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15 cross-pipeline feed proposals (§8.9): no Phase-3 stream owns this target, so each row enters the owner lane's own ratification as a flagged proposal.
Kala Rau (Kala Rauh) (bali)
status: proposed · entity_kind: boss_candidate · regions: bali
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_00157/EC_03] The demon who stole a mouthful of the elixir of immortality before Wisnu's discus beheaded him; his immortal head still chases and swallows the sun and moon, causing eclipses.
portrayal_note: A myth's own monster — stageable as a periodic eclipse-event boss (the head that devours the light); not a living-culture target, purely mythological.
citations: [EXR_SRC_00157] [p. 62-63]
Mayadenawa (bali)
status: proposed · entity_kind: boss_candidate · regions: bali
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_00157/EC_09] The shapeshifting, invisible-turning anti-god king who banned worship and blighted Bali until Indra hunted him down; he poisoned Indra's army by tiptoeing on the edges of his feet (Tampak Siring), and his death-blood cursed the Pekerisan river. His defeat is Galungan.
CARE FLAG: §17.1 reframe — do not cast a living reform-sect's revered origin-figure as pure villain.
portrayal_note: CARE/§17.1 REFRAME: the Bujangga Wesnawe (and some Theravadins) read Mayadenawa as their OWN maligned ascetic, smeared as 'atheist evil' by a jealous rival priesthood. Route the villainy through the defaming institution, not the man; if staged as a boss, hold the ambiguity (a maligned reformer weaponised) rather than a flat demon-king.
[EXR_SRC_00251/EC_01] The demonic/asura king of the Usana Bali legend who creates a poison spring to fell Indra's army at Tirta Empul; in the fuller tradition a shape-changing sorcerer. Staged as the myth-monster boss of the Tirta Empul purification encounter (see story_seeds).
CARE FLAG: Keep strictly to the mythological antagonist frame; do not route the living Balinese community anywhere near villain casting.
portrayal_note: A myth's own monster = a BOSS; stage the fight (rated-M no-defang). He is a mythological asura, never a stand-in for any living people or community.
citations: [EXR_SRC_00157] [p. 69-70]; [EXR_SRC_00157] [p. 38]; [EXR_SRC_00251] p. II-64 (Mayadenawa poisons the spring; Indra defeats him and creates Tirta Empul)
Rudra / Siwa Mahakala (bali)
status: proposed · entity_kind: deity · regions: bali
[EXR_SRC_00157/EC_11] 'The howler', the fierce storm-archer aspect of Siwa/Sanghyang Widhi and patron of Pura Uluwatu; his arrows carry both plague and healing, and storms and epidemics are the divine acting as Rudra. The centennial Eka Dasa Rudra exorcism drives evil off into the eleven directions in his name.
portrayal_note: A REAL, ambivalent-usable deity — wrathful patron or grantor of relief; honored with weight, never flattened into a monster, never named onto a mortal.
deity_portrayable_note: A REAL, ambivalent-usable deity — wrathful patron or grantor of relief; honored with weight, never flattened into a monster, never named onto a mortal.
status: proposed · entity_kind: deity · regions: bali
[EXR_SRC_00157/EC_13] The tiny all-pervasive god who loves mankind; in the wayang 'Bima Suci' he revives the drowned Bima and grants inner spiritual wisdom when Bima enters his body through the ear — the true holy water was self-knowledge all along.
portrayal_note: A REAL benevolent deity, usable as a mystery-school revelation figure; the puppet is handled with extreme care in-tradition.
deity_portrayable_note: A REAL benevolent deity, usable as a mystery-school revelation figure; the puppet is handled with extreme care in-tradition.
citations: [EXR_SRC_00157] [p. 310-311]
The fed alpha monitor (habituated guardian-test dragon) (flores indonesia)
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_00175/EC_01] A guardian-test persona for the CH02_B03 monitor: an unnaturally large, unafraid apex Komodo grounded in the real extremes of the species (near 3 m, near 87 kg, decades old) whose boldness and bulk are the visible signature of human feeding. It holds ground where a wild dragon would flee, dominates the baited spring by displacing and preying on smaller dragons, and reads the player as neither threat nor prey until it strikes. Verbs align with the region page's EVADE/ATTUNE guardian-test framing; the win opens the recharge source rather than killing the species.
portrayal_note: A real, protected animal, not a mythologised Hollywood monster — genuinely lethal and not defanged (rated-M weight), but staged as a permitted fauna guardian-test that is bested or attuned/appeased, never a hunt driving a protected species toward extermination. Its abnormal size is authorial commentary on the human feeding, not fantasy gigantism.
citations: [EXR_SRC_00175] Introduction (pdf p.3): up to 87 kg, 3 m, up to 60 years; endemic, restricted to five islands (four in Komodo NP); [EXR_SRC_00175] Discussion (pdf p.14-15): habituation (holds ground, no avoidance), larger body mass/condition from feeding, adult dominance and displacement/predation of smaller individuals
The Hili Wuli Cave Powers (the serpent guardian and the bearded devil-figure) (malay world)
[EXR_SRC_00452/EC_03] The paired guardians of a real forbidden power-cave on the Egon mountain: a terrifying snake at the mouth and a bearded devil-figure deeper in, confronted by those who brave the descent to win superhuman power. A two-stage optional-dungeon boss set (serpent gate → cave-power).
portrayal_note: The tradition's OWN feared beings — a myth's monster is a permitted, stageable boss. Render the power-and-corruption cost authorially; the 'black arts' the cave grants are condemned within the culture, not a slander of it.
citations: [EXR_SRC_00452] p. 13 (Hili Wuli, part of the Egon mountain, with ritual specialists and cave-guardians); [EXR_SRC_00452] p. 14 (the cave = 'the centre, a hole, with a terrifying snake guardian and a bearded devilish figure to deal with inside'; entered to acquire superhuman powers)
The Desert (the jealous sentient waste) (fairy literary)
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01845/EC_01] A sentient malevolent force that 'owns all the Earth to the southwards,' hates the sound and sight of men, and covets cities so it can pour its sand-draped storm-winds through their empty streets. It whispers 'weird love' to abandoned gates and can send messengers to empty a city in a day.
portrayal_note: An INVENTED environmental-force antagonist, ideal for the finale's environmental-boss protocol (a playable waste-realm boss/hazard). Not a deity of any living worship; do not attach a real deity-name.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01845] Bethmoora
Thuba Mleen (the unblinking dream-tyrant) (fairy literary)
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01845/EC_02] A small, weak, never-blinking child-emperor of the dreamlands who titters at torture and is 'never seen by man,' reachable only in the dream-state; his spirit-guards eat vast quantities of a dream-drug to send their own souls hunting intruders.
CARE FLAG: HEAVY Orientalism + drug-glamorization in source; reframe as above.
portrayal_note: Literary-invented dream-horror boss. MUST be decoupled from the source's Orientalist 'cruel Eastern emperor' framing and from hashish; recast as an invented dream-tyrant reached by the game's own dream-substance, mapped onto no real people or place.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01845] The Hashish Man; [EXR_SRC_01845] Bethmoora
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01845/EC_03] An invented first god carved from a man-like tree-trunk with one beast's paw for a hand; 'the thunder is his voice and the famine is his eating,' fed cooked offerings, said to send crops and rain, and grown to eclipse even the sword-holding king who at last sacrifices his blade to it.
CARE FLAG: Frame as invented dream-myth about the birth of worship, not as an ethnographic claim about early religion.
portrayal_note: A literary parable-deity (origin-of-worship), fully invented. Usable as a mythic-flashback idol/boss; honor-vs-fear ambiguity is the point. Not a living-worship god; no real deity-name attaches.
deity_portrayable_note: A literary parable-deity (origin-of-worship), fully invented. Usable as a mythic-flashback idol/boss; honor-vs-fear ambiguity is the point. Not a living-worship god; no real deity-name attaches.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01845] The Sword and the Idol
The tusked colossus of Perdondaris (fairy literary)
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01845/EC_08] An unseen beast of such scale that a single fallen tusk serves as a city's ivory gate; it can wreck a walled city 'in a day' and may still be roaming, hunting its other tusk.
portrayal_note: Invented colossal boss - staged by inference and scale (the tusk-gate) before any direct sight. Environmental-dread boss for the finale realm.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01845] Idle Days on the Yann
The Sphinx (god-eater, riddle-keeper) (fairy literary)
[EXR_SRC_01847/EC_04] A sphinx who devoured her own ruined temple's gods when hunger took her, and whose softly-asked riddle kills any who cannot answer. A riddle-gate boss with a lethal fail-state.
portrayal_note: A myth's own monster — stage the fight/riddle as a real boss; both the Giza and Massachusetts framings are usable.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01847] The Sphinx at Gizeh [f04]; [EXR_SRC_01847] The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) [f38]
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01847/EC_05] An oak-stemmed giant poppy that hums 'Remember not,' its fumes suffocating gods and fairies and its roots draining the world's beautiful strength; it grows faster wherever the brotherhood's ancient tune falls silent.
CARE FLAG: Authorial-invention framing; not living folklore.
portrayal_note: Literary invention of Dunsany's — frame authorially as a reception-layer hazard; the finale's memory-vs-oblivion environmental antagonist.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01847] The Giant Poppy [f20]
War, Famine, and Plague — Nature's Three Tall Sons (fairy literary)
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01847/EC_08] The three tall sons Nature sends into Man's ultimate machine-city after being turned from its gate — War, Famine, and Plague — who walk in unheard behind complacent Man.
portrayal_note: Personified calamities usable as a finale boss trio; the nature-vs-artifice climax made playable.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01847] The Three Tall Sons [f48]
Animated Cult-Statue (the god-smith's colossus) (rome italy)
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01906/EC_03] A temple-image into which a spirit has been bound by the imported Egyptian art — 'animated, full of sensation,' prescient by lot and dream, dealing and curing disease. As a boss it is a construct-colossus animated by a bound power, fought when the god-smith trade is confronted; ties to the game's construct/forced-construct combat class.
portrayal_note: A myth's own animated idol is a legitimate BOSS — stage the fight. Not a real deity; a bound-spirit construct.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01906] City of God VIII.23, [p. 159-160]; [EXR_SRC_01906] City of God VIII.24, [p. 161-162]
ADVISORY lane mismatch (audit resolves): owner_lane phase3_stream vs cross-pipeline registry T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry
[EXR_SRC_01910/EC_01] The Eden tempter as it was actually depicted across European art from c. 1300-1700: a serpent bearing a woman's face and, sometimes, a woman's garb. A stageable temptation-monster for a Christian-Europe chapter — it speaks in flattery and lures, and the fight tests whether the player is moved by its offers.
CARE FLAG: Living sacred tradition + misogynist historical trope; boss is the serpent, not womanhood.
portrayal_note: Rated-M: the mythological tempter-serpent is a monster and a legitimate boss to fight (do not defang). But it wraps the Genesis/Eve tradition and a misogynist woman-equals-devil equation. Portray the MONSTER as monster; never reproduce or endorse the woman-as-devil trope as canon, and never cast Eve, the Virgin, or Christian women as villains. The female face is the era's iconography, framed authorially.
citations: [EXR_SRC_01910] p. 102; [EXR_SRC_01910] p. 102 fn. 3
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