# Bedrock

> Bedrock holds the physical conditions beneath every later claim

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:land-place:bedrock` |
| Family | Land & Place |
| Domain | Culture |
| Era | Kinship Age → Collective Age |
| Kind | concept |
| Archetype | The Field |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Bedrock is a concept in the Land & Place family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Bedrock holds the physical conditions beneath every later claim.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Bedrock holds the physical conditions beneath every later claim
- **Gift:** Clarity about bedrock makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When bedrock is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when bedrock is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where bedrock appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Bedrock reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Bedrock changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Bedrock changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Bedrock can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Field enters the reading through Bedrock. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What changes when Bedrock becomes the unit of analysis?

**Guidance:** Shift scale, clock, stakeholder, boundary, and claim layer before choosing a move.

## Game function

Creates a graph move that changes the active map. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **Soil externalizes to Bedrock.** Soil externalizes to Bedrock through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Bedrock amplifies Watershed.** Bedrock amplifies Watershed through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Bedrock depends on Occupancy.** Bedrock depends on Occupancy through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Mortgage File constrains Bedrock.** Mortgage File constrains Bedrock through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Bedrock through the lineage of Land & Place: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Bedrock: one dominant symbolic mechanism with a restrained secondary counterforce; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Energy Codes 101](https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/articles/energy-codes-101-what-are-they-and-what-does-role) — U.S. Department of Energy; model codes, adoption, enforcement, building systems.
- [Risk-Based Brownfields Cleanups](https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/risk-based-brownfields-cleanups) — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; contamination, remediation, reuse, institutional controls.
