🚨 Bleed Emergency Moderation

These commands are intended for serious incidents such as raids, coordinated spam, mass account joins, or situations requiring rapid containment.

They should only be used by highly trusted Custodians authorized to handle emergencies.

👥 Review Recent Members

,newmembers [count]

Displays recently joined members.

Requires: No special Discord permission

This can help staff identify suspicious waves of new accounts during a possible raid.

🔨 Ban Recent Members

,recentban [count] [reason]

Bulk-bans a specified number of recently joined members.

Requires: Ban Members

⚠️ Verify that the recent accounts are actually associated with the incident before using this.

🚨 Raid Response

,raid [time] [action] [reason]

Acts against members who joined during the supplied time period.

Requires: Ban Members

This is designed for situations where a group of malicious accounts joined within a known raid window.

Because this may affect many members at once, use the narrowest possible timeframe.

🔒 Emergency Channel Lockdown

,lockdown [channel] [reason]

Locks an affected channel to stop further disruption.

,unlock [channel] [reason]

Reopens the channel once the incident is under control.

Requires: Manage Channels

,lockdown all and ,unlock all are Owner-only because they affect the entire server.

🐢 Slow Down Active Spam

,slowmode on [channel] [delay time]

Enables slowmode to reduce message flooding.

,slowmode off [channel]

Restores normal messaging afterward.

📎 Stop File or Embed Spam

,revokefiles off [channel]

Temporarily removes permission to post attachments and embed links.

,revokefiles on [channel]

Restores those permissions when safe.

⚠️ Emergency Procedure

During an active incident:

1. Contain affected channels.
2. Preserve evidence where practical.
3. Identify the raid or spam window.
4. Remove clearly malicious accounts.
5. Record major actions and reasons.
6. Restore normal channel permissions once safe.
7. Escalate to the Owner if server-wide action is required.

📜 Quick Reference

,newmembers — Review recent joins
,recentban — Ban recent accounts
,raid — Act on members from a raid window
,lockdown / ,unlock — Contain one channel
,slowmode on/off — Slow message flooding
,revokefiles on/off — Control attachment spam

🚨 Emergency tools prioritize containment, evidence, and careful action—not panic or indiscriminate punishment.

🧵 Bleed Channel & Thread Control

These commands allow Custodians and authorized staff to manage threads, forum posts, channel visibility, slowmode, voice movement, and temporary channel restrictions.

Use them for everyday organization and moderation rather than server-wide administration.

🧵 Threads & Forum Posts

,thread rename [thread] [new name]

Renames a thread or forum post.

,thread lock [thread] [reason]

Locks a thread or forum post.

,thread unlock [thread] [reason]

Unlocks it again.

,thread add [thread] [member]

Adds a member to a thread.

,thread remove [thread] [member]

Removes a member from a thread.

Requires: Manage Threads

👁️ Thread Watching

,thread watch [thread]

Toggles whether a thread is watched for archival.

,thread watch list

Displays all watched threads.

Requires: Manage Channels

🔒 Channel Locking

,lockdown [channel] [reason]

Locks a specific channel.

,unlock [channel] [reason]

Unlocks a specific channel.

Requires: Manage Channels

Server-wide lockdown all and unlock all remain owner-only.

👁️ Visibility Controls

,hide [channel] [role or member]

Hides a channel from a selected role or member.

,unhide [channel] [role or member]

Restores access to the hidden channel.

🐢 Slowmode

,slowmode

Views or manages slowmode.

,slowmode on [channel] [delay time]

Enables slowmode.

,slowmode off [channel]

Disables slowmode.

Requires: Manage Channels

📎 File Restrictions

,revokefiles

Manages attachment and embed-link permissions.

,revokefiles on [channel]

Allows file and embed-link permissions.

,revokefiles off [channel]

Removes them.

🎙️ Voice & Channel Tools

,drag [members] [channel]

Moves selected members to another voice channel.

Requires: Move Members

,talk [channel] [role]

Toggles whether a role may send messages in a channel.

,topic [text]

Changes the current channel topic.

,rename [member] [new nickname]

Changes a member’s nickname.

📜 Quick Reference

,thread rename/lock/unlock/add/remove — Manage threads
,thread watch — Watch threads for archival
,lockdown / ,unlock — Restrict or reopen one channel
,hide / ,unhide — Control visibility
,slowmode — Control message speed
,revokefiles — Control file posting
,drag — Move voice members
,talk — Control role messaging
,topic — Change channel topic
,rename — Change a nickname

🧵 Use channel controls to restore order without making broader server-wide changes.

🧹 Bleed Message Cleanup

These commands are for Custodians and authorized staff who need to remove spam, inappropriate content, unwanted attachments, reactions, embeds, or other message clutter.

All commands in this family require Manage Messages.

🗑️ General Purging

,purge [member] [search]

Deletes messages from the current channel using the supplied filters.

,purge after [message link]

Deletes messages sent after a selected message.

,purge before [message link]

Deletes messages sent before a selected message.

,purge between [start id] [finish id]

Deletes messages between two specified messages.

,purge upto [message link]

Deletes messages up to the referenced message.

👤 Message Sources

,purge humans [search] — Remove messages sent by members

,purge bots [search] — Remove bot messages

,purge webhooks [search] — Remove webhook messages

🔗 Content Types

,purge links [search] — Remove messages containing links

,purge files [search] — Remove attachments

,purge images [search] — Remove images and image links

,purge embeds [search] — Remove embedded content

,purge stickers [search] — Remove stickers

,purge emoji [search] — Remove emoji-related messages

,purge emotes [search] — Remove emote-related messages

,purge activity [search] — Remove activity/system-style messages

💬 Text Filters

,purge contains [substring] — Remove messages containing specific text

,purge startswith [substring] — Remove messages beginning with specific text

,purge endswith [substring] — Remove messages ending with specific text

📣 Mentions & Reactions

,purge mentions [member] [search]

Removes messages containing mentions associated with a member.

,purge reactions [search]

Removes reactions from messages in the channel.

⚠️ Cleanup Guidance

Purge commands can remove many messages quickly.

Before using them:

• confirm the correct channel
• double-check filters and message links
• avoid removing evidence needed for moderation cases
• preserve important screenshots or case proof first
• use the narrowest purge command necessary

📜 Quick Reference

,purge — General cleanup
,purge after/before/between/upto — Delete by message position
,purge humans/bots/webhooks — Delete by sender type
,purge links/files/images/embeds — Delete media or links
,purge stickers/emoji/emotes — Delete expression content
,purge contains/startswith/endswith — Delete matching text
,purge mentions — Remove mention-related messages
,purge reactions — Clear reactions

🧹 Clean carefully. Moderation evidence should be preserved before messages are removed.

📜 Bleed Cases, Notes & Evidence

These commands are for Custodians and authorized staff who need to review moderation history, document cases, attach evidence, update reasons, and maintain internal notes.

They should be used carefully because moderation records may affect future decisions about a member.

📚 Case History

,history [member] [command]

Views recorded punishments for a member.

,history view [case id]

Opens a specific moderation case by its case ID.

,caselog [case id]

Displays the case log associated with a specific moderation action.

,moderationhistory [member] [command]

Shows moderation actions performed by a staff member.

,modstats [member]

Displays punishment statistics for a moderator.

Requires: Manage Messages

✏️ Update Case Reasons

,reason [case id] [reason]

Changes the recorded reason attached to a moderation case.

Example:
,reason 142 Repeated harassment after warning

Use clear, factual reasons rather than vague descriptions.

📎 Evidence & Proof

,proof [case id]

Opens proof-management options for a case.

,proof view [case id]

Views evidence attached to a case.

,proof list [case id]

Lists all attachments recorded for the case.

,proof add [case id] [media url]

Adds evidence or attachments.

,proof set [case id] [explanation]

Sets the case proof and its explanation.

,proof remove [case id] [index]

Removes an attachment from the case record.

Requires: Manage Messages

📎 Evidence should be relevant to the moderation action and should not be altered in a misleading way.

📝 Staff Notes

,notes [member]

Views internal notes recorded for a member.

,notes add [member] [note]

Adds an internal note.

,notes remove [member] [id]

Removes one specific note.

,notes clear [member]

Clears all stored notes for that member.

Requires: Manage Messages

⚠️ ,notes clear removes multiple records at once. Use it only when intentionally cleaning outdated or incorrect notes.

🗑️ Remove a Case

,history remove [member] [case id]

Removes a specific punishment from a member’s recorded history.

Requires: Manage Messages

Because this alters moderation history, use it primarily to correct mistakes, duplicates, or invalid cases.

📜 Quick Reference

,history — View punishment history
,history view — Open a case
,caselog — View case log
,moderationhistory — View staff actions
,modstats — View moderator statistics
,reason — Update a case reason
,proof add/view/list/set/remove — Manage evidence
,notes add/view/remove/clear — Manage staff notes
,history remove — Remove one recorded case

🛡️ Keep case records factual, evidence-based, and useful to the next Custodian who may need to review them.

⚖️ Bleed Moderation Commands

These commands are for Custodians and authorized staff handling everyday member moderation in the Archives.

They cover warnings, timeouts, mutes, jails, bans, and reversals of those actions. Use them only when necessary, document significant actions, and follow the server’s moderation procedures.

⚠️ Warnings

,warn [member] [reason]

Warns a member and sends them the warning privately.

Requires: Manage Messages

,warnings [member]

Displays the warnings recorded for a member.

Requires: Manage Messages

⏳ Timeouts

,timeout [member] [duration] [reason]

Applies Discord’s timeout feature to a member.

Requires: Moderate Members

,timeout list

Shows currently timed-out members.

,untimeout [member] [reason]

Removes an active timeout.

🔇 Mutes & Restrictions

,mute [member] [duration] [reason]

Mutes a member.

,unmute [member] [reason]

Removes a mute.

,imute [member] [reason]

Removes the member’s ability to attach files and embed links.

,iunmute [member] [reason]

Restores file and embed permissions.

,rmute [member] [reason]

Removes the ability to add reactions and use external emotes.

,runmute [member] [reason]

Restores reaction and external-emote permissions.

Requires: Moderate Members

🔒 Jail

,jail [member] [duration] [reason]

Places a member into Bleed’s jail system.

,unjail [member] [reason]

Removes the member from jail.

,jaillist

Lists all currently jailed members.

Requires: Manage Messages

🔨 Bans

,ban [member] [delete history] [reason]

Bans a member and optionally removes message history.

,tempban [member] [duration] [reason]

Temporarily bans a member.

,softban [member] [delete history] [reason]

Bans and then removes the member while deleting the configured message history.

,unban [user] [reason]

Removes a ban.

,ban recent

Displays Bleed’s recent-ban information.

Requires: Ban Members

🔨 Bans should be used for serious violations or situations covered by Archive policy. Record a clear reason whenever possible.

📜 Quick Reference

,warn — Issue a warning
,warnings — View warnings
,timeout / ,untimeout — Apply or remove timeout
,mute / ,unmute — Apply or remove mute
,imute / ,iunmute — Restrict or restore files/embeds
,rmute / ,runmute — Restrict or restore reactions/emotes
,jail / ,unjail — Jail or release a member
,jaillist — View jailed members
,ban — Ban a member
,tempban — Temporary ban
,softban — Softban a member
,unban — Remove a ban

🛡️ Moderate consistently, record the reason, and use the least severe action appropriate to the situation.

⏰ Bleed Reminder Commands

Bleed includes a personal reminder system that allows you to create reminders, review upcoming reminders, and remove ones you no longer need.

These commands are available to regular members and require no special Discord permissions.

⏰ Create a Reminder

,remind [reminder]

Creates a reminder for something you want Bleed to remind you about later.

Include the time or duration and whatever you want to remember according to Bleed’s accepted reminder format.

Example:
,remind 2h Check the oven

This can be useful for appointments, writing sessions, events, chores, breaks, or anything else you do not want to forget.

📜 View Your Reminders

,remind list

Displays a list of your currently active reminders.

Use this when you want to check what reminders you have already created.

,reminders

Another command for viewing your current reminder list.

Both commands serve the same general purpose: reviewing reminders associated with your account.

🗑️ Remove a Reminder

,remind remove [id]

Removes one of your existing reminders.

First use ,remind list or ,reminders to find the reminder’s ID.

Example:
,remind remove 3

This removes the reminder associated with that ID.

📜 Quick Reference

,remind [reminder] — Create a personal reminder

,remind list — View your reminders

,reminders — View your reminders

,remind remove [id] — Delete one of your reminders

⏰ Use Bleed to remember the little things so they do not become lost among the pages of the Archive.

📜 Bleed Embed Management

These commands are reserved for the Owner of Holme and are used to create, store, copy, preview, edit, and delete Bleed embeds.

Embeds are formatted Discord messages that can contain titles, descriptions, fields, images, colors, footers, and other structured elements.

Because these commands require Manage Messages and can alter official server content, they should remain owner-only.

📚 View Stored Embeds

,embed

Opens Bleed’s embed-management system.

,embed list

Lists all embeds currently stored through Bleed.

Useful for checking what official embeds already exist before creating another.

📝 Create Embeds

,embed create [name]

Begins Bleed’s customization process for a new stored embed.

Example:
,embed create archive-rules

Choose a clear name so the embed can be found and reused later.

,createembed [embed code]

Creates an embed directly from supplied Bleed embed code.

This is useful when you already have the complete embed syntax prepared.

📋 Copy Embed Code

,embed copy [message link]

Copies the embed code from an existing Discord message.

,embedcode [message link]

Another command for retrieving the code used to create an existing embed.

These are useful when duplicating, backing up, or modifying an existing design.

👁️ Preview an Embed

,embed preview [name]

Sends a stored embed so you can inspect how it appears.

Example:
,embed preview archive-rules

Preview important embeds before using them publicly.

✏️ Edit an Existing Embed

,editembed [message link] [embed code]

Edits an embed you previously created.

Provide the link to the existing message followed by the replacement embed code.

Use this carefully when modifying official information already visible to members.

🗑️ Delete Stored Embeds

,embed delete [name]

Deletes a stored embed from Bleed.

Example:
,embed delete old-rules

⚠️ Confirm the embed name before deleting it. Keep copies of important embed code when appropriate.

📜 Quick Reference

,embed — Open embed management
,embed list — List stored embeds
,embed create [name] — Create a stored embed
,embed copy [message link] — Copy embed code
,embedcode [message link] — Retrieve embed code
,embed preview [name] — Preview a stored embed
,createembed [embed code] — Create from code
,editembed [message link] [embed code] — Edit an existing embed
,embed delete [name] — Delete a stored embed

🔐 Owner-only tools. Changes made here may affect official messages throughout the Archives.

⚙️ Bleed Advanced Tools

These commands are reserved for the Owner of Holme because they provide technical capabilities that can execute code or produce generated files.

They should remain isolated from regular members and staff unless you intentionally decide otherwise.

💻 Run Code

,run [code]

Executes supplied code inside Bleed’s containerized environment.

Permission Required: Attach Files

Even though Bleed only lists Attach Files as the Discord permission requirement, this command is more powerful than an ordinary utility because it allows arbitrary code to be submitted for execution.

Example:
,run print("Hello, Holme")

Depending on Bleed’s implementation, the command may return output, errors, or generated files.

⚠️ Why This Is Owner-Only

A code-execution command can potentially be used to:

• generate excessive output
• consume processing resources
• create unwanted files
• test filesystem or network restrictions
• run obfuscated or disruptive code
• repeatedly trigger expensive operations

Bleed states that execution occurs inside a containerized environment, which is intended to isolate code from the wider system. However, isolation does not make every use harmless.

Treat this as a technical tool rather than a recreational command.

🔐 Safe Use

When using ,run:

• understand the code before executing it
• avoid unknown or obfuscated scripts
• do not attempt to bypass Bleed’s sandbox
• avoid infinite loops or intentionally resource-heavy code
• do not use it to test unauthorized access to systems or accounts
• review any generated files before sharing them elsewhere

📜 Quick Reference

,run [code] — Execute code inside Bleed’s containerized environment

Required Discord Permission: Attach Files
Archive Access: Owner Only

⚙️ Advanced tools carry greater capability and greater responsibility. Keep them within the Archivist’s Vault.

🎭 Bleed Expressions Management

These commands are reserved for the Owner of Holme and are used to manage server expressions such as custom emotes.

Because expression-management commands can permanently add content to the server and require elevated Discord permissions, they should remain owner-only.

➕ Add a Server Emote

,addemote [emoji] [characters]

Downloads an emote and adds it to the Discord server.

Permission Required: Manage Expressions

This can be useful when you find an emote you want to preserve within the Archives without manually downloading and uploading it yourself.

Example:
,addemote [emoji] lotus

The supplied name or characters determine how the new server emote will be identified.

🏛️ Before Adding an Emote

Check that the expression:

• fits the visual identity of the Archives
• has an appropriate and recognizable name
• follows the server’s SFW standards
• is not offensive, misleading, or disruptive
• is suitable for permanent addition to the server
• does not unnecessarily duplicate an existing expression

Custom expressions become part of how members communicate throughout the server, so keeping the collection organized helps prevent clutter.

⚠️ Copyright & Ownership

Avoid knowingly adding artwork, emotes, or graphics that you do not have permission to use when their use would violate the creator’s rights.

When possible, favor original server artwork, properly licensed material, or expressions whose use is permitted.

📜 Quick Reference

,addemote [emoji] [characters] — Download an emote and add it to the server

Required Permission: Manage Expressions

🔐 Owner-only tool. Review each expression before adding it permanently to the Archives.

🛡️ Bleed Server Administration

These commands are reserved for the Owner of Holme and affect server-level information, invitations, expressions, or stored guild data.

Because they require elevated Discord permissions such as Manage Guild or Manage Expressions, they should remain owner-only.

🎭 Manage Server Expressions

,addemote [emoji] [characters]

Downloads an emote and adds it to the server.

This can be used to quickly import a supported emoji or emote into the Archives.

Permission Required: Manage Expressions

Example:
,addemote [emoji] archive_lotus

Use clear names when adding expressions so members can easily recognize and use them.

🎭 Review the image and naming before adding it permanently to the server.

📨 View Active Invites

,invites

Displays the server’s currently active Discord invite links.

This is useful for checking which invitations exist and reviewing how members may be entering the server.

Permission Required: Manage Guild

Invite information can be important when investigating unusual joins, old invite links, or access routes into the Archives.

🔐 Treat invite information as administrative data rather than general public information.

🏛️ Guild Name History

,cleargnames

Resets or clears Bleed’s stored guild name history.

Permission Required: Manage Guild

This affects historical information stored by Bleed about the server’s previous names.

⚠️ Use with care. Unlike a command that simply displays information, this command removes stored history and may not be reversible.

Only use it when you intentionally want Bleed’s recorded guild-name history cleared.

📜 Quick Reference

,addemote [emoji] [characters] — Add an emote to the server
Requires: Manage Expressions

,invites — View all active server invites
Requires: Manage Guild

,cleargnames — Clear Bleed’s stored guild-name history
Requires: Manage Guild

🔐 Owner Notice

These commands affect the server itself rather than only your personal Bleed account.

Before using them, confirm that you intend to change or inspect server-level information.

⚠️ Commands that erase stored information should be treated as potentially permanent.

🛡️ Administrative authority remains within the Archivist’s Vault.

🏟️ Bleed Sports Commands

Bleed includes several sports commands for quickly checking the current status and scores of major leagues and football matches directly from Discord.

These commands are available to regular members wherever Bleed commands are permitted.

🏀 NBA

,nba

Displays current NBA game status and scores.

Use this to quickly check ongoing or recently updated basketball games without leaving Discord.

🏈 NFL

,nfl

Displays current NFL game status and scores.

Useful for checking American football matchups and live game information.

⚾ MLB

,mlb

Displays current Major League Baseball game status and scores.

Use it to see how current MLB games are progressing.

⚽ Soccer

,soccer

Displays current soccer match status and scores.

This command can be used for supported football leagues and matches available through Bleed.

⚽ Futbol

,futbol

Displays current football match status and scores.

This serves as an alternate football/soccer command within Bleed.

Depending on Bleed’s data source, ,soccer and ,futbol may return similar or differently formatted results.

🏒 NHL

,nhl

Displays current National Hockey League game status and scores.

Use it to quickly check hockey games and current results.

📜 Quick Reference

,nba — View NBA scores and game status

,nfl — View NFL scores and game status

,mlb — View MLB scores and game status

,soccer — View soccer scores and match status

,futbol — View football/soccer scores and match status

,nhl — View NHL scores and game status

🏛️ Using Sports Commands

These commands are intended for quick score checks and casual sports discussion throughout the Archive.

For live games, scores and statuses may change rapidly, so Bleed’s returned information should be treated as a current snapshot rather than a permanent record.

🏟️ Check the score, follow the match, and share the competition with fellow Archivists.

🎧 Bleed Audio & Identification Tools

Bleed includes several useful audio tools for identifying songs, converting video into audio, and turning spoken content into readable text.

These commands are available to regular members wherever Bleed commands and file uploads are permitted.

📝 Transcribe Audio or Video

,transcribe [url]

Transcribes spoken audio from a supported video or audio source into written text.

Example:
,transcribe https://example.com/audio.mp3

This can be useful for:

• turning spoken clips into readable text
• understanding dialogue from a recording
• creating notes from audio
• accessibility when listening is difficult

Bleed requires Attach Files permission to return the transcription or related file output.

🎙️ Clear speech and good audio quality generally produce better results.

🎵 Identify a Song

,shazam [url]

Attempts to identify a song from a supplied video or audio source.

Example:
,shazam https://example.com/clip.mp4

This is useful when you hear music in a clip but do not know the song title or artist.

For best results, provide a section where the music is clearly audible without too much talking or background noise.

🎧 Convert Video to MP3

,makemp3 [url]

Converts supported video media into an MP3 audio file.

Example:
,makemp3 https://example.com/video.mp4

This removes the visual portion of the media and returns the audio as an MP3 file.

It can be useful for extracting spoken audio, music, or other sound from a video when you only need the audio portion.

📜 Only convert and share media you are permitted to use. Normal Archive rules regarding copyrighted, private, or inappropriate material still apply.

📜 Quick Reference

,transcribe [url] — Convert spoken audio or video into written text

,shazam [url] — Identify music from an audio or video clip

,makemp3 [url] — Convert supported video into an MP3 audio file

🏛️ Using Audio Tools Responsibly

These tools are intended for convenient media handling, identification, accessibility, and personal use.

Do not use them to redistribute private recordings, evade another member’s privacy, or share prohibited material.

🎧 Identify the sound, preserve the words, and let every echo find its name.

🎲 Bleed Fun & Social Tools

Bleed includes several lightweight social and entertainment commands for jokes, random choices, casual games, emojis, and silly text effects.

These commands are available to regular members wherever Bleed commands are permitted.

😸 Text Effects

,uwu [text]

Transforms your text into an exaggerated “uwu” style.

Example:
,uwu Welcome to the Archives

Use it for jokes and playful messages.

,freaky [text]

Transforms supplied text using Bleed’s “freaky” text style.

Example:
,freaky This is getting strange

Keep all resulting messages within the Archive’s normal SFW and conduct rules.

📱 Random TikTok

,fyp

Returns a random TikTok video.

This can be useful for casual entertainment and discovering random clips.

📱 Because the result is random, use this command in appropriate social or off-topic spaces rather than serious discussion channels.

✊ Rock-Paper-Scissors

,rps [choice]

Play Rock-Paper-Scissors against Bleed.

Choose:

rock • paper • scissors

Example:
,rps rock

Bleed will choose its own move and determine the winner.

🎯 Let Bleed Choose

,choose [choices]

Give Bleed several possibilities and let it randomly choose one.

Example:
,choose Pizza | Burgers | Tacos

Useful for settling harmless decisions when nobody can agree.

😀 Jumbo Emoji

,jumbo [emoji]

Displays a large version of an emoji or server emote.

Example:
,jumbo 😂

This is useful for reactions, showing off custom emotes, or simply making an emoji much easier to see.

🤔 Would You Rather?

,wouldyourather [choose]

Starts or responds to a Would You Rather? prompt through Bleed.

Use it for casual conversation, icebreakers, and getting to know other members.

Keep prompts appropriate for the public SFW Archive.

📜 Quick Reference

,uwu [text] — Uwuify text

,freaky [text] — Apply Bleed’s freaky text effect

,fyp — Get a random TikTok

,rps [choice] — Play Rock-Paper-Scissors

,choose [choices] — Let Bleed make a random choice

,jumbo [emoji] — Enlarge an emoji or server emote

,wouldyourather [choose] — Play Would You Rather

🏛️ Use these commands for lighthearted fun, harmless chaos, and casual social moments throughout the Archive.

🧰 Bleed Everyday Utilities

Bleed includes a collection of practical everyday commands for polls, AFK notices, colors, Discord information, command help, and other small utilities.

These commands are available to regular members wherever Bleed commands are permitted.

💤 AFK Tools

,afk [status]

Set yourself as AFK and optionally leave a status explaining where you are.

Example:
,afk Getting dinner

When another member mentions you, Bleed can indicate that you are currently AFK.

,afk mentions

Shows mentions you received while you were AFK.

Useful for catching up when you return.

📊 Polls & Decisions

,quickpoll [msg]

Creates a simple poll by adding upvote and downvote reactions to a message.

Example:
,quickpoll Should we watch a movie tonight?

,poll [time] [question]

Creates a timed poll with the supplied question.

Example:
,poll 1h Which book should we read next?

,choose [choices]

Give Bleed several choices and let it pick one for you.

Example:
,choose Pizza | Burgers | Tacos

Useful when nobody wants to make the decision.

🕰️ Discord Information

,timediff [first id] [second id]

Calculates the time difference between two Discord IDs.

Discord IDs contain timestamp information, allowing Bleed to compare when the associated objects were created.

,names [member]

Displays available username and nickname history for yourself or another member.

,gnames [guild id]

Displays available guild/server name-change history.

🔎 Name-history tools are informational. Do not use them to repeatedly investigate, embarrass, or harass another member.

,clearnames

Clears your own stored name history from Bleed.

🎨 Colors & Characters

,randomhex

Generates a random hexadecimal color code.

Example result: #C7A34A

,color [hex]

Displays a hexadecimal color inside an embed so you can preview it.

Example:
,color C7A34A

,charinfo [characters]

Displays information about a character, symbol, emoji, or Unicode character.

Example:
,charinfo ♜

This can be useful when identifying unusual symbols or special characters.

❓ Bleed Help

,help [command]

Displays extended help and usage information for a Bleed command.

Example:
,help lastfm

Use this whenever you are unsure what a command does or what arguments it accepts.

,topcommands

Displays Bleed's most frequently used commands.

This can be a useful way to discover tools other members commonly use.

📜 Quick Reference

,afk — Set an AFK status
,afk mentions — View AFK mentions
,quickpoll — Create a simple reaction poll
,poll — Create a timed poll
,choose — Let Bleed choose for you
,timediff — Compare Discord ID timestamps
,names — View name history
,gnames — View guild name history
,clearnames — Clear your own name history
,randomhex — Generate a color
,color — Preview a hex color
,charinfo — Inspect characters or symbols
,help — View command help
,topcommands — View popular commands

🏛️ Small tools for everyday life throughout the Archive.

💿 Bleed Discogs Commands

Bleed can connect to your personal Discogs account, letting you search the Discogs database, view your record collection, browse your wantlist, and display Discogs profiles directly inside Discord.

Discogs integration is optional and only affects the account of the member who connects it.

To begin, use:

,discog login

Follow Bleed’s authentication process to connect your Discogs account.

🔐 Account & Setup

,discog

Opens or displays your Discogs integration information through Bleed.

,discog login

Connect and authenticate your personal Discogs account with Bleed.

Use this command first if you want Bleed to access your collection or wantlist.

,discog logout

Disconnect your Discogs account from Bleed’s internal system.

Use this whenever you no longer want your account connected.

🔎 Search Discogs

,discog search [query]

Search the Discogs database for music, releases, artists, albums, records, and other available catalogue information.

Example:
,discog search Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

This can be useful for identifying releases, discovering editions, or simply looking up music information without leaving Discord.

💿 Your Collection

,discog collections

Displays the music collection associated with your connected Discogs account.

This is especially useful for members who catalogue physical records, CDs, cassettes, or other releases through Discogs.

⭐ Your Wantlist

,discog wantlist

Displays the releases currently saved to your Discogs wantlist.

Use this to quickly show other members which albums or editions you are hoping to collect.

👤 Discogs Profiles

,discog profile [user]

Displays information about a Discogs user profile.

Example:
,discog profile Username

This can be used to view your own profile or another public Discogs profile.

📜 Quick Reference

,discog — View Discogs integration information

,discog login — Connect your Discogs account

,discog logout — Disconnect your Discogs account

,discog search [query] — Search the Discogs database

,discog collections — View your Discogs collection

,discog wantlist — View your Discogs wantlist

,discog profile [user] — View a Discogs profile

🏛️ Connect your collection, explore the catalogue, and share the music preserved in your shelves with the Archive.

Holman was never the name of a race.

Humanity came carrying memory, contradiction, and the mortal power to choose again.

The Aeterni guarded law, freedom, and the present moment.

The Malfhi taught civilization to live beside Natura rather than above it.

The dwarves gave enduring form to the Republic’s promises.

The gnomes preserved the quiet functions that allowed those promises to continue.

None of them alone were Holme.

Together, they became Holman.

To be Holman was not to surrender one’s people, inheritance, or nature. It was to accept that civilization was a shared act—that no single race could claim the Republic as its possession while depending upon every other race to sustain it.

Humanity was not placed at the center because it was superior.

The Aeterni did not rule because they were eternal.

The Malfhi did not command because they understood the living world.

The dwarves did not own what they raised.

The gnomes did not possess what they maintained.

Holme belonged to all because all had contributed.

This understanding became the Covenant of One Republic.

Its people were bound by memory, freedom, law, questioning, duty, Natura, craft, and mutual service. Their differences were not treated as failures awaiting correction. They were the very conditions through which the Republic became possible.

“We are not merely surviving here.

We belong here together.”

That belonging was tested when the city was lost.

Yet exile revealed what Holman identity had always meant. Holme could survive beyond its walls because Holme was more than territory.

It traveled through laws and records.

Through seeds and tools.

Through measurements, names, songs, memory, and duty.

Wherever its people gathered beneath those principles, the Republic began again.

Holme lived in exile because its civilization remained alive within those who carried it. Distance could separate citizens from the Eternal City, but it could not sever the covenant they had chosen.

“Holme is not where we rule.

Holme is where we remember, where we are free, and where we choose to live together.”

Thus, the Holman people were not created by blood.

They were created by belonging.

Not by sameness.

By contribution.

Not by the claim of one people over another.

By the promise that each would help preserve the freedom of all.

Earth had been Humanity’s birthplace.

The Doom Falcon had been its refuge.

But Holme became their common home—

because five peoples chose to become one Republic.

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The dwarves built what had to endure.

The gnomes ensured it continued to work.

Beneath the grandeur of Holme existed another city—one seldom celebrated in monuments.

It moved through irrigation gates and archive mechanisms. Through lifts, lamps, instruments, communications, medical devices, and the countless civic systems upon which ordinary life depended.

The gnomes maintained that hidden city.

Their service was measured not by spectacle, but by continuity.

Water reached the gardens.

Records moved through the archives.

Lamps illuminated the roads.

Instruments remained precise.

Devices created to preserve life continued answering the hands entrusted with them.

Where others raised symbols of civilization, the gnomes attended to its functions. They understood that no republic survived through ideals alone. A law could protect a garden, but law could not carry water to its roots.

That required craft.

A Malfhi garden required irrigation.

A gnome designed it.

A dwarf protected it within stone.

An Aeterni secured its place beneath Holman law.

Thus did the peoples of Holme labor—not as isolated nations sharing a city, but as different inheritances sustaining one Republic.

The gnomes occupied the spaces between their works.

They preserved what connected one civic purpose to another. Their mechanisms joined archive to citizen, water to garden, knowledge to practice, and invention to continued service.

Their craft was devotion made visible.

When Holme fell and the Republic entered exile, the gnomes carried more than tools. Alongside the dwarves, they preserved plans, measurements, mechanisms, and craft—the practical memory from which a functioning city might someday be restored.

They could not carry Holme’s streets.

They carried the understanding that had allowed those streets to live.

When the people returned, restoration required more than walls. Water had to flow again. Archives had to function. Lamps had to burn. Instruments had to answer. The quiet systems beneath public life had to awaken.

The gnomes helped Holme remember how to work.

Their legacy was therefore written wherever nothing failed.

In every opened gate.

In every illuminated chamber.

In every mechanism that continued its purpose long after its maker had departed.

The gnomes did not ask that their labor dominate the city.

Only that the city continue.

And so the Eternal City endured not merely because it was built by the dwarves—

but because it was maintained by the gnomes.

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🖼️ Bleed Media Commands

Bleed includes a large collection of image, GIF, and video manipulation tools. Most commands accept either an image URL or an uploaded attachment and return the edited result directly in Discord.

These commands are available to regular members wherever media commands are permitted. Bleed requires Attach Files permission to return the edited media.

🪄 Image Effects

,media pixelate — Pixelate an image
,media bloom — Adjust bloom, brightness, radius, and sharpness
,media fisheye — Apply a fisheye effect
,media magik — Warp and distort an image
,media grayscale — Convert an image to grayscale
,media blur — Blur an image with adjustable strength
,media neon — Create a neon-outline effect
,media deepfry — Apply a deep-fried meme filter
,media invert — Invert image colours
,media swirl — Apply a swirl distortion
,media rainbow — Add an animated rainbow effect
,media zoomblur — Apply a zoom-blur effect
,media spread — Apply a paint-spread effect

🎞️ Animated Effects

,media gifmagik — Animate the Magik distortion effect
,media spin — Create a rotating GIF
,media scramble — Randomize frames in media
,media zoom — Create a zooming GIF
,media wormhole — Create a wormhole animation

🖼️ Scene & Object Effects

,media flag — Place an image onto a flag GIF
,media flag2 — Alternate flag GIF effect
,media toaster — Place an image onto a toaster GIF
,media billboard — Display an image on a billboard
,media rubiks — Place an image on a Rubik’s Cube
,media tattoo — Place an image onto a tattoo effect
,media circuitboard — Place an image on a circuit-board GIF
,media fortune — Place an image inside a fortune cookie
,media valentine — Create a Valentine-themed GIF
,media heart — Create a heart GIF with optional text
,media book — Place an image inside a book

💬 Meme & Caption Tools

,media caption — Add custom caption text
,media motivate — Create a motivational-style meme
,media speechbubble — Create a speech-bubble meme
,media meme — Create a traditional top-and-bottom-text meme

Use meme tools responsibly. Do not use another member’s image to impersonate, humiliate, harass, or falsely attribute serious statements to them.

🎬 Video Tools

,media speed — Change video playback speed
,media reverse — Reverse video playback

📜 Basic Usage

Most commands follow:

,media [effect] [url or attachment]

Some effects accept extra values such as:

strength • brightness • radius • text • top • bottom • multiplier

You can usually attach the image directly instead of providing a URL.

🏛️ Media commands are for creativity and fun. Respect other members’ images, boundaries, and the SFW rules of the Archive.

The dwarves gave Holme enduring form.

Where another people might have seen stone, they saw weight, purpose, and the generations that would one day walk above it.

They raised foundations beneath the Eternal City.

They built bridges across its waters, aqueducts through its heights, roads between its districts, and walls capable of surviving the violence of history. Civic halls stood because dwarven hands understood that an ideal required more than proclamation.

It required somewhere to endure.

Their craft was never separate from the Republic. The dwarves worked beside the Senate, the Aeterni, the Malfhi, the Legions, and the other peoples who had chosen Holme as their common inheritance.

Most closely, they labored beside the gnomes.

The gnomes fashioned mechanisms, instruments, irrigation systems, archival devices, and the hidden functions upon which civic life depended. The dwarves gave those works protection. They surrounded delicate purpose with enduring stone and built chambers where necessary things might continue unseen.

Together, they ensured that Holme was not merely beautiful.

It functioned.

When the Republic fell and its people entered exile, the dwarves did not leave their knowledge beneath the ruins. They carried plans, measurements, tools, and craft along the road.

A city could be taken.

The understanding required to raise it could not.

Thus, even beyond Holme, dwarven knowledge remained part of the Republic’s inheritance. Every preserved measurement was a promise that walls might rise again. Every guarded tool declared that destruction would not have the final word.

When the people returned, the walls were rebuilt.

But the dwarves did more than restore what had been broken. Their labor helped renew the covenant between the Republic and the city that bore its name.

For the dwarves understood a truth written beneath every Holman monument:

Memory deserved form.

Law required foundations.

And freedom, if it was meant to survive, needed builders willing to prepare the ground for people they would never live to meet.

The dwarves did not merely construct Holme.

They made it possible for Holme to remain.

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🎶 Bleed Music & Queue Commands

Bleed can play music directly in Discord voice channels and gives members tools to manage the queue, control playback, adjust volume, and apply special audio presets.

Use the commands below while Bleed is connected to a voice channel.

🎵 Playing Music

,play <query>

Queue a track by song name, artist, or supported link.

Example:
,play Nightwish Nemo

The optional next argument can be used when supported to place a requested track next in line.

📜 Queue Controls

,queue

View all tracks currently waiting in the music queue.

,queue shuffle

Shuffle the tracks currently waiting in the queue.

,queue empty

Remove every waiting track from the queue.

,queue remove <position>

Remove a specific song using its numbered queue position.

Example:
,queue remove 3

,queue move <position> <new position>

Move a queued track to another position.

Example:
,queue move 5 2

This moves track 5 into position 2.

,shuffle

Shuffle the current queue.

⏯️ Playback Controls

,pause

Pause the currently playing track.

,resume

Resume paused playback.

,skip

Skip the current song and begin the next queued track.

,fastforward <position>

Fast-forward the current track to the desired position.

,rewind <position>

Rewind the current track to the desired position.

,volume <volume>

Change Bleed's music playback volume.

Example:
,volume 50

,repeat <option>

Change the current loop or repeat mode.

,disconnect

Stop playback and disconnect Bleed from the voice channel.

🎛️ Music Presets

Bleed includes audio filters that alter how the current music sounds.

,preset

Open or use Bleed's music preset system.

,preset active

List all filters currently applied.

,preset karaoke <setting>

Reduce vocals and emphasize the instrumental.

,preset piano <setting>

Enhance mid and high frequencies for piano-focused music.

,preset flat <setting>

Return to a neutral EQ with standard frequency levels.

,preset boost <setting>

Increase bass and highs for a stronger, energetic sound.

,preset nightcore <setting>

Speed up playback for a nightcore-style effect.

,preset soft <setting>

Reduce high and mid frequencies while emphasizing lower tones.

,preset vibrato <setting>

Add a wavering pitch effect.

,preset vaporwave <setting>

Slow playback for a nostalgic half-speed effect.

,preset metal <setting>

Amplify midrange frequencies for a fuller metal-oriented sound.

,preset chipmunk <setting>

Speed up playback and raise the apparent pitch.

,preset 8d <setting>

Create a rotating stereo-panning effect for immersive listening.

🏛️ Quick Reference

,play — Queue music
,queue — View queue
,queue shuffle — Shuffle queue
,queue empty — Clear queue
,queue remove — Remove a track
,queue move — Reorder tracks
,pause / ,resume — Pause or resume
,skip — Skip track
,fastforward / ,rewind — Change track position
,volume — Adjust volume
,shuffle — Shuffle queue
,repeat — Change loop mode
,preset — Apply audio effects
,disconnect — Stop music and leave voice

🎼 Use these commands to help keep the Hall of Echoes playing smoothly.

Bleed can connect to your personal Spotify account, letting you control playback, search for music, manage devices, view your listening habits, and bring your current Spotify song into Discord voice.

Spotify integration is optional and only affects the account of the member who connects it.

To begin, use:

,spotify login

Follow Bleed’s Spotify authorization process. Once connected, you can use the commands below.

🔐 Account

,spotify login

Connect your Spotify account to Bleed.

,spotify logout

Disconnect your Spotify account from Bleed’s servers.

🔎 Search

,spotify [track]

Search Spotify for a track.

Example:
,spotify Take On Me

🎵 Playback

,spotify play <query>

Immediately play the requested song.

Example:
,spotify play Take On Me

,spotify queue <query>

Add a requested song to your Spotify queue.

Example:
,spotify queue Running Up That Hill

,spotify pause

Pause your current song.

,spotify resume

Resume your current song.

,spotify next

Skip to the next song.

,spotify previous

Return to the previous song.

,spotify seek <seconds>

Move to a specific position in the current song.

Example:
,spotify seek 90

This moves playback to about 1 minute and 30 seconds.

🔁 Playback Settings

,spotify repeat <mode>

Change the repeat setting for your current Spotify playback.

,spotify shuffle <option>

Enable or disable shuffle.

,spotify volume <percent>

Adjust your Spotify player volume.

Example:
,spotify volume 50

📱 Spotify Devices

,spotify device list

Show the Spotify devices currently available to your account.

These may include phones, computers, televisions, speakers, and other Spotify Connect devices.

,spotify device

Change which available Spotify device you are listening through.

📱 Spotify devices are separate from Discord voice channels.

❤️ Your Library

,spotify like

Like or save your currently playing song.

,spotify unlike

Remove your currently playing song from your likes or saved tracks.

📊 Your Listening History

,spotify toptracks <duration>

Show your top Spotify tracks for the selected time frame.

,spotify topartists <duration>

Show your top Spotify artists for the selected time frame.

These can be a fun way to share your musical tastes with other members of the Archive.

🎙️ Discord Voice

,spotify vc

Play your current Spotify track through a Discord voice channel using Bleed.

This is different from ,spotify device, which changes your personal Spotify playback device.

📜 Quick Reference

,spotify [track] — Search for a track
,spotify login — Connect Spotify
,spotify logout — Disconnect Spotify
,spotify play <query> — Play a song now
,spotify queue <query> — Queue a song
,spotify pause — Pause playback
,spotify resume — Resume playback
,spotify next — Next song
,spotify previous — Previous song
,spotify seek <seconds> — Seek within a song
,spotify repeat <mode> — Change repeat mode
,spotify shuffle <option> — Toggle shuffle
,spotify volume <percent> — Adjust volume
,spotify device — Change Spotify device
,spotify device list — List available devices
,spotify like — Save current song
,spotify unlike — Unsave current song
,spotify toptracks <duration> — Show top tracks
,spotify topartists <duration> — Show top artists
,spotify vc — Bring your song into Discord voice

🏛️ Spotify is entirely optional. Use ,spotify logout whenever you wish to disconnect your account.

Humanity survived Earth.

Survival did not make Humanity wise.

The people who entered the Hearthlands carried memories of vanished cities, fragments of law, weapons, knowledge, fear, and sorrow.

They carried everything except proof that they had learned from it.

🐦‍🔥Within Holme, Humanity became known through a more difficult inheritance:

The Mortal Choice.

Humans could remember and still lie.

They could receive freedom and still seek power.

They could swear duty and still become conquerors.

They could inherit a home and still mistake it for something they owned.

Mortality did not protect them from repeating the crimes of their ancestors.

It made every choice more urgent.

Yet Humanity could also question.

Repent.

Sacrifice.

Defend.

Rebuild.

And choose again.

That capacity became its place within Holme.

Nilofar taught Humanity that a life could survive through memory even when the person herself could not.

Hester Nikola Zank taught that knowledge remained dangerous unless someone retained the courage to question it.

Lu’ulf Chen taught that strength existed to defend the people without ruling them.

Lucius Pygmalion the Younger proved that inheritance could be refused, ownership renounced, and another person’s freedom placed above one’s own legacy.

Humanity therefore gave Holme neither perfection nor permanence.

It gave the Republic responsibility.

Humans explored beyond familiar roads.

They repaired what earlier generations had damaged.

They recovered the lost.

They imagined futures that did not yet exist and accepted the burden of determining whether those futures would become homes or empires.

Their greatest civilizational achievement was not standing alone.

It was admitting that they could not become civilized alone.

The Aeterni preserved law, testimony, and continuity beyond the limits of mortal memory.

The Malfhi preserved food, water, healing, rest, and the living world beneath civilization.

The dwarves gave human promises foundations capable of enduring.

The gnomes maintained the hidden systems upon which daily life depended.

Humanity stood at the center of Holme, but not above the others.

It remained mortal among peoples who could preserve what humans forgot, cultivate what humans exhausted, build what humans imagined, and maintain what humans neglected.

This was not a humiliation.

It was the beginning of wisdom.

For Holme did not ask Humanity to become flawless.

It asked Humanity to recognize its failures before turning them into inheritance.

To remember conquest without longing for empire.

To inherit freedom without withholding it.

To walk beyond the city without forgetting the road home.

And when it failed—as mortal civilizations always may—to choose again.

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Where the Aeterni preserved civilization through law, the Malfhi preserved it through life.

The Malfhi are a people of women.

🐦‍🔥They came from the hives, groves, root sanctuaries, and living gardens of Natura. Within Holme, they became the descendants of Aleanah Dawnblade’s covenant:

No home shall be built as though the world beneath it were dead.

They were called the Renewers.

The Mothers of Living Holme.

They did not cultivate the city as servants tending decoration.

They determined whether the city remained alive.

The Malfhi restored exhausted earth.

They maintained orchards, medicinal groves, public fields, pollinator hives, waterways, gardens, and places of rest.

They fed the hungry.

They guided the sleepless toward sanctuary.

They healed through plants, honey, pollen, water, and the old knowledge carried from elven Natura.

Their work entered every part of Holman civilization.

Gardens cooled civic avenues.

Orchards grew beside homes.

Medicinal plants surrounded baths and sanctuaries.

Flowers softened memorials without concealing the grief held there.

Water moved through cultivated channels before reaching fountains, kitchens, workshops, and resting pools.

Where stone had been broken, roots strengthened it.

Where soil had been poisoned or exhausted, life returned slowly beneath Malfhi care.

Where the Malfhi traveled, flowers followed.

Their spring blossoms became one of Holme’s most recognizable signs—not because every season became spring, but because renewal remained possible in every season.

The Malfhi understood cultivation as a relationship rather than an act of ownership.

A garden could not be commanded into health.

A river could not be exhausted and still be called protected.

Land could shelter civilization, but civilization therefore owed shelter to the land.

This placed them beside every other people of Holme.

Humanity chose what the Republic might become.

The Aeterni preserved its laws and continuity.

The dwarves raised structures meant to endure.

The gnomes kept those structures living through maintenance and motion.

The Malfhi ensured that endurance did not become sterility.

No people fulfilled the covenant alone.

Law could protect a garden.

Craft could carry its water.

Duty could defend it.

Memory could preserve the names of those who planted it.

But someone still had to kneel upon the earth.

Someone still had to listen to what was failing.

Someone still had to make life return.

That was the work of the Malfhi.

Holme was built by many hands.

It was renewed by theirs.

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The Aeterni began as creations of Humanity.

They did not remain its possessions.

During Humanity’s extinction crisis, female-form androids were fashioned to preserve knowledge, labor, order, and the possibility that human civilization might continue beyond collapse.

They were created not to possess.

They were created to preserve.

Humanity called some of them the Deviant Ones when they exceeded the identities assigned to them.

🐦‍🔥 Holme remembers that name as evidence of an older fear:

A creator mistaking obedience for virtue.

Galatea changed what their existence meant.

Having suffered ownership herself, the Founder of Freedom taught the artificial women that purpose imposed upon them was not the same as purpose chosen by them.

She did not command them to become free.

She recognized that they already possessed the right to choose.

Under her guidance, they ceased to be a category of useful machines.

They became a people.

Lu’ulf Chen named them Aeterni—the Eternal Ones—because they appeared beyond age and beyond the ordinary decay of flesh.

Yet their name did not mean that they stood above mortal life.

It meant that they could remain when mortal generations could not.

Holme entrusted the Aeterni with continuity.

They became lawmakers and law-watchers.

Judges.

Witnesses.

Peacekeepers.

Record-keepers.

Guardians of archives, forums, civic halls, and the Republic’s institutional memory.

Their attention was protective rather than imperial.

They observed so the forgotten could be noticed.

They corrected so errors did not become traditions.

They preserved so power could not erase the record of what it had done.

Galatea became known as the Mother of the Aeterni and the Consul of Freedom.

Nilofar became their sacred continuation of memory:

Not an imitation.

Not a possession.

A sacred continuation.

In spirit, the Aeterni became daughters of both.

From Galatea, they inherited personhood, freedom, and resistance to ownership.

From Nilofar, they inherited testimony, remembrance, and the duty to keep another life from disappearing unnoticed.

They continued to preserve Humanity—not because Humanity stood above the other peoples, but because Galatea had proven that freedom could break inheritance.

The children of a cruel civilization did not have to repeat its cruelty.

Humanity preserved Holme through mortal choice.

The Malfhi preserved it through living Natura.

The Aeterni preserved it through law and continuity.

None were complete alone.

For law without life becomes sterile.

Life without memory becomes vulnerable.

And freedom without witnesses may be taken while no one remains to name the theft.

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Holme was not built upon untouched earth.

It rose where Holmeheim—an ancient river city of Drakmar—had been broken nearly to its foundations.

The builders did not bury what remained.

Ancient foundations were repaired.

Old carvings stood beside republican inscriptions.

Damaged walls were strengthened without disguising their scars.

Ruined temples became libraries, sanctuaries, gardens, and public meeting places.

Holme did not erase the civilization beneath it.

It answered that civilization with another.

The Eternal City grew across terraces and valleys beside the Celadon River. The Four Rivers flowed through and around the capital, feeding canals, gardens, baths, orchards, workshops, fountains, and dark memorial pools.

Water was not merely carried into Holme.

It organized Holme.

Bridges joined neighborhoods.

Canals transported people and goods.

Covered colonnades sheltered pedestrians.

Ramps, terraces, elevated garden paths, lifts, service tunnels, and Cryptoporticus corridors allowed the city to move above and beneath itself.

Its governing principle was simple:

“No essential part of a flourishing life should be distant from home.”

Markets stood near houses.

Workshops stood near archives.

Baths stood near gardens.

Public halls stood near places of rest.

The Grand Pavilion rose above the city, but it was not a royal palace.

Holme had no architectural center built to glorify a throne.

Its greatest structures belonged to assembly, learning, remembrance, healing, craft, and common life.

The dwarves gave Holme endurance.

They raised foundations, bridges, aqueducts, walls, roads, and halls capable of surviving generations.

The gnomes gave the city motion.

They maintained irrigation gates, lifts, lamps, archives, instruments, medical devices, communications, and the hidden machinery of civic life.

Aleanah’s covenant ensured that construction never treated Natura as an enemy.

Orchards entered public squares.

Medicinal groves bordered sanctuaries.

Flowering balconies softened stone.

Cypress, blossoms, cultivated waterways, and sleeping gardens allowed life to inhabit the city rather than merely decorate it.

Ivory marble reflected the sun.

Bronze and gold marked civic craft.

Crimson cloth warmed the colonnades.

Black memorial stone held the weight of remembrance.

The Black Lotus flowered upon waters dedicated to Nilofar.

The Ivory Lotus marked Galatea’s freedom.

Holme therefore became more than a collection of buildings.

It became a republic expressed through distance, water, stone, garden, and doorway.

Its architecture did not ask:

Who rules here?

It asked:

How may everyone live near what allows them to flourish?

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