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K10 Changelog

This log provides a high-level summary of major contributions and development phases for the K10 project. For a more granular, iterative history, consult the project's version control logs.

Phase 5: The Unawakened World (Ongoing)

  • Primary Goal: To significantly deepen the lore and narrative significance of the Unawakened factions, particularly the guilds of Nexus. This phase will shift focus from high-level magical conflicts to the mundane, economic, and social systems that form the bedrock of the K10 world.
  • Key Activities:
    • Expanding the roster of Unawakened character exemplars and integrating them into existing narratives.
    • Detailing the internal politics, key figures, and operational methods of the major Nexus guilds.
    • Creating new narrative content (case studies, reports) that showcases the Unawakened perspective and their unique forms of power.
    • Nexus & Unawakened Deep Dive: Completed several major cycles focused on Phase 5. This involved creating new Unawakened lore and character profiles (Master Caelus, The Oracle, Somnus), adding descriptive text for visual assets (Astral Pests, Beast-Kin), and validating guild mechanics via playtesting. Significant review and maintenance passes were performed to consolidate historical documents (e.g., factional schisms), improve prose, fix a large volume of broken links, and resolve issues with the catalog generation script.
  • Cultural Expansion: Completed a full development cycle focused on expanding factional culture. This involved creating dedicated documents for architectural-styles.md, factional-cuisine.md, and magical-pedagogy.md to serve as briefs for future visual assets, and integrating this new lore into military and character documents.
  • System Hardening & Asset Creation: Completed multiple cycles focused on repository maintenance and polish. Key activities included creating symbolic briefs for all 22 Paths, refactoring several generation scripts for better maintainability, converting numerous inline SVGs to static assets, and performing comprehensive prose and style audits on foundational documents like "The Wanderer's Path." Added several new visual assets for key concepts and narrative scenes (Oracle's Contract, Chokmah Star-Moths, Un-naming Ritual).
  • Core Concept Visualization: Fulfilled several high-priority visual design goals by creating and integrating diagrams for core concepts, including The Three Pillars, Strategic Doctrines, The Qliphoth Tree, and a comprehensive Cosmology Overview, improving the accessibility of foundational lore.
  • Faction Aesthetics: Created and integrated new visual assets to better define factional identity, including diagrams for architectural-styles.md and factional-cuisine.md.
  • Iconography: Generated a complete set of 10 symbolic icons for the Qliphothic Husks and integrated them into the core cosmology documents, providing a clear visual language for these concepts.
  • Narrative Visualization: Created and integrated a new diagram for "The Absurdity Offensive" narrative case study, fulfilling a high-priority visual design goal.

Phase 4: Narrative Deepening (Completed)

  • Primary Goal: To build out the major narrative arcs of the K10 world by detailing the key conflicts, events, and characters that define its history. This phase focused on creating interconnected, in-world historical documents rather than broad system design.
  • Key Achievements:
    • Narrative Arc Completion: Substantially fleshed out the "War of the Shifting Throne" arc with numerous detailed historical documents, character backstories, and playtest scenarios, creating a rich, interconnected narrative.
    • System & Lore Finalization: Reached a major project milestone with the completion of all core system documents. This includes:
      • All 22 Arcanum Legion primers.
      • Detailed mechanics for all 22 Paths and their Mastery Invocations.
      • Full breakdowns for all foundational and esoteric magical Cycles.
    • Catalog Integration: Formatted all core magic system documents with summary tables to facilitate the auto-generation of the catalogs in docs/catalog/.
    • Repository Polish: Performed comprehensive reviews and link management passes, ensuring high consistency, correcting errors, and improving document structure and accessibility across the wiki.

Phase 3: System Refinement & Polish (Completed)

  • Primary Goal: To refine, connect, and expand the foundational content from previous phases, adding depth and texture to the world while ensuring consistency. This phase marked the maturation of the core systems and lore.
  • Key Activities:
    • Faction & Military Deepening: Expanded faction military rosters ("Beast-Kin", Unawakened corps), integrated Nexus guild logistics, and completed strategic counters for all 22 Arcanum Legions.
    • Cultural Expansion: Added a comprehensive suite of documents on factional aesthetics, architecture, cuisine, justice systems, and social structures, providing a rich, non-military context for each faction.
    • System Refinement: Added "Invocation" abilities to Arcanum Mastery tiers for more concrete, non-combat progression, and validated esoteric archetypes through numerous narrative playtests.
    • Narrative Arc Foundation: Established the "War of the Shifting Throne" arc and detailed its initial key events, setting the stage for Phase 4.

Phase 2: Content Expansion

  • Primary Goal: To build upon the foundational systems with a wide array of detailed content, adding texture and depth to the world.
  • Key Activities:
    • System & Lore Expansion: Completed the full set of the 22 Arcanum Legions, 10 Qliphothic Avatars, 10 Sefirotic Realms, and numerous Archetypal Builds.
    • RTS Lore Integration: Added specific RTS profiles and tactical doctrines to all military factions to provide a rich background for strategic gameplay concepts.
    • Unawakened Perspectives: Created a library of in-world texts to showcase the Unawakened view on magic, economics, and warfare, adding a crucial non-magical perspective to the world.
    • Narrative Content: Added battle-perspective documents and folkloric tales to illustrate how the core concepts of the world manifest in story and culture.

Phase 1: Core System Foundation

  • Primary Goal: To establish the foundational pillars of the K10 project.
  • Key Activities:

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