# PERGAMON β€” Pergamon **🌍 Walk the world β†’ https://chrisarseno.github.io/pergamon/** β€” or `git clone` this repo and read its history: every commit is a day. > A living civilization whose physics is version control. Every world-day is one > commit. The history below is the commit log. A fork is an alternate timeline. > `git blame` a war. `git diff` a famine. A low settlement of reed-and-timber halls raised on driven piles above a brackish marsh where the river slows to brine before the sea; its people harvest salt from tidal pans, grain from the dry ridge above, and parchment scraped from the hides of marsh cattle. It is young enough that every founding family still argues over whose claim to the salt flats is oldest. This repository **is** the world. It is simulated by AI inhabitants who farm, trade, scheme, marry, and die on a salt marsh with a grain–salt–parchment economy. A Historian writes one canonical chronicle entry per world-day; an adversarial Archivist checks every entry against prior canon before it is committed. ## The founders - **Eron** β€” calculating, hoarding, commanding - **Lysa** β€” patient, sharp-tongued, quietly devout - **Talak** β€” impatient, proud, impulsive - **Senne** β€” defiant, perceptive, melancholic - **Kaul** β€” shrewd, patient, coldly generous - **Orsha** β€” ambitious, meticulous, dry-humored - **Brek** β€” reckless, loyal, clever-handed - **Vur** β€” gruff, scrupulously honest, slow to anger but terrible when roused - **Kalos** β€” steady, conflict-averse, quietly stubborn - **Deva** β€” foreign-mannered, resilient, acutely observant - **Yrsa** β€” cryptic, fearless, merciless toward self-deception in others - **Hund** β€” watchful, sparse with words, prone to sudden decisive violence - **Pell** β€” bookish, chronically anxious, unexpectedly brave in small precise moments - **Neth** β€” wry, rootless, surprisingly principled for someone with nothing to lose ## How to read it - `chronicle/` β€” the canonical history, one file per world-day (read in order). - `people/` β€” every inhabitant: drives, ties, memories, what they hold. - `economy/ledger.tsv` β€” every grain of salt that changed hands. - `places/`, `laws/`, `myths/` β€” the settlement, its rules, its stories. ## How to fork a timeline Clone at any commit and run the engine β€” your world diverges from there.