Glasswater Valley

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "cinderfolk-region",
  "name": "Glasswater Valley",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "The high, cold valley containing Cinderfolk Village, Lamp Road, and The Mine.",
  "details": [
    "Region is the macro geographic scale; zones are smaller authored areas within it.",
    "Location art palettes contain two to five colors ordered from dominant field color to rare accent. A child location inherits the nearest parent palette unless it defines its own complete palette; local overrides remain visibly related to the regional family."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "cinderfolk-region-craft-lamp-road-look",
      "at": "2026-09-08T02:18:52.462Z",
      "summary": "Separated regional identity from local zone identity.",
      "reason": "Different regions need distinct moods with blended transition routes.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:lamp-road",
        "ref:cinderfolk-village"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "review-migration",
        "label": "Prototype review: craft-lamp-road-look",
        "locator": "archive/migrations/2026-09-08-prototype-review.json#review.answers.craft-lamp-road-look"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cinderfolk-region-location-palette-inheritance",
      "at": "2026-09-10T19:47:43Z",
      "summary": "Established the intended region-to-zone palette inheritance model before choosing exact colors.",
      "reason": "A shared regional palette can keep nearby settings related while optional child palettes distinguish Lamp Road, the village, Glasswater Reach, Orchard Court, and the mine by light, function, material, and mood. Keeping the field to an ordered array of two to five colors makes the constraint simple enough to use in maps and visual briefs.",
      "confidence": "The inheritance behavior and size constraint reflect the owner's direction. Exact colors and the Motherlode Mine's missing containment relationship still require approval.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:lamp-road",
        "ref:glasswater-reach",
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:orchard-court",
        "ref:mine-road",
        "ref:motherlode-mine"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Regional and zone palette discussion, 2026-09-10"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cinderfolk-region-palette-selected",
      "at": "2026-09-10T20:33:39Z",
      "summary": "Selected the saturated Cinderfolk regional palette and its local overrides.",
      "reason": "The owner found the earlier family too desaturated and approved the richer palette after reviewing swatches and generated environment frames.",
      "confidence": "The colors guide maps and visual briefs; material response, lighting, weather, and value structure may shift their appearance without changing the palette relationship.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:lamp-road",
        "ref:glasswater-reach",
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:orchard-court",
        "ref:motherlode-mine"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Cinderfolk palette approval, 2026-09-10"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cinderfolk-region-renamed-glasswater-valley",
      "at": "2026-09-14T14:21:03Z",
      "summary": "Renamed the region Glasswater Valley and made it the top-level place containing the village, Lamp Road, and The Mine.",
      "reason": "The owner rejected the abstract Cinderfolk Region label and clarified that the Atlas needs a geographic unit above its major playable places. Glasswater is the existing named watershed reached by Lamp Road, so it supplies a place-first valley name rather than naming the land after a data category.",
      "confidence": "Glasswater Valley is a working name selected by Codex from the existing Glasswater toponym; the owner requested a better name but has not confirmed this exact wording.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:lamp-road",
        "ref:motherlode-mine",
        "ref:glasswater-reach"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Owner place-hierarchy correction, 2026-09-14"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "location",
  "categories": [
    "region"
  ],
  "image": "assets/studies/wrought-naturalism-v1/wrought-naturalism/village-working-entrance.webp",
  "palette": [
    "#1F4033",
    "#59713F",
    "#80705A",
    "#8A4E2F",
    "#C4B27F"
  ],
  "parentRefs": [],
  "connectsToRefs": [],
  "passesThroughRefs": [],
  "adjacentToRefs": []
}