Biome Archetypes · biome-archetypes
Owner directive (2026-07-10), canonical. "Organizations (The World): The overarching sovereign entity. Defines the fundamental Biome (e.g., a Cyberpunk Metropolis, a Solarpunk Oasis, an Oceanic Rig, a Desert Caravan)." [src: wiki/development/prompts-archive/by-topic/knowledge-management-and-concept-modeling.md:742]
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Biome Archetypes are the named world-templates an organization chooses (or is assigned) when its dynamic-island is instanced. The four OWNER-2026-07-10 exemplar labels — new coinages on this date:
| Archetype | Flavor |
|---|---|
| Cyberpunk Metropolis | dense neon vertical city |
| Solarpunk Oasis | regenerative green-tech garden |
| Oceanic Rig | industrial platform over open water |
| Desert Caravan | nomadic trade routes across dunes |
Grounded substrate — the per-property biom field. The genome already carries a biome selector per web property: "Each property can carry its own brand (primaryColor, fontFamily, and a visual biom such as desert / forest / neon / deep-space)" [src: wiki/architecture/genome.md:40]. Archetypes are the world-scale enrichment of that field: desert → Desert Caravan, neon → Cyberpunk Metropolis, forest → Solarpunk Oasis, with deep-space and Oceanic Rig extending the palette. The archetype list is exemplary, not closed ("e.g.").
Derivation note. Archetype assignment is driven by the org's genome theme — theme.variant, palette, and motion.brand_art_type — so the same declarative instance data that brands an org's sites selects its island world. Precedent: the Royal Orbit instance derived a gold-desert biome from its brand — "old arabic letters forming the scenarios, sand and muslin brotherhood, world, security tradition and vision for emotion of the plot" [src: ...knowledge-management-and-concept-modeling.md:481] — i.e. a Desert Caravan archetype avant la lettre.
The chosen archetype sets the biome rung's parameters (terrain, palette, weather vocabulary, flora/fauna of element-world and knowledge-particle visuals) and constrains the sensory-genome's narration register per storytelling-lenses.
Composition
- uses: biome (the rung it parameterizes), genome + genome-strand (theme.variant/palette/motion drive assignment)
- used-by: dynamic-island (world definition at instancing), sensory-genome (narration register), quests-mapping (Organization = World defines the Biome), scenery (inherits terrain/palette)
See also
- biome — the grounded CodeLand rung and its
biombrand field - dynamic-island — what the archetype instantiates