Sensory Record Prototype

Living background check

The page keeps the existing time-of-day system visible around and through the record surface.

Sensory records

Four ways into Vaelinya

Colour names the emotional weather; text and structure carry the meaning without colour.

Illustration slot Care-house above wounded ground

Suggested view: first light, steep paths, repaired walls and the damaged land below.

Story record 004

Published

Emotional weather: resolve

The Mountain Healers Who Would Not Help Their Own

Mera is injured by a care-house that records concern but refuses to change. Lina follows the promises, the land and the workers’ evidence.

Sight: White stone, broken terraces, inked injury records.
Sound: Wind at shutters; careful voices behind a closed door.
Touch: Cold rails, steep steps, a body bracing against pain.
After-feeling: Anger becoming steady public witness.

Follow: work · care · promises · institutional harm · repair

Illustration slot A word spoken before witnesses

Suggested view: hand lettering, open posture and listeners gathered close enough to answer.

Language record 001

Canonical

Emotional weather: trust

rith truth

A living word

Ena rith vakal means “I speak truth.” It is a public greeting, but also a promise that the speaker may be answered.

Voice: Clear opening vowel; the final sound held briefly.
Mouth-feel: Forward, deliberate and difficult to mutter.
Gesture: Open palm, level gaze, room left for reply.
After-feeling: Safety created by accountable speech.

Follow: naerith · vakal · Lina · greeting · witness

Illustration slot The Rim under moving weather

Suggested view: layered distance, inhabited edges and weather arriving across the border.

World record 001

Canonical

Emotional weather: wonder

The Rim

A place record should make the reader feel where they are before it explains borders, people, customs and story routes.

Light: Long horizons; weather changing the colour of distance.
Sound: Loose signs, low conversation and approaching rain.
Air: Cool, mineral and exposed at the settlement edge.
After-feeling: Curiosity held beside caution.

Follow: Rimaeri · Lina · local words · weather · borders

Illustration slot Words carried in the hand

Suggested view: worn paper, shared rhythm marks and several hands using the cards together.

Collection record 001

Published

Emotional weather: belonging

Chant cards

A small artefact can move language out of explanation and into breath, rhythm, memory and shared use.

Material: Warm paper, softened corners and visible handling.
Rhythm: Short repeated lines that settle when voices join.
Use: Held close, passed around, marked and remembered.
After-feeling: Private uncertainty becoming collective confidence.

Follow: language · song · story use · printable objects

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