creatures/CR_0026_sumatran_orangutan.md
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·T3_Creatures_Tameable·docs/spine/CH_05.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 the TAME and familiar register of
docs/proposals/bestiary/BESTIARY_ELEVATION_DOCTRINE.md § 3. It cites canon rows and writes none.
Chao-tier passive companion at bond-lite, which occupies no combat slot [T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.4]
REFUSED because every folklore column on this row is empty, the row carries no staged supernatural
claim, and the chapter's care architecture rests on the begu ganjang, Naga Padoha and the krasue being
the ONLY mythologically-stylized beings in it [CH_05.md:267] — a supernatural great ape would be the
mirror of the Komodo defect. · primary_axis A5 age and state, spent as trace and states
combat_facing FALSE; the row reaches scope on trade_8_tameable TAME alone[CREATURE_DEMAND_RULED_STATE_L11.json @ CH_05 CR_0026]
T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0026 · T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.2-1.5, § 4, § 5 Ch 05 L82-150, L222-238, L327-337 · docs/spine/CH_05.md L12, L265, L267, L278 · sumatra_java.md § 3 L172-180, L380-391 ·
build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/ARBOREAL_PRIMATE.json § sub_plans.hominoid
THE ONE FACT THIS SHEET IS BUILT ON. The row's own intelligence gate is Philosophus through Adeptus
Minor [T3_Creatures_Tameable:329; the row's notes], and Ch 5 holds "the Neophyte floor across every
capability" [CH_05.md:278]. The bond this row is in demand FOR is therefore not reachable in the chapter
the row first appears in, and chapter_bonding_window is EMPTY. That is not a hole to paper over. It is
the design: at Ch 5 this is the chapter's one legible refusal — a mind that is plainly trying, on the far
side of a language the player has not learned. The chapter's whole movement is reading, from two
inscriptions clicking as cousins at CH05_B01 to a datu reading back at CH05_B11. This animal is the
place where the reading stops working, and the player can feel the door rather than being told about it.
RE-DERIVED FROM THE ANATOMY REFERENCE TABLE. The doctrine's § 2.1 inline licence is expired. BUCKET
COVERAGE IS DIRECT AND BY ID: build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/ARBOREAL_PRIMATE.json §
sub_plans.hominoid lists "CR_0026 Sumatran orangutan" as its first census row, with reference taxa
*Pongo*, *Gorilla*, *Pan*. This is the only one of the four CH_05 rows in this lane's set that the table
covers by row id, and the block below is the table's, not this sheet's. THREE OF MY FIRST-ISSUE FIGURES
WERE WRONG AGAINST IT AND ARE CORRECTED HERE.
real IK on four grasping end-effectors
overhead and suspensory reach; CLAVICLE PRESENT AND LOAD-BEARING — unlike every row in the QUADRUPED
bucket this shoulder is STRUTTED, not slung, which is the single structural fact that separates this
animal from the tiger sharing its chapter; hand with long curved fingers and a short thumb, the HOOK
GRIP a distinct hand pose from the power and precision grips; 5 digits on hand and foot; the hallux
DIVERGENT AND OPPOSABLE, because a primate rigged with a human foot cannot hold a branch
glenohumeral abduction 0-180 and flexion -70 to 180, with Pongo at the top of that range; forearm
pronation-supination -80 to 90, which the table calls the defining primate forelimb capability and
which a dog manages at about 25 degrees and a horse at zero; elbow 0-145; HIP FLEXION-EXTENSION -30 TO
120, ABDUCTION 0-60, AXIAL ROTATION ±45; knee 0-140; first metatarsophalangeal (the grasping axis)
abduction 0-60 and flexion-extension -40 to 30
claimed the shoulder "circumducts through effectively a full parasagittal circle" and that "the hip
abducts past 90 degrees and rotates toward 180, so the hind limb is nearly as free as the fore." The
table refutes the hip claim outright — abduction tops at 60 and axial rotation at ±45 — and gives the
shoulder a bounded 0-180 abduction rather than a circle. The hind limb is FREER THAN A HUMAN'S and it
is NOT as free as the shoulder, and the design's grasping-foot reads stand on the hallux joint rather
than on an invented hip range.
short stiff lumbar; the flanged male's cheek flanges and throat sac as secondary facial and neck
structures. The table carries no vertebral formula or facial structures for this sub-plan.
knuckle-walk on the dorsal middle phalanges — plus vertical climb, orthograde clambering and
arm-swinging, with short bipedal bouts. The table's own note is the design's licence: "an orangutan
almost never runs and almost never lets go of everything at once — its locomotion is four-limbed,
deliberate and continuous-contact. Building it on a chimp cycle is wrong." The rig rules bind: no tail;
WEIGHT GOES THROUGH THE KNUCKLES OR THE FIST, NEVER THE PALM; the shoulder reaches overhead and is a
different joint from a monkey's.
the animal that does not fall because it never trusts one contact — which is the table's
continuous-contact note stated as behaviour.
edge is soft and its contacts are hard
THE REAL ANIMAL IS ALREADY THE CHARACTER. Four hands, a body that hangs, and a face built to be looked
at. The familiar register's narrow budget is easy to hold here: the work is READ and BOND, not addition.
cultural_significancecell reads only "great ape", and the region page names the orangutan among the five species for which
none of its six audited records carries any region-scoped attestation, refusing under cited-or-cut to
assert one [sumatra_java.md:382-391].
bond-lite; Animal Communication content at Philosophus through Adeptus Minor tier depth
[T3_Creatures_Tameable:329].
tiers of the twenty-two named familiars [T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.5].
rhinoceros and orangutan extinction-threat to the extraction-sector palm-oil operational catalog at
T4 [T3_Creatures_Tameable:337], which is the fauna doc's own scoping of the stratum and is the correct
cite for it. The region page's era-discipline block is about the museum-and-mission record rather than
about fauna and is not carried here.
repo and this sheet does not mint one. It is boarded as an acquisition target in § 9 rather than used.
ONE-LINE SILHOUETTE READ: a red arboreal mass hanging on four hands, motionless, watching you work — and
building something over your head that you only notice when it is finished.
REGISTER: REAL_FAUNA (TRUE_TO_LIFE), doctrine § 3D. Elevation is refused because canon holds this row
mundane — every folklore column is empty, no supernatural claim is staged anywhere on it, and the
chapter's care architecture depends on the mundane world reading as real so that its three
mythologically-stylized beings read as the exceptions they are [CH_05.md:267]. The budget is therefore
A5 and A9, the register's natural spend; nothing on A1-A4 or A6-A8 is claimed.
THE REPLICA TEST DISCHARGES BY CONTRACT AND LADDER, per § 3D.
LEGIBILITY CONTRACT — silhouette-first discrimination against every confusable neighbour in CH_05, at
sixty pixels, black-filled:
its contacts and the bear stands ABOVE them. Four points under a branch against four points on top of
one is the whole read, and it survives at any size.
long horizontal with a tail as long again; the orangutan has no tail at all [table rig rule] and reads
as a mass with four separate limb lines. Tail-or-no-tail is the discriminator.
forest hominoid in the same forest: the orangutan is QUADRUMANOUS AND CONTINUOUS-CONTACT and the Orang
Pendek's whole tradition-attested read is UPRIGHT AND BIPEDAL. An orangutan silhouette standing free
on two legs is the one pose this sheet forbids the animation set, because it is the pose that would
make the two rows unreadable apart and would put an invented body on a living people's testimony.
rides below its shoulder line while this animal's rides between its arms.
STATE LADDER — the states a photograph of the species-typical animal does not contain:
own sleeping place at bond-lite.
same species and different animals, and which one the player has met is a fact about the forest's
social field rather than about the individual.
PRIMARY — A5 AGE AND STATE, and it is spent on the animal AND on what the animal has worn into the world.
This individual is past the life stage the species usually reaches and it has held one patch of canopy
long enough that the forest carries its route:
handhold, a groove pressed into one bough where decades of weight have passed, epiphytes stripped from
exactly the branches it uses and thick on every branch beside them. A photograph of an orangutan does
not contain a road worn by one individual. The road is the tracking read, it is buildable level art,
and it says the thing the doctrine's age axis exists to say: this was here before the quest.
knuckles or the fist and NEVER THE PALM, and Pongo fist-walks on the closed fist rather than
knuckle-walking. So the hard bark-printed callus lies on the DORSAL SURFACE OF THE CLOSED FIST and on
the finger pads and the grasping sole, and the palm stays soft. This sheet's first issue put callus on
"the heel of the hand", which is the palm and which the table forbids; corrected here. The hook fingers
are permanently curled at rest and no longer straighten fully. The hands are the clock.
shoulder that habitually rests against one particular trunk.
MECHANISM: deposition and wear on a body and on a place, over a lifetime that the game states rather than
implies. Nothing supernatural is claimed and none is needed.
THE BOND-EXPRESSION BAND (doctrine § 3.3) rides the NEST, because a nest is a built object made with the
same four hands the creature is about. At distance the nests are the only sign the animal exists — old,
browning, in the canopy above the player's route. At proximity it builds one while the player watches,
and the construction is legible in four moves: bend, tuck, weave, line. At bond-lite, in the compound
garden, it builds one over where the player sleeps. A nest above a bedroll is the whole relationship
stated as an object, and it costs no light, no glow and no dialogue.
SUPPORTING — A10 NEGATIVE SPACE, and this is the sheet's argument. THE ANIMAL DOES NOT VOCALISE AT THE
PLAYER. Ch 5 is a chapter of voices — the datu's ritual-authority register, the healer's warding register,
the monk's mandala-reading voice, the port and pilgrimage crowds [CH_05.md:269]. This creature is the one
presence that is obviously a mind and gives the player nothing to read. The long call exists and is used
to the FOREST, at range, always from somewhere else. MECHANISM: the gate is canon, and the design states
it in the body instead of in a tooltip — an absence exactly where the player expects an answer, which is
what turns an unreachable tier into a locked door rather than an empty column.
EMISSION: none. It reads by being backlit through leaves, by the coat's translucency at its edges, and by
wet darkening after rain.
scapula and the table's own hip bounds are the real animal's, and the anatomy law binds all four limbs
identically rather than treating two as feet.
silent on hominoid digit ranges, so the figure is inline and labelled AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY: full flexion is
available and terminal extension is restricted to about 20 degrees short of straight. The table's own
recognition of the HOOK GRIP as a distinct hand pose is what this rests on. Weight passes through the
flexor tendons, the phalanges and the closed fist and NEVER ACROSS THE PALM, per the table's rig rule,
which is exactly why the callus sits on the fist's dorsal surface and the finger pads.
from grasp sockets on real branch geometry. It is a place the player can climb into, because a nest that
cannot be entered is a decal and the bond's payoff is entering it.
the road has to read as ONE animal's route and a procedural scatter gives noise instead of a story.
THIS CREATURE IS NOT FOUGHT, AND THE SHEET SAYS SO AFFIRMATIVELY. combat_permission is EMPTY, the tier
is AMBIENT, the ruled state carries combat_facing FALSE, and the spine stages no encounter. The part
economy is NONE, declared rather than left thin. What replaces the block is ALLY AND PRESENCE LEGIBILITY
[doctrine § 3.1]: the player must be able to read this animal from a follow camera at small size.
| tell shape | body origin | what it means |
|---|---|---|
| the four-point hold | all four hands set, no weight shift anywhere in the body | it has seen you and is deciding; it will not move while you are moving |
| the slow release | one hand comes off and the load is tested on the other three | it is leaving, upward, and the freed hand points where |
| the branch drop | the forequarter loads a bough and drops its whole mass onto it | the distance is now too small, and the answer is to give ground — the one tell that requires the player to act |
| the built nest over your camp | the four-move construction sequence run above a place the player chose | the bond-lite band is speaking, in an object |
| the long call from elsewhere | the throat sac, at range, addressed to the forest | the conversation is happening and the player is not in it |
THE LEGIBILITY BUDGET AND ITS ANSWER. At sixty pixels of silhouette in a cluttered canopy, colour and
detail are gone. The read that survives is CONTACT COUNT — four points, then three. A hanging animal
releasing one hand is a silhouette change that works at any size, in any light, against any background.
names the absence rather than filling it. ORDINARY_FAUNA-class rows carry no collective claim and this
sheet does not manufacture one [doctrine part five].
ontology_class and combat_permission are both EMPTY, the grade is TAME and the tierAMBIENT. Never fought, never a prize, never caged. The bond is a passive companion at compound tier and
occupies no combat slot [T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.4].
RULES HOW. T3_Creatures_Tameable § 4.1 L232: extinction-threatened species are presented at their
conservation status against primary-source conservation data; real-world extinction events during the
development and launch window update Beastiary entries to witness-record content; and a player who
encountered the species before extinction retains the entry as a canonical witness record at the
worldstate persistence layer. extinction_threat is T4 and the extraction-sector tie is modern stratum
[T3_Creatures_Tameable:337]. At Ch 5 the weight is carried as SCARCITY OF ENCOUNTER: very few
individuals, each of them an individual, each with its own road and its own hands.
community-and-species relationship establishes that register — Ch 11, Ch 12, Ch 29, Ch 42, Ch 57 — and
CH_05 is not among them. Nothing here is being protected by a rule that does not reach it.
identity system, and identity-bearing subjects carry a plate as conditioning.
The BOLD direction, which the standing calibration requires be checked: is there content here the lane
is declining out of caution? Two candidates were tested. (1) Granting a Ch-5 bond anyway, because a TAME
row in mesh demand looks like a missing companion. REFUSED — the gate is canon and the locked door is
better content than an ungated pet; the sheet turns the gate into the design instead of arguing with it.
(2) Building a fight, because a great ape is powerful enough to be one. REFUSED — the row carries no
combat permission, the tier is AMBIENT and the spine stages no encounter, so a fight here would be
authoring canon rather than being bold. If a later canon pass gives the row a permission, the branch
drop is already the opener it would be built from.
bond ladder's visible surface, the bark-printed fist callus and the hook-rest digit restriction, the
shoulder lichen bloom, the five tells, the never-toward-the-player long call and the forbidden
free-standing biped pose are INVENTED BY THIS SHEET as the game's own. The TAME grade, the great-ape
intelligence tier and its Philosophus-to-Adeptus-Minor gate, the critically-endangered status, the T4
witness-record handling, the protected-register chapter list and the bond-lite compound mechanics are
CITED. The skeleton, joint ranges, gait mode and the palm rule are RE-DERIVED FROM THE ANATOMY
REFERENCE TABLE, which covers this row by census id.
and never reaches a player surface at 1200 CE.
Written affirmatively. Every line names what IS in frame.
long red coat backlit by daylight through leaves, both feet gripping as hands do, eyes on camera.
across the fist's dorsal surface, the finger pads and the sole, the fingers held at their curled rest
and the palm smooth.
bough, epiphytes thick on the branches beside it and bare on the branches of it.
still resting on the rim, leaf-light behind.
one scale.
@ CR_0026 :: chapter_bonding_window is EMPTY while the row's own intelligence gate (Philosophus throughAdeptus Minor) sits far above CH_05's declared Neophyte floor. Either the bond window is a later chapter
or this row is TAME-in-name-only at Ch 5, and the difference decides whether a companion ships here.
@ CR_0026 :: intelligence_tier is EMPTY while T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.2 names a per-species intelligence tier as part of the entry template AND this row's own notes cell already carries the value
as prose ("high-intelligence; Philosophus-Adeptus Minor depth"). The column exists and the answer is
sitting in the wrong cell.
@ CR_0026 :: collect_verb is EMPTY on a TAME row, while CR_0003 — also TAME — carries TAME_BREED.@ CR_0026 :: husbandry_breedable is EMPTY on a row that T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.4 places inside theL1 ordinary-fauna husbandry loop. Whether a critically-endangered great ape breeds in a compound garden
is a decision, not a blank.
@ CR_0026 :: ontology_class, combat_permission, cultural_depiction_required, hard_line_anchors, folklore_behavior_substrate, folklore_attribution_source, integrity_visible_aesthetic_shift and
vril_substrate_response are all EMPTY.
T0_Familiar_Registry carries the twenty-two slots only, and no registry under registries/ carries the Chao-tier passive companion that
T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.4 specifies. Every TAME row in the roster is in mesh demand for a bond the
registries cannot yet express.
SRC_ id. The region page's Section-3 gap coversthis species explicitly, and the common etymology this sheet declined to assert is exactly the kind of
claim that will be invented downstream if the shelf stays empty.