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Worldbuilding & internal consistency

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Plain English: The invented rules of the world — its physics, magic, tech, economy, history — and the discipline of obeying them once set. (For this project, the mythos rules and the grounded-engineering contract.)

Rule: Define the rules early and keep them; consistency is what buys belief. Track geography and travel-time so distances stay sane (the "can a bakkie carry that?" class of check). Reveal the world through use and need, not lecture.

Fail: Breaking your own rules for plot convenience (a power that vanishes when inconvenient); info-dump worldbuilding (the encyclopedia entry dropped into chapter one); and the physical-plausibility gap — a load, a lift, a travel time that internal continuity can't catch because nothing contradicts it on the page, it's just physically impossible.

See: Mythos · Real-world plausibility gap (memory) · storygraph/mythos.py · ./run.sh factcheck

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