At a decision split into eight still-living alternatives, Vaelith lays one path-tail across each road; when Elara chooses, the fox withdraws seven and leaves a simple grave marker for the unchosen lives, making consequence visible without portal spectacle.
8
Morphology evidence
ACV-028planned · not generated
Locally grounded function
Starweave · 8 Chords
The local record grounds partial existence outside spacetime, matter phasing, perspective shifting, and reality-boundary walking while explicitly leaving the physical form canon-pending.
Morphology under test
Hold the candidate. Do not promote it to canon.
Tested morphology candidate — the Eightfold Parallax Fox, the pantheon's only fox, with exactly eight functionally distinct path-tails and no masks, shrine iconography, wisp-fire, or ninth tail.
Bond
Elara
Evidence
locked relation local function grounded physical form pending proposed morphology
Eligibility
internal only until identity lock
Identity lock
Not issued. Detailed morphology remains provisional.
Open physical identity
fox body proportions, cranial architecture, and non-domestic expression
eight tail silhouettes and the distinct path function of each
surface material and the physical boundary between matter and phase
locomotion and spatial continuity when partially outside spacetime
absolute scale, habitat, ecology, and culturally neutral visual language
Required reviews
Creator explicitly accepts, amends, or rejects the tested morphology candidate against locked canon and the local Godbeast record
Identity review records the accepted clade, Chord anatomy, limb count, face and sensory architecture, locomotion, scale, ecology, and material system before issuing a reference master
Grayscale silhouette, orthographic anatomy, action, habitat, and bonded-dyad studies must agree before any public identity approval
The solo plate holds one proposed topology steady long enough to test silhouette, Chord count, material function, locomotion, and ecology. The dyad then tests reciprocal sovereignty with the bonded Guardian. Neither study may become an identity master while morphology remains provisional.