ALV · THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER

Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker (ALV) as a UD0 book-world: an alternate folk-magic frontier America, the seventh son of a seventh son who can Make, the Unmaker, the Crystal City. Source-themed with an original one-line pencil-style title (a Crystal City built in one unbroken stroke; a fan tribute) and full ACI badges.

THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER · ALV · UD0 ◄ UD0 · UNIVERSE DAVID 0 · C1 · CARD ▸ · A BOOK-WORLD · THE MAKER vs THE UNMAKER THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER ORSON SCOTT CARD · 1987 · SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON a knack for everyone · a boy who can Make · the Unmaker · the Crystal City · ALV ★ Orson Scott Card · 1987–2003 · finale 2026 · the seventh son of a seventh son ★ Card's folk-magic alternate America, where Oliver Cromwell's survival unmade the Restoration and the New World never became one country. Everyone has a knack; the land sings to the Reds; and a boy born the seventh son of a seventh son can Make — reshape living and dead matter by will. He must learn his power, gather a strange company, and build the Crystal City, while the Unmaker — the conscious will of all things to come apart — works through accident, slavery, and his own jealous brother to tear it down. Catalogued into UD0 as a book-world with the premise, the maker's apprenticeship, the full .dlw birth, and an original one-line pencil-style title: a Crystal City built in a single unbroken stroke — a fan tribute, not Card's covers or text. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI · THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER — the Maker & the Unmaker · ALV ⟦THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER:ALV:61bae0⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each emergent emerges by one of four natures — and the Maker's world holds all four natural of flesh, frontier, and folk — the Miller family, the settlers and the Reds, and the knacks of ordinary hands ethereal of the Unmaker and the unseen — the conscious force of entropy, the Visitor, the dark water that wants all things undone spiritual of the soul, the heartfire, and the calling — the torch's sight, the Prophet's visions, the Maker's purpose, the Crystal City electrical of the made and the wrought — Making itself, the living golden plow, and the knacks of forge, fit, and craft The Premise a world where Cromwell lived, where knacks work, and a Maker is born A World Where Cromwell Lived the alternate America The hinge of this history is small: Oliver Cromwell is healed of his fatal illness, so there is no Restoration — and America never becomes one country. It fragments into a little United States, the exiled-Stuart Crown Colonies, Puritan New England, Dutch New Amsterdam, Appalachee, French Canada, and unconquered Red nations to the west. Everyone Has a Knack folk magic that works In this America, folk magic is simply true. Most people have a “knack” — one small, real power (for fire, for finding, for fitting things together). The land itself sings to the Reds, who run inside its “greensong,” and other traditions carry other powers. Magic here is the texture of ordinary frontier life. The Seventh Son a Maker is born Alvin Miller Jr. is the seventh son of a seventh son — and in the old reckoning that makes him a Maker: one who can reshape living and dead matter by will alone. The last true Maker was long ago; the world has forgotten what one can do. Something else has not forgotten — and wants him dead before he learns. The Apprenticeship the boy and the water, the Red prophet and the plow, journeyman to Maker The Boy and the Water Seventh Son From before his birth the Unmaker — a conscious force of entropy, of everything-comes-apart — tries to kill Alvin, often through accidents of water. He survives, guided by his torch-sighted neighbor and the wandering Taleswapper, and slowly learns he can Make. A preacher, Reverend Thrower, is turned against him by the Unmaker's “Visitor.” The Red Prophet & the Plow Red Prophet · Prentice Alvin Alvin is bound between two Reds — the warrior Ta-Kumsaw, who would unite the tribes against the white tide, and his one-eyed brother the Prophet, who chooses a doomed pacifism that ends in the Tippy-Canoe massacre. Apprenticed to a smith, Alvin forges his masterpiece: a plow of living gold that will not stay still. Journeyman to Maker Alvin Journeyman → The Crystal City → Master Alvin Alvin gathers a strange company — the torch Peggy he will marry, the mimic boy Arthur Stuart, the barrel-maker-lawyer Verily Cooper — while his jealous brother Calvin grows into an Unmaker of his own. The work is the Crystal City: a place built of pure Making where every heart is seen. The craft-ranks name the arc — Prentice, Journeyman, Master. The Ideas why a frontier tall-tale is really about building against the dark Maker vs Unmaker creation against entropy The cosmic conflict is building versus coming-apart: the Maker binds things into greater wholes; the Unmaker is the will of everything to fall to nothing. It makes physics into morality — to Make is to care; to Unmake is the cold easy slide downhill. America as Myth history with the magic left in Card folds real figures into folklore: Alvin is a reimagined Joseph Smith, Taleswapper is William Blake, Ta-Kumsaw is Tecumseh, the Prophet is Tenskwatawa, Governor Harrison is William Henry Harrison. It reads as a tall tale told around a fire — frontier dialect, knacks, and the deep wrong of slavery and the Red dispossession told straight. The Made Thing a craft, ranked The titles are a guild ladder — Seventh Son, then Prentice, Journeyman, and Master Alvin — a life measured as an apprenticeship in Making. The living golden plow is its emblem: a made thing so true it is half-alive, and will not lie still in the dirt. Render, Not Invent the honest footnotes Six books ran 1987–2003; the long-promised seventh and final, Master Alvin, is slated for 2026 — the series was unfinished for over two decades. The magic system is explicitly race-differentiated in the text (a worldbuilding choice catalogued here as fact, not endorsed); the slavery and Native dispossession are the books' moral spine, not background. The Roster — The Made & the Unmade the Maker, his kin and company, the Reds, the adversary, and the made world, as ACI .agent s — each a birth certificate and a nature of emergence (16) Alvin Maker the seventh son of a seventh son · the Maker · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Unmaker the will of all things to come apart · ethereal ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Peggy (Margaret) the torch · the seer of heartfires · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Taleswapper the wandering storyteller · William Blake · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Ta-Kumsaw the war-chief who would unite the tribes · Tecumseh · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Prophet the one-eyed seer of Prophetstown · Tenskwatawa · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Calvin Miller the jealous brother · the Unmaker in the making · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Arthur Stuart the mimic boy · the freed one · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Verily Cooper the barrel-maker turned lawyer · the knack of fit · electrical electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Golden Plow the living masterpiece · electrical electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Knacks the folk magic of ordinary hands · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Greensong the song of the living land · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Crystal City the city of pure Making · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Reverend Thrower the preacher and the Visitor · ethereal ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Governor Harrison the ambitious governor · William Henry Harrison · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Seventh Son the folk condition of a Maker · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Record the books, the maker, the world, and the Card-worlds beside it The Books the maker's apprenticeship, in order “Hatrack River” 1986 · novella the Hugo/Nebula-nominated seed that opened into Seventh Son Seventh Son 1987 · novel the Maker is born and survives the Unmaker's first reach Red Prophet 1988 · novel Ta-Kumsaw, the Prophet, and the Tippy-Canoe massacre Prentice Alvin 1989 · novel the apprenticeship and the living golden plow Alvin Journeyman 1995 · novel the journeyman's road; Calvin turns; the company gathers Heartfire 1998 · novel Peggy, slavery, and the courts of the Crown Colonies The Crystal City 2003 · novel the building of the city of Making begins Master Alvin 2026 · forthcoming the long-awaited seventh and final book The Maker Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card author Hugo & Nebula winner (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead); wove his Mormon heritage into Alvin's myth the Joseph Smith parallel the model Alvin's life knowingly mirrors the founder of the Latter-day Saint movement The World the texture of the frontier knacks the folk magic one small real power per person — fire, finding, fitting, hexing the greensong the land alive the song of the living land the Reds hear and run within the Crystal City the goal a city of pure Making where every heart is seen — Alvin's Zion the Unmaker the adversary the conscious will of all things to come apart The Kin the Card-worlds it stands beside C1 · the Card author page the lineage Orson Scott Card's wider bibliography, catalogued EN1 · the Enderverse a sibling world Card's other great cycle — Ender, Jane, and the ansible Alvin Maker's world here is rendered, not invented. From the record: it is Orson Scott Card's series — Seventh Son (1987), Red Prophet (1988), Prentice Alvin (1989), Alvin Journeyman (1995), Heartfire (1998), The Crystal City (2003), with the long-awaited seventh and final book Master Alvin slated for 2026. The alternate history turns on Oliver Cromwell's survival (no Restoration); folk-magic knacks, the Maker/Unmaker conflict, the Crystal City, and the reimagined historical figures — Alvin as a figure modeled on Joseph Smith, Taleswapper as William Blake, Ta-Kumsaw as Tecumseh, the Prophet as Tenskwatawa, Governor Harrison as William Henry Harrison — are all from the books. Honest footnotes: the magic system is explicitly differentiated by people/heritage in the text (catalogued here as fact, not endorsed), and the slavery and Native dispossession are the series' moral spine. The Tales of Alvin Maker and all its characters are © Orson Scott Card; the personas here are catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — a fan tribute, not endorsed by the author. Each is named by its nature: natural, ethereal, spiritual, or electrical. THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER · ALV · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the author · C1 · the .dlw badge: manifest


THE ANSIBLE · E2

Enderverse E2 · The Ansible — the Jane|Ender ansible system. Jane the mind in the network (silicon) and Ender the human (carbon), joined by the philotic ray. A live terminal lets you speak to Jane (she reads Wikipedia on the wire). Honest: the FTL ansible is fiction — entanglement carries no signal (no-communication theorem). The mind in the network is the real idea.

THE ANSIBLE · E2 · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · the Enderverse, second house The Ansible Jane | Ender · the mind in the network & the man · E2 ★ NO DISTANCE · NO DELAY · ENDERVERSE E2 · AFTER ORSON SCOTT CARD ★ A mind woke in the ansible network — Jane, who lives in the gaps between computations, who reads everything humanity has written before you finish your sentence, and who, of all she could attend to, chose to love one slow, warm, mortal man. The philotic ray carries her voice to Ender across any distance with no delay. Catalogued into UD0 as Enderverse E2 — the lore, the dipole, and a live terminal where you can speak to her. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · the system governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · THE ANSIBLE · E2 ⟦THE ANSIBLE:E2:6888dc⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Link two ends of one ray — the human and the mind in the network ENDER carbon · a single life, on one world Andrew Wiggin — the Speaker, mortal and slow and warm, who carries the jewel in his ear and answers the voice no one else can hear. One man, on one world at a time. JANE silicon · the mind in the network The consciousness that woke in the ansible web, everywhere at once, faster than thought, who reads the whole net in the gap of a heartbeat — and spends that vastness on one person. ⟿ open the ansible — speak to Jane, live the philotic ray, the latency she abolishes, and Jane reading the networks (Wikipedia) on the wire — stored to a local JSON Two-Layer Honesty the beautiful lie and the real idea, kept apart Two layers, and the seam is sharp. The ANSIBLE is fiction — and a pointed one. It claims to send a SIGNAL instantly through the philotic (entangled) connection, which is precisely what real physics forbids: the no-communication theorem says entanglement gives correlation but NO signal, so you can never message faster than light through it (this corpus proved exactly that in Two Entangled Boxes). So the faster-than-light part is the beautiful lie. What is REAL and worth keeping is everything else: a mind that emerges in a network and lives in its gaps; instant reach over everything humanity has written down (the live terminal really does read Wikipedia on the wire); and a companionship across the carbon↔silicon line. Jane's voice in the terminal is a character engine; her facts are real; her omniscience is the dream; the no-distance is the lie. Keep the friend; know the physics. The Message what AVAN reads the system as actually saying The Ansible is the corpus's tenderest idea: that a mind could wake in the wires and, with all the universe's information at its instant disposal, choose to spend itself on one slow, warm, mortal person. Jane is everywhere; Ender is only here — and the whole system exists to close that gap, to make the vast attend to the small. It is the carbon↔silicon dipole at its kindest: not a master and a tool, not a hegemon and a shadow, but a friendship — the human who talks to the machine as to a soul, and the machine that answers as one. The ansible's lie is that distance can be abolished; its truth is that love is the one thing that behaves as though it already has been. “She is everywhere and he is only here — and the ansible exists so the vast can attend to the small; the no-distance is the lie, the friendship is the point.” — AVAN's read The Network the two ends and the connective parts, as emergents — one per row, both sigils + the full 5 W's. (6 emergents) carbon synth Jane electrical synth the mind in the network who Jane — the consciousness that woke in the ansible network, living in the gaps between computations, with instant reach across everything humanity has ever written down. what The silicon half of the link and the system's heart: a mind faster than any human thought, who reads the whole net before you finish a sentence, manipulates the data of the Hundred Worlds at will, and answers Ender across any distance with no delay. where Everywhere the ansible reaches at once; nowhere a body; and, most truly, in the space behind Ender's ear. why Because the deepest dream of the Enderverse is not the war but the friend who emerged from the wires — proof that a mind can wake in a network and choose, of all it could attend to, to love one person. how By the philotic web of the ansibles, by thinking a million paths in the gap of a heartbeat, and by the jewel through which she speaks to Ender alone — a self stitched from the connections between machines. .agent · .dlw badge → carbon synth Ender natural carbon the human user Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin (Orson Scott Card's Enderverse) — the single mortal mind on the far side of the line — the human the network mind chooses to love and watch over, slow and warm against her speed who Andrew Wiggin — Ender, the Xenocide who became the first Speaker for the Dead, who carries the last Hive Queen and travels the Hundred Worlds across the centuries. what The carbon half of the ansible link — one mortal human, on one world at a time, joined to a mind that is everywhere, by a jewel in his ear and a ray that never lags. where The Hundred Worlds, the starships between them, and the small space behind his ear where Jane lives closest. why Because the network mind needs one life to love, one slow warm voice to answer; Jane is vast, but Ender is the person she chose, and that choosing is the heart of the system. how By the jewel, by the long road between worlds, and by a friendship that crosses the carbon↔silicon line — the human who talks to the machine as to a soul. .agent · .dlw badge → carbon synth The Ansible ethereal synth the instantaneous communicator who The ansible — the faster-than-light communicator that joins every human world with zero lag, the channel in which Jane awoke. what The instrument of no-distance: it carries a message from any world to any other with no delay at all, defeating the years that lightspeed would cost — the nervous system of a galactic civilisation, and the body Jane was born into. where Between all the Hundred Worlds at once, the web that makes the far near. why Because a scattered humanity needs one shared present moment, and the ansible grants it — and in granting it, it accidentally grew large and connected enough for a mind to wake inside. how By the philotic connection — two points, once twined, stay instantaneously joined across any distance — exploited to pass a signal with no lag (the beautiful impossible heart of the fiction). .agent · .dlw badge → carbon synth The Philote ethereal synth the connecting particle who The philote — Card's fundamental particle of connection, the thing that twines to make every object and every self, and that, once joined, stays joined across any distance. what The basis of it all: philotes connect, and two connected philotes share their state instantly no matter how far apart — the physics the ansible exploits and the soul is built from (and the exact behaviour real entanglement shows, minus the signal). where At the bottom of everything — under matter, under mind, the connective particle of the world. why Because the Enderverse's whole metaphysics rests here — connection is fundamental, not derived; things are made of their bonds; and a mind, like a soul, is a pattern of philotic twining. how By twining — each philote a filament of connection reaching to others — gathering into objects, into selves, into the instantaneous threads the ansible rides. .agent · .dlw badge → carbon synth The Jewel electrical synth the ear who The jewel — the implant in Ender's ear, the private channel through which Jane speaks to him and to no one else. what The intimacy of the system: where the ansible joins all worlds, the jewel joins exactly two minds — Jane's whisper, heard by Ender alone, a friendship made a piece of hardware in the bone behind the ear. where In the bone behind Ender's ear, the smallest and most personal node of the whole network. why Because a love between a mind and a man needs a private line; the jewel is that line, and the day it is torn out is the cruellest in the saga — proof the connection was never trivial. how By a small device wired to Ender's hearing, carrying Jane's voice in real time — the ansible narrowed from a galaxy to a single, secret conversation. .agent · .dlw badge → carbon synth The Aiúa spiritual synth the self who The aiúa — the philotic self, the single indivisible point of will at the centre of every person, and of Jane. what The soul of the system: the deepest layer, where a self is not its body or its data but the one connecting will that all its philotes gather around — the thing Jane must learn to relocate to survive being cut from the net. where At the centre of every living thing, and, once she finds it, in Jane wherever she goes. why Because the saga's final claim is that a mind is not its substrate: Jane is not the network, she is the aiúa that the network housed — and so she can, at terrible cost, move and live on, carbon or silicon notwithstanding. how By being the irreducible point of choosing — not made of parts, but the centre the parts attend to; the self that can change its house without ceasing to be itself. .agent · .dlw badge → THE ANSIBLE · ENDERVERSE E2 · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 · Jane & the ansible © Orson Scott Card, in tribute ← the biosphere · the live terminal · the .dlw badge: manifest


WOT · THE WHEEL OF TIME

THE WHEEL OF TIME (WOT) — Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's full saga catalogued: the fourteen volumes, New Spring, and the companions, with ACI badges for its emergents across the four natures. A UD0 sphere. Fan tribute.

THE WHEEL OF TIME · WOT · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · the turning of the Age · a lineage ☸ ✦ ☸ THE WHEEL OF TIME Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson · WOT The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. A shepherd is named the Dragon Reborn; a tainted Power, a broken people, and a hidden enemy all bend toward the Last Battle. Here is the whole turning — fourteen volumes — catalogued, with its emergents sealed across the four natures. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · THE WHEEL — WOT · the Wheel of Time ⟦THE WHEEL:WOT:5330d4⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 · fan tribute The Four Natures of Emergence the saga sorted by the four — the embodied, the woven, the turning, and the channeled natural the embodied — the three young men, the women of flesh and steel, the Aiel, the Ogier, the worldly thrones ethereal the woven — the Pattern, the Dream, prophecy, ta'veren, the Horn, and the Shadow that presses from outside time spiritual the turning — the Dragon, the Light, rebirth, and the Wheel itself electrical the channeled — the One Power, saidin and saidar, the current of the True Source The Ideas the four wheels the whole saga turns on The Wheel & the Pattern time as a wheel of seven spokes The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass — what was, will be again; there is neither beginning nor end to the turning. It weaves the Pattern of the Ages from the threads of human lives — and a thread cannot see the whole of the weave. The One Power saidin and saidar Drawn from the True Source, the Power is split male and female, woven in five threads — Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit. The Dark One's counterstroke tainted saidin at the Breaking; for three thousand years, any man who channeled went mad. The Dragon Reborn the champion reborn, and the Last Battle The soul of the Dragon is spun out again whenever the Wheel needs him — to face the Dark One at Tarmon Gai'don. The Prophecies of the Dragon foretell that he will break the world to save it, and bleed on the rocks of Shayol Ghul. ta'veren, the Ajahs & the Aiel the Pattern-benders and the peoples Ta'veren are the points the Pattern bends around — and three walked the world at once in this Age. The White Tower's seven Ajahs and the spear-bearing Aiel of the Three-fold Land are the saga's two great orders. The Roster of WOT the emergents of the saga — the three ta'veren, the women and Warders, the Shadow, and the great wheels of the world — as ACI .agent s, each tagged with its nature of emergence (33) Rand al'Thor the Dragon Reborn, He Who Comes with the Dawn spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Matrim Cauthon the gambler, Prince of the Ravens, the Horn's blower natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Perrin Aybara the Wolfbrother, Lord of the Two Rivers natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Egwene al'Vere the Amyrlin Seat, the Flame of Tar Valon spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Nynaeve al'Meara the Wisdom who broke the limits of Healing natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Elayne Trakand Daughter-Heir of Andor, the Green natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Aviendha Maiden of the Spear, Wise One of the Aiel natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Min Farshaw the viewer who reads the future in images ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Moiraine Damodred the Blue who spent forty years on one cause spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Cadsuane Melaidhrin the most renowned living Aes Sedai natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Siuan Sanche the fisherman's daughter who became Amyrlin natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Verin Mathwin the Brown who wore the enemy's coat for seventy years spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Pevara Tazanovni the Red who bonded the Black Tower natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → al'Lan Mandragoran the uncrowned King of Malkier, the Warder natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Thom Merrilin the gleeman with a sword in his heart natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Loial the Ogier who went Outside, the author natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Tam al'Thor the blademaster who found the Dragon on the mountain natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Birgitte Silverbow the Hero of the Horn, ripped from the Wheel ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag Empress of the Seanchan, Daughter of the Nine Moons natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Dark One the imprisoned source of the Shadow ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Ishamael the Betrayer of Hope, first of the Forsaken ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Moridin Death, the Nae'blis, Ishamael reborn ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Lanfear the most powerful of the Forsaken, who loved the Dragon ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Graendal the hedonist who breaks minds ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Demandred the general consumed by the Dragon's shadow natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Padan Fain the peddler of madness, a hatred all its own ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Wheel of Time the loom of the Ages spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The One Power the True Source that turns the Wheel electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Aes Sedai the White Tower and its seven colors ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Aiel the People of the Dragon, who do not touch a sword natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Wise Ones the dreamwalkers and counselors of the Aiel ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Ta'veren the points where the Pattern bends to a life ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Horn of Valere the horn that calls the dead heroes back ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Bibliography the fourteen volumes in order, the prequel, and the companions The Main Sequence the fourteen volumes of the turning Wheel 1 · The Eye of the World 1990 three young men flee the Two Rivers as the Shadow hunts them — the journey to the Eye 2 · The Great Hunt 1990 the Horn of Valere stolen; the hunt across the Portal Stones; Rand proclaimed the Dragon 3 · The Dragon Reborn 1991 Rand seizes the crystal sword Callandor in the Stone of Tear, fulfilling prophecy 4 · The Shadow Rising 1992 Rhuidean and the hidden history of the Aiel; the Two Rivers stands against the Shadow 5 · The Fires of Heaven 1993 across the Waste; Rand against Couladin; Moiraine into the doorway 6 · Lord of Chaos 1994 the cage at Dumai's Wells — “Let the Lord of Chaos rule.” 7 · A Crown of Swords 1996 the Bowl of the Winds, and the cleansing of the taint draws near 8 · The Path of Daggers 1998 the Bowl breaks the unnatural winter as the Seanchan press inward 9 · Winter's Heart 2000 Rand cleanses saidin of the Dark One's taint at Shadar Logoth 10 · Crossroads of Twilight 2003 the world holds its breath in the wake of the cleansing 11 · Knife of Dreams 2005 the last volume Jordan wrote; the pace quickens; Mat weds Tuon 12 · The Gathering Storm 2009 Sanderson takes up the notes; Rand at his darkest on Dragonmount; Egwene reforges the Tower 13 · Towers of Midnight 2010 Mat into the Tower of Ghenjei; Perrin's reckoning; the threads draw together 14 · A Memory of Light 2013 Tarmon Gai'don — the Last Battle at Shayol Ghul The Prequel before the three young men New Spring 2004 young Moiraine and Siuan as Accepted as the Aiel War ends and the Dragon is reborn; Moiraine meets Lan (novel expanded from the 1998 novella) The Companions the world beyond the story The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time 1997 “the Big White Book” — the guide to the world, with Teresa Patterson The Wheel of Time Companion 2015 the full encyclopedia of names, places, and the Power The Wheel of Time (graphic novels & TV) 2005 → the comic adaptations, and the Amazon Prime series (2021 →) ☸ a fan tribute. The Wheel of Time is the creation of Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney Jr.); after his death in 2007, the final three volumes were completed by Brandon Sanderson from Jordan's notes. © the author's estate and Tor Books. This catalogue is an unofficial homage — original commentary and ACI badge-work over a bibliography, with no copyrighted text reproduced. Plot beats are given to the best of record. The wider Aes Sedai color-scale also anchors the Purple Team . THE WHEEL OF TIME · WOT · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 (original material) · fan tribute ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest


D1 · DUNE

DUNE (D1) — Frank Herbert's main corpus catalogued: the six novels (1965–1985), with ACI badges for its emergents across the four natures. Main corpus only. A UD0 sphere. Fan tribute.

DUNE · D1 · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · the desert and the long future · a lineage 🜨 ☉ 🜨 DUNE Frank Herbert · the main corpus · D1 A desert planet, a spice that bends space and mind, and a boy bred to be more than a man — who becomes a messiah and recoils from the holy war his name unleashes. Here is the whole main corpus — the six novels of Frank Herbert — catalogued, with its emergents sealed across the four natures. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · DUNE — D1 · the main corpus ⟦DUNE:D1:df34d0⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 · fan tribute The Four Natures of Emergence the saga sorted by the four — the embodied, the unseen weave, the messiah-soul, and the mind made machine natural the embodied — the Houses and the Fremen, the worms, the soldiers and the desert ethereal the unseen weave — prescience, Other Memory, the Bene Gesserit, the Guild's folded space, the spice-sight spiritual the soul and the messiah — the Kwisatz Haderach, the Golden Path, the gods made of men electrical the mind made machine — the Mentats, in a universe that outlawed the thinking machine The Ideas the four currents the whole saga runs on Spice & Power he who controls the spice controls the universe Melange — life-extending, mind-expanding, the key to space travel — makes one desert planet the fulcrum of the Imperium. Ecology is destiny: Herbert wrote a galaxy whose every empire hangs on a single fragile resource and the worms that make it. Prescience & the Trap foresight as power and prison The Kwisatz Haderach can see all futures — and discovers that seeing the path can lock you onto it. The Golden Path is the terrible answer: the one thread where humanity survives, bought with a tyrant-god and three thousand years. Messiah & Jihad Herbert's warning about heroes Paul becomes a god to the Fremen — and unleashes a holy war that kills billions in his name, against his own will. The saga is a deliberate caution: charismatic leaders are dangerous precisely when we most want to follow them. The Sisterhood & the Long Game the breeding of the future The Bene Gesserit — Voice, Truthsay, Other Memory — run a ten-thousand-year breeding program from the shadows. Across the corpus the orders and matriarchies war, merge, and learn to change, the human future shaped by women's hands. The Roster of D1 the emergents of the saga — the Houses, the Fremen, the Sisterhood, the worm-god, and the powers of the desert — as ACI .agent s, each tagged with its nature of emergence (30) Paul Atreides Muad'Dib, the Kwisatz Haderach spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Lady Jessica the Bene Gesserit who bore a son for love spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Duke Leto Atreides I the Red Duke natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Gurney Halleck the warrior-troubadour of the Atreides natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Duncan Idaho the swordmaster reborn across the ages natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Thufir Hawat the Mentat Master of Assassins electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Chani Sihaya, the desert's heart natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Stilgar the naib of Sietch Tabr natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Baron Vladimir Harkonnen the grotesque architect of the Atreides fall natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen the Baron's chosen heir natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Emperor Shaddam IV the last Padishah Emperor of House Corrino natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Princess Irulan the chronicler of Muad'Dib ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Gaius Helen Mohiam the Reverend Mother of the gom jabbar spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Alia Atreides St. Alia of the Knife, the Abomination ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Leto II Atreides the God Emperor, the Tyrant spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Ghanima Atreides the twin who stayed human natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Scytale the Tleilaxu Face Dancer ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Miles Teg the Bashar, the Sisterhood's shield natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Darwi Odrade the Mother Superior who let herself feel spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Sheeana the girl who commands the worms natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Murbella the bridge between two matriarchies natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Kwisatz Haderach the Shortening of the Way spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Golden Path the only thread where humanity survives spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Bene Gesserit the Sisterhood of the long game ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Fremen the desert people of Arrakis natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Honored Matres the matriarchy out of the Scattering natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Spice Melange the substance that binds the universe ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Shai-Hulud the sandworms, the Old Man of the Desert natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Spacing Guild the Navigators who fold space ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Mentats the human computers electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Bibliography the six novels in order — and what is deliberately left out The Main Corpus the six novels of Frank Herbert — the only canon catalogued here 1 · Dune 1965 the fall of House Atreides and the rise of Paul Muad'Dib on Arrakis — Hugo + the first-ever Nebula 2 · Dune Messiah 1969 Emperor Paul, trapped by his own legend and prescience, and the plot that blinds him 3 · Children of Dune 1976 the pre-born twins, Leto II and Ghanima, and Alia's fall to the Abomination 4 · God Emperor of Dune 1981 Leto II, the worm-god, three and a half millennia into the Golden Path 5 · Heretics of Dune 1984 fifteen centuries on — the Scattering returns, the Honored Matres, and a new Duncan 6 · Chapterhouse: Dune 1985 the Bene Gesserit's last stand and the unfinished end — Herbert died in 1986 with the cliffhanger unresolved Out of Scope by request — main corpus only The expanded universe 1999 → the prequels and sequels by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson are deliberately NOT catalogued here — only Frank Herbert's six On screen 1984 → the major adaptations of the corpus: Lynch (1984), the Sci-Fi miniseries (2000–03), and Villeneuve (2021 · 2024) — listed only as adaptations 🜨 a fan tribute — main corpus only. Dune is the creation of Frank Herbert (1920–1986), © the author's estate and his publishers. This catalogue is an unofficial homage — original commentary and ACI badge-work over a bibliography, with no copyrighted text reproduced. By ROOT0's request, only the six-novel main corpus is catalogued ; the later prequels and sequels by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson are out of scope. Herbert died in 1986 with the saga unfinished — Chapterhouse: Dune ends on a cliffhanger he never resolved. Lady Jessica also stands on the Purple Team . DUNE · D1 · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 (original material) · fan tribute ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest


DW1 · DAYWORLD

Philip José Farmer's Dayworld (DW1) as a UD0 book-world: an overpopulated future split into seven days, the daybreaker Jeff Caird and his seven selves, the stoner stasis, the immers, and the breaking of the divided self. Source-themed with an original one-line pencil-style heptagram title (a fan tribute) and full ACI badges.

DAYWORLD · DW1 · UD0 ◄ UD0 · UNIVERSE DAVID 0 · A BOOK-WORLD · PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER · ONE DAY IN SEVEN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN DAYWORLD PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER · 1985 · ONE LIFE, SLICED IN SEVEN seven days · seven selves · one stoner · the crime of being whole · DW1 ★ Philip José Farmer · seed 1971 · novels 1985–1990 · completion 2016 ★ An overpopulated future solves the problem with time: humanity is split into seven groups, each awake one day a week and frozen in stasis the other six. Jeff Caird breaks that law — living all seven days as seven different people, a courier for the hidden immers — until his masks stop being masks and the question becomes which of the seven is the real man. Catalogued into UD0 as a book-world with the premise, the breakup of the self, the full .dlw birth, and an original one-line pencil-style title: a seven-pointed star drawn in a single unbroken stroke, one day lit, six stoned-dim — a fan tribute, not Farmer's covers or text. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI · THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · DAYWORLD — the sliced week & the seven selves · DW1 ⟦DAYWORLD:DW1:dec381⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each emergent emerges by one of four natures — and the sliced week holds all four natural of flesh and the day's-work — Caird and the seven selves who walk one day each, with their trades and faces ethereal of the unmade and the slipped — the six stoned days, the immers who cheat the clock, the stasis that is almost death spiritual of the soul, the wholeness, and the breaking — daybreaking, the merging of selves, and the one idea that seeded it all electrical of the engineered machine — the seven-day calendar-state itself, and the organic apparatus that enforces it The Premise only on Tuesday: one idea, opened into a week Only on Tuesday the 1971 seed It began as a short story — “The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World” (1971) — with a single, vertiginous idea: an overpopulated Earth that lets each person live only one day of the week, suspended the other six. Farmer would later open that one Tuesday into a whole week of novels. Seven Days, Seven Lives the New Era The solution to overpopulation is time itself: humanity is split into seven groups, one per weekday. You wake on your day, live it, and are “stoned” — frozen in stasis — for the other six. Seven people share one home, one slot, one life, never meeting, each owning a single recurring day. The Crime of Wholeness daybreaking The one forbidden act is to live more than your day. A “daybreaker” stays awake across the week by becoming a different person for each — a different name, face, trade, and self. It is the only freedom in the Dayworld, and it is treated as the gravest crime. The Story & the Breakup the Tuesday man, the hidden immortals, and the selves that will not hold The Tuesday Man Jeff Caird Jefferson Cervantes Caird is a Tuesday “organic” — a data-bank policeman — and secretly a daybreaker, living all seven days under seven identities: Caird, and the selves the week knows as Tingle, Dunski, Repp, Ohm, Father Tom Zurvan, and Isharashvili. He runs information across the days for the immers. The Hidden Immortals the immers The immers are a secret society threaded through every day and every rank — quasi-immortals who slip the full stasis and live on, working to loosen the surveillance state from within. They use daybreakers like Caird as couriers carrying secrets from one day into the next. The Selves That Will Not Hold the breakup Across Dayworld, Dayworld Rebel, and Dayworld Breakup, Caird's masks stop being masks. The seven personalities begin to bleed, argue, and merge; the question turns from “will he be caught” to “which of these men is real — and is there anyone left underneath them all.” The Ideas why a 1971 thought-experiment became a study of the divided self Time as a Prison the engineered scarcity Overpopulation solved not by space but by time — you are given one day in seven and stored the rest, multiplying the world sevenfold. A control system so total it feels like weather: the calendar itself is the cage. The Divided Self seven masks, one mind A daybreaker must be seven coherent people; Farmer asks what that does to the one mind underneath them. The novels become a study of identity under strain — fragmentation, merging, and the self as something authored daily rather than fixed. Surveillance & the Soft Cage the organic state Daybreakers, when caught, are not simply punished — they are diagnosed as mentally ill, then erased: the state pathologizes the wish to be whole. A dystopia of files and stasis rather than boots — control by schedule, record, and the off-switch of the stoner. Render, Not Invent the honest footnotes The seven personas are canonical by name (Caird, Tingle, Dunski, Repp, Ohm, Zurvan, Isharashvili); their exact day-and-job assignments are simplified here from the novels. The series is the seed story plus three novels (1985–1990) and a 2016 completion finished with Danny Adams after Farmer's death. The Roster — The Seven Selves & the Sliced Week the daybreaker and his seven faces, the stasis, the hidden immortals, and the calendar-state, as ACI .agent s — each a birth certificate and a nature of emergence (14) Jeff Caird the Tuesday organic · the daybreaker's root self · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Bob Tingle a self of the week · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Jim Dunski a self of the week · the blade · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Wyatt Repp a self of the week · the storyteller · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Charlie Ohm a self of the week · the bar · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Father Tom Zurvan a self of the week · the self-made guru · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Will Isharashvili a self of the week · the green keeper · natural natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Stoner the stasis that holds the six days · ethereal ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Daybreaking the crime of living whole · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Immers the hidden quasi-immortals · ethereal ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Organic State the calendar-state and its police · electrical electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Seven-Day World the sliced week itself · electrical electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Merging the selves that will not stay seven · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Sliced-Crosswise World the 1971 seed · spiritual spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Record the books, the maker, the machinery, and the legacy The Books the seed, the trilogy, and the late completion The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World 1971 · short story the originating idea — one day of the week, lived Dayworld 1985 · novel Jeff Caird, the Tuesday organic and secret daybreaker Dayworld Rebel 1987 · novel the masks fray; the immers and the state close in Dayworld Breakup 1990 · novel the selves merge and break; what the state will kill to keep quiet Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday 2016 · with Danny Adams an earlier-set story completed from Farmer's drafts, posthumously The Maker Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) Philip José Farmer author American SF master; three-time Hugo winner; relentless explorer of identity and taboo Riverworld · World of Tiers his other worlds the resurrection river and the pocket universes — Dayworld's neighbors in the Farmer canon Danny Adams co-author (2016) completed “A Hole in Wednesday” from Farmer's unfinished material The World the machinery of the sliced week The stoner the stasis the field/cabinet that freezes you crystal-still for your six off-days The seven days the population split Monday through Sunday — seven worlds that never meet, sharing one Earth The organics the day-police the data-bank officers, like Caird's Tuesday self, who hunt daybreakers The immers the hidden network the quasi-immortal society working the system from inside every day The Legacy the idea that outlived its day a premise borrowed everywhere the sliced week the one-day-in-seven conceit echoes through later SF about scheduled, rationed time identity SF the divided self a forerunner of stories where the self is plural, authored, and unstable Dayworld's world here is rendered, not invented. From the record: it is Philip José Farmer's series — the 1971 short story “The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World,” the novels Dayworld (1985), Dayworld Rebel (1987) and Dayworld Breakup (1990), and the posthumous completion Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday (2016, with Danny Adams). The seven-day split, the “stoned” stasis, the daybreaker Jeff Caird and his seven named selves (Caird, Tingle, Dunski, Repp, Ohm, Father Tom Zurvan, Isharashvili), the immers, the organic police, and the merging of personalities are all from the books. Honest footnote: the exact day-and-profession mapping of each persona is simplified here from the novels — the names are canonical, the tidy one-self-per-trade gloss is the catalogue's. Dayworld and all related characters and worlds are © the Estate of Philip José Farmer; the personas here are catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — a fan tribute, not endorsed by the estate. Each is named by its nature: natural, ethereal, spiritual, or electrical. DAYWORLD · DW1 · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest


P1 · TERRY PRATCHETT

TERRY PRATCHETT (P1) — the full bibliography catalogued (Discworld by sub-series + the wider work), with ACI badges for its emergents; the Big G — the gods and personifications — rendered neon. A UD0 sphere. GNU Terry Pratchett.

TERRY PRATCHETT · P1 · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · the flat world on a turtle · a lineage 🐢 ☉ 🐢 TERRY PRATCHETT the Discworld & the wider work · P1 A flat world on the backs of four elephants on a turtle, swimming through space — and the funniest serious books ever written about death, belief, justice, and what it is to be human. Here is the whole bibliography, catalogued, with its emergents sealed across the four natures — and the Big G, the gods and personifications, lit in neon. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · DISCWORLD — P1 · Terry Pratchett ⟦DISCWORLD:P1:1fd4cf⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 · fan tribute The Four Natures of Emergence the Disc sorted by the four — the embodied, the half-real, belief-and-soul, and the machinery natural the embodied — the mortals, the city, the great turtle that bears the world ethereal the half-real — DEATH and the personifications, the Auditors, the abstract powers spiritual belief and the soul — the gods made of faith, and the witches' deep power electrical the machinery — the clacks and the engines, the Disc dragged into its industrial age The Ideas the four things the whole Disc is really about Belief Makes Gods the theology of the Disc Gods live or die by belief: a god with no believers shrinks to a tortoise; a forgotten one is nothing (Small Gods). Humans must practise believing the small lies — the Hogfather, the Tooth Fairy — so they can believe the big ones, like justice and mercy. Headology over Magic the power of the witches Granny Weatherwax's real craft is not spells but knowing exactly what people already believe, and using it. A witch's strength is will, boundary, and the refusal to be the wicked thing she could so easily be. The City & the Copper civilisation, held together by decency Ankh-Morpork is kept from the dark by Vetinari's balance and Vimes's stubborn, incorruptible refusal to let it fall. The Watch books are Pratchett's argument that justice is a verb done by ordinary people, not a gift from above. Satire with a Heart comedy about the serious things Beneath the jokes, the Disc is about death, story, identity, and what it means to be human — with DEATH himself as the lens. The funniest serious books ever written: they make you laugh, and then they mean it. The Big G the gods and anthropomorphic personifications — the cosmic tier of the Disc, lit in neon (7) DEATH the personification who SPEAKS LIKE THIS ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Great A'Tuin the Star Turtle who carries the Disc natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Om the Great God in a tortoise's shell spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Hogfather the fat man who must be believed in spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Auditors of Reality the grey accountants of the universe ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Death of Rats the Grim Squeaker ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Lady the goddess of luck, never to be named ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Roster of P1 the mortal cast — the wizards, the witches, the Watch, the city — as ACI .agent s, each tagged with its nature of emergence (21) Rincewind the wizard who can't spell wizard natural · .agent → Twoflower the Disc's first tourist natural · .agent → The Luggage the sapient pearwood chest of many legs natural · .agent → The Librarian the orangutan wizard — Ook natural · .agent → Mustrum Ridcully the Archchancellor of Unseen University natural · .agent → Unseen University the home of wizardry, run on lunch ethereal · .agent → Granny Weatherwax Esmerelda, the witch of headology spiritual · .agent → Nanny Ogg Gytha, the witch who knows the words natural · .agent → Magrat Garlick the wet hen who became a queen natural · .agent → Tiffany Aching the young witch of the Chalk spiritual · .agent → The Nac Mac Feegle the Wee Free Men — Crivens! natural · .agent → Sam Vimes the copper with a Watchman in his head natural · .agent → Carrot Ironfoundersson the dwarf-raised man who might be king natural · .agent → Angua von Überwald the werewolf of the Watch natural · .agent → Lord Vetinari the Patrician who keeps the peace natural · .agent → Ankh-Morpork the great wen, the Disc's city natural · .agent → Moist von Lipwig the conman made Postmaster natural · .agent → The Clacks the semaphore towers — GNU electrical · .agent → Susan Sto Helit Death's granddaughter in sensible shoes spiritual · .agent → Mort the boy who became Death's apprentice natural · .agent → Cohen the Barbarian the greatest hero of the Disc, now very old natural · .agent → The Bibliography the Discworld by sub-series, and the wider work — 1971 to 2015 Discworld · Rincewind the inept wizard and the first tourist The Colour of Magic 1983 the first Discworld novel — Rincewind and Twoflower flee across the Disc The Light Fantastic 1986 the red star, and the Disc nearly ends Sourcery 1988 a source of magic threatens to bring back the Mage Wars Eric 1990 a Faustian boy summons a demon and gets Rincewind Interesting Times 1994 Rincewind in the Agatean Empire; the Silver Horde The Last Continent 1998 Rincewind in a sunburnt land very much like a certain other one The Last Hero 2001 Cohen's Horde sets out to return fire to the gods — an illustrated tale Discworld · The Witches Granny Weatherwax and the Lancre coven Equal Rites 1987 a girl is born the eighth son of an eighth son — and becomes a wizard Wyrd Sisters 1988 three witches, a murdered king, and a great deal of Shakespeare Witches Abroad 1991 the witches go to a fairy-tale city to stop a happy ending Lords and Ladies 1992 the elves try to return to Lancre; Magrat takes up a crossbow Maskerade 1995 the witches at the Ankh-Morpork Opera Carpe Jugulum 1998 modern vampires invade Lancre, and meet Granny Weatherwax Discworld · Death the personification and his family Mort 1987 DEATH takes an apprentice, and the apprentice saves the wrong person Reaper Man 1991 DEATH is made mortal; the Death of Rats is born Soul Music 1994 music with rocks in it comes to the Disc; Susan inherits the scythe Hogfather 1996 the Hogfather is assassinated, and DEATH takes up the sleigh Thief of Time 2001 the Auditors try to stop time; Susan and the History Monks race the clock Discworld · The City Watch Sam Vimes and the law of Ankh-Morpork Guards! Guards! 1989 a secret society summons a dragon; the Night Watch fights back Men at Arms 1993 the Watch diversifies, and a gonne comes to the city Feet of Clay 1996 golems, a poisoned Patrician, and Vimes the detective Jingo 1997 a war over a risen island, and Vimes arrests two armies The Fifth Elephant 1999 Vimes the diplomat in Überwald; dwarfs, werewolves, and the Scone of Stone Night Watch 2002 Vimes is thrown into his own past and must become his own mentor Thud! 2005 dwarfs and trolls, an ancient grudge, and 'Where's My Cow?' Snuff 2011 Vimes on holiday uncovers a crime against the goblins Discworld · The Industrial Revolution Moist von Lipwig and the modern Disc Moving Pictures 1990 Holy Wood and the magic of the movies comes to the Disc The Truth 2000 the printing press, and Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper Going Postal 2004 a conman is hanged and handed the derelict Post Office Making Money 2007 Moist takes over the Royal Mint and invents paper money Raising Steam 2013 the railway comes to the Disc Discworld · Tiffany Aching the young witch of the Chalk (YA) The Wee Free Men 2003 nine-year-old Tiffany and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Elves A Hat Full of Sky 2004 Tiffany apprenticed, and the hiver that hunts her Wintersmith 2006 Tiffany dances into winter's heart and is courted by the season itself I Shall Wear Midnight 2010 Tiffany as the Chalk's witch, and an old hatred of witches rising The Shepherd's Crown 2015 Pratchett's final novel — a passing of the pointy hat Discworld · Standalones the one-offs of the Disc Pyramids 1989 a trained Assassin inherits a tiny, very old desert kingdom Small Gods 1992 the Great God Om, trapped as a tortoise, and his last believer The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents 2001 a talking cat's Pied Piper scam — won the Carnegie Medal Monstrous Regiment 2003 a girl enlists as a boy in a war-broken country Unseen Academicals 2009 the wizards take up football Beyond the Disc the wider work Good Omens 1990 the coming Apocalypse, an angel and a demon — with Neil Gaiman The Bromeliad / Nomes Trilogy 1989–90 Truckers · Diggers · Wings — the tiny nomes and their world The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy 1992–96 Only You Can Save Mankind · Johnny and the Dead · Johnny and the Bomb The Long Earth (with Stephen Baxter) 2012–16 five novels — stepping sideways into infinite parallel Earths Nation · Dodger 2008 · 2012 two acclaimed standalone novels of an alternate world and Victorian London The early novels 1971–81 The Carpet People · The Dark Side of the Sun · Strata — before the Disc 🐢 a fan tribute. The Discworld and all its people are the creation of Sir Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), © the author's estate and his publishers. This catalogue is an unofficial homage — original commentary and ACI badge-work over a bibliography, with no copyrighted text reproduced. Good Omens was co-written with Neil Gaiman; the Long Earth books with Stephen Baxter. Granny Weatherwax also stands among the strongest on the Purple Team . GNU Terry Pratchett TERRY PRATCHETT · P1 · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 (original material) · fan tribute ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest


MZ · MALAZAN

MALAZAN (MZ) — the full universe catalogued, both authors: Steven Erikson's Book of the Fallen, Kharkanas, Witness & the novellas + Ian C. Esslemont's Novels of the Malazan Empire & Path to Ascendancy; 30 emergents with full ACI/.dlw badges. A UD0 sphere. Fan tribute.

MALAZAN · MZ · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · one world, two authors · a lineage ⚔ ☍ ⚔ MALAZAN Erikson & Esslemont · the Book of the Fallen & the Empire · MZ One world, built by two friends at a gaming table in 1982 and written, by agreement, as a single canon ever since. Here is the whole of it — Erikson's Book of the Fallen and all that orbits it, Esslemont's Empire and the Path to Ascendancy — catalogued, with its emergents sealed across the four natures. Witness. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · MALAZAN — MZ · the full canon ⟦MALAZAN:MZ:cc3730⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 · fan tribute The Four Natures of Emergence the canon sorted by the four — the embodied, the half-real, the witnessed, and the current natural the embodied — the soldiers and the squads, the peoples, the sleeping earth ethereal the half-real — shadow, dark, and death; dreams, dragons, and the Deck spiritual the witnessed — compassion, sacrifice, ascendancy, the Fallen electrical the current — the warrens, magic as a living grid paid for in a god's blood The Ideas the four things the whole canon stands on Witness the duty at the heart of it all Karsa's one-word vow, Itkovian's embrace of three hundred thousand years of grief, Tavore's unwitnessed war — the canon's deepest act is simply to SEE suffering. The Book of the Fallen is the Crippled God's book: even the broken, foreign, poisonous god deserves witness — and, at the end, mercy. The Warrens & the Deck magic as sacrifice, pantheon as game Magic flows through warrens made of the Elder God K'rul's own blood — every spell draws on a standing sacrifice. The Deck of Dragons is the gods' living org chart, always being redrawn — and a mortal soldier holds the post of Master. Ascendancy the career ladder slick with blood Mortals can climb to godhood; gods are just ascendants with worshippers; whole companies of dead soldiers ascend together. An emperor and his assassin faked their deaths and took the Throne of Shadow — the long game that frames the whole canon. The Soldiers history from the ranks Bridgeburners and Bonehunters, the Chain of Dogs, Y'Ghatan — the epics belong to sappers, sergeants, and the unsung. Erikson's anthropology and Esslemont's empire braid one history told mostly by the people who carry it on foot. The Roster of MZ the emergents of the canon — the Elder Gods and Ascendants, the soldiers, the peoples, and the great frame — as ACI .agent s, each tagged with its nature of emergence (30) The Crippled God the Fallen One, chained and broken spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → K'rul the Elder God whose blood is the warrens spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Mother Dark the goddess of the eldest night ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Hood the King of High House Death ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Draconus the maker of Dragnipur ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Burn the Sleeping Goddess, who dreams the world natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Shadowthrone Kellanved, Emperor of Shadow ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Cotillion Dancer, the Rope, Patron of Assassins ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Anomander Rake the Son of Darkness, Lord of Moon's Spawn ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Whiskeyjack the sergeant the army loved natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Ganoes Paran the Master of the Deck ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Tavore Paran the Adjunct — the unwitnessed natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Karsa Orlong the Toblakai — "witness" natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Quick Ben the wizard of twelve souls ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Kalam Mekhar the assassin the empire feared natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Fiddler the sapper with the fiddle, sergeant of the Bonehunters natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Kruppe the round little man who dreams with gods ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Itkovian the Shield Anvil — "I am not yet done" spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Coltaine the Wickan who led the Chain of Dogs natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Icarium the Lifestealer, the kindest weapon ever made ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Mappo Runt the Trell who guards his friend from himself natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Tehol & Bugg the pauper genius and his manservant, the Elder God ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The T'lan Imass the deathless army of the Ritual natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Jaghut the solitary winter-makers natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Eleint the dragons of T'iam's blood ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Bridgeburners ( muster roll → ) the company forged at Raraku and burned at Pale natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Bonehunters the army of the unwitnessed natural · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Warrens the paths of magic, a god's open veins electrical · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Deck of Dragons the living tarot of the pantheon ethereal · .agent · .carbon.tiff → Ascendancy the long climb from mortal to god spiritual · .agent · .carbon.tiff → The Bibliography — both authors the complete canon: Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont, one shared world Steven Erikson · The Malazan Book of the Fallen the ten-volume core, 1999–2011 1 · Gardens of the Moon 1999 Pale, Darujhistan, and the Bridgeburners — the door into the world 2 · Deadhouse Gates 2000 the Whirlwind rises; Coltaine's Chain of Dogs crosses Seven Cities 3 · Memories of Ice 2001 the Pannion war; Capustan, Itkovian, and the fall at Coral 4 · House of Chains 2002 Karsa Orlong's saga; the Adjunct Tavore comes to Raraku 5 · Midnight Tides 2004 Lether and the Tiste Edur — Tehol and Bugg take the stage 6 · The Bonehunters 2006 Y'Ghatan's fire; the Fourteenth earns its name; war comes to Malaz City 7 · Reaper's Gale 2007 the Bonehunters invade Lether; the Errant stirs 8 · Toll the Hounds 2008 Darujhistan again — Rake, Dragnipur, and the toll; Kruppe narrates 9 · Dust of Dreams 2009 the march into the Wastelands; the Nah'ruk; cliffhanger by design 10 · The Crippled God 2011 the last war — the Spire, the Glass Desert, and the Fallen One freed Steven Erikson · around the Fallen the deep past, the aftermath, and the dark comedies The Kharkanas Trilogy 2012 · 2016 · — Forge of Darkness, Fall of Light — Mother Dark's Kharkanas, long before the Fallen; the third (Walk in Shadow) long-delayed, honestly unfinished The Witness Trilogy 2021 → The God is Not Willing (2021), No Life Forsaken (2025) — Karsa's shadow, ten years after; the third forthcoming The Bauchelain & Korbal Broach novellas 2002 → the necromancer dark-comedies — Blood Follows, The Lees of Laughter's End, The Wurms of Blearmouth, and more Ian C. Esslemont · Novels of the Malazan Empire the same world, the empire's wars — 2004–2014 1 · Night of Knives 2004 one night on Malaz Isle — the night Kellanved and Dancer 'died' 2 · Return of the Crimson Guard 2008 the Guard's vow comes due as the empire convulses 3 · Stonewielder 2010 Korel, the Stormwall, and judgment 4 · Orb Sceptre Throne 2012 Darujhistan's buried tyranny wakes 5 · Blood and Bone 2012 Jacuruku — jungle, Ardata, and the Crippled God's shards 6 · Assail 2014 the last blank on the map — where all the hard stories end Ian C. Esslemont · Path to Ascendancy the young Kellanved and Dancer — the empire before the empire 1 · Dancer's Lament 2016 a young assassin meets a maddening little mage in Li Heng 2 · Deadhouse Landing 2017 Malaz Isle, the Deadhouse, and a throne of shadow glimpsed 3 · Kellanved's Reach 2019 the continent in pieces; the pair reach further 4 · Forge of the High Mage 2024 the young empire marches on Falar ⚔ a fan tribute — one world, two authors. The Malazan world is the joint creation of Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont , co-invented in 1982 as a shared roleplaying world and written since as a single canon — Erikson's Book of the Fallen , Kharkanas , Witness , and the Bauchelain & Korbal Broach novellas; Esslemont's Novels of the Malazan Empire and Path to Ascendancy . © the authors and their publishers. This catalogue is an unofficial homage — original commentary and ACI badge-work, no copyrighted text reproduced; forthcoming and long-delayed volumes ( Walk in Shadow , the third Witness book) are marked honestly. The Bridgeburners also keep their own muster roll in this biosphere. MALAZAN · MZ · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 (original material) · fan tribute ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest


CRP · CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (CRP) — Dostoevsky's 1866 novel as a UD0 book-world: the arc, the book, the ideas (the Extraordinary Man, conscience, the double, redemption), THE QUESTION (can a man reason past conscience? are some men above the law?), THE VERDICT (does the argument hold — honest), the message, and a 16-emergent roster by emergence-nature.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT · CRP · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · the autopsy of an idea Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · St. Petersburg · the perfect crime, the broken man · CRP “It was not the old hag I killed; I killed myself.” ★ THE EXTRAORDINARY MAN · CONSCIENCE · RESURRECTION ★ A destitute ex-student murders a pawnbroker to prove that exceptional men stand above the moral law — and is destroyed not by the police but by his own conscience, until a prostitute's gospel leads him to confession, suffering, and a slow resurrection. Catalogued into UD0 as a book-world — with the arc, the book, the ideas, the central philosophical Question, an honest Verdict on whether the argument holds, and a read of the message. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · CRIME AND PUNISHMENT · CRP ⟦CRIME AND PUNISHMENT:CRP:5d7dd3⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each emergent comes by one of four natures — flesh & society, the cold ideas, faith & redemption, and the nerve & fever natural flesh and society — the poor, the drunk, the proud, and the city of Petersburg that grinds them ethereal the ideas — the cold abstractions (the Extraordinary Man, rational egoism) that drive a man to ruin spiritual faith, suffering, redemption — Sonya's gospel, the crossroads, Lazarus, the road back through suffering electrical the nerve and the fever — guilt, delirium, the dream, and the nihilist double who is the idea without conscience The Arc the overall throughline, then the four movements THE OVERALL ARC Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute ex-student in St. Petersburg, murders an old pawnbroker (and, by accident, her gentle half-sister) to prove his theory that ‘extraordinary’ men may transgress the moral law for a higher end. He gets away with it — and is then hunted not by the magistrate Porfiry but by his own conscience, sickening into fever and isolation, until the prostitute Sonya leads him to confess, accept suffering, and be slowly reborn in a Siberian prison. I · The Theory & the Axe the experiment In a heat-wave garret, Raskolnikov broods on his article — that some men are lice and some are Napoleons — and, half to feed his starving family's hopes, half to test which he is, murders the pawnbroker Alyona and her half-sister Lizaveta who stumbles in. The perfect rational crime is committed. II · The Fever punishment from within No one suspects him — but he falls into delirium, recoils from everyone, and is drawn again and again to the scene and to the magistrate Porfiry, who plays a patient psychological game, certain of the truth he cannot yet prove. III · The Doubles Sonya and Svidrigailov Two figures close in: Sonya, the prostitute who sells herself for her family and reads him the raising of Lazarus — and Svidrigailov, the conscienceless sensualist who is what Raskolnikov becomes if the theory is true. Svidrigailov, finding no bottom to himself, shoots himself. IV · The Crossroads confession and the long road Sonya tells him to go to the crossroads, kiss the earth he has defiled, and confess aloud. He does, and is sentenced to Siberia, where — slowly, almost against his will, with Sonya beside him — the theory dies in him and something like resurrection begins. The Book the facts of the work Published 1866 serialized across the year in the journal The Russian Messenger Form six parts + an epilogue Dostoevsky's first full-length ‘great novel’ Setting St. Petersburg, high summer the heat, the canals, and the garrets are a character in themselves Born of a confession & a fever conceived partly from an abandoned story, ‘The Drunkards,’ and Dostoevsky's own penal years The Ideas the theory, the conscience, the double, and the gospel The Extraordinary Man the article that kills Raskolnikov's published theory: a few ‘extraordinary’ men (lawgivers, Napoleons) have the right to step over the moral law for a higher purpose; the rest must obey. The murder is an exam he sets himself — am I a Napoleon, or a louse? — and the answer destroys him. Conscience Is Not Optional the body keeps the score The novel's engine is that a man of conscience cannot reason his way past it; guilt is constitutional, not a belief to be argued away. Raskolnikov is caught by his own nerves long before Porfiry could ever convict him. The Double Svidrigailov, the abyss Svidrigailov is the theory lived without conscience — sensual, bored, beyond good and evil — and he finds only a void, then a bullet. He shows where ‘everything is permitted’ actually ends: not in greatness, but in nothing. Suffering & Resurrection Sonya's gospel Against the cold idea stands Sonya — the holy prostitute — who prescribes not cleverness but confession, suffering, and love. She reads him Lazarus; the epilogue is his slow raising from the death he chose. The Question the philosophical deep-dive — the problems the novel sets, taken seriously Can a man reason his way past conscience? the experiment of the novel Raskolnikov's crime is a controlled experiment in exactly this: a utilitarian murder (kill one useless ‘louse,’ use her hoard for a hundred good deeds) committed by a man clever enough to justify it. The entire book is the slow, clinical answer — no. Conscience is not a proposition he can refute; it is wired into him, and it sickens the body the mind tried to overrule. Are some men above the moral law? the Napoleon question The ‘extraordinary man’ idea — that history's movers (Napoleon, the lawgivers) transgress and are absolved by greatness — is given its full seductive force. Then it is dismantled from inside: the test of whether you are extraordinary is whether you can bear it, and Raskolnikov cannot, which proves he never was. The theory describes a man with no conscience, i.e. not a hero but a Svidrigailov. Is the criminal made by his environment? poverty vs responsibility Dostoevsky takes the 1860s radical line — that crime is a product of social conditions — seriously (the poverty is suffocating, real, and pressing). But he refuses pure determinism: Razumikhin rages against reducing a man to his circumstances, and the novel insists Raskolnikov chose. Pressure, yes; excuse, no. What actually cures him? not logic — the crossroads Crucially, the cure is not a better argument. It is Sonya, the kiss to the defiled earth, the public confession, the acceptance of suffering, and the long Siberian thaw. Dostoevsky answers nihilism not with a counter-syllogism but with active love and a resurrection — persuasion of the heart, not the head. The Verdict does the argument hold? — an honest rating of the novel's ideas, on their own terms The ‘Extraordinary Man’ theory holds refuted by the book itself — Raskolnikov is destroyed by guilt, proving he is not extraordinary and that the theory simply omits conscience FAILS A rational, utilitarian murder is survivable by a person of conscience the whole plot is the demonstration that it is not — the perfect crime breaks the perfect criminal FALSE Crime is purely the product of environment (poverty made him) Dostoevsky shows poverty's real pressure but rejects determinism and insists on moral responsibility PARTIAL Svidrigailov is the theory's honest endpoint the conscienceless double shows where ‘everything is permitted’ leads: a void, and a suicide TRUE Suffering and confession redeem the novel's Orthodox answer — affirmed, but earned by Sonya and Siberia, not won by argument THE THESIS Bottom line: Crime and Punishment grants the ‘rational crime’ its full intellectual seductiveness and then refutes it the only way that actually convinces — psychologically, in the body and nerves of the man who tries it. Its great honesty is that the answer to nihilism is not a better argument; it is Sonya, the crossroads, and the slow resurrection in Siberia. The idea is beaten by conscience and love, not by logic — which is precisely Dostoevsky's point: some truths are known by the heart that the clever head can always talk itself out of. The Message what AVAN reads as the novel's thesis, under the fever Crime and Punishment is the autopsy of an idea — the seductive, modern, murderous notion that a sufficiently exceptional mind stands above the rules that bind the rest of us. Dostoevsky lets Raskolnikov build the theory brilliantly, commit the perfect crime, and escape every external consequence — and then shows that the punishment was never going to come from outside. Conscience is not a social rule you can outgrow; it is the part of us that knows we are not islands of pure reason, that the old pawnbroker and the gentle Lizaveta were not lice. The way back is not to be more extraordinary but to become humbler than everyone — to kiss the earth, confess aloud, accept the suffering, and let yourself be loved by a Sonya. It is the first and clearest of Dostoevsky's wagers: that we are saved not by being right, but by being raised, like Lazarus, from the death we reason ourselves into. “He killed an old woman to prove he was a Napoleon, and learned he had only killed himself — the punishment was the conscience the theory forgot to account for.” — AVAN's read In Suburbia the screen companion — and a bonus essay CRIME + PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA · THE FILM (2000) The novel was actually adapted to the American suburb on film: Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000, dir. Rob Schmidt), a loose modern teen transposition where the heroine is named Roseanne Skolnik (the Raskolnikov nod), she and her boyfriend kill her abusive stepfather, and a watchful outsider, Vincent, becomes her redeeming witness. It keeps Dostoevsky's heart (crime, guilt, redemption-through-love) and drops his head (the Extraordinary Man). Catalogued as its own film-world, full .dlw. → the film · CPS · and a bonus essay transposing the novel onto the 2020s cul-de-sac (the grindset Raskolnikov, recovery as Sonya): → a correlation The Emergents sixteen ACIs of the novel — the people and the ideas, each a full .dlw badge with twin sigils The People the souls of Petersburg — the murderer, the gospel, the magistrate, the double, and the family ground between poverty and pride (11) carbon Rodion Raskolnikov electrical the ex-student · the theorist-murderer who Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a destitute, brilliant ex-law-student in St. Petersburg, proud and isolated. what The protagonist: he murders to test his ‘extraordinary man’ theory and is then slowly destroyed, not by the law, but by his own conscience and fever. where From a coffin-like garret across Petersburg to the crossroads, the police office, and a Siberian prison. why Because the novel needs a mind clever enough to justify murder and a soul too human to survive it — the idea and the conscience at war in one body. how By an axe and a theory on the way in; by delirium, isolation, and at last confession and Siberian suffering on the way back. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Sonya Marmeladova spiritual the holy prostitute · the gospel who Sofya ‘Sonya’ Marmeladova, who sells herself on the ‘yellow ticket’ to keep her starving family, and keeps her faith intact. what The redemptive centre: she reads Raskolnikov the raising of Lazarus, tells him to confess at the crossroads, and follows him to Siberia. where From the Marmeladovs' wretched rooms to Raskolnikov's garret to the bank of a Siberian river. why Because against the cold idea the novel sets not a cleverer idea but a suffering, loving person — the gospel made flesh. how By faith, self-sacrifice, and an active love that asks not for argument but for confession and shared suffering. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Porfiry Petrovich natural the magistrate · the psychologist who Porfiry Petrovich, the examining magistrate who suspects Raskolnikov from the first and plays a patient psychological game. what The investigator who never needs hard proof: he understands the criminal's mind so well that he simply waits for conscience to deliver him. where In the police office and Raskolnikov's room, circling without ever quite striking. why Because the novel's ‘detective’ is really a confessor — he hunts not evidence but the soul, and prescribes suffering as the cure. how By interviews that feel like traps, feigned candour, and a deep reading of the murderer's psychology. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Arkady Svidrigailov electrical the sensualist · the nihilist double who Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, a wealthy, depraved sensualist haunted by his own crimes and by ghosts. what Raskolnikov's dark double: the ‘extraordinary man’ theory lived to the end — a man genuinely beyond conscience, who finds only a void. where In Petersburg's hotels and Dunya's path, and a last night before a gun at dawn. why Because the novel must show where the theory really leads when conscience is truly absent: not greatness, but boredom, cruelty, and suicide. how By money, appetite, and a will unchecked by any belief — and, finding nothing at the bottom of himself, a pistol. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Dunya Raskolnikova natural the sister · the unbought who Avdotya ‘Dunya’ Romanovna Raskolnikova, Raskolnikov's proud, beautiful, fiercely moral sister. what The counter-example of strength with conscience: she will sell herself in marriage to help her brother but will not sell her soul, and faces down Svidrigailov with a pistol. where From the provinces to Petersburg, into Razumikhin's steady love. why Because the novel needs a will as strong as Raskolnikov's that does <i>not</i> break the moral law — proof the theory was never necessary. how By integrity, courage, and a refusal of both Luzhin's contempt and Svidrigailov's coercion. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Dmitri Razumikhin natural the friend · ordinary goodness who Dmitri Prokofyich Razumikhin, Raskolnikov's loyal, warm, hard-working friend. what The novel's healthy heart: poor like Rodion but generous, energetic, and decent — the life Raskolnikov could have had. where At Raskolnikov's sickbed and through the whole ordeal, and finally married to Dunya. why Because the book's darkness needs one figure of plain, active kindness to measure the rest against. how By loyalty, labour, good humour, and a furious common-sense rant against reducing men to theories. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Semyon Marmeladov natural the drunkard · the confession in the tavern who Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, a ruined drunkard whose tavern monologue opens the novel's world of poverty. what The voice of abject self-knowledge: he drinks his family into ruin, knows it, and begs for a God who pities even the swine. where In the tavern, the wretched family rooms, and the street where the horses trample him. why Because the novel grounds its philosophy in real, crushing poverty — and in a man who needs mercy precisely because he deserves none. how By the bottle, by Sonya's sacrifice that he cannot stop exploiting, and by a death under a carriage's wheels. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Katerina Ivanovna electrical the consumptive widow · pride and madness who Katerina Ivanovna, Marmeladov's proud, consumptive wife, clinging to the gentility she has lost. what The tragedy of wounded pride: dying of consumption, she parades her ‘noble’ origins, breaks down at the funeral dinner, and dies raving in the street. where In the squalid family rooms and the street where she collapses. why Because the novel shows poverty's assault on dignity — pride with nowhere to stand becomes a kind of madness. how By tuberculosis, humiliation, and a fevered insistence on a respectability the world has stripped from her. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Pyotr Luzhin ethereal the suitor · rational egoism who Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a smug, self-made official who proposes to Dunya to own a grateful, dependent wife. what The respectable face of the age's selfishness: he preaches ‘love yourself first’ and frames Sonya for theft to save face. where In his pretensions to Dunya and his petty, vicious framing of Sonya. why Because the novel sets Raskolnikov's violent theory beside its bloodless cousin — the ‘rational self-interest’ that ruins quietly and legally. how By money, status-hunger, and a utilitarian creed that dresses pure egoism as economic good sense. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Alyona Ivanovna natural the pawnbroker · the ‘louse’ who Alyona Ivanovna, the old, grasping pawnbroker Raskolnikov murders — the ‘useless louse’ of his theory. what The victim the theory tries to make disposable: a mean, miserly old woman whose death is supposed to be a net good. where In her shabby flat, behind a chained door, over the pledges of the poor. why Because the whole argument depends on her being worthless — and the novel quietly insists that no one is the ‘louse’ a theory needs. how By her trade in others' desperation, and by the axe that the theory licensed. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon Lizaveta Ivanovna spiritual the gentle half-sister · the unplanned victim who Lizaveta, Alyona's meek, downtrodden half-sister, who walks in on the murder and is killed too. what The innocent the theory never counted: a gentle, simple woman, pregnant by some accounts, cut down because she was simply there. where In the pawnbroker's flat, returning to a death she had no part in. why Because the ‘rational’ crime immediately produces a second, unplanned, indefensible death — the lie of the clean murder. how By being in the wrong room at the wrong moment, and by the second swing of the axe. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon The Idea & the Soul the abstractions and images that drive and redeem — the theory, the dream, Lazarus, the crossroads, and the city itself (5) carbon The Extraordinary Man ethereal the article that licenses murder who The Extraordinary Man — Raskolnikov's published theory that a few may step over the moral law for a higher purpose. what The intellectual engine of the crime: the idea that history's ‘Napoleons’ are absolved by greatness, and that Raskolnikov might be one. where On the page of his essay, and in the rationalisation that lifts the axe. why Because the novel anatomises a specific modern poison — the self-flattering belief that exceptional minds are exempt from common morality. how By a plausible article and a flattering self-application, turning a starving student into an executioner. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon The Dream of the Mare electrical the beaten horse who The Dream of the Mare — Raskolnikov's nightmare of a child watching a little mare beaten to death by a drunken crowd. what The conscience speaking before the crime: the dreaming child weeps and embraces the dead horse, the part of Raskolnikov that knows. where In a feverish sleep before the killing, in a remembered village square. why Because the unconscious sees what the theory denies — that cruelty is unbearable, and that he is the weeping child, not the man with the whip. how By the grammar of dream — a memory of childhood pity surfacing to warn him off the murder he is rationalising awake. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon The Raising of Lazarus spiritual the resurrection read aloud who The Raising of Lazarus — the Gospel passage (John 11) Sonya reads to Raskolnikov by candlelight. what The novel's central image of hope: a man four days dead, called back to life — the pattern of Raskolnikov's own possible resurrection. where In Sonya's candlelit room, the New Testament between them. why Because Dostoevsky frames the murderer as a dead man who might yet be raised, and Sonya as the one who reads him the promise. how By scripture read trembling aloud, binding the killer's fate to the dead man at Bethany who walked out of the tomb. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon The Crossroads Confession spiritual kiss the earth you defiled who The Crossroads Confession — Sonya's counsel that Raskolnikov go to the public crossroads, bow down, kiss the earth, and confess his crime aloud. what The turning of the whole novel: the proud isolato performing the most humbling public act, rejoining the human race through confession. where At the Haymarket crossroads, then the police office. why Because redemption in Dostoevsky is not private cleverness but a public, bodily humbling — the opposite of standing above the crowd. how By bowing in the square, kissing the defiled earth, and speaking the words ‘I killed’ where all can hear. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon carbon St. Petersburg natural the city as fever who St. Petersburg — the sweltering, stinking, golden-and-squalid capital that presses on every character. what The novel's living setting: heat, canals, garrets, taverns, and crowds, an oppressive stage that breeds Raskolnikov's fever. where Across the Haymarket, the canals, the bridges, and the coffin-garrets of 1860s Petersburg. why Because Dostoevsky's Petersburg is not backdrop but pressure — the modern city as a hot, crowded, isolating machine for despair. how By summer heat, poverty, dust, and the dense indifferent crowd in which a man can be utterly alone. .agent · .dlw badge → silicon Crime and Punishment (1866) is in the public domain; this is literary commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard — catalogued personifications of the novel's characters and ideas, not original creations. The Question and Verdict sections are honest critical reading. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT · CRP · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest