# SPECIMEN — format example, NOT game canon

> A synthetic disposition-gate specimen: the shape a guarded-then-warm NPC takes
> in the bible, with an ascending knowledge chain — one reveal the player earns at
> `warm`, and a `never`-gated core the NPC knows and no disposition ever unlocks.
> Authored `status: candidate`, so the build VALIDATES it (`--check` resolves its
> gates against the ladder) but emits NOTHING to `content/world` or
> `content/server`. This is a teaching example for the world-building skill, not
> part of the Margreave. Do not wire real content to these ids.

```yaml
id: place.specimen-wharf
type: place
status: candidate
secrecy: 0
related: []
body: >
  A generic river wharf, here only to anchor the specimen NPC. Not a real place
  in the Margreave.
```

```yaml
id: person.specimen-teague
type: person
status: candidate
secrecy: 0
related: [place.specimen-wharf]
body: >
  Teague, oldest hand on the wharf. Mends nets he no longer sails with. Watches
  everything off the water and says almost none of it.
```

```yaml
id: fact.specimen-foreign-coin
type: fact
status: candidate
secrecy: 2
related: [place.specimen-wharf, person.specimen-teague]
body: >
  The dock hands are paid in coin from outside the charter. Someone is buying the
  wharf's silence, a little at a time.
```

```yaml
id: secret.specimen-drowned-clerk
type: secret
status: candidate
secrecy: 4
related: [place.specimen-wharf, person.specimen-teague, fact.specimen-foreign-coin]
body: >
  The charter clerk who came asking after the coin went into the river in the
  spring. Teague held his legs. He has not been out on the water since and tells
  anyone who asks that it is his knees.
```

```yaml
id: npc.specimen-teague
type: person
status: candidate
secrecy: 0
start_disposition: cold
related:
  [person.specimen-teague, fact.specimen-foreign-coin,
   secret.specimen-drowned-clerk]
body: >
  Same man as person.specimen-teague; his interactive layer. Curt with strangers,
  not from malice but from a lifetime of watching talkers end up face-down in the
  river. Warms slowly, and when he does the dryness turns to something almost
  fond.

knows:
  - {fact: fact.specimen-foreign-coin, gate: warm}
  - {fact: secret.specimen-drowned-clerk, gate: never}

disposition_notes: >
  Starts cold. Buying his catch, not his story, is what moves him. At warm he
  names the coin; he never speculates aloud about who mints it. The clerk is the
  one thing no rung buys — saying it aloud would hang him, and he knows it. He
  reasons around it, steers off it, and takes it to the ground.
```