FAQ & Glossary
Quick answers to common questions about Sigil and applied ASH Cosmology, and a reference for the key terms used throughout these pages.
Questions
Is Sigil just a companion app?
No. It is the first working demonstrator of applied ASH Cosmology by Raven Forge — expressed first as a native iOS app, but the underlying systems can support game identity, lore, export pipelines, self-validating JSON, and future SDK/API projects.
How is this different from procedural generation?
Sigil is deterministic and canon-aware: canonical input, ASH state, guarded decisions, WRW topology, PersonalCodex exports, and quality gates. The goal is reproducible symbolic identity, not one-off random art.
What is Forsetti?
The application framework Sigil is built inside — the modular runtime and public contracts through which Sigil’s app-owned modules, services, and UI implement ASH/WRW, the Pattern System, Aeostara, and exports. Sigil is an application within Forsetti, not an external consumer of it.
What is ASH Cosmology vs the ASH Pattern System?
ASH Cosmology is the mythic and semantic layer (planes, wolves, origins, names, thresholds). The ASH Pattern System is the deterministic software layer (state, codeword transitions, topology, diagnostics, generation planning).
What is Aeostara?
The implemented self-healing configuration and JSON health system (app-owned, Forsetti-hosted). It validates, diagnoses, plans safe-only recovery, verifies, and emits audit chains for export artifacts — and never mutates the input.
What is the PersonalCodex?
The structured, exportable record of a generated identity: profile, ASH state, WRW identity, sigil reproducibility, hashes, and lore context.
Why are visual quality gates important?
A deterministic system can still create bad visuals. The gates prove output preserves WRW topology, avoids synthetic bridges, detects motifs, and produces reviewable artifacts.
How does this help games and software?
One generated identity can become a character origin, faction, quest seed, artifact mesh, and lore dossier. ASH also provides a reusable structure for deterministic state, guarded transitions, diagnostics, and reproducible artifacts.
Can investors see the proof?
Yes — the repository contains tests, generated evidence artifacts, final gates, and export records. See Applications & Proof.
Is Sigil a finished consumer project?
No — it is a proof-of-concept demonstrator, and the seed for the tools, games, and APIs that follow.
Glossary
ASH
The underlying model behind Sigil — connecting deterministic state, cosmology, pattern, meaning, and artifact generation.
ASH Cosmology
The mythic and semantic layer: planes, wolves, origins, celestial names, thresholds, symbolic identity.
ASH Pattern System
The software machinery: state modeling, transitions, topology, diagnostics, generation planning.
Aeostara
Self-healing config and JSON health: observe, normalize, diagnose, recover, verify, audit.
Forsetti
The application framework Sigil is built inside — runtime, service registration, capability policy. Only ForsettiCore and ForsettiPlatform internals are sealed; app-owned surfaces are editable.
Where Ravens Wait
The narrative canon that gives ASH-generated identity a literary and game-world context.
PersonalCodex
The structured identity artifact: profile, ASH, WRW, sigil, reproducibility, export context.
Canonical input
A normalized, deterministic representation of user profile data.
Canonical vector
A 5D numeric semantic vector derived from canonical input.
ASH state & orbit
A compact 9-bit state, and the deterministic sequence of states produced by allowed transitions.
Codeword
A doubly-even transition operator used to evolve ASH state by XOR.
Kripke guard
A coherence gate that accepts or rejects candidate geometry-affecting decisions.
WRW anchor primitive
A canonical stroke/shape component of the sigil topology.
Synthetic bridge
An unintended connector between independent primitives — prevented by the V3 pipeline.
Normalization
Deterministic post-generation presentation correction that preserves identity and records a report.
Sigil quality report
A machine-readable report proving topology, motif, bridge, and geometry quality checks.