The world bible, docs/canon/UNIVERSE.md

Lore

The world as the owner wrote it: the Tower, the town, the realms, the people and their beliefs. These pages are the bible itself, cut into its sections, never retold. Some things are deliberately never answered.

The world

• About the world bible
• Core identity §1
• The Tower §3
• Tower stone §4
• Tower architectural grammar §5
• Altitude transformation law §6
• Human trace §7
• Frontier settlement §8
• Cartographers §9
• Expeditions, time & logistics §10
• Human recruits §11
• Porters §12
• Three material relationships §13
• Tower adaptation grammar §14
• Creature grammar §15
• The world outside §25
• The treaty and the frontier §26
• The factions §27
• The Tower's phenomena, and Focus §28
• Relics §29
• The dead §30
• Life inside the Tower §31
• The language of the world §32
• Events and the edge of mystery §33
• Beliefs §34
• Politics §35
• Society §36
• Cultures §37
• Customs inside the Tower §38
• Climbers §39
• v0.3 Summary

For writers

How the bible is to be used: its protocol, the mysteries it keeps, the failure modes to avoid, the open questions, the tone.

• Canon protocol §0
• Deliberate mysteries — DO NOT RESOLVE §2
• Negative canon / common AI failure modes §19
• Open questions §23
• Tone — wonder with cost §24
• Compact laws of the world