Chapter 3 - Familiars

Shell (W1, Flores Giant Softshell Turtle), the sustained-bond legacy familiar predating the depletion, bonds across Ch 02-03 — encountered Ch 2 and formalized here via Mama Klara's approach protocol — present whenever the Water slot is active thereafter; a §17.9 reveal-authority reference row also applies and is deliberately not named.

Written in canon: 1 familiar (this chapter). Source: registries/T0_Familiar_Registry [DRAFT v0.1]/Sheet1.csv.

The concept, one picked plate per subject

shell surfacing snout study

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON O3 is the only head with the species' defining snorkel signature, nostrils opening at the tip of the raised proboscis over a clean single ripple ring, and no text or duplicate-head artifact.

shared across the region

shell carapace surface detail

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CRAFT O3 is the only sheet free of the cropped disembodied human hand that mars O1, O2 and O4 (and of O2's crab claws), and its leathery scute-less shell surface reads cleanly as a material key.

shared across the region

shell the water familiar registration

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the species finally lands: every cell the defect line names is answered at once - the carapace is one smooth continuous unseamed surface with no polygonal keratin seams, the rim is a smooth soft margin with no serration, the limbs are webbed paddles with no spiny tubercles, the head is single and na

shared across the region

Wired into the game

Every card is the asset gallery's own record, at the same rung on the same five-step ladder.