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board_id BRD_0001 · subject flores_island · density class D1-01 · shape place_3panel
Pick one accurate reading of Flores and one amplification of it, and mark which surrounding recommendations get built. The accurate reading sets the palette, the silhouette grammar and the material vocabulary that every later Flores asset inherits without another board. The amplification sets what the engine is allowed to add on top, and the rule binding it is that reality is the floor.
Panel A — the accurate depiction
What the source tradition itself says this place looks like. Three genuinely distinct readings, not three renderings of one idea. Every option is a three-plate sheet: silhouette and architecture, palette and light, one signature detail. Every plate carries exactly one rights value, and none of them may be generated — this is a living tradition, so Panel A is Lane R by law.
A1 — The land is already owned
Flores as its cosmology holds it: already populated. The Manggarai name them ata pale-sina, those on the other side. Spring head, tree, doorway and centre-stone are addressed; the visitor is not.
What this reading commits to — The empo de tana, the ancestors of the land, are not the dead of any family but the original owners, and they tell the people where a rite may be held at all. That is why a ritual has a correct place and not merely a correct form, and it is why the frame is composed around places rather than around views.
plate PLT_0001_A1_1 · silhouette and architecture · rights museum_open_access · image use OPEN-ACCESS:Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00203 SRC_00469
plate PLT_0001_A1_2 · palette and light · rights public_domain · image use PUBLIC-DOMAIN · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00203
plate PLT_0001_A1_3 · signature detail · rights museum_open_access · image use OPEN-ACCESS:Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00469 SRC_00457
A2 — The ladder of stone and fire
The Sunda Arc's vertical island: karst at Liang Bua, forest, ash on Inerie, colour-shifting lakes on top. The Lio name one Tiwu Ata Polo, the lake of the wicked dead: altitude is moral ground.
CITATION CAVEAT — A2 CARRIES THE SAME DEFECT CLASS AS A3, found by sweeping for it rather than by being told, and it is disclosed here for the same reason. A2's silhouette and palette plates both cite SRC_00193 alone — "Palaeoanthropology and Local Legends: Homo floresiensis and the Ebu Gogo", which the region page files use_class AUTHORIAL-REBUTTAL, the class reserved for a source held at arm's length and rebutted rather than built on. Its subject is deep-time hominin folklore, not volcanology or lake chemistry. The third plate cites SRC_00483, the Lio ethnobotany anchor. So the reading whose whole argument is that geology and cosmology are one subject is grounded on an anti-fringe palaeoanthropology paper and a book about medicinal plants, and no geological or limnological anchor for the Kelimutu colour set is in the corpus at all. The Lio naming of the lakes — Tiwu Ata Polo, the lake of the wicked dead — is the part of A2 that IS carried by its sources; the mineral colour set and the altitude-band material law are not. The honest consequence: A2's cosmological half is cited and its geological half is not yet, and closing that is an acquisition, not a rendering choice.
What this reading commits to — The island's geology and its cosmology are one subject, not two. The board's silhouette law becomes a band law — each altitude band gets its own material, its own light and its own class of inhabitant — and the chapter's climb from cave mouth to crater rim is legible as a climb toward the dead.
plate PLT_0001_A2_1 · silhouette and architecture · rights public_domain · image use PUBLIC-DOMAIN · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00193
plate PLT_0001_A2_2 · palette and light · rights public_domain · image use PUBLIC-DOMAIN · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00193
plate PLT_0001_A2_3 · signature detail · rights museum_open_access · image use OPEN-ACCESS:Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00483
A3 — The worked fan
Flores as its people built it. Settlement radiates from the compang and the lingko lodok fields fan to the valley floor below, Manggarai adat: customary land tenure and irrigation, worked today.
CITATION CAVEAT — THIS OPTION IS THE WEAKEST-CITED ON THE BOARD, and the weakness is specific rather than general. All three of A3's plates cite SRC_00230, "We Are Children Of The Land: A Keo Perspective" — a Keo people-to-land source. The lingko, the lodok fan and the compang are MANGGARAI institutions, and the Keo source is being used for the general people-to-land frame rather than for the institution actually being drawn. No Manggarai primary anchor is in the corpus yet. The pending one is named and known: Erb, The Manggaraians, the caci / mbaru niang / lingko / compang ethnography, on the MUST-ACQUIRE list. The consequence for this pick, stated plainly rather than left to be discovered: acquiring that anchor is the condition for A3 being pickable without an amendment. Picking A3 today is picking a reading whose Panel-A citation line does not yet reach the institution it depicts, and REALM_DESIGN_PROGRAM 3.2 is explicit that an unsupported citation line means the option is not an accurate depiction but a guess with good lighting. A1 and A2 do not carry this defect.
What this reading commits to — The region reads as itself from a distance, by pattern. This is the option that gives the board a skyline and a plan-view law rather than a detail law, and it is the one that makes the Ch-3 land-pressure story legible as damage to a pattern the player already learned to read.
plate PLT_0001_A3_1 · silhouette and architecture · rights museum_open_access · image use OPEN-ACCESS:Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00230
plate PLT_0001_A3_2 · palette and light · rights public_domain · image use PUBLIC-DOMAIN · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00230
plate PLT_0001_A3_3 · signature detail · rights public_domain · image use PUBLIC-DOMAIN · lane R · pending · cites SRC_00203
Panel A recommendation — A1
Chapter 2 is the arc's survival opener. The protagonist is seven years old, alone, and has no dialogue at all — the spine's own everything-woven section names the danger explicitly, that Flores must never read as a blank survival wilderness. A1 is the only reading that fixes that with the camera rather than with a line, and it is the best-cited layer in the whole substrate: three independent ethnographic sources agree on it. It also pre-teaches the Ch-3 mechanic. The land contract, ngoéng-de-tana, asks the land what it wants before the land is used; a player who has spent a chapter learning to see which points are addressed already understands why that contract exists when it is finally named. And A1 does not cost the other two: the ladder and the fan are both subjects that A1 photographs.
Strongest objection — A1's grammar is made of small things, and an establishing board is supposed to establish a silhouette readable at a hundred metres — that is the art bible field that most determines whether a region reads as itself from a distance. A1's read lives at three metres. Take it and the board has ruled a detail language and left the skyline unruled, which is precisely what A3 would have given. If the answer is that we want both, the honest form of that is an amendment on the pick line — A1 with A3's plan-view law folded in as the distance read — not a second board.
Panel B — the enhanced version
Reality is the floor. Every option here is a strict superset of an accurate option: it amplifies scale, light, density, motion, verticality or legibility, and it contradicts nothing on Panel A. Each carries what was amplified, what stayed true, the specific play it buys, and the altered law in one clause. An amplification with no play claim is decoration, and decoration is the first symptom of slop.
B1 — The addressed landscape, made legible at distance
What was amplified — Contrast, air and motion at the addressed points, nothing else. Swept ground reads as a lighter disc from the ridge, cool spray hangs at the spring head, a tied cloth moves, the forest is darker.
What stayed true — No new marker type, no invented iconography, no glow, no symbol that the record does not already place there. Every amplified point is a point the tradition puts there for its own reasons, and the amplification is of real optics — contrast, humidity, wind — not of physics.
The play it buys — Wayfinding without a marker. The player learns to navigate a chapter that has no map, no dialogue and no quest marker by reading which points in the landscape are attended to. That is the missing navigation layer of the survival opener, and it is the tutorial for the Ch-3 land contract two hours before the contract is named.
Altered law — None. Vril does nothing visible here. The region's only vril surface is the recharge waterfall, and the spine is explicit that the recharge mechanic is the only surface through which the substrate is shown, never declared — so this option deliberately declines to make the landscape glow.
Amplifies Panel A option — A1
plate PLT_0001_B1_1 · hero view · rights generated_local · image use GENERATED-CLEAN-WEIGHTS · lane P · pending · cites SRC_00203
plate PLT_0001_B1_2 · the amplified law in action · rights generated_local · image use GENERATED-CLEAN-WEIGHTS · lane P · pending · cites SRC_00469
B2 — The vertical read
What was amplified — Compression and tempo. The altitude bands are stacked so the whole climb from karst mouth to crater rim reads in one frame, and the lakes' colour shift takes minutes where the world takes months.
What stayed true — The three lakes keep their real relative positions and their documented colour set. The bands keep their real order and their real materials. Only the compression of distance and the tempo of a real chemical process are amplified; no colour is added that the lakes do not take.
The play it buys — Vertical route legibility. From the arrival mouth the player can see the whole chapter's climb and its destination, so the survival opener has a goal without a quest marker, and the lake that is changing colour is the one that tells him something is happening up there.
Altered law — None, deliberately. The tempo change is a compression of a real mineral process, not a vril effect, and the same spine constraint that governs B1 applies: the recharge waterfall is the region's only vril surface.
Amplifies Panel A option — A2
plate PLT_0001_B2_1 · hero view · rights generated_local · image use GENERATED-CLEAN-WEIGHTS · lane P · pending · cites SRC_00193
plate PLT_0001_B2_2 · the amplified law in action · rights generated_local · image use GENERATED-CLEAN-WEIGHTS · lane P · pending · cites SRC_00193
B3 — The fan at work
What was amplified — Density and depth. The lodok fan runs down the valley to the restored pre-colonial forest, so worked ground and standing forest meet as a real edge. The Wae Rebo bowl deepens under moving cloud.
What stayed true — The radial geometry, the count and proportion of the cones, the compang at the true centre, the crop set, and the measured fact that the fan lies on the valley floor below the settled edge rather than at its doorstep.
The play it buys — The fan's radial ribs become the traversal grammar: the ribs are the paths, the boundary planting is the stealth cover, and the Ch-3 broker's land pressure shows up as gaps in a pattern the player has already learned to walk. Damage to a system is only readable if the system was legible first.
Altered law — None. The restored forest cover is a documented historical state reached through the chapter's own time-fluctuation window, not an invention.
Amplifies Panel A option — A3
plate PLT_0001_B3_1 · hero view · rights generated_local · image use GENERATED-CLEAN-WEIGHTS · lane P · pending · cites SRC_00230
plate PLT_0001_B3_2 · the amplified law in action · rights generated_local · image use GENERATED-CLEAN-WEIGHTS · lane P · pending · cites SRC_00230
Panel B recommendation — B1
It is the only option whose amplification is a strict superset of the recommended Panel A rather than of a reading we did not take, and it is the only one that buys a mechanic the chapter is actually missing. Chapter 2 has no dialogue, no map and no marker; navigation-by-attended-point is a real answer to that, and it costs nothing in canon because every point it lights is a point the tradition already lights. It also has the cleanest audit surface of the three: what was amplified is contrast, air and motion, and a reviewer can check that claim against any accurate plate in ten seconds.
Strongest objection — B1 amplifies almost nothing a good photograph could not already show, which makes it the least enhanced of the three and arguably gives the 5090 nothing to do. B3 is the option that actually buys a new world state — the restored pre-colonial forest edge — and therefore the option that most justifies having a generative pipeline at all. If the answer to that objection is that the first board should be conservative while the pipeline calibrates, that is a defensible reason, but it is a scheduling reason, not an art reason, and it should be said out loud rather than smuggled into the recommendation.
Panel C — the surrounding recommendations
STORY SUPPORT
C-ST-1 — What this region is doing for its chapters — Thread 3, individual corruption, opens here through Rangku Wera and the polo's vital-force bargain — a purely local human victim of the pattern the arc is secretly about, with no family, no operative chain and no name to surface. Thread 1's vital-force register lands as semangat, the culturally named form of the substrate. The region's job for the whole arc is to establish that a landscape can be occupied and owed, which is the ground the Ch-3 land contract and the Ch-63 revisit both stand on. [target docs/spine/CH_02.md · Threads advancing [SRC: CH_02 # Threads advancing]]
C-ST-2 — The Kelimutu carved mark — FORK_CH02_A writes a carved mark at the crater cavern that survives as an ancient-to-modern world-state anchor and is read again at the Ch-63 Pacific and Oceania continental revisit, with reception varying by the Ch-2 and Ch-3 Manggarai path state. It is non-gating: the recognition opens or alters aid and lore, never walls progression. Whatever the board rules for the crater's material and light is therefore load-bearing sixty chapters later. [target T0_Inscription_Spine @ INSC_77H_CH02_FRAGMENT · CH_63 [SRC: T0_Inscription_Spine @ INSC_77H_CH02_FRAGMENT]]
SIDE QUESTS
C-SQ-1 [RECOMMENDED] — Sit to One Side — walking a landscape that is alive — The exact tutorial of the recommended reading: the player learns, by consequence rather than by instruction, that some ground is attended and some is not, and that you sit to one side of it. If A1 and B1 are taken, this is the quest that makes the visual law playable, which is why it is the marked card. [target EXR_SRC_00203/S04 · CH_02 · festival_or_daily_immersion [SRC: T0_Source_Material_Registry @ SRC_00203]]
C-SQ-2 — What the Land Wants — the water-source renewal — The ngoéng-de-tana contract in its own form, at the wae. Pays off the visual law with the mechanic it was teaching. [target EXR_SRC_00203/S01 · CH_03 · mini_arc_situation [SRC: T0_Source_Material_Registry @ SRC_00203]]
C-SQ-3 — Ata to Hoga — earning the inside name — The Nage second axis, the one that runs inside the human world: ata for the outsider, hoga for one's own known kind. The protagonist arrives as ata. This is the social spine of the region and it surfaces through how NPCs address him, never through exposition. [target EXR_SRC_00457/S01 · CH_02 · mini_arc_situation [SRC: T0_Source_Material_Registry @ SRC_00457]]
C-SQ-4 — The Spider at the Centre-Stone — The mori de tana gives a visible sign: a spider appears on a field's lodok centre-stone and walks. If A3's or B3's fan geometry is taken, this is the beat that makes the centre-stone matter. [target EXR_SRC_00203/S03 · CH_03 · encounter [SRC: T0_Source_Material_Registry @ SRC_00203]]
EASTER EGGS
C-EE-1 — Watu Dia Meo, the Stone of the Cat's Cave — A named stone with its own story, findable and worth nothing mechanically. The completionist and no-kill tier's kind of reward. [target EXR_SRC_00230/S11 · region_page_section [SRC: T0_Source_Material_Registry @ SRC_00230]]
C-EE-2 — The readable stratum — One clean layer face in the Liang Bua wall, readable as deep time by a player who looks. The science mark of the region, credited to its documented excavation and never to a lost race or an external teacher — and never staged as an active dig. [target docs/spine/CH_02.md · Civilizational marks [SRC: CH_02 # Civilizational marks]]
EXPLORATION, ADVENTURE AND ACTION HOOKS
C-EX-1 — The three-lake rim traverse — Kelimutu carries the region's only climactic_geometry and sacred affordances and hosts the Ch-2 main boss across the waterfall caverns. The rim is the chapter's climax geography and the board's ruling on its light is the ruling on that fight's light. [target Zone Catalog @ kelimutu_crater_lakes · BE_0002 phases CH02_B07 / CH02_B08 [SRC: T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry @ BE_0002] [SRC: T0_Region_Index @ flores_island]]
C-EX-2 — The two agility courses, rotated — Ch 2's course is the forest canopy, canopy-horizontal. Ch 3's is the mbaru niang five-storey ascent, architecture-vertical and biome-rotated against it. One course per chapter across three variants, ruled. The board's silhouette law decides whether the second one reads as a building or as a climbing frame. [target T0_Hard_Lines @ HL_0079 · flores_island.md Section 7 [SRC: T0_Hard_Lines @ HL_0079] [SRC: T0_Region_Index @ flores_island]]
C-EX-3 — The dual-serpent guardian pair — Komodo dragon and reticulated python at the recharge source, framed as a guardian-test that opens the source rather than as a hunt. Combat is permitted and real; the framing is the point. [target T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0001, CR_0002 · BE_0002_S1 [SRC: T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0001] [SRC: T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0002] [SRC: T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry @ BE_0002_S1]]
NEARBY IMPORTANT ZONES
C-NZ-1 — The three-zone column down the slope — Forest margin above, settled edge in the middle, worked fan below — lingko_forest_edge, then manggarai_village_edge, then compang_lingko_fields, each box's north parallel meeting the one above it. Ruled by Josh on 2026-07-27, and measured: the fan footprint reads mean elevation 941.2 m, five metres below the village edge, slope mean 3.3 degrees, and zero intersection by area with any other zone box on the page. Whatever the board rules for the fan's palette is the same ruling for all three, because they are one slope. [target flores_island.md Zone Catalog · zone-bounds derivation note [SRC: T0_Region_Index @ flores_island]]
C-NZ-2 — The two waterfalls as a pair — VS_CH02_001 at the recharge falls is passive; VS_CH03_001 at Mama Klara's falls is a recharge ritual that permanently raises the vril-capacity floor. Both are real falling water, both route to terrain rather than to the generative mesh backend, and the second must read as the same kind of place as the first or the escalation is invisible. [target T0_Vril_Site_Registry @ VS_CH02_001, VS_CH03_001 [SRC: T0_Vril_Site_Registry @ VS_CH02_001] [SRC: T0_Vril_Site_Registry @ VS_CH03_001]]
Panel C recommendation — C-SQ-1. One marked recommendation for the panel, and it is the card that converts the picked visual law into playable behaviour in the same chapter it is established. If Panel A and Panel B are taken as recommended, this quest is what stops the addressed-landscape grammar from being decoration.
Strongest objection — C-NZ-1 has a better claim to being marked, because it is the only card that changes what gets BUILT rather than what gets played — three zones inherit one palette ruling from it, and it is already measured and ruled ground. The reason it is not marked is that it is not really a recommendation at all: it is a consequence of the pick, and it applies whichever Panel A option is taken.
The pick line
The pick is FILLED and the board is PICKED — the lines below are the recorded ruling, and the ratified reading lives in the art bible the manifest row names.
pick_panel_a — A2 · amendment A1 addressed-threshold typology MANDATED as zone-scale set dressing within A2's macro frame; the three conditions bind every consumer of this pick: NO DRIFT; FUN AND BEAUTIFUL; ACTION-ADVENTURE-FANTASY-RPG (Josh's ruling 2026-08-06 per DECISIONS_PENDING_JOSH the brief-bundle answers; his verbatim pick line is quoted in docs/art_bibles/flores_island.md)
pick_panel_b — B2 · amendment B2 + cards completed by the director 2026-08-11 under the 2026-08-03 PICKS-DELEGATED ruling (Josh's 2026-08-06 ruling scoped to Panel A); deciding axis: canon fidelity - B2 amplifies the PICKED MACRO FRAME A2 (the pick has two halves; B1 amplifies the mandated A1-dressing half; the Panel-B budget goes to the macro frame the establishing board exists to rule); AMENDMENT: at zone scale the mandated A1 dressing carries the real-optics motion cue set B1 named (wind on cloth; hanging spray at the spring head) while the B pick itself is B2 alone; B2's citation-line weakness (both its plates cite the AUTHORIAL-REBUTTAL SRC_00193) is disclosed and overruled in the bible with the Lane-R acquisition condition carried; B3 rejected with the reason named in the bible; C-SQ-1 the marked build plus consequence-cards C-EX-1 / C-NZ-1 / C-NZ-2 routed; the remaining eight cards deferred not dropped
pick_cards_c — C-SQ-1|C-EX-1|C-NZ-1|C-NZ-2
more_like_this — (unfilled)
Visual register
generation_eligible PARTIAL — Panel A is Lane R only. Panel B may run Lane P, generation over a Lane-R underlay, on the six standard-care zones. The five elevated-care zones can never dispatch to Lane G at all: the composer refuses and emits a Lane-R plate request instead (CONCEPT_ART_PROGRAM 4.4).
Free visual grammar
The addressed-threshold typology. A spring head, a great tree, a doorway and a field's centre-stone are each quietly owned, and each shows it: nitu mata wae at the spring, nitu kazu at forest trees, nitu mbaru sao at houses. Swept ground, a set stone, a tied cloth, a cleared approach. [SRC: SRC_00469 SRC_00203]
The compang centre-stone with settlement radiating from it, and the lingko lodok fields fanning out onto the lower ground below the settled edge — not at its doorstep. The arc's first human-built axis mundi. [SRC: SRC_00230]
The mbaru niang: five-storey conical timber houses under ijuk thatch, seven of them in a cloud-forest bowl at Wae Rebo. Reference-built as protected living heritage. [SRC: SRC_00230]
The Ngada megalithic ngadhu and bhaga platforms, reference-built and protected. [SRC: SRC_00230]
Backstrap cotton-ikat weaving, the Flores material-culture craft that seeds Trade 6 through the weaver Emma. [SRC: SRC_00230]
Materials and palette: limestone karst and cool cave air, volcanic stone, wet cloud-forest green thinning to ash-grey on the Inerie slopes, dry-season ash-and-clear weather on arrival, and the Kelimutu lakes' real mineral colour set. [SRC: SRC_00193 SRC_00483]
Style register: realistic-ethnographic for the Flores community, the cave and the volcanic terrain. Mythologically-stylised only for the polo's vril-hollow register and the Ebu Gogo. [SRC: SRC_00457]
Named visual exclusion
may_not/balinese_javanese_markers/no_candi_or_meru_tiered_temple_roof_no_candi_bentar_split_gate_no_penjor_on_any_flores_plate — No Balinese or Javanese marker on any Flores plate — no tiered candi or meru temple roof, no split gate, no penjor. Bali is Chapter 4. Compositing across Indonesian traditions to make a prettier plate is the exact defect the accuracy panel exists to catch.
may_not/toraja_tongkonan/no_boat_prow_roof_on_a_manggarai_house — No Toraja tongkonan boat-prow roofline on a Manggarai house. That form is Sulawesi.
may_not/vril_society_iconography/no_polar_energy_or_race_mystical_marking_anywhere_in_the_region — No Bulwer-Lytton or Vril-Society polar-energy iconography and no race-mystical marking anywhere. Semangat is a living-tradition vital-force concept; the firewall is absolute.
may_not/fairy_realm_script/no_legible_fairy_realm_script_before_the_ch_08_reveal_HL_0095 — No legible fairy-realm script anywhere in the region. The realm object recovered at CH02_B11 is plain and uninscribed by design (HL_0095).
may_not/velheim_marks/no_house_name_no_crest_no_repeating_family_pattern — No House-of-Velheim name, crest or repeating family pattern. The family first appears at Chapter 8; the Ch-2 and Ch-3 corruptions predate it entirely.
may_not/tropified_dukun/no_cauldron_no_bone_kit_no_horror_witch_register_on_the_healer_HL_0005 — No cinema-shorthand tropification of the dukun or the folklore beings — no cauldron, no skull-and-bone shaman kit, no horror-witch register on Mama Klara. She is benevolent, inviolate and never a target (HL_0005).
may_not/mission_era_iconography_in_present/the_jing_placation_mass_belongs_to_the_section_18_colonial_window — No mission-era Christian iconography in the chapters' present. The one recorded jing placation rite is a mission-era Mass, and that telling belongs to the colonial time-fluctuation window, not to Chapters 2 and 3.
may_not/active_excavation/liang_bua_referenced_never_reproduced_as_a_dig — No reproduction of the Liang Bua excavation as an active dig, and no Homo floresiensis body reconstruction rendered as a living character in the present.
may/malevolence_named_in_tradition/the_polo_the_roused_darat_and_the_naga_tana_are_the_traditions_own_agents — Malevolence is rendered, and it is grounded in the traditions' own named agents: the polo, the roused darat, the naga tana holding its contract. This is a rated-M game and the accuracy bar binds in both directions — scrubbing what the tradition actually says is as much a failure as inventing what it does not.
must/community_never_antagonist/the_ch_03_antagonist_is_the_broker_and_his_apparatus — The Manggarai community is never the antagonist. The Ch-3 land pressure routes through Ngoéng Tana the broker and his bought champion, never through the people.
Plate state
Every option on this board is fully specified and decidable today. No plate has been produced yet, and this section says exactly why rather than showing something that pretends otherwise.
Panel A — PENDING ACQUISITION — 9 plates, Lane R
The Lane-R reference store at E:/refs_lane_r exists and is EMPTY. Nothing has been acquired for any region yet. REALM_ANALYSIS_ART_PIPELINE 2.2 names this exactly: Lane R is the one the repo is best positioned for and the one nobody has scheduled.
Flores is a living tradition, so Panel A can never be generated. Producing a plate here means acquiring rights-cleared imagery of a real place, one item at a time, each with its rights value verified — not running a model. That is an acquisition task with a rights check per item, and doing it badly is worse than not doing it.
Each of the nine rows already carries its committed rights class, so the acquisition step is bounded rather than open: a plate routed to museum_open_access may only be filled from that class, and filling it from another one is an amendment that fires regeneration_required through the prompt hash.
TWO ROWS WERE RE-ROUTED AFTER THIS BOARD FIRST RENDERED, and the correction is recorded here rather than quietly applied. A2's palette plate and A3's palette plate were both routed licensed. REALM_DESIGN_PROGRAM 3.4 rules that value as licensed WITH THE LICENCE IDENTIFIED, and neither row identified one — A2's cited the owned National Geographic run, which BOOKS_OWNED section 8 calls a production art-reference asset and never calls a licence, and A3's named no licensor at all. Owning a source is not holding a licence to reproduce it. Both are now routed public_domain, to source classes this same board already commits to on its neighbouring plates, and each plate's source line carries the reason.
There was also nowhere on a plate row to identify a licence even if one existed: PLATES.csv's only licence column is generation_licence_ref, the C-12 MODEL licence, which reads n_a_lane_r on all nine Lane-R rows because no model ran. A new column, image_use_class, now carries the IMAGE-side permission per row — the image-lane analog of the book-substrate lane's use_class field that REALM_DESIGN_PROGRAM 3.4 names as the precedent to copy. The gate fails any plate routed licensed whose image_use_class is empty or names a class without naming the grant.
Panel B — PENDING GENERATION — 6 plates, Lane P
Lane P, the ruled default for Panel B, is generation over a Lane-R underlay so that the enhanced option is a superset of the accurate one BY CONSTRUCTION rather than by a reviewer's judgement. With Lane R empty there is no underlay, so the only available route is raw Lane G — which inverts the reality-is-the-floor rule on the very board that establishes it.
The ruled primary generator for the place classes is HiDream-O1-Image-Dev, with Qwen-Image-2512 as the realism fallback. Neither is installed. The only image model on the box is Z-Image-Turbo (11.46 GB at bf16, Apache-2.0), which the roster assigns to fast iteration and variant sweeps, not to hero place plates.
PIPE_ART benchmark question 3 is still open, and it is a MODEL SELECTOR: the de-slop critic's unlabeled-relabel test run across HiDream-O1, Qwen-Image-2512 and Z-Image-Turbo, where whichever model's plates are least interchangeable wins. Generating the program's first board on the one model that happens to be installed would pre-empt that ruling with an accident.
The scheduling law says board generation is a night job. The 08:00-20:00 window admits exactly one art tenant at 8 GB or under; Z-Image-Turbo at 11.46 GB does not fit it. This pass ran at 14:56 local.
Panel C — COMPLETE — 11 cards, no generation required
Panel C is text by design and needs no pipeline. It is the part of this board that is finished, and it is where the board delivers real decidable value today.
Critic record
Cultural authenticity — GO WITH FIXES
calibration — Run in both directions, per the standing ruling that care-tier inflation is a defect and that a critic which only ever pushes toward restraint produces reverent empty places.
FIX — A3's citation line rests on SRC_00230, which is a Keo people-to-land source, while the lingko and compang institution being depicted is Manggarai. The region page already flags this and names the pending anchor — Erb, The Manggaraians, on the MUST-ACQUIRE list. FOLDED: the weakness is now a CITATION CAVEAT block inside A3's own option card, above the plate list, so it travels with the option a reader is evaluating instead of sitting in this appendix at the bottom of the page; and the acquisition of the Manggarai anchor is named there as the condition for A3 being pickable without an amendment. It was NOT folded at first pass — the claim was written here while the option card said only 'credited to Manggarai adat', so a reader who picked A3 never met the caveat at all. The claim and the artifact now agree.
FIX — The Ebu Gogo were absent from the board entirely, and the omission was the timid kind. They are a real Nage tradition and a real ambient presence in the Ch-2 deep stratigraphy, and leaving them off an establishing board leaves the region's mythologically-stylised register unruled. FOLDED: added to the free grammar as the named style-register split, and the exclusion list now carries the two things that actually need forbidding — no replay of the villagers' cave-burning, and no Homo floresiensis reconstruction as a living present-day character — rather than forbidding the beings themselves.
NOTE — Checked for the opposite failure and did not find it: the board renders the polo, the roused darat and the naga tana as their traditions' own named agents, keeps malevolence in frame, and does not defang a single one of them. The one inviolate figure, Mama Klara, is inviolate by canon and not by timidity.
Physics coherence — GO WITH FIXES
FIX — B2's colour-shift amplification was drafted as a vril coupling, which contradicts the spine directly: the region's only vril surface is the recharge waterfall, and the recharge mechanic is the only surface through which the substrate is shown, never declared. FOLDED: B2's altered law is now None, and the amplification is a tempo compression of a real mineral process. The board states the constraint so the next region board does not re-derive it.
FIX — B2's hero plate as first briefed could not carry a rate — a single still frame cannot show something changing. FOLDED: B2's second plate is now specified as a PAIR, two moments of the same rim, because the claim is about a rate and the evidence has to be able to bear the claim.
NOTE — B1's amplifications are all real optics — contrast against a darkened surround, a spray column made visible by drifting water, wind on cloth as the only motion in a still frame. Each is checkable against an unamplified photograph, which is the property that makes the reality-is-the-floor rule auditable rather than aspirational.
NOTE — B3's restored forest edge is reached through the chapter's own documented time-fluctuation window, so it is a historical state and not an altered law. No mechanism needs naming because none was bent.
AAAAA de-slop (the unlabeled-relabel test) — GO WITH FIXES
instrument — The test was run on the option TEXT, not on plates, because there are no plates. That is a weaker instrument than the ruled one and it is recorded as such: the real unlabeled-relabel test runs on images and has not been run.
FIX — Ran the relabel test by stripping the option names and rationales and asking whether each brief could be reassigned to a different Indonesian region without contradiction. A1 and A3 survived — they name Manggarai-specific institutions that exist nowhere else. A2's original brief did NOT: a vertical volcanic island with coloured crater lakes describes a dozen places. FOLDED: A2 is now anchored on Tiwu Ata Polo by name and on the Lio reading of altitude as nearness to the dead, which is the thing that makes it Flores and not Java.
FIX — Checked for the depopulated establishing shot, the most common failure of a region board. Two of the three Panel B briefs had no person in them. FOLDED: B1's second plate is now at the player's eye level walking, and B3's is on a rib at shoulder height, so the region is established at human scale and not only from the ridge.
NOTE — Checked symmetry-and-centrality, the most common generative-image tell. No brief on this board asks for a centred symmetrical hero composition; the fan is explicitly off-centre below the settled edge, and the ladder is a band structure rather than a centred subject.
NOTE — Checked the monotone-register failure. The region's own register is not uniform: the survival-horror opener at Liang Bua and Kelimutu, and the inhabited social warmth of the Wae Rebo bowl, are different rooms. The board carries both, and a Panel A option that rendered all of Flores in one mood would have failed here.
Reveal discipline — GO
NOTE — No House-of-Velheim name, crest or pattern appears anywhere on this board, and the exclusion list carries that as an explicit token. The family first appears at Chapter 8; the Ch-2 and Ch-3 corruptions predate it entirely, so there is nothing to leak.
NOTE — No fairy-realm script is legible on any plate brief. The realm object recovered at CH02_B11 is not boarded here at all — it is the separate P0 equipment board — and HL_0095's constraint is carried into the exclusion list so a later Flores plate cannot break it by accident. SUPERSESSION NOTE (director ruling R-G, 2026-08-03): this line was the half of the double-routing that read as an ownership claim by omission, and the ownership is now RULED rather than implied — the realm object is owned by D1-26 / EQ_0001 on the equipment leaf BRD_0012, and every other board, this one included, consumes it BY REFERENCE and never designs it. CH_02.md:234's anchor is realized there. The registry's authored 'Mother's Amulet' string is a REGISTRY LABEL and not an in-world name; CH_02.md:234 reserves the naming for the player-facing surface, and no plate, caption or board copy renders the string.
NOTE — The Grand Sage is dark, and nothing on this board reaches toward the thesis. Checked the Kelimutu mark specifically: it is written here and read at Ch 63, which is a forward reference in the world state and not a reveal in the picture.
NOTE — Checked the downstream routing rule that this critic actually guards: no art bible for a later node is referenced by this region, and no early-chapter zone here references anything past Ch 13.
Canon coverage — what this board does not carry
62 things docs/spine/CH_02.md and docs/spine/CH_03.md name between them; 5 are on this board and 57 are not. GATE 39 holds the residue — a canon-named thing neither carried nor named here — at zero.
AUSTRONESIAN_ORAL_FLORES — an oral or vril-trace script register is a LANGUAGE-LANE obligation; nothing on a region establishing board depicts it (registries/T0_Language_Script_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
A_E_001 — ability VFX and read-grammar belong to the combat/VFX lane, which inherits this board's palette and light rules rather than setting them (registries/T0_Ability_Tree_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
A_E_002 — ability VFX and read-grammar belong to the combat/VFX lane, which inherits this board's palette and light rules rather than setting them (registries/T0_Ability_Tree_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
A_E_003 — ability VFX and read-grammar belong to the combat/VFX lane, which inherits this board's palette and light rules rather than setting them (registries/T0_Ability_Tree_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
A_F_001 — ability VFX and read-grammar belong to the combat/VFX lane, which inherits this board's palette and light rules rather than setting them (registries/T0_Ability_Tree_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
A_T_001 — ability VFX and read-grammar belong to the combat/VFX lane, which inherits this board's palette and light rules rather than setting them (registries/T0_Ability_Tree_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
A_T_002 — ability VFX and read-grammar belong to the combat/VFX lane, which inherits this board's palette and light rules rather than setting them (registries/T0_Ability_Tree_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
CHAR_0001 — a region establishing board carries no faces or fauna by construction (it rules place, not person) -- the standing reason HOLDS, and under director ruling R1 the four lane-G candidate plates that realize this id were moved off BRD_0001 onto the per-density-class leaf board BRD_0006 (D1-09), where the pick is recorded row-grain in docs/art_boards/RECS.csv (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0002 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0006 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0008 — a region establishing board carries no faces or fauna by construction (it rules place, not person) -- the standing reason HOLDS, and under director ruling R1 the four lane-G candidate plates that realize this id were moved off BRD_0001 onto the per-density-class leaf board BRD_0007 (D1-11), where the pick is recorded row-grain in docs/art_boards/RECS.csv (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0009 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0010 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0011 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0012 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0013 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0014 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0015 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0016 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0017 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0018 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0019 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0020 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0021 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CHAR_0022 — per-character design is a CHARACTER-SHEET obligation; a region establishing board carries no faces by construction (it rules place, not person) (registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1])
CR_0003 — a region establishing board carries no faces or fauna by construction (it rules place, not person) -- the standing reason HOLDS, and under director ruling R1 the four lane-G candidate plates that realize this id were moved off BRD_0001 onto the per-density-class leaf board BRD_0010 (D1-15), where the pick is recorded row-grain in docs/art_boards/RECS.csv (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0004 — a region establishing board carries no faces or fauna by construction (it rules place, not person) -- the standing reason HOLDS, and under director ruling R1 the four lane-G candidate plates that realize this id were moved off BRD_0001 onto the per-density-class leaf board BRD_0010 (D1-15), where the pick is recorded row-grain in docs/art_boards/RECS.csv (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0005 — a region establishing board carries no faces or fauna by construction (it rules place, not person) -- the standing reason HOLDS, and under director ruling R1 the four lane-G candidate plates that realize this id were moved off BRD_0001 onto the per-density-class leaf board BRD_0010 (D1-15), where the pick is recorded row-grain in docs/art_boards/RECS.csv (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0006 — a region establishing board carries no faces or fauna by construction (it rules place, not person) -- the standing reason HOLDS, and under director ruling R1 the four lane-G candidate plates that realize this id were moved off BRD_0001 onto the per-density-class leaf board BRD_0010 (D1-15), where the pick is recorded row-grain in docs/art_boards/RECS.csv (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0010 — the ambient-fauna and folklore-being set is a CREATURE-SHEET obligation, not a region establishing board: this board rules the island's silhouette, palette and material grammar, and every creature sheet built for Flores inherits that grammar from it. The row is live in the roster and unboarded (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0012 — the ambient-fauna and folklore-being set is a CREATURE-SHEET obligation, not a region establishing board: this board rules the island's silhouette, palette and material grammar, and every creature sheet built for Flores inherits that grammar from it. The row is live in the roster and unboarded (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0013 — the ambient-fauna and folklore-being set is a CREATURE-SHEET obligation, not a region establishing board: this board rules the island's silhouette, palette and material grammar, and every creature sheet built for Flores inherits that grammar from it. The row is live in the roster and unboarded (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0014 — the ambient-fauna and folklore-being set is a CREATURE-SHEET obligation, not a region establishing board: this board rules the island's silhouette, palette and material grammar, and every creature sheet built for Flores inherits that grammar from it. The row is live in the roster and unboarded (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0015 — the ambient-fauna and folklore-being set is a CREATURE-SHEET obligation, not a region establishing board: this board rules the island's silhouette, palette and material grammar, and every creature sheet built for Flores inherits that grammar from it. The row is live in the roster and unboarded (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
CR_0016 — the ambient-fauna and folklore-being set is a CREATURE-SHEET obligation, not a region establishing board: this board rules the island's silhouette, palette and material grammar, and every creature sheet built for Flores inherits that grammar from it. The row is live in the roster and unboarded (registries/T0_Creature_Roster [DRAFT v0.1])
INSC_77H_CH03_FRAGMENT — the fragment carrier's physical form is an INSCRIPTION/PROP obligation and is reveal-fenced (HL_0095) until the Ch-8 script reveal (registries/T0_Inscription_Spine [ACTIVE v0.1])
LIANG_BUA_VRIL_TRACE — an oral or vril-trace script register is a LANGUAGE-LANE obligation; nothing on a region establishing board depicts it (registries/T0_Language_Script_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
LINK_0014 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0016 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0034 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0036 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0043 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0071 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0106 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0107 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0108 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0109 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0110 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0112 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0117 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0119 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0137 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0146 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
LINK_0152 — an L2 discovery gate is a narrative link, not a depicted surface; it renders through the inscription and lore lanes, never as a plate on a region board (registries/T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph [DRAFT v0.1])
MASTERY_CH03_NEOPHYTE_FIRST_DELIBERATE — the mastery-unlock read is a mechanic surfaced by the inscription lane, not a depicted plate on a region board (registries/T0_Inscription_Spine [ACTIVE v0.1])
NW_0001 — a region establishing board carries no faces or fauna by construction (it rules place, not person) -- the standing reason HOLDS, and under director ruling R1 the four lane-G candidate plates that realize this id were moved off BRD_0001 onto the per-density-class leaf board BRD_0007 (D1-11), where the pick is recorded row-grain in docs/art_boards/RECS.csv (registries/T0_Antagonist_Network_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1])
WPN_033 — the caci whip-and-shield weapon design is a WEAPON-SHEET obligation; this board fixes only the material vocabulary the sheet draws from (registries/T0_Weapon_Registry [DRAFT v0.1])
Added beyond the ruling, for veto
The MANIFEST carries three columns the ruled 9.3 schema does not list — recommend_panel_a, recommend_panel_b and recommend_cards_c. They exist because the charter's exactly-one-marked-recommendation-per-panel rule is explicitly gate-enforced and was unarmable without somewhere to record the mark. Named here for veto.
PLATES carries citation_refs at plate grain as well as board grain, so the empty-citation-line disqualifier can be checked per plate rather than only per board. Named here for veto.
PLATES carries a lane column (R / P / G) that the 9.3 schema does not list. It makes the routing decision explicit on the row instead of inferring it from the rights value. Named here for veto.
PLATES carries an image_use_class column that the 9.3 schema does not list either. It exists because 3.4 rules the licensed rights value as licensed WITH THE LICENCE IDENTIFIED and there was nowhere on the row to identify one — generation_licence_ref is the C-12 MODEL licence and reads n_a_lane_r on every Lane-R plate. Its vocabulary is a closed seven-token set built from 3.4 and 4.2a's own words, and it carries REFERENCE over verbatim from the book-substrate lane's use_class field, which 3.4 names as the precedent to copy rather than invent. The token grammar TOKEN or TOKEN:identifier is the shape critic_verdicts already uses, so no new punctuation was minted. Named here for veto.
A2 carries a CITATION CAVEAT that no critic asked for. The confirmed finding was about A3's citation line; the standing law is that a ruling is the floor and the defect CLASS gets swept rather than the named instance, so A2's line was checked too and it is weaker in a different way — both its cited plates rest on SRC_00193, which the region page files AUTHORIAL-REBUTTAL, for a geological claim. Disclosing it rather than fixing it is deliberate: the fix is acquiring a volcanological anchor, and inventing a citation to close the gap would be the worse error. Named here for veto.
The orientation strip at the top of the page is a derived schematic drawn from the Zone Catalog's measured coordinates. It is deliberately not a plate, carries no rights value and never enters the marketing set. Named here for veto.
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