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## Cleanup rule After the inherited material has been absorbed into the next chapter skeleton or the relevant active files, clear this file back to template-only status. Do not let this file accumulate old notes. <!-- END ORIGINAL FILE: carry_forward_chapter.md -->
# 05_canon_ledger_and_word_count_audit Consolidated active source-truth file for **Apocalypse, Now**. Original files preserved in this file: * `canon_ledger.md` * `chapter_word_count_audit.txt` --- <!-- BEGIN ORIGINAL FILE: canon_ledger.md -->
# canon_ledger Central canon document for `Apocalypse, Now`. This file is the working canon ledger for world rules, time, ages, deaths, guardianships, adoptions, animals, physical continuity, and protected story locks. The project baseline is now English. References to previous Hebrew material are archival context o
## 0. How to Use This Document * Before writing or repairing a chapter, check ages, time, deaths, guardianships, and physical responsibility here. * If there is a contradiction between a part file and this document, first repair the canon here or decide explicitly. * Do not change a character's age, birth, death, adop
## 1. Saga Identity and Naming This section locks the saga title, part titles, and file-title usage. If a part title changes later, update this file, `parts_summaries.md`, and any relevant master/package files together.
### Locked Saga and Part Names
### Saga Title The English saga title is locked as `Apocalypse, Now`. Recommended format for part titles / EPUB / English master files: `Apocalypse, Now, Part X: [Part Title]` The comma in the English title is part of the lock, preserving the story title while giving it its own identity and not only a direct refere
### Part Titles | Part | Chapters | Active Hebrew Title | Locked English Title | Full English Title Format | |---|---:|---|---|---| | Part 1 | 001-027 | The First Pack | The First Pack | Apocalypse, Now, Part 1: The First Pack | | Part 2 | 028-059 | Gathering the Hearts | Gathering the Hearts | Apocalypse, Now, Part 2
### Usage Rule * These English names are used for EPUB titles, master file titles, packages, part summaries, and English work files. * Legacy Hebrew names are archival context only. Active working titles are the English titles above. * If a part title changes in the future, update `canon_ledger.md`, `parts_summaries.m
## 2. World Canon These locks apply across the whole saga, before any part-specific structure.
### 2.1 Day Zero Model and World Spread Day Zero did not begin as a regular bite-to-bite chain. It began as a sudden global wave. Something, probably airborne or an unidentified factor, caused people in many places around the world to die, collapse, change, and rise as living dead almost at the same time. The charact
#### 2.1.1 Writing and Draft Implications * No couple, character, or group should understand the apocalypse instantly. * First come confusion, lockdown, radio, contradictory reports, attempts to find a familiar explanation, and only then the understanding that the rules changed. * If a character thinks about the sourc
#### 2.1.2 Locked Terminology * The required term in work files and prose is living dead, the dead, they, or physical description from the point of view. * Do not use the translated generic genre term by default. If a character uses that word, it is an exception that must fit her voice and the scene atmosphere. * In a
#### 2.1.3 Locked Terminology for English Writing * In current draft or writing, the locked English term is `living dead`. * `the dead`, `they`, or physical description from the point of view may also be used, for example movement, teeth, blood, smell, skin, weight. * Do not use `walking dead`. * Do not use `zombie` b
#### 2.1.4 Chapter 1, Day Zero Repair Locked and Completed In the draft Chapter 1, in Lexa's POV, clarification entered through a memory cut from the first week and Costia. Costia's bite remains the central fracture, but the world was already in a wave of collapse before Costia was bitten. Locked in Chapter 1 after t
#### 2.1.5 Living People, Dirty Roads, and Moving Vehicles Lock The world is not empty of living people. The collapse killed many people and turned many into living dead, but it did not remove all survivors from roads, towns, stores, houses, farms, gas stations, shelters, warehouses, bridges, police stations, churches
#### 2.1.6 Standalone Entry Arc and Survival Backstory Lock Every entrance block for a couple, major character, family, or group must be able to function as a standalone fanfic arc up to the meeting point with the main group. Locked for all parts: 1. No major entrant appears as only a useful skill set, a romantic la
### 2.1.7 Source Canon Activation and Family Status Lock Source canon informs voice, history, wounds, relationships, objects, and emotional logic, but it does not automatically import every relative, ex, sibling, parent, child, friend, side character, power, or fantasy mechanic into `Apocalypse, Now`. A source-canon
### 2.1.8 Child-Harm and Body-Horror Boundary Lock Children may be in danger, afraid, separated, orphaned, sick, overheated, cold, hungry, exposed to darkness, or physically difficult to protect. They may witness fear and loss. They may disappear or be harmed in background only when the story truly requires it. Do no
### 2.1.8.1 Death, Grief, and Continuing-Life Lock Every meaningful death, confirmed loss, apparent death, or irreversible separation creates a continuing canon state for the living characters. Locked rules: 1. The death event and the grief aftermath are separate canon obligations. Completing the death scene does no