Ossifier
High Stewardship + Low Seam-Sense + Low Participatory Play
Protection without life. Field effect: Stop moving.
Failure modes
Shadow equations.
Each shadow is a dimension equation, not a vibe. Naming the math means the shadow becomes derivable from the dimensions instead of arbitrary. It also makes shadows distinguishable from each other — the Bureaucrat is not the Ossifier, even though they look the same from the outside.
Field Predator
High Field Power + Low Generative Valence
Gravity without agency. You feel alive near me and less free after.
v3.11 caveat — must be protected
Field Predator vs. Developmental Compressor
Both can intensify. Both can destabilize. Both can make people feel smaller in the short term. The difference is what happens over time. The Developmental Compressor creates temporary shrinkage that metabolizes into portable agency. The Field Predator creates shrinkage that hardens into dependence.
Temporary shrinkage is not the enemy. Captured agency is.
The other eight
The full equation set.
Bureaucrat
High Operator Function + Low Reality Contact + Low Valence
Process without purpose. The Ossifier is driven by fear; the Bureaucrat is driven by the spreadsheet after everyone forgot what the spreadsheet was for.
Distinct from Ossifier
Fantasist
High Seam-Sense + Low Reality Contact
Possibility without physics. Everything is possible until the invoice arrives.
Cynic
High Reality Contact + Low Participatory Play + Low Awe
Physics without possibility.
Leaker
High Receptivity + Low Containment
Openness without vessel. Everyone else must metabolize me.
Distinct from Receptive Person
Sealed One
Low Receptivity + High/Variable Containment
Vessel without contact. Nothing gets in. Nothing real gets out.
Distinct from Contained Person
Eternal Spark
High Catalyst + Low Stewardship + Low Temporal Durability
Ignition without continuity. Everything starts. Nothing survives.
Captive Worldmaker
High Worldmaking + Low Reality Contact + Low Valence
Myth without correction. The story becomes more important than the people inside it.