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This directory contains site-facing documents for The Resonance Cosmos.

These documents should focus on singular or tightly bounded places of strategic, sacred, historical, or symbolic importance.

The site material on this shelf is focused on the earliest major concentrated places where broader civilizational tensions become impossible to treat as abstract.

The site layer is still narrow but important: it anchors both the deep-world side of the wider Caeldon history architecture and the first far-side Orc, Halfling, and Gnome fields by giving larger regional and civilizational tensions a few bounded places where strategic need, symbolic weight, and historical memory concentrate together.

That makes the site shelf read as the most concentrated layer of larger histories: older interface formation, first contact, rupture, sealing, parallel Dark Elf and deep Dwarven branch hardening, post-catastrophe state formation, first competing claims, and then a durable struggle over one place in the deep world; on the far side, the first Pact-bearing Orc world where reserve custody and treaty-bound passage have to prove they can coexist at one bounded receiving and reserve site, the first Halfling fold world where reserve and bounded hospitality have to prove the same thing in a different key, the first Gnome littoral world where calibrated harboring and exact public trust have to do so along a dangerous coast, and the first paired Orc-Gnome threshold where outer-shore reception and inner-harbor entry have to prove they can coexist without collapsing into abandonment or false welcome; and beyond the shore, the first Thaluren spawning sanctuary where lawful return, clutch custody, and damaged sanctity become concentrated in one ancestral water.

The Thaluren/Kavari site layer now adds a second kind of water conflict: not only whether damaged Thaluren return can move to an alternate channel, but what happens when an alternate receiving water is already a Kavari nursery site with resident dwelling-water standing.

The broader design rules for how sites differ from regions now live in Regional and Site Design Framework, so this overview can stay focused on the currently named site shelf.

Current Documents

• The Rootstone Heartwell: the first iconic Dark Elf-Dwarf disputed site, linking the Roothollows, the Ironspine, and the deep-world sequence of rupture, darkening and deepening, founding, claims, and inherited hostility.

• The Measure Cistern: the first iconic Halfling site, linking the Leeward Folds, the Foldward Commons, and the Halfling sequence of founding, reserve custom, bounded hospitality, and measured reception under pressure.

• The Oath Cistern: the first iconic internal Windscar site, linking the Rimward Basins, the High Scars, and the Pact sequence of founding, reserve custody, treaty-ground legitimacy, and disputed lawful passage.

• The Sounding Gate: the first iconic Gnome site, linking the Tidelace Coasts, the Gaugeward Leagues, and the Gnome sequence of founding, calibrated harboring, signal trust, and lawful reception along dangerous littoral approaches.

• The Answering Sound: the first iconic Orc-Gnome threshold site, linking the Tidelace Coasts, the Windscar Pacts, the Gaugeward Leagues, and the littoral contact sequence of outer-shore reception, truthful delay, pilotage, and inner-harbor admission under demand.

• The Counted Lee: the first bounded Halfling-Gnome exchange site, linking the Leeward Folds, the Tidelace Coasts, the Foldward Commons, and the quieter contact sequence of counted transfer, declared approach, and measured handoff.

• The Turnwater Quays: the first named routine Orc-Gnome exchange site, linking the Soundchain Roads, the Answerward Pilotage, and the calmer coastward sequence of reviewed transfer, provision, and pilot-guided handoff.

• The First Nesting Confluence: the first named Thaluren sanctuary site, linking the Returning Concord, lawful upriver return, communal clutch custody, and the later closure crisis around damaged spawning waters.

• The Second Channel: the first named alternate Thaluren spawning channel to gain provisional standing after the closure of the First Nesting Confluence, linking Open-Run recognition, Blightward memory-debt, and redirected-run law.

• The Gravelbraid Nurseries: the first named Kavari nursery-water site to force shared return-water and dwelling-water law, linking Bankright closure rights, redirected Thaluren passage, and the Gravel Oath Accord.