@heroiclands/package-build 23.8.0 → 23.10.0

package/docs/reference/note-types.md

@@ -121,86 +121,86 @@ These fields are accepted by every note type. A field's value can still be irrel
 
 **Subtypes:** `guild`, `order`, `polity`, `faithtradition`, `arcanetradition`, `spirittradition`, `lineage`, `venture`, `criminal`, `governmental`, `fellowship`.
 
-| Field                     | Shape                                                                           | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `data.icon`               | an Address                                                                      | The document's profile art — an `icon` address, resolved into `img`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| `data.templatePriority`   | number                                                                          | Template priority; unset means the note is not a template.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| `data.events`             | list of event entries                                                           | What happened to or at this subject — each entry one dated, attributed event: a founding, a war, a fall, or an occasion that recurs.                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| `data.demonym`            | string                                                                          | What one member is called — a Vylarian.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| `data.epithet`            | string                                                                          | The by-name it is known by — a god's, an order's, a company's.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
-| `data.symbol`             | string                                                                          | Its emblem in words: a feather atop a golden scale, a chisel carving a star.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| `data.governance.model`   | string                                                                          | How the affiliation is governed, where it is.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| `data.governance.summary` | string                                                                          | A sentence on how the governance actually works.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| `data.governance.ranks`   | list of `{ level, title, description, lore? }`                                  | The ladder of standings the body confers: level 0 for those it excludes and level 1 for its members, both required, and higher rungs only where the body has them.                                                                                                                                                          |
-| `data.governance.offices` | a map of named offices                                                          | Named offices, each with a description and optional dated holders.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
-| `data.seat`               | an Address                                                                      | Where the affiliation's authority sits.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| `data.population`         | number                                                                          | How many people it counts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| `data.economy`            | list of Addresses                                                               | What its economic life runs on — currencies, banking bodies, goods.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `data.lore`               | list of Addresses                                                               | Lore concerning it — the peoples it draws on, the god a faith venerates, its law, its calendar.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `data.parents`            | list of Addresses                                                               | Affiliations it is subordinate to.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
-| `data.culture`            | an Address                                                                      | The people this affiliation belongs to, as a culture lore note.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `data.language`           | an Address                                                                      | The trade, temple or order tongue the affiliation keeps, as a language skill note. It reaches the affiliation's culture, and its words enter that culture's glossary. A glossary entry that states no `language` is in it.                                                                                                  |
-| `data.glossary`           | list of `{ name, name_sort?, common?, definition?, pronunciation?, language? }` | Its own glossary terms: euphemisms, idioms, terms of art and titles that are not ranks. An entry with a `definition` creates a term or replaces its senses; one without marks a term the note already has. Every entry resolves to a language. Empty when unstated. See [glossary terms](format-details.md#glossary-terms). |
-| `data.relations`          | a map keyed by Address                                                          | Standing with other affiliations — aligned, unaligned, rival, nemesis.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| Field                     | Shape                                                                           | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `data.icon`               | an Address                                                                      | The document's profile art — an `icon` address, resolved into `img`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.templatePriority`   | number                                                                          | Template priority; unset means the note is not a template.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.events`             | list of event entries                                                           | What happened to or at this subject — each entry one dated, attributed event: a founding, a war, a fall, or an occasion that recurs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.demonym`            | string                                                                          | What one member is called — a Vylarian.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| `data.epithet`            | string                                                                          | The by-name it is known by — a god's, an order's, a company's.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.symbol`             | string                                                                          | Its emblem in words: a feather atop a golden scale, a chisel carving a star.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| `data.governance.model`   | string                                                                          | How the affiliation is governed, where it is.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.governance.summary` | string                                                                          | A sentence on how the governance actually works.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.governance.ranks`   | list of `{ level, title, description, lore? }`                                  | The ladder of standings the body confers: level 0 for those it excludes and level 1 for its members, both required, and higher rungs only where the body has them.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.governance.offices` | a map of named offices                                                          | Named offices, each with a description and optional dated holders.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.seat`               | an Address                                                                      | Where the affiliation's authority sits.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| `data.population`         | number                                                                          | How many people it counts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.economy`            | list of Addresses                                                               | What its economic life runs on — currencies, banking bodies, goods.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.lore`               | list of Addresses                                                               | Lore concerning it — the peoples it draws on, the god a faith venerates, its law, its calendar.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.parents`            | list of Addresses                                                               | Affiliations it is subordinate to.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.culture`            | an Address                                                                      | The people this affiliation belongs to, as a culture lore note.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.language`           | an Address                                                                      | The trade, temple or order tongue the affiliation keeps, as a language skill note. A glossary entry that states no `language` is in it. The affiliation chooses its own common vocabulary and context meanings.                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.glossary`           | list of `{ name, name_sort?, common?, definition?, pronunciation?, language? }` | Its own glossary entries: common vocabulary, dictionary words with a contextual meaning, and phrases, compounds or terms of art. A named dictionary word supplies its senses and class unless `definition` supplies the sense. Common marks belong to this owner. Every entry resolves to a language. Empty when unstated. See [glossary terms](format-details.md#glossary-terms). |
+| `data.relations`          | a map keyed by Address                                                          | Standing with other affiliations — aligned, unaligned, rival, nemesis.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 
 **Inner keys** — a key a field's value does not declare is an error at its own line and column.
 
-| Key                                                  | Shape                                                                                 | Required | Meaning                                                                                                                        |
-| ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `data.events[].id`                                   | an address segment                                                                    | no       | The event's name within its note — lowercase letters and digits.                                                               |
-| `data.events[].kind`                                 | one `eventKind` value                                                                 | no       | What sort of thing happened.                                                                                                   |
-| `data.events[].depth`                                | one `depth` value                                                                     | no       | How far the event's history reaches.                                                                                           |
-| `data.events[].when`                                 | a date, or `"0.<day>"`                                                                | yes      | When it happened, or the anchor and first instance of an event that recurs.                                                    |
-| `data.events[].until`                                | a date                                                                                | no       | When a continuous event ended, or where a recurring series stopped.                                                            |
-| `data.events[].recurs`                               | `{ every }` or `{ on }`                                                               | no       | How further occurrences are found; absent for an event that happened once.                                                     |
-| `data.events[].recurs.every`                         | a whole number of years, 1 or more                                                    | no       | A period counted on the canonical axis from `when`.                                                                            |
-| `data.events[].recurs.on`                            | a list of dates, strictly increasing, each later than `when`                          | no       | Recorded occurrences beyond the first, in place of a period.                                                                   |
-| `data.events[].summary`                              | a string                                                                              | yes      | What happened, stated plainly.                                                                                                 |
-| `data.events[].standing`                             | one `standing` value                                                                  | no       | What the world's evidence supports.                                                                                            |
-| `data.events[].names`                                | `{ name, by, gloss? }[]`                                                              | no       | The event's names in the world, each with who uses it.                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].names[].name`                         | a string                                                                              | yes      | One name the event goes by in the world.                                                                                       |
-| `data.events[].names[].by`                           | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place`, `being` or `skill` note          | yes      | Who uses that name — a people, a polity, a faith, a place, a tongue.                                                           |
-| `data.events[].names[].gloss`                        | a string                                                                              | no       | What the name means, or how it is used.                                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].where`                                | `{ locus?, reach? }`                                                                  | no       | Where it happened, and where it was felt.                                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].where.locus`                          | a list of Addresses, each defaulting to `place`                                       | no       | Where the event physically happened; each resolves to a place.                                                                 |
-| `data.events[].where.reach`                          | `{ place, how, knowledge, attributedTo? }[]`                                          | no       | Where the event was felt, and whether each place knows why.                                                                    |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].place`                  | an Address, defaulting to `place`                                                     | yes      | A place where the event was felt.                                                                                              |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].how`                    | a string                                                                              | yes      | One clause: a consequence someone in that place could notice.                                                                  |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].knowledge`              | one `knowledge` value                                                                 | yes      | Whether that place connects what it felt to this event.                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].attributedTo`           | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, naming an event or a `lore` note                    | no       | Only beside `knowledge: misattributed` — the cause that place names instead.                                                   |
-| `data.events[].who`                                  | `{ ref, role }[]`                                                                     | no       | Who took part, and as what.                                                                                                    |
-| `data.events[].who[].ref`                            | an Address naming a `being`, `affiliation` or `lore` note                             | yes      | A participant — a being, a people, an affiliation.                                                                             |
-| `data.events[].who[].role`                           | one `role` value                                                                      | yes      | What the participant was to the event.                                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].follows`                              | `{ event, how, note? }[]`                                                             | no       | The earlier events this one follows from.                                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].follows[].event`                      | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, anchored to an `event` where its note holds several | yes      | The earlier event; it resolves to exactly one event.                                                                           |
-| `data.events[].follows[].how`                        | one `followsHow` value                                                                | yes      | How this event follows from it.                                                                                                |
-| `data.events[].follows[].note`                       | a string                                                                              | no       | One clause saying what connects the two.                                                                                       |
-| `data.events[].accounts`                             | `{ by, says, agrees, withholds? }[]`                                                  | no       | What each people, polity, faith or place says about it.                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].by`                        | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place` or `being` note                   | yes      | Who holds the account.                                                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].says`                      | a string                                                                              | yes      | What they say happened, in their terms.                                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].agrees`                    | one `agrees` value                                                                    | yes      | How far their account agrees with `summary`.                                                                                   |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].withholds`                 | a string                                                                              | no       | What they decline to say.                                                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].unresolved`                           | a list of strings                                                                     | no       | What the world itself has not settled.                                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].sources`                              | a list of Addresses                                                                   | no       | The notes that state or support the event; each resolves.                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].stated`                               | `{ calendar, text }`                                                                  | no       | The date as one tradition writes it in its own reckoning.                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].stated.calendar`                      | an Address, or a lore shortcode                                                       | yes      | The calendar that tradition reckons in — a `lore` note with `subType: calendar`.                                               |
-| `data.events[].stated.text`                          | a string                                                                              | yes      | The date as that tradition writes it.                                                                                          |
-| `data.governance.ranks[].level`                      | a whole number — the rung's position on this body's own ladder                        | yes      | The rung's position on the ladder — `0` the excluded, `1` the ordinary member; a member's `rank` names it.                     |
-| `data.governance.ranks[].title`                      | what the standing is called                                                           | yes      | What the standing is called.                                                                                                   |
-| `data.governance.ranks[].description`                | what the standing is                                                                  | yes      | What the standing is.                                                                                                          |
-| `data.governance.ranks[].lore`                       | a lore Address                                                                        | no       | Lore saying more about the standing than a description holds.                                                                  |
-| `data.governance.offices.<name>.description`         | a string                                                                              | yes      | What the office is.                                                                                                            |
-| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders`             | a list of `{ being, start?, end?, contested? }`                                       | yes      | Who has held it, each with the dates of the term.                                                                              |
-| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].being`     | a being Address                                                                       | yes      | Who held the office.                                                                                                           |
-| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].start`     | a date                                                                                | no       | When the term began; unstated, it began before anything recorded.                                                              |
-| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].end`       | a date                                                                                | no       | When the term ended; unstated, the being holds the office now.                                                                 |
-| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].contested` | `true` or `false`                                                                     | no       | The term may overlap another holder's.                                                                                         |
-| `data.glossary[].name`                               | a string                                                                              | yes      | The headword.                                                                                                                  |
-| `data.glossary[].name_sort`                          | a string                                                                              | no       | Its sort key; the name when unstated.                                                                                          |
-| `data.glossary[].common`                             | `true` or `false`                                                                     | no       | A word a player is expected to know by heart; `false` when unstated.                                                           |
-| `data.glossary[].definition`                         | a string                                                                              | no       | The sense text. Stated, it creates the entry or replaces every sense the entry's other sources give it.                        |
-| `data.glossary[].pronunciation`                      | a respelling such as `sol-MEH-reh`                                                    | no       | A respelling, held to the same rule as a word's.                                                                               |
-| `data.glossary[].language`                           | a language skill Address                                                              | no       | The language the term is in. Unstated, it is the affiliation's language, its parents', or its culture's, or the culture's own. |
+| Key                                                  | Shape                                                                                 | Required | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `data.events[].id`                                   | an address segment                                                                    | no       | The event's name within its note — lowercase letters and digits.                                                                                                                            |
+| `data.events[].kind`                                 | one `eventKind` value                                                                 | no       | What sort of thing happened.                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].depth`                                | one `depth` value                                                                     | no       | How far the event's history reaches.                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.events[].when`                                 | a date, or `"0.<day>"`                                                                | yes      | When it happened, or the anchor and first instance of an event that recurs.                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.events[].until`                                | a date                                                                                | no       | When a continuous event ended, or where a recurring series stopped.                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.events[].recurs`                               | `{ every }` or `{ on }`                                                               | no       | How further occurrences are found; absent for an event that happened once.                                                                                                                  |
+| `data.events[].recurs.every`                         | a whole number of years, 1 or more                                                    | no       | A period counted on the canonical axis from `when`.                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.events[].recurs.on`                            | a list of dates, strictly increasing, each later than `when`                          | no       | Recorded occurrences beyond the first, in place of a period.                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].summary`                              | a string                                                                              | yes      | What happened, stated plainly.                                                                                                                                                              |
+| `data.events[].standing`                             | one `standing` value                                                                  | no       | What the world's evidence supports.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.events[].names`                                | `{ name, by, gloss? }[]`                                                              | no       | The event's names in the world, each with who uses it.                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].names[].name`                         | a string                                                                              | yes      | One name the event goes by in the world.                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.events[].names[].by`                           | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place`, `being` or `skill` note          | yes      | Who uses that name — a people, a polity, a faith, a place, a tongue.                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.events[].names[].gloss`                        | a string                                                                              | no       | What the name means, or how it is used.                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].where`                                | `{ locus?, reach? }`                                                                  | no       | Where it happened, and where it was felt.                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].where.locus`                          | a list of Addresses, each defaulting to `place`                                       | no       | Where the event physically happened; each resolves to a place.                                                                                                                              |
+| `data.events[].where.reach`                          | `{ place, how, knowledge, attributedTo? }[]`                                          | no       | Where the event was felt, and whether each place knows why.                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].place`                  | an Address, defaulting to `place`                                                     | yes      | A place where the event was felt.                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].how`                    | a string                                                                              | yes      | One clause: a consequence someone in that place could notice.                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].knowledge`              | one `knowledge` value                                                                 | yes      | Whether that place connects what it felt to this event.                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].attributedTo`           | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, naming an event or a `lore` note                    | no       | Only beside `knowledge: misattributed` — the cause that place names instead.                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].who`                                  | `{ ref, role }[]`                                                                     | no       | Who took part, and as what.                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.events[].who[].ref`                            | an Address naming a `being`, `affiliation` or `lore` note                             | yes      | A participant — a being, a people, an affiliation.                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.events[].who[].role`                           | one `role` value                                                                      | yes      | What the participant was to the event.                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].follows`                              | `{ event, how, note? }[]`                                                             | no       | The earlier events this one follows from.                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].follows[].event`                      | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, anchored to an `event` where its note holds several | yes      | The earlier event; it resolves to exactly one event.                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.events[].follows[].how`                        | one `followsHow` value                                                                | yes      | How this event follows from it.                                                                                                                                                             |
+| `data.events[].follows[].note`                       | a string                                                                              | no       | One clause saying what connects the two.                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.events[].accounts`                             | `{ by, says, agrees, withholds? }[]`                                                  | no       | What each people, polity, faith or place says about it.                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].by`                        | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place` or `being` note                   | yes      | Who holds the account.                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].says`                      | a string                                                                              | yes      | What they say happened, in their terms.                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].agrees`                    | one `agrees` value                                                                    | yes      | How far their account agrees with `summary`.                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].withholds`                 | a string                                                                              | no       | What they decline to say.                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].unresolved`                           | a list of strings                                                                     | no       | What the world itself has not settled.                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].sources`                              | a list of Addresses                                                                   | no       | The notes that state or support the event; each resolves.                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].stated`                               | `{ calendar, text }`                                                                  | no       | The date as one tradition writes it in its own reckoning.                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].stated.calendar`                      | an Address, or a lore shortcode                                                       | yes      | The calendar that tradition reckons in — a `lore` note with `subType: calendar`.                                                                                                            |
+| `data.events[].stated.text`                          | a string                                                                              | yes      | The date as that tradition writes it.                                                                                                                                                       |
+| `data.governance.ranks[].level`                      | a whole number — the rung's position on this body's own ladder                        | yes      | The rung's position on the ladder — `0` the excluded, `1` the ordinary member; a member's `rank` names it.                                                                                  |
+| `data.governance.ranks[].title`                      | what the standing is called                                                           | yes      | What the standing is called.                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.governance.ranks[].description`                | what the standing is                                                                  | yes      | What the standing is.                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| `data.governance.ranks[].lore`                       | a lore Address                                                                        | no       | Lore saying more about the standing than a description holds.                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.governance.offices.<name>.description`         | a string                                                                              | yes      | What the office is.                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders`             | a list of `{ being, start?, end?, contested? }`                                       | yes      | Who has held it, each with the dates of the term.                                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].being`     | a being Address                                                                       | yes      | Who held the office.                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].start`     | a date                                                                                | no       | When the term began; unstated, it began before anything recorded.                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].end`       | a date                                                                                | no       | When the term ended; unstated, the being holds the office now.                                                                                                                              |
+| `data.governance.offices.<name>.holders[].contested` | `true` or `false`                                                                     | no       | The term may overlap another holder's.                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.glossary[].name`                               | a string                                                                              | yes      | The headword.                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.glossary[].name_sort`                          | a string                                                                              | no       | Its sort key; the dictionary word's sort key, or the name, when unstated.                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.glossary[].common`                             | `true` or `false`                                                                     | no       | Core vocabulary for this glossary's owner; `false` when unstated.                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.glossary[].definition`                         | a string                                                                              | no       | The sense text, overriding the word's or governance sources' senses. Unstated, a named dictionary word supplies all its senses and class; a named rank or office supplies its descriptions. |
+| `data.glossary[].pronunciation`                      | a respelling such as `sol-MEH-reh`                                                    | no       | A respelling, held to the same rule as a word's; the dictionary word's when unstated.                                                                                                       |
+| `data.glossary[].language`                           | a language skill Address                                                              | no       | The language the term is in. Unstated, it is the affiliation's language, its parents', or its culture's, or the culture's own.                                                              |
 
 **System mappings**
 
@@ -465,15 +465,16 @@ These fields are accepted by every note type. A field's value can still be irrel
 | `data.abbreviation`     | a string, such as `Prov.`                                                                                                                    | The tag a dictionary prints for the language, beside an entry's class and in an etymology, as `Prov.`; the language's full name where unstated. A language skill note only. See [a language's words](format-details.md#a-languages-words).                                                                                                                                                            |
 | `data.classModifiers`   | list of word class modifiers                                                                                                                 | The class modifiers the language uses, from the master word classes. A word's class may carry only these. Empty when unstated. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
 | `data.fields`           | list of `{ name, holds }`                                                                                                                    | The fields the language's words are grouped under. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| `data.words`            | list of `{ form, class, field, gloss, … }`                                                                                                   | The language's words, one map each, in the order they print. A language skill note only. See [a language's words](format-details.md#a-languages-words).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.words`            | list of `{ form, class, field, gloss, … }`                                                                                                   | The words this language states, one map each, in authored order; its automatic dictionary sorts them alphabetically. A language skill note only. See [a language's words](format-details.md#a-languages-words).                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | `data.affixes`          | list of `{ form, gloss, attaches?, examples? }`                                                                                              | The affixes a word's `built` pieces may name, each with its gloss. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.grammar`          | a map — `{ plural?, verbs? }`                                                                                                                | Optional noun plurals and one verb pattern for dictionary presentation. Only the shape of supplied keys is checked; no word must follow or state a rule. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | `data.tongues`          | list of `{ tag, meaning, language? }`                                                                                                        | The tags a register row's `tongue` may name, each with what it means. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
 | `data.register`         | list of `{ name, tongue?, kind?, built?, gloss?, why? }`                                                                                     | Every name the setting gives in the language's reach, with its tongue and pieces; the notes carrying each name are derived. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
 | `data.retired`          | list of `{ form, instead?, why }`                                                                                                            | The forms the setting does not write, and why. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
 | `data.scope`            | a map — `{ folders?, cultures?, lore?, parents?, addresses?, paths?, types?, skip? }`                                                        | The notes the register covers. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
 | `data.sounds`           | a map — `{ letters?, edges?, clusters?, stress?, finals?, syllables?, joining?, joins?, marks?, skeleton?, frames?, readPast?, mutations? }` | The letters the language writes and the rules its words keep. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | `data.soundChanges`     | list of `{ name, from?, to?, takes?, steps }`                                                                                                | Named sets of ordered changes, each making one tongue's words from another's. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `data.elements`         | list of `{ form, variants?, position?, kind?, sense, examples?, word?, genitive? }`                                                          | The elements the language's names are built from. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.elements`         | list of `{ form, variants?, position?, kind?, sense, examples?, word?, joining? }`                                                           | The elements the language's names are built from. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | `data.roots`            | list of `{ root, sense, field? }`                                                                                                            | The consonantal roots the language's words are set from. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | `data.cognates`         | list of `{ forms, proto?, gloss }`                                                                                                           | Sets of forms one older word takes in several languages, stated on the eldest. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
 | `data.callingNames`     | a map — `{ closings, minSyllables }`                                                                                                         | The short name a long given name is called by. A language skill note only.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
@@ -493,7 +494,8 @@ These fields are accepted by every note type. A field's value can still be irrel
 | `data.words[].variants`                   | a list of forms                                                                                           | no       | The word's other forms, such as a long form beside a short one; a marked use of one cites the word.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
 | `data.words[].name_sort`                  | a string                                                                                                  | no       | The sort key; the form when unstated.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
 | `data.words[].class`                      | a word class, base first, such as `n I f`                                                                 | yes      | A class from the master word classes: a base, then the modifiers the language declares in `classModifiers`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
-| `data.words[].field`                      | one of the language's `fields` names                                                                      | yes      | The field the word is grouped under, named in the language's `fields`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.words[].plural`                     | a string                                                                                                  | no       | The noun's explicit plural, where it differs from the language's optional plural rule. A dictionary uses this form before the rule; no rule agreement is checked.                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.words[].field`                      | one of the language's `fields` names                                                                      | yes      | The field tag beside the dictionary entry, named in the language's `fields`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | `data.words[].gloss`                      | a string, or a list of senses                                                                             | yes      | The meaning, in brief; a list states one sense per entry, which a dictionary numbers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
 | `data.words[].source`                     | a map — `{ kind, language?, form? }`                                                                      | no       | Where the word comes from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
 | `data.words[].source.kind`                | one of inherited, borrowed, kept, worn, coined, substrate, island                                         | yes      | How the word came into the tongue.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
@@ -518,6 +520,18 @@ These fields are accepted by every note type. A field's value can still be irrel
 | `data.affixes[].examples`                 | a list of strings                                                                                         | no       | The names the affix is read from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | `data.affixes[].barredAfter`              | a list of sounds                                                                                          | no       | The sounds a stem may not close on to take the affix.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
 | `data.affixes[].tones`                    | a tone pattern, such as `L`                                                                               | no       | The tone pattern the affix carries, written as a word's `tones` is.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.grammar.plural`                     | list of `{ ending, becomes }`                                                                             | no       | Default noun plurals, replacing the first matching literal ending in authored order. A word's explicit plural wins; no word is checked against this rule.                                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.grammar.plural[].ending`            | a literal ending string, which may be empty                                                               | yes      | The bare suffix replaced by this rule; empty matches every noun.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.grammar.plural[].becomes`           | a literal ending string, which may be empty                                                               | yes      | The bare replacement; empty removes the matching suffix.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.grammar.verbs`                      | a map — `{ invariant: true }` or `{ persons: { I, you, heShe, we, youAll, they } }`                       | no       | One optional regular present pattern, printed once at the dictionary head.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.invariant`            | true, as the alternative to persons                                                                       | no       | True where verbs keep the citation form for every person; excludes `persons`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.persons`              | a map — `{ I, you, heShe, we, youAll, they }` of ending strings                                           | no       | All six present endings, each added to the citation form; excludes `invariant`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.persons.I`            | an ending string, empty for unchanged                                                                     | yes      | The ending added to the citation form for I.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.persons.you`          | an ending string, empty for unchanged                                                                     | yes      | The ending added to the citation form for you.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.persons.heShe`        | an ending string, empty for unchanged                                                                     | yes      | The ending added to the citation form for he/she.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.persons.we`           | an ending string, empty for unchanged                                                                     | yes      | The ending added to the citation form for we.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.persons.youAll`       | an ending string, empty for unchanged                                                                     | yes      | The ending added to the citation form for you all.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| `data.grammar.verbs.persons.they`         | an ending string, empty for unchanged                                                                     | yes      | The ending added to the citation form for they.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
 | `data.tongues[].tag`                      | a tag such as `dunhari`, or `exonym:<tongue>`                                                             | yes      | The tag a register row's `tongue` names: lowercase letters and digits, or a tag closing on `:<tongue>`, which declares one tag per tongue named after the colon.                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | `data.tongues[].meaning`                  | a string                                                                                                  | yes      | What a name of this tongue is.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 | `data.tongues[].language`                 | a language skill Address                                                                                  | no       | The language note the tag names, where it is one.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
@@ -621,7 +635,7 @@ These fields are accepted by every note type. A field's value can still be irrel
 | `data.elements[].sense`                   | a string                                                                                                  | yes      | What the element means.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | `data.elements[].examples`                | a list of names                                                                                           | no       | The names the element is read from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
 | `data.elements[].word`                    | a form of the language's words                                                                            | no       | The word the element is the stem of, a form of `data.words` of the language or an ancestor.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
-| `data.elements[].genitive`                | the element as written, such as `-borgar`                                                                 | no       | The element in the genitive, where a name governing another word takes it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.elements[].joining`                 | the element as written, such as `-borgar`                                                                 | no       | The element's joining form, as written when it qualifies another word.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | `data.roots[].root`                       | a consonantal skeleton, such as `d-l-k`                                                                   | yes      | The root.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
 | `data.roots[].sense`                      | a string                                                                                                  | yes      | What the root means.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
 | `data.roots[].field`                      | a string, such as `stone`                                                                                 | no       | The field the root belongs to.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
@@ -654,11 +668,11 @@ These fields are accepted by every note type. A field's value can still be irrel
 | `data.naming.draws`                       | list of `{ kind, elements }`                                                                              | no       | The element kinds each kind of name is built from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | `data.naming.draws[].kind`                | one of byname, given, place                                                                               | yes      | The kind of name; once per kind.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | `data.naming.draws[].elements`            | a list of element kinds                                                                                   | yes      | The kinds of element, as `data.elements` states them, the name is built from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| `data.naming.heldFrom`                    | list of `{ source, takes, clip?, genitive?, elements? }`                                                  | no       | What a place name takes first, by what the place is held from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.naming.heldFrom`                    | list of `{ source, takes, clip?, joining?, elements? }`                                                   | no       | What a place name takes first, by what the place is held from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 | `data.naming.heldFrom[].source`           | a string, such as `a founder`                                                                             | yes      | What the place is held from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | `data.naming.heldFrom[].takes`            | one of stem, godName, givenName, element                                                                  | yes      | What stands first: a name-stem in any grade, a god's name, a founder's given name, or one of `elements`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `data.naming.heldFrom[].clip`             | one of first                                                                                              | no       | How the name is clipped: `first`, to its first element; whole where absent.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
-| `data.naming.heldFrom[].genitive`         | a list of endings                                                                                         | no       | The genitive endings, one of which stands at the seam after the name.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.naming.heldFrom[].joining`          | a list of endings                                                                                         | no       | The joining endings, one of which stands at the seam after the name.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
 | `data.naming.heldFrom[].elements`         | a list of elements                                                                                        | no       | The elements that may stand first, for a row that takes an `element`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
 | `data.naming.nearName`                    | a map — `{ minSyllables, examples? }`                                                                     | no       | The near name a long given name carries.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `data.naming.nearName.minSyllables`       | a whole number                                                                                            | yes      | The fewest syllables a given name has that carries a near name.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
@@ -732,100 +746,100 @@ These fields are accepted by every note type. A field's value can still be irrel
 
 Lore records in-world knowledge. A `culture` describes a people; a `custom` describes how they practice a rite, observance, or usage. A `material` describes a physical constituent and its qualities, which may vary by region. See the [lore subtype definitions](format-details.md#type-lore) for the complete vocabulary.
 
-| Field                    | Shape                                                                               | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `data.epoch`             | a canonical `<year>.<day>`                                                          | Canonical day when calendar year 1, day 1 begins — `1.1`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
-| `data.months`            | list of `{ name, abbreviation?, days }`                                             | The months this calendar keeps, in order — position in the list is position in the year, and the day counts sum to the world's year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `data.weekdays`          | list of `{ name, abbreviation? }`                                                   | The days of the week this calendar names, in order. A calendar with no week writes none.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| `data.seasons`           | list of `{ name, abbreviation?, start }`                                            | The seasons this calendar marks, starting on numbered days of the year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| `data.namedDays`         | list of `{ name, abbreviation?, day }`                                              | Names assigned to particular days of the year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| `data.eras`              | list of `{ shortcode, name, marker?, abbreviation?, proclaimedBy?, start, label? }` | The year-counts kept in this calendar. A marker names one era and uses these months.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `data.formats`           | map of named Calendaria format strings                                              | Named patterns for reading and writing this calendar's dates.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| `data.parents`           | list of Addresses                                                                   | Culture only: parent culture lore notes, searched in listed depth-first order for omitted language and appearance profile fields.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| `data.culture`           | an Address                                                                          | The people this lore belongs to — for a work of literature, the people whose work it is — as a culture lore note. A culture note is its own culture, and states the field only as itself.                                                                                                                                                                                    |
-| `data.form`              | string                                                                              | The kind of work in its people's own terms — an epic, a saga, a praise-song, an elegy. Free text.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| `data.subjects`          | list of Addresses                                                                   | The beings, places, gods and other notes the work concerns, and each event it concerns, named as `place-ironfells#sack`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| `data.language`          | an Address                                                                          | The tongue the note is in, as a language skill note: the tongue a work is composed in, a culture's people speak, or an affiliation keeps as its trade, temple or order tongue. `package-build npc new` draws a culture's names from its language's `data.names`. A `literature` or `culture` lore note, or an affiliation, only.                                             |
-| `data.events`            | list of event entries                                                               | What happened to or at this subject — each entry one dated, attributed event: a founding, a war, a fall, or an occasion that recurs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `data.appearanceProfile` | an appearance profile                                                               | What this culture's people look like, for `package-build npc new`: `frame`, `eye_color`, `hair_color`, `skin_color` and `complexion` each map words of that field's vocabulary to positive weights, and `height` maps a gender to a `{min, max}` range, `female` and `male` required. A culture note only. See [appearance profiles](format-details.md#appearance-profiles). |
-| `data.glossary`          | list of `{ name, name_sort?, common?, definition?, pronunciation?, language? }`     | `culture` only: Its own glossary terms: euphemisms, idioms, terms of art and titles that are not ranks. An entry with a `definition` creates a term or replaces its senses; one without marks a term the note already has. Every entry resolves to a language. Empty when unstated. See [glossary terms](format-details.md#glossary-terms).                                  |
+| Field                    | Shape                                                                               | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `data.epoch`             | a canonical `<year>.<day>`                                                          | Canonical day when calendar year 1, day 1 begins — `1.1`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.months`            | list of `{ name, abbreviation?, days }`                                             | The months this calendar keeps, in order — position in the list is position in the year, and the day counts sum to the world's year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.weekdays`          | list of `{ name, abbreviation? }`                                                   | The days of the week this calendar names, in order. A calendar with no week writes none.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.seasons`           | list of `{ name, abbreviation?, start }`                                            | The seasons this calendar marks, starting on numbered days of the year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| `data.namedDays`         | list of `{ name, abbreviation?, day }`                                              | Names assigned to particular days of the year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.eras`              | list of `{ shortcode, name, marker?, abbreviation?, proclaimedBy?, start, label? }` | The year-counts kept in this calendar. A marker names one era and uses these months.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.formats`           | map of named Calendaria format strings                                              | Named patterns for reading and writing this calendar's dates.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.parents`           | list of Addresses                                                                   | Culture only: parent culture lore notes, searched in listed depth-first order for omitted language and appearance profile fields.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| `data.culture`           | an Address                                                                          | The people this lore belongs to — for a work of literature, the people whose work it is — as a culture lore note. A culture note is its own culture, and states the field only as itself.                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.form`              | string                                                                              | The kind of work in its people's own terms — an epic, a saga, a praise-song, an elegy. Free text.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| `data.subjects`          | list of Addresses                                                                   | The beings, places, gods and other notes the work concerns, and each event it concerns, named as `place-ironfells#sack`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.language`          | an Address                                                                          | The tongue the note is in, as a language skill note: the tongue a work is composed in, a culture's people speak, or an affiliation keeps as its trade, temple or order tongue. `package-build npc new` draws a culture's names from its language's `data.names`. A `literature` or `culture` lore note, or an affiliation, only.                                                                   |
+| `data.events`            | list of event entries                                                               | What happened to or at this subject — each entry one dated, attributed event: a founding, a war, a fall, or an occasion that recurs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.appearanceProfile` | an appearance profile                                                               | What this culture's people look like, for `package-build npc new`: `frame`, `eye_color`, `hair_color`, `skin_color` and `complexion` each map words of that field's vocabulary to positive weights, and `height` maps a gender to a `{min, max}` range, `female` and `male` required. A culture note only. See [appearance profiles](format-details.md#appearance-profiles).                       |
+| `data.glossary`          | list of `{ name, name_sort?, common?, definition?, pronunciation?, language? }`     | `culture` only: Its own glossary entries: common vocabulary, dictionary words with a contextual meaning, and phrases, compounds or terms of art. A named dictionary word supplies its senses and class unless `definition` supplies the sense. Common marks belong to this owner. Every entry resolves to a language. Empty when unstated. See [glossary terms](format-details.md#glossary-terms). |
 
 **Inner keys** — a key a field's value does not declare is an error at its own line and column.
 
-| Key                                        | Shape                                                                                                            | Required | Meaning                                                                                                                        |
-| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `data.months[].name`                       | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                             |
-| `data.months[].abbreviation`               | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                            |
-| `data.months[].days`                       | a whole number of days                                                                                           | yes      | How many days the month holds.                                                                                                 |
-| `data.weekdays[].name`                     | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                             |
-| `data.weekdays[].abbreviation`             | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                            |
-| `data.seasons[].name`                      | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                             |
-| `data.seasons[].abbreviation`              | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                            |
-| `data.seasons[].start`                     | a one-based day of the year, as a whole number                                                                   | yes      | The day of the year the season begins.                                                                                         |
-| `data.namedDays[].name`                    | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                             |
-| `data.namedDays[].abbreviation`            | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                            |
-| `data.namedDays[].day`                     | a one-based day of the year, as a whole number                                                                   | yes      | The day of the year it names.                                                                                                  |
-| `data.eras[].shortcode`                    | the era's own shortcode, unique within the calendar — an era is addressed `<calendar shortcode>.<era shortcode>` | yes      | The era's own segment of `<calendar>.<era>`.                                                                                   |
-| `data.eras[].name`                         | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                             |
-| `data.eras[].marker`                       | uppercase letters and digits, beginning with a letter                                                            | no       | The marker an authored date names the era by, unique across the corpus.                                                        |
-| `data.eras[].abbreviation`                 | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                            |
-| `data.eras[].proclaimedBy`                 | an Address                                                                                                       | no       | The body that began the reckoning.                                                                                             |
-| `data.eras[].start`                        | `null`, or the calendar year the era begins, as a whole number                                                   | yes      | The calendar year the era begins; `null` for the era before year 1.                                                            |
-| `data.eras[].label`                        | a string, or an `{ after, before }` map                                                                          | no       | How a date in the era reads, around one `{date}` slot.                                                                         |
-| `data.eras[].label.after`                  | a string with one `{date}` slot                                                                                  | no       | How a date in the era reads.                                                                                                   |
-| `data.eras[].label.before`                 | a string with one `{date}` slot                                                                                  | no       | How a date before the era's start reads.                                                                                       |
-| `data.events[].id`                         | an address segment                                                                                               | no       | The event's name within its note — lowercase letters and digits.                                                               |
-| `data.events[].kind`                       | one `eventKind` value                                                                                            | no       | What sort of thing happened.                                                                                                   |
-| `data.events[].depth`                      | one `depth` value                                                                                                | no       | How far the event's history reaches.                                                                                           |
-| `data.events[].when`                       | a date, or `"0.<day>"`                                                                                           | yes      | When it happened, or the anchor and first instance of an event that recurs.                                                    |
-| `data.events[].until`                      | a date                                                                                                           | no       | When a continuous event ended, or where a recurring series stopped.                                                            |
-| `data.events[].recurs`                     | `{ every }` or `{ on }`                                                                                          | no       | How further occurrences are found; absent for an event that happened once.                                                     |
-| `data.events[].recurs.every`               | a whole number of years, 1 or more                                                                               | no       | A period counted on the canonical axis from `when`.                                                                            |
-| `data.events[].recurs.on`                  | a list of dates, strictly increasing, each later than `when`                                                     | no       | Recorded occurrences beyond the first, in place of a period.                                                                   |
-| `data.events[].summary`                    | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What happened, stated plainly.                                                                                                 |
-| `data.events[].standing`                   | one `standing` value                                                                                             | no       | What the world's evidence supports.                                                                                            |
-| `data.events[].names`                      | `{ name, by, gloss? }[]`                                                                                         | no       | The event's names in the world, each with who uses it.                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].names[].name`               | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | One name the event goes by in the world.                                                                                       |
-| `data.events[].names[].by`                 | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place`, `being` or `skill` note                                     | yes      | Who uses that name — a people, a polity, a faith, a place, a tongue.                                                           |
-| `data.events[].names[].gloss`              | a string                                                                                                         | no       | What the name means, or how it is used.                                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].where`                      | `{ locus?, reach? }`                                                                                             | no       | Where it happened, and where it was felt.                                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].where.locus`                | a list of Addresses, each defaulting to `place`                                                                  | no       | Where the event physically happened; each resolves to a place.                                                                 |
-| `data.events[].where.reach`                | `{ place, how, knowledge, attributedTo? }[]`                                                                     | no       | Where the event was felt, and whether each place knows why.                                                                    |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].place`        | an Address, defaulting to `place`                                                                                | yes      | A place where the event was felt.                                                                                              |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].how`          | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | One clause: a consequence someone in that place could notice.                                                                  |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].knowledge`    | one `knowledge` value                                                                                            | yes      | Whether that place connects what it felt to this event.                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].where.reach[].attributedTo` | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, naming an event or a `lore` note                                               | no       | Only beside `knowledge: misattributed` — the cause that place names instead.                                                   |
-| `data.events[].who`                        | `{ ref, role }[]`                                                                                                | no       | Who took part, and as what.                                                                                                    |
-| `data.events[].who[].ref`                  | an Address naming a `being`, `affiliation` or `lore` note                                                        | yes      | A participant — a being, a people, an affiliation.                                                                             |
-| `data.events[].who[].role`                 | one `role` value                                                                                                 | yes      | What the participant was to the event.                                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].follows`                    | `{ event, how, note? }[]`                                                                                        | no       | The earlier events this one follows from.                                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].follows[].event`            | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, anchored to an `event` where its note holds several                            | yes      | The earlier event; it resolves to exactly one event.                                                                           |
-| `data.events[].follows[].how`              | one `followsHow` value                                                                                           | yes      | How this event follows from it.                                                                                                |
-| `data.events[].follows[].note`             | a string                                                                                                         | no       | One clause saying what connects the two.                                                                                       |
-| `data.events[].accounts`                   | `{ by, says, agrees, withholds? }[]`                                                                             | no       | What each people, polity, faith or place says about it.                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].by`              | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place` or `being` note                                              | yes      | Who holds the account.                                                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].says`            | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What they say happened, in their terms.                                                                                        |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].agrees`          | one `agrees` value                                                                                               | yes      | How far their account agrees with `summary`.                                                                                   |
-| `data.events[].accounts[].withholds`       | a string                                                                                                         | no       | What they decline to say.                                                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].unresolved`                 | a list of strings                                                                                                | no       | What the world itself has not settled.                                                                                         |
-| `data.events[].sources`                    | a list of Addresses                                                                                              | no       | The notes that state or support the event; each resolves.                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].stated`                     | `{ calendar, text }`                                                                                             | no       | The date as one tradition writes it in its own reckoning.                                                                      |
-| `data.events[].stated.calendar`            | an Address, or a lore shortcode                                                                                  | yes      | The calendar that tradition reckons in — a `lore` note with `subType: calendar`.                                               |
-| `data.events[].stated.text`                | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | The date as that tradition writes it.                                                                                          |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.frame`             | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `frame` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                        |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.eye_color`         | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `eye_color` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                    |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.hair_color`        | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `hair_color` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                   |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.skin_color`        | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `skin_color` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                   |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.complexion`        | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `complexion` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                   |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.height`            | a map of genders to height ranges                                                                                | yes      | Height ranges keyed by gender; a gender with no range draws from the span of every range stated.                               |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.height.<name>.min` | a height in metres or feet and inches                                                                            | yes      | The shortest height drawn.                                                                                                     |
-| `data.appearanceProfile.height.<name>.max` | a height in metres or feet and inches                                                                            | yes      | The tallest height drawn.                                                                                                      |
-| `data.glossary[].name`                     | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | The headword.                                                                                                                  |
-| `data.glossary[].name_sort`                | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its sort key; the name when unstated.                                                                                          |
-| `data.glossary[].common`                   | `true` or `false`                                                                                                | no       | A word a player is expected to know by heart; `false` when unstated.                                                           |
-| `data.glossary[].definition`               | a string                                                                                                         | no       | The sense text. Stated, it creates the entry or replaces every sense the entry's other sources give it.                        |
-| `data.glossary[].pronunciation`            | a respelling such as `sol-MEH-reh`                                                                               | no       | A respelling, held to the same rule as a word's.                                                                               |
-| `data.glossary[].language`                 | a language skill Address                                                                                         | no       | The language the term is in. Unstated, it is the affiliation's language, its parents', or its culture's, or the culture's own. |
+| Key                                        | Shape                                                                                                            | Required | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `data.months[].name`                       | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.months[].abbreviation`               | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.months[].days`                       | a whole number of days                                                                                           | yes      | How many days the month holds.                                                                                                                                                              |
+| `data.weekdays[].name`                     | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.weekdays[].abbreviation`             | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.seasons[].name`                      | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.seasons[].abbreviation`              | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.seasons[].start`                     | a one-based day of the year, as a whole number                                                                   | yes      | The day of the year the season begins.                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.namedDays[].name`                    | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.namedDays[].abbreviation`            | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.namedDays[].day`                     | a one-based day of the year, as a whole number                                                                   | yes      | The day of the year it names.                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.eras[].shortcode`                    | the era's own shortcode, unique within the calendar — an era is addressed `<calendar shortcode>.<era shortcode>` | yes      | The era's own segment of `<calendar>.<era>`.                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.eras[].name`                         | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What it is called.                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.eras[].marker`                       | uppercase letters and digits, beginning with a letter                                                            | no       | The marker an authored date names the era by, unique across the corpus.                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.eras[].abbreviation`                 | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its short form, for a compact date.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.eras[].proclaimedBy`                 | an Address                                                                                                       | no       | The body that began the reckoning.                                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.eras[].start`                        | `null`, or the calendar year the era begins, as a whole number                                                   | yes      | The calendar year the era begins; `null` for the era before year 1.                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.eras[].label`                        | a string, or an `{ after, before }` map                                                                          | no       | How a date in the era reads, around one `{date}` slot.                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.eras[].label.after`                  | a string with one `{date}` slot                                                                                  | no       | How a date in the era reads.                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.eras[].label.before`                 | a string with one `{date}` slot                                                                                  | no       | How a date before the era's start reads.                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.events[].id`                         | an address segment                                                                                               | no       | The event's name within its note — lowercase letters and digits.                                                                                                                            |
+| `data.events[].kind`                       | one `eventKind` value                                                                                            | no       | What sort of thing happened.                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].depth`                      | one `depth` value                                                                                                | no       | How far the event's history reaches.                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.events[].when`                       | a date, or `"0.<day>"`                                                                                           | yes      | When it happened, or the anchor and first instance of an event that recurs.                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.events[].until`                      | a date                                                                                                           | no       | When a continuous event ended, or where a recurring series stopped.                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.events[].recurs`                     | `{ every }` or `{ on }`                                                                                          | no       | How further occurrences are found; absent for an event that happened once.                                                                                                                  |
+| `data.events[].recurs.every`               | a whole number of years, 1 or more                                                                               | no       | A period counted on the canonical axis from `when`.                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.events[].recurs.on`                  | a list of dates, strictly increasing, each later than `when`                                                     | no       | Recorded occurrences beyond the first, in place of a period.                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].summary`                    | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What happened, stated plainly.                                                                                                                                                              |
+| `data.events[].standing`                   | one `standing` value                                                                                             | no       | What the world's evidence supports.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `data.events[].names`                      | `{ name, by, gloss? }[]`                                                                                         | no       | The event's names in the world, each with who uses it.                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].names[].name`               | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | One name the event goes by in the world.                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.events[].names[].by`                 | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place`, `being` or `skill` note                                     | yes      | Who uses that name — a people, a polity, a faith, a place, a tongue.                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.events[].names[].gloss`              | a string                                                                                                         | no       | What the name means, or how it is used.                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].where`                      | `{ locus?, reach? }`                                                                                             | no       | Where it happened, and where it was felt.                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].where.locus`                | a list of Addresses, each defaulting to `place`                                                                  | no       | Where the event physically happened; each resolves to a place.                                                                                                                              |
+| `data.events[].where.reach`                | `{ place, how, knowledge, attributedTo? }[]`                                                                     | no       | Where the event was felt, and whether each place knows why.                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].place`        | an Address, defaulting to `place`                                                                                | yes      | A place where the event was felt.                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].how`          | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | One clause: a consequence someone in that place could notice.                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].knowledge`    | one `knowledge` value                                                                                            | yes      | Whether that place connects what it felt to this event.                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].where.reach[].attributedTo` | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, naming an event or a `lore` note                                               | no       | Only beside `knowledge: misattributed` — the cause that place names instead.                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].who`                        | `{ ref, role }[]`                                                                                                | no       | Who took part, and as what.                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.events[].who[].ref`                  | an Address naming a `being`, `affiliation` or `lore` note                                                        | yes      | A participant — a being, a people, an affiliation.                                                                                                                                          |
+| `data.events[].who[].role`                 | one `role` value                                                                                                 | yes      | What the participant was to the event.                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].follows`                    | `{ event, how, note? }[]`                                                                                        | no       | The earlier events this one follows from.                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].follows[].event`            | an Address, defaulting to `lore`, anchored to an `event` where its note holds several                            | yes      | The earlier event; it resolves to exactly one event.                                                                                                                                        |
+| `data.events[].follows[].how`              | one `followsHow` value                                                                                           | yes      | How this event follows from it.                                                                                                                                                             |
+| `data.events[].follows[].note`             | a string                                                                                                         | no       | One clause saying what connects the two.                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `data.events[].accounts`                   | `{ by, says, agrees, withholds? }[]`                                                                             | no       | What each people, polity, faith or place says about it.                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].by`              | an Address naming an `affiliation`, `lore`, `place` or `being` note                                              | yes      | Who holds the account.                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].says`            | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | What they say happened, in their terms.                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].agrees`          | one `agrees` value                                                                                               | yes      | How far their account agrees with `summary`.                                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.events[].accounts[].withholds`       | a string                                                                                                         | no       | What they decline to say.                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].unresolved`                 | a list of strings                                                                                                | no       | What the world itself has not settled.                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `data.events[].sources`                    | a list of Addresses                                                                                              | no       | The notes that state or support the event; each resolves.                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].stated`                     | `{ calendar, text }`                                                                                             | no       | The date as one tradition writes it in its own reckoning.                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.events[].stated.calendar`            | an Address, or a lore shortcode                                                                                  | yes      | The calendar that tradition reckons in — a `lore` note with `subType: calendar`.                                                                                                            |
+| `data.events[].stated.text`                | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | The date as that tradition writes it.                                                                                                                                                       |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.frame`             | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `frame` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                                                                                     |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.eye_color`         | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `eye_color` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                                                                                 |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.hair_color`        | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `hair_color` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.skin_color`        | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `skin_color` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.complexion`        | a map of words to weights                                                                                        | yes      | Weighted `complexion` words; a word left out is never drawn.                                                                                                                                |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.height`            | a map of genders to height ranges                                                                                | yes      | Height ranges keyed by gender; a gender with no range draws from the span of every range stated.                                                                                            |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.height.<name>.min` | a height in metres or feet and inches                                                                            | yes      | The shortest height drawn.                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| `data.appearanceProfile.height.<name>.max` | a height in metres or feet and inches                                                                            | yes      | The tallest height drawn.                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.glossary[].name`                     | a string                                                                                                         | yes      | The headword.                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `data.glossary[].name_sort`                | a string                                                                                                         | no       | Its sort key; the dictionary word's sort key, or the name, when unstated.                                                                                                                   |
+| `data.glossary[].common`                   | `true` or `false`                                                                                                | no       | Core vocabulary for this glossary's owner; `false` when unstated.                                                                                                                           |
+| `data.glossary[].definition`               | a string                                                                                                         | no       | The sense text, overriding the word's or governance sources' senses. Unstated, a named dictionary word supplies all its senses and class; a named rank or office supplies its descriptions. |
+| `data.glossary[].pronunciation`            | a respelling such as `sol-MEH-reh`                                                                               | no       | A respelling, held to the same rule as a word's; the dictionary word's when unstated.                                                                                                       |
+| `data.glossary[].language`                 | a language skill Address                                                                                         | no       | The language the term is in. Unstated, it is the affiliation's language, its parents', or its culture's, or the culture's own.                                                              |
 
 ### map