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Phillip Tarrant ef335a93c3 docs: land the saga guardrails on the milestones they constrain

Applies the seven-campaign saga direction spec (021c248) to the docs it
was written to protect. No new milestone, no new content, no BOM line.

docs/roadmap.md — a "Guarded direction" section, and a ⛨ saga note on the
four milestones that would otherwise foreclose the shape:
  M3  don't hardcode the title flow so a saga entry path can't be added
  M4  keep construct()'s `creation` a plain Dictionary; the scene must not
      become its only producer
  M5  the level curve is no longer open — L20 across 7 tiers; enemy stat
      blocks carry tier; no scaling multiplier, ever
  M9  the save is two objects (Saga + Campaign); humiliations move to the
      Saga or they die with the campaign

races-and-classes spec — the deferred "XP curve → M5" line now inherits the
ceiling rather than choosing one.

canon-roadmap — what the saga asks of content: a tier field when the
item/quest namespaces land, and a fixed-vs-variable mark on each BOM line
when the BOM is written. Tiers 2-7 and the other six kings go to the
Backlog.

Content build --check green; no generated content touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-12 17:23:26 -05:00

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Canon Roadmap

The world's answer to docs/roadmap.md: what is authored vs pending, and the order the Margreave is being written. Source of truth is content/lore/*.md; content/world + content/server are BUILT from it (python -m content_build).

Authored (status: canon)

cosmology.md — the overarching theme: the Warden (distant good god), the Sent (his angels), the Seven (demonic host), and the two economies + possession (rule.the-pact, rule.blood-price, rule.possession). The backdrop every future piece of content reconciles against.
the-seven.md — the seven demon kings, one person.* each: Kareth (Red King), Vael (Quiet Knife), Morren (Grey Mother), Ghaul (the Yoke), Ishri (Open Mouth), Nuun (Hollow Choir), Draeth (Crowned Worm).
FTH-axis callings (folded into the cosmology, from the races/classes spec): the Bonesetter channels the Warden, the Bloodsworn (resolves the warlock's former [CANON-TBD] name) pacts one of the Seven. Applying Bloodsworn to calling data and a Bloodsworn's patron choice are M4; any Luck effect is an M5/ Improviser reconcile.
mechanics.md — hosts rule.disposition-ladder (the required-once gate vocabulary), reparented out of the retired Duncarrow scaffolding.
specimen.md — a synthetic status: candidate disposition-gate specimen (validated by --check, emitted nowhere); the world-building skill's structure example. Not game canon. The Duncarrow scaffolding (Crell chain, Mera Fenn) is deleted.

Lesson from the Duncarrow purge

Generated content under content/world/ has a client-side consumer: client/scripts/content/content_db.gd (loaded via client/scripts/harness/npc_harness.gd) and its GUT tests in client/tests/unit/test_content_db.gd. Deleting generated content — a whole namespace of topics/npcs/canon — is a client change, not just a content change; check client/ before purging.

The seven-campaign saga — what it asks of content

The saga direction spec (docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-12-character-reuse-seven-arc-design.md) authors no content and adds no BOM line. It asks two things of the content track, both of which land inside work already sequenced:

tier: 1..7 on the entry envelope, validated by the build tool — added at the moment the item and quest namespaces land (already an M7/M8 prerequisite in the content-track design). Schema, not content.
When the Bill of Materials is written, mark each line fixed vs variable. Fixed substrate (identical in every campaign): currency, the price table, abilities, callings, the cosmology, the Seven, the disposition ladder. Per-campaign variable: the town, its NPCs, their gated knowledge, the quest chain, the king. This tells you which BOM lines town #2 reuses verbatim — useful now, and the exact split v2 generation will need.

Pleasant accident: the Greywater slice is already campaign 1 — tier 1, patron Ghaul the Yoke. Nothing in the content-track design changes.

Pending (not yet authored)

Per-town knowledge that grounds the cosmology: possessed NPCs, blood-harvest sites, shrine fronts — authored as gated rumor/fact/secret.
The Barbarian ⚔ calling name ([CANON-TBD]); the Bloodsworn's patron-choice detail (M4). Regions/towns of the Margreave beyond the scaffolding.
Backlog (saga, tiers 2–7): the other six kings as campaign patrons; tiered enemy families; the three story-shapes (cult cell → cult that owns a city → the king). Parked, not lost.

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