Start Here — The Session of 08-11-2026

The single starting point: one page that reaches every document tonight might need. Where this page disagrees with a filed record, the record is right.

I — The Records shelf, live on this page

Everything below sits beside this file on the keeper's shelf:

• The Five Bylaws of the Council — approved canon. Held from the commons; keeper-side only. Ali's founding condition — "unvetoable" against the Arbiter's deciding voice — is to be told at the table tonight.
• The Canon Addendum — what the archive never held, through 08-04.
• 07-09 — "The Catch": Minutes · Ledger · Quotables
• 07-14 — the research mechanic: Keeper's Notes — KEEPER-ONLY; carries the running Divine-Arcs list. Nothing minuted — Ali not yet seated as Omar.
• 07-28 — the Count, the Roundtable, Todd's terms: Minutes · Ledger · Quotables
• The Research Doctrine — with the Ladder set (Small Work 1 / Work 3 / Great Work 5).
• Handbook Addendum — the Ladder
• The Landis Fishman Style Guide
• The Keeper's Brief for tonight — KEEPER-ONLY. Fiona's opening prose · Omar without Cinco · the watches · front of mind.

08-04 — the workroom session: no audio yet; the Keeper's Prep and the Addendum stand in the vault.

II — Leah, seated tonight

Real seat and real vote from night one; nothing on her paper says interim, and that silence is the ruling. Her shelf (unlisted) carries the Landis introduction and her envelope. The reading — Fiona of Midlandia: the princess who hated the palace, smell-triggered visions, the huntress, the Traveler doorway as she built it. Form of address per the style guide §VIII — the form's Landis and the Un's are two men.

III — In flight

• The two interrogatory emails, paste-ready (Ali's — the Omar batch; Taxe's — the Cinco batch). Their answers land in the stubs on Ali's and Taxe's pages.
• The Handbook Addendum leaf rides the shelf above.

IV — Riding to the table unresolved

1. Ali and the redrawn Third — told at the table tonight; the "unvetoable" question stands open by design.
2. The minutes meet the Senate for the first time — the standing record rule fires on first reading: the count's leader crowned. The Count reads 4–4, dual kings.
3. The 08-04 audio has not arrived; the governance holding's merge condition half-stands — the last sitting's matters are not reopened.
4. The Divine-Arcs list is homed in the 07-14 Keeper's Notes.

Cut 08-11-2026 by Fen, Keeper of the Annex. Point-in-time copy; the vault governs wherever the two drift.