Canon Principles

Rule — how status works in this book

Every statement of fact in this book, and every future addition to it, carries one of these statuses:

• Canonical — owner-confirmed, or a direct logical consequence of an owner-confirmed decision. Permanent unless explicitly superseded by a new owner decision.
• Proposed — a drafted, sourced, internally-consistent narrative element, not yet owner-confirmed. Usable as working direction in new content, but must be flagged as such, never presented as settled.
• Not yet determined — a genuine gap. No answer exists. Do not invent one to fill a chapter.
• Superseded — a formerly-used concept, formally replaced. Recorded for traceability; never used as current fact.

Rule — how new canon gets added

1. A new element (a character, location, event, artifact) starts as Proposed unless it comes with direct owner confirmation.
2. It is added to the relevant chapter (Characters, Locations, Events, Artifacts, etc.) with its status stated plainly in the text — not hidden in a separate governance file.
3. It only becomes Canonical on explicit owner confirmation, recorded here.
4. A Proposed element is never silently promoted to Canonical by repetition, by appearing in enough other documents, or by simply not being challenged.

Rule — story world vs. real world

This book’s narrative present tense (“Sol Mamy builds…”, “SOLMAMY becomes…”) describes events inside the fiction. It is never evidence that the real-world SOLMAMY company or product currently exists or operates — SOLMAMY has not launched (see Brand Book — Foundation — Status). Where this book says Sol Mamy “creates” or “builds” SOLMAMY, read it as: in the story, she does this; in the real world, this project is currently designing the system she is written to eventually build. The two statements are not the same claim and are never merged into one.

SOLMEME/solme.me is the one exception to “not yet launched,” and this book states it explicitly: unlike SOLMAMY, solme.me is a real, currently operating site, and the monthly SOLMEME memecoin release is a real, already-established recurring event (see Events — monthly cadence). Where this book narrates SOLMEME “filling the Lunar Vault” (Characters, Relationships), the underlying real-world action — the monthly release existing and happening — is real; the Vault itself, and “filling” it, is this book’s fictional framing of that real action, not a claim that the Lunar Vault or the SOLMAMY ecosystem exist. Do not read “SOLMEME is real and currently operating” as extending to any other entity or claim in this book.

Rule — pronoun/terminology convention

Sol Mamy is referred to as she/her throughout this book and its downstream citations (Mascot, Media, Game, Talking-Head Books). No other named character currently exists in this universe (see Characters — scope is closed to Sol Mamy and SOLMEME); this convention applies to any future character added under the “how new canon gets added” rule above, whose own pronoun convention must be stated the same way at the point they’re introduced, not left implicit.

Rule — what this book never does

• It never re-describes Sol Mamy’s identity, appearance, or personality — those live in Mascot Book, cited here where relevant.
• It never invents a faction, character, or event that no source supports, even to make a chapter feel complete. An empty or thin chapter with an honest “none established yet” is correct; a filled-in chapter with invented content is not.

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Part of the SOLMEME Brand Documentation System. Content status (Canonical/Proposed/Open/etc.) is this book’s own axis; ownership/rights are separate — see OWNERSHIP_AUTHORITY.md at the documentation system’s root.