CR_0171_haji_guru.md

creatures/CR_0171_haji_guru.md

CR_0171 — Haji Guru: the hunt that cannot be finished, and the retinue that is the test

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/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

and critic-gated against its ten refusal tests. It cites canon rows and writes none.

1. identity

• canon_id: CR_0171 · canon_name Haji Guru (the Dairi divine huntsman)
• display register: a stranger-hunter met on a forest path, in the disguised register

[sumatra_java.md :2838]

• chapter: CH_05 · region sumatra_java · the forest and road approaches to the highland

[sumatra_java.md :2844]

• ontology_class: SACRED · combat_permission: PROTECTED · collect_verb EARN · dex WITNESS
• cultural_depiction_required: TRUE · hard_line_anchors HL_0005; HL_0002; HL_0003
• care_tier: standard — Ch 5 is a standard-care chapter and the ELEVATED tier is scoped to the

Cham/war surfaces, which this Batak row is not [CH_05.md :12]

• register: FOLKLORE BEING, GUARDIAN-TEST class (the AID-FIGURE variant) · primary_axis A10 negative space
• demand entry: DEMAND_RULED_IN, combat_facing TRUE, by RULING_4 — and this row is named FIRST among the

actively-staged rows in that ruling's grounds, on sumatra_java.md :320

[DIRECTOR_RULING_L11.json § RULING_4.grounds]

• anatomy table: build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/ GOVERNS all four bodies — see section 2
• rows_read: T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0171 · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sumatra_java.md

:314-331, :403-411, :1136-1144, :2832-2847 · docs/spine/CH_05.md :246

CANON ALREADY STAGED THIS ENCOUNTER, WHICH IS WHY THE SHEET IS SHORT ON WARRANT AND LONG ON DESIGN.

The region page gives the whole shape: he is "usable as an aid figure or as a stranger-hunter who sets

the player a hunt in mortal disguise, never a villain and never a name laid on an antagonist NPC"

[sumatra_java.md :320-322]; he is "an encounter that rewards conduct" with no faction, no standing and

no persistence [sumatra_java.md :2845]; and the outcome set is authored in three paths, including a

corrosive one that turns on the retinue [sumatra_java.md :2846]. This sheet designs the body, the

retinue and the reads that make that authored encounter legible at gameplay distance.

2. base_species

TWO BODIES AND A QUARRY, and the elevation is spent almost entirely on the second.

THE ANATOMY TABLE GOVERNS ALL FOUR, AND THE INLINE LICENCE IS SPENT. build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/

is on disk and every body in this encounter falls inside a bucket, which is unusual for a folklore row

and is worth stating plainly: the elevation here is behavioural and formational rather than anatomical,

so nothing in it needs a plan the table does not have. The doctrine's §2.1 supersession applies to all

four — the table's joint rosters and ranges replace any inline values, and a pose outside them is an

injury rather than a style.

• HAJI GURU, in the disguised register: HUMANOID.json, sub-plan human — reference taxon Homo

sapiens, 24 presacral vertebrae, five digits on hand and foot, load-bearing clavicle, the three spinal

curves, and clinical goniometry in the table's AAOS neutral-zero convention. He is an ordinary adult

human body at ordinary adult stature: nothing about the figure is distorted, and nothing about him is

a horror. Mass, stance, gait: a hunter's economy of movement, unhurried by anything the player

considers urgent [sumatra_java.md :2841]. Resting silhouette: a man standing on a forest road with

the pack settled around him.

• THE SEVEN DOGS: QUADRUPED.json, sub-plan carnivoran_digitigrade — reference taxon Canis lupus

familiaris, which the table notes is the only quadruped with a full published goniometric set, so the

ranges here are values rather than bounds. Local hunting-dog build and size, no scale band applied.

• THE CROW: WINGED.json, sub-plan avian — Neornithes, with the table's kinematics from guineafowl

and pigeon, which is exactly the ground-locomotion source this design needs for section 4's mark.

• THE QUARRY, the pregnant male mouse-deer: QUADRUPED.json, sub-plan ungulate_unguligrade, whose

reference taxa are Equus caballus and Bos taurus. THE FIT IS DECLARED AS PARTIAL AND NOT PAPERED

OVER: a tragulid is a very small even-toed ruminant with two functional digits, no horns and upper

canines in the male, and the bucket's reference taxa are a horse and a cow. The bucket carries the

posture grade and the limb plan correctly; the digit count, the size class and the male's canines are

this sheet's, and canon names the animal without a binomial so none is asserted here.

3. lore_source

• CITED: the Dairi-Batak creation myth sends the upper-god Debata i datas langit's divine

huntsman-servant Haji Guru to take a PREGNANT MALE MOUSE-DEER to satisfy the creator's pregnant wife,

and he hunts with A CROW AND SEVEN DOGS [SRC_00228, p. 16-18; sumatra_java.md :316-318, and the

persona entry at :2834-2836 citing print p. 16-17]. The page's own anchor convention applies:

SRC_00228 carries no print-to-PDF offset [sumatra_java.md :418-421].

• CITED: three real animals of these forests carry that myth — the mouse-deer, the crow, the pack — AND

THE IMPOSSIBLE QUARRY IS THE POINT OF IT [sumatra_java.md :319-320].

• CITED: he is honored and deity-adjacent, an aid figure and a disguised quest-giver, never a villain

and never a name laid on an antagonist NPC [sumatra_java.md :320-322, :2847].

• CITED: he belongs to the northern PAKPAK-DAIRI register rather than the Toba one and is named as

Dairi wherever he appears; the authenticity discipline on Dairi material is precision rather than

restraint, because the language is endangered [sumatra_java.md :2842, :2859].

• CITED: the encounter rewards conduct — no faction, no standing, no persistence — and "a player who

reads the retinue correctly has read the encounter correctly" [sumatra_java.md :2845].

• THE MALAY FIREWALL, CITED AND LOAD-BEARING: the Malays place the origin of their Spectre Huntsman at

Katapang in Sumatra and the scholarship argues the Perak-Malay dreaded demon-hunter derives from this

Batak divine huntsman — a good divine servant on one side of a border becoming a feared demon on the

other [SRC_00228, p. 16, p. 18; sumatra_java.md :322-326]. That claim ships exactly as hedged as its

source. The crow and the seven hounds belong to Haji Guru's own Batak account and are NEVER

transferred onto the Malay being; the Malay figure is named as Malay wherever it appears, is never

presented as Batak folklore, is never conflated with the begu ganjang, and NO ENCOUNTER IS STAGED FOR

IT — the material is queued behind a re-citation [sumatra_java.md :326-331, :1142-1144]. This sheet

designs nothing for it and borrows nothing from it.

4. elevation

ONE-LINE SILHOUETTE READ: a hunting party crossing wet forest ground that takes every other track and

holds none of theirs, with the crow running at the head of the dogs instead of flying above them.

PRIMARY — A10 NEGATIVE SPACE. His canon meaning is that he is a great deal more than he appears

[sumatra_java.md :2839], so the design puts nothing extra on him and takes three things away instead.

MECHANISM: an errand carried for the creator is not being run in the ordinary world's bookkeeping — vril

alters real physics rather than suspending it, and what this party does not leave behind is the measure

of it.

• NO TRACK. The road is wet highland forest floor and the player's own boots write on it. Eight bodies

cross it and the surface closes as if nothing had. This is the single strongest read in the encounter

because the player has spent the whole chapter reading ground.

• NO PACK NOISE. Seven working dogs move without a single sound of a pack — no panting rhythm, no nails

on root, no whine. Their breath is visible in the cold and inaudible.

• THE COUNT DOES NOT VARY. However many dogs are in frame, the count reaches seven and stops. A player

who counts eight bodies and arrives at seven has found the encounter's whole thesis without a word

being said.

SUPPORTING — A5 AGE AND STATE, on the retinue. The hunt is a figure defined by an errand and the errand

does not end [sumatra_java.md :2843], so the dogs wear the whole length of it: pads worn smooth

rather than cracked, old healed scars with no fresh ones anywhere, coats in working order, and every one

of the seven at the same prime age. Nothing on them is decaying. They are not undead, they are not

spectral, and the design refuses both readings — they are dogs that have been working for longer than

dogs work.

SUPPORTING — A9 THE MARK, and there is one. THE CROW RUNS AT THE HEAD OF THE LINE, at dog height, on the

ground, moving with the pack instead of over it. One high-contrast, instantly readable identifying

feature in silhouette at any distance: a bird where a lead dog should be. It is the mark and it is also

the information — the crow's heading is the quarry's line, which is the reading the encounter rewards.

EMISSION: none, anywhere. Forest light, rain light and sky light only. Nothing in this design is

self-lit, and the wet coats and the wet road read by wetting-darkening and specular return from the sky.

5. articulation_delta

• Haji Guru's own body carries NO addition. The elevation budget on the disguised figure is zero, and

that is the design: a man on a road, correct in every particular.

• The trackless ground is an environment state keyed to each body's foot contacts — the surface deforms

under contact and returns within the same second — so the absence is produced BY the contacts rather

than by suppressing them. A ground that simply ignores the pack would read as a missing feature; a

ground that visibly closes reads as a fact.

• The silent pack is an audio-mix rule attached to the seven bodies, not a removal of their animation.

They breathe, their flanks move, and the visible-breath vapour is authored — the channel is empty

where the sound should be, and the vapour is what proves the emptiness is deliberate.

• The crow's ground-running gait uses ordinary corvid hind-limb ROM at a sustained pace, with the wings

folded and never opened during the run. Its lead position holds a declared offset ahead of the

foremost dog, so formation is a readable, animated relation rather than a spawn placement.

• The quarry's gravid abdomen is a mesh-volume state on an ordinary tragulid skeleton, with no joint

change and no ROM change. The animal moves like the animal.

6. fight_grammar

NO BE_ ROW EXISTS AND THIS SHEET MINTS NONE. Canon authors the encounter in prose and in a three-path

outcome set, and the verbs are read from those: PERCEIVE and ATTUNE carry it, with STRIKE reachable on

the corrosive branch and never required.

PART ECONOMY HOME: NONE on the guardian. Haji Guru has no breakable regions, takes no damage on any

route, and has no health model. The corrosive branch's violence lands on the retinue, which is ordinary

fauna the fauna lane owns.

ONE SHAPE, ONE ANSWER. The chain is the ruled non-kill form and a mistake wipes it: a botched read

turns the quarry, the hunt resets, and he waits with the same courtesy for as long as the player wants

to keep failing. The exact pip count and reveal threshold belong to the instrument that declares its

own band.

THE THREE PATHS ARE CANON'S, NOT THIS SHEET'S, AND THEY ARE HELD OPEN [sumatra_java.md :2846].

Take the hunt on his terms and give him what he asked for: the aid, and the recognition of what he was.

Help and then bargain: neutral. Refuse, or TURN ON THE RETINUE: the aid is not given and the region's

spirit-register turns cold for the remainder of the highland. That corrosive branch is real, it is

playable, and this sheet arms it rather than closing it — the dogs and the crow can be fought and killed

as the animals they are, PROTECTED on the row governs the man and never the branch, and the cost is

carried by the world's response rather than by a wall.

THE ANTI-DEFANG READ, STATED. This is a HARDER encounter than a fight. The chain is long, the reads are

cumulative, the ground the player has learned to read is deliberately useless here, and the whole test

is running while the player believes they are being asked a favour.

ESCALATION on the four channels. POSTURE — he stops standing aside and walks at the head of his own

party, and the pack comes level with him. BREATH — the visible vapour of seven dogs in cold air, with

nothing audible under it, and the density of it is the meter. VOCALIZATION — the only sound the party

makes is his count, spoken once when the pack sets; when the count is spoken twice, the hunt has moved

on without the player. NEW OPENER — the crow leaves the ground for the first time, which is the encounter

telling the player their window has closed.

RELOCATION AND TURF: the party travels. It is a hunt, it crosses the approaches, and it does not wait in

a room. Where it has been is legible only by what the ground did not keep.

7. care_read

• COLLECTIVE READ: §17.1 is collective and fully engaged. The Batak communities of both the Toba and

the Pakpak-Dairi registers are allies and protected non-targets [CH_05.md :246]. Haji Guru is a

SERVANT OF THE CREATOR CARRYING OUT AN ORDER, honored within the cosmology that names him — never a

villain, never rendered as a horror, and his name is never laid on a mortal or antagonist NPC.

• ONTOLOGY ROUTING: SACRED. Honored, and where faced at all faced as a guardian test rather than as

prey. He is never damaged, never a target, and has no defeat state on any route.

• THE DAIRI NAMING IS KEPT ON EVERY SURFACE, because the highland is not culturally single

[sumatra_java.md :2842, :2853-2855]. Every player-facing line this sheet proposes names the figure

as Dairi (Pakpak) and never as a generic Batak or Sumatran figure.

• THE MALAY FIREWALL IS ENFORCED BY NON-IMPORT, WHICH IS THE ONLY HONEST WAY TO ENFORCE IT HERE. This

corpus carries NO attribute set for the Perak-Malay Spectre Huntsman: the region page states that the

material for an encounter is queued behind a re-citation and belongs to the Section-13 pass rather

than to that page, and that the figure is neither rowed nor sited [sumatra_java.md :329-331,

:1142-1144]. So this sheet does not list that being's traits in order to exclude them — there is

nothing in this corpus to list, and naming traits it does not carry would be importing the very

material the firewall exists to keep out. What the sheet does instead is positive and checkable: every

authored element of this design is declared as ours below and sited in the Batak (Pakpak-Dairi)

account, the crow and the seven hounds are cited to Haji Guru's own record, no plate composition

places him in another tradition's night-hunt register, and the onward derivation claim ships exactly

as hedged as its source and never as a fact. The invention declaration is therefore the firewall's

working half.

• ROUTE: ATTENDED_DESIGN or REFERENCE_BUILT. He is a sacred human form of a living tradition and routes

to attended design with a picked concept plate as conditioning, never raw generation and never a

photographic-wildlife template. The retinue rides the fauna path with the same plates as conditioning.

• RENAME-REFRAME: not used. Nothing needed moving.
• ANTI-TIMID PASS, RECORDED, both directions. (1) The reduction considered was closing the corrosive

branch — making the retinue unkillable so that no player can raise a hand near a divine figure.

REFUSED: canon authors that branch in its own words, the dogs and the crow are the animals of the

myth rather than the deity, and a consequence carried by the world is a stronger answer than a wall.

Care-tier inflation is a defect and this would have been one. (2) The over-boldness check FOUND

something: the temptation was to let the corrosive branch reach HIM — a divine huntsman as a fought

boss is an obvious and exciting design. REFUSED on the row's own canon, which rules him never a

villain, and on the ontology routing. The encounter is harder without it. (3) The impossible quarry

was checked for softening and kept exactly as canon states it: a pregnant male mouse-deer, visible on

the animal, unexplained.

• INVENTION DECLARATION: the trackless ground, the silent pack with visible breath, the invariant count

of seven, the crow's ground-running lead position, the ageless working retinue, the spoken-count

vocalization channel, the six tell shapes and the gravid-male read on the quarry are INVENTED BY THIS

SHEET as the game's own design and are named as ours. CITED are: Haji Guru, the errand, the creator

and his wife, the crow and the seven dogs, the impossible quarry, the honored aid-figure and disguise

register, the three-path outcome set, the Dairi naming rule, and the Malay derivation claim.

• REVEAL READ: clean, and NO PLAYER-FACING STRINGS ARE PROPOSED BY THIS SHEET — it dispatches plates and

design blocks only. The constraint inherits forward to every lane that writes one from this material:

the chapter's reveal state is HELD, so any display name, dex entry, bark or item text authored

downstream carries no family name, pattern or who-frame token, and names the figure as Dairi (Pakpak).

8. plate_brief

Written affirmatively. Every line names what IS in frame.

• PLATE A, identity: a man standing on a wet highland forest road at dawn with seven local hunting dogs

settled around him and a crow on the ground at the head of the line. Overcast forest light only.

• PLATE B, the mark: the party moving, the crow running at dog height ahead of the foremost dog, wings

folded, the pack in a fan behind it.

• PLATE C, the ground: a close study of the road surface, the player's own boot print holding water in

the foreground and the pack's line of passage smooth behind it.

• PLATE D, the breath: the seven dogs in cold air at close range, vapour dense around every muzzle,

composed tight and static with the whole frame given to the pack.

• PLATE E, the quarry: a small mouse-deer standing in the open at the forest edge, gravid, male, calm.
• PLATE F, silhouette: black fill, the man, the fan of seven dogs and the ground-running crow, one scale.

9. boarded_debts

• T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0171 :: contact_register HAS NO COLUMN. The region page's build note rules

the property explicitly — "species_class folklore, deity-adjacent, contact register embodied and

disguise-capable" [sumatra_java.md :2847] — and the 58-column header cannot hold it, so the row

records it in prose. A schema question for the registry lane; this sheet inherits it and designs the

disguised register from the prose.

• THE RETINUE AND THE QUARRY ARE NOT ROWED. The crow, the seven dogs and the mouse-deer are real forest

animals of the myth and the row deliberately does not fold them in. The corrosive branch is playable

combat against animals that have no roster rows, no combat_permission and no ordinary-fauna entry.

FAUNA LANE.

• THE ENCOUNTER HAS NO BEAT, NO SITE_ID AND NO BE_ ROW. Canon sites him at "the forest and road

approaches to the highland" [sumatra_java.md :2844], which is not a site_id in the CH_05 §3b typed

site set. Naming the approach is not the same as minting the key. SPINE LANE.

• THE REGION'S FAUNA-BEHAVIOUR SOURCING GAP APPLIES HERE TOO: the page states plainly that no

region-scoped source attests behaviour for this shelf's animals [sumatra_java.md :380-391], so the

pack's working behaviour in this design is authored rather than observed, and it is named as such.

• @ CR_0171 :: mesh_tags.style READS mythologically-stylized, AND TWO CANON LINES WITHHOLD THAT

REGISTER FROM THIS ROW. CH_05.md :267 rules it exclusively for the begu ganjang, Naga Padoha, the

krasue/ap and the guardian constructs, and this row is in none of those; sumatra_java.md :403-405

states the qualifying condition in its own words — each being rendered as its own tradition holds it,

"mythologically-stylized only where the tradition itself condemns or fears it" — and this row is the

honored aid-figure the same passage lists at :409-410. So the cell claims an exclusive token the row

is outside, on a being its own page names as honored, while the row's actual register is UNASSIGNED

and owed. The consequence is exact: an asset lane reading that cell builds an honored servant of a

living tradition's creator in the register canon reserves for condemned and feared beings, which is

the one thing the row's care register forbids by name. REGISTRY LANE, with its own gate and baseline —

this sheet writes nothing.

• STALE ROW ANCHORS ACROSS THIS WAVE'S FOUR ROWS, one debt, registry lane. source_ref line pointers

have drifted from their targets, and THIS ROW's is the one that lands on the wrong subject: its

Section-12 pointer L2818-2824 now resolves inside the Lake Toba riddle-master elder entry, while the

Haji Guru persona and its build note sit at sumatra_java.md :2832-2847. Also CR_0160's L838-840 and

L975 resolve at angkor_khmer.md :856 and :991, and CR_0162's L713 at :729. Every citation in this

sheet uses the verified current line. REGISTRY LANE, with its own gate and baseline.

• T0_Boss_Attack_Rail carries 0 rows; the six tell shapes here have no data home.

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