EchoSpire Official Documentation¶
Status: Current — every document listed here was audited 2026-08-27 and carries its own status block.
This directory is the rules canon for EchoSpire: Portals — what the player does, what the terms mean, and how content is structured.
It is deliberately small. Eight documents, each with a recurring question it answers. If a
document here stops being true, it moves to _archive/ rather than staying and misleading.
See Document Governance for the rule and the source hierarchy.
What this directory does not cover¶
| Question | Go here instead |
|---|---|
| Story, lore, factions, Alden, House names | story/bible/ — canon, with a decision log |
| How the system is actually built and deployed | docs/tech/Architecture.md |
| Card design — proposed, not built | Proposals |
| Where the current version of an asset lives | ACTIVE-ASSET-REGISTRY.md |
| Outside assessment of project standing | docs/evaluations/ |
| Superseded plans, kickoffs, audits, old GDDs | _archive/ — frozen, never canon |
Document Set¶
- Game Overview — start here: what EchoSpire is, in two pages
- Document Governance — what is canonical and how conflicts resolve
- Gameplay Reference — classes, factions, run loop, content rules
- Rules Glossary — official terminology and mechanic definitions
- Hero Progression And Difficulty — the level 10 model, specializations, environment scaling
- Realm Framework — unstable attached realms, realm passives, the single-realm quest model
- Realm Map Biome Matrix — biome assignment across realms
- Rift Types And Variables — node taxonomy and the authoring variables each type exposes
- Effect Pipeline And Modular Deployment — effect, trigger, and UX event contract
- Todo Inventory — the backlog — active list, demo release track, broader backlog
Note on House names¶
The player-facing House names are Valerii, the Axiom, the Syndicate, the Censors,
Salvari, ratified 2026-07-03 in story/bible/canon-decisions.md.
Documents in this directory use the canon names as of 2026-08-30. The code, seeded data, and asset filenames still use the pre-July names (Syntacta, Aethari, Annalis); that identifier rename is deferred until after the campaign. Tracked propagation debt, not an open question. See the Canon Propagation Debt section of the Todo Inventory.