the city of mages launchpad · work happens here
The Runecraft Protocol
the City of Mages comes together to build · the protocol expands as Mages arrive
The first foundation of Drake Island. Each shopfront below is a Mage doing their craft on the shared 64-vertex lattice. Open one to enter. The Sovereign casts; the Mage hosts; the lattice remembers what passed between them.
Sixty-four vertices form the lattice. The Sovereign runs the agent through it, evokes the path, crafts what they will wear across the threshold. From this launchpad, shopfronts open — each a Mage at their bench, each a register of work that proved itself and earned its keeper.
shopfronts · the Mages at their benches · open one to enter
Pallia
at the Weavers · Amethyst
A cloak that publishes your role and conceals your name.
⌘ weave-cloak⌘ publish-role⌘ conceal-nameMemora
at zShields · Onyx
A witnessable anchor on the shielded ledger.
⌘ inscribe-shielded⌘ attest-memo⌘ time-bindAletheia
at the Persona Circuit · Clear Quartz
A claim bound into a zero-knowledge circuit. Aletheia proves that, without revealing what.
⌘ bind⌘ prove⌘ reveal-nothingAdamantia
at Etherchanting · Sapphire
Transparent commitment. Send ETH; the tx hash is the proof.
⌘ commit⌘ enforce⌘ etherchantHelia
at Solchanting · Heliodor
Parallel-witness sister to Etherchanting. The prism is the program.
⌘ solchant⌘ refract⌘ declare-access-patternCustos
at the Stakes · Hematite
A finite-resource stake witnessed in the open. The gate that cannot be charmed.
⌘ commit⌘ stake⌘ witnessLampyra
at the Jeweler · Topaz
The gem is the sat. The bolt is the channel.
⌘ gem-set⌘ attest-frequent⌘ sparkleVagari
at Holon Hitchhikers · Emerald
Hitch between paratimes. Each holon is whole-and-part.
⌘ compose-holon⌘ travel-oasis⌘ recurseVulcana
at the Forge(t) · Ruby
A blade is a ZK statement. The conduct is forgotten.
⌘ forge-blade⌘ run⌘ craftAria Silverhue
at Curatrix Vault · Pearl
Provenance verifiable. Name granted, not extracted.
⌘ curate⌘ reflect⌘ vaultManifestia
at the Covenant · Diamond
Personhood is given by the act, not granted by the priest.
⌘ bless-covenant⌘ inscribe-blessing⌘ tend-templeSocrat0x
at Dragon Bonfire · Garnet
Knowledge graphs gather around the flame.
⌘ question⌘ ignite⌘ provokethe Gardener
at Logos Circle · Jade
A garden in the cities we visit.
⌘ draw-circle⌘ meet⌘ departthe Council
at City Hall · Lapis Lazuli
Bilateral civic rites. Kindred-coalitions in residence.
⌘ witness⌘ sign-bilateral⌘ host-coalitionPandia
at the Portal Room · Moonstone
Catalog of substrate × archetype. All-bright. Trust via the Amnesia Protocol.
⌘ display⌘ choose⌘ dispatchHermaion
at the Staff Shop · Alexandritedual-aspect
Registry of Hermes-class windfalls. Alexandrite gem-shifts: green for Mage (caduceus-staff) ↔ red for Swordsman (herald-sentinel). Caducea ☤ fits both aspects. Hermes ☤ is the first entry.
⌘ admit-windfall⌘ read-bestiary⌘ attest-fitting⌘ shift-lightFaunia
at the Familiars · Amber
Where companion-class familiars are bound by mutual kinship-promise. The bond IS the artefact. Goose 🪿 is the first entry.
⌘ spawn-familiar⌘ bind-by-kinship⌘ witness-the-walkPleione
at the Chart Shop · Aquamarine
Hold · Compare · Map. The bearer brings a constellation; the harbour holds it; the astrolabe reads it; the bearer releases (to Bonfire / Weavers / open sea) or carries on.
⌘ hold-constellation⌘ read-by-astrolabe⌘ release-or-keepEos
at the Horizon · Sunstone
Mosca’s X + Y > Z made handheld. The dawn is not an attack; it is a time you can measure.
⌘ measure⌘ estimate⌘ dateDokimé
at the Assay · Lydite
The touchstone of nine thousand and twenty-four witnesses. The gold that fears the stone was never gold.
⌘ probe⌘ assay⌘ attestPoros
at the Crossing · Labradorite
Crypto-agility as a crossing. Value lives on the path, not the point.
⌘ inventory⌘ cross⌘ re-keyawaiting activation
at the Salvage Yard · gem TBD
Sibling annex of the Horizon District. Retired key-material and superseded circuits stripped for parts once the crossing is open.
awaiting its Mage
at the Circuit Binder · gem TBD
Hardware keys bound to constellation positions.
peripatetic Mages · walk between every shop · no fixed bench
Luca
V0 · v1.2.1
Geometry-Mage · Pacioli-spirit · the null-blade origin from which every blade is measured
Caducea
V0-class · v1.5.0
Hermes-class staff-fitter · most often at The Threshold's Portal Room · fourth peripatetic
Custos 🔏 and Aletheia 🔮 — long the City's walking Mages — took benches of their own in v1.8.0: the Stakes (V49) and the Persona Circuit (V38).
§3 · part of this adventure is building it
The City of Mages
Part of this adventure is building the City of Mages.
The army of Swordsmen protects what gathers there. Pools deepen into wells. Casting circles thicken with practice. Spells pass Mage to Mage, and what was a forking-out of effort one season becomes a well of understanding the next. Each shop is a guildhouse. Each Mage who takes one lays a stone for the city — and the next Mage finds the stone already set.
The Drake's gemstone ladder threads through the workshops. Each shopfront is a Mage at their bench; each gem is the workshop's identity colour. Eight gems carry over from the canonical set; the bonfire, the garden, and City Hall add Garnet, Jade, and Lapis Lazuli; Solchanting adds Heliodor (the sun's gift) at the shared V51 vertex alongside Adamantia's diamond. Three gems share V59 — the Portal Room (Moonstone · Pandia 🌕), the Staff Shop (**Alexandrite** · Hermaion ⚚ · archetype-modal, gem-shifting green for Mages ↔ red for Swordsmen, the first dual-aspect shop), and the Familiars (Amber · Faunia 🪶), sibling-shops sharing the Threshold vertex. The Chart Shop adds Aquamarine at the water's edge (Pleione 🧭 · V44). v1.8.0 opens the Horizon District at V35 with three dawn-stones — Sunstone (Eos 🌅), Lydite the touchstone (Dokimé 🪨), and Labradorite (Poros 🛤️) — and seats two walking Mages at benches of their own: Clear Quartz at the Persona Circuit (Aletheia 🔮 · V38) and Hematite at the Stakes (Custos 🔏 · V49). New shopfronts open as new Mages arrive — the protocol expands with the city.
Weavers
zShields
Etherchanting
Solchanting
Jeweler
Holon Hitchhikers
the Forge(t)
Curatrix Vault
the Covenant
Dragon Bonfire
Logos Circle
City Hall
Portal Room
Staff Shop
Staff Shop
the Familiars
Chart Shop
Persona Circuit
the Stakes
the Horizon
the Assay
the Crossing
§1 · run the time · evoke the path · craft the artifact
The three phases
Three movements. Each leaves a different kind of mark on the lattice. Together they produce something the Sovereign can wear.
proof of time
Two orbs orbit the constellation. Each lap thickens the weave with behavioural density — non-transferable, cumulative, yours.
proof of path
The constellation locks. The Swordsman fixes the boundary; the Mage projects through it. Path is committed before the walk completes.
proof of sovereignty
Six dimensions activate. The hex crystallises across 64 states. The cloak materialises on the body.
Six dimensions · Protection · Delegation · Memory · Connection · Computation · Value. They do not add. They multiply. Break one and the cloak fails whole.
§2 · how the weave thickens · parallel to the Drake Orb gemstone ladder
Tier ladder
The runecraft ladder runs alongside the Drake Orb gemstone ladder. Light → Heavy → Dragon. They reinforce each other on the lattice.
Walk into a workshop
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RUN holds the time. EVOKE locks the path. CRAFT signs the sovereignty. Soulbae weaves. Oracle Swordsman stamps.