Law 9 · The Chisel, Not the Model
Never let the model carve the writing.
The Mossy Dekalogue · Law 9 of 14Never let the model carve the writing. What must be exact — glyphs, runes, name-rows — is composited by hand, for a mirror cannot be trusted with a sacred alphabet.
The image model dreams in letters it cannot read: a reversed Futhark, an Ogham that never grew on any tree, a name-row plausible to the eye and false to the tongue. So the law splits the labor: the model cuts the scene — moss, light, stone, dimension — and the chisel cuts the writing, programmatically, from a real font, with geometry that cannot flip. Art is delegated; truth is composited.
The model dreams letters; the chisel cuts truth. Never hand a sacred alphabet to a dreamer.
Failure modeimage models hallucinate text: mirrored glyphs, invented letterforms, confidently wrong rows
Fixdeterministic rendering — Pillow, a self-hosted font, math instead of dreams
Scopeevery carved name on every hero tonight was programmatic; the model never touched a glyph
Whythe sacred alphabet is not a suggestion; it is a spelling