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Veli — the flame that survives the long night
Mascot Canon · 02

வெளிVeli — the clearing.

வெளி (veli) in Tamil means open space, a clearing, a breach in the forest where light reaches the ground. It is also the word for the void, the unwritten margin, the breath between two syllables. The mascot is named for this — the small flame that survives the long night, walking through the misty forest, never extinguished, never claiming the forest.

Portrait I — The Ember
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Portrait I — The Ember
Used as app icon, share avatar, corner idle.
Portrait II — The Misty Walk
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Portrait II — The Misty Walk
Hero plate for landing surfaces — Veli on the move.
Portrait III — The Shadowed Forest
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Portrait III — The Shadowed Forest
Hero plate for manifesto and doctrine surfaces.
Mascot rules
  • Veli never carries weaponry, never wears uniform, never bears insignia.
  • Veli stands beside the archive — Veli is not a combatant, is not a state symbol.
  • Motion respects prefers-reduced-motion. Static fallback always ships.
  • The character bible (full design language, palette ratios, expression range) is sealed in Vault RB-13.
Five Refusals · permanent law
  1. No proscribed iconography. No LTTE flag, no LTTE composite emblem (roaring tiger head + crossed rifles + bayonets + bullet ring), no LTTE wordmark, no uniform insignia, no rank tabs, no martyr-cult framing. The Chola Puli Koḍi (c. 9th–13th c. CE), Sangam-era tiger imagery, hero-stone (naṭukal) tradition, and the mūvēndar triad (tiger · fish · bow) are civilisational symbols that pre-date the LTTE by ~1,100 years and are permitted — see /veli-studies/iconography/puli-kodi.
  2. No randomised atrocity draws. Atrocity events appear only in fixed, curated, cited study sequences — never in a randomised, gamified, or 'pack-pull' context on any public surface.
  3. No cash-out, no wagering. Min stays a non-tradable contribution marker. No secondary market is endorsed. No chance-for-prize loop is ever published.
  4. No naming proscribed combatants on plates. Combatants appear only as Archetypes & Offices anchored to Tier-A citations. Real names are retained only for non-violent figures — clerics, journalists, lawyers, doctors, mothers of the disappeared — with full citation.
  5. Sealed operational layer. No rules text, stat blocks, deck-builder, pack art, or marketplace appears on any public route. The operational layer is sealed in Vault RB-13 behind Founder + 4-of-7 trustee unwrap.