Magic System Appendix: Continuity Map

Scope

This map separates retained magic rules from the revised novel canon. For plot, timeline, and character identity, Core Story Architecture is authoritative.

Keep As Canon (Rewritten Language)

• Azhur's Ore: The Quantum Bridge
• The Field: Omnipresent Consciousness
• Memory Fuel: The Price of Magic
• The Six Amesha Spentas: Resonance Currents
• Trinity Conduits: Advanced Resonance
• Nodes of Power: Where The Field Bleeds Through
• The Channelers: Soul-Labor Class
• The Varyan Mutation: Genetics of Magic
• Void-Ore & Div Transformation
• Farr: Divine Glory and Sovereignty

New Canon Anchors

• Core Story Architecture: The Blood-Key and the Broken Sun
• The Tragedy of the Broken Sun
• Magic System: The Rule of Flow
• Magic System Appendix: Lore Integration
• Magic System Appendix: Scene Guide
• Magic System Appendix: Continuity Map

Reframed Relationships

• Core vs mythic: Core casting rules now stand independent of cosmology details.
• Spectrum role: Spectra are expression profiles, not separate fuel pools.
• Scale economics: Nodes and channelers are the default mechanism for institutional power.
• Taboo escalation: Void-ore is formally classified as moral-collapse acceleration, not advanced training.
• Farr position: Farr remains meta-legitimacy, outside ordinary resonance channels.
• Blood-key: A rare lineage grants access to the exceptional solar interface; it is not a new current or a universal fuel source.
• Bijan: An artificial person with memory impressions, not a resurrection or a vessel that contains the original.
• Old chapter drafts: Chapters 1-8 are superseded and unpublished pending rewrite; their prose is retained as noncanonical source material.

Deprecated Interpretations

• "Equivalent exchange" style assumptions of balanced trade are deprecated.
• Any implication of consequence-free mass magic is deprecated.
• Any reading of void-ore as recoverable experimentation is deprecated.
• The old chapter framing of Anahita as the protagonist and Zahhak as empowered solely by an Ahriman bargain is superseded.
• The old Broken Sun framing as an unknown containment anomaly is superseded by the blood-key, Giza, captivity, and release history.

Standard Terminology

• Prefer Azhur's Ore (not alternate spellings) for consistency.
• Use Rule of Flow when describing the modern core framework.
• Use debt as the universal cost term (somatic and mnemonic).