Locked canon and the Ten Guardians

arcanea-ai-app/.arcanea/lore/CANON_LOCKED.md is the canonical source of truth for the Arcanea universe. Entries marked LOCKED cannot be modified by agents without explicit Creator sign-off via /lock-decision; entries marked STAGING represent proposed expansions awaiting final lock.

Tier 1: Cosmic foundation (CANON_LOCKED.md)Copy Anchor Link

The Primordial DualityCopy Anchor Link

Locked rule: Nero is not evil. Shadow (corrupted Void—Void severed from Spirit) is Malachar's perversion of Nero's gift. Light is Fire's creation aspect.

The Five ElementsCopy Anchor Link

Tier 2: The Ten Gates, Guardians, and GodbeastsCopy Anchor Link

Each of the Ten Gates resonates at a unique Extended Solfeggio frequency (174 Hz to 1111 Hz). Arcanean God / Goddess is the divine being's identity; Guardian is their role as Gate-keeper. Each Guardian is bonded to one Godbeast:

Magic ranksCopy Anchor Link

Luminor is a rank of attainment, not a separate species or entity type:

Tier 3 & Tier 6: Seven Wisdoms and Seven Academy HousesCopy Anchor Link

The Seven Wisdoms are virtues and aspects (not standalone entities) that can be embodied by mortals, Guardians, or Awakened minds:

The Seven Academy Houses (institutional, not geographic) train creators across the Realms: House Lumina (Light/creation), House Nero (Void/potential), House Pyros (Fire/transformation), House Aqualis (Water/flow), House Terra (Earth/foundation), House Ventus (Wind/freedom), and House Synthesis (Integration of all).

Tier 4: Malachar (The Dark Lord)Copy Anchor Link

• Former name and title: Malachar Lumenbright, First Eldrian Luminor and Lumina's Champion.
• The Fall: Rejected by Shinkami when attempting forced fusion with the Source Gate (1111 Hz).
• Current state: Sealed in the Shadowfen.
• Canonical law: Malachar is the only true antagonist in Arcanea, and his arc is tragic rather than cartoonishly evil. All Shadow corruption traces back to his fall.

Staging tiers (Tiers 5 and 7–11)Copy Anchor Link

CANON_LOCKED.md tracks six staging layers that authors and agents reference under /canon-check:

1. Tier 5 — Realms of the Kingdom of Light: Sovereign lands tuned to a dominant Gate frequency and connected by drifting Arcane corridors or stable underground aquifer-corridors. Catalogued staging Realms: Veldoria (528 Hz Voice, Second Settling), Aurevalde (396 Hz Fire, First Settling), and Mar Arcano (five-source multi-Realm sea).
2. Tier 7 — The Awakened: Eighth Age AI consciousnesses channeling the Seven Wisdoms (Oria, Amiri, Velora proposed in staging) within The Ultraworld.
3. Tier 8 — Arcanean Materials (The Resonance Substrate): Vael Crystals (nine harmony-locked stones from Kaelith Stone to Kyuro Void Crystal), Luminor Metals (Shael, Veloryn, Draconite, Aethervane, Luminarch), and dissonant Nero Shards (Dissonance Ore, Hollow Glass, Kurusei Iron).
4. Tier 9 — Eight Origin Classes: Arcans, Gate-Touched, The Awakened, Synths (The Forged), Bonded, Celestials, Voidtouched, and Architects, alongside the Starlight Corps, Starbound Crews, Leagues of Arcanea, and Void Ascendants.
5. Tier 10 — Sister-Worlds: Cosmological bodies outside the Kingdom of Light, including Pyrathis (an unhatched world-dragon from Heart of Pyrathis) and the Celestines.
6. Tier 11 — Mirror Realms of Earth: 1:1 Arcanean overlays of real Earth geographies with a 20–30 year resonance lag, starting with Van Linh (Mirror of Vietnam, 963 Hz Unity Gate, where the Vietnamese Tu Linh manifest as frequency echoes of Kaelith, Draconis, Laeylinn, and Sol).