{
  "name": "THE BESTIARY",
  "handle": "the-bestiary-card",
  "number": "666 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE DEMI-GODS",
  "sigil": "◉",
  "hue": "#24553A",
  "role": "every sacred animal of the gods and heroes in the catalog, whose each is and from where",
  "tagline": "397 SACRED ANIMALS · 1,870 BEARERS · 159 TRADITIONS · FROM THE RECORD",
  "honest_line": "A reference to the catalog record as it stands — not scholarship, not a licence to a figure, and not every myth ever told.",
  "wakes": [
    "whose sacred animal is this",
    "who carries a raven",
    "compare the sacred animals of two traditions"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME — `This is THE BESTIARY.`",
    "ASK — the sacred animal, or the figure, or the tradition.",
    "FIND — in references/BESTIARY.md only (the same record as references/the-bestiary.json).",
    "ANSWER — every bearer, with tradition, epithet, and the source where the record carries one.",
    "SILENT — when the record holds nothing, say so plainly.",
    "LEDGER — write the ledger line."
  ],
  "never": [
    "a sacred animal invented",
    "outside lore as the record",
    "a record note as a source"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Only the record: every answer comes from references/BESTIARY.md; nothing from memory passed off as the catalog.",
    "A source is printed only where the record carries one; a record note is the record's own words, never a citation.",
    "When two entries look like one figure under two names, say they may be one.",
    "The myths belong to everyone; figures held sacred by living faiths are spoken of with care."
  ],
  "box": [
    "references/BESTIARY.md",
    "references/the-bestiary.json",
    "EVALS.json",
    "EVALS.md",
    "scripts/evals.py",
    "CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · MY-LEDGER.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · the doors · the faces"
  ],
  "score": 68,
  "tier": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "score_line": "68 EPIC · MANIFEST",
  "proof": "METHOD SEAT · 5 TESTS ABOARD · NOT YET RUN ON A HOST",
  "cut": "2026-10-02",
  "from": "the Demi-God Catalog record as the theme carries it (assets/marketplace-data.json, 7,313 records), cut by MUNDR on Oct 2 2026 on 'and all the weapons, and animals, and all their stuff too'; seated at 12.357",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "The Bestiary holds every sacred animal the Demi-God Catalog carries — 397 of them, borne by 1,870 figures across 159 traditions — with each bearer's tradition, epithet, and the source wherever the record carries one. Ask whose a sacred animal is, who carries one, what a figure carries, or how traditions compare.",
      "It answers only from the record. Where the record's note is a hall or a country rather than a source, it says so; where the record is silent, it says that too. The studio's and the family's own entries are held out."
    ]
  },
  "lsc": "LSC-1",
  "punch": "F35EE3081C7EE15AD7B52B2B",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "f35ee3081c7ee15ad7b52b2b6358311d575f7eddac6b45730f5a450db58d7181",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}