Chapter 3 - Fragment carrier and sacred objects

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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis canon. O4 is the only fragment whose incised marks are non-alphabetic: a set of parallel cut strokes and one small hatched block, w

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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis canon. O1 carries one animal, one flat wedge skull, a smooth unhooded neck and the correct net pattern along the whole body, on wet

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PICKED - CANON O3 is the only plate obeying the one-small-hard-mark rule (a single red eye in profile, no second glowing eye) while carrying a legible void patch on the flank, on believable bamboo and tree-fern ground over volcanic soil.

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PICKED - AUTHENTICITY O3 is the only plate free of modern objects and wrong-place architecture: no clapboard houses, no mailbox, no power pole, no printed sky, just a lean brindle village-type dog on an unpaved track with a single red eye.

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PICKED - CANON O1 is the only plate holding both required tells cleanly: one hard mata mbere at eye height on a gaunt androgynous night-form, over the region's own ground (tree fern, bamboo, fan palm, dark ash crater basin), with no artifact anywhere in frame.

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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis register. O1 is the only candidate whose hollows read as an ordered set of marks above the stratum line rather than as natural mine

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PICKED - CANON THE PER-ROW STRENGTH PRESCRIPTION IS PROVED ON THE ROW IT WAS WRITTEN FOR - at LoRA strength 0.55 the soft blurred mass that 0.8 produced is gone and the crisp painted read is back: at 2x individual mane hairs, hard-edged hide folds over rib and hip, sharp jaw and fetlock and hoof all resolve. And t

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PICKED - CRAFT O1 is the only plate whose cliff face and far rim stay clean: no conifer band, no colour-confetti blobs across the strata, an off-axis child in torn mud-stained cloth at lower left and the polo small on the far lip, so the scale relationship reads unobstructed.

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PICKED - CANON the spruce-fir conifer horizon is replaced by Flores monsoon canopy, and the mata mbere reads as one hard red point at eye height over a legible chest hollow

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