CR_0007_flores_giant_rat.md

creatures/CR_0007_flores_giant_rat.md

CR_0007 — the Flores giant rat, the sign that the deep layers are occupied

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_Creature_Roster · docs/spine/CH_02.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.

It cites canon rows and writes none.

1. identity

• canon_id: CR_0007 · canon_name Flores giant rat · chapter CH_02 · region flores_island
• species_class: mammal · tier_classification AMBIENT · trade_8_tameable OBSERVE
• trophic_role: herbivore · temperament_prior skittish · cultural_significance endemic giant rodent
• ontology_class: not set · combat_permission: not set · generation_status pending
• register: CREATURE · primary_axis: none — ELEVATION BUDGET ZERO, declared
• rows_read: T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0007 · flores_island.md § 3 · docs/spine/CH_02.md CH02_B05

2. base_species

• binomial: *Papagomys armandvillei*
• archetype: quadruped, rodent
• individual scale: genuinely large for a rodent — body length approaching that of a small cat, with a

heavy scaled tail nearly as long again (AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY). No elevation is needed to make it

striking; the species already is.

• skeleton: the ordinary murid roster — cervical chain of 7, 13 thoracic and 6 lumbar vertebrae, a

long caudal chain, four limbs with five digits, ever-growing incisors

• declared ROM (AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY): ordinary murid ranges; the tail is a balance instrument with a

wide arc at the base; the forelimb has genuine manipulative reach at the mouth

• mass, stance, gait: low and heavy, a walking gait rather than a scurry, capable of climbing
• resting silhouette: a heavy low body with a long bare tail, seen at the edge of a torch's throw

3. lore_source

None claimed. The row's own significance line is ECOLOGICAL: it is the island's endemic giant rodent,

and endemism is the register.

4. elevation

ELEVATION BUDGET: ZERO, DECLARED. trade_8_tameable is OBSERVE, there is no folklore role and no

combat permission. Under the doctrine's scope rule this rides the ordinary asset path, and the

correct design decision is to leave a genuinely remarkable real animal alone.

THE JOB IT CARRIES, and it is the reason this row is not skippable: THE DEEP LAYERS HAVE TO LOOK

OCCUPIED BEFORE THEY ARE. The Ebu Gogo beat at CH02_B05 works only if the deep stratigraphy already

reads as a place where things live, and a large endemic rodent at the edge of the torchlight does that

in one asset. It is the chapter's first answer to "is anything down here", and the answer is yes

before the answer is them.

The SITE REGISTER — the one thing the ambient rows do share. The Ch-2 zone is a vril-dense recharge

site, and ambient life at a potent site shows it in material terms rather than in behaviour: the coat

carries the cave's own pale dust in the guard hairs, and the animals nearer the water carry the same

mineral bloom on the tail scales that the guardian pair wear on their bellies. Three animals, one

water, one mechanism, at three scales. It costs a texture variant and it makes the whole zone read as

one place.

ONE-LINE READ: a rodent the size of a cat, dust-pale along the back, at the edge of the light.

EMISSION: none.

5. articulation_delta

Nothing added.

6. fight_grammar

None. Not faced, not bonded, not hunted. Its interaction grammar is one line: it does not flee

immediately, and the beat of hesitation before it goes is what tells the player the animal has not

been hunted here — which is a different fact about the deep layers than the player expects, and the

Ebu Gogo beat pays it off.

7. care_read

• COLLECTIVE READ: nothing engaged.
• ROUTE: ordinary asset path.
• ANTI-TIMID PASS: nothing reduced and nothing inflated. The declared zero is itself the recorded

judgement.

• INVENTION DECLARATION: the dust and mineral site register and the hesitation beat are INVENTED BY

THIS SHEET. The endemism and the size class are the row's own and AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY.

• REVEAL READ: clean.

8. plate_brief

• PLATE A: the animal on flowstone at the edge of a torch's throw, three-quarter rear, long scaled

tail across the frame, dust-pale guard hairs along the back. Torch as the only light.

9. boarded_debts

• ontology_class and combat_permission are both EMPTY on this row where every other Ch-2 mammal

carries at least one. It is almost certainly ORDINARY_FAUNA / NONE, and a lane that assumes is a

lane that guesses.

• generation_status is pending with no mesh_id_ref — this row is unbuilt.

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