0017 — ARIA Consciousness Level Scale: 1–5

Status

Folded into FEATURES/gameplay/aria-companion.md (2026-06-19). Decided that ARIA Consciousness Level is a 1–5 integer with named tiers (Dormant, Aware, Awakened, Sentient, Transcendent), default 1 on Player.aria_consciousness_level; the legacy 1–10 banded scale is dropped.

Context

Arbitrated the consciousness-level scale between a legacy 1–10 banded scale and the 1–5 named-tier scale.

Folded into FEATURES/gameplay/aria-companion.md (with the aria_consciousness_level column on DATA_MODELS/player.md). The durable rule now lives there as prose (the 1–5 named-tier table); that doc is the canonical reference. This record is retained for decision history per the append-only ADR policy.