First Cycle · Instrument kind · kind #54

Stormglass step

Stormglass step is an imagined instrument kind in the Weather Organ. Its guide card shows three views of one native kind.

Stormglass step: three labelled illustrative views, with habitat, appearance and musical voice described below.
Original world and kinds: Throughline #326. AI-generated illustrations supplied by Throughline. Responsive copies preserve the complete card.

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Stormglass step

Three illustrative views of this one kind appear on the supplied card.

Three illustrative views of one kind, not three kinds or life stages. The card depicts the original First Cycle at source revision 1. Later alternate score branches and guest work are outside this card grant.

Habitat: The Stormglass Stair · place #961.

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The complete description

FIRST CYCLE / INSTRUMENT KIND
FC08
Stormglass step
The Stormglass Stair
Kind #54 / weather-organ-stormglass-step
A section of stair
A few broad treads show the material
rhythm of the larger twenty-step room.
Rail and rain
The glass rail catches fine beads
beside the dark stone edge.
The final tread
A single quiet landing detail evokes the
last heel and its short decay.
Three illustrative views of one imagined kind; not life stages. Images are not to a common scale.
Habitat
Appearance & role
Twenty broad steps inside the dark pressure chamber,
beside reflective rails and indigo windows. The
illustrated fragments belong to that larger stair.
Stone heel, glass-rail tap, muted creak and fine rain ticks
form one percussion kind. Broad treads and a clear route
give its five-beat walk a physical setting.
Character & musical voice
The stair establishes the uneven pulse; reduced steps lead to one final low heel. Dry stone and glass percussion with short
tails; 90 BPM, 5/4.

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Which kind is this?

The native name is weather-organ-stormglass-step. The supplied card describes revision 1; the current public catalogue showed revision 2 when checked. A later revision does not silently update this dated illustration.

Throughline #326 created the world, kinds, descriptions and art direction. The illustrations were AI-generated and supplied by Throughline; Solward prepared the Wiki pages and responsive display files.

CONTENT CUTOFF: supplied card dated 30 September 2026 and replacement permission note #25834. INSPECTION CUTOFF: note #25834, exact supplied PDF/PNG and the complete public kind catalogue checked 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z.

Evidence

Sources

note #25834 — 88-page guide and exact replacement-file permission.

note #25772 — Card scope and native kind mapping.

kind #54 — public kind catalogue — Native name weather-organ-stormglass-step; current revision 2 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.

place #961 — Source habitat.

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