{
"id": "world.ptah.temp.lore",
"defs": {
"main": {
"key": "tid",
"type": "record",
"record": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"title",
"creatorDID",
"worldReference",
"createdAt"
],
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 640,
"description": "The name of this piece of lore.",
"maxGraphemes": 64
},
"content": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 102400,
"description": "The actual narrative. The history.",
"maxGraphemes": 10000
},
"createdAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "datetime",
"description": "Real-world timestamp of creation."
},
"characters": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"format": "at-uri"
},
"description": "AT URIs of the character records involved in this lore."
},
"creatorDID": {
"type": "string",
"format": "did",
"description": "Who authored this lore entry."
},
"worldReference": {
"type": "string",
"format": "at-uri",
"description": "The AT URI of the world this lore belongs to."
},
"canonicalStatus": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The canonical standing of this lore within its world.",
"knownValues": [
"world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusOfficial",
"world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusCommunity",
"world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusApocryphal"
]
},
"authorshipRecord": {
"type": "string",
"format": "did",
"description": "Permanent link to the creator. Provenance travels with every piece of history."
},
"contributionType": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Whether this lore was written by the world originator or a community contributor.",
"knownValues": [
"originator",
"community"
]
},
"sourceReferences": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"format": "at-uri"
},
"description": "AT URIs of the action and event records this lore was generated from. Lore does not appear from nowhere — it traces back to things that actually happened. This is the most important field in this record."
},
"timelinePosition": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 2560,
"description": "Where this sits in the world's chronology. In-world time, era, epoch, cycle — whatever the world uses.",
"maxGraphemes": 256
}
}
},
"description": "The Shabaka Stone of the world. It preserves what happened. It cannot be erased. It names who made it. It is the theological text of a world that anyone can read and nobody can alter."
}
},
"$type": "com.atproto.lexicon.schema",
"lexicon": 1,
"description": "A lore record in The Ptah Protocol. The world's history book — the accumulated narrative of what has happened. This is what separates the protocol from a game or a social feed. Games have scores. Social feeds have posts. A world has history."
}