BE_0005_S4_court_official_and_temple_wards.md

creatures/BE_0005_S4_court_official_and_temple_wards.md

BE_0005_S4 — the court official and the temple's own wards: a man in dry silk on a wet barrage (THE HUMAN REGISTER, corrupted-and-self-justifying + THE CONSTRUCT REGISTER, three ward bodies)

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):

CVD §17.1 · T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry · T0_Hard_Lines · docs/spine/CH_05.md ·

_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sumatra_java.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, written to docs/proposals/bestiary/BESTIARY_ELEVATION_DOCTRINE.md

§ 4's nine-block grammar and critic-gated against its § 5 refusal tests. It cites canon rows and writes

none. It is the fourth and last sub-boss sheet of the BE_0005 set and the only one staged off the

anchor: BE_0005_S1, S2 and S3 sit in sumatra_java, and this row is the Angkor SPREAD

excursion's own encounter, staged and owned on the angkor_khmer page

[angkor_khmer.md § Derived Indexes :90-96; sumatra_java.md § Derived Indexes :76-85].

It carries TWO SUBJECTS IN TWO REGISTERS — a man and the stone that has stopped agreeing with him —

and it designs both, because they arrive in one encounter. It is written to be read against

docs/proposals/combat/kits/KIT_BE_0005_S4.md, which describes the FIGHT this body fights; where this

sheet and that kit could drift, § 6 consumes the kit's twelve abilities rather than re-authoring them.

1. identity

• canon_id: BE_0005_S4 · canon_name, verbatim from the row: "The devaraja-court official and the

temple-guardian constructs (Angkor excursion)" · display_name, verbatim from the row: "the one who

keeps the water back"

• chapter: CH_05, beat CH05_B09 · region angkor_khmer (the first-class excursion page under the

sumatra_java anchor) · site west_baray — terrain wetland, functions [puzzle, combat],

ambient_threat moderate, vril_density LOW, climactic_affordance [climactic_geometry], protected

FALSE, footfall_surface MUD with water-shallow secondary

[CH_05.md § Key sites :102-103; angkor_khmer.md Zone Catalog :75]

• THE STAGING, STATED EXACTLY, BECAUSE THE WARD PRESENCE SPANS THREE ZONES AND THE ENCOUNTER DOES NOT.

angkor_wat is the site whose "ambient threat is the roused guardian-constructs"

[CH_05.md § Key sites :99] and bayon_taprohm's "ambient threat [rises] to moderate near the

roused wards" [:101] — but NEITHER zone carries a combat or puzzle function: angkor_wat is

functions [discovery, learning, traversal] [CH_05.md :98] and bayon_taprohm is functions

[character, discovery] [:100]. SO THE WARD PRESENCE ON THOSE TWO ZONES IS AMBIENT AND READ-ONLY —

the player SEES the facing and the raised heads and is barred by them, and does not fight there. The

ENCOUNTER stages at west_baray, the one zone carrying functions [puzzle, combat]

[CH_05.md :102]. The composure node environmental=ward_construct_ascent therefore reads as a

three-zone CONDITION with a one-zone RESOLUTION, and § 9 boards the functions implication: a ward

ascent that is a named composure node on a row whose only combat/puzzle zone is the barrage is

either an ascent that resolves at the barrage (this sheet's reading) or two zones whose functions

columns are under-declared, and the schema cannot currently tell those apart.

• boss_kind: sub · character_id EMPTY and correctly so (§ 9) · target_type corrupted_authority ·

threads T13;T03 · intelligence_tier sapient · kit_ref KIT_BE_0005_S4

• primary_verb: expose · secondary_verb: outmaneuver · axis_split 30/40/30, puzzle-forward ·

engagement_modes "blended, Puzzle-forward"

• win_condition: EXPOSE;PURGE;REDUCE · win_shape standard · has_nonkill_path TRUE ·

phase_trigger composure_break · defeat_protected FALSE

• composure_nodes, verbatim: puzzle_routed=baray_flow_restore__inscription_cover_strip ·

environmental=ward_construct_ascent

• character_engagement_node, verbatim: phase=P2;verb=spare-or-kill;integrity_routed=true
• counters, verbatim: "restore the correct baray flow (solving the puzzle and serving the people at

once); read the sanctuary inscriptions and the Bayon war-galleries to strip his sanctioned cover"

• sources, verbatim: "docs/spine/CH_05.md # Boss structure (SPREAD); EXPANDED_COVERAGE_MAP # A1;

T0_Chapter_Index CH_05 coverage_rearch_20260708; fictional un-named official (no deity-name, no real

minister)"

• CARE TIER — THE TWO-LEVEL READING, STATED PRECISELY BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A CONFLICT AND IS NOT. The

ROW carries care_tier = standard. The west_baray ZONE carries care_tier ELEVATED. The region page

reconciles them in its own words: "care tier standard for the official and the Khmer constructs,

with the west_baray SURFACE carrying ELEVATED for the 1177 Cham/war combat-staging"

[angkor_khmer.md § Derived Indexes :96; Zone Catalog care-tier overlay :85]. This sheet's subjects

are standard; the surface they stand on is elevated because of what ELSE is staged on it, and § 7

holds the elevated obligation where it belongs rather than importing it onto these two bodies.

• register: HUMAN (doctrine § 3A), pole CORRUPTED-AND-SELF-JUSTIFYING (§ 3A.1) — plus CONSTRUCT for

the three ward bodies, the register BE_0005 already used for the pangulubalang and the singa

facade. § 4 argues the pole against its rival reading and § 4 argues the CONSTRUCT-versus-

ICONOGRAPHIC call, because both are checkable design laws rather than labels.

• rows_read: T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry @ BE_0005_S4 and @ BE_0005 ·

docs/spine/CH_05.md § Boss structure, §10 CH05_B09, §10b FORK_CH05_A, § Key sites, § Mechanical

anchors, § Protected-chapter combat framing, § Anti-fringe flags, § Decisions surfaced ·

_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.md in full ·

_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sumatra_java.md header, Zone Catalog, Derived Indexes and every

excursion-touching span · T0_Hard_Lines @ HL_0003, @ HL_0005, @ HL_0028, @ HL_0123 ·

docs/proposals/combat/kits/KIT_BE_0005_S4.md in full · docs/proposals/BOSS_PERSONAS.md

§ boss_05_main sub-boss (d) · docs/proposals/EXPANDED_COVERAGE_MAP.md § A1 / § C2

• CENSUS STANDING, recorded rather than re-derived (director-verified): BE_0005_S4 is NOT a row of

the 224-row landed census RECENSUS_L8.json. Its routing fields are already filled —

mesh_pipeline_type = metahuman, mesh_tags.morphology = bipedal. The demand for this sheet comes

from the INDEX worklist (docs/proposals/bestiary/sheets/INDEX.json § worklist_remaining →

boss_rows_through_ch13 @ BE_0005_S4), not from the census. § 9 boards what those two filled cells

cannot say.

2. base_species

FOUR BODIES, TWO GRAMMARS. One is meat and three are masonry, and the masonry's skeleton is the

building's own.

2a. The official — HUMAN, and the anatomy elevation is ZERO

• archetype: HUMAN, an adult Khmer court official of the Angkorian administration at ~1200 CE, a

FICTIONAL and UN-NAMED figure: "no deity-name, no real minister" [BE_0005_S4 :: sources], "a

fictional un-named local opportunist, un-rowed and NOT briefed" [angkor_khmer.md § Derived Indexes

:96], "never a named historical minister" [§ 12 :724], and the spine rules it once more in its own

Decisions block [CH_05.md :325].

• skeleton: the standard humanoid rig on the retarget path — one skull; cervical chain of 7; thoracic

12 with the rib pairs; lumbar 5; sacrum and pelvis; two limb pairs; five digits per hand and foot.

ZERO ANATOMICAL ELEVATION, per the human register's first rule, and no addition anywhere on the

body [doctrine § 3A, first bullet].

• declared ROM (AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY, ordinary adult human): shoulder flexion to about 150 degrees

functional and abduction to about 160; elbow flexion to about 145 with extension at 0; forearm

pronation and supination to about 80 each way; wrist to about 70 flexion and 60 extension; hip

flexion to about 120 and extension to about 20; knee to about 135; ankle to about 20 dorsiflexion

and 50 plantarflexion; cervical rotation to about 75; thoracic rotation to about 35; lumbar lateral

bend to about 25. Nothing this encounter asks of him leaves those ranges, and the anatomy law

refuses a solver that produces one that does.

• THE ONE ROM NOTE THAT IS HIS OWN, and it is CRAFT rather than anatomy: he addresses a person by

turning the TRUNK rather than the neck, at the measured pace of a man who has spent his working life

on processional causeways where being watched is the job. Cervical rotation is available to him and

he does not spend it. The design consequence is a tell the player can read from behind: when he

finally uses his neck alone — a quick look sideways at the sluice gates — he has stopped performing.

INVENTED, declared in § 7.

• mass: TRUE_SCALE band, declared rather than assumed. An ordinary adult male, no scale elevation of

any kind, with the whole elevation living on the axes in § 4.

• stance: square to whatever he is addressing, hands OCCUPIED — by a sealed document rather than by a

weapon [KIT_BE_0005_S4 ability 7: "he produces a document rather than a weapon"]. He does not

adopt a fighting stance at any point in phase 1.

• gait: the measured processional pace, used on mud. He does not change it for the ground.
• resting silhouette: a clean vertical in court dress standing on a wet barrage, DRY TO THE ANKLE,

among men who are wet to the thigh. That is § 4's negative-space axis and it is his whole outline.

2b. The dvarapala — CONSTRUCT, a gate guardian in the round

• archetype: guardian sculpture in the round at a gate or a causeway head — the temple-guardian

iconography named on the row and "drawn as the ethnographic and epigraphic record hold them"

[CH_05.md § Everything-woven, Superstition :82; angkor_khmer.md § 3 :188-191].

• the members, and the skeleton IS THE MASONRY: a standing carved figure of stacked Angkor sandstone

courses over a laterite structural core, pinned with the iron cramps and dowels that pin Angkorian

mortarless joinery [angkor_khmer.md § 9 :634-637; § 7 :577-580]. Named chains: PLINTH course →

LEG-AND-HIP course → TORSO course → SHOULDER course carrying two arm courses of two blocks each →

NECK course → HEAD block.

• declared ROM, and every value is a masonry freedom rather than an anatomical one: rotation at the

PLINTH course to about 90 degrees either way — it turns on its post and it does not walk; shoulder

course to about 40 degrees; the arm's single elbow joint to about 30; NO wrist, because there is no

course there; head block turn to about 25 within the neck course. Total degrees of freedom: six.

• WEIGHT PATH, which the doctrine demands of every addition and which here is the whole design

constraint: the load passes straight down the course stack into the plinth at every instant. That is

why it can TURN and cannot LEAN, and why it never leaves its post. A dvarapala that steps has become

a golem and has left the material behind.

• mass: TRUE_SCALE for temple sculpture — over-life-size at a gate, roughly two to two and a half

metres, which is the size the iconography is carved at. NOT scale-elevated. The elevation lives

entirely on § 4's other axes.

• gait: none. It occupies its post — the same phrase BE_0005_S2 uses of the Borobudur gate guardian,

kept deliberately so the two stone-guardian encounters read as one grammar

[BE_0005_S2_borobudur_mahakala.md § 2].

• resting silhouette: a mass at a threshold, indistinguishable from the architecture until it turns.

2c. The seven-headed naga-balustrade — CONSTRUCT, and it is a RAIL rather than an animal

• archetype: the seven-headed naga-balustrade causeway — attested, and load-bearing in the tradition:

it "is the threshold between the secular and the sacred, the naga a water-lord and rainbow-bridge"

[angkor_khmer.md § 5 :376-381], and the row and the region page both name it among the roused ward

forms [:52; :96; § 3 :188-191].

• the members: a segmented stone rail — coping blocks over a laterite core, cramped block to block,

running the causeway's length, terminating in a fan of SEVEN necks rising from one shoulder block at

each end. Each coping block is a vertebra. THE RAIL IS THE BODY AND THE CAUSEWAY IS THE FLOOR.

• declared ROM: about 3 degrees of articulation per coping block, no more — AND THE FIGURE IS AN

AMPLITUDE RATHER THAN A CUMULATIVE SUM, stated that way because a naive accumulation down a long

rail gives a nonsense number. The blocks do not all bend the same way at once: the rail carries a

TRAVELLING WAVE whose local curvature is bounded by that 3-degree per-block limit, and its crest

amplitude is on the order of a metre of lateral travel measured against the rail's own resting line,

passing along the causeway rather than accumulating along it. So the player experiences the EDGE OF

THE PATH moving in a slow wave rather than a creature animating, and no point on the rail is ever

more than about a metre from where it was. Each neck rises from the fan to about 45 degrees; NO

lateral movement in any neck, because a fan carved from one shoulder block has no lateral freedom.

• WEIGHT PATH: the rail's load stays on its own footing courses at every instant. It never lifts off

the causeway. That is not a flourish — it is the care law made structural, because a balustrade that

tears itself out of a protected monument has damaged the monument, and nothing in this encounter

damages a balustrade [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § the arena, EG_0037; § the care read].

• mass: the causeway's own. This is the encounter's one body at ARENA proportion, and the physical

consequence is stated: it cannot strike, cannot pursue, and cannot do anything quickly. What it can

do is CHANGE THE SHAPE OF THE APPROACH, which is § 4's supporting axis.

• resting silhouette: the edge of a path.

2d. The yaksha — CONSTRUCT, and it has exactly one degree of freedom

• archetype: a door guardian at a sanctuary jamb, in relief or half-round — the third ward form named

on the row [:52; :96; CH_05.md :82].

• the members: a single carved figure in its jamb, cramped into a socket at the threshold course. Four

articulation points exist in the carving and three of them never move.

• THE ATTRIBUTE, AND IT IS WHAT MAKES THE MARK A SILHOUETTE RATHER THAN A NEAR-READ. The figure holds

a long carved club-or-mace, butt to the plinth and shaft rising past the shoulder, TO ONE SIDE OF

THE BODY. An asymmetric held attribute is standard-class iconography for this guardian type and is

reference-safe — the row's ward forms are the temple-guardian iconography "drawn as the ethnographic

and epigraphic record hold them" [CH_05.md § Everything-woven, Superstition :82], so the attribute

is a build off the class rather than an invention onto sacred sculpture. THE DESIGN CONSEQUENCE IS

THE WHOLE POINT: because the attribute sits off-axis, a 180-degree rotation moves it from one edge

of the figure's outline to the other, so the facing change is a genuine OUTLINE change and not two

identical black fills. Attachment: carved integral to the figure at the hand and the plinth,

therefore no joint and no independent ROM — it is part of the body's own volume and travels with it

on the one degree of freedom below. This satisfies the blob test by having nothing to attach: the

attribute is not an addition to the skeleton, it is a redistribution of the existing mass off the

centre line.

• declared ROM: the WHOLE FIGURE, attribute included, rotates in its jamb socket to about 180 degrees.

Nothing else moves. That is the entire declaration and it is deliberate — the doctrine's machine

register names "the one degree of freedom the encounter is actually about" [doctrine § 3B], and on

this row it belongs to a statue rather than to a mechanism.

• WEIGHT PATH: straight down the jamb into the threshold course, unchanged in every position, with the

attribute's own mass carried to the plinth by its butt rather than by the hand — which is what lets

a doorway guardian turn without the doorway caring and without the arm being a cantilever.

• mass: door-scale, TRUE_SCALE for the iconography.
• resting silhouette: a door with a figure on either side of it, each with a shaft rising on its OUTER

edge — until one of the figures has its shaft on the inner edge instead.

3. lore_source

Every claim below carries its citation or is declared INVENTED. The sheet cites file:line into the two

region pages and the spine because the 1200-frame Khmer and Cham material on this shelf is

deep-research-grounded on named scholarly anchors rather than carried on SRC_ ids — the page states

its own corpus condition plainly, and § 7 runs the citation test's positive control against it

[angkor_khmer.md § 16 :1021-1027].

• CITED, and it is the encounter's whole permission: "§17.1 REPRESENT_WITH_CARE is collective: the

Khmer and Cham communities are never combat targets; all antagonism routes through the corrupt

official, the court-and-temple apparatus, the two-peer war's military, and the perverted

ward-objects, never through either people" [angkor_khmer.md header :31-34; CH_05.md

§ Protected-chapter combat framing :246; T0_Hard_Lines @ HL_0003, @ HL_0123].

• CITED, the ward forms and their exact ontology: "the roused temple-guardian constructs (dvarapala,

seven-headed naga-balustrade, yaksha — perverted ward-objects, never the deities)"

[angkor_khmer.md § Character Quick Reference :52], "animated ward-objects perverted by his

faction, never the deities and never the faithful" [§ Derived Indexes :96], "ward-OBJECTS, never the

deities — each rendered as its tradition holds it" [§ 3 :188-191], and on the spine "objects and

servitor-wards, never the deities" [CH_05.md :246], "the roused constructs are animated stone

wards … objects perverted by the corrupt faction, never the deities they depict and never the

faithful" [§ Anti-fringe flags :255].

• CITED, the rousing and WHO it is against — and this is the line the design turns on: "when the wards

are perverted the temple's own stone guardians rouse AGAINST THE INTRUDER" [CH_05.md § Body prose

:34], and "when the wards are perverted the temple's own stone guardians rouse as animated

constructs" [§10 CH05_B09 :162]. THE RECONCILIATION WITH THE KIT, stated because a lane that skips

it will build the wards as allies and lose the encounter: the kit's note that "they are not awake

for HIM either" [KIT_BE_0005_S4 ability 1] is a claim about OWNERSHIP, not about alignment. The

wards bar EVERYONE, the player included, because the sanctuary's condition is wrong and their charge

is the condition. The sanctuary's interest and the player's coincide; the wards are the sanctuary's

REFUSAL rather than anyone's ally. Canon wins and the kit agrees when read exactly.

• CITED, the official's method: "diverting the labor, hoarding the baray water, and selling the

sanctuaries, betraying a king remembered for the ethos that his subjects' suffering was his own"

[angkor_khmer.md § 11 :696-701; § Character Quick Reference :50], and "an empire's decline being

monetized from the inside, the labor diverted and the water hoarded and the sanctuaries sold"

[§ 8 :613-616].

• CITED, and it is the pole-selector: "The fictional court official EXPLOITS a divine-kingship claim

the faith does not require — the divine kingship IDEOLOGY is real and monumentally attested, the

specific 'devaraja = living god' formula the contested part" [angkor_khmer.md § 5 :387-393], the

devaraja cult carried as scholarly-CONTESTED after Kulke and Vickery, resting on one inscription

(Sdok Kak Thom) written 250 years after the events it describes. A MAN WHOSE ARMOUR IS A CLAIM ABOUT

A CONTESTED DOCTRINE IS A MAN WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF. § 4 builds the pole from that sentence.

• CITED, his standing and its resolution: relationship type hostile, standing on arrival adversarial,

"improve n/a (exposed and lifted, not befriended)" [angkor_khmer.md § 8 :622]; "taken alive to

answer on the good path, or struck down on the integrity-gated route" [§ 12 :724]; and the fork's

own three options, on every one of which the water returns [CH_05.md §10b FORK_CH05_A :187-196].

• CITED, and it is why he is NOT the datu: he "presents a purely local, opportunistic surface motive,

is not briefed, and does not read the protagonist back" — the enemy who reads back is the anchor's

datu, on the sumatra_java page [angkor_khmer.md § Character Quick Reference :50; § 11 :696-706].

§ 7's reveal read makes that a hard prohibition on this sheet's own content.

• CITED, the materials, and they are the constructs' JOINT SYSTEM rather than a palette: Angkor

sandstone quarried at Phnom Kulen and floated down purpose-dug canals; laterite the structural

core-and-foundation stone; "the iron cramps and dowels that pinned the mortarless joinery"

[angkor_khmer.md § 9 :634-637]. Angkor Wat is "~90% Phnom-Kulen sandstone floated down purpose-dug

canals" [§ 7 :577-580]. The spine's own material palette names "Angkor sandstone-and-laterite, and

Cham reddish brick" and rules the register: "realistic-ethnographic for the … Khmer, and Cham

communities, monuments, and ports; MYTHOLOGICALLY-STYLIZED ONLY FOR … the guardian constructs"

[CH_05.md § Asset anchors :267].

• CITED, the water and its physics: the West Baray at roughly 7.8 by 2.1 km, some 53 million cubic

metres behind roughly 12-metre dikes, feeding a roughly thousand-square-kilometre system; the

Greater Angkor Project's resolution that "the great barays had inlets and outlets and the works were

BOTH functional and symbolic"; the decline tied to fourteenth-and-fifteenth-century monsoon

megadroughts and over-extended scale, never primitivism [angkor_khmer.md § 7 :593-601;

CH_05.md § Anti-fringe flags :253]. The puzzle's own shape is named on the page: "the

inlet-reservoir-sluice-rice-grid hydrology" [§ 13 :863] and "the flow-puzzle sluice-and-rice-grid"

[Zone Catalog :75]. The West Mebon island-temple pocket sits inside the reservoir [:75].

• CITED, the naga's own meaning, which keeps the balustrade from reading as a monster: the Khmer naga

is "the protective/creative/dynastic pole … a catalog-convergence within documented Indic

transmission … never a killed monster" [CH_05.md § Anti-fringe flags :251], and the region page

holds the naga a water-lord and a rainbow-bridge with the Kaundinya-Soma / Preah Thong–Neang Neak

founding legend behind it [angkor_khmer.md § 5 :376-381]. A WATER-LORD GUARDING A HOARDED

RESERVOIR IS THE ENCOUNTER'S BEST SINGLE FACT AND IT IS ATTESTED RATHER THAN INVENTED.

• CITED, the surrounding war and its ceiling: the 1177 Cham sack of Yasodharapura and the 1181

reconquest, staged as a full-intensity two-peer battle between comparable maritime powers, its

reliefs rendering each side "organized, equipped, and competent"; the mutual-raiding record;

and the routing — "the story antagonist is the apparatus of the war … individual combatants of a

real battle are killable enemy soldiers (combat ceiling unchanged), while the community/culture of

either people is never the target" [angkor_khmer.md § 6 :539-566]. The care ruling attaches

ELEVATED to that surface and states twice that the combat ceiling is UNCHANGED [header :25-34;

§ 4 :364-366].

• CITED, the anti-fringe frame, binding on every plate this sheet dispatches: "Angkor and its

hydraulic city are real, dated, inscribed Khmer archaeology, and My Son is the Cham's own brick-tower

work — no lost-race, no ancient-aliens, no 'too advanced for its builders,' no 'vanished

civilization' framing anywhere; the correction is authorial only, never a player-facing debunk"

[angkor_khmer.md header :19-22].

• CITED, the perception ceiling: all perception at Ch 5 stays Neophyte — "inscription, reverence,

lore, behavioral tells — never a tier-6 vril-signature read" [angkor_khmer.md § 11 :706;

CH_05.md :18, :246; HL_0028/HL_0017].

• CITED, the vril register: west_baray carries vril_density LOW [angkor_khmer.md Zone Catalog :75;

CH_05.md :102], and the constructs' one authored non-visual channel is "the vril-cast tier for the

guardian-construct trial" in the sound design [angkor_khmer.md § 10 :663-668; CH_05.md

§ Asset anchors :270]. LOW DENSITY IS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE TINY ROM, not a problem to work around:

six degrees of freedom on a dvarapala is what a low-density site can afford, and the design says so

rather than pretending the number is a style choice.

• NOT DERIVED — INVENTED BY THIS SHEET, declared as the game's own and enumerated again in § 7: the

course-by-course skeleton and its degree counts, the plinth-rotation and jamb-socket freedoms, the

three-degrees-per-coping-block rail figure and its travelling-wave amplitude, the yaksha attribute's

OFF-AXIS PLACEMENT and the outline delta it buys (the attribute CLASS is attested per CH_05.md

:82; its use as the silhouette carrier is this sheet's), the two uncited SCALE FIGURES (the

dvarapala at roughly two to two and a half metres, and the hundred-metre order of the causeway rail),

the raised-head COUNT as a meter, the dry-hem occupational-absence read, the trunk-turn carriage

note, his ADDED works at the barrage (the pegged shutters and the stoplog stack), the

grit-from-the-course-lines material read, the wet mark on the barrage face as the second meter, and

the TWELVE tell shapes of § 6 — of which two, and only two, carry silhouette fractions, because

fractions belong to the part economy's two entries and not to a tell.

4. elevation

ONE-LINE SILHOUETTE READ: a clean dry vertical in court silk holding a sealed document out at arm's

length, and behind him every carved guardian on the causeway turned to face the sanctuary instead of

the road.

That is the kit's own silhouette read — "a court official with a sanction, and behind him a sanctuary

that has stopped agreeing with him" [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § identity] — restated as a thing a black fill

can carry, which is the form the doctrine's distance test wants.

BUDGET: FOUR AXES across two subjects, at the doctrine's ceiling and no further. One PRIMARY on the

wards, two supporting on the wards, one supporting on the man. Applying more would produce the chimera

the doctrine warns about, and this row is already carrying four bodies.

THE POLE, ARGUED — CORRUPTED-AND-SELF-JUSTIFYING, and its rival reading refused

§ 3A.1's four poles are a checkable design law rather than a flavour, so the selection is argued. The

rival reading is CORRUPTED-AND-KNOWING (BE_0008's pole), and it has a real case: the region page

calls his motive "purely local, opportunistic" [angkor_khmer.md :50], and an opportunist who monetizes

a collapse looks like a man who simply knows what he is doing.

IT LOSES ON THE ROW'S OWN EVIDENCE. The knowing pole's design signature is that NOTHING WAS TAKEN FROM

HIM and he never felt a need to make a case; the self-justifying pole's is that he has a coherent

account of himself, he believes it, and THE ENCOUNTER MUST LET HIM MAKE HIS CASE OUT LOUD. This row

does not merely permit that — it is built on it. His entire phase-1 defence is a DOCUMENT rather than

a weapon [KIT_BE_0005_S4 ability 7], the row's second counter is to strip his SANCTIONED COVER by

reading the record against him [BE_0005_S4 :: counters], and the region page names precisely what

the account is: he exploits a divine-kingship claim the faith does not require, on a formula that is

scholarly-contested rather than false [angkor_khmer.md § 5 :387-393]. A man whose armour is a

contested doctrine is a man arguing, and the doctrine's own note applies exactly — "this is the most

reusable pole in the register, because the arc's institutional antagonists are nearly all this one",

and a devaraja-court official is an institutional antagonist by definition.

THE POLE'S FIRST LAW IS THEREFORE BINDING ON EVERY PLATE THIS SHEET DISPATCHES: THE CORRUPTION MAY NOT

BE VISIBLE ON HIS FACE. No sinister mark, no cruelty in the features, no villain's physiognomy. A man

who looks corrupt has been let off, and on a member of a living tradition's community he is worse than

let off — he is a defamation of a face. The elevation lands on the ABSENCE of an occupational mark,

which is the axis below.

THE REGISTER CALL — CONSTRUCT, and not ICONOGRAPHIC

§ 3C's iconographic register is for a being whose primary evidence is an IMAGE and whose body is the

medium that depicts it, and its rules follow from flatness: no foreshortening, motion by substitution,

the part economy on SURFACES. The wards fail that test in the right direction — their primary evidence

is CARVED ARCHITECTURE in three dimensions, with a real material, a real core and a real joint system

[angkor_khmer.md § 9 :634-637]. So they build as CONSTRUCT, on the grammar BE_0005 already used

for the pangulubalang and the singa facade, and § 3C's rules about drawing do not bind.

ONE § 3C RULE IS IMPORTED DELIBERATELY, because it is a care rule rather than a pictorial one and its

subject is identical: where the depicting tradition is LIVING, the being is rendered in that

tradition's own register and never a western horror one, and no real devotional object is reproduced

as an asset. Angkor Wat "has never truly ceased functioning as a place of worship for ~900 years and

is an active Buddhist temple to this day" [angkor_khmer.md Zone Catalog note :78-81], so the

tradition is as living as any on the shelf. § 7 and § 8 carry that rule to the plates.

PRIMARY — A9 THE MARK, and the mark is THE FACING

ONE high-contrast, instantly readable identifying feature, and the doctrine's number is one. Here it

is not an object on a body: IT IS A ROTATION. A door guardian faces OUT. These face IN.

The kit already names it as the encounter's most important tell — "the door's guardian faces INWARD

instead of outward … a ward that turns inward is guarding against what is already inside, and reading

that is the encounter's first real information … The most important tell in the fight and it is a

statue's facing" [KIT_BE_0005_S4 ability 4]. This sheet's job is to make it a BODY fact, and § 2d

does twice over: the yaksha's one and only degree of freedom is rotation in its jamb socket, so the

mark is not merely readable — it is the ONLY thing that subject can do; and the figure's carved

attribute sits OFF THE CENTRE LINE, so the rotation moves a shaft from one edge of the outline to the

other and the facing change survives a black fill.

WHAT THE MARK CLAIMS, STATED HONESTLY AS A TWO-RANGE READ RATHER THAN AS A PURE-SILHOUETTE ONE. At

NEAR AND MIDDLE RANGE the mark is a full read: the face, the gaze, the attribute and the body's

three-quarter turn all resolve, and the player knows at a glance that a door guardian is guarding

inward. AT COMBAT-CAMERA DISTANCE IN BLACK FILL the mark survives as ONE THING — which edge of the

figure the shaft rises on — and that is a real silhouette delta rather than a claim of one, but it is

a single-bit read and the sheet does not pretend it is more. THE ATTRIBUTE IS THE WHOLE REASON THE

DISTANCE TEST PASSES ON THIS BODY; without it, idle and roused are the same fill and the mark is a

near-read only. § 6's distance-test block states the delta and § 8's PLATE A and PLATE I dispatch it.

WHY IT IS STILL THE STRONGEST MARK AVAILABLE ON THIS SUBJECT. It costs no anatomy, adds nothing to a

living tradition's sacred sculpture beyond the attribute its own iconographic class already carries

(which is the exact failure BE_0005_S2 refused on Mahakala), needs no HUD, and is a

NEOPHYTE-REGISTER read by construction — the player sees which way a statue is looking, which is a

behavioral tell and never a vril-signature read [HL_0028/HL_0017; angkor_khmer.md § 11 :706].

A creature carrying three marks carries none, so the constructs get this one and no other.

MECHANISM, and the doctrine requires one: a ward-object is worked stone consecrated to a CHARGE, and

the charge is a standing condition on the object rather than a life in it. When the sanctuary's

condition is violated the charge is no longer satisfied and the object acts on it. Physically that

means the object moves through EXACTLY the freedoms its own masonry gives it and no others — vril

alters real physics rather than suspending it, so a cramped sandstone course can rotate on its bed and

cannot bend. THE RULE IS CHECKABLE: if a ward ever articulates where it has no course, no cramp and no

socket, the design has broken itself and the asset is wrong.

SUPPORTING — A8 MATERIAL SUBSTITUTION, and the substitution is the temple's own fabric

The bodies are not flesh and are not pretending to be. They are sandstone over laterite, pinned with

iron [angkor_khmer.md § 9 :634-637], and every read the player gets is a masonry read:

• THE JOINTS ARE THE COURSES. Motion happens at bed-joints and at cramps, which means the wards move

in visible STEPS with a stone-on-stone grind and a ring of iron in a socket, never in a smooth

organic arc. That single decision does more anti-slop work than any texture pass.

• THE GRIT IS THE MOTION CUE. Sand and mortarless dust fall from the course-lines when a ward moves,

and they keep falling for a second after it stops. This is the same non-emissive grammar

BE_0005_S2 built for Borobudur and BE_0004_S1 before it — and it is now owed by a THIRD row with

no owner, which § 9 boards.

• THE MATERIAL DIFFERENCE IS INFORMATION. Sandstone is the carved skin and laterite the structural

core, so a ward's exposed core reads coarser and redder than its face. The player learns the

difference on the causeway and then reads it on the barrage, where the official's ADDED works are

timber and cord against everything else being stone — the one thing in frame that Angkor did not

build.

• EMISSION: NONE, anywhere in this encounter. The wards read by daylight on pale stone, by occlusion

against the sky, by wetting-darkening at the water line, and by grit in the air. The one authored

non-visual channel is the vril-cast AUDIO tier for the guardian-construct trial

[angkor_khmer.md § 10 :668], which is sound and not light.

MECHANISM: the material is the mechanism. Stone under vril charge has the freedoms stone has.

SUPPORTING — A2 SEGMENT MULTIPLICATION, and the seven heads are a COUNT rather than a crowd

The doctrine's own warning on this axis is the design brief: "a seven-necked body that telegraphs with

one neck has six pieces of decoration." The balustrade's seven heads are ATTESTED

[angkor_khmer.md :52, § 5 :376-381], so the axis is a build rather than an invention — but the seven

still have to earn their necks.

THEY DO IT BY BEING A NUMBER. Each raised head lifts one bay of the rail and NARROWS THE APPROACH BY

ONE BAY. The count is the encounter's HUD-free meter for how far the sanctuary has turned, it only

goes UP, and it reaches seven at the phase change — at which point the causeway is a single-file lane

and the kit's escalation line is literally true: "the wards stop facing the approach and start facing

the sanctuary, all of them, together" [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § escalation]. Seven heads, seven consequences,

one read.

WHICH FAN THE METER READS, NAMED SO IT IS NOT AMBIGUOUS: § 2c gives the rail a seven-neck fan at EACH

end, so the causeway carries fourteen heads and a meter that just said "count the heads" would be

unreadable. THE METER IS THE FAN AT THE END THE PLAYER IS APPROACHING — the near terminal, the one

squarely in frame on the walk in, read from zero to seven. THE FAR FAN IS NOT A SECOND METER AND NOT A

SECOND COUNT: it mirrors the near one one beat LATE, which is a deliberate second-order read for a

player who looks past the fight — the far end tells her what the near end is about to do. Both fans

are at seven together at the phase change.

MECHANISM: the necks rise from a single shoulder block, so each is a lever on the same fulcrum and

each carries a measurable length of rail. Nothing is added to the carving; the carving is asked to do

the thing its own geometry already implies.

SUPPORTING — A10 NEGATIVE SPACE, on the man, and it is the pole's design law made physical

§ 3A.1 rules that on the self-justifying pole "the elevation lands on the ABSENCE of an occupational

mark rather than the presence of a sinister one." This encounter supplies the absence for free,

because of where it is staged.

EVERY OTHER BODY AT THE BARRAGE CARRIES ITS WORK. west_baray's footfall surface is MUD with

water-shallow secondary [angkor_khmer.md Zone Catalog :75]. The sluice-men are wet to the thigh. The

labourers the empire runs on are the corvée workforce the rice surplus fed [§ 2 :154-156], and the

temple domains alone drew goods and service from tens of thousands of people [§ 4 :203-209]. The

quarry-and-canal trade leaves sandstone dust on everyone who touches it [§ 9 :634-637].

HE IS THE ONE FIGURE ON THE BARRAGE WHOSE HEM IS CLEAN AND WHOSE FEET ARE DRY. That is the absence,

it reads at any distance in silhouette (a clean vertical against a rank of figures broken at the

thigh by water), and it says the true thing about him rather than a lurid one: he has never done a

day of the work whose product he is holding back. MECHANISM: this is the self-justifying pole made

physical. Nothing was taken from him, so there is no subtraction to find on his body — the subtraction

is on the INTERFACE between him and the place, and it is the absence of the place's own marks.

5. articulation_delta

• NOTHING IS ADDED TO THE HUMAN RIG. No structure, no attachment, no joint chain, no extended ROM, on

him or on any retainer or sluice-man in the encounter. The human register's elevation budget on

anatomy is zero and this sheet spends none of it.

• NOTHING IS ADDED TO THE CARVED FIGURES EITHER, and that is the register's whole discipline. The

dvarapala, the naga-balustrade and the yaksha are the iconography as the record holds it

[CH_05.md :82]. What this sheet adds is a DECLARED SET OF FREEDOMS in existing masonry, listed

once here so an asset lane can refuse anything outside it:

• DVARAPALA — six degrees of freedom, all named in § 2b: plinth rotation ±90, shoulder course 40,

arm elbow 30, head block 25. Attachment: the plinth to the causeway's own paving course. Weight:

straight down the stack, always.

• NAGA-BALUSTRADE — per-coping-block articulation of about 3 degrees along a chain of blocks, plus

seven necks at 45 degrees of rise from one shoulder block, no lateral. Attachment: the rail's

footing courses, which it never leaves. Weight: on its own footing at every instant.

• YAKSHA — one degree of freedom, 180 degrees of rotation in its jamb socket. Attachment: the

threshold course. Weight: down the jamb, unchanged in every position.

• THE ANIMATION LANE'S OWED WORK, and it is masonry work rather than character work:
• THE STEPPED ROTATION as a first-class motion state — a course turning on its bed in discrete

increments with the grind and the iron ring, distinct from every organic rotation in the chapter.

• THE RAIL WAVE as a chain deformation driven by the coping-block chain itself, so the rail's motion

and the causeway edge's geometry are the same authored thing rather than two things layered. If

they are ever authored separately the encounter has become a set piece — the same finding

BE_0005_S3 recorded about the caldera floor.

• THE HEAD-RAISE as a per-neck state with a held pose, because the COUNT is read at rest and not in

motion. A head that is up must stay up and must be legible from anywhere on the causeway.

• THE GRIT FALL as a material response attached to the course-lines, shared across all three ward

bodies and shared with BE_0005_S2 and BE_0004_S1.

• THE PROCESSIONAL WALK as a locomotion state distinct from the sluice-crew's working gait and from

the retainers' guard step, used on mud.

• HIS ADDED WORKS AT THE BARRAGE are the only new GEOMETRY this sheet proposes, and they are props

rather than anatomy: a stack of timber stoplogs seated in the outlet channel's own slots and a set of

pegged shutters on the sluice gates. They are declared INVENTED (§ 7). They matter because the care

law is exact: the community's hydraulic works are never sabotaged, never breached, never weaponised,

and ability 12 REPAIRS them [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § the arena, EG_0030; § the care read]. So the thing

that comes off in this encounter is HIS ADDITION, not Angkor's engineering — the dike is never cut,

the sluice is never smashed, and the water leaves the way the builders intended it to.

• THE HELD WATER IS NOT AN ASSET WITH A BODY. The reservoir is the arena's own hydrology, and the

encounter's climactic change is a LEVEL and a flow rather than a creature state.

6. fight_grammar

VERBS ARE EXPOSE AND OUTMANEUVER, axis 30/40/30, puzzle-forward. Two phases, evolve-not-swap, and the

row's clause is explicit: phase 2 "calls in more temple wards and court leverage on the same grammar"

— no new ward type and no new argument, more of both [BE_0005_S4 :: phase_breakdown_object].

THE ENCOUNTER'S STRUCTURAL IDEA: THE PLAYER IS FIGHTING A CLAIM, NOT A MAN. Phase 1 teaches that the

temple's own stone has an opinion and that the opinion is not his. Phase 2 puts the same opinion in

writing — the carved record answers him in the sanctuary he is standing in, which is the row's named

weak point and the lane its win_condition runs through [KIT_BE_0005_S4 ability 11]. A player who

never reads a wall can still finish the encounter by restoring the flow, because the row carries two

counters and the fork plays through on every option [CH_05.md §10b :187-196]. A player who reads the

wall wins the argument as well as the water.

THE THREE-VERB WIN CONDITION, GLOSSED because EXPOSE;PURGE;REDUCE is three different things

happening to three different subjects: EXPOSE is the court network named and his cover stripped; PURGE

is the sanctuary's condition restored so the wards settle; REDUCE is what happens to the man, on the

route the player chooses. has_nonkill_path is TRUE and the killing blow is offered on him alone.

ONE SHAPE, ONE ANSWER — AND THE THREE neutralize SHAPES ARE DISTINGUISHED BY TARGET, not left to a

coin flip. THE INWARD FACE neutralizes a MISREADING (the player believes the wards are his and stops

believing it). THE PRODUCED DOCUMENT neutralizes a CLAIM. THE HELPER WHO STOPS neutralizes a STANDING.

They never occur in the same second in phase 1, so each lesson lands separately before phase 2

overlaps them. THE THREE cover SHAPES — THE SET FOOT, THE HEADS THAT WERE DOWN and THE STAIR HELD —

are likewise separated by what the cover is FOR rather than by class: the set foot wants an object

between the player and a ward that has taken the centre line (a spatial answer); the heads that were

down want the player somewhere she REMEMBERS being safe, because the geometry changed off-frame (a

memory answer); and the stair held wants cover on the way to ground the escort has vacated (a

positional answer, and the only one of the three where the cover is a step toward something rather

than away from it). Three geometries, one class, and the arena disambiguates each.

THE ONE-ANSWER TEST ON THE ROW'S OWN COUNTER CELL, ANSWERED EXPLICITLY. The row reads "restore the

correct baray flow …; read the sanctuary inscriptions and the Bayon war-galleries to strip his

sanctioned cover" — two counters, which at first glance looks like one encounter with two answers. It

is not one shape with two answers: they answer TWO DIFFERENT SHAPES (the reservoir and the document),

they are the row's two composure nodes by name

(puzzle_routed=baray_flow_restore__inscription_cover_strip), and either alone completes the

encounter because the fork plays through on every option. Two roads, not a guess.

Part economy — HOME DECLARED, by name, per doctrine § 2.4

THIS ROW USES TWO HOMES AND DECLARES A THIRD AS AFFIRMATIVELY EMPTY. Fractions carry their

measurement basis, because one is measured on the BARRAGE rather than on a body — the same basis the

vehicle and machinery cases use.

• MACHINERY (doctrine's third home), and it is the encounter's primary economy: HIS ADDED WORKS AT

THE BARRAGE — the pegged shutters on the sluice gates and the timber stoplog stack seated in the

outlet channel. About 0.15 of the BARRAGE's silhouette seen from the crest, and the single most

legible object on that structure because a timber stack against dressed stone is the only thing in

frame Angkor did not build. NO REDUNDANCY, which is what makes it machinery: draw the pegs at one

gate and that gate's head is gone, and no amount of effort by the crew puts it back while the player

holds the crest. BREAK THRESHOLD: the pegs drawn or the winding lever thrown. BREAK EVENT: the first

channel below the barrage runs and the SOUND changes across the whole arena. PERMANENT SUBTRACTION:

THE FULL RESERVOIR and THE MEN TO THE GATES both leave the live moveset — the water problem ends and

phase 2 opens [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § part economy]. LEGIBILITY GAIN: the fields below go visibly wet

from the barrage outward. MATERIAL THE ECONOMY WANTS: NOTHING HARVESTED — the works are the

community's and are repaired, not taken [same].

THE RESTORATIVE INVERSION, NAMED SO A LANE DOES NOT BUILD IT BACKWARDS: this part is OPENED rather

than smashed. The doctrine flags the restorative case as "the one most likely to be built backwards

by a lane that reads the column name literally", and this is that case wearing a machinery jacket.

The dike is never cut, the sluice is never breached, and EG_0030 binds — the worked water is the

encounter's SUBJECT and is never sabotaged or weaponised [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § the arena].

• EQUIPMENT (doctrine's fourth home): THE SEALED EDICT IN HIS HAND. About 0.04 of HIS OWN

silhouette at combat distance — small, and readable at that size precisely because the produced-

document tell holds it OUT from the body at arm's length, so it breaks his outline rather than

sitting inside it. BREAK THRESHOLD: the sanctuary's own inscription read against it. BREAK EVENT:

the retainers stop taking his instructions mid-fight [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § part economy]. PERMANENT

SUBTRACTION: THE PRODUCED DOCUMENT and THE HELPER WHO STOPS both leave the moveset. LEGIBILITY GAIN:

once the sanction is stripped, every remaining tell in the encounter is a physical one. MATERIAL:

the stripped-cover evidence, a Thread-3 item [same].

• NONE, declared affirmatively rather than left thin, on THE THREE WARD BODIES. The dvarapala, the

balustrade and the yaksha have ZERO breakable parts and no part economy of any kind, BY DESIGN and

BY CARE LAW: nothing in this fight damages a temple, a balustrade, an inscription or the hydraulic

works [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § the care read], the four environment rows are CARE-BOUND and GEOMETRY ONLY

[EG_0030, EG_0035, EG_0036, EG_0037], and the row's ward objects are the temple's own

property rather than the antagonist's kit. THIS IS NOT A MISSING ECONOMY. It is a row with three

subjects the schema currently cannot say "no parts, correctly" about, which § 9 boards for the third

time in this chapter.

The HUD-free meters, because pip_count is EMPTY on this row

Two, and both are physical. THE WET MARK ON THE BARRAGE FACE — a dark band of wetting-darkening above

the present water line, widening as the level drops, which is the doctrine's own machine-register

meter ("a gap of daylight under a stone that was not there an hour ago") transposed to water and read

from anywhere on the reservoir. THE COUNT OF RAISED NAGA HEADS ON THE NEAR FAN — read from zero to

seven, only ever rising, at seven by the phase change. One meter for the water and one for the

sanctuary, and neither needs an interface.

THE CHAIN-METER BODY STATE, AND WHY THIS ROW'S ANSWER IS ARENA RATHER THAN POSTURE-AND-BREATH.

Doctrine § 2.4 asks that where an encounter carries a non-kill path the CREATURE show chain progress

in posture and breath, so the player feels the chain building without looking away. has_nonkill_path

is TRUE on this row and pip_count and pip_reveal_threshold are BOTH EMPTY (§ 9 boards it), so

there is no authored pip chain for a body to mirror. THE SHEET ANSWERS THE DOCTRINE'S INTENT ON THE

ARENA INSTEAD, and says so rather than leaving the block thin: the two meters above are exactly the

"without looking away" property the clause is after, and they are BETTER placed here than on a body

because this encounter's four bodies are a man who is deliberately unreadable until his sentences

shorten and three stone objects with no breath at all. Where posture IS available it is used — the

wards' facing is the escalation channel and the official's shortening breath is the second — but the

chain itself is read off the water line and the head count. If the registry lane later authors pips

on this row, the body-state clause should be re-run against them; this sheet's answer is the honest

one for a row with none.

Escalation, four channels, each given an anatomical home

• POSTURE — THE WARDS' FACING. All of them turn to the sanctuary together, and anatomically that is a

simultaneous rotation at every plinth course and every jamb socket on the approach, with the naga

count arriving at seven in the same beat [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § escalation].

• BREATH — HIS. He stops speaking in full sentences [same]. The anatomical home is the diaphragm of a

man whose entire register up to that point has been the measured delivery of somebody who is used to

being listened to; the sentences shorten before the content changes, which is a thing a player hears

before she understands it.

• VOCALIZATION — THE TEMPLE'S OWN BELLS, RUNG BY NOBODY [same]. Stone has no voice, so the sanctuary

supplies one — the same solution BE_0005_S3 used for a thing with no face, and the second instance

of the register's standing problem that the voice channel keeps belonging to something other than

the boss.

• NEW OPENER — THE ROUSED WARD is retired and MORE WARDS becomes the opener [same].

The opener and its variants

ROOT: THE ROUSED WARD — one dvarapala on the causeway shifts its weight and stops the player. NO

STRIKE, and it is the cheapest lesson in the encounter [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § identity]. Every dangerous

shape in phase 1 is that root with something added: THE SET FOOT is the root with the weight committed

to the centre line; THE UNWINDING RAIL is the root at the rail's whole length instead of one figure's;

THE STAIR HELD is the root performed by men instead of stone. In phase 2 the root becomes MORE WARDS —

the same shape, moved off-frame, so the read becomes a memory problem rather than a reaction problem.

Teaching order is designed rather than emergent: the player learns to look at a statue before she ever

needs to remember one.

Relocation and turf

HE ENTERS on the terrace with a sanction. HE RELOCATES UPWARD, toward the sanctuary, because that is

where his claim is strongest — and it is also where the record that refutes him is carved, which is

the encounter's best structural joke and belongs to the kit. HE LEAVES EXPOSED. WHAT HE DID TO THE

ARENA HE DID BEFORE THE PLAYER ARRIVED: the baray is held, the fields are dry, and the wards have been

roused by it since before the beat opened [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § turf and relocation].

THE WARDS DO NOT RELOCATE, AND THAT IS THE POINT. They occupy posts. The arena changes because MORE

POSTS BECOME OCCUPIED, never because a guardian walks — which keeps every ward inside its declared ROM

and keeps the approach's geometry, not the ward count, as the thing that gets worse.

Win, loss, and the distance test

WIN: the court network exposed, the hoarded water turned back to the fields, the sanctuaries reopened,

and the official unseated to answer — or struck down on the integrity-gated route, offered and never

required [BE_0005_S4 :: win_reward; CH_05.md §10b FORK_CH05_A :187-196; § Mechanical anchors

:276]. LOSS: the court-network map is logged and a temple-ledger fragment recovered; the water is

still returned and the excursion still doubles back — non-gating, no fail-wall

[BE_0005_S4 :: death_reward; angkor_khmer.md § Derived Indexes :96].

THE DISTANCE TEST, ANSWERED ON EACH BODY IN BLACK FILL. The official: idle is a clean vertical with

hands low; the wind-up is the trunk-turn with the document out at arm's length, which breaks his

outline sideways and is the only time his silhouette is not a line. The dvarapala: idle is a mass at a

threshold; the wind-up is the plinth rotation, which changes the figure from a frontal block to a

three-quarter one and is visible as an outline change of roughly a third of its width. The balustrade:

idle is the edge of a path; the wind-up is a raised head, which puts a hard black shape into the sky

where a rail used to end. THE YAKSHA, AND THIS IS THE BODY THE TEST ALMOST FAILED ON: a figure that

rotates in place and carries nothing off-centre gives the SAME BLACK FILL at both facings, and a

gaze-direction read is a near-read that does not survive a combat camera. § 2d's attribute is the fix

and it is a structural one — the carved shaft rides one side of the body, so at 180 degrees it crosses

to the other edge of the outline and the fill CHANGES: the delta is roughly a fifth of the figure's

width relocating from one margin to the other, plus the loss and gain of the shaft's break against the

door's dark interior. IDLE reads as a shaft on the OUTER edge of each jamb figure, matched left and

right; ROUSED reads as one shaft on the INNER edge, and the pair stops being symmetrical. Symmetry

breaking is the read, it is binary, and it works in pure fill. § 8's PLATE A and PLATE I dispatch both

states explicitly so the concept lane proves it before any asset is conditioned.

7. care_read

• THE COLLECTIVE READ, AND THE ROUTING IS THE ROW'S OWN TARGET TYPE. corrupted_authority: the

antagonist is one official and the court apparatus behind him. §17.1 protection is COLLECTIVE — it

protects the Khmer and the Cham communities from being cast as villain, defamed or exterminated —

and the region page routes every strand of antagonism through the corrupt official, the

court-and-temple apparatus, the two-peer war's military, and the perverted ward-objects, NEVER

through either people [angkor_khmer.md header :31-34; § 4 :359-366; CH_05.md :246]. The temple

servants and dancers, the priesthood, the farmers, fisherfolk and market people, and the Khmer and

Cham civilians of both peoples are allies and protected non-targets [CH_05.md :246;

angkor_khmer.md § 4 :359-363]. It equally does not make him unkillable: HE IS FULLY KILLABLE

without qualification and without softening, on the integrity-gated route the fork names, which is

offered and never required and never the only path, and the blade falls on him alone

[CH_05.md §10b :189, :196; § Mechanical anchors :276].

• THE OFFICE IS NOT THE MAN, AND THE SHEET SAYS SO IN TERMS. The devaraja-court office, the Khmer

administration, and the divine-kingship ideology are not the antagonist — a corrupt individual who

disgraces his office is [CH_05.md :246; angkor_khmer.md § 8 :622]. The kit rules the same thing

from the fight side: the temple is not the antagonist and neither is the devaraja institution as

such [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § the care read]. Nothing in § 4, § 6 or § 8 casts the court, the priesthood

or the cult as the enemy.

• ONTOLOGY-CLASS ROUTING. The row's ontology_class cell is EMPTY (§ 9 boards it), so the routing is

read from canon prose and it is unambiguous: the ward forms are OBJECTS, "never the deities and

never the faithful" [angkor_khmer.md :52, :96, :188-191; CH_05.md :246, :255]. Mahakala, the

Khmer naga, the neak ta and arak, and Po Nagar are revered or protective presences deliberately LEFT

and never villainized [CH_05.md § Decisions surfaced :330; angkor_khmer.md § 12 :729]. THE

DESIGN CONSEQUENCE, stated so no plate drifts: the dvarapala, the naga-balustrade and the yaksha are

the temple's WARDS, drawn in the Khmer tradition's own register and never as western horror

statuary, and the naga in particular is the protective, creative, dynastic pole — a water-lord and

rainbow-bridge, never a slain monster [CH_05.md § Anti-fringe flags :251; angkor_khmer.md

§ 5 :376-381].

• THE GUARDIAN-TEST CLAUSE, AND THE DEFANG TELL ANSWERED HEAD-ON. The doctrine rules that where a

guardian is faced at all it is faced as a guardian TEST rather than as prey, and warns in the same

breath that "a guardian test is not a passive encounter — it is a HARDER encounter." This sheet

builds the harder version and it can say exactly how: the wards cannot be damaged, cannot be

bypassed by force, cannot be turned by any player action, and do not stand down for anyone until the

sanctuary's condition is fixed. There is NO health to spend on them. A player who is good at combat

gets no discount at all on this ascent, and the only currency that works is reading — the facing,

the count, the record on the wall, the hydrology. Bold register with timid staging is the failure

the doctrine names; this staging removes the easy answer rather than adding one.

• THE ROUTE, and it is ruled by canon rather than chosen by this sheet. REAL cultural architecture is

REFERENCE-BUILT, never raw-generated, and generation is sanctioned for fantastical and vril

structures only [angkor_khmer.md § 7 :575-576]. The protected sacred sites are "referenced

type-accurate set-dressing and compositions, never high-poly hero reproductions of the actual

temples, and never staged as loot-arenas" [§ 17 :1102-1105]. So: THE THREE WARD BODIES ROUTE

REFERENCE_BUILT, as type-accurate compositions of Khmer temple-guardian iconography and never as

reproductions of identified devotional sculpture at a named site — AND THEY RENDER IN THE

MYTHOLOGICALLY-STYLIZED REGISTER, WHICH IS A CANON RULING RATHER THAN A TASTE CALL. The spine's

style_register is explicit: "realistic-ethnographic for the Batak, Javanese, Sumatran, Khmer, and

Cham communities, monuments, and ports; MYTHOLOGICALLY-STYLIZED ONLY FOR the begu ganjang, Naga

Padoha, the krasue/ap, AND THE GUARDIAN CONSTRUCTS" [CH_05.md § Asset anchors :267], and the region

page's own set-dressing rule points the same way — the sacred sites are type-accurate compositions

rather than hero reproductions [angkor_khmer.md § 17 :1102-1105]. THE CONSEQUENCE FOR THE ART LANE,

because these two words are easy to collapse: the wards are NOT archaeological documentation of

identified Angkorian sculpture and must not be built as a scan or a study of one. They are the game's

own stylized realization of the guardian TYPE, in the Khmer tradition's own register and never a

western horror one. The monuments, the barrage, the causeway and every person in frame stay

realistic-ethnographic; only the three ward bodies cross into the stylized register, and § 8's route

note and PLATES A, D and E carry the split. THE OFFICIAL ROUTES

ATTENDED_DESIGN with a picked, judged concept plate as the conditioning input, per the concept-first

law — he is identity-bearing, and the row already carries mesh_pipeline_type = metahuman against a

page that authors NPCs MetaHuman-first [BE_0005_S4 :: mesh_pipeline_type; angkor_khmer.md

§ 12 :718]. No Khmer or Cham figure anywhere in this encounter's frames is a raw generation, and

none is a target, a hazard, or a hostage-object.

• THE RENAME-REFRAME RESOLUTION, already performed by canon and held here. The antagonist could have

been a named Angkorian minister; canon ruled him FICTIONAL and UN-NAMED instead, with no deity-name

on a mortal NPC and no real minister cast as villain [BE_0005_S4 :: sources; angkor_khmer.md

:50, § 12 :724; CH_05.md :325]. Nothing was removed by that ruling — the aim moved, exactly as the

doctrine's Flores exemplar describes, and the encounter keeps every gram of its weight. This sheet

proposes no name for him and no name for any ward.

• THE ANTI-TIMID PASS, RECORDED, on this sheet's FIVE live reductions, each run as a

devil's-advocate pass calibrated against over-conservatism.

(1) THE UNBREAKABLE WARDS. Is a boss whose three most visible bodies cannot be damaged a defang? THE

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE HAS A REAL CASE: this is a rated-M action RPG, the player has spent four chapters

learning to hit things, and a lane that says "you may not touch the statues" is exactly the sound

timidity makes. THE PASS REFUSES THE BREAKABLE VERSION, and not on care grounds. Three reasons.

First, canon forecloses it and the foreclosure is structural rather than squeamish — the wards are

the temple's property, the environment rows are CARE-BOUND geometry-only, and the win REPAIRS

infrastructure rather than consuming it [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § the arena, § the care read]. Second,

breakable wards would hand the player the easy answer to a problem whose entire meaning is that the

temple is right and he is wrong; a dvarapala you can smash is a dvarapala whose opinion does not

matter, and the encounter's argument dies with it. Third, and decisively, the doctrine's own defang

test is about STAGING and this staging is harder rather than softer — no health economy, no combat

discount, a memory problem across a level, and a phase change that narrows a causeway to single file.

The bolder object here is the stone that cannot be spent.

(2) THE OFFICIAL'S FACE. Should he look corrupt? NO, and the refusal is the BOLDER option rather

than the safer one, on the pole's own design law: a man who looks corrupt has been let off, and the

harder read — a composed, courteous, entirely coherent administrator with a document that says he

may — is the one that makes a player understand how an empire gets sold. THE CROSS-SHEET RECORD,

RE-POINTED TO THE INSTANCES THAT ACTUALLY STATE IT: BE_0009_gabra_shuf.md :124 states the law

verbatim — "CORRUPTION MUST NOT BE VISIBLE ON HIS FACE. A man who looks corrupt has been let off" —

and BE_0012_S2_inacio_contas_ledger_man.md carries it three separate times (:33 the checkable

design law, :52 the pole's statement, :366 the player-facing consequence), with BE_0009_S1 and

BE_0012_S1 recording the adjacent banality finding on their own subjects. That is AT LEAST A SIXTH

instance of the same rule rather than a third, which makes it a settled register law and not a

preference this sheet is asserting. There is a second

and heavier reason on this subject specifically: a sinister physiognomy laid on a member of a living

people's community is the defamation §17.1 exists to prevent, which is exactly why the pole's law

puts the elevation on an ABSENCE.

(3) THE CHAM ARE NOT IN THE WARD TRIAL. The 1177 two-peer river-war is the beat's backdrop

[CH_05.md §10 :162], and this sheet does not stage Cham combatants inside the ward ascent or the

barrage confrontation. IS THAT SQUEAMISHNESS? No — it is ROUTING, and the two are distinguishable.

The war is a full-intensity set-piece and the region page rules its combat ceiling UNCHANGED twice

over, with its individual combatants explicitly killable enemy soldiers [angkor_khmer.md

header :25-34; § 4 :364-366; § 6 :551-566]. Nothing here reduces that by a single degree. What this

sheet refuses is FOLDING a protected peer people into the ward trial's target position, where the

encounter's own antagonist is a Khmer official and the wards bar everyone: a Cham soldier fought at

the barrage as part of THIS row would read as the Cham obstructing the water's return, which

reverses the two-peer dignity the ruling exists to protect. The war keeps its own staging at full

intensity; this row keeps its own target. DIRECTOR-RATIFIED as correct routing rather than timidity,

and boarded as a reusable rule for any encounter whose backdrop is a two-peer war between protected

peoples: the war's own staging keeps its full ceiling, and the sub-encounter keeps its own target.

(4) WHO ON THIS BARRAGE IS KILLABLE, AND WHO IS ROUTED AWAY — AND THE TWO ARE NOT THE SAME DECISION.

A sheet that leaves this implicit has made a silent reduction, so it is stated affirmatively in both

directions.

THE COURT ESCORT AND HIS ARMED RETAINERS ARE COMBATANTS OF THE CORRUPT APPARATUS AND ARE FULLY

KILLABLE, without qualification and without softening. HL_0123 rules the class directly: "Lethal

violence against human NPCs is core gameplay — thieves, bandits, hostile factions, war combatants,

gladiators, and contract/quest/integrity-gated targets … Maturity is delivered as WEIGHT and

CONSEQUENCE … never as a kill-ban" [T0_Hard_Lines @ HL_0123; bound onto this chapter at

CH_05.md :18 and :246]. THE STAIR HELD and COURT LEVERAGE are therefore shapes with men behind

them who can be fought and killed, the retainers have personas and the community remembers what was

done to them, and nothing in § 6 makes them invulnerable, non-combatant, or scenery. The official

himself is likewise fully killable on the integrity-gated route [CH_05.md §10b :196; :276].

THE SLUICE-MEN ARE ROUTED AWAY, AND THE REASON IS CANON RATHER THAN COMFORT. They are the

community's own working people, and the chapter rules "the farmers and market-people … are allies

and protected non-targets" [CH_05.md § Protected-chapter combat framing :246;

angkor_khmer.md § 4 :359-363]. THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE PRESSED IT: a rated-M sandbox permits emergent

violence against ordinary NPCs, and HL_0123 says so in the same breath as the rest — so is routing

the encounter's answer away from them a scrub? NO, and the distinction is precise and worth keeping:

HL_0123's sandbox permission is about what the WORLD allows a player to do; this sheet's routing is

about what the ENCOUNTER's designed answer is. THE MEN TO THE GATES is answered by reaching a gate

first because the gate is the objective, not because the men are protected from the player's hands

by some special rule. The softening is NOT generalized: it is one shape's answer, stated with its

reason, and it makes no claim about the sandbox at all.

(5) NO SHAPE IN THE TWELVE CARRIES A STRIKE-OR-PARRY ANSWER, ON A ROW WITH A 30-SHARE DIRECT AXIS.

RECORDED AS A REDUCTION rather than left as an accident, because it is the one a combat critic will

find. The axis is 30/40/30 and § 6's twelve shapes resolve to any, cover, dodge_only,

trigger_interrupt, neutralize and weak_point — no parry, no strike-answer. THE DEVIL'S

ADVOCATE: a third of this encounter is direct and none of the authored reads asks the player to meet

anything, which on its face is a puzzle lane crowding out a combat lane. THE CANON GROUND FOR

ACCEPTING IT: dominant_combat_mode is puzzle_routed for the whole chapter, and the spine names

this encounter as one of its four realizations — "realized in the ledger-decode, the mandala-ascent,

the baray flow-puzzle, and the endure-and-bind Naga Padoha trial, the main and excursion bosses'

expose routes riding the decoded evidence rather than a tier-gated read" [CH_05.md § Mechanical

anchors :275]. The row's verbs are expose and outmaneuver, not strike and parry. THE 30-SHARE IS NOT

UNSPENT, and the sheet says where it goes: the direct third is the ESCORT — killable men on a stair

and on a terrace, per pass (4) — plus the movement cost of a causeway that narrows one bay at a time.

What this sheet does NOT do is invent a parry window on a statue to make a number look balanced,

because a parryable dvarapala reopens exactly the breakable-ward question pass (1) refused. THE

HONEST STATEMENT: the direct share on this row lives in the escort and the traversal, and the twelve

authored shapes are the reads; if the combat lane wants a parry shape here it should come from the

escort's own weapons and be authored on the kit, not bolted onto the wards.

THE BOLDNESS CHECK IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, recorded

because the doctrine asks for both: nothing in this encounter is passive. He owns a barrage, a

terrace, a sanctuary and a retreat; the fields are already dry when the player arrives; the wards

were already roused before the beat opened; the escort is real and lethal; and the loss branch

returns a logged map and a still-dry argument rather than a reset. The defang tell is absent.

• THE ELEVATED OBLIGATION, HELD WHERE IT BELONGS. The west_baray SURFACE is ELEVATED for the Cham/war

staging and carries a Cham-source grounding obligation that the page's one processed source does NOT

discharge — contract gap CG-29 remains OPEN [angkor_khmer.md § 16 :1054-1061; header :25-34]. This

sheet authors no Cham content, cites no Cham source, and therefore neither discharges nor advances

that obligation; it records it so a later lane does not read this sheet's silence as closure.

• THE CITATION TEST'S POSITIVE CONTROL, and it is an honest negative. The angkor_khmer shelf carries

exactly ONE declared SRC_ id, SRC_00322 — Trankell's ethnography of the Jahed Cham of Kampong

Chhnang, fieldwork 1996-2002 — and the page rules its entire content MODERN-REGISTER and barred from

the ~1200 scene [angkor_khmer.md § 16 :1029-1033; § 5 :515-518]. THE CONTROL: a search of this

shelf's SRC-bearing spans matches (SRC_00322 resolves at dozens of anchors across §§ 4, 5, 12, 13,

14, 15, 16, 19 and 20), and this sheet cites NONE of them — correctly, because every one of them is

modern

and would be an anachronism import if used. The 1200-frame Khmer material this sheet does cite is

the page's own deep-research-grounded prose with named scholarly anchors (Higham, Coedes, Kulke,

Vickery, Groslier, the Greater Angkor Project, Ferrari et al., Po Dharma), which the page itself

states is its grounding condition and flags as still book-gated [§ 16 :1021-1027, :1035-1052]. So

the sheet's lore citations are file:line into canon rather than SRC_ ids, and that is the shelf's

real state rather than a citation failure — § 9 boards it.

• THE ANTI-FRINGE RULE IS A PLATE CONSTRAINT, NOT ONLY A TEXT ONE. Every image this sheet dispatches

must show Angkor and the baray as the dated, inscribed work of their own Khmer builders. No plate

composition may imply a lost race, an external teaching, a "too advanced for its builders" reading,

or a "vanished civilization" [angkor_khmer.md header :19-22; CH_05.md § Anti-fringe flags

:253-254]. The corrective is authorial only and never a player-facing debunk. The present frame is a

LIVING IMPERIAL CAPITAL at its zenith, not ruins [angkor_khmer.md § 1 :137-143], so no plate here

carries the modern conserved-ruin register.

• INVENTION DECLARATION, enumerated. INVENTED BY THIS SHEET and the game's own: the course-by-course

ward skeletons and every ROM number in § 2b-2d; the plinth-rotation, coping-block and jamb-socket

freedoms; the six / chain-plus-seven / one degree-of-freedom counts; the rail's travelling-wave

amplitude figure; THE TWO SCALE FIGURES, WHICH CARRY NO CITATION AND ARE DECLARED RATHER THAN

IMPLIED — the dvarapala at "roughly two to two and a half metres, which is the size the iconography

is carved at" (§ 2b) and the "hundred-metre" order of the causeway rail (§ 2c) are this sheet's

authored sizings, plausible for the type and NOT taken from any measured Angkorian source on this

shelf, and a later pass that needs real numbers must take them from a cited authority rather than

from here; the YAKSHA ATTRIBUTE'S OFF-AXIS PLACEMENT and the symmetry-breaking outline delta it buys

(the attribute CLASS is attested-class iconography per CH_05.md :82 — its specific use as this

encounter's silhouette carrier is this sheet's); the near-fan-only reading of the raised-head meter

and the far fan's one-beat lag; the wet mark on the barrage face as the second meter; the dry-hem

occupational-absence read; the trunk-turn carriage note; his added pegged shutters and timber stoplog

stack; the grit-from-the-course-lines material read; the sandstone-skin-over-laterite-core legibility

read; and the TWELVE tell shapes of § 6 — WHICH CARRY NO SILHOUETTE FRACTIONS, correctly: fractions

belong to the part economy and this row has exactly two parts that carry one (the added barrage works

at ~0.15 of the BARRAGE, the sealed edict at ~0.04 of HIM), plus the distance-test deltas quoted in

§ 6 for each body. CITED: the row's id, name, display name, verbs, axis,

phases, counters, win and death rewards, composure and character-engagement nodes; the three ward

forms and their ward-OBJECT ontology; the rousing and its cause; the official's fictionality,

un-namedness, un-briefedness and method; the devaraja contest; the sandstone, laterite and

iron-cramp materials; the West Baray's dimensions, inlets and outlets; the naga's protective pole

and the seven-headed balustrade; the 1177/1181 war and its ceiling; the routing, the care tiers, the

Neophyte perception ceiling and the generation routes.

• THE REVEAL READ, and this row has a trap the siblings do not. The player-facing strings this sheet

proposes are the row's own display name — "the one who keeps the water back" — and the tell language

in § 6. None carries a House-of-Velheim name, family, pattern, who-frame agent-noun, Cassius, thesis

or Grand Sage reference; CH_05 sits roughly 33 chapters before the ~Ch-38 pattern bar and the family

first appears at Ch 8 [angkor_khmer.md header :13-18; § 11 :693-706]. THE TRAP, NAMED: BE_0005's

own sheet carries the strictest reveal read in the slice because the datu is the arc's first

FAMILY_BRIEFED operative — and THIS official is the mirror case. He is NOT briefed and does not read

the protagonist back [angkor_khmer.md :50, :702-703]. A lane that inherits the datu's

recognition beat onto this row would invent an awareness canon explicitly denies, on the same

Tier-3 rung, in the same chapter. So: no recognition, no unease, no reading-back, no "someone told

me to watch for you" in any bark, any barked line, or any inscription this encounter surfaces. His

motive is local and opportunistic on every surface. The row's awareness_category cell is EMPTY and

that emptiness is CORRECT.

• THE VOCABULARY IS LOCALIZED, NOT FLATTENED. dvarapala, naga, apsara, baray, mebon, kalan, devaraja,

arogyasala and dharmasala land in string tables with glossary entries so the ship-everywhere

localization does not flatten the traditions' own terms [angkor_khmer.md § 17 :1096-1099]. Any

player-facing string this sheet's tells produce inherits that rule.

8. plate_brief

Written affirmatively. Every PLATE SUBJECT LINE names what IS in frame, because the art graph zeroes

its negative conditioning and a prompt that names what to leave out feeds the model the nouns it meant

to exclude. THE CLASS RULING THAT SEPARATES THE TWO KINDS OF SENTENCE HERE, recorded because this

block mixes them: a ROUTE NOTE constrains the LANE (which route, which register, which reference

posture) and may lawfully carry a negation, because no part of it is ever conditioning text; a PLATE

SUBJECT LINE becomes conditioning and must stay affirmative. PLATES A through I below are subject

lines and carry no negation; the route note above them is a lane constraint.

ROUTE NOTE, binding on the whole set (a lane constraint, not a plate subject line): the three ward

plates — A, D and E — are REFERENCE_BUILT type-accurate compositions of Khmer temple-guardian

iconography rendered in the MYTHOLOGICALLY-STYLIZED register that CH_05.md § Asset anchors :267

rules for the guardian constructs, which means the game's own stylized realization of the guardian

TYPE rather than archaeological documentation of an identified sculpture

[angkor_khmer.md § 17 :1102-1105]. Every other plate — B, C, F, G, H — stays REALISTIC-ETHNOGRAPHIC

for the monuments, the works, the water and every person in frame, per the same ruling. The official's

plates are ATTENDED_DESIGN and are the conditioning input for his MetaHuman build. Every plate shows

Angkor at its living ~1200 zenith, built by its own builders, in equatorial daylight.

• PLATE A — THE FACING, the hero read, mythologically-stylized register: a sanctuary doorway in

dressed Angkor sandstone at midday, a carved yaksha guardian standing in each jamb, each holding a

long carved club to one side with its butt on the plinth and its shaft rising past the shoulder. The

right-hand figure faces out with its shaft on the doorway's outer edge; the left-hand figure is

turned in its socket to face into the doorway, its shaft now on the inner edge — the pair no longer

a mirror of each other. Flat overhead daylight, the doorway's own interior shadow behind them, the

stone pale and warm.

• PLATE B — THE MAN ON THE BARRAGE: a Khmer court official of the Angkorian administration in fine

court dress standing on the crest of an earthen-and-stone barrage, a sealed palm-leaf document held

out at arm's length in both hands, his hem clean and his feet dry, three sluice-men working the

gates behind him wet to the thigh in ochre reservoir water. His expression composed and courteous,

mid-sentence.

• PLATE C — THE HELD WATER: the West Baray from the barrage crest, the reservoir full to a high line

with a broad dark wet band of stone below it, and beyond the barrage a gridded rice landscape of dry

cracked channels running away to the horizon. Monsoon light, high haze.

• PLATE D — THE ROUSED WARD, mythologically-stylized register: a dvarapala in the round at a causeway

head, stacked sandstone courses visible as horizontal seams across the figure, an iron cramp bright

in one open bed-joint, fine grit falling from the course-lines as the figure stands turned

three-quarters on its plinth.

• PLATE E — THE SEVEN, mythologically-stylized register: the near terminal fan of a seven-headed

naga-balustrade at a stone causeway's end, four of its heads down along the rail and three raised

high against an open sky, the rail's coping blocks reading as a segmented chain running away toward

water and toward the far fan in the distance.

• PLATE F — THE ANSWERING WALL: an inscribed Khmer sanctuary wall in raking doorway light, the carved

text sharp and legible across the frame, a lamp-lit floor below it.

• PLATE G — THE ADDED WORKS: a sluice gate of dressed stone with a stack of fresh timber stoplogs

seated in its channel slots and rope-pegged shutters lashed across its face — new timber and new

cord against old worked stone.

• PLATE H — THE OPENED GATE: the same sluice with the pegs drawn and the stoplogs out, a full column

of water leaving the gate into the channel below and the first field beyond it darkening as it wets.

• PLATE I — SILHOUETTE STUDY: black fill at combat-camera distance, all at one scale — the official

standing and the official presenting the document; the dvarapala frontal and the dvarapala rotated;

the balustrade with heads down and with seven heads raised; and the yaksha PAIR at both states, the

matched-outer-shafts idle beside the broken-symmetry roused, which is the plate that proves the mark

survives a fill.

9. boarded_debts

Registry implications this sheet found and did not write. Each carries its target row and column.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: hitzone_parts EMPTY. This row's economy lives in TWO homes the column cannot name

— MACHINERY (his added barrage works, measured on the BARRAGE) and EQUIPMENT (the sealed edict) —

and its three ward bodies are affirmatively NONE by care law. That is three different realities

under one blank cell, on the fourth BE_0005 row to raise the same gap

[BE_0005, BE_0005_S1, BE_0005_S2, BE_0005_S3 all board it]. A schema that cannot distinguish

"no parts by design" from "no parts yet" will keep reporting a correct row as a hole.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: ontology_class EMPTY on a row whose subjects include three animated temple wards

of a living tradition. The care register and the ward-OBJECT ruling currently live in region-page and

spine prose only. BE_0005 boarded the identical gap on the Batak side for the begu ganjang, the

pangulubalang and the singa facade; this is the same gap on the Khmer side. VERIFIED AT THE ROW: all

FIVE BE_0005 rows carry an empty ontology_class, so every non-human subject in this chapter — a

killing-spirit, a war-construct, a roused facade, a dharmapala, a bound world-serpent and three

temple wards — has its ontology in prose and nowhere a gate can read it.

• THE THREE WARD FORMS HAVE NO IDS. The dvarapala, the seven-headed naga-balustrade and the yaksha are

each a designed subject with a declared material, a joint system, a facing state and a role, and

none has a CR_ row. The region page routes folkloric beings to

Creature_Roster.folklore_attribution and names all three by name [angkor_khmer.md § 3 :188-191],

so the routing is DECLARED and the rows are ABSENT.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: mesh_pipeline_type = metahuman AND mesh_tags.morphology = bipedal DESCRIBE THE

OFFICIAL ONLY. This row implies FOUR bodies in TWO pipelines: one MetaHuman biped and three carved

stone constructs, of which the balustrade is not bipedal and is not a figure at all — it is a rail

at arena proportion. The filled cells are correct about the man and silent about three quarters of

the row. This is the same "one boss row implies N bodies" gap BE_0012_S1 boarded for its crew, now

with a second axis: the N bodies are not all in the same pipeline.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: mesh_tags.style = "realistic-ethnographic" CONTRADICTS CANON FOR THREE OF THIS

ROW'S FOUR BODIES. The spine's style_register rules "mythologically-stylized ONLY for the begu

ganjang, Naga Padoha, the krasue/ap, and THE GUARDIAN CONSTRUCTS" [CH_05.md § Asset anchors :267].

The cell is correct for the official and wrong for the dvarapala, the balustrade and the yaksha, and

an asset lane reading it will build stylized ward-objects as archaeological documentation. THE

SCHEMA CAN ALREADY EXPRESS THE RIGHT VALUE — verified at the sibling row, BE_0005_S3 carries

mesh_tags.style = "mythologically-stylized" — so this is a wrong value rather than a missing

vocabulary, and it is the same one-row-many-bodies problem as the pipeline cell above: the row has

one style slot and needs two. § 7 and § 8 carry the correct split in prose; the cell does not.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: height_m and :: length_axis EMPTY on a row carrying an adult human, two

over-life-size carved figures and a causeway-length rail. Three scale classes, no scale data.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: pip_count and :: pip_reveal_threshold EMPTY on a puzzle-forward row, while

BE_0005, BE_0005_S2 and BE_0005_S3 all carry 7 pips with a reveal threshold. BE_0005_S1

boarded this silence first; this is the second puzzle-lane row in the same chapter with the same

blanks, which makes it a pattern rather than an omission. Whether puzzle-forward rows are meant to

be pip-less is still a registry-lane decision that has not been taken.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: escalation_vector EMPTY while :: phase_trigger is POPULATED (composure_break),

and — verified at the rows — while BE_0005, BE_0005_S1 and BE_0005_S2 all carry a value

(add_layer, multiply_telegraph, tighten_telegraph). The column is in live use in this chapter

and is simply unfilled on the two rows that most need it, this one and BE_0005_S3. The kit authors

four escalation channels and this sheet gives each an anatomical home; the cell has a value waiting

for it. :: signature_counters is likewise EMPTY while :: counters carries two.

:: phase_voice_array is EMPTY on all five BE_0005 rows, and on this one the phase voice is the

temple's own bells rung by nobody — one more register in which the voice channel belongs to

something other than the boss, which BE_0012_S1 already recorded as a pattern rather than an

omission.

• @ BE_0005_S4 :: character_id EMPTY, and CORRECTLY — the official is fictional, un-named and

un-rowed by ruling [angkor_khmer.md :50, § 12 :724]. The debt is downstream rather than on the

cell: the page rules his persona authored at the QUEST layer, so a T0_Character_Index persona row

is owed by that lane and by no other, and a routing pass that reads an empty character_id as a

hole will fill it in the wrong place.

• THE angkor_khmer ZONE CATALOG CARRIES NO environment_grammar_refs ON ANY OF ITS FIVE ZONES

[angkor_khmer.md Zone Catalog :72-76], while the sumatra_java catalog populates the column on

all four of its own [sumatra_java.md Zone Catalog :63-66]. The consequence is live and visible in

the kit: KIT_BE_0005_S4 reaches for EG_0035 (Terraced Mandala Monument Ascent), EG_0036

(Narrative Relief Gallery Wall) and EG_0037 (Terrace-Transition Gate Threshold) — BOROBUDUR's

environment-grammar rows — to describe an ANGKOR ascent, because Angkor has none of its own. The

grammar generalizes honestly (a terraced ascent is a terraced ascent) and the row ids do not: a

causeway-and-moat crossing, a baray barrage crest and a Khmer gallery are not Borobudur's terraces,

and a later lane reading EG_0035 on this row will source Javanese andesite for a Khmer sandstone

encounter. The angkor zones need their own rows.

AND THE FOURTH BORROWED ROW IS THE WORST OF THEM, because it crosses a region rather than a zone.

EG_0030 is "Subak Weir, Proportional Divider and Tunnel Works (protected)"

[T0_Environment_Grammar_Registry :31] — THE BALI SUBAK ROW, whose subject is the Balinese

irrigation society's stone proportional dividers at canal branch points, cut so a farmer can verify

the agreed allocation by eye [bali.md § the proportional dividers :1301-1309]. The kit binds it as

the West Baray's hydraulic-works row [KIT_BE_0005_S4 § the arena]. The CARE INTENT transfers

perfectly — worked community water, hard-blocked, never sabotaged, never weaponised — and the

PHYSICS does not: a Balinese branch-point divider and tunnel is a small-bore distribution device on

a volcanic-terrace system, and a West Baray barrage is a 12-metre earthen dike holding some 53

million cubic metres [angkor_khmer.md § 7 :593-601]. Same care class, two different machines, two

different material and failure profiles, and this row's entire MACHINERY part economy hangs off the

one it does not have. A Khmer baray-and-sluice environment-grammar row is owed, and until it exists

the honest reading of EG_0030 on this encounter is "the care law, borrowed" rather than "the

works, described".

• THE WARD-ASCENT COMPOSURE NODE SPANS THREE ZONES AND ONLY ONE OF THEM HAS A FUNCTION THAT ADMITS IT.

BE_0005_S4 :: composure_nodes carries environmental=ward_construct_ascent, and the roused wards

are canon ambient threat on angkor_wat and bayon_taprohm [CH_05.md § Key sites :99, :101] —

but those two zones' functions columns are [discovery, learning, traversal] and [character,

discovery] respectively [:98, :100], with no combat and no puzzle between them. Only west_baray

carries [puzzle, combat] [:102]. § 1 resolves this in the design's favour (the ward presence on the

two sacred zones is ambient and read-only; the encounter stages at the barrage), and the resolution

is a READING rather than a row: the schema cannot distinguish "an ascent that resolves elsewhere"

from "two zones whose functions are under-declared", and a later lane could legitimately reach the

opposite conclusion and stage combat on two protected sacred sites. Either the functions columns

want a traversal-gate or trial token, or the composure node wants a zone scope. This is a

care-adjacent gap and not only a schema one, because the wrong reading puts a fight inside Angkor

Wat and the Bayon.

• THE STONE-GUARDIAN GRIT-AND-DUST GRAMMAR IS NOW OWED BY THREE ROWS AND OWNED BY NONE. BE_0004_S1

needs it, BE_0005_S2 needs it and boarded it as a two-row debt, and this row needs it for three

separate bodies. If it is not placed in the environment-grammar registry, one of them will ship with

an aura — which is BE_0005_S2's own prediction, now one row closer.

• T0_Boss_Attack_Rail carries 0 rows. The twelve shapes in § 6 are this encounter's first, and they

are already authored against the kit's twelve abilities, so the rail's population for this row is a

transcription rather than a design task.

• THE 1200-FRAME KHMER AND CHAM SUBSTRATE IS STILL BOOK-GATED, AND THIS SHEET'S CITATIONS RECORD IT.

The angkor_khmer shelf carries one processed source and it is modern-register and barred from the

1200 scene; the RCM still carries no Khmer/Cham per-culture block; and HIGHAM, MASPERO, GOLZIO AND

PO DHARMA remain MUST-ACQUIRE before any canon flip [angkor_khmer.md § 16 :1021-1027, :1035-1052,

§ 20 :1358-1365]. COEDES IS NOT ON THAT LIST AND THIS SHEET CORRECTS ITS OWN EARLIER GROUPING: the

page carries him as "already an owned RCM Tier-1 source for Ch 5 (recommend cross-listing to this

page)" [angkor_khmer.md § 16 :1038] and the spine names him among the excursion substrate anchors

as already RCM Tier-1 [CH_05.md § Mechanical anchors, substrate_sources :290]. He is available

now, not gated. Every lore claim in § 3 therefore cites canon prose rather than a

SRC_ anchor. That is honest and it is also a ceiling: the ward iconography, the barrage

engineering and the court apparatus would all deepen against a processed Angkor authority, and none

exists on this shelf yet.

• THE SEA2 VRIL-SITE EXPANSION IS STILL DEFERRED. Angkor, the baray and the Bayon are ratified

within-authority as a Component-11 catalog addition to T0_Vril_Site_Registry and are NOT enacted

[CH_05.md § Mechanical anchors :279; angkor_khmer.md § 1 :145-150]. This encounter is the one

place in the chapter where a ward-construct trial runs on a LOW-vril surface, and the deferred rows

are the only place that tension could ever be recorded. Noted, not enacted, and not this lane's to

enact — it needs a fidelity-baseline refresh in the same commit.

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