skills/worldbuilding-scribe/assets/seed-world/types/law.md

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id: types/law
kind: type
name: Law
applies_to_kind: entity
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How the world works, stated by the narrator rather than believed by anyone.
The body is narrator prose and is world-true as written (KERNEL §5): "debt
binds persons only", "nothing answers prayer", "iron will not hold an edge
here". Not doctrine — a doctrine is an `idea` somebody `holds`, and its
content asserts nothing.

Being typed rather than merely written, laws are findable by any lens, and
like everything they decompose: corollaries and exceptions become `part_of`
the law when someone writes them. A law that stands against the world's own
rules carries `fiat: true`; a law does not otherwise need it.