Mineral Entities

Reading the Mineral layer

Minerals are the earth's most stable substances and the Atlas's slowest layer. A mineral entity is a material — jade, salt, stone, pigment — whose entry records where it is found, how it is worked, and what traditions depend on it. Because minerals do not have seasons, they are included as the fixed reference against which seasonal change is measured: salt preserves across a year, and jade outlasts every calendar that has been kept around it.

Mineral pages connect to the artifacts made from them, the places they are mined or gathered, and the practices that use them. Their position in the graph is deliberately quiet — few relationships, long-lived ones. Following those links is a useful check on the Atlas's seasonal bias: this is the one type that shows what the rest of the graph looks like when nothing is changing, and it makes the movement everywhere else easier to see.