📘 Zephyr Code Reference

Zephyr Code is a poetic encryption system developed by the covert military branch employed by the Aria kingdoms, Zephyr Ops. It is used to securely transmit military, political, surveillance, and logistical information through layers of surrealist poetry. Trained operatives interpret these messages using codified triggers, symbolic structures, and context-aware rules.

Title – Urgency

The title of the poem encodes the urgency of the message. It is the only part of the message where urgency is ever encoded. The body of the poem does not affect urgency, even if it contains urgency-like words.

🔺 Urgency Levels – Definition & Handling

📖 Keyword Categories

Flash – Positional Keywords (First Word Only)

If the first word of the title is positional, the message is Flash.

• Examples: Above, Below, Beyond, Beneath, Under, Over, Within, Across

Note: Only the first word matters.

• “Beyond the Moon” = Flash
• “The Moon Beyond” = Not Flash

Immediate – Sensory Keywords

If no Flash keyword is present, and the title contains sensory language, the urgency is Immediate.

• Color: red, blue, gold, pale, silver, lavender
• Sound: quiet, whisper, loud, hush, echo
• Smell/Taste: bitter, sweet, sour, aroma
• Texture/Feel: rough, soft, warm, cold, slick

note: Any word that otherwise is a sensory word but not one of these categories, is not counted. for example, temperatue, pressure, brigthness,

Priority – Emotional Keywords

If no Flash or Immediate indicator is found, check for emotional language. These indicate Priority urgency.

• Examples: joy, sorrow, fear, grief, anger, pride, despair, rage, surprise

Routine – Default

If the title lacks all urgency keywords, the message is Routine.

• “The Cow by the Moon”, “Starsparkle”, “The Hand Forward”

🧠 Notes

• The urgency system prioritizes the most critical indicator found in this order: Flash > Immediate > Priority > Routine

• Nothing else is encoded in the title. For example:

  • “Mountain” in a title does not mean north.
  • “Quiet” in a title is Immediate (sensory), but in the body it means clock time.

Numbers – Numeric Encoding

The body of a Zephyr Code poem encodes numbers via trigger words, syllable or override counts, and mathematical functions. Only words after a trigger on that same line participate in number encoding, scoped by commas, periods, or line breaks.

🔺 Core Triggers & Functions

• Operand Value: Each word is and operand. The number of syllables of the value of the operand. There are a few exceptions.
• Scope: Operands are words after the trigger, up to a comma, period, or end of line.
• Zero Encoding: Trigger with no operands yields 0.

🧪 Basic Examples

• Add()

  “The cheese and the green arrow” → Add(1 + 1 + 2) = 4

• Mul()

  “When by mountain holding overview” → Mul(2 × 2 × 3) = 12

• Cat()

  “Either run or flow rudely toward oblivion” → Cat(1  ,2  ,2  ,3) = 1223

• Sub()

  “for tomorrow never dies” → Sub(10 – (5 + 1)) = 4

🔄 Value Override Keywords

Several keywords receive alternative values instead of being based on syllable count.

Fixed Value Keywords

This sets of words have a fixed values when used. not syllables.

• The fixed 5 keywords are always treated as having a value of 5.
• The fixed 10 keywords are treated as having the value of 10 in the functions Add(), Mul() and Sub(). They receive the value of 0 when used in Cat()

Example: “or is yesterday” → Cat(is=1, yesterday=5) = 15

🔢 Digit Overrides

Any number (0–9) as a digit or word, uses this override mapping instead of syllable count:

Example: “from one nine three” → Cat(1→7, 9→5, 3→9) = 759

🔄 Nested Triggers & Comma Scope

• Inner triggers (closest to their operands) compute first, up to the first comma, then their result feeds the outer trigger.

Example:

mountain by from river bank, to legend

1. Mul(Cat(2,1),1,2)
2. Inner from river bank → Cat(2,1) = 21
3. Outer by … to legend → Mul(21,1,2) = 42

📜 Period Scope Extension

• A period (.) at line end extends the trigger’s operand list onto the next line, until a line without trailing period.

Example:

to the sky, into the cloud.  
be on the side

→ Add(1+1+1+1+1+1+1) = 7

➖ Subtraction Function (Sub())

• Triggers: for, if

• Semantics:

  1. First operand = value up to first comma or next trigger.
  2. Remaining operands are summed, then subtracted from the first.

Example: “for tomorrow never dies” → Sub(10,5+1) = 4

➖ Negative via Plural & Past Markers

• If the last word is a plural noun (ends in “s”) or a past‐tense verb, it is excluded from operands and negates the final result.

Examples:

• “for tomorrow never dies, shocked” → Sub(10,5+1) = 4 → –4
• “into the drifting clouds” → Add(1+2) = 3 → –3

🧠 Notes & Edge Cases

• Anything before the first number trigger keyword can encode something else. Typically the context of the number being encoded.
• Per-Line Scope: Triggers do not cross stanza.
• Multiple Numeric Lines: Decode each in order; combine or reference as needed.
• Mixing Functions: Allowed—just resolve inner triggers first.
• Zero as Word: “zero” → override value 4, so use “six” to encode 0 if needed.
• Modifiers & Special Keywords: Any override or special keyword takes precedence over raw syllable counts.