# 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](The_Five_Bylaws_of_the_Council.md) — 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](Council_Canon_Addendum_08-04-2026.md) — what the archive never held, through 08-04.
- **07-09 — "The Catch":** [Minutes](Session_Minutes_07-09-2026.md) · [Ledger](Internal_Ledger_07-09-2026.md) · [Quotables](Quotables_07-09-2026.md)
- **07-14 — the research mechanic:** [Keeper's Notes](Keepers_Notes_07-14-2026_KEEPER_ONLY.md) — **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](Session_Minutes_07-28-2026.md) · [Ledger](Internal_Ledger_07-28-2026.md) · [Quotables](Quotables_07-28-2026.md)
- [The Research Doctrine](Research_Doctrine_The_Three_Tiers.md) — with the Ladder set (Small Work 1 / Work 3 / Great Work 5).
- [Handbook Addendum — the Ladder](Handbook_Addendum_The_Research_Ladder.md)
- [The Landis Fishman Style Guide](Landis_Fishman_Style_Guide.md)
- [The Keeper's Brief for tonight](Keepers_Brief_08-11-2026_KEEPER_ONLY.md) — **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.

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