Project Notes

❏ Finish the medieval religion and divine-culture layer: ordinary worship, institutional religion, divine fear, local cults, major taboos, and how Primes, Stewards, Resonants, and Dark Entities are understood by medieval societies.

❏ Integrate Failed Mending into the broader magic shelf as a rare distorted healing pattern (lifeforce repair overcorrects injury rather than restoring clean prior form); currently defined only locally in Trolls.

❏ Add rough date-range labels to all important medieval timeline navigation where still missing, and keep the timeline registry chronologically ordered.

❏ For civilization-inhabited regions still thin (far-side, oceanic, desert, and remote planetary regions beyond the cradle-web), bring them up to full regional treatment: ordinary life, political role, ecology, routes, neighbors, hazards, historical memory.

❏ For places civilization has not reached, or has abandoned, add a lighter pass instead: geography, why it’s empty or abandoned, one or two evocative anchors — deliberately not full regional development, leaving room for the reader’s or GM’s own ideas.

❏ Decide the Fogland/Sepulcher-Kin thread’s placement under this two-tier rule (it is a highly developed but currently deferred remote-region concept) rather than leaving it parked indefinitely.

❏ Add representative sites (civic, religious, route, ruin, market, bridge, sanctuary, frontier) only where region-level description cannot carry the weight; avoid exhaustive local catalogs.

❏ Keep REGIONS.adoc and SITES.adoc synced whenever place documents are added or renamed.

❏ Build a clear history spine from deep-time prerequisites to the medieval present, using Timeline Layering and Parallelism Framework.

❏ Separate history into broad readable bands: cosmic and planetary foundations, species stabilizations, first heartlands and orders, divergences, contact systems, mature medieval institutions, current-era tensions.

✓ For each major medieval species or civilization, identify the minimum historical chain needed to understand its current role. The chain requirement and full roster status now live in Minimum Historical Chain Framework.

✓ Mark which elder civilizations matter directly to the medieval era and which remain background inheritance. Recorded in the same framework: Upland Colossal and Archive-Law are directly load-bearing, Ash-Furnace is background with local hooks, Sepulcher-Kin stays deferred, and Deep-World Labor and Coercion is reclassified as a live pressure rather than a vanished civilization.

✓ Write the four single missing beats. The Stabilization of Failed Mending, The Withdrawal of the Upland Colossal World, The Consolidation of the Bankright Circles, and The Lower River Absorptions are drafted and registered; Kavari, Reedfolk, and Giants are now chain-complete.

✓ Add registry rows for the Upland Colossal, Archive-Law, and Ash-Furnace civilizations. Done alongside the four beats; TIMELINE.adoc and its TOON companion now carry 57 rows.

❏ Write the remaining full chains. Goblins, Kobolds, Ogres, The Wrought, and Salvage Peoples still have none; Trolls still need a first durable order beat behind the Crossing-Oath Houses.

❏ Give the Salvage Peoples a named public order. They are the only comparable people with none, where Trolls, Ogres, and The Wrought each have one.

❏ Decide whether the Archive-Law civilization needs a dated end. Its failure is described as hardening rather than collapse, so a fall page may be the wrong form, but its arc is currently open at one end while the other two elder civilizations are closed at both.

❏ Clarify the history of major roads, waterways, ruins, sanctuaries, trade routes, borders, and legal precedents that shape current medieval life.

❏ Check that Humans remain comparatively young beside older Elven and Dwarven continuities, and that most peoples have long ordinary pre-state or local-order periods before complex courts, leagues, or high institutions.

❏ Add timeline documents only when they explain a current institution, conflict, merger, vanished form, region, ruin, taboo, or legal category; use broad band markers otherwise.

❏ Produce a readable medieval-history summary.

❏ Continue seeding the Notable Villains shelf with individual figures and collectives that explain surviving institutions, ruins, taboos, or legal categories identified during the history pass.

❏ Read through the medieval-facing setting shelves in order — cosmology, divine hierarchy, magic, timeline, people, places — and record any contradictions here before fixing them.

❏ Normalize terminology across the medieval draft: species, branch, lineage, lifeway, civilization, order, compact, house, league, concord, region, site, event, era.

❏ Check that each major named thing has a short explanation and a link at first meaningful mention.

❏ Check that sibling documents do not use boilerplate paragraphs with near-identical wording.

❏ Check that ordinary-life material balances crisis material in every major region, civilization, and species document.

❏ As each document gets touched during this pass, deliberately leave or add open tensions, unresolved questions, or story hooks for writers and GMs — this is a stated goal of the pass, not an incidental side effect.

❏ Run elixir 00_Admin/Tools/navigation_audit.exs after navigation-heavy cleanup.

❏ Run elixir 00_Admin/Tools/timeline_registry_audit.exs after editing 00_Registries/TIMELINE.adoc.