BE_0004_S2_night_leyak.md

creatures/BE_0004_S2_night_leyak.md

BE_0004_S2 — the Night-Leyak: four turned the other way

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_Character_Index · docs/spine/CH_04.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/bali.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. It cites canon rows and writes none. This is the Ch-4

don't-defang case, and the region page has already done the hard part: the mechanism is in the

tradition's own record and it is better than anything a designer would invent.

1. identity

canon_id: BE_0004_S2 · canon_name The Night-Leyak
display_name: "the leyak that hunts by night" · chapter CH_04, beat CH04_B03 · region bali
site: village_balian_ward (rice-village cluster, warded-threshold night ring)
boss_kind: sub · target_type folklore_malevolent_being · care_tier standard · threads T03
primary_verb: banish · secondary_verb: perceive · axis_split 30/40/30 (puzzle-forward)
win_condition: PURGE;PERCEIVE · has_nonkill_path TRUE · pip_count 7 · reveal 1.0
register: FOLKLORE BEING
primary_axis: A2 segment and limb multiplication — and the COUNT IS CITED
rows_read: T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry @ BE_0004_S2 · T0_Character_Index @ CHAR_0026 ·

docs/spine/CH_04.md § Boss structure · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/bali.md § 5

2. base_species

archetype: humanoid, in its NIGHT-form
the day-form is a person — a respected village pillar — and the day-form is NEVER the encounter.

The design subject is the night-form and the perceive verb's target is the TIE between them, which

section 6 handles without ever putting the player in front of a villager.

skeleton: the ordinary human roster for the core body, plus the four (section 4), each with its own

declared chain

declared ROM: ordinary human throughout the core. The horror is not a broken joint; it is a correct

body with a wrong count attached to it.

mass, stance, gait: the core body moves like a person who is not carrying their own weight — because

they are not, and section 4 says what is.

resting silhouette: a human figure at the edge of the ward's light with too much behind it

3. lore_source

CITED, and it is the whole design: the kanda empat, the four birth-siblings — the placenta buried at

the doorway, plus the blood, the amniotic fluid and the vernix that vanish at birth. Honoured —

greeted goodnight, thanked at dawn, given the first spilled drop of every drink — they guard the

person through life and aid meditation, knowledge and protection; TURNED THE OTHER WAY BY A

NIGHT-ADEPT, THE SAME FOUR BECOME THE POWER OF THE LEYAK [SRC_00157, p. 93-99].

CITED: the craft splits and the tradition names both halves. The penengen is the right-hand craft —

healing, warding, the balian's work, and the branch Balian Made Sari (CHAR_0026) holds. The pengiwa

is the left-hand craft, the tradition's OWN CONDEMNED BRANCH, whose adept unbinds at night. Neither

is an outside evil imported into Bali; both are the island's own, which is exactly what makes the

chapter's monster load-bearing rather than borrowed [SRC_00157].

CITED: the leyak in its night-form is faced mythologically stylized, as the tradition itself

condemns it [bali.md § 3].

THE AUTHORIAL RULE ON THE KANDA EMPAT, quoted and obeyed: "This stays authorial and mechanical —

surfaced through the warding and the bond, never declared to the player." The design below SHOWS the

four. It never names them, and no player-facing string in this encounter explains what they are.

4. elevation

ONE-LINE SILHOUETTE READ: a person at the edge of the warded light with four things behind them that

move when they move, half a beat late.

PRIMARY — A2 SEGMENT AND LIMB MULTIPLICATION, AND THE NUMBER IS FOUR BECAUSE THE TRADITION SAYS FOUR.

This is the sheet's central claim and it is the reason this design is better than a flying head: the

leyak's POWER is four siblings turned, so the leyak's BODY is four.

The four are not limbs and they are not creatures. They are ATTENDANTS — four low forms that hold

station around the core body at the four quarters, at roughly knee height, each connected to the

body by nothing visible and each moving as though it were.

They are made of what they are: one is heavy and earthbound and drags (the buried one); one is wet

and dark and leaves a mark on the ground it crosses; one is thin and almost not there; one is pale

and clings closest. FOUR MATERIALS, FOUR MOTIONS, ONE COUNT. A player will never be told what they

are and will absolutely notice that there are four of them and that they are not alike.

Each carries its own declared joint chain: a low four-point armature with three segments per limb

and a spine of five, ROM ordinary for a quadrupedal form. They articulate. They are not a blob and

they are not an effect.

THE HALF-BEAT LAG is the tell that sells everything: the four answer the core body's motion a

fraction late, the way a shadow that is not yours would.

SUPPORTING — A10 NEGATIVE SPACE, on the core body: it does not cast the shadow it should. The ward's

lamps are real fires at the threshold ring and everything else in the courtyard casts. The core body's

shadow is thin, wrong-angled, and sometimes has four small companions the body does not.

MECHANISM: the four birth-siblings are real in this cosmology, they attend a person for life, and a

pengiwa adept turns them. The night-form is that turning made visible — the same person, the same

four, aimed the other way. Vril alters real physics rather than suspending it, and this is the

tradition's own account of what the alteration IS.

EMISSION: NONE, and the refusal is load-bearing. Balinese leyak imagery in popular media is

relentlessly luminous, and glowing eyes are a banned class outright. This leyak is READ BY THE WARD'S

OWN FIRELIGHT: it is what the threshold lamps catch at the edge of their throw, and it is more

frightening for being lit by the village's own defence.

5. articulation_delta

The four attendants are four separate rigs with declared chains, parented to a shared motion source

with a fixed lag offset. The lag is a number in the rig, not a hand-animated feel, so it is

consistent and therefore learnable.

Their attachment to the core body is DELIBERATELY INVISIBLE and the sheet says so rather than

leaving it to a build: there is no cord, no tether, no strand. The relationship is expressed

entirely by synchronised motion, which is why the lag has to be exact.

The core body's shadow is a separate authored render rather than the scene's, because "casts wrong"

is a specific defect and not an absence.

Nothing on the core body is deformed. Ordinary human ROM, and the anatomy law refuses more.

6. fight_grammar

VERBS ARE BANISH AND PERCEIVE. The win is driving it off and protecting the vulnerable, plus the true

pengiwa/penengen lore — NEVER a community killing.

tell shape	body origin	one answer	counter class worn on the body
the four spread	the attendants leave their quarters and move wide	the ring is being tested at four points — hold the warded threshold with the balian, the row's own counter	the ward lane
the heavy one sets	the earthbound attendant plants and does not move	that quarter is where the press comes; everything else is a feint	read
the wet one crosses	the marking attendant runs a line across the ground	do not cross its line — the ground it marks is where the ward fails	positioning
the core steps in	the person-shaped body comes to the threshold itself	perceive the tell that ties the night-form to its daytime pengiwa self — the row's own second counter	the puzzle lane
the flight	the whole set breaks and re-forms elsewhere on the ring	multiplying flight-paths, not new attacks — the row's own phase-two shape	movement read

THE PERCEIVE COUNTER IS THE ENCOUNTER'S CARE ARCHITECTURE, AND IT NEVER PUTS A VILLAGER IN FRONT OF

THE PLAYER. The tie between the night-form and its daytime self is read off the FOUR, not off a face:

the attendants carry the marks of a specific household — the earthbound one carries that doorway's

soil, the pale one that person's habits of movement. The player perceives WHOSE the four are. The

reveal is knowledge, and the resolution is that the balian's ward holds and the leyak is driven off.

ESCALATION, four channels: POSTURE — the core body stops keeping the tree line and stands in the open

at the ring's edge. BREATH — the wrong thing entirely: the core body's breathing is fine, and the

FOUR are what is breathing hard. VOCALIZATION — the leyak's own night register, and the design's

constraint is that it never becomes a scream; the tradition's terror is proximity, not volume. NEW

OPENER — the flight replaces the spread.

7. care_read

COLLECTIVE READ: this is the sharpest care problem in the chapter and the page has already solved

it. Rangda is DELIBERATELY NEVER VILLAINIZED and is not this encounter. The balians, pedanda,

villagers and the unaware Dalang are PROTECTED. The malevolent register is the tradition's OWN

condemned pengiwa evil, warded by the community's OWN balian. The enemy is the island's own named

wrong, opposed by the island's own named right, and no outsider's judgement enters at any point.

ONTOLOGY ROUTING: the tradition's own condemned being, rendered exactly as that tradition condemns

it. Not softened, and not Hollywood-monstered — the design's specific refusal of the luminous

flying-head cliché is the anti-Hollywood half, and the refusal to make it an abstraction is the

anti-softening half.

THE DAY-FORM IS NEVER A TARGET. A pengiwa adept is a respected village pillar by day, and the

encounter is the night-form on the ward ring. The player never fights, accuses, or is asked to

identify a villager on screen, and the perceive read runs on the four rather than on a face. This is

the Flores method applied on a second island: the aim is moved, nothing is removed.

ROUTE: ATTENDED_DESIGN. A living tradition's condemned being, drawn from a consecrated cosmology,

with a human-shaped core.

ANTI-TIMID PASS, RECORDED. Two softenings were considered and both refused. (1) Replacing the four

with something invented, to avoid using the kanda empat at all. REFUSED — the four ARE the leyak's

power in the tradition's own account, the region page states it as the section's single most

load-bearing substrate, and inventing a substitute would be exactly the "borrowed monster" the page

warns against. The authorial rule is that the four are never DECLARED to the player, and this design

obeys that rule precisely: shown, never named. (2) Making the leyak a pure chase with no confrontation.

REFUSED — banish is a real verb with a real ward and a real fail cost to the vulnerable people behind

the ring.

INVENTION DECLARATION: the four attendants' forms, materials, motions and half-beat lag; the

wrong-shadow; the whose-are-they perceive read; and the five tell shapes are INVENTED BY THIS SHEET

as the game's own design, named as ours. The kanda empat and their turning, the pengiwa/penengen

split, the balian's ward, the night-form's condemned status and Rangda's protection are CITED to

SRC_00157 and the region page.

REVEAL READ: clean. The Ch-4 antagonist is an institutional proxy and this row is folklore; no

family token exists to leak.

8. plate_brief

PLATE A: the warded threshold ring at night — the village's own lamps as the only light — with a

human-shaped figure standing just outside their throw and four low forms at the four quarters

around it, each a different material.

PLATE B: the four alone, in a row, at one scale: the heavy earthbound one, the wet marking one, the

thin barely-there one, the pale close one.

PLATE C: the wrong shadow — the core figure on lit ground, its shadow thin and at the wrong angle,

four small companions in it that the body does not have.

PLATE D: silhouette, black fill, the core body alone and the core body with its four.

9. boarded_debts

hitzone_parts, phase_trigger, escalation_vector, phase_voice_array, defender_element all

EMPTY.

T0_Boss_Attack_Rail 0 rows.
THE LEYAK HAS NO CREATURE ROW. The region page routes folkloric beings to

Creature_Roster.folklore_attribution, and the leyak's night-form is named there as a routing

target — but there is no CR_ id for it in the Ch-4 set the way CR_0151 exists for the polo. The

Ch-2 folklore being has a row and the Ch-4 one does not, so the attribution, care register and

ontology class that CR_0151 carries have nowhere to live here.

LINK_0146 (polo to leyak, parallel-independent, never a diffusion claim) originates at Ch 2 and

lands here. The two designs are deliberately DIFFERENT — subtraction on Flores, multiplication on

Bali — and that difference is the link's own "parallel-independent" claim expressed visually. Worth

recording so a later lane does not "harmonise" them.

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