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Quest Thread - The Ruin Beneath

Scope​

This is the canonical design owner for The Ruin Beneath. It records the Act 0 thread that moves the player from pure observation into interpretation once the buried structure has enough earned evidence behind it.

Identity​

  • Parent Act Arc: ../acts/gd-act-0-arrival-and-core.md
  • Reveal gate: appears only after the player has enough earned evidence to move from observation into interpretation.
  • Knowledge framing: Discovered

Mission Ladder​

  • Trace The Buried Line
  • Clear The Lower Stones
  • Find What Is Under The Hill
  • Understand What Holds The Ash Back

Design Boundaries​

  • anchor language may surface only after the preceding evidence has earned it.
  • Nexus, Wardheart, and Core remain late-threshold language here.
  • The thread feeds forward into gd-quest-thread-act-0-make-this-place-hold.md once the player has a practical reason to commit to the ruin.