ASH Cosmology
The mythic and semantic layer of the system — planes, wolves, names, origins, gifts, burdens, thresholds, and artifacts. It gives computational state a world model.
Without it, Sigil is a geometry engine. With it, a sigil becomes a meaningful identity artifact — derived, never freeform.
Structured application data
Sigil treats cosmology as structured data: each mythic surface lands on a real software construct and maps to a real field in the wrw_personal_codex_v3 record. The mythic vocabulary and the data model are the same object viewed from two sides.
Plane
Dominant semantic domain / resonance channel — dominant_plane, plane_resonance_weights[9].
Wolf balance
Internal tension or polarity state — wolf_balance.
Celestial name
Deterministic identity label — celestial_name, epithet.
Origin thread
Canon-derived narrative lineage — origin, OriginAttribution.
Sigil & Codex
The visual artifact (48-sided tube mesh) and the exportable record (wrw_personal_codex_v3).
Threshold
The user’s role in relation to change, transformation, and agency.
Five surfaces, all computed
Planes
The PlaneAttunementEngine produces nine resonance weights from SigilBits9; the strongest becomes the dominant plane. Those weights directly weight the six Givens-rotation projection rows, so the dominant plane physically bends the geometry.
Wolves
Wolf balance encodes tension and polarity, resolved into one of three tones — white-dominant, dark-dominant, or balanced. It gives identity dynamic interpretation, not a static label.
Celestial names & origins
A deterministic name, epithet, and numerology from the CelestialNameEngine, plus canon-derived origin lineage. Seeded from canonicalInputSHA256, the same person always resolves to the same identity.
Sigils
SigilGeneratorV2 samples grouped WRW anchor primitives into a 9D embedding, projects through six plane-weighted rows, then centers, scales, resamples, and tubes the strokes into a 48-sided capped mesh.
Plane × Wolf identity tones
The plane sets the domain (where the identity speaks from); the wolf balance sets the tone (how it speaks). Identical inputs always yield the same tone — which lets one identity stay coherent across app, RPG, and book contexts.
Vanguard · Striker · Champion
white — Radiant Vanguard: protective, declarative.
dark — Shadow Striker: decisive, adversarial.
balanced — Tempered Champion: pragmatic force.
Seer · Keeper · Arbiter
white — Luminous Seer: insight, illumination.
dark — Veiled Keeper: secrecy, ward.
balanced — Quiet Arbiter: measured, holds tension.
Dawnbearer · Duskwarden · Walker
white — Dawnbearer: transition toward light.
dark — Duskwarden: transition toward shadow.
balanced — Threshold-Walker: agency over change.
The canon that gives state a world
ASH provides the state; WRW provides the world. The canon ships as engine data, pinned to yggdrasil.snapshot.2026-02-11 and read through typed accessors — so every consumer reads the same versioned canon, and swapping the snapshot updates every surface without code changes.
Planes & Wolves
9 plane definitions and resonance semantics; polarity pairs and balance semantics. Consumed by the attunement engine and lore.
Naming & Axioms
Celestial-name and epithet rules for the naming engine; A1–A5 invariants for the Kripke guards.
Runes & Mythic mapping
Grouped anchor primitives and pattern vectors for the generator; origin archetypes and numerology for attribution.
A durable semantic API
Instead of profile → one-off text, Sigil uses profile → canonical state → cosmological interpretation → reproducible artifact — output that can power multiple product layers from one model.
App & RPG
Personalized identity and visual sigil; character origin, faction, abilities, and quest hooks.
Books & creator tools
Reader-specific lore placement and canon-aware artifact generation.
Exports
A durable PersonalCodex identity record — proprietary meaning infrastructure that can be computed deterministically.
The ASH-Model Cosmology is published in full at ashcosmology.net.