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'hero_summary'      => 'This page names the working symbols, the jobs they perform, and the limits that keep design aligned with doctrine, archive structure, and launch-time recognition.',
        'panel_subline'     => 'Named marks over vague atmosphere. Public argument over decorative mystery.',
        'roles_title'       => 'What the symbolic system has to do at launch',
        'roles_summary'     => 'A launch visual system should orient, pace, and identify the archive before it tries to impress anyone. These are the core jobs the marks need to keep performing.',
        'lexicon_title'     => 'The symbolic lexicon',
        'lexicon_summary'   => 'These are the working marks and textures already present inside the theme shell. Each one needs a name, a job, and an explanation that survives daylight.',
        'artifacts_title'   => 'Material studies and artifact renders',
        'artifacts_summary' => 'These supplemental studies test whether the symbolic language can survive parchment, album-cover, and medallion treatments without automatically becoming the canonical nameplate or press-kit layer.',
        'uses_title'        => 'Where the symbolic system should work hardest',
        'uses_summary'      => 'Symbols matter most when they help readers recognize threshold, hierarchy, continuity, and institutional seriousness before a long-form file has even been opened.',
        'standards_title'   => 'Symbolic standards',
        'standards_summary' => 'The visual system needs constraints just as much as the writing does, otherwise symbolism collapses into costume, one-off taste, or launch-week overreach.',
    );
}

/**
 * Core jobs the symbolic system needs to perform at launch.
 *
 * @return array<int, array<string, mixed>>
 */
function antichrist_engine_foundation_symbolic_system_roles()
{
    return array(
        array(
            'eyebrow' => 'Role 01',
            'title'   => 'Threshold marks should make entry feel intentional',
            'summary' => 'Portal geometry and restrained framing matter most on pages where newcomers cross from panic, doctrine, or curiosity into a more governed interpretive space.',
            'note'    => 'This is where the portal ring and entry-shell atmosphere actually earn their place.',
            'target'  => 'ai_engine',
            'cta'     => 'See the threshold surface',
        ),
        array(
            'eyebrow' => 'Role 02',
            'title'   => 'Seal marks should imply authority without pretending to be untouchable',
            'summary' => 'The hero sigil works when it signals public record, revision, and seriousness rather than sacred immunity or merch-first identity.',
            'note'    => 'The mark should feel institutionally stable while remaining open to adversarial revision.',
            'target'  => 'home',
            'cta'     => 'View the homepage shell',
        ),
        array(
            'eyebrow' => 'Role 03',
            'title'   => 'Publication marks should pace the archive instead of decorating it',
            'summary' => 'Divider marks and lighter ceremonial elements matter when they help long-form reading feel governed, segmented, and editorially paced.',
            'note'    => 'The journal should feel structured, not merely embellished.',
            'target'  => 'journal',
            'cta'     => 'Inspect the publication layer',
        ),
        array(
            'eyebrow' => 'Role 04',
            'title'   => 'Textures should preserve continuity across downloads and reuse',
            'summary' => 'Grids, ornaments, and supporting marks matter most when the system leaves the site shell and still reads as the same archive in posters, wallpapers, and press assets.',
            'note'    => 'Consistency becomes real when assets survive reuse without mutating into alternate brands.',
            'target'  => 'downloads',
            'cta'     => 'Open the downloads library',
        ),
    );
}

/**
 * Symbolic lexicon for the public site.
 *
 * @return array<int, array<string, string>>
 */
function antichrist_engine_foundation_symbol_lexicon()
{
    return array(
        array(
            'anchor'      => 'hero-sigil',
            'title'       => 'Hero Sigil',
            'asset_path'  => 'assets/images/hero-sigil.svg',
            'alt'         => 'FFTAC hero sigil',
            'summary'     => 'The primary sigil condenses seal, aperture, and contested crown into a launch mark that feels institutional without pretending to be sacred beyond interpretation.',
            'meaning'     => 'Institutional seal under revision rather than untouchable icon',
            'usage'       => 'Homepage hero, structural brand anchor, and recognizability layer for the public record',
            'target'      => 'home',
            'cta'         => 'See it in the homepage shell',
            'keywords'    => 'hero sigil seal crest launch mark foundation record',
        ),
        array(
            'anchor'      => 'portal-ring',
            'title'       => 'Portal Ring',
            'asset_path'  => 'assets/images/portal-ring.svg',
            'alt'         => 'FFTAC portal ring',
            'summary'     => 'The ring frames threshold, passage, and recursion. It works best anywhere the site is asking a newcomer to cross from panic, doctrine, or curiosity into a new interpretive state.',
            'meaning'     => 'Threshold and recursive passage',
            'usage'       => 'AI Engine entry, recovery framing, and orientation-heavy transition surfaces',
            'target'      => 'ai_engine',
            'cta'         => 'Open the AI Engine route',
            'keywords'    => 'portal ring threshold recursion entry symbol ai engine',
        ),
        array(
            'anchor'      => 'divider-mark',
            'title'       => 'Divider Mark',
            'asset_path'  => 'assets/images/divider-mark.svg',
            'alt'         => 'FFTAC divider mark',
            'summary'     => 'A small but deliberate break marker for section changes, publication seams, and tonal resets where plain spacing would feel too generic for the institution.',
            'meaning'     => 'Controlled interruption and governed transition',
            'usage'       => 'Long-form publication pacing, section boundaries, and archive segmentation',
            'target'      => 'journal',
            'cta'         => 'Inspect the journal surface',
            'keywords'    => 'divider mark section break publication pacing journal',
        ),
        array(
            'anchor'      => 'card-ornament',
            'title'       => 'Card Ornament',
            'asset_path'  => 'assets/images/card-ornament.svg',
            'alt'         => 'FFTAC card ornament',
            'summary'     => 'The ornament adds a disciplined trace of ceremony to cards and records without dragging the interface into faux-occult excess.',
            'meaning'     => 'Ceremony under control',
            'usage'       => 'Panel accents, record cards, and small-scale institutional framing',
            'target'      => 'research',
            'cta'         => 'See the research record surface',
            'keywords'    => 'card ornament panel accent record card research',
        ),
        array(
            'anchor'      => 'texture-grid',
            'title'       => 'Texture Grid',
            'asset_path'  => 'assets/images/texture-grid.svg',
            'alt'         => 'FFTAC texture grid',
            'summary'     => 'The grid is the machine-facing texture in the system: order, repetition, and substrate rather than heraldry. It stops the brand from feeling purely ecclesial or purely ornamental.',
            'meaning'     => 'Structured substrate and technical atmosphere',
            'usage'       => 'Background support, machine-adjacent interfaces, and research / download surfaces',
            'target'      => 'downloads',
            'cta'         => 'Open the downloads library',
            'keywords'    => 'texture grid substrate machine pattern downloads background',
        ),
    );
}

/**
 * Supplemental material studies for the symbols lab and downloads library.
 *
 * @return array<int, array<string, string>>
 */
function antichrist_engine_foundation_symbolic_artifact_studies()
{
    return array(
        array(
            'anchor'         => 'symbol-study-parchment',
            'eyebrow'        => 'Material Study 01',
            'title'          => 'Parchment doctrine-sheet study',
            'summary'        => 'A dense parchment composition that pushes inverse-law language, cosmogram structure, and archive ornament into one ceremonial reference sheet.',
            'medium'         => 'Illuminated parchment diagram',
            'status'         => 'Supplemental symbolic study',