canon/registries/T0_Theme_Registry [DRAFT v0.1]/T0_Theme_Registry.csv
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| theme_id | theme_name | theme_type | canonical_anchor | mood_tags | instrumentation_substrate | cultural_substrate | era_substrate | recurrence_anchors | hard_line_relevance | composer_in_loop_required | generation_status | generation_prompt_hash | last_generated_timestamp | music_cue_id_ref | cinematic_anchor_array | notes | extensions | populated_from | recent_changes | last_updated | version | tempo_bpm | bar_length | per_stem_role | ue_sound_asset_path | row_class | parent_theme_id | regeneration_trigger | generation_licence_ref | tier | motif_class | reveal_gate | closure_policy | allow_register_list | deny_register_list | head_cell_spec | transformation_plan | payoff_node | carrier_voice | cohort | family_thread_refs | independence_test | plant_node | diegetic_surface |
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| PROTAGONIST_THEME | Protagonist Theme | character | protagonist identity per CVD §1 elven royal child arc spanning Prologue through Ch 77 | ["heroic", "contemplative", "intimate", "transcendent"] | orchestral with solo instrument leitmotif evolution by age stage | all eras across 77-chapter arc | ["canonical recurrences across all chapters with age-stage variant per T1_Story_Spine cascade"] | Grand Sage reveal Ch 76-77 only no pre-reveal thematic leak per CVD §17.5 | True | pending | leitmotif evolves across age stages; thematic kinship to GRAND_SAGE_REVEAL makes pre-reveal leak high-risk | {} | {"theme_name": ["T0_Schema_Dictionary §3.17"], "canonical_anchor": ["CVD §1", "T1_Story_Spine"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.5"], "composer_in_loop_required": ["T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts §3.6 Decision 4B"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | NONE | withhold_to_CH_77 | every register the journey enters, re-scored per the node's own register card; the fairy-realm register at the origin (docs/spine/CH_PROLOGUE.md # music_mood) and at the Ch-77 return | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 4-note head, PURELY STEPWISE (chosen so it survives the fragile solo statements this arc leans on), singable inside a ninth; the ONE deviant is a borrowed degree on the third note. Never triad-outlining -- that choice belongs to the motifs that must survive a loud orchestra | the SINGLE-THEME ARC (doctrine 1.7): the Prologue statement and the Ch-77 statement are the same tune and the player must feel the distance. Budgeted at 8 of the 6-10 allowed operations -- augmentation at the losses, diminution in pursuit, fragmentation as the combat-layer form, reharmonisation at e | CH_77 | one solo carrier, re-voiced per age stage | 1 | cardinal: not tested | CH_PROLOGUE | CH_02 :: CH02_B10 :: gong | |||||||||||||
| HOUSE_OF_VELHEIM_THEME | House of Velheim Theme | family | antagonist family canonical authority per T4_House_of_Velheim_Canonical | ["ominous", "antagonistic", "foreboding", "ceremonial", "militant"] | orchestral with low brass plus dissonant strings; ceremonial percussion at sector activations | all eras across 77-chapter arc | ["antagonist family operative scenes across 77 chapters", "Architect appearances Ch 18 to Ch 68"] | Velheim and Cassius Velheim canonical antagonist family and patriarch names per CVD §17.7 | True | pending | anchors all 8 sectors per T4 sector roster; pan-institutional without cultural tradition anchor | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["T4_House_of_Velheim_Canonical"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.7"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | CH_38 | withhold_to_CH_76 | the institutional and ceremonial registers of the apparatus itself -- the court, the company, the station, the ledger room; these are PAN-INSTITUTIONAL and belong to no living culture | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 3-note head, TRIAD-OUTLINING (it must survive a loud orchestra and, more importantly, must survive being buried under a market bed in the pre-gate statements); the ONE deviant is a metric oddity -- the cell enters a beat early, every time, which is what makes it recognisable when nothing names it | contour inversion at the false versions, augmentation at the ceremonial sector activations, fragmentation for every PRE-GATE statement (see PATTERN_UNNAMED_PREGATE), combination with the region's own bed reserved for the Ch-38 reveal itself -- that combination IS the reveal, stated with no dialogue | CH_38 | low brass over dissonant strings; ceremonial percussion only at sector activations | 1 | T03;T14 | PASS all three: 36 anchors CH_02..CH_68 (>=5 nodes); on-screen agent (the apparatus is pointable long before it is nameable); state changes | CH_38 | |||||||||||||
| ARCHITECT_THEME | Architect Theme | character | Architect canonical appearances Ch 18 to Ch 68 per CVD canonical authority | ["ominous", "intellectual", "manipulative", "foreboding"] | orchestral with prepared piano plus dissonant string overlays; materialized argument construct audio per Pipeline §10 | Ch 18 onward through Ch 68 | ["Architect appearance scenes per T0_Antagonist_Network_Registry appearance_scene_array"] | pre-Ch 18 no Architect cinematic leak; antagonist family identity discipline per CVD §17.7 | True | pending | variant motif of HOUSE_OF_VELHEIM_THEME at antagonist family architectural authority anchor | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["T4_House_of_Velheim_Canonical", "CVD"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.7"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | CH_38 | withhold_to_CH_68 | prepared piano and dissonant string overlay; the materialized-argument construct register per pipeline 10 | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 3-note head derived from HOUSE_OF_VELHEIM_THEME by one interval substitution (the family cell's rising third becomes a rising fourth), triad-outlining; the ONE deviant is the substituted interval itself | reharmonisation as the signature operation (the argument re-founds itself rather than escalating), fragmentation at each appearance, augmentation once at Ch 68 | CH_68 | prepared piano | 2 | T03 | PASS all three: Ch 18..Ch 68; on-screen agent; changes state | CH_38 | |||||||||||||
| CASSIUS_PHASE_1 | Cassius Velheim | character | Cassius Velheim BE_0076 The Two Courts Phase 1 at Ch 76, stage P1a SOCIAL, canonical authority per T4_House_of_Velheim_Canonical | ["militant", "antagonistic", "climactic"] | orchestral climactic with full brass plus driving percussion | Ch 76 | ["SCENE_CH76_TWO_COURTS_INTRO"] | Cassius Velheim is the canonical patriarch name per HL_0035 (naming canon — HL_0035 carries no timing rule), and the patriarch motif may not sound before Ch 76, where he is NAMED for the first time in the arc per the ratified endgame topology (docs/spine/CH_76.md §9); the thesis and the Grand Sage s | True | pending | THE CARDINAL CASSIUS MOTIF -- one motif with three logged transformations, per the RULED cardinal-roster reconciliation (docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md section 1.5, approved by Josh at the twenty-second sitting 2026-07-29; the ruling record labels that work order section 1.9). P1a SOCI | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["T4_House_of_Velheim_Canonical"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.7"]} | ["2026-07-29 THE CARDINAL MOTIF ROSTER RECONCILIATION, RULED by Josh (twenty-second sitting, ruling 4): this row becomes THE cardinal Cassius motif; theme_name retitled to Cassius Velheim; row_class cardinal_theme; CASSIUS_PHASE_2 and CASSIUS_PHASE_3 re-classed as its cue_variants; theme_id unchange | 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z | 1.1.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | CH_76 | resolve_at_CH_76 | orchestral climactic, full brass and driving percussion at the combat stage; the SOCIAL stage is chamber-scaled and holds the head statement | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 5-note head, triad-outlining, singable inside a ninth; the ONE deviant is one unusual leap -- a descending seventh on the fourth note | ONE motif, THREE logged transformations, escalating by CARRIER MIGRATION rather than by three identities (doctrine 6.5): P1a SOCIAL states the head at chamber scale, P1b COMBAT is the same head under diminution with the carrier migrated to full brass, P1c RESOLUTION is the closure change, three endi | CH_76 | chamber at P1a, full brass at P1b, full ensemble with choral overlay at P1c | 3 | T03 | cardinal: not tested | CH_76 | |||||||||||||
| CASSIUS_PHASE_2 | Cassius Phase 2 | character | Cassius Velheim BE_0076 Phase 1 stage P1b COMBAT at Ch 76 — the recombination fight | ["militant", "antagonistic", "escalating"] | orchestral with intensified brass plus accelerated percussion plus dissonant strings | Ch 76 | ["SCENE_CH76_CASSIUS_PHASE_TRANSITION"] | Cassius Velheim is the canonical patriarch name per HL_0035 (naming canon — HL_0035 carries no timing rule), and the motif is Ch-76-only per the ratified endgame topology (docs/spine/CH_76.md §9); the thesis and the Grand Sage stay held to Ch 77 per HL_0043 plus HL_0044; the antisemitism guardrail p | True | pending | CUE VARIANT of CASSIUS_PHASE_1 -- the COMBAT transformation of the one cardinal Cassius motif, not a separate identity (the RULED cardinal-roster reconciliation, docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md section 1.5, approved 2026-07-29 twenty-second sitting). row_class = cue_variant, parent_them | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["T4_House_of_Velheim_Canonical"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.7"]} | ["2026-07-29 THE CARDINAL MOTIF ROSTER RECONCILIATION, RULED by Josh (twenty-second sitting, ruling 4): re-classed row_class cue_variant with parent_theme_id CASSIUS_PHASE_1 -- the COMBAT transformation of the one cardinal Cassius motif; anchors, scene array and hard-line clauses unchanged"] | 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z | 1.1.0 | cue_variant | CASSIUS_PHASE_1 | A | tune | CH_76 | open | inherits CASSIUS_PHASE_1 | inherits CASSIUS_PHASE_1 (HL_0109 binds identically) | inherits CASSIUS_PHASE_1 -- a transformation, not a head | DIMINUTION of the parent head with the carrier migrated to full brass; the recombination fight at CH76_B04 | CH_76 | full brass, accelerated percussion | 3 | T03 | cue_variant: not tested | CH_76 | ||||||||||||
| CASSIUS_PHASE_3 | Cassius Phase 3 | character | Cassius Velheim BE_0076 Phase 1 stage P1c RESOLUTION at Ch 76 — resolved per the Ch-65-locked band via FORK_CH76_A | ["climactic", "antagonistic", "transcendent"] | orchestral climactic peak with full ensemble plus ceremonial percussion plus choral overlay | Ch 76 | ["SCENE_CH76_CASSIUS_RESOLUTION_TRULY_GOOD", "SCENE_CH76_CASSIUS_RESOLUTION_GOOD_ENOUGH", "SCENE_CH76_CASSIUS_RESOLUTION_EVIL"] | the resolution motif resolves per the Ch-65-locked band at Ch 76 per CVD §17.7; three-ending differentiation with no convergence cue per CVD §17.5; the antisemitism guardrail per HL_0109 binds the purge register — a separation of a condition from a man, never a people from their place | True | pending | CUE VARIANT of CASSIUS_PHASE_1 -- the RESOLUTION transformation of the one cardinal Cassius motif, not a separate identity (the RULED cardinal-roster reconciliation, docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md section 1.5, approved 2026-07-29 twenty-second sitting). row_class = cue_variant, parent_ | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["T4_House_of_Velheim_Canonical"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.7"]} | ["2026-07-29 THE CARDINAL MOTIF ROSTER RECONCILIATION, RULED by Josh (twenty-second sitting, ruling 4): re-classed row_class cue_variant with parent_theme_id CASSIUS_PHASE_1 -- the RESOLUTION transformation of the one cardinal Cassius motif; anchors, scene array and hard-line clauses unchanged"] | 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z | 1.1.0 | cue_variant | CASSIUS_PHASE_1 | A | tune | CH_76 | resolve_at_CH_76 | inherits CASSIUS_PHASE_1 | inherits CASSIUS_PHASE_1; the purge register per HL_0109 is a separation of a CONDITION from a man, never of a people from their place | inherits CASSIUS_PHASE_1 -- a transformation, not a head | CLOSURE CHANGE, realised three ways for the three Ch-65-locked bands, with no convergence cue between them | CH_76 | full ensemble with choral overlay | 3 | T03 | cue_variant: not tested | CH_76 | ||||||||||||
| GRAND_SAGE_REVEAL | Grand Sage Reveal | event | Grand Sage identity reveal, the protagonist's own consciousness, released at Ch 77 within the canonical Ch 76-77 reveal window per HL_0043 plus HL_0044 | ["transcendent", "contemplative", "climactic", "tragic"] | orchestral with solo instrument echo of PROTAGONIST_THEME plus choral transcendent overlay | Ch 77 | ["SCENE_CH77_FINAL_REVEAL"] | Grand Sage reveal released at Ch 77 per HL_0043; no pre-Ch-76 thematic leak per HL_0044 — art direction and music are named surfaces of that hard line; no thesis declaration through musical statement per CVD §17.9; the Grand Sage never speaks per HL_0046, so no vocal line carries the motif | True | pending | thematic kinship to PROTAGONIST_THEME makes pre-reveal leak especially high-risk; composer-in-loop discipline critical; the motif emerges from the PROTAGONIST_THEME echo after the silence at recognition and carries no voice per HL_0046; re-keyed from the superseded Ch-76 home at the endgame re-casca | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["CVD", "T1_Story_Spine"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.5", "CVD §17.9"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | CH_77 | resolve_at_CH_77 | the solo carrier of PROTAGONIST_THEME, echoed, plus a transcendent choral overlay | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | the PROTAGONIST_THEME head cell, re-heard: same 4 notes, and the identity comes entirely from what the harmony underneath has become. It is therefore the one cardinal tune whose head is NOT new material | REHARMONISATION as the whole operation -- the motif emerges from the protagonist echo after the silence at recognition. Budgeted at ONE transformation, deliberately: a motif that appears once cannot leak | CH_77 | solo carrier into wordless choir | 4 | cardinal: not tested | CH_77 | ||||||||||||||
| ENDING_TRULY_GOOD | Ending Truly Good | ending | Truly Good ending L1 per Five Integrity Three Path framework CVD §7 plus T1_Integrity_Paths_Worldstates_Master | ["triumphant", "redemptive", "transcendent", "intimate"] | orchestral with PROTAGONIST_THEME resolution plus pre-rift reunion thematic echo | Ch 77 | ["SCENE_CH77_ENDING_TRULY_GOOD"] | three-ending differentiation no convergence cue per CVD §17.5 | True | pending | pre-rift familiar reunion canonical at Truly Good path per Familiar canon | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["CVD §7", "T1_Integrity_Paths_Worldstates_Master"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.5"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | CH_77 | resolve_at_CH_77 | PROTAGONIST_THEME's own carrier, at the band's register | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | PROTAGONIST_THEME's head, unchanged. These are CLOSURE-CHANGE realisations under an integrity band, not three new tunes | CLOSURE CHANGE only (resolution of the withheld cadence for band L1); the authentic cadence on the tonic is reserved for the whole game and spent here | CH_77 | the protagonist carrier at band register | 4 | cardinal: not tested | CH_77 | ||||||||||||||
| ENDING_GOOD_ENOUGH | Ending Good Enough | ending | Good Enough ending L2 per Five Integrity Three Path framework | ["contemplative", "bittersweet", "hopeful", "mournful"] | orchestral with PROTAGONIST_THEME partial resolution plus minor-tonality bittersweet harmony | Ch 77 | ["SCENE_CH77_ENDING_GOOD_ENOUGH"] | three-ending differentiation no convergence cue per CVD §17.5 | True | pending | middle path resolution; canonical bittersweet character | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["CVD §7", "T1_Integrity_Paths_Worldstates_Master"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.5"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | CH_77 | resolve_at_CH_77 | PROTAGONIST_THEME's own carrier, at the band's register | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | PROTAGONIST_THEME's head, unchanged. These are CLOSURE-CHANGE realisations under an integrity band, not three new tunes | CLOSURE CHANGE only (partial resolution of the withheld cadence for band L2); the authentic cadence on the tonic is reserved for the whole game and spent here | CH_77 | the protagonist carrier at band register | 4 | cardinal: not tested | CH_77 | ||||||||||||||
| ENDING_EVIL | Ending Evil | ending | Evil ending L4 plus L5 collapsed at Ch 65 per Five Integrity Three Path framework | ["tragic", "antagonistic", "climactic", "ominous"] | orchestral with PROTAGONIST_THEME corruption variant plus HOUSE_OF_VELHEIM_THEME convergence | Ch 77 | ["SCENE_CH77_ENDING_EVIL"] | three-ending differentiation no convergence cue per CVD §17.5; antagonist family identity discipline per CVD §17.7 | True | pending | L4 and L5 collapsed terminal at Ch 65 per integrity band canon | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["CVD §7", "T1_Integrity_Paths_Worldstates_Master"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.5", "CVD §17.7"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | CH_77 | resolve_at_CH_77 | PROTAGONIST_THEME's own carrier, at the band's register | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | PROTAGONIST_THEME's head, unchanged. These are CLOSURE-CHANGE realisations under an integrity band, not three new tunes | CLOSURE CHANGE only (corruption variant of the withheld cadence for band L4+L5); the authentic cadence on the tonic is reserved for the whole game and spent here | CH_77 | the protagonist carrier at band register | 4 | cardinal: not tested | CH_77 | ||||||||||||||
| VIMANA_ACTIVATION | Vril and Wonder: the Vimana Activation | event | Vimana facility activation canonical authority per T1_Vril_and_Magic_System_Master Ch 55 Atacama plus Ch 58 Antarctica | ["transcendent", "ritualistic", "climactic", "ceremonial"] | orchestral with electronic-acoustic hybrid for special-asset cues plus ceremonial choral overlay; Vimana propulsion SFX layer per §10 | Ch 55 Ch 58 | ["SCENE_CH55_VIMANA_ACTIVATION", "SCENE_CH58_VIMANA_ACTIVATION"] | Vimana facility canonical authority per T1_Vril | True | pending | vril-substrate-defense canonical mechanic per T1_Vril §12.5; special-asset cue category; RETITLED 2026-07-29 by the RULED cardinal-roster reconciliation (docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md section 1.5): this row occupies the vril and wonder slot, and the wonder identity is a HARMONIC-TRANS | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["T1_Vril_and_Magic_System_Master"], "era_substrate": ["T1_Story_Spine"]} | ["2026-07-29 THE CARDINAL MOTIF ROSTER RECONCILIATION, RULED by Josh (twenty-second sitting, ruling 4): theme_name retitled to the wonder-identity framing (a harmonic-transformation identity whose cardinal payoff surface is the Vimana activation); canonical_anchor unchanged; row_class cardinal_theme | 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z | 1.1.0 | cardinal_theme | A | harmonic | NONE | open | electronic-acoustic hybrid over ceremonial choral overlay; the vril-site registers of every anchor-density node | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | NOT A TUNE. A harmonic-transformation identity: a chromatic-mediant voice-leading gesture with no fixed melody. It therefore takes the PROGRESSION-RECOGNITION TEST (doctrine Appendix T.4) and NEVER the hummability checklist -- and T.4 must be authored and dry-run before this theme starts | reharmonisation is the identity, so the catalogue applies differently: the budgeted operations are register substitution and expansion of the gesture's span, six across the arc, peaking at the Ch-55 and Ch-58 activations | CH_58 | hybrid; no single carrier by design | 2 | T01;T22;T09 | cardinal: not tested | CH_55 | CH_57 :: CH57_B01 :: song | ||||||||||||
| FAMILIAR_BOND | Familiar Bond | concept | familiar bond canonical framework per T1_Ability_Tree v1.1.1+ plus CVD §17.12 cardinal numerical canon 22 player slots | ["intimate", "warm", "ceremonial", "bonded"] | solo instrument leitmotif per species substrate; ceremonial percussion at bond-quest activation | varies per species region per Pillar 10 regional combat identity | all eras across 77-chapter arc | ["bond quest activation scenes across 77-chapter arc per T0_Familiar_Registry bond_quest_id"] | 22 familiar slots 21 base plus path-variable 22nd per CVD §17.12 plus T1_Ability_Tree §5D-§5G | True | pending | per-species variant motif at canonical bond moment; Truly Good 22nd pre-rift reunion canonical per Familiar canon | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["T1_Ability_Tree", "CVD §17.12"], "hard_line_relevance": ["CVD §17.12", "T1_Ability_Tree"]} | [] | 2026-05-16T15:30:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | NONE | withhold_to_CH_58 | a solo carrier per species substrate, in the register of the region that species belongs to; ceremonial percussion at bond-quest activation | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 3-note head, triad-outlining (it must read under 22 different species carriers); the ONE deviant is one unusual leap -- an ascending sixth into the third note, which is the interval every per-species variant keeps | per-species CARRIER MIGRATION is the whole mechanism (22 slots base, 33 at the Epilogue): the tune does not change, the voice does. Plus augmentation at bond-quest completion and ONE combination -- with PROTAGONIST_THEME at the Ch-58 reunion, reserved as a relationship reveal | CH_58 | per species | 1 | cardinal: not tested | ||||||||||||||
| HOME_AND_LOSS | Home and Loss | concept | the fairy-realm home and the one thing its abundance cannot give back: Talvaeren, the sovereign seat and the childhood home inside it (docs/spine/CH_PROLOGUE.md, docs/spine/CH_01.md), the mother written by relation and never by name, and the Mother's Amulet (EQ_0001) passed from her throat to the ne | ["intimate", "warm", "mournful", "contemplative"] | orchestral at chamber scale with a single solo carrier voice; the fairy-realm register of the Prologue and Ch 1 (the ceiling-abundance and childhood-abundance cues), full and luminous and unhurried at the origin, reduced to near-silence at the mother's scene, and returning to the abundance register | all eras across 77-chapter arc; origin statement at the Prologue and Ch 1 | ["the origin statements and the departure payoff on the v3.1 spine -- beats CHPRO_B07, CHPRO_B16, CH01_B13, CH01_B08, CH02_B11 and CH13_B13; no SCENE_ rows exist for these nodes (T0_Scene_Spec_Registry currently covers the endgame only), so the anchors are named as beats rather than minted as a dang | the Prologue and Ch 1 are hard-line nodes and show-don't-tell is absolute: NO prophetic or foreshadow cue may sound anywhere in the origin (HL_0116 plus HL_0043 plus HL_0046) -- no dread swell under the chase, no held note as the amulet comes off the neck, no minor turn before the rift, and the exit | True | pending | Tier A, motif_class tune, row_class cardinal_theme -- NEW row minted by the RULED cardinal-roster reconciliation (docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md section 1.5, approved by Josh at the twenty-second sitting 2026-07-29) into a Tier-A slot freed by the Cassius collapse. THE IDENTITY: the ho | {} | {"theme_name": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.5"], "canonical_anchor": ["docs/spine/CH_PROLOGUE.md", "docs/spine/CH_01.md", "docs/spine/CH_13.md", "T0_Equipment_Registry @ EQ_0001", "T0_Arc_Index @ ARC_0001", "docs/proposals/AMULET_PROVENANCE_BRIEF.md"], "instrumentation_substrate" | ["2026-07-29 MINTED by THE CARDINAL MOTIF ROSTER RECONCILIATION, RULED by Josh (twenty-second sitting, ruling 4), into a Tier-A slot freed by the Cassius collapse; the cardinal roster pins at exactly twelve"] | 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | NONE | resolve_at_CH_13 | the fairy-realm register of the Prologue and Ch 1 -- full, luminous, unhurried at the origin; reduced to near-silence at the mother's scene; returning to the abundance register INTACT AND UNIRONISED at the exit, because the plenitude is REAL and the score must never retroactively mourn it | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 5-note head, purely stepwise, chamber-scaled; the ONE deviant is a metric oddity -- the phrase begins on the second beat and never resolves onto a downbeat, which is why it can be stated at the origin without weight and still ache at Ch 13 | augmentation at the mother's scene (weight and memory), reduction to the head cell alone as the child crosses the seam at CH01_B08, unchanged restatement at CH02_B11 when the object is recovered out of the ground, and the CLOSURE CHANGE at CH13_B13 when it is given away -- the one cadence the slice | CH_13 | a single solo carrier, chamber scale | 1 | T20 | cardinal: not tested | CH_PROLOGUE | CH_02 :: CH02_B10 :: gong | ||||||||||||
| JOURNEY_WORLD | Journey and World | concept | the overworld and travel identity of the seventy-seven-chapter journey: the 78 inter-node travel seams of the 79-node spine (Prologue through Epilogue), typed T0 CONTINUOUS / T1 THRESHOLD / T2 CONVEYANCE / T3 RITUAL ELISION under the RULED tiered-traversal doctrine -- playable navigable crossings co | ["heroic", "contemplative", "hopeful", "warm"] | an orchestral home voice with a single solo carrier, re-scored into each region's own register as the journey crosses it: period-appropriate instrumentation per region and per era, wordless voice only (hums, chants, harmonies) and only where the register card allows it, and ambient texture treated a | all eras across 77-chapter arc | ["every inter-node travel seam across the 79-node spine (78 seams, typed T0-T3; zero typed on disk today per SEAM_TYPING_SPEC section 0.3) plus the per-region overworld traversal of each chapter"] | the per-region re-scoring is REFERENCE-COMPOSITION in each tradition's own terms -- instrumentation, mode or scale, ensemble shape and era descriptors -- and is never sampling of consecrated performance and never a fine-tune on one (the sourcing law). CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in musi | True | pending | Tier A, motif_class tune, row_class cardinal_theme -- NEW row minted by the RULED cardinal-roster reconciliation (docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md section 1.5, approved by Josh at the twenty-second sitting 2026-07-29) into a Tier-A slot freed by the Cassius collapse. THE DEFINING TRANSFO | {} | {"theme_name": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.5"], "canonical_anchor": ["docs/proposals/systems/SEAM_TYPING_SPEC.md 0.1-0.2", "docs/spine/DECISIONS_PENDING_JOSH.md # RULED 2026-07-27 FORK C"], "instrumentation_substrate": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 0", "docs/pro | ["2026-07-29 MINTED by THE CARDINAL MOTIF ROSTER RECONCILIATION, RULED by Josh (twenty-second sitting, ruling 4), into a Tier-A slot freed by the Cassius collapse; the cardinal roster pins at exactly twelve"] | 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | cardinal_theme | A | tune | NONE | withhold_to_CH_77 | EVERY region's own register, period-appropriate per node and per era, wordless voice only (hums, chants, harmonies) and only where that node's register card allows it; ambient texture is part of the score | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 4-note head, triad-outlining so it survives re-scoring into ensembles with no shared tuning system; the ONE deviant is one unusual leap. Its head-motif stinger is composed to each region's tonic and its relative ONLY | the defining surface is PER-CULTURE REGISTER MIGRATION -- the same tune re-scored into an entirely different civilisational voice and still recognisably the same tune (the Nerevar Rising to Dragonborn precedent). The budget is spent on orchestration migration, register substitution and reharmonisati | CH_77 | an orchestral home voice with a single solo carrier, re-voiced per region | 1 | T18;T05 | cardinal: not tested | CH_PROLOGUE | CH_02 :: CH02_B10 :: gong | ||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_SUBSTRATE | The Substrate | thread_family | T0_Thread_Registry @ T01, heading the family that covers threads T01;T22;T09 | True | pending | Tier-B FAMILY head minted by the leitmotif architecture pass. The roster is SEVEN families over the 22 threads, inside the doctrine's five-to-seven band. Never a cardinal row: the cardinal roster is pinned at twelve. | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["registries/T0_Thread_Registry"], "head_cell_spec": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.4"], "deny_register_list": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.9", "CVD 17.1"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | NONE | open | the stone-and-resonance registers of each node's vril sites | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a SHARED head cell plus a SHARED harmonic signature; every inheriting thread takes this cell with EXACTLY ONE interval substituted and a distinct carrier voice. Inheritance is the default and independence is earned -- 22 independent themes exceeds any listener's recognition budget and produces mush | Vril Parallels heads it (24 anchors, CH_PROLOGUE..CH_72, resolving CH_77). Sacred Stones and The Great Work INHERIT: same head cell, one interval substituted, a distinct carrier voice each | 2 | T01;T22;T09 | HEAD EARNS INDEPENDENCE (all three tests): the head thread T01 recurs across far more than five nodes, has an on-screen agent, and changes state. Every other thread in T01;T22;T09 INHERITS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_MADE_PLACE | The Made Place | thread_family | T0_Thread_Registry @ T13, heading the family that covers threads T13;T18;T05 | True | pending | Tier-B FAMILY head minted by the leitmotif architecture pass. The roster is SEVEN families over the 22 threads, inside the doctrine's five-to-seven band. Never a cardinal row: the cardinal roster is pinned at twelve. | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["registries/T0_Thread_Registry"], "head_cell_spec": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.4"], "deny_register_list": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.9", "CVD 17.1"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | NONE | open | the ceremonial and processional registers of the architecture each node builds | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a SHARED head cell plus a SHARED harmonic signature; every inheriting thread takes this cell with EXACTLY ONE interval substituted and a distinct carrier voice. Inheritance is the default and independence is earned -- 22 independent themes exceeds any listener's recognition budget and produces mush | Sacred Geometry heads it (24 anchors, CH_04..CH_51). Sacred Mountains and Tree of Life INHERIT -- all three are the same idea at three scales: a built thing, a raised thing, an axis | 2 | T13;T18;T05 | HEAD EARNS INDEPENDENCE (all three tests): the head thread T13 recurs across far more than five nodes, has an on-screen agent, and changes state. Every other thread in T13;T18;T05 INHERITS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_WRITTEN | The Written | thread_family | T0_Thread_Registry @ T17, heading the family that covers threads T17;T07;T12;T20 | True | pending | Tier-B FAMILY head minted by the leitmotif architecture pass. The roster is SEVEN families over the 22 threads, inside the doctrine's five-to-seven band. Never a cardinal row: the cardinal roster is pinned at twelve. | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["registries/T0_Thread_Registry"], "head_cell_spec": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.4"], "deny_register_list": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.9", "CVD 17.1"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | NONE | open | the recitation and scriptorium registers; the chant grammars each node's register card admits | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a SHARED head cell plus a SHARED harmonic signature; every inheriting thread takes this cell with EXACTLY ONE interval substituted and a distinct carrier voice. Inheritance is the default and independence is earned -- 22 independent themes exceeds any listener's recognition budget and produces mush | Sacred Languages heads it (39 anchors -- the largest thread in the roster, CH_02..CH_69). Numerology, Oracle and Sacred Objects INHERIT | 2 | T17;T07;T12;T20 | HEAD EARNS INDEPENDENCE (all three tests): the head thread T17 recurs across far more than five nodes, has an on-screen agent, and changes state. Every other thread in T17;T07;T12;T20 INHERITS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_TURNED | The Turned | thread_family | T0_Thread_Registry @ T03, heading the family that covers threads T03;T14 | True | pending | Tier-B FAMILY head minted by the leitmotif architecture pass. The roster is SEVEN families over the 22 threads, inside the doctrine's five-to-seven band. Never a cardinal row: the cardinal roster is pinned at twelve. | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["registries/T0_Thread_Registry"], "head_cell_spec": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.4"], "deny_register_list": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.9", "CVD 17.1"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | CH_38 | open | pan-institutional registers only -- the court, the company, the station | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a SHARED head cell plus a SHARED harmonic signature; every inheriting thread takes this cell with EXACTLY ONE interval substituted and a distinct carrier voice. Inheritance is the default and independence is earned -- 22 independent themes exceeds any listener's recognition budget and produces mush | Antagonist Family Pattern heads it (36 anchors, CH_02..CH_68). Blood and Sacrifice INHERITS. This family is REVEAL-GATED at CH_38 and its head is stated unnamed before then -- see PATTERN_UNNAMED_PREGATE | 2 | T03;T14 | HEAD EARNS INDEPENDENCE (all three tests): the head thread T03 recurs across far more than five nodes, has an on-screen agent, and changes state. Every other thread in T03;T14 INHERITS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_OTHER_SELF | The Other Self | thread_family | T0_Thread_Registry @ T06, heading the family that covers threads T06;T15;T11 | True | pending | Tier-B FAMILY head minted by the leitmotif architecture pass. The roster is SEVEN families over the 22 threads, inside the doctrine's five-to-seven band. Never a cardinal row: the cardinal roster is pinned at twelve. | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["registries/T0_Thread_Registry"], "head_cell_spec": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.4"], "deny_register_list": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.9", "CVD 17.1"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | NONE | open | the masking, festival and mortuary registers each node documents | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a SHARED head cell plus a SHARED harmonic signature; every inheriting thread takes this cell with EXACTLY ONE interval substituted and a distinct carrier voice. Inheritance is the default and independence is earned -- 22 independent themes exceeds any listener's recognition budget and produces mush | Dying-Rising God heads it (18 anchors, CH_PROLOGUE..CH_75). The Twin and The Trickster INHERIT -- the doubling is the shared idea and contour inversion is the shared operation | 2 | T06;T15;T11 | HEAD EARNS INDEPENDENCE (all three tests): the head thread T06 recurs across far more than five nodes, has an on-screen agent, and changes state. Every other thread in T06;T15;T11 INHERITS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_DEEP_WATER | The Deep Water | thread_family | T0_Thread_Registry @ T02, heading the family that covers threads T02;T04;T19 | True | pending | Tier-B FAMILY head minted by the leitmotif architecture pass. The roster is SEVEN families over the 22 threads, inside the doctrine's five-to-seven band. Never a cardinal row: the cardinal roster is pinned at twelve. | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["registries/T0_Thread_Registry"], "head_cell_spec": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.4"], "deny_register_list": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.9", "CVD 17.1"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | NONE | open | the water, monsoon and coastal registers; the serpent-tradition registers each node attests | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a SHARED head cell plus a SHARED harmonic signature; every inheriting thread takes this cell with EXACTLY ONE interval substituted and a distinct carrier voice. Inheritance is the default and independence is earned -- 22 independent themes exceeds any listener's recognition budget and produces mush | The Serpent heads it (37 anchors, CH_02..CH_75, resolving CH_77). Flood Memory and End-of-World INHERIT | 2 | T02;T04;T19 | HEAD EARNS INDEPENDENCE (all three tests): the head thread T02 recurs across far more than five nodes, has an on-screen agent, and changes state. Every other thread in T02;T04;T19 INHERITS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_LIVING_VOICE | The Living Voice | thread_family | T0_Thread_Registry @ T21, heading the family that covers threads T21;T10;T16;T08 | True | pending | Tier-B FAMILY head minted by the leitmotif architecture pass. The roster is SEVEN families over the 22 threads, inside the doctrine's five-to-seven band. Never a cardinal row: the cardinal roster is pinned at twelve. | {} | {"canonical_anchor": ["registries/T0_Thread_Registry"], "head_cell_spec": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.4"], "deny_register_list": ["docs/proposals/MUSIC_COMPOSITION_DOCTRINE.md 1.9", "CVD 17.1"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | NONE | open | the vril-active ensemble registers -- the Flores gong-waning, the Bali gamelan and its kotekan interlock, and every later node's own ensemble | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a SHARED head cell plus a SHARED harmonic signature; every inheriting thread takes this cell with EXACTLY ONE interval substituted and a distinct carrier voice. Inheritance is the default and independence is earned -- 22 independent themes exceeds any listener's recognition budget and produces mush | Music and Sound as Creation heads it (13 anchors, CH_03..CH_57) -- and it heads it because this thread is the one where music IS the mechanic, not the scoring. Mother Goddess, Dream Traditions and Mystery Schools INHERIT | 2 | T21;T10;T16;T08 | HEAD EARNS INDEPENDENCE (all three tests): the head thread T21 recurs across far more than five nodes, has an on-screen agent, and changes state. Every other thread in T21;T10;T16;T08 INHERITS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FAM_THE_OTHERWORLD | The Otherworld | realm_family | the eleven realms of the Realm Road and the endgame fairy-realm return; CVD 19.8 | True | pending | The first of the doctrine's two deliberately-NOT-cardinal identities, minted here as the doctrine 1.5 work order specifies. | {} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | family_head | B | tune | NONE | open | each realm's own invented register, per the realm design directive -- these are REAL otherworlds and take grandest-display treatment, not a generic ethereal wash | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a family cell, deliberately NOT a cardinal slot: the realm design directive builds realms LAST (the fairy realm last of all, at slice-end on the matured concept-art pipeline), and a cardinal slot cannot be held open that long | per-realm carrier substitution; the fairy-realm variant is composed LAST and is the only one permitted to quote HOME_AND_LOSS | CH_77 | 5 | family head by RULING rather than by test (doctrine 1.5: 'the endgame realm becomes a Tier-B family head') | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| VOICE_COLOUR_SIGNATURE | The Voice Colour | timbral | the wordless-vocal register of the doctrine (section 3): hums, chants and harmonies, no lyric text | True | pending | The second of the doctrine's two deliberately-NOT-cardinal identities. | {} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | timbral_signature | B | timbre | NONE | open | wordless choir and solo voice, in each node's own vocal practice where its register card admits one | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | NOT A TUNE and NOT A PROGRESSION -- a SOUND that is the identity. It takes the ATMOSPHERE BAR (doctrine 2.4) and never the hummability checklist, which it would fail by construction. Forcing a colour into a cardinal tune slot is how a good identity gets scored against the wrong ruler | it threads the score rather than recurring: density, register and vowel colour are the operations, and there is no melodic transformation budget because there is no melody | wordless choir | 2 | T21 | registered OUTSIDE the twelve tune slots by ruling (doctrine 1.5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| COMPANION_HEALERS_CHILD | The One Who Stays | companion | CHAR_0002, the healer's child, who has walked the route as the unsigned watcher since Ch 3 and steps from watcher into travelling companion at CH13_B01, where she signs her first note Ntala and opens the evidence journal (HL_0070, the one canonical Ch-13 join-and-journal beat) | CH13_B01 (the join and the journal); the unsigned-watcher appearances from Ch 3 onward carry the head cell ALONE, one statement per node, never the phrase -- ANCHORS INCOMPLETE: the ten watcher statements (Ch 3 through Ch 12) are NAMED here and are not yet beat ids, so the emitter derives ONE cue ro | True | pending | The MAIN COMPANION motif. Its whole design problem is that the payoff must be felt and never explained -- so the transformation budget is spent on the head-cell-alone appearances that make CH13_B01 land as recognition. | {} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | companion_theme | B | tune | NONE | withhold_to_CH_66 | the register of whichever node she is walking through -- she is the companion who crosses regions with the player, so her carrier migrates exactly as JOURNEY_WORLD's does | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | 3-note head, purely stepwise, deliberately small: she is a watcher for ten chapters before she is a companion, and a watcher's motif has to survive being almost inaudible. The ONE deviant is a borrowed degree on the last note | the head cell ALONE for every unsigned-watcher appearance Ch 3 to Ch 12 -- fragmentation used as PRESENCE rather than as foreshadow, which is legitimate here because there is nothing held: she is really there and the player really can see her. The full phrase is first stated at CH13_B01 when she sig | CH_13 | a second solo carrier, chosen to duet with the protagonist's without doubling it | 1 | PASS all three: recurs Ch 3..Ch 66 (>>5 nodes); on-screen agent (the player can point at her from Ch 3); changes state (watcher to companion to keeper of the record) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| CHILDHOOD_CONSTANCY | The One Who Stayed | character | the Ch-1 best friend, the player's own choosing and the chapter's warmth: 'the one who stayed while others turned' (docs/spine/CH_01.md # Body prose); the argument left unmended at CH01_B12 | CH01_B03 (the friend); CH01_B11 (the childhood's own days); CH01_B12 (the argument) | True | pending | A cue_variant rather than a new identity, so no cardinal or Tier-B slot moves. | {} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | cue_variant | HOME_AND_LOSS | B | tune | NONE | open | the childhood-abundance register of HOME_AND_LOSS -- warm, unhurried, small-scaled | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a cue variant of HOME_AND_LOSS, not a new identity: the parent's head at childhood scale and childhood tempo | a single warm restatement per appearance, and NOTHING at the argument -- the argument beat's correct cue is the abundance register CONTINUING unbothered, because that is what actually happens to a childhood afternoon after a fight, and it is also the only setting that refuses to editorialise | CH_01 | the HOME_AND_LOSS carrier, lighter | 1 | INHERITS by design: giving the best friend an independent identity would make the childhood readable as setup, which HL_0116 forbids | |||||||||||||||||||
| PATTERN_UNNAMED_PREGATE | The Recurrence | pattern | Thread 3 at its pre-family scales across the slice and beyond -- the individual bargain at Ch 2, the institutional forms at Ch 11, Ch 12 and Ch 13 (the rubber station, the coast factory, the mining superintendent BE_0013), each a real local antagonist and none of them named as anything larger | POPULATED BY THE NEXT PASS, deliberately: each statement must be placed against its own node's staging by a lane that has read that node, and a hand-typed anchor list here would be exactly the invented-canon failure this repo gates against. The cue emitter arms its reveal firewall the moment the fir | True | pending | THE ANTAGONIST PATTERN, PRE-GATE. Named 'The Recurrence' precisely because the name may say what the cue DOES and never what it MEANS. | {} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | cue_variant | HOUSE_OF_VELHEIM_THEME | B | tune | CH_38 | withhold_to_CH_38 | whatever the local apparatus sounds like, stated so quietly it reads as texture: the head cell alone, one statement per node, never the phrase, never a swell, never on a face | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | the parent's 3-note head, fragmented -- and the fragment is the whole point. An UNNAMED RECURRING MOTIF IS THE LEITMOTIF'S POWER: the player is meant to have heard this eleven times before anyone tells them it means anything, so that the Ch-38 statement is a recognition rather than an introduction | FRAGMENTATION on every pre-gate statement, and no other operation is permitted before Ch 38 -- augmentation, combination or a mode shift would each announce that the score has an opinion. At Ch 38 the parent states the full phrase for the first time; that is the payoff the eleven fragments bought | CH_38 | a different local carrier every time, so the listener remembers the SHAPE and never the sound | 1 | T03 | INHERITS by construction: it is the parent motif held, not a second identity. Modelled exactly on the ruled Cassius collapse -- one motif, logged transformations, no foreign-key churn | ||||||||||||||||||
| REGION_FLORES_ISLAND | flores_island region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/flores_island.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_02;CH_03 | the gong-waning tuned gong-and-drum ensemble and its interlocking-cycle structure -- the region's Thread-21 vril-active instrument and the arc's first audible vril resonance; the ceremonial drumming that scores the caci rounds | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/flores_island.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_BALI | bali region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/bali.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_04 | the gamelan -- the interlocking bronze orchestra whose kotekan figuration is the chapter's musical architecture -- plus the gender wayang of the wayang accompaniment; here music is STRUCTURE and not scoring, and the cell must be playable inside the ensemble's own rules | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/bali.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_SUMATRA_JAVA | sumatra_java region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sumatra_java.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_05 | a VOICE vocabulary rather than an ensemble: sung lament, chanted spell, arranged prayer, narrative riddle, told story -- the page states plainly that its manuscript sources carry almost no instrumental ethnography, and the gondang bed is carried as ambience rather than as a system | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sumatra_java.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_ANGKOR_KHMER | angkor_khmer region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_05 | the pinpeat-class ceremonial ensemble and the temple bells and conches of Mahayana devotion; on the Cham leg the ginang drum and saranai flute of the living Kate rite at Po Klong Garai | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_SRI_LANKA | sri_lanka region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sri_lanka.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_06 | chanting as the dominant register, and the page gives it a PROCEDURE rather than an atmosphere -- doors and windows shut, the reciter ringed, escalating to the stupa courtyard; plus the all-night preaching hall, which the page itself calls a distinctive audio bed | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sri_lanka.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_SOUTH_INDIA | south_india region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/south_india.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_07 | the master's VOICE is the living instrument of the kalari: the vayttari, the verbal commands recited as students exercise; plus the temple percussion orchestra at a kalari's inauguration, and on the Tamil side the Vedic chanting register and the devotional-verse tradition | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/south_india.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_SWAHILI_COAST | swahili_coast region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/swahili_coast.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_08 | the thinnest music lane on any slice page and the page says so first: what is attested is women singing as the burning hut is circled at the Makunduchi New Year, evening dance, and a later dance-hall layer. The cell is built from those three and nothing else | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/swahili_coast.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_ETHIOPIA | ethiopia region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/ethiopia.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_09 | the vernacular instrument vocabulary the record supplies and glosses: karar the six-string lyre, bagana the floor-resting harp, masanqo the one-stringed fiddle, kabaro the tree-trunk kettledrum; plus the sistra and prayer-staffs of the tabot procession | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/ethiopia.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_RIFT_VALLEY | rift_valley region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/rift_valley.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_10 | NO instrument is attested in this corpus and the page says so before it says anything else. The content is the Ju|'hoansi healing-dance clapping and the women's song-line rising at the n/um dance, at REFERENCE register only -- a composed cue that honours the shape of the practice, never a recording | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/rift_valley.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_CENTRAL_AFRICA_CONGO | central_africa_congo region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/central_africa_congo.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_11 | the molimo trumpet, whose songs have few words and whose central one says the forest is good, running nightly from evening to the small hours and growing more serious toward morning; and the women's cascading downward chorus, each holding her note as the others enter, swelling until the breath is go | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/central_africa_congo.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_WEST_AFRICA | west_africa region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/west_africa.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_12 | the tension or talking drums (dundun), some with light bronze bells and personalised cloth and streamers, which have frequently replaced the Ogboni drums in the king's court and royal festivals; plus the oriki praise register and the dawn register | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/west_africa.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition | |||||||||||||||||
| REGION_SOUTH_AFRICA | south_africa region cell | region_cell | _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/south_africa.md Section 10 (Music Sound and Composition Brief); chapters CH_13 | a CATALOGUE OF SHORT NAMED SONGS rather than one regional theme, because the archive's organising principle is that a song belongs to a specific creature, person or state -- the Cat's Song, the Song of the Caama Fox, the Songs of the Blue Crane, the Song of the Springbok Mothers, the Broken String; | as that page's Section 10 documents it, and no wider | True | pending | Slice region cell. Its instrumentation_substrate is copied from the page's own Section 10 rather than composed here, so a composer reading this row is reading the page. | {} | {"instrumentation_substrate": ["_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/south_africa.md # Section 10"]} | [] | 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z | 1.0.0 | region_cell | JOURNEY_WORLD | C | tune | NONE | open | this page's Section 10 documented instruments and technique, reference-composed | no consecrated-performance sampling and no fine-tune on one (the sourcing law); no region's own register used as the threat signal, systematically darkened, inverted or menace-coded (CVD 17.1 collective protection expressed in music -- the darkening operations belong to the antagonist material and t | a 1-2 bar cell built FROM the JOURNEY_WORLD head in this region's register. Tier-C cells never need to be hummable, only coherent with their parent | Tier C is generation-eligible in the bed and texture layers ONLY. Where this region also carries a Tier-A payoff, the cell must QUOTE the parent head at least once or the payoff has no soil to grow in -- and that quotation is a COMPOSER-AUTHORED stem laid over generated material or fed as lego condi | the region's own ensemble | 2 | T21 | Tier C: inherits by definition |