world/regions/bali/page/bali_S03.md
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The canon: the CVD · the T1 foundation docs · the T0 registries (registries/) · the spine
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Canon served (scanned from this document's own citations — widen it by hand where it is thin):
T3_Familiars_Named·T0_Creature_Roster·T0_Familiar_Registry
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.
The page CONSUMES the T0_Creature_Roster rows the spine staged for CH_04 and ENRICHES them from the
audited deep-read rather than minting new ones: the Bali tiger (CR_0017), the large flying fox
(CR_0018), the rice-paddy duck cohort (CR_0019), the Sanur reef fish (CR_0020) and reef cephalopods
(CR_0021), the Lovina dolphins (CR_0022), the butterfly-and-bee cohort (CR_0023), and the
crab-eating macaque (CR_0003, carried from Flores). Two natural-science records carry this section:
SRC_00482 (Ashraf, "The Extirpation of Bali and Javan Tiger: Lessons from the Past," FAO/RAP
Tigerpaper XXXIII:3, 2006, printed pp. 3-7) for range, habitat and the extinction record, and
SRC_00496 (Xue et al., "Genetic Ancestry of the Extinct Javan and Bali Tigers," Journal of Heredity
106(3):247-257, 2015) for phylogeny and restoration genetics. Both are new to the page and are owed
a Section-16 registration row at that section's pass. Neither is Balinese ethnography: the
tiger-Barong sacred link and the archaic-Balinese naming sit at the ethnographic grain, are not
cited to either paper, and are owed their own anchor at the Section-16 pass.
The section is split deliberately. What a ~1200 CE player can find — sign, behaviour, habitat, lived
encounter — is authored here as era-present play. What the two records establish by genetics and by
the twentieth-century extinction record is MODERN, and is routed to Section 19's modern-revisit
strata and to authorial grounding, explicitly, below. That split is the section's load-bearing rule
and not a hedge: the flores pass lost a rebuild to admitting a conservation-genetics result as
in-world investigable depth.
Citation convention in this section: bracketed anchors carry the audited substrate records only.
Where a claim rides on the live typed layer instead, the registry and the row id are named in prose,
so a later reader can tell a source anchor from a registry anchor without opening either.
CR_0017 is the island's apex and the section's spine. In the chapter's present frame the animal is
thriving and unfragmented: the source describes a small but magnificent subspecies that once lived in
almost all parts of Bali Island, and names its home as the large blocks of forested land on the
island [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5]. That is the whole era-present habitat claim the record supports, and
the page holds itself to it — this source never describes Bali tiger habitat as monsoon forest, and
the phrase must not be sourced to it (the harvest carried a two-page, two-island quote splice that
joined a p. 5 sentence about irrigation to a p. 6 sentence about east Java's teak-converted monsoon
forest). The tiger's country on this page is therefore Section 1's own terrain authority — the
monsoon forest of the watershed belts on the Agung flank — with SRC_00482 cited only for the range
and the forested-block habitat.
The live T0_Creature_Roster row CR_0017 types the animal trade_8_tameable OBSERVE with a
seven-observation threshold granting Barong insight, so OBSERVE is the primary verb and combat is
defensive-only: the loop rewards the island's own symbol alive rather than its corpse. That is not a
defang. The kill line exists, it is real, and the community remembers it; the design simply does not
make the corpse the reward.
Cited body and life-history facts available to the era-present build:
overall smaller — the design ceiling for the model and for the encounter's read of size
[SRC: SRC_00496, p. 252]
time and ties suitable habitat to the presence of ungulate prey, which makes the deer-and-pig
ground the map of where the cat will be [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 255]
fragmentation that later ended it is not present in the frame [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5]
One descriptor is deliberately withheld. The harvest carried "solitary" on the roster row, and it is
not attested anywhere in either record; it is true of tigers generally, but under cited-or-cut it
does not enter the page until a tiger-ecology source anchors it. The same hold applies to the whole
field-sign set below.
The era-present delivery of CR_0017 is a track-and-read field skill, not a hunt: the player reads
apex-predator sign — pugmarks in stream mud, scrapes, cached ungulate kills, scent-marks — to locate
the animal and close to non-intrusive observation range, filling the observation meter toward the
Barong insight, with a botched approach spooking the cat and forcing defensive combat only. This
serves the rewards-intelligence pillar directly: real naturalist reading, rewarded as skill.
The sourcing state of that loop is recorded rather than papered over. SRC_00496 is a genetics paper
and attests none of the tracking behaviour; its two anchors cover body size and generation time
alone [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 252; p. 255]. SRC_00482 is a range-and-extirpation bulletin and attests
none of it either. The loop therefore stands as a design spec whose field-sign detail is unanchored,
and the minigame is not built until a tiger-ecology source lands — because the one place the game
promises real science is the last place to serve it with invented detail. The acquisition is carried
to the Section-16 verify list.
No quest_type is assigned to the loop. No ratified quest_type vocabulary exists for a
chapter-persistent, non-quest fauna observation loop with an accumulating threshold, the mint is a
ruling pending, and the page writes around it rather than force-fitting an existing member.
The Zone Catalog has no forest or watershed row. Its seven zones are besakih_mother_temple
(sacred_site), village_balian_ward (agricultural), tirta_empul_springs (water_body),
jatiluwih_subak_terraces (agricultural), wayang_performance_ground (sacred_site), sanur_reef
(coastal) and uluwatu_seacliff_temple (coastal) — and six of the seven carry protected true, with
sanur_reef the single unprotected row. None of them is tiger country, and besakih_mother_temple —
the nearest anchor on the Agung flank — is a protected living sacred precinct whose zone is the
meru-tower complex and the lontar library; routing a predator-tracking loop inside it would seat the
loop in a consecrated temple ground, which is worse than leaving the routing honest.
belt, outside every catalogued zone, until a highland-forest zone row exists
ambient_threat low, declared functions discovery and puzzle), which is the audited zone hint and
the one catalogued surface whose own functions are already discovery and reading rather than rite.
The terraces are protected ground like every zone but the reef, so the approach reads sign from the
working terrace margin and from the forest edge above it, never from a shrine or a water-temple
court
additions are a ruling pending in the audit's mint flags, and inventing one here would put design
canon in through the back door. The gap is recorded as an obligation
The one staged tiger beat with a catalogued home is the village-boundary encounter at
village_balian_ward (agricultural, protected, ambient_threat moderate, combat and character
functions). A tiger has been working the tree-line above the rice-village belt, and the villagers do
not read it as vermin — they read it through their own cosmology, as the tiger-being the Barong
carries. The player can help the balian ward the boundary at dusk and shadow the cat back toward the
highland forest, a coexistence path that earns community standing and Barong insight, or force the
kill, which the community remembers and which writes to the region's read of the protagonist's
conduct.
There is deliberately no prey-scarcity man-eater premise in this frame. The record attests that
driver in the Javan case — prey depletion brought people into closer conflict with tigers — and the
design withholds it, because in the ~1200 CE frame the forest is intact and the conflict that
eventually doomed the animal has not begun [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 6]. That is the point of the beat:
the player meets the coexistence the real island lost, before the thing that ended it exists.
The coexistence framing is a design choice, not a claim about the source, and it is stated as such
so a later reader does not harden it into ethnography.
Two attributions on this page are named honestly rather than quietly:
Barong iconography, ride on the live T0_Creature_Roster row CR_0017, whose cultural_significance
field carries both. Neither tiger record attests the name — SRC_00482 says so explicitly of itself
— and the audited Balinese ethnography in this shelf does not carry it either, so the registry row
is the only anchor the page currently holds. An ethnographic citation is owed at the Section-16
pass, from the Belo acquisition or another Balinese source that actually attests the term, and the
name is never cited to either natural-science record
CR_0017 row. No audited record in this shelf attests it, SRC_00496 states plainly that its genetics
do not, and it therefore rides as unanchored folklore substrate flagged for the Section-16 verify
list — never as a described animal and never as a science claim
Everything in this subsection is MODERN and is routed out of era-present play. It is recorded here
because Section 3 owns the animal and because losing the routing is how the finding leaks back into
a chapter a player walks in 1200 CE.
The extinction record. The subspecies is treated as extinct by the 1940s: the bulletin's own phrasing
is that by the end of the 1940s the Bali tiger was gone from the wild forever [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5],
and the genetics record places the extinction in the 1940s with the last recorded animal in the
1930s [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 247; p. 255]. The live T0_Creature_Roster row CR_0017 carries the narrower
historical anchor in its extinction_threat field, a last confirmed record of 1937. Both are kept
deliberately — 1937 is the registry's last-confirmed anchor and the 1940s is the functional
extirpation the two papers attest — so that a later reader does not treat one as an error and correct
it. The year 1937 appears in neither natural-science record and is never cited to them. The
extinction drivers were poaching and the loss of habitat and prey [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 255], and on
Bali specifically the colonial-era sport-hunting regime and agricultural and road fragmentation
[SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5]. That history is rendered with weight and correctly attributed. It is never
routed through the living Balinese community, and it is never staged as a quest: the regime that
caused it does not exist in the chapter's era, and a kill-the-colonizer beat in a ~1200 CE Bali would
be both wrong-era and a lie about the record.
Descent, not parallel. All three Sunda-island tigers — Bali, Javan and Sumatran — are ONE recent
lineage. The Bali and Javan populations differ by only one to two nucleotides and the three define a
single monophyletic assemblage [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 247; p. 252; p. 254 Fig 2]. The finding is common
descent, and any framing of the three as an independent parallel is factually inverted; the page
states the relation as descent and does not author it as a cross-cultural or parallel-independent
link. The mechanism is the shelf itself: Pleistocene sea-level fall repeatedly joined Bali, Java and
Sumatra across the exposed Sunda Shelf, with land bridges as recent as the Last Glacial Maximum
about 20,000 years ago, so tigers walked between the islands and recolonization stayed possible until
the LGM ended [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 248; p. 253].
Bali is a SUNDA SHELF island, west of the Wallace Line. It is not a Wallacea island; the source names
Bali among the Sunda Islands with Sumatra, Java and Borneo [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 7], and the genetic
land-bridge record grounds the same point [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 248]. The harvest carried the opposite
assertion and the audit caught it as a factual error contradicted by its own source. The correction
is recorded here so it cannot re-enter: Flores is Wallacea, east of the line; Bali is not.
The design use of the descent finding is authorial only. The departure at Ch 5 crosses west on the
same axis the tiger's ancestors entered the island by, which is an authorial resonance staged at the
Uluwatu departure and never an in-world claim a 1200 CE character makes or investigates.
Two further modern strands are recorded and routed:
(about 72,000 to 108,000 years, roughly 94,500 in this study), possibly linked to the Toba
super-eruption in Sumatra about 73,500 years ago [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 248; p. 253]. This grounds the
arc's live-volcanism register as authorial resonance only. It must never harden into a claim that
Agung is Toba-class or that Toba is a Balinese event — Toba is Sumatra
inbreeding depression, and effective population size — often about a tenth of the counted
population, and needing to exceed fifty to avoid inbreeding depression — plus habitat corridors
decide whether an island apex survives [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 6; p. 7]. This is authorial substrate
for why the intact ~1200 island reads abundant and the modern strata read emptied. It is never a
player-facing lecture and never an era-present investigation
Routed to Section 19 (modern revisit), named here because this section owns the animal and cannot
assert what Section 19 took:
though the Barong, a tiger-being, is still danced — the island kept the symbol and lost the animal,
staged as a stilled empty forest where the tracking loop once ran, without moralizing at the player
[SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5]
samong; at the degraded bands the forest is silent and apex-empty. Section 19 owns the
band-to-world-state mapping and this section neither re-decides nor renames it. The Sumatran tiger
is the closest living relative of the extinct Bali and Javan tigers and has been proposed as source
stock for a managed restoration of Bali and Java, which is the real conservation-genetics rationale
that lets a good future plausibly still hold a tiger [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 247; p. 255]
at Stuttgart (18922, 18923), with four further BAL-haplotype specimens of uncertain Indonesian
origin at Amsterdam and Leiden (the Amsterdam holdings transferred to Leiden in 2010). The
Shanghai, St Petersburg and private New York specimens carry Javan and Sumatran haplotypes and are
not Bali tiger material [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 249 Table 1]. This is documented archival history and
grounds to the science layer, not the esoteric one
One authorial guardrail binds the whole strand: cryptozoological claims of surviving Bali tigers
circulate, the genetic and specimen record establishes extinction, and the design treats the animal
as truly lost in the modern world. It is never staged as a still-out-there hunt, and the debunk is
never player-facing.
The Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) is recorded here as a CROSS-PIPELINE HAND-OFF and is not
authored onto Bali. It is the larger sister apex [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 252], carrying the distinct SON
mitochondrial lineage the specimen table assigns to the Javan animals [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 249
Table 1], last reliably sighted in 1976 and extinct by the 1980s [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 247; p. 255],
extirpated by teak-plantation conversion, prey depletion and habitat loss with Meru-Betiri its last
refuge [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 6]. It is offered to the Ch-5 sumatra_java page owners with the same
OBSERVE-forward, no-trophy posture, and it is offered rather than asserted onto that region's canon.
CR_0003, the crab-eating macaque, carries from Flores and takes its Bali form at
uluwatu_seacliff_temple (coastal, traversal, ambient_threat moderate, protected). The temple on the
sea-cliff is home to a bold monkey troop that snatches anything loose from a traveller
[SRC: SRC_00157, p. 250-254]. In play that is a theft-and-distraction hazard laid across the
cliff-vertical agility course of CH04_B12 — a troop that costs the careless player a carried item
mid-traverse and turns the run into a matter of what you secured before you started, feeding the
wind-step and gust-push learning the beat already carries.
Handling that binds, because the site is protected:
living sacred site of the highest rank [SRC: SRC_00157, p. 250-254]. The agility course stays on
the cliff traverse and the approach thresholds; consecrated shrines are never vaulted
dwarapala guardians are READ, not clambered — an architectural read that Section 7 owns and this
section only routes to [SRC: SRC_00157, p. 250-254]
on a phrase about a taming-line encounter; no mount and no vehicle exists in this material, and the
content is a traversal course and a troop hazard. The taming affordance itself is live registry
canon and is kept: the T0_Creature_Roster row CR_0003 is typed trade_8_tameable TAME after a
gift-exchange protocol, which is the honest counter-play to the theft — the traveller who offers
rather than guards turns a troop of thieves into a bond, on the approach thresholds and never on
consecrated ground
The temple-monkey troops of the forest sanctuaries remain a region-ambient FEED at the build pass,
distinct from the Uluwatu troop in behaviour: opportunistic and habituated at the sacred sites, wary
away from them.
sanur_reef (coastal, character and learning functions, ambient_threat low, the catalogue's only
unprotected zone) is the section's second register — which is why the familiar bonds seat there
rather than at a temple. The reef fauna are the roster's own rows: the Sanur reef fish (CR_0020) and
the reef cephalopods (CR_0021) on the reef shelf. The Lovina dolphin pod (CR_0022) belongs to the
same roster but to the island's NORTH coast — the roster names the row for the Lovina pod — and not
to this reef; the Zone Catalog carries no north-coast row, so the pod stands region-ambient outside
the catalogue until one exists, recorded as an obligation beside the highland-forest row and never
seated at Sanur by convenience.
Bali starling is the island's own critically distinctive endemic bird, chosen deliberately as the
most local face available — the island's own species rather than a generic tropical bird
GATED. It is met, it registers, and it does not bond at Ch 4; the mechanics defer to the
T0_Familiar_Registry population and the page does not invent them
roster
A sourcing gap is recorded plainly: no audited record in the Bali shelf attests the reef fauna,
the starling, or the dolphins. Those four roster rows are spine-consumed and carry no deep-read
substrate, so the reef's behaviour layer stays at roster grain until a marine or ornithological
source lands. That is a gap in acquisition, not a design hole, and it goes to the Section-16 verify
list beside the tiger-ecology anchor.
Folkloric beings route to Creature_Roster.folklore_attribution rather than to a separate registry:
the leyak in its night-form and the bhuta-kala (mythologically stylized, faced as the tradition
itself condemns and appeases them), and the protective Naga-balustrade gate-guardian, which is a
guardian and is never villainized. Section 5 owns their substrate; Section 3 owns only the routing
and the roster shape. Two cosmological beings of the harvest — the world-turtle Bedawang Nala and the
cosmic nagas Basuki and Anantaboga — are recorded as folkloric_being rather than creature at the
registry append, because the creature kind is the real-animal kind and mis-kinding them would exempt
culturally owned beings from the culture gate. Their content belongs to Section 5, and this section
makes no claim on it.
minigame is specified
ethnographic grain, attested by neither natural-science record and by no audited Balinese record in
this shelf. Owed a citation at the Section-16 pass
which carry the 1930s last record and the 1940s extirpation
both raised as obligations and neither minted here