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- Theme_Direction_Candidates: research-backed direction exploration (saturation map, load-bearing-theme patterns, 4 candidate directions); operator picked Direction A - Identity_Lantern (final draft): tide-line persistence (lit=permanent via seed-pinning, dark re-knots), Wicks/drowned-sun night-sea mythology, Sparks + Gloam mutations, death split, readability law — hardened via 3 adversarial reviews, all findings folded - Roadmap_Lantern_Slice: vertical-slice phases 0-7 + Workstream A (solo-dev art pipeline: palette-atlas materials, 3 rig families, CreatureKit factory) Supersedes the Awakening Engine / Co-op Hades direction on adoption (Phase 0 DR pending). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>