# Arcanea World Starter — v1

AI-assisted original demonstration. Proposal outside official Arcanea canon.
This free starter is a worked example, not a purchase or a paid-edition receipt.

## World brief

World handle: Tide Archive (demonstration handle, not an official Arcanea realm).
Promise: A coastal mystery about what people choose to remember.
Rule: A damaged memory can be repaired only with an equally specific memory.
Cost: The repairer loses their lived connection to the memory they give.
Pressure: An archivist wants to preserve her father for a younger brother.
Visual direction: Salt-clouded glass, copper repairs, narrow tide stairs, low morning light.

## The repair — complete example scene

At low tide, the archive's windows rang like drinking glasses. Mara set her father's photograph beneath the repair lamp and watched the sea eat another corner of his face.

The keeper placed a copper dish beside it. "One memory for one memory," she said. "Choose something you can bear to lose." Mara offered the winter she had spent counting ferry departures. Nothing happened. The photograph did not want a season. It wanted a person.

Outside, the tide bell struck. Her younger brother was coming up the stairs with the last of their father's letters. He had never learned to swim; their father had carried him through every flooded street. Mara could still hear the laughter, and that was when the lamp began to warm.

She put both hands over the photograph. The glass filled with a summer afternoon: the harbor steps, her brother's wet hair, their father's shoes held above the water. His face returned to the paper, ordinary and tired and unmistakable. At the same moment, the afternoon emptied out of her. She remembered that it had happened. She could no longer remember being there.

Her brother reached the door. "You saved him," he said. Mara looked at the restored face and then at the boy who expected her to smile. "Tell me about the harbor steps," she said. He sat beside her. For the first time, she listened to the story as someone who had never heard it.

## Editable character record

- Identifier:
- Name:
- Immediate desire:
- What the world rule prevents:
- What they can lose:
- Choice in this scene:
- Relationship changed:
- Accepted facts:
- Proposed details:
- Open conflicts:

## Editable scene record

- Scene identifier:
- Point of view:
- Place and time:
- Present goal:
- Relevant world rule:
- Pressure or obstruction:
- Decision:
- Observable consequence:
- What changes by the end:
- Next unresolved action:

## Continuity record

Record each fact with an identifier, state (accepted/proposal/conflict/rejected), source, dependent scenes and revision note. Model suggestions remain proposals until you accept them. Preserve original notes separately.

## Review

1. Can another reader identify the rule and its cost from the scene?
2. Does the character choose, rather than receive an explanation?
3. Are place, action and visual signals specific?
4. Does the scene change a relationship or future option?
5. Can another creator open the files and distinguish facts from proposals?

## Use permission

You may copy, edit and adapt this starter's text and blank templates for personal or commercial original projects. Credit is appreciated, not required. You may share the unchanged free starter with its source and permission note intact. Do not represent an adaptation as official Arcanea canon or imply endorsement. Official Arcanea characters, logos, artwork and trademarks are not included. Third-party providers and assets keep their own terms. This permission does not promise exclusive copyright, legal clearance or commercial results.

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