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This wiki was built from three long design conversations between '''Ekrem''' (the game master) and an AI assistant, covering the world of [[Aenarch]] and the campaigns ''[[Aenarch: Last Winter]]'' and ''[[Heralds of the Cycle]]''. Those transcripts are the only sources. Nothing on this wiki was invented by the person or the tooling that assembled it.

That creates one problem worth naming plainly: '''not everything in the transcripts is true of the world.''' Much of it is the assistant proposing options — undead taxonomies, ritual variants, faction names — that were never taken up. So every statement here carries a tier and a source.

== The four tiers ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Tier !! Shown as !! What it means
|-
| Game master || {{Canon|gm}} || Ekrem stated it, decided it, or corrected the assistant. Highest authority. If two statements conflict, this one wins.
|-
| Canon summary || {{Canon|summary}} || Taken from a canon summary Ekrem pasted into the conversation to re-anchor the world. Treated as settled unless a later game-master statement overrides it.
|-
| Happened in play || {{Canon|play}} || It occurred at the table, or a later message treats it as having occurred. Real, but the wording may be the assistant's.
|-
| Unconfirmed idea || {{Canon|idea}} || The assistant proposed it and nothing shows it was accepted. '''Not canon.''' It lives in the [[:Idea:Idea Pool|Idea namespace]], never in a canon statement.
|}

== Who decides ==

'''The campaign owner, Berkay Seyhan, decides canon.''' Anyone invited may write pages; he rules on what is true. His rulings are recorded on [[Help:Owner rulings]] with the date, and they outrank anything the transcripts say — including the citations on this wiki. When you see a page contradicting a ruling, the page is wrong.

Access follows the same shape: anyone with the link may read this wiki, editing is invite-only, and the '''GM:''' namespace is for material players must not see.

== Citations ==

Every claim ends with a marker like {{Src|heralds-a#3}}. It names the transcript and the message number inside it:

* '''heralds-a''' — ''Heralds of the Cycle'', the Turkish-language canon-summary session (156 messages).
* '''heralds-b''' — ''Heralds of the Cycle'', the English continuation (454 messages).
* '''last-winter''' — the original ''Aenarch: Last Winter'' session, where the empire, the regencies and the houses were built (879 messages).

Hover a marker to see its source. If a sentence has no marker, it is either a heading, a summary of the cited sentences around it, or a mistake — treat the last case as a bug and fix it.

== What to do when something is wrong ==

The transcripts contain contradictions, because the world changed while it was being written. Where two sources disagree and no game-master statement settles it, the page carries a {{Unresolved|example question}} box and the page is listed in [[:Category:Needs a decision]].

If you are the campaign owner and you know the answer: edit the page, state it plainly, and mark it {{Canon|gm}}. Your edit outranks anything the transcripts say. If you are a player, use the talk page instead — and see the spoiler rule below.

== Spoilers ==

Some of what the sources contain is meant to be hidden from players: the true nature of certain rulers, the identity behind an organization, the solution to a sealed dungeon. That material lives in the '''GM:''' namespace and is linked from canon pages with a {{Spoiler}} notice rather than written into them.

The GM namespace is excluded from default search and from search-engine indexing. It is '''not''' protected by permissions yet — that waits on the campaign owner's decision about who gets an account. Until then, treat "GM:" as a promise between people, not a lock.

== Naming ==

Page titles use the spelling the sources use, in English, singular, without a leading article: [[Iceverf]], [[Black Ice]], [[House Frostweave]], [[Winter Elves]]. Where the transcripts used two spellings of the same thing, one is the page and the other is a redirect; the page says which and why. Where a thing was renamed inside the story — a city that took a new name after a catastrophe — the page carries the current name and the old one redirects to it.

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