event exclusivity, hostile welfare/funeral cases, succession and thaumavore stress, links, and Quartz render/build.
Unresolved seam: observable binding tests, regional severance law, style-specific delegation, inherited attachment, common potential measures, and the event's exact place/date/participants.

3. Divided-City prophetic governance

Owner: Polities/Prophecy - The Divided City.md owns civic history, named civic offices, jurisdiction, local enforcement, and Sunwall allocation; Prophetic Houses.md owns recruitment, formation, rank, assignments, estates, pay, tenure, discipline, succession, refusal, and exit; Forecast Evidence and Courts.md owns judges, clerks, forecast reviewers, funding, disclosure, admissibility, orders, remedy, enforcement, officer discipline, and appeal. Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md alone owns that case's facts.
Inputs: bounded forecasts, disclosed interventions, house records, witnesses, material evidence, office budgets, tribute demands, civic law, and affected populations.
Outputs: formed and supported prophets, sponsored work, admissible forecast evidence, civic findings, enforceable orders, remedies, discipline, scoped imperial review, infrastructure allocation, and appeals.
Derived/display-only state: reliability records, pedigree, forecast confidence, house prestige, quotas, and court summaries inform decisions but are not verdicts.
Forbidden writers: prophecy cannot write judgment; pedigree cannot write reliability; secrecy cannot authorize irreversible punishment; inferred Luck cannot name a culprit; empires cannot own civic procedure merely by demanding tribute.
Shared paths: domestic, civic, infrastructure, and imperial forecast claims use disclosure → intervention inventory → material corroboration → civic decision → review/appeal.
Deletion/demotion line: oracle rule, one prophetic consensus, and prophecy-as-fact are demoted to evidence under jurisdiction.
Verification layer: KALSA-009 and KALSA-018 source maps, forecast≠verdict negatives, lifecycle/funding/enforcement/remedy checks, hostile household/client perspectives, Closed Lift event exclusivity, links, and rendered pages.
Unresolved seam: city/polity and office names, district boundaries, house forms, imperial boundaries, record media, exact pay, and style interaction in forecast law.

4. Dungeon provenance, ruin law, delving compacts, and direct entry

Owner: Dungeons/Dungeon Provenance.md owns site-layer evidence; Institutions/Relic and Ruin Law.md owns admission, hazard, custody holds, claims, and adjudication; Institutions/Delving Compacts.md owns participant promises, labor, rescue, shares, and exit; Places/Low Sere.md owns settlement dependency, current actors, resource burdens, and settlement-side admission; Dungeons/The Ashen Intake.md owns its threshold, controller, route, active clock, hazards, recoverable objectives, claimant collision, and outcome matrix; Events/The Grey Scald.md alone owns the prior failure sequence.
Inputs: physical layers, site jurisdiction, dependents, settlement heat/water needs, hazards, custody records, kin/cult/person claims, route knowledge, expedition labor, sponsors, active shutter state, and recoveries.
Outputs: classified evidence, settlement admission, playable threshold and route, active failure pressure, safety orders, claim holds, rescue duties, recoverable objectives, outcome changes, post-expedition findings, and residual movable-salvage shares.
Derived/display-only state: provenance labels, hazard classes, maps, shutter count, inventories, objective state, claimant positions, claim priority, and share calculations describe evidence; none alone grants title.
Forbidden writers: provenance cannot write ownership; Low Sere dependency cannot write technical competence; a compact cannot bind non-signatories; successful descent cannot write relic title; site outcomes cannot become universal salvage law.
Shared paths: Low Sere admission → controlled threshold → compact and live inventory → route/clock intervention → recovery/change log → custody hold → ascent and above-ground adjudication; emergency rescue uses the same boundary.
Deletion/demotion line: loot-first dungeon law, abstract seam-only launch guidance, and “returning alive settles ownership” are demoted; only residual movable salvage reaches compact shares.
Verification layer: KALSA-010 and KALSA-019 source maps, site-layer/non-signatory/title negative cases, direct-entry rubric, touched links, and Quartz build/render.
Unresolved seam: regional ruin jurisdictions, salvage measures, standardized hazards, deeper Intake truth, final custody outcome, Ghostlight runtime handoff, and public versus play-sensitive dungeon facts.

5. Papsenai agriculture, Stormshield Circles, and the Alliance candidate

Owner: Polities/Shamanism - Papsenai.md owns polity land/history and lived tribal agriculture; Stormshield Circles.md owns barrier labor and failure procedure; Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md alone owns that wartime episode's facts. The Alliance.md is adopted-candidate and owns only its proposed compact model, not setting history or present existence.
Inputs: land, seed, water, labor, storage, reachable forecasts, shield workers and relief, tribal mandates, wartime demand, and—only inside the candidate model—negotiated contributions, routes, interfaces, and protection capacity.
Outputs: adopted harvest/reserve decisions, shield state and warnings, shift/consent records, and event consequences; receipts, aid, passage, appeals, and exit settlements remain candidate outputs until adoption.
Derived/display-only state: yield forecasts, exhaustion debt, contribution shares, arrears, priority, reputation, and the Alliance design itself are administrative or workshop judgments, not land title, magical truth, or historical fact.
Forbidden writers: the Alliance candidate cannot establish its own founding, membership, participation in the Shield Levy Winter, Intuition authority, land allocation, or labor draft; Circles cannot command general law; talent cannot write public debt.
Shared paths: adopted shield work follows household → tribe → Circle → recorded consent/work → warning/failure record → review; the proposed delegate/receipt/appeal/exit path remains quarantined inside the candidate note.
Deletion/demotion line: the Alliance is demoted from presumed canonical institution to adopted candidate; “agrarian empire,” natural defenselessness, automatic shaman duty, and protector-as-ruler remain demoted.
Verification layer: KALSA-011 and KALSA-021 witnesses, shift/failure negatives, Shield Levy event exclusivity, Alliance-participation and Intuition negatives, links, and build/render.
Unresolved seam: tribal tenure and offices, whether the Alliance exists, its membership/founding if adopted, Intuition government, druid/shaman distinction, and shield mechanism.

6. Jamnai submission hierarchy and Soiru'i sects

Owner: Polities/Sorcery - Jamnai and the Terjamna.md owns polity/arcology history; Jamnai Submission Hierarchy.md owns civic branch obligations, protection, office, challenge, succession, and tribute; Soiru'i Sects.md owns shrine, championing, memory, sanctuary, mutual aid, and sect claims; Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md alone owns that case's facts. Foundations retain Sorcery and dead-person metaphysics.
Inputs: magical contests, submission/oath/tribute records, geothermal services, labor, stores, protection, testimony, bodies, funeral practice, and manifestations.
Outputs: recognized obligations, protected shares, office and succession, technical stop paths, appeals, sanctuary, benefits, and external tribute.
Derived/display-only state: branch rank, registries, heroic biographies, sect interpretations, and manifestation reports cannot silently create the underlying relation they describe.
Forbidden writers: victory cannot write competence; civic oath cannot write magical binding; rank cannot own dependents or infrastructure; sect doctrine cannot write cosmology or dead consent.
Shared paths: contest/oath/tribute origin → witnessed record → promised protection/material service → bounded enforcement → common-superior or sect-supported appeal → succession/release review.
Deletion/demotion line: conquest hierarchy as total society, all obligation as metaphysical submission, and Soiru'i interpretation as author truth are demoted.
Verification layer: KALSA-012 and KALSA-020 witnesses, Ash-Valve event exclusivity, Ji'esti responsibility boundary, hostile tributary/fugitive readings, duplicated-retelling negatives, links/build/render.
Unresolved seam: summit and branch ranks, submission-law boundaries, arcology capacity, tributary exit, Soiru'i personhood, and current Terjamna formations.

7. High Lojban, descendant speech, measures, and machine formulae

Owner: Foundations/Language and Reckoning.md owns inherited substrate and unknowns; High Lojban and Descendant Speech.md owns social reproduction, competence, translation, class use, and change; Measures, Formulae, and Machine Speech.md owns conversion, accepted formulae, interface procedure, and operational records; Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md alone owns that disaster's facts.
Inputs: imposed Ark language/reckoning, descendant speech, schools, liturgy, law, treaties, workers, technical manuals, measures, interfaces, failed commands, and regional use.
Outputs: scoped competence, accountable translations, public notice, teaching, accepted formula versions, conversion records, machine-operation evidence, review, and appeal.
Derived/display-only state: fluency certificates, prestige labels, “correctness,” formula acceptance, conversion tables, and machine responses are scoped evidence, not intelligence, title, or universal grammar.
Forbidden writers: elite register cannot write moral worth or universal law; machine acceptance cannot write ownership or divine authority; Gift lineage cannot write language; an English gloss cannot settle an endonym.
Shared paths: law, treaty, school, ritual, measure, and machine use all preserve source expression → translator/operator scope → adopted rendering/formula → affected-user notice → correction history.
Deletion/demotion line: frozen universal Lojban, one rational measure system, and machine obedience as semantic truth are demoted to historical inheritance and bounded practice.
Verification layer: KALSA-013 and KALSA-021 source inventories, translation/conversion negatives, Shortened Watch event exclusivity and chronology/measure restraint, links/build/render.
Unresolved seam: language families, sound changes, scripts, calendars, regional units, interface comprehension, and public competence standards.

8. Ju'onai examination and Analyst administration

Owner: Polities/Analysis - Ju'onai Hegemony.md owns polity history and portfolios; Ju'onai Examiners.md owns bounded testing, certification, discipline, and revocation; Analyst Administration.md owns appointment, tax/allocation, public works, petitions, remedy, and administrative succession; Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md alone owns that case's facts.
Inputs: scoped tests, causal reports, worker observations, tax and service records, charters, budgets, petitions, client agreements, local claims, and technical-custody evidence.
Outputs: scoped certification, appointments, portfolios, allocations, public works, notices, remedies, revocations, and appeals.
Derived/display-only state: exam scores, rank prestige, production estimates, model boundaries, risk summaries, and office dashboards describe administrative evidence; they do not become the territory.
Forbidden writers: rank cannot write moral worth; report cannot write verdict; model scope cannot erase outside observations; certification cannot write technical custody; analytical success cannot legitimate annexation.
Shared paths: exam, appointment, levy, public work, and petition preserve claimed boundary → inputs and missing evidence → accountable actor → material consequence → independent procedural review or superior appeal.
Deletion/demotion line: meritocratic intelligence caste, omniscient administration, model-as-reality, and clean annexation history are demoted.
Verification layer: KALSA-014 and KALSA-020 witnesses, Santabi'u event exclusivity, low-expression/worker hostile readings, report-boundary and duplicated-retelling negatives, links/build/render.
Unresolved seam: summit and provinces, tax forms, office succession, certification law, technical guild relations, Channeler Crown custody, and compensation.

9. Sarxe households, flight, and refuge

Owner: Polities/Channeling - Sarxe.md owns successive displacement, mobile/static political shape, and diaspora relations; Saxfoldi Households.md owns person-scale communal life, care, consent, membership, use, split/merge, and succession; Ji'esti Flight and Refuge.md owns warning, passage, admission, records, recovery, appeal, and departure.
Inputs: bounded shared attention, bodily consent, labor, care, route knowledge, warnings, provisions, testimony, custody records, host claims, and separated-person evidence.
Outputs: household membership/use claims, work rotations, privacy boundaries, safe conduct, admission and care, separation/recovery records, appeal, departure, and handoff.
Derived/display-only state: sensed consensus, proximity, fluency, trust, route status, household role, record matches, expression strength, and diaspora occupation cannot write personhood or consent.
Forbidden writers: communal awareness cannot write bodily consent; refuge cannot write lifelong custody; mobile use cannot write universal land title; diaspora work cannot define authentic Sarxe identity; no institution writes universal telepathy or a final language.
Shared paths: person/dependent → household witness or advocate → bounded household/refuge decision → material support and record → review/appeal → voluntary departure, transfer, split/merge, recovery, or handoff.
Deletion/demotion line: hive/nonperson and solitary-insanity frames, one fixed Sarxe body, mercenary-as-whole-culture, and one central route/archive are demoted.
Verification layer: KALSA-015 witnesses, successive Ju'onai → static Saxfoldi → Terjamna/Ji'esti order, privacy/admission hostile cases, touched links, build/render.
Unresolved seam: Sarxe language, communication limits, routes and offices, household law, host agreements, Crown restoration, and Ji'esti metaphysics.

10. Selza'a family territories, Luck harm, and restitution

Owner: Polities/Luck - Selza'a.md owns isolation, terrain, distributed family government, mutual defense, and the story/canon boundary; Selza'a Family Territories.md owns bounded land/use, membership, adoption, marriage, exit, succession, shared works, compacts, and temporary federation; Luck Harm and Restitution.md owns material evidence, immediate repair, risk pooling, reciprocal restraint, restitution, review, and record correction; Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md alone owns that failure and settlement sequence. Foundations retain Luck and dimna metaphysics.
Inputs: continuing use and work, kin/adoption/marriage records, boundary compacts, windtraps and water, material inspection, harms and breached duties, contributions, stores and bonds, witnesses, and bounded prophetic bias reports.
Outputs: membership and use claims, water/work schedules, reciprocal defense, temporary federation, emergency aid, preserved evidence, scoped findings, pooled loss, restitution, review, affiliation change, and corrected records.
Derived/display-only state: territory maps, family reputation, lineage and dimna claims, alleged Luck patterns, prophetic bias, pool shares, risk labels, and federation alerts remain evidence or coordination state; none identifies a bearer or writes guilt, title, or moral worth.
Forbidden writers: coincidence and improbable survival cannot write culpability; territory cannot own people or all resources within it; bloodline cannot write personhood; Prophecy cannot identify Luck; ritual cannot write God-Beast fact; emergency federation cannot retain general government after the threat.
Shared paths: membership/use and shared-work claims preserve source relation → bounded family/compact recognition → material duty/output → review/exit; harm follows rescue and service restoration → evidence preservation → material inspection → scoped finding → pool/restitution → restriction lapse and record correction.
Deletion/demotion line: generic clan feud, family-as-one-blood-owner, absolute territorial title, detectable Luck, universal tribunal, and the escaped-bearer story as present canon are demoted.
Verification layer: KALSA-016 witnesses, direct-Luck and escaped-bearer negative checks, the Broken Windtrap Settlement, poor/adopted/mixed/Null/outsider hostile readings, touched links, build/render.
Unresolved seam: family names and constitutions, membership variants, city entry/exit, windtrap custody and water baselines, compact enforcement, dimna/seltanzda metaphysics, citywide risk capacity, and external relations.

Repair overlays, Waves 11–16

These overlays record changed authority and shared paths. They are audit views over the clusters above, never additional canon owners.

11. Divine institutional reproduction — KALSA-017

Owner: covenant, potential-economy, death-law, and Soiru'i owners retain their procedures; Events/The Three Ledgers Schism.md alone owns the named sequence.
Inputs: recruitment and formation evidence, stores and pay, tenure, discipline, audit, succession, exit, faction pressure, bodies, and postmortem claims.
Outputs: supported offices, steward/champion careers, reviews and removals, contractual exits, succession, organized resistance, and institution-specific consequences of the schism.
Derived/display-only state: office rank, ledger alignment, cult faction, and event summaries do not write metaphysics or event facts.
Forbidden writers: mortal offices cannot write divine identity, binding mechanics, or dead consent; death law cannot absorb living exit; consequence notes cannot retell the event as their own fact.
Shared paths: formation → material support → bounded office → audit/discipline → appeal/removal/exit → succession; event pressure enters each owner by link and consequence.
Deletion/demotion line: floating careers, unsupported offices, and three duplicate schism narratives were cut; the event became the sole factual owner.
Verification layer: KALSA-017 lifecycle/audit/appeal/faction rubric, event exclusivity, links, seed integrity, build/render, and second Soul review.
Unresolved seam: named local offices, exact material rates, binding tests, and the schism's place/date/participants.

12. Prophetic institutional body — KALSA-018

Owner: city, house, and court owners retain separate civic, professional, and evidentiary authority; Events/The Closed Lift Appeal.md alone owns the case facts.
Inputs: recruitment, formation, assignments, estates/pay, tenure, forecasts, material evidence, court funding, officers, orders, tribute, and Sunwall pressure.
Outputs: careers and exits, funded court procedure, enforceable remedies, officer discipline, appeal, and concrete player/delving consequences.
Derived/display-only state: forecast confidence, house standing, reviewer opinion, and event summaries remain evidence rather than verdict or history owner.
Forbidden writers: forecast cannot become verdict; house, city, imperial, and Sunwall authority cannot collapse into one office; other notes cannot own Closed Lift facts.
Shared paths: forecast disclosure → intervention inventory → corroboration → funded civic hearing → order/enforcement/remedy → appeal; house discipline uses its own bounded career path.
Deletion/demotion line: unnamed institutional vapor and duplicated case retellings were cut; factual sequence moved to the event owner.
Verification layer: KALSA-018 lifecycle/funding/enforcement/remedy rubric, forecast negatives, event exclusivity, links, build/render, and second Soul review.
Unresolved seam: city/polity names, exact office names and pay, court appointments, district boundaries, and present date.

13. Low Sere and Ashen Intake direct entry — KALSA-019

Owner: Relic Custody owns custodian lifecycle and claims; Low Sere owns settlement dependency and admission; the Ashen Intake owns the playable threshold, routes, clock, hazards, objectives, claimant collision, and local outcome matrix.
Inputs: settlement heat/water dependence, current actors, custody evidence, compact terms, three remaining shutter indicators, routes, hazards, claimants, and recoverable records/material.
Outputs: immediate launch situation, bounded admission, player choices, clock and route changes, recoveries, rescue/withdrawal, evidence, and site-specific outcomes handed back to custody adjudication.
Derived/display-only state: shutter count, route state, claimant position, inventory, and recovery status report the dungeon; they do not grant relic title or write universal law.
Forbidden writers: settlement need cannot write competence; custodian skill cannot write settlement consent; descent cannot write ownership; the dungeon cannot decide metaphysics or runtime simulation truth.
Shared paths: settlement admission → controlled basin threshold → compact/inventory → route and active clock → recovery/change log → ascent → custody and settlement consequence.
Deletion/demotion line: generic launch advice and unburdened salvage were cut; Low Sere and the Ashen Intake became canonical direct-entry surfaces.
Verification layer: KALSA-019 custodian-lifecycle and direct-entry rubrics, title/salvage negatives, touched links, seed integrity, build/render, and second Soul review.
Unresolved seam: deeper Intake truth, controller behavior beyond the authored surface, final custody result, and public/play-sensitive Ghostlight handoff.

14. Named-event consolidation — KALSA-020

Owner: Events/The Santabi'u Silt Appeal.md and Events/The Ash-Valve Refusal.md each alone own their factual sequences; adjacent polity and institution notes own only their procedural consequences.
Inputs: facts already repeated across each prior three-note cluster, their provenance, and the pre-existing owner boundaries.
Outputs: one factual event surface per case, consequence-only links in six subject owners, and explicit unresolved particulars.
Derived/display-only state: summaries, political meanings, examiner lessons, branch reforms, and sect memories are owner-specific consequences, not alternate event records.
Forbidden writers: events cannot absorb polity history, institutional procedure, metaphysics, or authority; consequence notes cannot embellish or fork the sequence.
Shared paths: factual claim → event note → linked procedural/political consequence; corrections repair the event first and then affected consequences.
Deletion/demotion line: duplicated event narration was removed from six notes without deleting their institution-specific consequences.
Verification layer: KALSA-020 reconciliation/no-drift review, factual-owner exclusivity, duplicate negatives, touched links, build/render, and second Soul review.
Unresolved seam: dates, exact locations, participants, local names, and the cases' present legal reach.

15. Owned language and shield histories — KALSA-021

Owner: Events/The Shortened Watch Failure.md owns its public-works sequence; Events/The Shield Levy Winter.md owns its wartime sequence; language, measures, Papsenai, and Stormshield notes own consequences; the Alliance remains a candidate design owner only.
Inputs: previously simulated failures, measure/translation practice, shield labor and reserve procedure, wartime demand, damage, settlement, and unresolved chronology.
Outputs: adopted historical pressure with single factual owners, bounded institutional lessons, and candidate-only Alliance design pressure.
Derived/display-only state: translated event names, chronology guesses, exact units, inferred seasons, and Alliance parallels do not become canon facts.
Forbidden writers: event notes cannot settle universal language, measures, calendars, or Intuition; the Alliance candidate cannot claim participation, founding, membership, or present existence.
Shared paths: event fact → factual owner → linked consequence in language/measure or polity/shield owner; candidate reuse remains explicitly hypothetical.
Deletion/demotion line: floating stress simulations became adopted history; Alliance assertions were demoted to candidate status instead of being backfilled from the Shield Levy Winter.
Verification layer: KALSA-021 event exclusivity, chronology/measure/Intuition negatives, Alliance-participation negative, touched links, build/render, and second Soul review.
Unresolved seam: dates, units, calendars, locations, participants, Intuition ownership, and whether the Alliance exists.

16. Candidate quarantine and final event ownership — KALSA-022

Owner: Reference/Canon and Provenance.md owns the non-factual meaning of adopted-candidate; Events/The Broken Windtrap Settlement.md and Events/The Grey Scald.md each own their named factual sequence; affected polity, institution, place, and dungeon notes own only current procedure, physical evidence, and consequences.
Inputs: the second Soul verdict, existing candidate assertions, duplicated historical sequences, seed classifications, and the live owner notes.
Outputs: a quarantined Alliance design, two single-owner adopted histories, consequence-only consumers, and corrected reference projections.
Derived/display-only state: candidate procedures, event links, glossary classifications, timeline summaries, and body-map descriptions cannot establish present institutions or fork event facts.
Forbidden writers: the Alliance candidate cannot establish present existence or obligations; Low Sere, Relic Custody, Ashen Intake, Selza'a polity, family territory, and restitution notes cannot independently rewrite their linked event sequence.
Shared paths: candidate pressure remains inside its candidate owner until explicit adoption; event fact enters one event owner and reaches every consumer by link plus owner-specific consequence.
Deletion/demotion line: present-tense Alliance claims and synchronized event retellings were cut; no replacement bulk was added.
Verification layer: candidate/event negative inspection, global link and anchor checks, seed hashes, publication boundary, production build, and final bounded Soul review.
Unresolved seam: Alliance adoption and Intuition remain blocked on source-grounded or operator direction; event dates and proper names remain unresolved where the owners say so.

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.
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.
Forbidden writers: an event cannot own general procedure, metaphysics, polity identity, or authority; consumers cannot fork event facts or imply unknown dates/names.
Shared paths: adopt event → record facts and unresolved particulars once → link from each affected owner → retain only owner-specific consequence → repair the event before dependents.
Deletion/demotion line: repeated factual narratives are cut to links plus consequences; events lacking explicit adoption remain proposals or stress simulations.
Verification layer: status/adopted_in frontmatter, link integrity, duplicate-retelling negatives, pass reconciliation, and contradiction review.
Unresolved seam: event ordering and dates remain incomplete; no event note may silently settle the present era.

Repository and projection boundaries

Publication authority — KALSA-026

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.
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.

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/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.
`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.
`.epiphany/state/project-memory.cc`	Generated typed CultCache projection of project memory.	Rebuilt only through `.epiphany/sync-project-memory.ps1`; consumed for runtime inspection.	Never hand-edited and never promoted to Persona, lore, or job authority.
`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.
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

Select: queue.md identifies pressure; selection does not grant canon authority.
Inventory: the pass records exact seed witnesses, current owner notes, adopted claims, contradictions, and unknowns.
Model: name owner, inputs, outputs, derived state, forbidden writers, shared paths, and the deletion line before repair.
Critique: test generic defaults, missing material support, false consensus, absent subordinate experience, and stopped consequences.
Cut/demote: remove duplicate or overbroad authority before adding procedure.
Repair/connect: edit the smallest canonical owner set and connect people, material, history, neighboring owners, and dungeon/play consequences.
Falsify: add at least one hostile or marginal reading and one historical stress case.
Verify: seed hashes → touched/global links → publication boundary → targeted negative checks → Quartz production build → affected-page inspection → git scope.
Record: finish the pass, ledger result, re-rank queue, and promote only durable judgment to project memory before regenerating .cc.

Direct human edits and agent repairs must converge on this path. A workshop pass is evidence of the change, not an alternate writer. Publication follows author canon → reveal review → situated Kalsa/Public/ source → Quartz projection; future play follows bounded author/public input → Ghostlight projection/adjudication → receipt → explicit reveal or canon review. Repairs return to the owning author or public source rather than being patched into generated output, memory, site configuration, or runtime packets.

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.
Intuition and the Alliance remain intentionally outside the adopted institutional parity set until source-grounded or operator direction gives them a factual owner.

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