The Canon Decision & Open-Question Ledger records issues that are:
- unresolved
- provisionally solved
- technically pending
- dependent upon later cartography, chronology, or modeling
- or important enough that the reasoning behind a lock must remain recoverable
A ledger entry should identify:
- the question
- current status
- current working position
- what is already locked
- what remains open
- what would settle the issue
The ledger does not replace codex canon. It records the state of decisions around canon and prevents unresolved questions from being mistaken for settled facts.
CEL-001 — Three-Moon Dynamical Verification
Domain: Celestial Structure
Status: PENDING TECHNICAL VERIFICATION
Question
Does the compact three-moon architecture remain dynamically stable across long astronomical timescales, and do its near-commensurate period ratios represent genuine mean-motion resonances?
Current Working Architecture
- mean distance — ~384,400 km
- sidereal period — ~27.32166 d
- synodic period — ~29.53059 d
- mean distance — ~504,035 km
- sidereal period — ~41.0226 d
- synodic period — ~46.2128 d
- mean distance — ~610,150 km
- sidereal period — ~54.6367 d
- synodic period — ~64.2470 d
Approximate sidereal relationships:
Already Locked
- Seryn's Earth-Moon-equivalent chassis
- approximate Nymaran and Kharic mean distances
- phase-cycle architecture
- draconic-cycle architecture
- ~36.06-year Grand Syzygy
- triple-lunar-eclipse geometry
- Kharos's broken state
- ancient-major-shard / replenished-dust Shardwake doctrine
Still Open
- Nymara mass
- Nymara radius
- Nymara density
- Nymara inclination
- Nymara eccentricity
- Nymara anomalistic period
- Kharos original mass
- Kharos original radius
- Kharos surviving mass
- Kharos surviving dimensions
- Kharos inclination
- Kharos eccentricity
- Kharos anomalistic period
- resonant-angle libration or circulation
- forced eccentricity
- tidal heating
- exact eclipse frequencies
- long-duration N-body stability
What Resolves This Entry
Establish final physical parameters for Nymara and Kharos and run a sufficiently long numerical orbital integration.
If the relevant resonant angles librate, the applicable resonances may be promoted to hard canon.
If they circulate, the moons remain near-commensurate but non-resonant.
Either result is acceptable provided the system remains stable.
GEO-001 — Eldarûn Planetary Physical Chassis
Domain: Planetary Geography / Celestial Structure / Time
Status: RESOLVED — HARD LOCK
Question
What physical planetary scale is required for Eldarûn?
Decision
Eldarûn uses an Earth-equivalent terrestrial planetary chassis.
Locked values:
- mean radius — ~6,371 km
- mean diameter — ~12,742 km
- mass — ~5.97 × 10²⁴ kg
- Surface gravity — ~1 g
- mean solar day — 24 h
- sidereal rotation — ~23 h 56 m 4 s
- axial tilt — ~23.44°
- tropical year — ~365.2422 d
- sidereal year — ~365.2564 d
Reason
These values preserve:
- familiar Earth-like physical experience
- the established calendar
- ordinary seasonal behavior
- expected climate structure
- and the fixed Seryn orbital architecture
Seryn's orbital system and Eldarûn's planetary system are mutually dependent.
Change Control
This decision should not be reopened for ordinary worldbuilding preference.
Any proposed material alteration requires simultaneous re-evaluation of:
- Celestial Structure
- Time, Calendars & Mortal Reckoning
- Grand Syzygy mathematics
- and later Climate & Weather calculations
GEO-002 — Master Cartographic Constraint Integration
Domain: Planetary Geography / Lands & Realms / Narrative Continuity
Status: ACTIVE — CONSTRAINT LAYER RESOLVED / FINAL GEOMETRY OPEN
Question
What established geography must the final master map preserve, and what cartographic work remains legitimately open?
Current Resolved Position
- established named settlements and story-critical places are fixed in relationship and may not be casually relocated
- route order, travel durations, directional relationships, transport changes, and key settlement approaches are binding continuity evidence
- the Ashrun watershed sequence and other established hydrological relationships are controlling where already locked
- the seven-continent count and the Primary–Ferathi–Aeshkari macro-spatial relationship are fixed
- the one-world-ocean / five-basin architecture is fixed
- Part VII records the integrated reader-facing geography of Eldarûn
- the master cartographic ledger retains technical authority for precise placement and unresolved geometry
- external cartographic scaffolding remains outside Eldarûn canon and must not appear in reader-facing World Bible geography
Still Open
- final continental silhouettes and proper names where not yet established
- exact coastlines and ocean-basin boundaries
- the final basin assignment of the western receiving ocean reached by the Ashrun
- river and road polylines where not yet geometrically solved
- forest, wetland, regional, and sea polygons or envelopes
- mountain ridge and range-envelope geometry
- remaining original-point solves and required detailed submaps
- final world-map QA after the unresolved geometry is completed
What Resolves This Entry
Complete the remaining point solves, detailed submaps, and nonpoint feature geometry; reconcile the final map against Part VII and established narrative travel; then close the cartographic phase without reopening mature place identities merely because surrounding geometry was unfinished.
HIS-001 — Present Narrative Mortal Reckoning Year
Domain: History / Time / Narrative Continuity
Status: OPEN — INTENTIONALLY UNASSIGNED
Question
What exact Mortal Reckoning year contains the current narrative era?
Already Locked
- the present broad historical age is the Mortal Age
- Mortal Reckoning begins with the First Concord at 1 MR
- the common civil calendar and leap-year structure are fixed
- After Dawn is a separate Sentinel institutional reckoning
- Year 311 After Dawn must not be read as 311 MR
Current Position
No exact current MR year is assigned. This is deliberate, not an omission to be filled by guesswork.
What Resolves This Entry
Construct the integrated historical chronology in Part IX far enough to place the current narratives without forcing arbitrary dates onto unresolved wars, migrations, institutions, divine-era transitions, or regional histories.
PEO-001 — Tazhuran Canonical Naming
Domain: Peoples / Geography / Reference
Status: RESOLVED — CANONICAL NAME LOCK
Decision
Tazhuran is the current canonical name for the ancestral crowned high-civilization lineage of Troll-kind. The older working term Zarandari is deprecated and must not remain in reader-facing canon.
Required Propagation
Parts II, VII, VIII, X, future maps, indices, and settlement/cultural references use Tazhuran unless an older historical document is intentionally quoting deprecated terminology.
GEO-003 — Upper Ashrun Cataract Placement
Domain: Geography / Hydrology / Narrative Continuity
Status: OPEN — FEATURE EXISTS / EXACT POSITION UNRESOLVED
Already Locked
· the Ashrun watershed and established settlement controls are binding
· Roaringwater remains on the east side of the Ashrun at the corrected Ashrun–Shimmerbrook confluence
· the corrected local confluence and bend may not be undone
· a major cataract exists on the upper Ashrun
Still Open
· exact cataract point on the recovered river geometry
· whether the working Skybreak Falls control is identical to the Upper Ashrun Cataract or represents a separate cataract
What Resolves This Entry
Direct registered-source or manuscript evidence sufficient to place the cataract without moving locked settlements or forcing unsupported river geometry.
COS-001 — Why the Victorious Pantheon Is Eleven
Domain: Cosmology / Divine History
Status: OPEN — DO NOT INVENT
Question
Why does the stable later divine order consist of exactly eleven gods?
Already Locked
· the Eleven arise after the Old Gods
· they are narrower, domain-defined powers compatible with a more ordered world
· they overthrow, bind, break, or suppress Old God rule
Still Open
Whether eleven is cosmologically inevitable, historically contingent, the number of surviving successful divine powers, a later mortal classification, or the result of another mechanism.
COS-002 — Divine Operations & Afterlife
Domain: Cosmology / Religion / Death
Status: OPEN — STRUCTURAL DOCTRINE NEEDED
Question
What is objectively true about where the Eleven exist, how they manifest or communicate, how sacred magic is mediated, and what happens to mortal souls after rightful death?
Already Locked
· Lethar governs death, boundary, judgment, and passage
· the gods do not mechanically operate every natural process
· divine intervention is real but does not replace ordinary causation
Still Open
The objective mechanics of divine residence, avatars/manifestation, communication limits, worship-strength relationships, soul destination, and the afterlife beyond culturally held doctrine.
MAG-001 — Global Hard Magical Prohibitions
Domain: Magic Doctrine / Continuity
Status: OPEN — EDGE LIMITS NOT YET LOCKED
Question
Which effects are absolutely impossible, which are merely extraordinarily difficult, and which are possible only under exceptional divine, relic, or failure-state conditions?
Candidate Issues Requiring Ruling
· resurrection or restoration of the dead
· reversal or rewriting of time
· creation of matter from nothing
· manufacture, duplication, or permanent imprisonment of souls
· perfect prophecy or absolute knowledge
· permanent total mind overwrite
· unrestricted long-range teleportation independent of ley and Veil conditions
Current Rule
Until resolved, existing specific canon governs individual cases. No new universal exception or prohibition should be inferred merely for convenience.
HIS-002 — Aesharath Historical / Ontological Status
Domain: Peoples / History / Religion
Status: OPEN — INTENTIONAL HISTORICAL AMBIGUITY
Already Locked
· the Aeshkar predate the Shatterpoints
· the Shatterpoints fractured older Aeshkari realms, clans, cities, routes, and political continuity
· Aesharath is associated with the later unification that becomes the Dominion
Still Open
Whether Aesharath is best established objectively as a historical sovereign, scar-prophet, mythologized unifier, semi-divine figure, or another category.
Current Use
Cultures may disagree. Do not resolve the ambiguity in omniscient canon until Brandon chooses to do so.
Open-Question Ledger Protocol
Unresolved worldbuilding questions that can affect multiple Parts are recorded here as formal ledger entries rather than being buried inside manuscript threads or treated as casual notes.
A listed question is not canon merely because it appears in the ledger. Its status determines how it may be used until a later decision resolves, narrows, or closes it.
Future entries should be added only when the issue has enough dependency or continuity weight to require recoverable decision history.
Canon Decision & Open-question Ledger
Full supplied entry, including any stated canon limits and open questions.