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creative_pillar: world
always_load_for: [discuss, plan, draft, continuity-check]
authority: project
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# Places

*Concrete locations, sites, routes, and spatial facts. `WORLD.md` holds the environment and rules. `PLACES.md` holds the places the work can point to.*

Do not treat detected mentions as canon until the writer confirms them through `/scr:new-place` or `/scr:place-touch`.

## Place index

| Place | Type | Parent | Status | First seen | Research |
|-------|------|--------|--------|------------|----------|
| {{PLACE}} | {{real, fictional, altered-real, region, building, route, landmark}} | {{PARENT}} | {{active, historical, destroyed, rumored}} | {{UNIT}} | {{none, pending, sourced}} |

## Place profiles

### {{PLACE_NAME}}

**Type:** {{TYPE}}
**Parent:** {{PARENT_PLACE_OR_REGION}}
**Aliases:** {{ALIASES}}
**Appears in:** {{UNITS_OR_SCENES}}
**Status:** {{ACTIVE_STATUS}}
**Research status:** {{NONE_PENDING_SOURCED}}

#### Story role
{{WHAT_THIS_PLACE_DOES_FOR_THE_WORK}}

#### Geography and access
- **Relative position:** {{RELATIVE_POSITION}}
- **Routes in and out:** {{ROUTES}}
- **Distance or travel logic:** {{DISTANCE_OR_TIME}}
- **Boundaries:** {{BOUNDARIES}}

#### Sensory identity
{{LIGHT_SOUND_SMELL_TEXTURE_WEATHER_CROWDING}}

#### Social and historical context
{{LOCAL_POWER_CLASS_LANGUAGE_CUSTOMS_HISTORY}}

#### Real-world facts
{{SOURCE_BACKED_FACTS_OR_LINK_TO_RESEARCH}}

#### Author deviations
{{INTENTIONAL_FICTIONALIZATION_OR_ALTERNATE_HISTORY}}

#### Continuity rules
- {{RULE_THAT_MUST_STAY_TRUE}}

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*To add a place, run `/scr:new-place <name>`. To update one after drafting or research, run `/scr:place-touch <name>`. `GEOGRAPHY.md` is derived from this file and the adapted world surface.*