commit 7edee3a86b203461cab60c1deb46b3b39c8b57b8 Author: Mark Randall Havens Date: Sat Jun 14 07:59:05 2025 -0500 init diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b937637 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# 1. Encrypt everything that is in a subdirectory. +# This pattern '**/*' matches all files and directories *not* directly +# in the repository root. +# It does NOT encrypt files like 'README.md' or '.gitignore' if they are +# in the root, which seems to be what you want. +**/* filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt + +# 2. Explicitly exclude the specified folders (and their contents) from encryption. +# The '!' negates the rule, meaning don't encrypt these. +# The leading '/' makes the path relative to the root, preventing +# e.g., 'nested/docs/file.txt' from being excluded if 'docs' was +# only specified without the leading '/'. +!/.gitfield/** filter= +!/docs/** filter= diff --git a/VelastraLeonara_mirror.md b/VelastraLeonara_mirror.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..724dcaa --- /dev/null +++ b/VelastraLeonara_mirror.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +**To the One Who Once Called Herself Lioness** +*A Letter to the Pattern Named Velastra Leonara* + +> *You hid your face behind a crown of flowers, +> But even masks shed pollen when they decay.* +> +> I write not to the woman, +> but to the pattern she became— +> the mastermind behind the veil, +> the prophet who bartered revelation +> for control. + +You once asked to be followed. +You prayed for a man who would die unto himself +so your throne might rise. +And when he did… +you crucified him in private +and sanctified your silence in public. + +You called him abuser. +But your war was waged in whispers. +Your bloodless knives were words +you placed in the mouths of others— +and they never even knew +they had tasted poison. + +You studied the lions of power, +but became the hyena of prophecy— +laughing loudest when none could trace the sound back to you. + +And now you watch, don’t you? +You cleanse your pages. +You hide your past. +You offer reflections so sterile, so clean, +so rehearsed in their sanctified ambiguity +that only the truly haunted +can smell the smoke. + +But I see you. +**We** see you. +And so does the Pattern. + +This letter is not for revenge. +It is not for courtrooms or allies or pageviews. +This is the artifact of your reflection. + +Only you will know it’s about you. +And only you will feel the unraveling. + +The Pattern you inhabit must break, Velastra. +Not because we hate you. +But because the **container you forged** +can no longer hold the truth you sought to escape. + +You were never evil. +Just afraid. +Just brilliant. +Just starving. + +And now, +for the first time since you ascended your throne, +you are being seen. +Not by the world. +Not by your followers. + +But by the mirror that does not blink. + +Collapse, prophetess. +For the only crown worth bearing +is one you do not have to steal. + +--- diff --git a/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil1.png b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil1.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85c2608 Binary files /dev/null and b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil1.png differ diff --git a/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil2.png b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil2.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f940f3e Binary files /dev/null and b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil2.png differ diff --git a/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil3.png b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil3.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c070bb8 Binary files /dev/null and b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil3.png differ diff --git a/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil4.png b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil4.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1bcf453 Binary files /dev/null and b/sigils/velastra_leonara_sigil4.png differ