CR_0145_asian_elephant_angkor.md

creatures/CR_0145_asian_elephant_angkor.md

CR_0145 — the Asian elephant of Angkor, the animal the state is built on

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_05.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.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

is the Cham and war surfaces. The west_baray river-war IS an ELEVATED surface, so the war cohort's

staging inherits it while the animal itself sits at standard.]

nothing (RULING_8, which names this row in its own grounds) and ORDINARY_FAUNA routes care, never

scope (RULING_10)

familiar slot and no bond window exist and canon rules it directly: no new familiar bonds on the

excursion, Khan (G1) bonded at the anchor and travels forward [angkor_khmer.md:184-185; CH_05.md:284]

state-read. Both are the REAL_FAUNA register's declared natural spend (doctrine § 3D).

QUADRUPED.json and index.json · angkor_khmer.md` § 2 L154-156, § 3 L173-185, § 4 L201-212,

§ 6 L537-549, § 7 L577-580, § 9 L634-636, § 18 L1109-1122 · CH_05.md L12, L103, L157, L246,

L265-267, L284 · docs/proposals/bestiary/sheets/CR_0140_long_tailed_macaque.md

THE ROW IS THE ANGKOR WAR-AND-TEMPLE COHORT AND SAYS SO ON ITS FACE — notes reads "distinct

angkor_khmer war/temple cohort of E. maximus." The roster carries five other elephant rows, including

CR_0036 Sri Lankan (CH_06, OBSERVE) and CR_0040 Indian (CH_07, TAME, PERMITTED). Row is the unit:

nothing from CR_0036's framing, its OBSERVE cell or its own boarded permission debt is imported here.

THE SAME-REGION PERMISSION COMPARISON, TAKEN FROM THE LIVE CELLS. combat_permission is EMPTY here

while CR_0133 Siamese crocodile reads PERMITTED and CR_0140 long-tailed macaque reads PERMITTED — TWO

STATES OF ONE COLUMN across the angkor_khmer rows, PERMITTED and blank, and this row holds the blank.

The "PROTECTED" reading of CR_0140 that circulated in the earlier sheets is STALE notes prose; the

live cell is PERMITTED and its cultural_care_register rules the reading. That is settled on the

landed CR_0140 sheet and is cited rather than re-derived here [CR_0140_long_tailed_macaque.md:32-35].

2. base_species

build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/QUADRUPED.json. The bucket's own defining sentence covers this

animal — a mammal that carries its limbs UNDER the body and swings them in the sagittal plane, at

posture grade erect / parasagittal [§ one_line, § posture_grade] — so the following are DERIVED

and not declared here: the clavicle is absent and the forelimb hangs in a MUSCULAR SLING, so the

SCAPULOTHORACIC is a synsarcosis with no bony joint, the scapula sliding on the ribcage through ±25

degrees protraction/retraction and ±15 rotation, and a rig that parents the humerus straight to the

spine loses the whole first third of the stride [DYCE2010, SISSON1975]; the chain shape root →

pelvis → spine_lumbar → spine_thoracic → spine_cervical → head → jaw with scapula → humerus →

radioulna → carpus → metacarpus → digits and femur → tibia → tarsus → metatarsus → toes, every _L

bone carrying an identical _R sibling [§ skeleton, § mirror_rule]; and rig conformance at a

minimum 34 deform bones, a spine chain of 5 to 24, two forelimb and two hindlimb chains of at least

4 bones each, bilateral symmetry required [§ rig_conformance].

wrong for a graviportal proboscidean: carnivoran_digitigrade is digitigrade with 5 fore and 4 hind

digits, and ungulate_unguligrade reduces the metacarpus to a single cannon bone with a pastern

chain and 1 to 2 weight-bearing digits. Verified by search across all eight archetype files: the

table names no elephant, no proboscidean, no graviportal posture grade, and nothing whatever on a

trunk. The values below are therefore inline and labeled AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY, which the amended § 2.1

permits exactly where no bucket covers the archetype. A table debt is boarded in § 9.

with the bones over a fibrous digital cushion, five digits spread on that cushion, no cannon bone

and no pastern chain; a cervical chain held short and thick, so the head turns with the body and not

on the neck; 19 to 20 thoracic and 3 to 4 lumbar vertebrae under a topline that peaks at the head

and dips behind the shoulder; a TRUNK of no bones and some forty thousand muscle fascicles with one

dorsal finger at the tip — a muscular hydrostat with bend, twist and elongation at any point along

its length and a tip grip finer than a hand's; an ear that pivots through roughly 90 degrees at the

base and is the animal's readable flag; upper incisors grown out as tusks that advance from the

socket through life; six molar sets that erupt and are pushed forward one at a time.

its: goniometry measures the PASSIVE envelope, and what a live animal reaches under its own power is

smaller by an amount the sources do not separate [QUADRUPED.json § unmeasured]. The limbs swing in

a narrow sagittal arc with almost no lateral reach, so a turn is a walked turn of the whole body.

speed — which is why a charging elephant is quiet underfoot and arrives faster than it looks

line, two ear planes, a trunk to the ground

3. lore_source

folklore_attribution_source are both empty. What the row carries is a HISTORY of human use, not a

tradition about a being, and every clause of it is cited below.

anywhere in angkor_khmer.md, and the live worked control for a fauna-row claim about a human

practice with no SRC_ reaching it is carried on CR_0148, whose cultural_significance asserts a

cooperative-fishing tradition the page never cites [CR_0148_smooth_coated_otter.md:64-70, :202-205].

The ruler matches, and unlike CR_0148 this row's human-use claims DO resolve on the page, below.

crossbow worked by two men atop an elephant — appears in both the Bayon and Banteay Chhmar reliefs,

its battlefield use CONTESTED against parade and prestige display and staged as spectacle rather

than as a decisive mechanic [angkor_khmer.md:181-184]. Elephants are in the 1177 war's arms list

both ways [angkor_khmer.md:545].

[T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0145 :: cultural_significance].

purpose-dug canals, laterite carried the structural core [angkor_khmer.md:577-580; :634-636]; the

plain's rice is the surplus that fed the corvée workforce and the temple domains

[angkor_khmer.md:154-156]; one domain's inscribed scale is Ta Prohm's foundation stele recording the

temple domain supporting roughly 12,640 resident servants and drawing goods and service from roughly

79,365 people ACROSS THE REALM, OWNING SOME 3,140 VILLAGES [angkor_khmer.md:203-205] — and the page

attaches the caveat this sheet carries with it, that these are a state's SELF-ACCOUNT of its own

scale, read as such and never as a modern census [angkor_khmer.md:207-208]; and at the 1200 frame

Angkor Thom and the Bayon are under active construction [angkor_khmer.md:1109-1112]. Stone is moving

while the player is there.

working culture rather than to the animal — the same shape the familiar register uses when a bond's

practice belongs to the person who teaches it.

4. elevation

Elevation is refused because the row's folklore columns are empty, it stages no supernatural claim,

and the chapter's care architecture depends on the mundane world reading as real: this is the

chapter where the naga is the only mythologically-stylized presence [CH_05.md:267].

stated plainly: the OUTLIVED BULL below is a state the SPECIES-TYPICAL photograph does not carry,

and the register's discharge is the contract and the ladder rather than any claim about what some

individual photograph might contain.

THE LEGIBILITY CONTRACT. The elephant sits OUTSIDE the chapter's three-bovid contract and states its

distinctness rather than joining it: grey where they are black, red or dust-grey; attended and on a

road where they are unattended in timber; and three to five times the mass of the largest of them. No

shape in this chapter resolves to an elephant at any range. Its contract is therefore INTERNAL, run

between its own two cohorts, and the TUSK PAIR carries it — which is the A9 spend below.

THE STATE LADDER — three states of one body, and it is the register's discharge.

so the animal moving stone is the colour of the monument it is building; a hairless polished band

across the shoulders and behind the ears where harness and a keeper's feet ride; tusk tips squared

flat and ringed with a metal band; a healed rope-mark gone pale at one pastern. MECHANISM: elephant

skin is thick, seamed and dust-holding, and a working surface polishes.

dry-forest dust rather than quarry grit, no polished bands, and the flight distance of an animal

never within reach of a person.

longer mill its food (AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY); a temple domain with a rice surplus and a keeper feeds

past that line. Deep temporal hollows, a collapsed cheek, ribs legible on a well-fed frame, tusks

longer than any free bull carries because nothing stopped them advancing, and cut softened fodder at

the edge of frame. The reading underneath it — that the empire keeps what it uses, for as long as it

uses it — is DESIGN-LAYER ONLY: it is never spoken by an NPC, never a codex line, and never a

player-facing frame. It is why the state is built, not something the state says.

PRIMARY — A5 AGE AND STATE, spent as WORKED STATE. The ladder above is the axis.

SUPPORTING — A9 THE MARK, and it is the tusk pair, because one mark carries the internal contract at

distance. Squared, flat-tipped and banded means WORKED and means a person is within thirty metres.

Whole, unequal and pointed means FREE and means the distance is the player's to keep. One feature, it

reads in black fill at any range, and it inverts cleanly between the two cohorts.

ONE-LINE READ: an elephant whose two tusks do not match, wearing the colour of the stone it moves.

APPEAL, A SHIP REQUIREMENT UNDER § 3.1's BEAUTY-BAR CLAUSE, and it is not cute-ification: the

proportions already carry it — a small eye in a very large head, the ear plane that frames it, and a

trunk whose tip finger is the most expressive object on any animal in the chapter. Appeal here means

the working relationship is legible as a relationship.

EMISSION: none. It reads by dust, by wetting-darkening after a wallow, by the sheen on a polished

harness band, and by occluding what is behind it.

5. articulation_delta

accumulation — not painted texture, not mesh change — and they persist and read at distance.

it, so worked and free are one asset with a swapped tip and ring rather than two models.

line, rides above the dipped back and takes its load through the girth strap rather than the spine.

It is declared EQUIPMENT, not body.

6. fight_grammar

combat_facing is FALSE and combat_permission is EMPTY. This animal is not staged as a fight, and

this block states affirmatively what it does stage: ALLY LEGIBILITY in the § 3.1 sense beside THREAT

LEGIBILITY, on one body, one answer per shape. THE KEEPER-ANSWER TELL IS THE ALLY-LEGIBILITY WORK on

this row: the player must read what an attended animal is about to do, from a follow camera, without

taking attention off the keeper it belongs to.

PART ECONOMY HOME: NONE on the animal, declared affirmatively — no region of this body is a breakable

part. The war cohort's carried platform and double-bow frame are EQUIPMENT and belong to the

west_baray staging, where canon already rules them spectacle [angkor_khmer.md:181-184; CH_05.md:103].

tell shapebody originthe one answer
the answer to the keeperear planes fold flat back, trunk drops slack, the body stays still, head at ordinary carriageit is in the work and a person is behind it — the route past is the keeper's to grant, so the ask is made to the keeper
the load setforefeet step wide, head and shoulder drop into the strapmass is going somewhere next beat — stand off the line the load will travel, not off the animal
the mock chargeears spread to their full plane, head high, trunk out, loudit is making itself large and it will stop — hold ground, because moving turns this into the next row
the real chargeears clamped flat to the neck, trunk curled tight under the chin, head LOWERED, quiet underfootit is coming through — go lateral and put timber between, because a gait with no suspended phase cannot be outrun

THE BLACK-FILL DISCRIMINANT BETWEEN THE TWO EAR-FLAT SHAPES, NAMED, because the keeper answer and the

real charge both fold the ears back and would otherwise collide in silhouette. Two axes separate them

and both survive black fill. HEAD HEIGHT: the keeper answer holds ordinary carriage with the head on

its resting line; the real charge drops the head below it. TRUNK SILHOUETTE: the keeper answer hangs

the trunk SLACK AND STILL as a long straight line to the ground; the real charge CURLS IT UNDER THE

CHIN, which removes that line from the silhouette entirely. Head on the line with a hanging trunk is

work; head below the line with no trunk line is a charge.

THE ESCALATION, ON THE FOUR CHANNELS, nameable before any meter — a free bull in musth, every channel

real anatomy. POSTURE: head carried unnaturally high, chin tucked. BREATH and body: a wet dark streak

down each cheek from the swollen temporal gland, and a continuous dribble darkening the hind legs.

VOCALIZATION: a low pulsed rumble felt before it is heard. NEW OPENER: the animal that had been

feeding walks a straight line at whatever it noticed. Two of the four survive black fill.

OPENER AND VARIANTS: the root is the mock charge — legible, loud, survivable. The real charge is the

same origin with ears and trunk closed and no sound in it; the musth walk-down is the same line with

no wind-up at all. Teaching order is ears out, ears flat, no ears at all.

RELOCATION AND TURF, AN INFERENCE AND LABELED AS ONE: canon publishes a foliage-DENSITY gradient

(dense flood-forest, thinning on the open baray and the paddy grid) as a build note for scatter

[angkor_khmer.md:169-171]. Reading that gradient as this animal's turf — worked animals on the

quarry-and-canal line and the temple approach and always attended, free bulls on the dense

flood-forest margin and thinning out on the open grid — is this sheet's inference from the density

figures, not a canon statement about the elephant.

7. care_read

collective protection to game animals. The protection live in this chapter is about PEOPLE — combat

routes through the corrupt official and the apparatus and never through the Khmer or Cham

communities, the temple servants and dancers, or either people of the river-war [CH_05.md:246;

angkor_khmer.md:359-366]. Nothing here puts a person in a target position; the keepers are hosts.

heritage register is honoured by rendering the working culture as competent craft with a real

relationship in it, at the realistic-ethnographic style register canon sets [CH_05.md:267].

identity system. The protected sacred sites this animal works among stay referenced type-accurate

set-dressing and are never staged as loot-arenas [angkor_khmer.md:1102-1105].

animal is abundant and is a state asset, which is the truth of the frame; the forward reading is a

design-layer site-cued time-fluctuation window showing the same quarry road with the ruts weathered

round and nothing on it. THE LICENCE IS NOT CLEAN AND THE SHEET SAYS SO: § 18's forward-strata

enumeration lists the megadrought decline, the elite drift, 1431 Ayutthaya and the Cham strata, and

admits no modern-FAUNA stratum [angkor_khmer.md:1114-1122]. The window is kept and the enumeration

gap is boarded as a region-page debt in § 9 rather than claimed as licence.

of the set-piece on modern welfare grounds: refused, because canon stages it and rules only its

battlefield decisiveness contested, and a twentieth-century welfare frame in 1200 is an anachronism

wearing care as a costume. Cutting the outlived bull as too grim for an ordinary-fauna row: refused,

because the state is real physiology and it is the ladder's strongest rung.

squared-and-banded versus whole-and-unequal tusk read, the outlived-bull state, the four tells, the

head-height-and-trunk black-fill discriminant and the musth escalation channels are INVENTED BY THIS

SHEET as the game's own. The scapulothoracic synsarcosis, the chain shape, the mirror rule and the

rig conformance floor are DERIVED from QUADRUPED.json and cited there. The columnar limbs, the

cushion, the trunk, the ear pivot, the tusk advance and the molar succession are inline

AUTHORIAL_ANATOMY, permitted because no bucket covers this archetype and declared as such in § 2.

The war and ballista elephant with its contested use, the temple-labour and royal-mount roles, the

quarry-and-canal transport, the corvée-feeding surplus, the domain self-account and the active

construction are CITED above.

token, and the design-layer reading in § 4 is marked never-surfaced on its face.

8. plate_brief

sandstone dust dried into every skin fold, a polished band across the shoulders, tusk tips squared

and ringed, a keeper walking at the shoulder.

forest dust, foliage closing behind it, full distance kept.

whole and unequal — the plate that proves the mark carries the state.

collapsed cheek line, very long advanced tusks, cut softened fodder heaped at its feet.

on its resting line and the trunk hanging as a straight line, the ears-spread mock charge, and the

ears-flat real charge with the head dropped and the trunk curled under the chin — judged in black

fill alone.

9. boarded_debts

carnivoran_digitigrade and ungulate_unguligrade, and neither covers a graviportal proboscidean.

The bucket has no columnar-limb, digital-cushion, five-spread-digit plan and no object at all for a

boneless muscular hydrostat, so every elephant row in the roster (CR_0036, CR_0040, CR_0062,

CR_0074, CR_0114, CR_0145) currently derives nothing below the archetype line. The bucket wants a

graviportal_proboscidean sub-plan, and the rig_conformance floor of 34 deform bones is far below

what a trunk alone requires.

megadrought stratum, an elite-drift stratum, 1431, and the Cham strata, but no modern-FAUNA stratum,

so the extinction time-window this sheet designs has no enumerated home on the page.

of one column across the angkor_khmer rows, and this row holds the blank.

no verb names it.

TAME megafauna row whose subject is a managed working population.

decision with no machine-readable home.

whose class is size.

carries angkor_khmer, so two region columns disagree by omission.

palette's terms — "volcanic andesite, keris and pustaha bark, caldera water, ashfall, Angkor

sandstone-and-laterite, and Cham reddish brick" [CH_05.md:267] — copied whole onto an angkor_khmer

animal. Four of the six are the Batak and Javanese anchor's materials and are WRONG NOUNS for an

Angkor working elephant; a generator reading this cell is being fed the other half of the chapter.

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