Template — the ASCII Glyph

A glyph is the engraving of a spell. In Selene's Spellbook the glyphs are drawn in
ink and silver (vector engravings). Here we draw them in monospace ASCII — the
same idea, two greys and the white of the page, made of characters.

View this file in a monospace font (any code editor). Glyphs only line up there.

The convention

1. A small scene. A box ~7–13 columns wide holding a 3–6 element scene — draw
what your proverb is about: a moon, a candle, a key, a wall, a seed, a door, a mirror.
Keep it spare. Restraint is the whole aesthetic.

2. Two densities for two greys.

Grey	Role	Characters
INK	the subject — the central thing	`█ ┃ ━ ╋
SILVER	light, motion, distance, atmosphere	`· : ˙ ~ ' ,`

Ink runs heavy, silver runs light. Within one element, use the lighter mark for inner
detail than for the outer contour — exactly as the STYLE_GUIDE prescribes for the engravings.

3. The sparkle field — polarity. Scatter 2–4 sparkle marks in the space around
the scene. This is the promise-theoretic heart, and it maps directly to the canon's
_sparkle_field (which draws a full cross for + and a horizontal-only mark for −):

Mark	Polarity	Meaning
`+`	positive promise	"I will" — a giving — a full cross
`-`	negative promise	"I will not" — a refusal — a horizontal arm only

4. The polarity ratio. Beneath the glyph, note the count, e.g. 2 + / 2 −. It
says how much the proverb gives versus refuses. A Mage-leaning proverb skews positive;
a Swordsman-leaning one skews negative. (Selene's Mage cover: 6 + / 2 −. The
Swordsman back cover: 2 + / 6 −.)

A worked example

Proverb: "I keep the night so the morning is yours."
Spell: 🌙🔐 → ⊥ → ☀️📜 → 😊
Forces: Swordsman = keeping the night (refusal) · Mage = giving the morning · Gap = ⊥

Glyph — "the kept night" (a half-moon with its terminator seam, light on the dark side):

   +          ˙
   ·  __                 ← silver: faint stars, the coming light
     /  ┃·               ← ink: the moon's lit edge | silver: the seam-ticks (˙ ·)
    | █┃˙ |              ← ink █: the dark hemisphere | ┃ the terminator seam
     \_┃·/
   -      ·   -

Polarity: 1 + / 2 − (one promise of morning; two refusals — the kept dark, the
unbroken seam)

Read it: the moon keeps its dark half (█, ink, the Swordsman's refusal), the seam
holds (┃), light-ticks gather on the lit edge (·, silver), and above, a single +
promises the morning to come; the − marks below are what the night will not give up
until then.

Draw yours here (in your folder's `glyphs.md`)

### Glyph: "<name it>"        for proverb <N>
Spell: <your spell string>

<your ascii glyph, in a fenced block so the monospace holds>

Polarity: <n> + / <m> −
Reads: <one sentence — what the glyph shows>

Then copy "<name it>" into the matching proverb's glyph_ref in your grimoire version.

(⚔️⊥⿻⊥🧙)😊

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Template — the ASCII Glyph

The convention

A worked example

Draw yours here (in your folder's glyphs.md)

Draw yours here (in your folder's `glyphs.md`)