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Reference Baseline

Title	Path	Layer	Time Periods	Summary
A Brief History of Birds	reference/brief-history-of-birds/index.md	Reference		Living birds represent a narrow surviving subset of ancient avian diversity. Through the Cretaceous, multiple distinc...
Aphid-Ant Relationships	reference/ecology/aphid-ant-relationships.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for aphid-ant and sap-feeder-ant mutualisms. Defines how these relationships function, what limit...
Bird Evolution: Evidence, Reconstruction, and Uncertainty	reference/bird-evolution-evidence-and-uncertainty/index.md	Reference		The fossil record for birds is incomplete in ways that compound at depth. Fossils require conditions rare enough that...
Bird Geography and Dispersal	reference/brief-history-of-birds/bird-geography-and-dispersal.md	Reference		Bird biogeography is reconstructed from fossils, living distributions, molecular relationships, and geological contex...
Bird Geography, Gondwana, and Australasian Evolution	reference/bird-geography-gondwana-and-australasian-evolution/index.md	Reference		Gondwana's staged fragmentation, Antarctica's transition from forested to glaciated, Australia's progressive aridific...
Browsing, Grazing, and Habitat Mosaic	reference/ecology/browsing-grazing-and-habitat-mosaic.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for how differential browsing and grazing pressure by large herbivores creates and maintains habi...
Cassowaries	reference/species/cassowaries.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for cassowary biology, anatomy, and ecology. Defines the physical and behavioural constraints tha...
Cockatoos	reference/species/cockatoos.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for cockatoo biology, cognition, and social behaviour. Defines the capabilities and constraints r...
Dromornithidae	reference/megafauna/dromornithidae.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for the Dromornithidae, a family of extinct giant flightless birds from Sahul. Defines their biol...
Early Pleistocene Sahul Ecosystems	reference/ecology/early-pleistocene-sahul-ecosystems.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for the major ecosystem types present across Sahul during the early Pleistocene (~2 MYA). Defines...
Extinct Sahul Fauna Catalog	reference/megafauna/extinct-sahul-fauna-catalog.md	Reference		A structured catalog of major extinct Sahul fauna, with ecological role, body size, and constraint implications for e...
Forest Refugia and Arboreal Species	reference/ecology/forest-refugia-and-arboreal-species.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for how rainforest contracts into isolated refugia during glacial maxima and what constraints thi...
Haast's Eagle	reference/predators/haasts-eagle.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for Haast's eagle as the top aerial predator of New Zealand and the primary predation pressure on...
Honeypot Ants	reference/species/honeypot-ants.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for honeypot ant biology, colony structure, and the ecological conditions that support replete-ba...
K-Pg Extinction and Bird Survival	reference/brief-history-of-birds/k-pg-extinction-and-bird-survival.md	Reference		Real-world reference on the K-Pg mass extinction and its effects on bird lineages. Defines which bird groups are unde...
Living Bird Family Origins	reference/brief-history-of-birds/living-bird-family-origins.md	Reference		Real-world reference on the origins of living bird families within Neornithes. Defines the major groupings, the evide...
Marine Life Around Early Pleistocene Sahul	reference/ecology/marine-life-around-early-pleistocene-sahul.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for the marine and coastal ecosystems surrounding Sahul during the early Pleistocene. Defines the...
Megafauna and Landscape Pressure	reference/ecology/megafauna-and-landscape-pressure.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for how large-bodied herbivores impose physical and ecological pressure on landscapes. Defines th...
Missing Animal Groups in Sahul	reference/biogeography/missing-animal-groups-in-sahul.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for the major animal groups absent from Sahul that were present on other continents. Defines the...
Moas	reference/species/moas.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for moas as extinct flightless birds of New Zealand. Defines their biology, ecology, and the cons...
Open Questions — A Brief History of Birds	reference/brief-history-of-birds/open-questions.md	Reference		Structured catalogue of unresolved research questions for the `reference/brief-history-of-birds/` section. Each quest...
Predator Systems of Sahul	reference/ecology/predator-systems-of-sahul.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for the predator assemblage present in Sahul during the early Pleistocene. Defines the ecological...
Sahul and Pleistocene Climate	reference/geography/sahul-and-pleistocene-climate.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for the climate and geography mechanisms that shaped Sahul across Pleistocene glacial cycles. Def...
Sahul Predator Roles	reference/predators/sahul-predator-roles.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for the ecological roles filled by Sahul's predator guild and the mechanisms through which predat...
Sap-Feeding Host Trees	reference/ecology/sap-feeding-host-trees.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for trees and plants that support sap-feeding insect populations. Defines the functional traits t...
Sea Level and Sahul Connectivity	reference/geography/sea-level-and-sahul-connectivity.md	Reference		Real-world baseline for sea level variation across early Pleistocene glacial cycles and its effects on land connectiv...
World State — Collapse Era	reference/world-state-collapse-era.md	Reference	Collapse Era	The Collapse Era is the period of regional political fragmentation that follows the overextension of Early History Er...
World State — Contemporary Era	reference/world-state-contemporary-era.md	Reference	Contemporary Era	The Contemporary Era is the current baseline of cassowary civilisation, approximately 2,000 years after the Logistics...
World State — Early History Era	reference/world-state-early-history-era.md	Reference	Early History Era	Early History Era is the period when story-facing institutions such as WTA-style trade, maintained roads, large stora...
World State — Kati Thunda Ant Revolution	reference/world-state-kati-thunda-ant-revolution.md	Reference	Kati Thunda Ant Revolution	The Kati Thunda Ant Revolution is the name given to the threshold transformation when pottery-assisted honeypot ant s...
World State — Logistics Stabilisation Era	reference/world-state-logistics-stabilisation-era.md	Reference	WTA Period	The Logistics Stabilisation Era is the period corresponding to the WTA trade framework. It is not trade as usual, sca...
World State — Orchard Era	reference/world-state-orchard-era.md	Reference	Orchard Era	The Orchard Era is the period when cassowary societies make their first durable multigenerational investments in mana...
World State — Protohistoric Expansion Era (Representative Glacial Maximum)	reference/world-state-protohistoric-expansion-era.md	Reference	Protohistoric Expansion Era	A time-specific baseline snapshot of real-world Earth conditions during the [Protohistoric Expansion Era](../generate...

Divergences

Title	Path	Layer	Time Periods	Summary
Cassowary Wing-Claws — Claw Development Era	lore/divergences/cassowary-wing-claws-claw-development-era.md	Divergences	Claw Development Era	This divergence file tracks the root change in cassowary wing-claw function. During the Claw Development Era, rising...
Honeypot Ant Nest Splitting	lore/divergences/honeypot-ant-nest-splitting.md	Divergences	Ecological Management Era	This divergence file tracks the Cassowary World change that makes one domesticated honeypot ant lineage more scalable...

Lore Systems

Title	Path	Layer	Time Periods	Summary
Aphid Stabilization	lore/ecology/aphid-stabilization.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers how cassowaries keep aphid and sap-feeder-host relationships productive enough to sustain predi...
Cassowary Forelimb Manipulation Pathway	lore/biology/cassowary-forelimb-manipulation-pathway.md	Lore	Claw Development Era, Fire and Extended Development Era	This document explains the staged evolutionary and behavioural pathway from early chick wing-claw clasping to adult b...
Cassowary Naming and Kinship Terms	lore/language/cassowary-naming-and-kinship-terms.md	Lore	Fire and Extended Development Era, Ecological Management Era	In any project where a non-human species becomes the speaking people, a naming problem emerges. "Cassowary" describes...
Cassowary Neurodevelopment and Predator Management Transition	lore/biology/cassowary-neurodevelopment-and-predator-management-transition.md	Lore	Fire and Extended Development Era	This document answers how cassowary cognition shifts during the Fire and Extended Development Era from predator avoid...
Ceramic Vessels and Nest Chambers	lore/infrastructure/ceramic-vessels-and-nest-chambers.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	Material baseline for fired clay vessels as shaped, durable containers and chambers. Defines what ceramic cavities ca...
Cockatoo–Cassowary Signal Coevolution	lore/biology/cockatoo-cassowary-signal-coevolution.md	Lore	Fire and Extended Development Era, Ecological Management Era	This document explains how cassowary action-language emerges from coevolution with cockatoo vocal signalling rather t...
Companion Cockatoos in Cassowary Civilisation	lore/domestication/companion-cockatoos.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era, Early History Era, WTA Period, Contemporary Era	Companion cockatoos are one of the defining features of settled cassowary life across multiple eras. Through thousand...
Diprotodontid Domestication and Working Lineages	lore/domestication/diprotodontid-domestication-and-working-lineages.md	Lore	Fire and Extended Development Era, Ecological Management Era, Protohistoric Expansion Era, Early History Era	This document explains how diprotodontid management develops from long-term observation of wild megafauna into taming...
Diprotodontid Haulage and Road Economics	lore/transport/diprotodontid-haulage-and-road-economics.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era, Early History Era	This document explains why maintained roads become economically valuable once diprotodontid working lineages exist. E...
Dromornithid Prestige Handling	lore/domestication/dromornithid-prestige-handling.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document covers the rare practice of dromornithid egg capture, chick rearing, and handling among some Sahul cass...
Fire Incubation and Extended Juvenile Development	lore/biology/fire-incubation-and-extended-juvenile-development.md	Lore	Fire and Extended Development Era	This document establishes fire-assisted egg incubation as a core cassowary domestic technology and explains how it ma...
First Basin Civilisation	lore/frameworks/first-basin-civilisation.md	Lore	Kati Thunda Ant Revolution	The First Basin Civilisation is the first large-scale cassowary state society. It is the state-level expression of th...
First New Zealand Arrival	lore/transport/first-new-zealand-arrival.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era	This document establishes that cassowaries reached New Zealand before the regular Sahul-New Zealand maritime trade ro...
Food Preservation and Storage Systems	lore/infrastructure/food-preservation-and-storage-systems.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era, Early History Era	This document answers how cassowary societies convert perishable orchard and ant-derived food into durable stored sur...
Giant Goose Domestication and Ridability	lore/domestication/giant-goose-domestication-and-ridability.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document explains how some Australian giant goose lineages could move from egg capture and chick rearing into tr...
Honeypot Ant Harvesting	lore/honeypot-ants/honeypot-ant-harvesting.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers how cassowaries make honeypot ant reserves accessible and harvest them without collapsing the c...
Honeypot Ant Orchard System Management	lore/honeypot-ants/honeypot-ant-orchard-system-management.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers how cassowaries maintain the orchard, aphid, and honeypot ant relationships that make predictab...
Honeypot Ant Sugar Preservation	lore/honeypot-ants/honeypot-ant-sugar-preservation.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers how harvested honeypot ant reserves become preserved sugar paste or related concentrates. It fo...
Honeypot Ant Yield and Surplus Capacity	lore/honeypot-ants/honeypot-ant-yield-and-surplus-capacity.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers yield without false precision. Honeypot ant civilisation works through aggregation, not through...
Managed Ant Lineages	lore/honeypot-ants/managed-ant-lineages.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document defines ant lineages selected for different environments and management roles. Cassowary societies do n...
Moa Domestication and Ridability	lore/transport/moa-domestication-and-ridability.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era	This document explains how moa domestication develops in New Zealand and how ridability emerges from generations of m...
Moa Mounted Warfare	lore/transport/moa-mounted-warfare.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era	This document explains how moas function as imported mounts and transport animals in Cassowary World. It tracks impor...
Modern Kati Thunda — City Framework	lore/frameworks/kati-thunda-modern-city.md	Lore	Contemporary Era	Modern Kati Thunda is a major populated centre in contemporary cassowary civilisation, built above, beside, and conti...
Orchard Lineage Management	lore/agriculture/orchard-lineage-management.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers how cassowaries preserve and adapt productive orchard tree lineages over multiple generations s...
Orchard Sugar Tree Lineages	lore/agriculture/orchard-sugar-tree-lineages.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document defines tree roles used in honeydew and sugar production without overcommitting to exact species. Casso...
Pottery-Assisted Ant Nest Architecture	lore/infrastructure/pottery-assisted-ant-nest-architecture.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document makes the pots and nest system visually and technically concrete. Pottery does not create honeypot ant...
Regional Honeypot Ant Ecotypes	lore/honeypot-ants/regional-honeypot-ant-ecotypes.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document defines how honeypot ant systems vary across Sahul environments. Honeypot ant surplus is regional and e...
Sahul Food Forest Functional Crop Portfolio	lore/frameworks/sahul-food-forest-functional-crop-portfolio.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers how cassowary agriculture can scale across Sahul by preserving crop roles rather than forcing o...
Sahul-New Zealand Maritime Contact	lore/transport/sahul-new-zealand-maritime-contact.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era	This document covers the later regular contact and trade between Sahul societies and established New Zealand cassowar...
Sap-Feeder Lineages and Honeydew Flow	lore/ecology/sap-feeder-lineages-and-honeydew-flow.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document defines aphid and sap-feeder types as managed functional lineages in Cassowary World orchard systems. C...
Storage and Ceramic Technology	lore/infrastructure/storage-and-ceramic-technology.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era	This document answers how cassowary societies produce, standardize, seal, and reuse containers that make food preserv...
Transport Networks	lore/infrastructure/transport-networks.md	Lore	Ecological Management Era, Early History Era	This document answers how maintained routes and movement nodes let cassowary societies move goods, people, and inform...
Tribute Collection Counting and Enforcement	lore/tribute/tribute-collection-counting-and-enforcement.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era, Early History Era	This document answers how early tribute is collected, counted, audited, and enforced before writing or formal police...
Tribute Seal Integrity and Authority Marks	lore/tribute/tribute-seal-integrity-and-authority-marks.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era	This document answers how sealed tribute vessels carry trust and authority before writing. It focuses on tamper evide...
Tribute Sealed Vessel Units	lore/tribute/tribute-sealed-vessel-units.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era, Early History Era	This document answers how early cassowary tribute becomes measurable before weights, writing, or abstract accounting....
Tribute Storage Custody and Redistribution	lore/tribute/tribute-storage-custody-and-redistribution.md	Lore	Protohistoric Expansion Era, Early History Era	This document answers how stored tribute becomes political power. It focuses on where sealed surplus is held, who con...
WTA Arena Culture and Animal Spectacle	lore/frameworks/wta-arena-culture-and-animal-spectacle.md	Lore	Kati Thunda Ant Revolution, WTA Period, Contemporary Era	Permanent arena complexes are among the most significant civic institutions of the WTA era. They function simultaneou...

Stories

Title	Path	Layer	Time Periods	Summary
Narrative Tonal Guidance — Cassowary World	stories/narrative-tonal-guidance.md	Stories		These are the tonal principles that make Cassowary World stories work. They emerged from early story development and...
Tinamou God Time Mystery — Story Scaffold	stories/fantasy/tinamou-god-time-mystery.md	Stories	Kati Thunda Ant Revolution, WTA Period, Contemporary Era	An exploratory story concept set in Cassowary World. A cassowary tourist, casually birdwatching around the ruins and...
Tinamou Story — Tone and Writing Style Guide	stories/fantasy/tinamou-god-time-mystery-tone-guide.md	Stories	Kati Thunda Ant Revolution, WTA Period, Contemporary Era	A writing style guide for the Tinamou point-and-click story. Covers voice, scene construction, clickable object forma...