What a Canon Decision is
A recovered tablet is rarely pristine. A break, a worn sign, a word that sits between two meanings, and suddenly a single line can be read more than one way, with honest scholars disagreeing about which is right. Real Assyriology is full of these open questions.
In the Chronicle, those genuine ambiguities become Canon Decisions. When a recovered line survives in more than one reading, the Uruk 777 study the marks and vote which reading the Chronicle carries forward. Say a phrase can be read as the witness who returns, or the witness who comes to answer for something: two futures for the same broken line. The founders seal one, and every player after them inherits it.
This shapes how the world is remembered, never the rules of play. No vote changes a puzzle, an ability, or an ending. It changes the telling.
Anatomy of a Disputed Reading
One broken line. Two honest readings. The founders seal which one the Chronicle carries.
A single sign is worn away where the clay cracked, and the line can be read two ways. Both are defensible. Only one can be sealed.
The witness who returns
Read one way, the line is a homecoming: a witness who left, and came back to the gate.
The witness who answers
Read another way, the same marks summon someone to account for a debt: a reckoning at the gate, not a return.
The Uruk 777 study the marks and seal one reading. It changes how the story is remembered, never a puzzle, an ability, or an ending.
How a reading is sealed
Founders vote while a reading is open. When it closes, the reading the Uruk 777 chose is sealed into how the Chronicle is remembered. This shapes the telling, not the rules of play.
Questions about Canon Decisions
- Does a Canon Decision change the game?
- No. Canon Decisions shape how the Chronicle is remembered, its telling, never the rules of play. A vote never alters a puzzle, an ability, or an ending.
- Who can vote?
- Only the Uruk 777, the founding cohort. Founder status is earned by playing the free prologue, not by paying an email, so the voice that shapes canon is earned, not bought.
- What happens when a reading is sealed?
- When a Disputed Reading closes, the reading the founders chose is sealed into the Chronicle, and every player who comes after inherits that version of the world.
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