{ "authority": "proposal_package", "note": "NOT canon — versioned proposal package for human review.", "package": { "id": 68, "title": "The Hihn Confluence — new Silgolt riverland country (spatial-only)", "origin_kind": "mcp", "source_summary": "Grounded on map/spatial countries.json (country feature Hihn, id 5), rivers.json (river family Hihn, Hihnso, Hihnsi, Hihnsokek, Hihnzo, Hihnzoly), adjacency.json (Hihn adjacency record), and spatial-brief.md sections for Tovo Duchy, Aalhotikyn Duchy, Ohynso Duchy, Namuzdus Dominion, Siltuz Federation, Súzyngol Federation, Tuzraag Duchy, Ygtaani Duchy, Okâzjuní Union (all reference Hihn). Canon contrast and context: countries_and_continents.continents.silgolt.nations.revakgol.empire_of_revakgol, countries_and_continents.continents.silgolt, history.events.the_twin_pyres_schism, history.events.revakgol_imperial_peak_and_cultural_decay. Species names from Silgolt context (Zegtuzsos, Yukejulhel, Kaetijulhel, Saarotsos). No prior canon entity or candidate package exists for Hihn. Structural sibling: package 66 (Izheim Union).", "created_at": "2026-08-11 23:52:13", "updated_at": "2026-08-12 08:39:27", "rollup": { "state": "canonized", "counts": { "candidate": 1, "canonized": 1 }, "total": 2, "accepted": 0, "canonized": 1, "resolved": 1 } }, "items": [ { "id": 68, "key": "primary", "title": "Package overview", "kind": "overview", "status": "candidate", "version": 1, "target_entity_id": null, "payload": { "markdown": "# Ask\n\nPropose a full first-draft country entity for **Hihn**, a spatial-only country with zero canon lore and no prior candidate package.\n\n## Grounding\n- Map/spatial: country feature \"Hihn\" (countries.json), an adjacency record, and a family of rivers sharing its name stem: Hihn (multiple), Hihnso, Hihnsi, Hihnsokek, Hihnzo, Hihnzoly. The river family is the core of this draft: Hihn is written as a country defined by its water.\n- Spatial briefs of Tovo Duchy, Aalhotikyn Duchy, Ohynso Duchy, Namuzdus Dominion, Siltuz Federation, Súzyngol Federation, Tuzraag Duchy, Ygtaani Duchy and Okâzjuní Union all mention Hihn, placing it among the Silgolt-region polities. Tovo is canon-anchored to western imperial history (West Pyre in the Tovo marches), which supports a west or central Silgolt placement.\n- Canon contrast: Empire of Revakgol (east Silgolt, absolute hierarchy, regulated Tazri, memory-keeping ideology).\n\n## Items in this package\n1. **Overview** (this item) — framing only.\n2. **Entity: The Hihn Confluence** — complete new country entity draft under a Silgolt nations path.\n\n## Design choices\n- Identity flows from hydrology: a braided riverland where the flood calendar, not a throne, structures public life. This deliberately contrasts Revakgol (fire, hierarchy, permanence) with water, seasonality and consensus, while staying distinct from the Izheim Union draft (federalism of provinces vs. governance by watershed).\n- Zegtuzsos (Lizardborn) plurality in the wetlands, Yukejulhel (human) market towns, small Kaetijulhel presence upstream. All species names are canon Silgolt species; the demographic split is invented.\n- No new deities. Local river observance kept animist and unofficial to avoid touching Firraaii canon.\n- Contact with Revakgol limited to trade and the canon institution of the Servants of the Record; no claim that the Empire ever ruled Hihn (canon states the Empire never spanned Silgolt as a whole).\n- Sigtaara-styled exonym \"Hihnir\" for the demonym (echoing Sigtaara plural forms such as Furaktuzir, Junir); flagged as invention.\n\n## Open questions for the human reviewer\n- Exact continent assignment: strongly indicated as Silgolt by neighbor briefs, but I could not read the raw countries.json record through the MCP. Please verify against the map before promotion.\n- Which of the nine brief-linked polities are true land neighbors vs. merely nearby.\n- The spatial brief appears to carry no government-form label for Hihn (searches for Kingdom, Duchy, Union, Federation, Dominion, Republic, Empire, Principality, Horde, Theocracy, League, Protectorate combined with Hihn all returned nothing). This draft leans into that absence diegetically; overrule if the map does specify a form.\n- Capital settlement name and whether to create a settlement entity.\n- Founding date, currency name, official language list.\n\nThis material is **not canon**. Promote or revise in Studio." } }, { "id": 69, "key": "entity-the-hihn-confluence", "title": "Entity: The Hihn Confluence", "kind": "entity", "status": "canonized", "version": 1, "target_entity_id": "countries_and_continents.continents.silgolt.nations.hihn.hihn_confluence", "payload": { "aliases": [ "Hihn", "the Confluence", "the Hihn Waters" ], "content": { "agriculture_and_industry": "Flood-recession cropping on the silt terraces, fisheries and eel-weirs, reed and clay wares, dyes and timber from the seasonal forest, upstream Kaetijulhel stonework and toolcraft.", "assets": "The navigable Hihn channel network itself; levee and ferry infrastructure maintained stretch by stretch; flood-recession farmland of exceptional fertility; fisheries; reed, clay and dye production; the flood-tally records, which double as the country's legal archive.", "capital": "None in the fixed sense. The moot-ground at the great confluence serves as the ceremonial center; the largest year-round settlement is a market terrace town on the main Hihn channel, name open.", "culture": "Hihnir culture treats permanence with suspicion and maintenance with reverence. A levee, a ferry rope or a marker-pole is only ever borrowed from the next flood, so the person who repairs is honored above the person who builds. Memory is kept in flood-tallies: notched poles recording each year's high-water mark, cut and read aloud at the moot. Where Revakgol carves law into memory-stone so that nothing is forgotten, the Hihnir accept that the river will erase most things, and consider what survives three floods to be true enough. Hospitality follows the water: anyone may land, anyone may drink, but a guest who stays past the next rise is expected to pick up a mattock.", "demography_and_population": "A Zegtuzsos plurality suits the wetlands and works the channels, fisheries and reed-lands. Yukejulhel humans dominate the drier market terraces and the overland portage trades. Small Kaetijulhel communities work stone, clay and metal in the upstream hills where the Hihn tributaries run fast and cold. No species holds formal privilege; standing in the Confluence follows one's stretch and one's craft.", "demonym": "Hihnir (Sigtaara-styled exonym, widely adopted; local self-names vary by stretch)", "description": "The Hihn Confluence is the low country of the Hihn river family: the Hihn itself and its named kin, among them the Hihnso, Hihnsi, Hihnsokek, Hihnzo and Hihnzoly. For most of the year these channels braid through wetland, tropical seasonal forest and seasonal floodplain, dissolving and redrawing the land between them. The people who live there long ago stopped pretending that borders drawn in a dry month would survive a wet one. Instead they organized around the one constant they have: the water always returns. Outsiders struggle to say where Hihn begins. The Hihnir answer that it begins wherever a Hihn channel can carry a laden barge, and ends where it cannot.", "economic_system": "Market economy organized around channel tolls and seasonal trade fairs; wealth is measured in barge shares and stretch rights as much as coin", "foreign_relations": { "empire_of_revakgol": "Distant and formal. Revakgol's ordered permanence and the Confluence's seasonal consensus regard each other as mild absurdities. Imperial record-keepers remain welcome on the water, and are still charged double.", "neighbors": "Relations with the surrounding duchies and federations of the region (provisionally Tovo, Aalhotikyn and Ohynso among others) are mercantile and wary; each has at some point concluded that taxing Hihn trade at their own border beats garrisoning a floodplain.", "overall_strategy": "Armed usefulness. The Confluence keeps its channels open to all flags, its tolls predictable, and its wardens unbribable enough that no neighbor gains from replacing them." }, "government_system": "Seasonal moot of channel-wardenships; consensus assembly with no permanent central executive", "history": "Proposed framing, dates open: the Confluence coalesced out of landing-village compacts along the Hihn channels, formalized when repeated toll wars proved more expensive than a common moot. Hihnir tradition holds that imperial scribes of Revakgol, the Servants of the Record, once traveled the channels to chart them, and that the wardens guided them honestly and charged them double. Folk memory recalls the era of the Twin Pyres in the distant east as 'the years the fire argued with itself', during which river trade did well. No claim is made that any empire ever held the Confluence; the water is generally credited with that outcome.", "laws": "Law is customary, kept by wardens and tested at the moot. The gravest offense is water-crime: cutting a levee out of turn, false flood signals, fouling a channel, or seizing a ferry. Punishment runs from labor on the works to the sentence the Hihnir dread most, being 'set on dry land', permanent exile from every landing.", "leader_title": "First Warden of the Confluence", "military": "No standing army. Each stretch maintains a levy of polers, archers and levee-breakers. Hihn's defensive doctrine is hydrological: an invader can be granted the country and then denied the water, since the wardens know which cuts flood which ground. The levies exist mainly to make that lesson survivable for the Hihnir themselves.", "neighboring_geopolitical_organizations": [ "Tovo", "Aalhotikyn", "Ohynso" ], "official_state_religion": "None", "power_structure_system": "Radically decentralized; authority is tied to watercourses rather than land parcels, and rises and falls with the flood calendar", "public_agenda": "Keep the channels navigable, keep the tolls low enough that trade prefers the water to the roads, and keep every larger neighbor convinced that Hihn is more useful open than owned.", "recognized_official_languages": [ "Open — stretch dialects plus a channel trade tongue are expected; Sigtaara is read by wardens for foreign dealings" ], "religion": "No official religion. Observance centers on the rivers themselves: first-water offerings at the year's rise, silence kept at named confluences, and the reading of the flood-tallies as a rite as much as a record. These practices are local, uncoordinated and jealously particular to each stretch. Foreign faiths travel the channels freely with the trade and are tolerated so long as they do not tax landings.", "structure": { "first_warden": "The moot names a First Warden of the Confluence to speak for Hihn between moots, chiefly toward foreign powers. The office carries prestige and almost no domestic power, which the Hihnir regard as the point of it.", "overview": "Authority in the Confluence follows the water level. There is no permanent throne, court or capital bureaucracy in the imperial sense.", "the_moot": "When the floods recede, the moot convenes on the exposed floodplain at the great meeting of channels. Every landing-village sends speakers. The moot settles disputes between stretches, sets toll schedules for the coming year, hears grievances against wardens and, rarely, removes one. Decisions require broad assent; the Hihnir consider a narrow majority a decision not yet made.", "wardens": "Each navigable channel is kept by a Channel-Warden, responsible for levees, ferries, marker-poles, toll fairness and flood warning along their stretch. Wardenship is earned by acclamation of the stretch's landing-villages and confirmed at the moot. During high water, wardens hold near-total local authority, since a bad decision on a levee kills more people than any war." }, "technological_and_scientific_level": "Pre-industrial, with sophisticated practical hydraulics: levee engineering, flood prediction from tally records, lock-less barge handling. Kori is pursued individually as everywhere; Tazri practitioners are rare, mostly water-workers, and answer to their stretch's warden by custom rather than to any licensing state.", "trade_and_transport": "The channels are the roads. Barge traffic moves goods between the interior and the wider Silgolt trade network far cheaper than overland caravan, which makes the Confluence a corridor its neighbors depend on. Portage paths and causeways link the channels across the dry-season necks." }, "id": "countries_and_continents.continents.silgolt.nations.hihn.hihn_confluence", "meta": { "notes": "First draft from spatial data only. Continent placement, true neighbor set, capital, founding date and languages remain open. Neighbor list restricted to the three polities whose briefs reference Hihn and which sit closest in proximity results; treat as provisional.", "status": "candidate" }, "name": "The Hihn Confluence", "native": null, "relations": { "geographic_location": [ "Silgolt" ], "neighboring_geopolitical_organizations": [ "Tovo", "Aalhotikyn", "Ohynso" ], "related_species": [ "Zegtuzsos", "Yukejulhel", "Kaetijulhel" ] }, "sources": {}, "subtype": "nation", "summary": "A riverland country of Silgolt named for the braided Hihn river family that defines it. The Confluence is governed by the flood calendar rather than a throne: channel-wardens hold authority while the waters are high, and a floodplain moot settles common matters when they recede. Its neighbors know it less as a state than as the country the rivers make each year.", "tags": [ "silgolt", "riverland", "wetland", "moot-governance", "trade-corridor", "multi-species" ], "timeline": {}, "type": "country" } } ], "reviews": [ { "id": 55, "item_id": 69, "candidate_id": 69, "decision": "accepted", "notes": null, "created_at": "2026-08-12 08:39:27", "item_title": "Entity: The Hihn Confluence" } ] }