creatures/CR_0027_sun_bear.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.
ceremonial ground beside the village, and the caldera-rim herd corridor) and the lowland forest edge
passive companion occupying no combat slot [T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.4]. Elevation is REFUSED because
every folklore column on this row is empty, no supernatural claim is staged on it anywhere, 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].
combat_facing FALSE; the row reaches scope on trade_8_tameable TAME and on tier_classification PREDATOR under RULING_8 [CREATURE_DEMAND_RULED_STATE_L11.json @ CH_05 CR_0027;
DIRECTOR_RULING_L11.json RULING_8]
T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0027 · T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.2-1.4, § 4, § 5 Ch 05 L82-140, L222-238, L327-337 · docs/spine/CH_05.md L12, L95, L265, L267 · sumatra_java.md § 3 L172-180,
L234-241, L305-312, L354-364, L380-391 ·
build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/QUADRUPED.json § sub_plans.carnivoran_digitigrade
THE ROW IS A CONTRADICTION UNTIL IT IS DESIGNED. A PREDATOR that is TAME, in mesh demand, and not
combat-facing. The contradiction resolves the moment the animal's real job is named: this is not a hunter
of people. It is the animal that BREAKS INTO THINGS — and the region page has already put the things on
the map. Rice-granary doors carved with the lizard emblem, bone and horn craft in the village craft
quarter, and herds moved along the caldera-rim corridor are all attested [sumatra_java.md:305-312, 359-364,
239-241]. A bear with the strongest opening apparatus in the forest, standing at a granary door, is a
real encounter with a real stake and no fight in it.
RE-DERIVED AGAINST THE ANATOMY REFERENCE TABLE, AND THE COVERAGE IS PARTIAL — STATED AFFIRMATIVELY.
build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/QUADRUPED.json § sub_plans.carnivoran_digitigrade is the only
carnivoran sub-plan in the table, and its declared scope is "CR_0057 Cheetah (see census_defects),
generic canid/felid" against a *Canis lupus familiaris* reference taxon. NO BUCKET COVERS A PLANTIGRADE
URSID. This row is a caniform carnivoran with a fundamentally different distal limb posture from the
sub-plan's, so the table's joint ranges are carried here as BOUNDS with the substitution declared —
which is the same discipline the table itself applies when it transfers canine ranges to felids — and
everything about the plantigrade foot, the vertebral formula and the soft tissue is inline and labelled.
QUADRUPED, sub-plan carnivoran_digitigrade by nearest fit only, with the posture grade DIVERGENT.
that matters here as much as it does on the tiger — THE CLAVICLE IS VESTIGIAL OR ABSENT and the
forelimb hangs in a MUSCULAR SLING, so the scapula translates on the ribcage rather than articulating
to it. Deform chain and the 34-bone minimum per the bucket's rig conformance.
vestigial caudal chain against the table's canid-derived 20-23; FIVE digits on the HINDfoot where the
sub-plan declares four, which is the ursid difference; long, strongly recurved, NON-retractile claws; a
short broad skull on a heavy neck; a tongue at roughly a fifth of the animal's standing height; and the
neck-and-shoulder hide, which is LOOSE and slides over the body wall.
±20; elbow 36-165 with pronation-supination ±25, never a free axis; carpus 32-196, hyperextending past
straight as the shock absorber; hip 50-162; stifle 42-162; hock 39-165 and NEVER hyperextending;
intervertebral thoracolumbar per joint at sagittal ±8, lateral ±6, axial ±4, with the spine bending
SAGITTALLY and not laterally; scapulothoracic excursion ±25 protraction-retraction, ±15 rotation.
of supination". The bucket bounds pronation-supination at ±25 and states plainly that it is never a
free axis. The paw's ability to work a surface rather than only push it therefore rests on the
SCAPULOTHORACIC excursion and the carpus's enormous 32-196 range, not on an invented forearm rotation.
the whole spine loaded vertically, which no quadruped sub-plan in the table describes; and the loose
hide's slide as a soft-body allowance of several centimetres over the scapula and nape.
footfall, LH-LF-RH-RF, at duty factor 0.55-0.8; the plantigrade stance, the rolling carriage and the
fast vertical climb are inline and are the reason this animal reads unlike anything else in the bucket.
cultural_significance cell reads only "smallestbear species", and the region page names the sun bear 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].
corridor are a real attested Batak activity, and the page names this animal as one of the three the
herds give something to be a threat to [sumatra_java.md:239-241]; the porhalaan's own stake for a badly
chosen day is the party waiting outside the shelter, exposed to wild animals [SRC_00158, p. 170].
carry the carved lizard emblem of Boraspati ni Tano [SRC_00446, p. 45, 57, 48; sumatra_java.md:305-312],
and the horn and bone crafts sit in the village craft quarter [sumatra_java.md:364].
about the LIZARD, not the bear — lizards are never killed and are given offerings of rice, and a player
who kills one is noticed [sumatra_java.md:305-312]. This sheet does not extend that rule to a species
the record does not attach it to.
living tradition's protective emblem. THE RAID STAYS AND THE PANEL SURVIVES. The bear breaks the door
FRAME and the lashings — the timber, the pegs, the cord, the things that hold a granary shut — and the
carved Boraspati ni Tano panel comes off whole and is RE-HUNG by the village, which is what a household
does with a house-emblem after a break-in. Mechanically the panel is a non-breakable member inside a
breakable assembly, and the re-hanging is a visible repair state on the rebuilt door. THE TOOL IS
REFRAME, NEVER REMOVAL: nothing is deleted from the encounter, the loss is still real, and the emblem
the record actually attests is not the thing an animal is shown destroying.
and is declared as ours in § 7.
ONE-LINE SILHOUETTE READ: a small black bear braced flat against a door it is opening, a pale crescent on
its chest, glossed along the forearms with the last thing it got into.
REGISTER: REAL_FAUNA (TRUE_TO_LIFE), doctrine § 3D, and the conversion is deliberate. This sheet's first
issue spent A4 HYPERTROPHY and built the forelimb "out past the real animal until the silhouette reads
forelimb-first." That was elevation against canon on a row canon holds mundane — the exact second failure
mode § 3D was ratified to stop — and the register's budget names A1-A4 as the signal that a sheet is in
the wrong register. The departure is WITHDRAWN. The real *Helarctos malayanus* is already the most
extreme opening apparatus in this forest and needs nothing added; the design's whole job is to make the
true-to-life animal READ. Budget: A5 and A9 only.
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:
whose limbs read heavy and forward; the tiger is a LONG horizontal whose head hangs below its shoulder
line and whose tail is a third line. Length-to-height is the discriminator and it survives any lighting.
as long as its body and the bear has effectively none.
and an upright hominoid share an outline. The bipedal stand is therefore always played with the
forelimbs hanging loose and clear of the trunk, never raised, so the silhouette keeps four distinct
limb lines.
STATE LADDER — the states a photograph of the species-typical animal does not contain:
two wear states say which food this individual has been living on.
PRIMARY — A5 AGE AND STATE. The animal is unmodified and its HISTORY is the design. The loose
neck-and-shoulder hide is a recording surface: scarred where things have gripped it, glossed where it has
pushed through what it opened, and the claws carry their own wear ladder. What the first issue tried to
say with added mass, the true-to-life animal says with what it has been doing.
MECHANISM: deposition and wear on a body that already carries the tools. Nothing supernatural is claimed
and none is needed. THE TONGUE IS A DEPLOYED STRUCTURE, not a texture — it extends visibly into a gap and
holds there, and at true-to-life proportion it is still a tell no other creature in the game owns. The
hindquarter is genuinely small and the bite genuinely unimpressive for a bear, and the design states that
plainly rather than correcting it: this is not a killer of large things, which is exactly why the row is
not combat-facing and why that is not a softening.
SUPPORTING — A9 THE MARK: the chest crescent, and it carries the record. The crescent is a genuine
per-individual marking with no two alike (AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY), and it sits at the exact height a standing
bear presents to a person, which makes it the identifying feature at any distance in any light. Its
MECHANISM is that the loose hide beneath and around it is a recording surface: it is scarred where things
have gripped it, and it carries a dark gloss of wax and resin along the chest and forearms from what the
animal has last opened. THE BOND BAND IS READ ON THE MARK — a fed bear's crescent is clean and held
forward; a raiding bear's crescent is smeared with the last thing it took. One mark, two states, no HUD.
EMISSION: none. The coat is short, dense and near-black and reads by specular sheen under a torch or a
low sun, and by the wet darkening of rain.
130-degree elbow restriction is WITHDRAWN with the A4 spend. The forelimb is the real animal's, working
inside the table's bounds: elbow 36-165, carpus 32-196, and the scapula translating on the ribcage
through ±25 of protraction-retraction. The bracing pose is built from those three and needs no
departure — the elbow locks toward its extension bound and the load passes through a hyperextending
carpus into a plantigrade foot flat on the ground.
skeleton turns inside it. Weight passes through the skeleton as normal; the hide lags, and the lag is
the animal's whole defensive read. The table is silent on soft-tissue slide, so the allowance is inline
and labelled AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY.
with no articulation of its own. It is the one part of this creature that moves without a joint.
are the real animal's and the anatomy law binds them unchanged.
THIS CREATURE IS NOT FOUGHT AT CH 5, AND THE SHEET SAYS SO AFFIRMATIVELY. combat_permission is EMPTY
where CR_0024's is PERMITTED, there is no drop anchor, there is no boss row, and the ruled state carries
combat_facing FALSE. What the row DOES stage is a PREDATOR PRESENCE with a real stake: a raid.
THE PART ECONOMY'S HOME IS EQUIPMENT AND ARCHITECTURE, held on the ARENA rather than on the body, and IT
RUNS BACKWARDS. The parts are the things the bear opens — the granary door, the store chest, the horn
flask, the hive, the traveller's pack — each with a break threshold and a real failure mode. The three
currencies invert: instead of a permanent SUBTRACTION from the creature's moveset, each broken part is a
permanent ADDITION to it, because an animal that has opened a granary is now an animal that knows
granaries; the legibility gain runs to the player, who learns which of their own surfaces this body can
work; and the material the economy wants is whatever was inside, which is gone. § 9 boards this as a
doctrine finding: it is a second inverted case beside RESTORATIVE, and a lane reading the column literally
will build it the wrong way round.
| tell shape | body origin | one answer |
|---|---|---|
| the stand | it rises onto the hindlimbs with the forelimbs hanging loose, the whole spine loaded vertically | it is reading the air and the height of a thing; hold still and let it finish |
| the brace | one forelimb sets flat on a surface with the claws engaged and the elbow locked | the opening is one beat away, and the answer is the door rather than the bear |
| the tongue | the tongue deploys into a gap and the head goes still | it is fully committed and has stopped attending to anything else — this is the window to move |
| the hide roll | the loose neck skin turns first and the head follows late | it has been crowded or gripped; give ground immediately, and this is the only tell that means stop |
| the clean crescent, held forward | it approaches without the brace posture and without the raid gloss | the bond-lite band is speaking: it has come for the food it is given rather than the food it takes |
ESCALATION, WHICH IS A ROUTE RATHER THAN A PHASE. POSTURE — it stops working the forest edge and starts
working the village line. BREATH — the huffing that carries at distance stops when it is inside the ring.
VOCALIZATION — the moaning contact call it makes in the trees is replaced by silence at the door.
NEW OPENER — it stops opening the easy things and starts opening the built things, which is the escalation
a player can name before any system confirms it.
THE COUNTER IS CONSTRUCTION AND DETERRENCE, NOT A BLADE. Better doors, raised stores, a fed decoy line,
and Herbalism's plant-based pacification of predators at Trade-4 mastery [T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.3] are
the real answers, and the TAME grade is the other half of the same mechanic: the animal that comes for
stores can be fed on purpose, and once it is fed on purpose it is a compound companion.
manufacture one. ORDINARY_FAUNA-class rows carry no collective claim [doctrine part five].
plays that for comedy. The good-path answer is building the granary better and taking the bear off the
store, which is the same shape as the chapter's own main resolution — the water returned, the strait
reopened, the man answering for it.
ontology_class EMPTY, combat_permission EMPTY, grade TAME. Not fought at Ch 5,never a trophy, and the bond is a compound-tier passive companion occupying no combat slot.
DEFANGED. The softening considered was DELETING THE GRANARY RAID and moving the encounter to a wild
bee tree, so that no animal is ever shown breaking a Batak household's carved door. REFUSED. The
granary is the only attested built object in the record that this animal's real anatomy is for, the
loss is what makes the encounter matter, and removing it would leave a predator with nothing to
predate — the exact stat-block failure the doctrine names. The care problem is real and the tool is
REFRAME: the frame and lashings break, the Boraspati panel survives and is re-hung, and the aim moves
off the emblem and onto the timber. NO LATER LANE MAY DELETE THE GRANARY ON CARE GROUNDS; the ruling
above is the answer that was already given.
animal is genuinely dangerous at contact distance, and the hide roll is a warning the player must obey.
BOLD, which the standing calibration requires be checked explicitly: SHOULD THIS ANIMAL BE FOUGHT? The
row carries tier PREDATOR and the region page names it a threat to the herds, so a lane could reasonably
build a fight. REFUSED ON THE CELLS — combat_permission is EMPTY where the tiger's is PERMITTED, the
grade is TAME, there is no drop anchor and no boss row, and the L11 ruled state carries combat_facing
FALSE. The refusal is scope discipline rather than squeamishness, and it is reversible by measurement:
if a later canon pass lands a permission on this row, the fight is BUILT and the hide roll is already
written as its opener.
its re-hanging repair state, the crescent as identity with its raid-gloss state, the claw-wear ladder,
the grip scarring, the five tells, the forelimbs-hanging rule on the bipedal stand, and the inverted
arena part economy are INVENTED BY THIS SHEET as the game's own. The smallest-bear status, the mid-level
predator role, the TAME grade, the herd-corridor threat, the carved granary doors, the lizard world-rule
and the craft quarter are CITED. The skeleton and joint bounds are CARRIED FROM THE ANATOMY REFERENCE
TABLE as bounds with the ursid substitution declared, and the plantigrade foot, vertebral formula, hind
digit count, bipedal stand and hide slide are inline AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY because no bucket covers them.
Written affirmatively. Every line names what IS in frame.
low sun, plantigrade feet flat on the ground, the pale chest crescent catching the light, long recurved
claws visible, at true-to-life proportion.
FRAME with the claws engaged in the frame edge and the lashings, the elbow locked, its whole mass behind
that one limb; the carved Boraspati panel intact in the door beside the frame it is working.
the head still, wax and resin glossing the chest and forearms.
lashings, and the same carved Boraspati panel re-hung on it, the village's own hands still at work.
one of them clean and one of them smeared.
one scale.
@ CR_0027 :: combat_permission is EMPTY on a row whose tier_classification is PREDATOR, while thechapter's other PREDATOR-and-APEX row carries PERMITTED. A blank permission on a predator reads as a
prohibition to any lane that filters by column, and it is the cell this sheet's whole disposition turns on.
@ CR_0027 :: collect_verb is EMPTY on a TAME row, while CR_0003 — also TAME — carries TAME_BREED.@ CR_0027 :: rng_drop_anchor is EMPTY. That is consistent with an unfought row and is recorded here soa later lane does not read it as an oversight and add a big-game anchor without a permission to match.
@ CR_0027 :: extinction_threat is EMPTY while both CR_0024 and CR_0026 carry T4 and the real species isa threatened one. The roster fills the column for two of the chapter's five mammals and leaves it blank
for two others.
@ CR_0027 :: ontology_class, cultural_depiction_required, hard_line_anchors, folklore_behavior_substrate, folklore_attribution_source, intelligence_tier, husbandry_breedable, integrity_visible_aesthetic_shift
and vril_substrate_response are all EMPTY.
registries/ carries the Chao-tier passive companion specified by T3_Creatures_Tameable § 1.4; T0_Familiar_Registry is the twenty-two slots only.
Raised on CR_0026 as well, and it is the same hole under every TAME row in mesh demand.
§ 2.4 assume the parts are SUBTRACTED. This row's economy ADDS — the creature gains openers by breaking
the arena's parts. RESTORATIVE is already named as one inverted case; this is a second, and it is the
natural home for every raider, thief and scavenger row in the roster.