BE_0003_S1_naga_tana_of_the_wae.md

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BE_0003_S1 — the naga tana of the wae: the roused guardian, and where the elevation is spent

CANON SUBORDINATION — this document is PROPOSAL-TIER: it serves canon and never outranks it.

The canon: the CVD · the T1 foundation docs · the T0 registries (registries/) · the spine

(docs/spine/CH_*.md) · the region pages (_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/). Authority order: docs/DOC_MAP.md § 0.

Canon served (scanned from this document's own citations — widen it by hand where it is thin):

T0_Boss_Attack_Rail · T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry · T0_Creature_Roster · T0_Environment_Grammar_Registry · docs/spine/CH_03.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/flores_island.md

READ THAT CANON FIRST — open it and derive from it before you build anything from this document.

If this document disagrees with canon, CANON WINS and this document is the defect — fix the

document, never the canon. Nothing here is applied until it is ratified into canon.

STATUS: PROPOSAL-TIER design sheet. The BODY is designed on CR_0002_naga_tana_water_aspect.md; this

sheet designs the ENCOUNTER, and it is the row where the phrase "mythologically-stylized when roused"

is actually cashed.

1. identity

canon_id: BE_0003_S1 · canon_name The Naga Tana of the Wae, the roused land-guardian (reticulated

python) · display_name "the naga that keeps the spring"

chapter: CH_03, beat CH03_B05 · site wae_water_spring (spring head 40x40 plus a naga-tana encounter

pocket)

boss_kind: sub · target_type fauna · care_tier standard
primary_verb: attune · secondary_verb: perceive · axis_split 30/45/25 (puzzle-forward)
win_condition: PURGE;PERCEIVE · has_nonkill_path TRUE · pip_count 5 · reveal 1.0
defender_element: Earth
composure_nodes: puzzle_routed=violation_read · environmental=coil_strike_pause
EXEMPT_DESTRUCTIVE, cited on the row as the audit's own CALIBRATION ANCHOR: the darat is appeased and

not slain because the ngoéng de tana land-contract IS the resolution — the Manggarai rite states the

constraint in its own voice and the encounter RESTORES the community's rite rather than removing a

creature [SRC_00469; SRC_00203]

register: ENCOUNTER · body_sheet CR_0002_naga_tana_water_aspect.md
rows_read: T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry @ BE_0003_S1 · T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0002 ·

docs/spine/CH_03.md § the ngoéng de tana beats · flores_island.md § 5

2. base_species

CR_0002, the same animal the player met at Ch 2 — and the encounter's design depends on the player

KNOWING it is the same animal. Full skeleton, ROM and material on the body sheet.

3. lore_source

CITED: the Manggarai recognise the darat and the naga tana, the serpent guardian of the soil, which

must be asked through the ngoéng-de-tana ritual contract — what the land wants — before the land is

used; violate the contract and THE GUARDIAN IS ROUSED [SRC_00469].

CITED: the naga are good guardians named for their charge, and every village is held to keep at

least one, so the wae guardian is a guardian holding its own contract, appeased and never slain

[SRC_00469].

CITED: behind it stand the empo de tana, the ancestors of the land — the original owners, addressed

at fields, forests and water sources, who tell the people where a rite may be held at all, which is

the reason a ritual has a correct PLACE and not merely a correct form [SRC_00203].

The human-scale face of the same offence is the darat taking a child and hiding it alive in the

forest until the rite of reconciliation is performed [SRC_00469] — and the region page states the

child is recovered unharmed in every branch.

4. elevation

THE ROUSING IS THE ELEVATION, AND IT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS ROW. CR_0002's row says

mythologically-stylized WHEN ROUSED, which means the Ch-2 animal and the Ch-3 animal are the same body

in two states, and the player has already met the first one. That prior meeting is what makes the

second one land, and no other pair in the slice has that structure.

WHAT ROUSED LOOKS LIKE, spending defender_element Earth entirely on world response, with no emission

anywhere — because Earth is not one of the three emitting families:

THE GROUND MOVES WITH IT. Leaf litter lifts and settles in a radius around the coil, following the

body rather than a wind. Dry cracks open in the mud along the arc the body has just left, and close

again as it passes back.

THE SPRING ANSWERS. The flow stutters and browns while the animal holds its rousing, and clears when

it pauses. The player can read the encounter's state IN THE WATER THEY CAME FOR, which is the exact

thing the beat is about.

THE SOUND IS NOT THE ANIMAL. Under the exhalation there is a low register coming from the ground,

and the design's rule is that it never becomes a voice and never becomes a roar. This being does

not perform.

THE BODY'S GROUND-SEAM ACTIVATES. The moss-and-rootlet section that is passive at Ch 2 grips: the

animal's forward third does not slide over the ground, it holds it, which is why the coil can anchor

without a rock and why the arc closes faster here than it did at the waterfall.

MECHANISM: the contract is real and the land is a party to it. Vril alters real physics rather than

suspending it, and a guardian holding a violated ngoéng-de-tana is a body the ground is currently

acting through. That is stated once, shown continuously, and never explained to the player.

ONE-LINE ENCOUNTER READ: the same snake the player already met, with the ground moving when it moves

and the spring running brown while it is angry.

5. articulation_delta

The ground-grip is a contact-friction state on the seamed section rather than new geometry: the same

body, different ground behaviour, which is exactly the "one animal, two states" requirement.

The litter and crack response is an environment-driven effect with a declared radius that FOLLOWS

the body's own segment positions, so a player can see which part of the animal the ground is

answering. An effect that plays on a timer instead of on the body would make this a cutscene.

6. fight_grammar

THE VERBS ARE ATTUNE AND PERCEIVE, AND THIS SHEET DOES NOT SMUGGLE COMBAT INTO THEM. There is no

primary_verb here that means strike, and the encounter is a contract restored rather than an animal

reduced.

tell shape	body origin	one answer	counter class
the held rousing	the forebody is up and the epaxial ridge stays loaded without releasing	wait — this is not an attack, it is a state	read
the unload	the ridge goes slack from the head backward and the litter settles	THIS is the pause; attune the breath here — the row's own first counter	the puzzle lane
the coil-strike	the ridge fires and the arc closes; the row names it `coil_strike_pause`	give the ground, do not fill it	environmental
the violation showing	the seamed section carries what was done: fresh sap in the scale seams where timber was cut, silt in the ventral crust where the spring was fouled	READ IT — this is the row's own `violation_read`, and it is what tells the player which contract to offer	the puzzle lane

THE PERCEIVE VERB HAS A BODY, AND THAT IS THIS SHEET'S CONTRIBUTION. secondary_verb is perceive and

the row's counter is to perceive the specific violation to know the contract to offer — which in a

lesser design is a dialogue check. Here it is anatomical: the animal is half made of the ground that

was violated, so the ground's injury is ON IT, and the player reads the offence off the guardian's own

body. Sap means timber. Silt means water. Ash means fire. One creature, one look, one correct rite.

ESCALATION, four channels: POSTURE — the forebody rises and STAYS, which at Ch 2 it did only in

flashes. BREATH — the whole-body cycle stops being a rest rhythm and becomes a hold. VOCALIZATION —

the ground's register under the exhalation. NEW OPENER — the held rousing replaces the slack coil as

the state it returns to.

THE RESOLUTION IS A RITE, NOT A DAMAGE THRESHOLD. Win: the guardian withdraws, the contract is

restored, and the first ritual-botanical gather node opens. Loss: the waterfall ritual completes at a

partial-success ceiling and the strike cadence is logged — a graduated consequence, no dead end.

7. care_read

COLLECTIVE READ: the Manggarai community's own rite is the win condition. This is the strongest

possible form of §17.1 in a boss row: the encounter RESTORES a living community's practice, and the

community is neither the target nor the obstacle.

ONTOLOGY ROUTING: ORDINARY_FAUNA carrying an attested guardian role. Appeased and never slain, and

the warrant is a cited exemption on the row rather than a lane's preference. Note the asymmetry with

Ch 2 and keep it: at Ch 2 the same animal CAN be fought down for a lore mark, and at Ch 3 the

encounter's whole shape is the rite. Same animal, two encounters, two permissions — because the

contract is what changed, not the creature.

ROUTE: shares CR_0002's concept plates plus one roused-state plate. Never a photographic-wildlife

template.

ANTI-TIMID PASS, RECORDED: the reduction considered was making the roused state visually dramatic

enough to feel like a boss — bigger, louder, a rear-up and a roar. REFUSED, and the refusal is the

interesting one: this being does not perform, and a naga tana that roars is a Hollywood monster

wearing a Manggarai name. The ground moving is more frightening and it is the tradition's own

pair a defang? No — the pips are five, a mistake wipes the chain, and the reveal threshold is 1.0,

so the difficulty is visible from the first second and the encounter is harder than the Ch-2 fought

route it inverts.

INVENTION DECLARATION: the litter-and-crack world response, the spring's brown-and-clear state read,

the ground register under the exhalation, the ground-grip, and the violation-legible-on-the-body

mechanic are INVENTED BY THIS SHEET. The naga tana, the ngoéng-de-tana contract, the rousing on

violation, the appeasement, the empo de tana and the darat's child-taking are CITED to SRC_00469 and

SRC_00203.

REVEAL READ: clean.

8. plate_brief

PLATE A: the roused animal over the spring head, forebody up, the ground answering — litter lifted

in a ring following the coil, dry cracks along the arc behind it, the spring running brown. Flat

daylight, no emitted light in frame.

PLATE B: the violation read — a close study of the seamed section carrying fresh pale sap in the

scale gaps.

PLATE C: the withdrawal — the same animal unloading, the litter settling, the water clearing.

9. boarded_debts

hitzone_parts EMPTY; phase_trigger, escalation_vector, phase_voice_array EMPTY.
T0_Boss_Attack_Rail 0 rows.
defender_element Earth here and EMPTY on BE_0002_S1 for what canon says is the same animal

unroused. Raised on the CR_0002 sheet as well; it is the same debt seen from the other end.

THE VIOLATION-TO-RITE MAPPING HAS NO DATA HOME. Sap means timber, silt means water: that is a small

lookup table with real gameplay consequence and it lives nowhere. T0_Environment_Grammar_Registry

or the quest layer is the likely owner and the registry lane should place it.

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