Canon
Documentation
Ten documents covering the complete generative canon — from cosmological foundation through narrative law.
01
System Overview
The generative philosophy, pipeline design principles, and how the seven layers relate to each other. Entry point for new contributors.
overview
02
Canon Core
The master pipeline in full — all seven layers with their rules, enumerations, and filtering logic. The authoritative reference document.
reference
03
Magic Schools
The six schools of magic — moon correspondences, manipulation vectors, institutional recognition, cost types, and the suppressed Psionic school.
reference
04
Magic Mechanics
Tier progression, cost signatures, the amplifier system, cross-school phenomena, substrate dynamics, and the Machine.
mechanics
05
World & Society
Nodes, substrate, twenty states, thirteen cultures, six ethnicities, the three major institutions, and eleven factions with their affiliation matrix.
world
06
Infrastructure & Life
Material types, transport, the communication principle, medicine, the four-grade contamination system, warfare units, and bestiary roles.
world
07
Narrative Architecture
The seven invariants, monotonic trajectories, escalation compression across three acts, uncontrollable events, and the eight-form hope taxonomy.
narrative
08
Volume Blueprint Protocol
Per-volume implementation guide — vocal signatures, chapter mapping, trajectory tables, drafting rules, and the seven-step generation sequence.
protocol
09
Story Spine Validator
The JSON Schema (Draft-07) for canonical story submission validation — cast, setting, spine, compliance review, and POV instrumentation fields.
validation
10
Data Reference
All canonical enumerations and lookup tables — moons, schools, tiers, institutions, factions, biomes, materials, contamination grades, and technology equivalencies.
reference