# Narrative Constitution

The machine-readable version is `app/data/narrative_constitution.json`.

The central operational idea is **everything to nothing, all at once**, but that phrase is an authoring rule, not a revelation to print in the books.

The Being must remain capable of occupying any scale of witnessing without becoming a conventional character. Its voice remembers; it does not counsel, reassure, lecture or announce which worldview won.

Every individual book must have a complete arc:
**Opening → Deepening → Fracture → Return → Residue.**

A portal is allowed to make the reader hungry for more. It is not allowed to contain material required to repair an incomplete source book.

A guided route has a second-order arc:
**Orientation → Deepening → Convergence → After-image.**

The route should feel like a complete story assembled from already complete stories.
