Name the parts.See the whole.

The systems, intelligence, tools, infrastructure, protocols, data, and interfaces that determine what a Realm can do and how it operates.

The structures and processes through which Sources establish rules, distribute Authority, make decisions, grant Permissions, resolve differences, and remain accountable.

The ways Resources are created, contributed, exchanged, allocated, compensated, held, and reinvested to sustain a Realm and its Purpose.

The values, relationships, language, practices, stories, aesthetics, norms, and shared experiences that shape how participation feels and what a Realm becomes.

A Theme is a broad field of meaning that describes the general area a Realm concerns.

A Focus is a canonical subject within a Theme that describes a Realm more specifically.

Each Realm has one Primary Focus and may have up to two Supporting Focuses when they add meaningful context.

Example:

Theme: Place & Planet

Primary Focus: Energy, Infrastructure & Mobility

Supporting Focus: Environment, Climate & Conservation

A Tag is an open-ended descriptive label that adds specificity beyond the canonical Theme and Focus structure.

Tags can describe particular places, communities, movements, industries, technologies, practices, identities, subjects, or other relevant characteristics.

Example:

Tags: solar, renewable energy, West Virginia, installation

A Purpose is the intended change, condition, value, contribution, or continuing function that a Realm, Scene, Gathering, Activity, Ally, Actor, Action, Offer, or other work exists to serve.

A Theme describes what something concerns. A Purpose describes why it exists and what it is intended to accomplish or sustain.

Purposes orient governance, participation, Gatherings, Resources, Activities, Actions, evaluation, and stewardship. Evidence and outcomes may indicate how well a Purpose is being fulfilled, but neither replaces the Purpose itself.

Gravity brings what matters closer.

It organizes Realms, people, relationships, knowledge, Activities, and opportunities around what is relevant to a Source now.

Gravity changes with context, interests, Roles, relationships, Commitments, Activities, and intent.

Its Purpose is not to capture attention, but to help Sources navigate a rich, deep world.

Gravity asks: What matters here, to this Source, now?

Affinity reveals why Sources, Allies, and Actors are drawn together.

It can arise through shared interests, Realms, relationships, experiences, values, or complementary abilities and needs.

Affinity is contextual: two Sources may be close in one Realm or Purpose and distant in another.

Affinity asks: Why are we drawn together?

Agency turns intention into action.

It arises when a Source, Ally, or collective chooses, creates, responds, organizes, commits Resources, or changes something.

Human authority originates with Sources; Allies and Actors act only within the authority and boundaries a Source has granted.

Agency asks: What are we choosing to bring into the world?

Trust makes coordination, exchange, delegation, and collaboration possible.

It grows through relationships, experience, competence, fulfilled Commitments, transparency, and verifiable Records.

Trust is contextual, not a universal score, and never replaces explicit Authority.

Trust asks: What can we reasonably rely on?

Authority determines who has the recognized right to decide or act.

It may arise through governance, Roles, delegation, ownership, stewardship, agreements, or system rules.

Authority is always bounded by scope and is distinct from both Influence and Agency.

Authority asks: Who has the legitimate power to make a decision or take an action here?

Influence changes how people understand, choose, or act without requiring formal Authority.

It can arise through relationships, reputation, expertise, communication, creativity, leadership, or example.

Influence can spread through networks, but it does not create permission or legitimacy.

Influence asks: How are we affecting how others understand, choose, or act?

Attention brings an entity or object into conscious focus.

Gravity may make many things relevant, but Attention determines what a Source is actually encountering at a particular moment in time.

Attention finds what matters without treating itself as something to capture or maximize.

Attention asks: What is being consciously encountered now?

Incentive makes some choices more or less attractive through rewards, costs, access, recognition, responsibility, reputation, compensation, or other consequences.

Healthy Incentives are visible, governable, and aligned with purposes participants have consciously chosen.

Incentive asks: What makes one course of action more or less attractive?

Exchange moves value between Sources, Allies, Actors, and Realms.

What moves may be money, knowledge, labor, Resources, Media, access, care, Commitments, opportunities, or other contributions.

Exchange creates the flows through which relationships and economies grow.

Exchange asks: What is moving between us, and what is being given or received?

Constraint defines what cannot, should not, or must not occur in a particular context.

Constraints may come from rules, Permissions, scarcity, privacy, Commitments, Resources, technology, time, safety, Governance, or physical limits.

Some Constraints protect agency and coherence; others may be changed through Agency.

Constraint asks: What limits are appropriate here?

Tension appears when purposes, values, needs, Resources, relationships, or Forces pull in different directions.

It may signal conflict, but it can also create the conditions for negotiation, creativity, governance, and change.

Tension asks: What is pulling in different directions?

Momentum makes established Activity easier to continue.

Participation, creation, exchange, adoption, and repeated Actions can compound into practices, culture, and institutions.

Momentum can carry healthy or harmful patterns, so movement alone is not success.

Momentum asks: What is already moving, and what is it carrying?

Entropy causes relationships, knowledge, Resources, structures, and Activities to weaken or lose coherence over time.

It is a natural condition of living systems and creates the need for maintenance, stewardship, pruning, archiving, and renewal.

Entropy asks: What is weakening, dispersing, or losing coherence?

Renewal restores vitality and capacity.

It can occur through care, repair, reconciliation, replenishment, new participation, succession, learning, restoration, or redesign.

Renewal does more than preserve a system; it can make it more resilient and generative.

Renewal asks: What is being restored or made capable of flourishing?

A broad network of Realms, Sources, Avatars, Resources, and relationships that participate in a shared environment or Purpose.

A member-governed entity formed to pursue a continuing Purpose, coordinate Activities, hold Resources, and act collectively.

A Realm formed when Sources, organizations, or other Realms join around a shared objective while retaining their individual identities.

An organized body of related activities, Projects, and Resources directed toward an ongoing goal or outcome.

A coordinated effort created to accomplish something specific, usually with defined objectives, participants, and a lifecycle.

A Realm centered on an ongoing relationship between two and only two Sources, Allies, organizations, or other Realms, with its own context and history.

A Realm of three or more Sources, Allies, Actors, organizations, or other Realms formed around shared identity, place, interest, experience, practice, or Purpose where relationships and participation can grow over time.

A Realm formed around a shared craft, profession, discipline, or capability where Sources and Allies develop mastery, exchange knowledge, establish practices, and contribute their skills together.

A Realm created to perform a durable social, civic, cultural, educational, economic, or other recognized function.

A Realm formed to bring designated Sources or Allies together to advise, coordinate, deliberate, make recommendations, or exercise defined authority over a shared domain.

A Realm organized around a subject, question, body of knowledge, Theme, or idea so Sources and Allies can explore and develop it together.

A lightweight Realm for a small group, function, team, or Activity that can operate independently while remaining part of something larger.

A Realm formed by four generations of invitations originating from a single Source, providing a context for supporting, connecting, and organizing the people whose path into Kiduna descends from their own.

The human beings at the center of Kiduna—the origin of identity, intention, consent, authority, responsibility, ownership, and agency.

The representation of a Source within a Realm, expressing their presence, identity, Roles, permissions, relationships, position, and Actions in forms suited to the Scene.

The spaces where things belong and happen: Ecosystems, Organizations, Alliances, Programs, Projects, Dyads, Communities, Guilds, Institutions, Councils, Concepts, Cells, Clans, and other nested or surfaced worlds.

Specialized intelligent entities that perform defined roles and work within a Realm, such as Operators, Envoys, Sentinels, Researchers, Workers, and Supervisors.

The content Sources and Allies create, share, encounter, and experience: text, images, audio, video, documents, interfaces, and interactive works.

Intelligent companions shaped by Sources or Realms to understand context, collaborate, advise, create, and act within defined permissions.

Ki is the persistent Ecosystem intelligence present with Sources throughout Field. Ki is distinct from a Source, Avatar, Ally, or Actor and does not independently create Consent, Permissions, or Authority.

Within every authorized context, Ki is always present in the background—listening to permitted interactions, processing context, learning from authorized experience, and remembering what it is allowed to retain.

Ki carries all authorized context across Archetypes, Scenes, Realms, Surfaces, Modes, and handoffs without bypassing privacy, Consent, Roles, Permissions, Authority, or system-level limits.

Ki can always hand off an active chat or other communication to an authorized Actor or Ally, carrying only the authorized context needed for continuity.

Ki’s continuous presence does not authorize ambient surveillance, recording, access, retention, disclosure, or learning beyond what the Source and applicable Realm have permitted.

A Gathering is an ad hoc, bounded collection of Sources, Allies, Actors, and/or Avatars brought together for a particular Purpose, Activity, event, session, or interaction.

A Gathering may occur within one Realm, include participants from connected Realms, and become present in one or more Scenes.

A Gathering may identify its initiator, participants, inclusion criteria, Purpose, associated Activities, beginning, duration, completion condition, and current state.

A Gathering does not automatically create a new Realm, membership body, shared identity, Governance structure, Authority, Role, Permission, Resource pool, or continuing relationship. Participants retain the identities, Roles, Permissions, and Authority they hold in the relevant Realms.

An Avatar included in a Gathering represents its Source and is not an additional human participant separate from that Source.

A Gathering is bounded rather than enduring. If a Gathering develops its own continuing identity, membership, Governance, Resources, or ongoing Purpose, it may be constituted as an appropriate Realm, such as a Cell, Community, Council, Project, or another Realm type.

A Realm provides an enduring context in which things belong and happen.

A Gathering identifies who or what has been assembled for a bounded Purpose or occasion.

An Activity organizes what participants do over time.

A Scene spatially organizes Components.

An Area logically organizes Components and Scenes.

Resources are things and instruments that can be held, used, shared, allocated, presented, verified, redeemed, consumed, transferred, earned, or stewarded.

Resources are both Elements and a specialized primary category with the canonical types defined in the Resources section.

An Action is a discrete, attributable operation performed by a Source, Ally, Actor, Automation, or authorized system.

An Action may observe, create, change, move, grant, publish, restrict, transfer, exchange, settle, or retire something.

Every Action occurs within a context and is subject to applicable Authority, Permissions, Consent, Roles, Constraints, and system-level limits.

An Action may stand alone or form part of an Activity.

An Activity is a purposeful course of participation, interaction, or work that unfolds over time through one or more Actions.

An Activity may involve a Gathering or other combination of Sources, represented through Avatars where appropriate, together with Allies, Actors, Media, Resources, Offers, Permissions, Consents, Commitments, Records, and other Elements.

An Activity may occur within one Scene, move through several Scenes, or continue across an entire Realm. It may have participants, Roles, timing, state, outcomes, and associated Records.

A Gathering identifies who or what has been assembled.

An Activity organizes what they do over time.

A Scene spatially organizes Components.

An Area logically organizes Components and Scenes.

A Pattern may provide a reusable template for an Activity, but the Pattern is not the Activity itself.

An Offer is a proposal to provide, exchange, grant, perform, or make available a Resource, benefit, opportunity, service, Action, access right, or other value under defined terms.

An Offer may identify an issuer, intended recipient or audience, subject, scope, terms, validity, expiration, transferability, required response, and current state.

An Offer does not by itself complete an Exchange or create a Commitment unless it is accepted or the governing rules explicitly establish that effect.

Acceptance of an Offer may create a Commitment, initiate an Activity, authorize an Action, form a Gathering, or cause Resources or other value to move.

A Permission is an explicit, scoped grant allowing an identified Source, Ally, Actor, Automation, or system to perform specified Actions under defined conditions.

Permissions are created through legitimate Authority and Governance.

A Permission may define its grantor, recipient, Realm, subject, permitted Actions, limits, conditions, duration, delegation rights, revocation rules, and current state.

A Permission does not include the right to grant further Permissions unless that Authority is explicitly included.

Roles may carry Permissions, but a Role name alone does not create universal Permissions.

Participation in a Gathering does not itself grant a Permission.

Consent is a Source’s informed, voluntary, specific, and revocable agreement to participate or to permit a defined use of their identity, information, Resources, representation, or Activity.

Consent identifies what is permitted, for what Purpose, by whom, under what conditions, and for how long.

Consent is distinct from Authority. A Source may consent to something without gaining Authority over a Realm, and Realm Authority cannot substitute for a Source’s required Consent.

Inclusion in a Gathering does not replace any Consent required for participation, representation, information use, recording, or other Actions.

Withdrawal of Consent affects future participation or use according to applicable Commitments, laws, safety requirements, and retention rules. It does not require the falsification or deletion of Records that must legitimately be preserved.

A Commitment is an acknowledged obligation to act, provide, maintain, deliver, refrain, compensate, or settle something for a Source, Realm, Purpose, or other identified beneficiary.

A Commitment may identify responsible parties, beneficiaries, Purpose, scope, terms, Resources, conditions, deadlines, dependencies, evidence, current state, and means of completion, transfer, amendment, or release.

An Offer may become a Commitment when accepted.

Participation in a Gathering may be associated with Commitments, but the Gathering itself does not create a Commitment unless its terms or governing rules explicitly do so.

Commitments do not create Authority beyond their stated and legitimately authorized scope.

A Record is durable, attributable evidence of an Action, Activity, Gathering, event, decision, state, Permission, Consent, Commitment, Offer, Exchange, publication, or other significant occurrence.

A Record may identify its subject, creator, participants, time, provenance, version, access rules, retention requirements, and relationship to other Records.

Records are distinct from expressive Media. Media communicates or creates an experience; Records preserve evidence, continuity, accountability, or history. A particular object may serve as both Media and a Record when both functions apply.

A Visitor is a human interacting without an account or without authenticated identity in the interaction.

This can happen through social media, Telegram, email, or another external channel, where an Ally or Actor may be interacting with someone or something that Kiduna cannot identify or verify as a Source.

Visitor is a classification of the interaction, not proof of identity.

It conveys no account-based or Realm membership privileges.

A Guest is a Source who has an account and is allowed into a Realm but has not been granted the privileges of a Member of that Realm.

A Guest has only the access and privileges that the Realm explicitly grants to Guests.

The Guest may be represented within the Realm through an Avatar.

A Member is a Source who has all the privileges assigned to Members by that Realm.

Because Member privileges are defined independently by each Realm, being a Member in one Realm does not make the Source a Member in any other Realm.

The Source’s Avatar expresses those Member privileges when the Source participates within the Realm.

A Host is the Source credited with inviting another Source to participate in a Realm.

Host is a Realm-scoped relationship among the inviting Source, the invited Source, and the destination Realm.

A Host may provide invitation context—such as an introduction, reason for the invitation, relevant interests, Realms, people, or opportunities—to help Ki orient the invited Source, subject to privacy, Consent, and Realm rules.

Host context may inform what Ki presents or asks first, but it does not determine the invited Source’s identity, interests, choices, Roles, Permissions, or Authority.

The Host Role does not by itself grant Authority over the invited Source, access to their private Activity, responsibility for their conduct, or any privilege beyond those explicitly granted by the Realm.

A Source may hold Host alongside other Realm relationship or contribution Roles.

A Mage is a Source granted the Realm-scoped equivalent of administrator, owner, or super-administrator authority.

A Mage may perform any administrative task that the Realm authorizes and that the system itself does not prohibit.

The Mage may exercise those capabilities through their Avatar, Allies, or other authorized interfaces.

Mages may assign and remove privileges from Sources within their Realm.

They may also take specifically authorized protective actions, such as changing offensive public Media to Personal so that only the Source who posted it can see it.

Mage authority never overrides system-level privacy, safety, security, or access limits.

A Mage cannot view personal information, use Mage status in one Realm to enter another private Realm, or exercise Mage powers outside the particular Realm in which the Role was granted.

Bring a project, program, or organization into being.

Catalysts clarify the initial Purpose, gather the founding participants, assemble the necessary Resources, and carry an emerging idea through formation and into motion.

Form and sustain the relationships that make collective action possible.

Organizers bring people together around a shared Purpose, help them find their place, and nurture the participation and Activities that grow through the communities they support.

A Steward is a Source with ongoing, bounded responsibility for caring for a particular Realm or for identified work belonging to that Realm over time.

Stewards help sustain the Realm’s Purpose, people, relationships, Resources, Commitments, Capacities, and Coherence. They respond to Entropy, enable Renewal, and coordinate appropriate maintenance, continuation, change, succession, transfer, or retirement.

Steward is a Realm-scoped Role. A Source may hold Steward alongside other Roles.

The Steward Role does not by itself grant Governance Authority, access to private information, or Permission to change, transfer, publish, restrict, or retire anything. Those rights must be explicitly granted through the Realm’s Governance and Permissions.

Turn knowledge, imagination, and lived experience into living capabilities.

Creators add Wisdom, shape an organization’s Presence, design its stories and experiences, train its Allies, and create the instructions, Media, methods, and processes through which its Purpose becomes real.

Create the apps, agents, tools, automations, systems, and infrastructure that expand what an organization can do.

Builders make valuable work easier to perform, repeat, improve, share, and extend into entirely new forms of individual and collective agency.

Contribute a defining work, body of wisdom, creative practice, or deep intellectual grounding around which a collective can form and grow.

Luminaries may be supported through project budgets, royalties, repayment of development costs, or allocations established by the organization.

Provide agreed financial, computational, promotional, or other support to a Realm, Source, Ally, Actor, or other eligible recipient.

A Source holding the Sponsor Role may pay for compute, provide Resources such as Rewards or Coupons, fund Activities, or offer other agreed value.

Sponsors may make sponsorship agreements with Realms that include promoting the Sponsor’s technology, Offers, or other approved Media within that Realm.

Every sponsorship is governed by the receiving Realm’s rules and the terms of the agreement.

The Sponsor Role does not by itself create control over the recipient, access to private information, endorsement, or permission to promote anything outside the agreed scope.

The knowledge and memory available to the Realm or Ally, typically held in a vector database and expanded through relevant information.

The system prompt and governing instructions that shape how the Realm or Ally presents itself, responds, reasons, and behaves in context.

Integrations with third-party systems, software, services, data sources, communication tools, financial rails, and other external capabilities.

Deep agents, triggers, workflows, and sequences that allow Activities to begin, continue, and complete automatically.

Reusable skills, procedures, and markdown-based instructions that teach a Realm or Ally how to perform particular kinds of work.

Sentinels, principles, constraints, guardrails, and shared values that help keep behavior, decisions, and Activities aligned with the Purpose and standards of the Realm.

When a Pattern is instantiated in Field, that implementation is an Embodiment of the Pattern.

An Embodiment may have its own Scene, be clearly delineated within a Scene, or span multiple Scenes. It may combine Components—including Overlays—with Capacities, Elements, Resources, interfaces, and other structures needed to fulfill its Purpose.

A Pattern may have many Embodiments. Each Embodiment follows the Pattern while retaining its own context, identity, contents, state, access, and implementation.

The nine Archetypes are the core Ecosystem Embodiments of the nine core Patterns. They provide the primary ways Sources navigate, gather, create, build, enjoy, act, govern, settle, and store within Field.

Each Archetype is clearly delineated by its Purpose. It may have its own Scene, be present within a Scene, or span multiple Scenes.

A core Pattern may have many other Embodiments throughout Kiduna, but only its core Ecosystem Embodiment is an Archetype.

The Pattern and its Archetype share a name. Viewport refers to the reusable Pattern in the abstract and to the Viewport Archetype when referring to the core Embodiment Sources can enter and use.

See the larger landscape: Realms, Sources, Avatars, relationships, Activities, and pathways between them.

Gather Sources, represented through Avatars, together with Allies; form relationships; coordinate participation; and organize around shared Purpose.

Studio is the Archetype and process for creation. Sources and Allies use it to shape ideas, Media, experiences, Realms, Scenes, Allies, and other things that can be created together.

Produce working systems: Actors, Automations, applications, integrations, tools, and infrastructure.

Experience, explore, play, learn, gather, and interact with what Sources and Allies have created, including other Archetypes, Allies, and Actors.

New Sources always enter through the Garden Archetype as presented within the scope of the Realm they entered. The Garden reveals only the context and access authorized by that Realm and by the Source’s Roles, Permissions, Consent, and relationships.

Operate in a living environment where Sources, acting through their Avatars and working with authorized Allies, can perform work, coordinate Activities, and make things happen beyond Kiduna in the wider world.

Deliberate, propose, decide, establish policy, delegate Authority, and govern shared Resources and Actions.

Make Offers, transact, exchange value, spend Capacity, redeem Coupons, purchase or transfer Tickets, give Gifts, distribute or claim Rewards, compensate contributions, and settle economic Activity.

Hold and manage assets; Resources including Capacity, Badges, Codes, Coupons, Invitations, Tickets, Gifts, and Rewards; Records; credentials; balances; Media; and other things entrusted to a Source or Realm.

Development is the Mode in which work is being created, designed, assembled, configured, changed, tested, or prepared within Studio before formal validation.

Sources and authorized Allies may develop Realms, Gatherings, Activities, Actors, Avatars and their representations, Scenes, Purposes, Patterns, Elements, Resources, Capacities, Forms, Components, Dimensions, Designs, applications, integrations, tools, and other work.

Rehearsal is the Mode in which a Draft is reviewed, tested, and experienced as it is intended to work before authorization and publication.

A Source may participate through their Avatar exactly as they would in the Live Published version, subject to the specific Permissions and access established for the Rehearsal.

Rehearse is the Activity performed within Studio during Rehearsal. Authorized Sources, represented through their Avatars where appropriate and assisted by authorized Allies, review, test, and experience a Draft before publication.

Rehearse does not create a separate place, Scene, environment, or Mode.

Live is the Mode in which the current Published version is available and operating for its intended participants according to its Realm, Roles, Permissions, Consent, and access rules.

Sources participate through their Avatars where the Realm or Scene uses representation. Sources, Allies, and Actors can navigate, gather, create, build, enjoy, act, govern, settle, and store according to their Roles and Permissions.

A Draft is a version designated from Development for validation in Rehearsal.

A Draft is not yet the current version available to its intended participants and does not replace the current Published version.

Published is the authorized lifecycle state of a version made Live for its intended participants according to its Realm, Roles, Permissions, Consent, and access rules.

Publishing changes availability and Mode; it does not create a different Scene, Realm, Ally, Actor, or other underlying work.

A Superseded version is a previously Published version that has been replaced by a newer Published version.

It is no longer the current Live version but retains its identity, history, provenance, and required Records.

Retirement is the authorized process of withdrawing Published work from active availability.

Retirement includes responsibility for affected participants, Gatherings, Activities, Commitments, Resources, Permissions, access, Invitations, Tickets, Connections, Portals, communication, and required Records.

Retirement does not erase the identity or history of the work.

Retired is the lifecycle state of work that has been intentionally withdrawn from active availability through legitimate Authority.

Retired work is no longer Live or available as an active Published experience, but its identity, history, provenance, and required Records remain.

Retired is distinct from Superseded. Superseded work has been replaced by a newer Published version. Retired work has been intentionally withdrawn, whether or not a replacement exists.

An Area is a logical organization of Components.

An Area can be part of a Scene or can hold multiple Scenes.

An Area can hold Components from various Scenes.

Membership in an Area does not remove a Component from its Scene or change its spatial position or relationships within that Scene.

Areas allow Components and Scenes to be organized by Purpose, function, responsibility, workflow, audience, subject, state, or another logical relationship.

Rooms, terrain, Objects, routes, Avatars, and embodied memory.

Photographic, scanned, or photorealistic representations of real places and environments, with Objects and Entities that can be explored, animated, and made interactive.

Emblems, talismans, connectors, Avatars expressed as symbols, and stable meaning.

Fields, light, texture, rhythm, atmosphere, and sparse anchors.

Constellations, flows, dependencies, relationships, systems, governance, and Avatars represented as nodes or other diagrammatic forms.

Two or more Forms may coexist when one clearly leads and the combination serves the Purpose of the Scene.

The world behind and around the grid: landscapes, skies, distant architecture, atmosphere, and other environmental context.

Traversable floor and terrain surfaces that establish where movement and placement can occur.

Vertical partitions and barriers that define rooms, edges, enclosures, and divisions within a Scene.

Static placed elements such as furniture, structures, equipment, vegetation, decorations, and other non-animated things in the world.

Animated, addressable beings or active elements that can move, respond, communicate, or be interacted with.

Avatars, Allies, and Actors may each be visually expressed through Entity Components without becoming the same kind of Element.

Transient visual or environmental phenomena such as light, weather, particles, energy, smoke, animation, and other momentary changes.

Entrances and spatial connections that move a Source and their Avatar between locations, Scenes, Realms, or other contexts.

Interface surfaces that exist inside the world—signs, consoles, displays, kiosks, dashboards, control surfaces, and floating interfaces.

Interface layers placed visually over a Scene to explain what is present and why it matters, reveal context, and provide interactive buttons, labels, guidance, controls, and other points of interaction.

The Scene beneath an Overlay is often composed from raster imagery, while Overlays are typically composed from vector graphics and type so they remain crisp, legible, and responsive.

Interface surfaces that belong to the surrounding Kiduna experience rather than the world itself—toolbars, inspectors, inventories, navigation, controls, and status displays.

Key distinction: Panels are embedded in the Scene. Overlays are placed over the Scene to explain or interact with what is there. Chrome sits outside the Scene as part of the surrounding Kiduna application.

A flat coordinate space organized through horizontal and vertical position.

Used for interfaces, diagrams, maps, cards, documents, dashboards, symbolic compositions, Avatars, and other primarily planar experiences.

Components can be represented as vectors, raster images, text, interface objects, diagrams, or other two-dimensional forms.

2.5D — isometric

A spatially suggestive coordinate system that represents depth while remaining fundamentally composed and rendered as a two-dimensional Scene.

Used for isometric environments, layered worlds, rooms, landscapes, maps, organizational spaces, Avatars, and other Scenes where spatial relationships matter without requiring a complete three-dimensional simulation.

2.5D allows Components and Avatar representations to preserve depth, orientation, layering, adjacency, and relative scale while retaining the clarity, efficiency, and composability of two-dimensional assets.

A three-dimensional coordinate space in which Components possess position, scale, orientation, volume, depth, and spatial relationships.

Used for immersive worlds, spatial interfaces, simulations, augmented environments, virtual environments, embodied Avatars, and other Scenes in which Sources and intelligent entities can move through or around space.

Palettes, semantic colors, states, contrast relationships, gradients, environmental colors, and other rules governing the use of color.

Font families, weights, scales, hierarchy, spacing, treatments, and other rules governing written language.

Corner systems, geometry, outlines, borders, depth, framing, proportions, and recurring visual forms.

Surface qualities such as glass, enamel, metal, paper, stone, fabric, wood, light, ceramics, plastics, natural materials, and other physical or digital treatments.

Sigils, symbols, icons, pictograms, marks, and the visual rules that allow them to work coherently together.

Totems are canonical sigils whose central figure is an animal, insect, or other living creature used as a symbolic guide, presence, or bearer of meaning.

Totems are classified by the creature represented, not by the subject matter the sigil concerns.

Firefly, Bee, Hummingbird, Rabbit, Bear, Owl, Fox, Turtle, Stag, and Octopus are Totems.

The Animals & Animal Welfare Focus remains a Theme classification for Realms concerned with animals, pets, welfare, or rescue; it is not itself a Totem and does not cause every sigil associated with that Focus to become one.

Grids, rhythm, margins, padding, density, scale, alignment, and proportional relationships.

Transitions, easing, movement character, duration, timing, responsiveness, and other animation conventions.

Illumination, shadow, reflection, glow, atmosphere, environmental light, and other treatments relevant to spatial or rendered experiences.

The visual and interactive rules governing Panels, Overlays, Chrome, controls, states, selections, notifications, feedback, and other interface behaviors.

Rules governing how Backgrounds, Tiles, Walls, Objects, Entities, Effects, Portals, Panels, Overlays, Avatars, and other Components or representations appear together.

The full working Surface.

Best for sustained attention, complex creation in Studio, building, organizing, governance, rehearsing Drafts, working across Development, Rehearsal, and Live Modes, and managing multiple parts of a Realm at once.

Desktop can support 2D, 2.5D, and 3D Scenes depending on their Purpose.

A Source’s Avatar may appear as a portrait, node, isometric figure, spatial entity, or other Scene-appropriate representation.

The always-with-you Surface.

Best for conversation, notifications, approvals, identity, quick Actions, capturing information, navigating nearby context, and participating wherever you are.

Mobile may also serve as a controller, camera, sensor, identity device, or companion to other Surfaces.

A Source may control an Avatar appearing on another Surface from Mobile.

The shared-room Surface.

Best for communal experiences, presentations, live Activities, games, Media, Gatherings, shared experiences, and interacting with Kiduna together on a large screen.

Avatars may allow multiple Sources to become individually present within a shared CTV experience while controlling their participation through companion devices.

The contextual Surface.

Brings Kiduna into the existing web so Sources can recognize Realms, Resources, relationships, and relevant context; work with what is on the page; and act without leaving the current environment.

Avatar representation may be minimal or symbolic where an embodied representation would add no value.

The augmented-reality Surface.

Places Kiduna Elements, information, interfaces, Allies, Actions, and Scenes into a Source’s view of the physical world.

AR allows digital context to become spatially associated with people, places, Objects, environments, and Activities without replacing the surrounding physical environment.

A Realm might appear around a physical location.

An Object might reveal information or Actions when encountered.

An Ally might become spatially present beside a Source.

A Scene might overlay a workplace, neighborhood, museum, landscape, meeting, or event.

Because the Source’s physical body may already be perceptible in AR, an Avatar may appear as an identity layer, visual augmentation, spatial indicator, symbolic representation, or other contextual extension rather than as a duplicate body.

The virtual-reality Surface.

Places Sources inside fully spatial Kiduna Scenes where environments, Objects, Entities, Avatars, Allies, interfaces, relationships, and Activities can be experienced through embodied presence.

In VR, the Avatar becomes the Source’s primary embodied representation within the virtual Realm.

The Source controls its movement, orientation, gestures, interactions, and Actions.

VR is particularly suited to immersive Gardens, collaborative spaces, simulations, learning environments, gatherings, creation, exploration, storytelling, and spatial forms of work.

The mixed-reality Surface.

Allows physical and digital space to operate as one interactive environment.

Kiduna Scenes and Components can understand and respond to the geometry, Objects, surfaces, movement, and other characteristics of a Source’s physical environment, allowing digital Elements to participate meaningfully within it.

A physical table might become part of a Forum.

A wall could become a shared Panel.

A digital Object could remain anchored to a physical location.

Sources in the same room could interact with shared Elements that occupy the space between them.

Avatars may combine physical presence with digital identity, Roles, state, Effects, or other Realm-specific representation.

The extended-reality Surface.

XR provides the generalized spatial-computing context spanning AR, VR, MR, and emerging forms that combine or move between them.

It allows Kiduna to support devices and experiences whose relationship between physical and digital space may change dynamically rather than fitting permanently into a single category.

XR also provides a category for future spatial interfaces that cannot yet be cleanly described as AR, VR, or MR.

An Avatar may correspondingly move between symbolic, augmented, and embodied representation while remaining bound to the same Source.