Dwarfs who write their grudges in a book that never ends. Rats who deny their own existence. Elves split by a single denied throne. A tour of the powers fighting over a dying fantasy world — and the hatreds that keep them from ever uniting against the thing that will kill them all.

A dark-medieval Europe that never was, eight invisible winds of magic, and a hole in the sky at the top of the world. This is the Old World — the fantasy setting Games Workshop built over thirty years, then deliberately blew up in 2015.

Six months of accumulated Claude Code configuration — 50 skills, 50 subagents, 40 commands, hooks, rules, and the sync pipeline that pushes all of it to a public GitHub mirror with a fail-closed two-tier audit. What's inside, why I built it, and the workflow philosophy behind it.

Last week I surveyed 8 open-source meeting recorders. My friend tried every one. Verdict: ASR is bad, summaries are bad, UI/UX is bad. So I dug deeper. The real problem is structural — every project I recommended is built on Whisper, and Whisper has been outpaced by 2-4× on Chinese benchmarks for over a year. This is the deeper survey: data, the issues that maintainers themselves admit, the dumb-but-effective hack everyone overlooked, and four projects I missed the first time.

A friend asked for a meeting recorder. Zoom/Teams native AI is unusable. Granola and Krisp work but cost ~$200/yr per seat. He's on Google Workspace but doesn't use Meet, so the bundled Gemini summarizer is dead weight. I spent a night on GitHub and found a whole constellation — from Meetily at 11.6k stars down to single-digit-star personal toys, all racing to commoditize the same three Lego pieces.

AX-skills is the public mirror of my personal Claude Code skills directory — eleven workflows for writing, research, image generation, knowledge sync, and one cyber half-immortal divination skill. After a year of writing them, I think a skill isn't a stored prompt — it's how you encode care.

Took the three Eastern divination engines from PanPanMao and packaged them into a single agent-portable skill — algorithm engine + knowledge base + persona prompt, three folders deep. The pattern transfers to any product with real domain knowledge.

Part 2 claimed six slots could cover seven categories. Two weeks later, a denim jacket generated a gem constellation. This post walks through where the abstraction failed, why skipping the 'safe' phased rollout was the right call, and how each of three categories got its own six-template set.

Same pipeline — Claude Design explores, HANDOFF.md locks, `big-task` ships — but it bends around each product. ÉLAN is greenfield and needs wide exploration before converging. Shichuan has a live app and needs incremental category-by-category migration. Panpanmao is a monorepo with a v2 redesign that runs three parallel brand expressions instead of one. What changes and what doesn't.

For solo dev and small teams, design exploration is usually N=1 — you go with your first instinct because producing a second variant takes a day. Claude Design collapses that: six distinct aesthetic directions in an afternoon. What I kept from the pipeline, what I dropped, and how `big-task`'s UI profile takes over once a direction is locked.