This Lore category contains in-world documents presented as raw, diegetic text. These transcripts, logs, and reports provide a direct window into the universe’s conflicts and perspectives, using subjective character voices to explore deep lore and dramatize the game’s core philosophical tensions. They are a primary vehicle for “showing, not telling” the stories of the Tapestry.

Contents

• Arbiter’s Log - The personal log of a Hegemony official in Nova Roma as his rigid Faith in the system is dismantled by the undeniable Fact of its decay.
• Griefwood Arbitration - A formal dispute between the life-revering Arborians and the death-worshiping Thanatech, debating the metaphysical ‘ownership’ of ancestral Eidos.
• Jax is Dead - A field correspondent’s log detailing a tragic first contact with the Krystallos, where a poacher’s pragmatic Facts collide with a sacred, biological truth.
• Mirror of Axiom-7 - An after-action report of a first contact with a reactive Eidomorph, demonstrating a Conflict where the only winning move is not to play.
• Phileas’ Design Notes - The personal design log of the Artisan who created the Ancestor’s Orrery, revealing the cold, utilitarian Faith behind his act of sacrilege.
• The Sovereign vs The Parliament - A philosophical debate between the radical individualist Nyx and a collective Ensemblant consciousness on the nature of a coherent self.