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====== Ontology ======

Laelith is unique in the depth and breadth of its Lore, as evidenced by the remarkable [[http://loukoum.online.fr/jdr/laelith/lael3ndx.htm|Index of entries]] compiled by Frédéric Vallat from the pages of Laelith's most recently published [[https://black-book-editions.fr/catalogue.php?id=414#Présentation|French version]]. As such, it really matters to get its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(computer_science)|ontology]] right.

Here is the classification we devised and propose using to classify and label all index entries. 

==== Main Categories ==== 

Each index entry belongs to a unique **Main Category**:

  * **Location**: Category of all index entries that have a fixed, permanent or long-term defined, position on a (usually cadastral) map.\\ //Examples: The High terrace, Paladins ladder, Vorn's Cliff, the Grand Duchy of Agramor.//
 
  * **Living**: Category of all index entries capable of moving on a map by themselves, or of their own volition.\\ //Examples: Didier Guiserix, Fanrod Mornedoc, a Doodlyn, Teaphanerys XIV the Long-lived (when alive).//

  * **Thing**: Category of all index entries that can be moved on a map, though not by themselves.\\ //Examples: A Laelophone, a tankard of Schtoob, a finger-snap, the Killhem tree.// 

  * **Concept**: Category of all index entries that are neither a Location, nor a Living, nor a Thing.\\ //Examples: Snooper, God-King, Celestia, Segur & Knight's disease, to go mist-hunting.//


==== Sub-categories ==== 

When needed, main categories are further divided into mutually exclusive sub-categories, as follows:

=== Locations sub-categories ===

All index entries in the **Location** category are either:

  * an **Area**: Sub-category of Locations that cover a substantial area of the map and contain either multiple Lots and Arteries, or a major Geographical feature. An area is always defined by one or more closed polygons.\\ //Examples: Laelith the mystical city, the Bath-Oh! neighborhood, the Languishings marshes, Barony of Kaoca.//
 
  * an **Artery**: Sub-category of Locations that form the public thoroughfare through which the general public can usually travel along or move through. Arteries can either be open (roads, pathways, waterways, bridges & gates) or closed (gardens, plazas) polygons.\\ //Examples: Buttery ladder, bone bridge, dispatchers garden, Zyglute square.//

  * a **Lot**: Sub-category of Locations that are man-made and contain no other Lot than those of type Subdivision.\\ //Examples: House of the Thousand Flowers, the Divine lock, ruins of Cuss Castle, the Forbidden library.// 

  * a **Meta**: Sub-category of Locations that are either Itineraries or Networks sets of Arteries\\ //Examples: piety-passageway, the adventurer's path, the sewers .//

=== Living sub-categories ===

All index entries in the **Living** category are either:

  * **Animated**: Sub-category of Living that are animated by a Will rather than born. This includes both ethereal spirits and undeads.\\ //Example: Zombie//

  * **Humanoid**: Sub-category of born Living that can be Player Characters.\\ //Example: Gnome, Human, Half-elf.//

  * **Monster**: Sub-category of born Living that cannot be Player Characters. Includes animals. \\ //Example: Doodlyn.//
 
=== Thing sub-categories ===

All index entries in the **Thing** category are either:

  * **Transport**: Sub-category of Things that can be used as means of transportation.\\ //Example: the Queen of Cups & Swords ship, .//

  * **Plant**: Sub-category of Things that grow such as trees and vegetables.\\ //Examples: Fevers tree in the Punishment, the tree in Killhem Impasse.//
 
=== Concept sub-categories ===

All index entries in the **Concept** category are either:

  * **Attribute**: Sub-category of Concepts that are a skill, trait or title linked to a Living.\\ //Example: Snooper, Dwarf, High Priest.//

  * **Condition**: Sub-category of Concepts that can temporarily or permanently affect a Living, a Thing or a Location.\\ //Example: Segur & Knight's disease. //

  * **Event**: Sub-category of Concepts that are linked to a specific time.\\ //Examples: The Ball of Flutters, Celestia.//
 
  * **Organization**: Sub-category of Concepts used to describe a specific group or subset of Livings.\\ //Examples: The Inner Council, the High Guild.//
 
==== Location Types ==== 

Locations are also classified according to their type (and, often, sub-type) and usually identified by a corresponding marker type on the Map. Unlike Categories, types are often, but not always, mutually exclusive and a Location could be of two distinct types or sub-types at once.

=== Area types ===

  * **City**, from most insignificant to largest:
    * Burgh: //Urs//, in the Grand Duchy of Agramor
    * Village: //Howe//, on the outskirts of Laelith
    * City: //Tanith-Lenath//
    * Capital: //Hilminia//, capital of the Gardens of Jadhys

  * **District**, from most specific to broadest:
    * Block: //The Island//
    * Harbor: //Altalith marina//
    * Neighborhood: //Bath-Oh//
    * Stratus: //Stratus of brumes//
    * Terrace: //The Hand that crafts//
    * Other: //Mages Peaks//

  * **Geographic feature**, in alphabetical order:
    * Cliff: //Vorn's Cliff//
    * Desert: //Scoria wasteland//
    * Island: //Sarlom Sodor// penitentiary island
    * Marsh: //The Languishings//
    * Mountain: //Bald mountains//
    * Plateau: //Siderian plateau//
    * Ravine: //Ravine of gems//
    * Valley: //Dragons coomb//
    * Water Area: //Highwater lake, Phalanx pond, Inlam torrent//

  * **Province**: //Egonzasthan Shires Federation//

=== Artery types ===

  * **Garden**: //Destitution gardens//

  * **Pathway**:
    * Catacombs: //Bogomolet catacombs//
    * Traboule: //Little traboule//
    * Tunnel: //The rising cart//

  * **Plaza**
    * Cavern: //Evil bazaar//
    * Market: //Old flowers market//
    * Quay: //Old-time quay//
    * Ramp: //Soldiers ramp//

  * **Road**
    * Impasse: //Killhem impasse//
    * Ladder: //Puppeteer's ladder//
    * Stairs: //Stairway of the ineffable faith//
    * Street: //Fountain of Youth street//
    * Trail: //The Unhinged//

  * **Waterway**: //Quijiento river//

=== Lot types ===

  * **Building**
    * Administration
    * Alchemist
    * Apothecary
    * Armory
    * Bank
    * Barracks
    * Bookbinder
    * Books
    * Brizure
    * Candies
    * Cemetery
    * Chapel
    * Cloaque
    * Clothes
    * Cloths
    * Construction
    * Convent
    * Council
    * Court
    * Distillery
    * Dwarves
    * Dyer
    * Education
    * Embassy
    * Entertainment
    * Fletcher
    * Food & Drinks: //The White Eagle//
    * Gambling
    * Guardhouse
    * Guild
    * Habitation
    * Herbalism
    * Illicit
    * Jeweler
    * Jewelry
    * Judicial
    * Laboratory
    * Lazaret
    * Lodging: //Hostelry of the Lazaret//
    * Mansion
    * Market
    * Maskmaker
    * Mercenary
    * Military
    * Mill
    * Monastery
    * Newspaper
    * Official
    * Organist manufacture
    * Palace
    * Pawnshop
    * Private
    * Private museum
    * Religious
    * Secret
    * Service
    * Shop
    * Sport
    * Stables
    * Stand-up
    * Tavinn
    * Temple
    * Time travel
    * Toll
    * Trade
    * Undeclared
    * Venue
    * Warehouse
    * Wine
    * Workshop

  * **Construct**
    * Bridge: // Bridge of smiles//
    * Cemetery: //God-Kings graveyard//
    * Enclosure: //Sacred lizard beasts enclosure//
    * Fountain: //Fountain of wishes//
    * Gate: //Gate of delightful ecstasy// 
    * Mine: // Dwarven colony mine shaft//
    * Moat: //Great moat//
    * Monument: //Stele of remembrance//
    * Pool: //Elemental pool//
    * Rampart: //Northern ramparts, Wall of Muggy Finepalette//
    * Tower: //Beacon towers//

  * **Grotto**: //Tolerated academy of magic//

  * **Ruin**: //Ruins of Cuss Castle//

  * **Subdivision**
    * Floor/Level
    * Room: //Forbidden library//

  * **Temporary**, eg, //Traveling Inn//


=== Meta types ===

  * **Itinerary**: //the adventurer's path//
  * **Network**: //the sewers//


==== Lots Classification by Activity ====

It can also be useful to categorize various Lot types by the genre of activity conducted in them.

=== Activity Genre ===

  * **Military** for law enforcement & military activities
    * Barracks (& other Military Lodgings)
    * Fortifications (Gates, Ramparts, Towers...)
    * Guardhouse
    * Jail

  * **Official** for administrative activities
    * Administration
    * Council
    * Court
    * Guild
    * Lazaret
    * Palace
 

  * **Religious** for all religious activities
    * Cemetery
    * Crypt
    * Mausoleum
    * Chapel
    * Church
    * Hospital
    * Hospice
    * Monastery
    * Temple

  * **Trade** for all commerce-related activities
    * Food & Drinks
    * Lodging
    * Manufacture
    * Market
    * Port
    * Service
    * Shop
    * Warehouse
    * Workshop

  * **Venue** for all public activities not falling in one of the above genres
    * Entertainment (Opera, Theaters, Gambling, etc.) 
    * Education (Colleges, Libraries, Museum, Observatory, Schools & Universities, etc.)
    * Secret (venues hidden or protected from the general public)
    * Sport (Amphitheater, Hippodrome, etc.)

  * **Undeclared** for all private activities not falling in one of the above genres
    * Habitation
    * Archpass


==== Concept Types ==== 

Concepts are also classified according to their type (and, sometimes sub-type).

=== Attribute types ===

  * **Profession**:
    * Lamb //the Snooper//
    * Evarilion Bombogarogan, //Consulting Sleuth//

  * **Race**:
    * Sir Florimont. //Mountain Dwarf//
    * Padrogan, //Gopneldaun// porter-freighter

  * **Title**, in alphabetical order:
    * Valdenath, //High Priest// of the Temple of the Skull
    * Nin I. //the God-King//

=== Condition types ===

  * **Disease**:
    * //Segur & Knight's disease//

=== Event types ===

  * **Moment** in time:
    * The month of //Enfofcold//
    * The day of rest, //Selenia//
    * The hour of //the Knife//. at lunch time

  * **Celebration** on the calendar:
    * //Ice Mists Festival//, marking the Winter solstice
    * //The Ball of Flutters//
 
=== Organization types ===

Organizations are groups of Livings capable of demonstrating Proof of Humanship and assembled around a common cause or purpose, their Domain of expertise. Depending on the Powers it holds, an Organization can be a:

===Council=== 
Councils are organizations that hold (compulsory) //Voting//, (advisory) //Polling// and/or (meta) //Governance// powers & privileges over their Domain(s) of expertise:\\ 

    * **Voting councils** have the power to //hold procedurally-binding votes// over matters falling under their own Domain of Expertise.\\ //Example:The God-King's Inner Council has voting powers over all matters under the purvey of the four Temples, with a tie-break going to the High Priest controlling the domain of expertise being voted upon.// \\

    * **Polling councils** have the power to //poll their constituents// over matters concerning their Domain of Expertise. The results of such polls is non-binding, which doesn't mean it shall carry no weight however.\\ //Example:The Deferential Council of Noble-Burghers.// \\

    * **Governance councils** have //meta powers// that go beyond the regular purview and scope of polls and votes and can reach out to the real world.\\ //Examples: The Laelith Foundation, the Lithos.// \\


===Fellowship===
Fellowships are organizations that have a direct say or control over a set of beliefs in Laelith, as expressed in the Wiki's Lore pages. As such, Fellowships usually have //supervisory editing and tagging rights// over Wiki pages corresponding to their beliefs set. 

Beliefs are //layers of lore// one can choose to make visible or not, in the wiki and on the map.

  * **Faction**: Religious faction adhering to a specific set of beliefs.\\ //Examples: Worshippers of the Invisible Light, Worshippers of the Flame Dragon//

===Guild===
Guilds are the only type of organizations owning a //multi-sig wallet// that can hold their common resources (NFTs, digital currency and other shared digital resources). Guilds are organized around a common purpose or activity belonging to one of the following sub-types: 

  * **Ad Hoc**: Catch-all for informal and misc. associations not belonging to any of the sub-types below.\\ //Examples: The Regenerative Mushroom, the Traditional Kaocalian Dance Circle//

  * **Band**: Party of adventuring PCs or NPCs.\\ //Examples: The Wanderer's Company, the Bostonn Vigilantes//

  * **Brotherhood**: Religious order (Sisterhood when all female).\\ //Examples: Brotherhood of the Earth Mother, the White Brotherhood//

  * **Cenacle**: Temple or Divine-royal administration.\\ //Examples: Cenacle of Continuities, Cenacle of Trades//
 
  * **College**: Learning society.\\ //Examples: The College of Illusionists, the School of Magic//

  * **Company**: Military or martial order.\\ //Examples: The Corps of Protectors, the Spirit Brigade, the Scrape//

  * **Corporation**: Trade or merchant guild.\\ //Examples: The Boonzill Express, the Tavinnkeepers Guild//
 
  * **Crafting Guild**: Dedicated to the crafting of goods, digital or IRL.\\ //Example: The Guild of Armorers & Blacksmiths//

  * **Gang**: Criminal or illicit org.\\ //Examples: Guild of the Bleeding Dagger, the Severed Tongue, the Pendular Hermits//

  * **Tribe**: Race and kin-based groups.\\ //Examples: The Blood Teeth, the Dwarven Kin society//

  * **Troupe**: Artists and performers group.\\ //Examples: The Flap Seat, the Wooden Prince Company//

Tags are also used to designate specific properties of certain guilds. For instance:

  * **Secret**: Designates secret guilds.\\ //Examples: The Litholysis, the Dwarven Kin society//

==== Design Notes ==== 

Each Category/sub-category/type/sub-type is designed to be mutually exclusive from all others, so that an index entry can only ever belong to one, and one only, category/sub-category/type/sub-type. If an index entry belongs to two (or more) distinct categories, this simply means there are multiple entries with the same name, each belonging to a distinct category.

==== Ontology Dictionary on the API ====

The Laelith API can give you the up-to-date dictionary of the Ontology:

https://api.laelith.com/ontology