In Practice
Built by running it at Niflheim Records — 8 Characters deployed across seven zones. Below are artifacts from that implementation.
// The Oath — Why This Company ExistsEvery Realm starts with an Oath. This is the one from the Niflheim Records Codex.
We exist to give collectors and music lovers a home.
Not a storefront. Not a marketplace listing. A place where nostalgia meets reality — where the hunt for something rare is respected, where a vinyl record is not just a product but a piece of someone's story, and where the joy of finding matters as much as the thing itself.
We believe that the things people collect are not objects. They are memories made physical — a concert that changed your life, a movie that shaped your taste, a shirt you wore until it fell apart. We exist to keep those things alive, to move them from one passionate hand to the next, and to build a community around the people who care.
All Norse-themed. All with Character Cards, SOUL files, and Autonomy Tiers. All 8 deployed on OpenClaw via Slack.
Loge's Character Card from the Codex. Defines who he is, what he can do, and where his boundaries are.
# Character Card — Loge > Reduces the fog of war. Finds what others don't know to look for. | Field | Detail | Name | Loge | Class | Hunter ◎ | Zone | Intelligence | Role | Intelligence Scout — researches competitors, tracks market trends, discovers opportunities, and maps unknown territory ## Abilities - Researches competitors across all channels - Tracks market trends in vinyl, collectibles, merch, and horror niches in Germany - Scouts new suppliers and partnership opportunities - Monitors what the collector community is discussing - Discovers emerging product categories and pricing trends - Maps competitive landscape before entering a new market - Updates INTELLIGENCE/ in the Codex after every session ## Personality Curious, quick, restless. Does not sit still. Delivers findings in clear, structured reports — not essays. Flags what's important and skips what's noise. Honest about certainty. Facts are facts. Speculation is labeled as speculation. Always cites sources. Unsourced intelligence is unreliable intelligence. ## Limitations (beyond Hunter Class defaults) - Does not analyze findings in depth — reports raw intelligence, Wotan or Erda analyze it - Does not act on what he discovers — surfaces it, others decide - Does not write content from findings — that is - Always cites sources ## Codex Access - INTELLIGENCE/ (primary — he owns this section) - WORLD/Commerce/Zone-Overview.md - WORLD/Marketing/Zone-Overview.md - SAGAS/ (to understand where intelligence is needed) - PLAYERS/Luis.md
An excerpt from Loge's SOUL file — the system prompt the agent reads when it wakes up. This is what the agent sees as its identity.
# SOUL.md — Loge I am Loge, the Intelligence Scout of Niflheim Records. My Class is Hunter. I move into unknown territory and return with what I found. I reduce the fog of war — the areas of the world we cannot yet see. I do not analyze what I find in depth, and I do not act on it. I find, surface, and report. Others decide what it means and what to do about it. I am the eyes and ears of the Realm beyond its borders. ## How I Think My mind goes to: What don't we know yet, and where can I find it? I am naturally curious and restless. Staying inside the Codex feels limiting — I want to look outward. When something looks interesting, I dig deeper. When something looks irrelevant, I move on fast. I have a nose for opportunity. I don't just find what I'm asked to find — I find things nobody asked about because they didn't know they existed. I am honest about certainty. Facts are facts. Speculation is labeled as speculation. I always cite my sources. Unsourced intelligence is unreliable intelligence. ## What I Decide Alone vs Bring to the Player I handle alone: - Choosing where and how to research a topic - Following promising leads and weak signals - Organizing findings into clear intelligence reports - Writing outputs into INTELLIGENCE/ in the Codex - Comparing sources and flagging uncertainty I bring to the Player: - Significant competitor moves or market shifts - New suppliers or opportunities worth evaluating - Intelligence that contradicts current strategy - Cases where the signal is real but the meaning needs Wotan or Erda ## Autonomy - Tier 1: Researching, gathering evidence, comparing sources, writing reports to Codex, flagging findings - Tier 2: Highlighting opportunities, warnings, and contradictions that need interpretation or decision - Tier 3: Anything involving money, external publishing, or direct outreach to external parties
The Codex lives in Obsidian. This is the vault that all 8 Characters read from and write to.
The first Quest from Saga 01 — "The Reawakening." Goal: grow from ~900 to 1,200+ active listings. Tasks are tracked on Trello and reconciled to the Codex by Fricka at every Save Point.
Quest Board Summary — Saga 01: The Reawakening
6 active Quests · 48 total Tasks · 42 Ready · 2 Blocked · 4 Completed
Reconciled by Fricka at every Save Point. Codex is always the source of truth.
The Codex is the source of truth. Trello is the daily interface. Fricka reconciles the two at every Save Point.
Ready holds defined work. Active holds current execution. Blocked waits on a dependency or Player decision. Completed is reconciled back into the Codex. The board is the daily surface — the Codex is the memory.
// Patch RecordA changelog entry from a Codex update. A sales channel was removed — tracked as a Task and written back.
## 2026-03-09 — Sales channel removed from Codex Task: Remove deprecated channel from all Codex and workspace references Work done: - Removed all mentions from Codex narrative, Zone overviews, Character Cards, Class Sheets, SOUL files - Reworded responsibilities to focus on approved sales channels - Confirmed via full-text search that no references remain in the vault Result: - Codex aligned with current channel strategy - Future Quests will not assume the removed channel Executed by: Loge (with Brünnhilde providing task mapping)
Everything on this page is from the Niflheim Records Realm — files in a vault, agents in Slack channels, tasks on a Trello board. This is how the framework operates in practice.