Identity in Aurbis is not a name floating over your head. It is what you choose to say of yourself, what others have learned to remember of you, and what stays hidden behind your hood. You may walk as a stranger, signing only by a description. You may become known. Both are choices, and the realm honors both.
How it works
Until someone has formally identified themselves to you — or you to them — they read in your chat as a chat-id with a short description. A stranger. That is the social baseline of the province: nobody knows anybody by default.
/desc is how you write what others see when they look at you — the short line under your name when they ask who you are. Set it, clear it, change it as your character changes. The cap is 240 characters; the realm prefers small, intentional sentences over autobiographies.
/know is the other direction. When you've met someone and want to remember them by a name of your choosing — the cloaked figure in the Bee and Barb who said her name was Eira, or just "the Stormcloak with the limp" — record it, and from now on your chat shows that name where it used to show the chat-id. /known reads your roster back. None of it is shared, none of it is public; every character keeps their own private list of who they've come to know, and by what name.
The concealment side of the system — making your character harder to identify, traveling under a different face or name, the in-fiction mechanics of disguise and the costs of being recognized — is on the path. The substrate is built to hold that growth; today it ships the foundation: stranger by default, known by choice.
This is the player-identity side of the Information Economy; documents, books, letters, and literacy live there.
Commands — /help identity
/desc — Read back your current character description./desc [text] — Set your own character description (max 240 chars)./desc clear — Clear your description./know <chat id> <custom-name> — Record a custom known identity for a nearby player./known [name-fragment] — List the identities your character has recorded. The optional fragment filters the list.
