SANJIESAN LORE / Setting prose
Separate a poetic world description from a measurable rule
A city described as never sleeping can still contain quiet homes and tired workers. Google’s global-audience guidance favours clear language where precise meaning matters. In a setting guide, decide which sentences express a viewpoint and which define literal behaviour before collaborators turn a metaphor into a map, mechanism or plot constraint.
Choose one evocative sentence
Write an original description such as the tower drinks the morning light. Decide whether a narrator is describing its appearance or whether the tower actually stores light in the fiction. Both can work, but they lead to different production questions. Keep the expressive line if it serves the scene, and add a plain reference explanation when a literal interpretation would change how the world operates.
Ask what a literal reading would require
Imagine an artist or writer taking the phrase literally. Would it require a new opening, a visible process or a source of power that the setting has not established? Identify that consequence instead of debating whether the wording sounds beautiful. If the phrase is metaphorical, say so in the reference. If it is literal, define the relevant behaviour through the same approval process as other world rules.
Check the translation’s degree of literalness
Read the line in both languages and ask whether each sounds like description, folklore or an authoritative claim. Keep the intended speaker and context visible. A local saying can exaggerate without becoming the author’s confirmed physics. When a later scene depends on the tower’s actual capability, use the plain rule reference rather than trying to derive a mechanism from whichever translation happens to sound more definite.