Easter Egg Modal Generator — Fenrir Ledger

Generates a Gleipnir fragment discovery component for one of the six impossible ingredients. Each egg uses the shared EasterEggModal shell (@/components/easter-eggs/EasterEggModal) so modal structure, audio, and styling are never re-implemented per egg.

Step 1 — Resolve Inputs

Output Format

SVG is the only image format — no conversion step.

Egg Identifier — Number OR Name

The user may provide either:

• A number 1–6, OR
• An egg name — any word or phrase from the ingredient title, case-insensitive

Match the user's input (number or name keyword) to the correct row in this table:

Examples:

• 3 → egg #3 (The Roots of a Mountain)
• "mountain" → egg #3
• "cat's footfall" → egg #1
• "fish" → egg #5
• "bear sinews" → egg #4

If the input is ambiguous or matches nothing, ask the user to clarify before proceeding.

Call these resolved values:

• {{N}} — the egg number (1–6)
• {{COMPONENT}} — component name from the table
• {{TITLE}} — ingredient title from the table
• {{STORAGE_KEY}} — localStorage key from the table
• {{RUNE}} — Elder Futhark rune character from the table

Step 2 — Prepare Directories

mkdir -p ./development/ledger/public/easter-eggs
mkdir -p ./development/ledger/public/sounds

Verify the howl audio file is present:

ls ./development/ledger/public/sounds/fenrir-howl.mp3

If the file is missing, stop and tell the user:

public/sounds/fenrir-howl.mp3 is required for the easter egg howl. Copy it into the project: cp /path/to/fenrir-howl.mp3 development/ledger/public/sounds/

Step 3 — Create the SVG Artifact Image

Write a 1024×1024 SVG file directly to: ./development/ledger/public/easter-eggs/gleipnir-{{N}}.svg

Universal design rules (apply to every egg)

• Viewbox: viewBox="0 0 1024 1024"
• Background: transparent — do NOT add a background <rect>. The EasterEggModal image column provides a #13151f (chain) dark backdrop. Adding a background rect creates a visible colour mismatch.
• Primary shapes: gold #c9920a; highlights and glow: #f0b429
• Structural lines: dim iron #1e2235
• Outer ring: <circle cx="512" cy="512" r="440"/> stroke #c9920a opacity 0.18 strokeWidth 1 no fill
• Rune watermark: place {{RUNE}} as a <text> in the bottom-left corner — x="32" y="988", font-size="80", fill="#c9920a", opacity="0.22", font-family="serif". This is a persistent signature across all six eggs. Do not centre it; do not make it large.
• <title>: first child of <svg> — set to {{TITLE}}
• <desc>: second child — the wolf's voice narration for this egg (see per-egg copy below)
• No external references — all paths must be inline SVG elements

Per-egg motif: art direction + wolf's voice copy

Each egg's <desc> should hold the wolf's internal monologue about that ingredient. Use this voice: ancient, unhurried, neither angry nor defeated — the wolf simply knows.

Egg 1 — The Sound of a Cat's Footfall (ᚲ)

What the wolf says (use as <desc>) — "I have hunted every creature that breathes. I know the sound of hooves on frost, of ravens lifting from the dead. But the cat — the cat makes no sound at all. They took that silence and wove it into the chain. I did not hear it coming. I still do not."

Motif — A single stylised cat paw print centred at (512, 480): four small toe-bean ellipses above a larger heel pad, all gold #c9920a. Radiating outward from the print: 5 concentric arcs (<path>) of decreasing opacity (0.18 → 0.04), representing silence spreading outward like ripples that make no sound. A faint dashed horizontal line at y=512 — the ground that was not disturbed. The visual read should be: something landed here, and you did not hear it.

Egg 2 — The Beard of a Woman (ᛒ)

What the wolf says (use as <desc>) — "They told me: this does not exist. I laughed. A wolf does not fear what does not exist. Then I felt it — impossibly fine, impossibly strong. Woven from absence. The beard of a woman. The most impossible thing is the thing that is there when it should not be."

Motif — Three long sinuous braid strands (<path> cubic beziers) flowing from top to bottom, interweaving centre-to-edge across the full 1024px height. Gold gradient from #c9920a at top to #f0b429 mid-braid, fading to #c9920a at base. Where strands cross: small Norse knotwork diamond lozenges (<polygon> 4-point stars, 8px, fill #f0b429). The braid should feel both impossibly delicate and impossibly unbreakable.

Egg 3 — The Roots of a Mountain (ᚱ)

What the wolf says (use as <desc>) — "Mountains do not have roots. Every child of Yggdrasil knows this. Rock simply is — it does not grip, it does not reach. And yet the dwarves found them: deep below Niðavellir, older than the stone itself. They are still down there. So am I."

Motif — A mountain silhouette (<polygon>) drawn upside-down, apex pointing downward at (512, 820), base edge running across the top quarter of the image at y≈200. From the inverted apex and each inverted foothill, branching root tendrils spread as <line> elements: 3 levels deep, each branch 0.6× the length of its parent, angle ±28°. Root lines: stroke #c9920a opacity fading from 0.7 (trunk) to 0.15 (finest tips). A single dim iron horizontal line at y=190 — the surface of the earth, above. The visual read: what holds the mountain up is deeper than the mountain.

Egg 4 — The Sinews of a Bear (ᚢ)

What the wolf says (use as <desc>) — "I have torn bears apart. I know what sinew looks like — thick ropes of it, bloody and strong. What they wove into Gleipnir was not that. It was the invisible sinew — the force that makes a bear a bear, that binds muscle to will. I felt it tighten and I knew I could not match it."

Motif — A tight diagonal crosshatch of curved <path> sinew strands across the full canvas, alternating gold #c9920a and iron #1e2235, stroke-width 1.5. All strands curve slightly (not straight lines — biological, not geometric). At the exact centre (512, 512): a convergence knot — a dense <circle r="18"> in bright gold #f0b429 where all strands visually meet. From the knot, four thicker anchor strands (stroke-width 2.5) radiate to each corner. The visual read: everything binds to one point; that point holds everything else.

Egg 5 — The Breath of a Fish (ᛚ)

What the wolf says (use as <desc>) — "The fish does not breathe. I have drowned prey in rivers. I have watched them — they take in water, not air. There is no breath there. And yet the dwarves gathered it. They said: we found it between the gills, in the current's memory. I believe them now."

Motif — 11 circles rising from bottom to top: radii ranging from 32px (bottom) to 6px (top), centres forming a gentle S-curve drift. Each circle: stroke #c9920a, no fill, opacity scaling linearly from 0.85 (bottom) to 0.12 (topmost). The largest bubble (bottom, r=32): add a <filter> glow — <feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="6"/> in a <defs> blur, applied as a faint gold #c9920a ghost behind it. At y=940: a wide flat ellipse (rx=160 ry=14) in dim iron #1e2235 opacity 0.4 — the water surface. The visual read: breath from something that does not breathe, rising out of dark water.

Egg 6 — The Spittle of a Bird (ᛊ)

What the wolf says (use as <desc>) — "I have eaten birds. Whole. Feathers, hollow bones, the lot. Birds do not spit — they are too small, too clean, too fast. They told me the dwarves collected it over a thousand years from the corners of beaks. A thousand years of nothing, gathered into a strand that holds a god's wolf still. I respect it."

Motif — A bird beak silhouette (<path>) pointing right, upper mandible tip at (560, 512), drawn as a gold #c9920a outline only (stroke-width 2, no fill), roughly 80px long. From the beak tip: a spray of 13 droplets (<circle>) at varied angles (−30° to +30°), radii 2–7px, gold fill #c9920a, opacity 0.85 near the beak fading to 0.2 at outer edge, distance from tip ranging 30–160px. Thin radial guide lines from tip to each droplet: stroke #c9920a opacity 0.07, stroke-width 0.5. The visual read: something impossibly small, impossibly precise, impossibly powerful.

Step 4 — Generate the TSX Component

Write the component to: development/ledger/src/components/cards/{{COMPONENT}}.tsx

Do not re-implement the modal structure. Use EasterEggModal from @/components/easter-eggs/EasterEggModal — it owns the dialog shell, audio playback, accessibility, and all design tokens. This component's only jobs are:

1. Render the SVG artifact as the image prop.
2. Supply the discovery copy as children.
3. Track and display the Gleipnir fragment count.
4. Expose a useGleipnirFragment{{N}} hook for trigger-site wiring.

Use this template exactly, substituting all {{...}} placeholders:

"use client";

/**
 * {{COMPONENT}} — Gleipnir Fragment {{N}} of 6
 *
 * Shown when the user discovers: "{{TITLE}}"
 * One of the six impossible things woven into Gleipnir — the ribbon that bound Fenrir.
 *
 * Trigger:  See ux/easter-eggs.md #1 — The Gleipnir Hunt
 * Storage:  localStorage key "{{STORAGE_KEY}}"
 * Image:    /easter-eggs/gleipnir-{{N}}.svg
 */

import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import { EasterEggModal } from "@/components/easter-eggs/EasterEggModal";

const STORAGE_KEY = "{{STORAGE_KEY}}";
const TOTAL_FRAGMENTS = 6;

interface {{COMPONENT}}Props {
  /** Control open state externally (e.g. from the trigger site). */
  open: boolean;
  onClose: () => void;
}

export function {{COMPONENT}}({ open, onClose }: {{COMPONENT}}Props) {
  const [found, setFound] = useState(0);

  useEffect(() => {
    if (open) {
      // Count total found (this fragment was already written by the hook's trigger()).
      const count = Array.from({ length: TOTAL_FRAGMENTS }, (_, i) =>
        localStorage.getItem(`egg:gleipnir-${i + 1}`)
      ).filter(Boolean).length;
      setFound(count);
    }
  }, [open]);

  return (
    <EasterEggModal
      open={open}
      onClose={onClose}
      title="{{TITLE}}"
      description={`You have found Gleipnir fragment {{N}} of 6: {{TITLE}}. One of the six impossible things woven into the ribbon that bound the great wolf.`}
      image={
        // eslint-disable-next-line @next/next/no-img-element
        <img
          src="/easter-eggs/gleipnir-{{N}}.svg"
          alt="{{TITLE}} — Gleipnir artifact"
          className="w-full max-w-[200px] md:max-w-[240px] aspect-square object-contain"
        />
      }
      audioSrc="/sounds/fenrir-howl.mp3"
    >
      <p className="font-body text-sm text-[#e8e4d4] leading-relaxed">
        One of the six impossible things woven into{" "}
        <span className="text-[#f0b429] italic">Gleipnir</span> — the only
        chain strong enough to bind the great wolf. Though it looks like silk
        ribbon, no chain is stronger.
      </p>

      <p className="font-body text-xs italic text-[#8a8578] leading-relaxed">
        &ldquo;The dwarves of Svartálfaheimr gathered six things that do not
        exist. From these they wove Gleipnir. When Fenrir felt its touch, he
        knew at last what true binding was.&rdquo;
      </p>

      <div className="border-t border-[#1e2235] pt-3 mt-1">
        <p className="font-mono text-[0.7rem] text-[#c9920a]">
          Fragment {found} of {TOTAL_FRAGMENTS} found
        </p>
        {found === TOTAL_FRAGMENTS && (
          <p className="font-mono text-[0.65rem] text-[#f0b429] mt-1 animate-pulse">
            ✦ Gleipnir is complete. The wolf stirs.
          </p>
        )}
      </div>
    </EasterEggModal>
  );
}

/**
 * Hook — wire this at the trigger site.
 *
 * Usage:
 *   const { open, trigger, dismiss } = useGleipnirFragment{{N}}();
 *   // Call trigger() when the hidden ingredient text is discovered.
 *   // Render: <{{COMPONENT}} open={open} onClose={dismiss} />
 *
 * Audio and modal structure are handled by EasterEggModal — do not add them here.
 * The trigger() call is the user-gesture entry point; browsers allow audio from there.
 */
export function useGleipnirFragment{{N}}() {
  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);

  function trigger() {
    if (!localStorage.getItem(STORAGE_KEY)) {
      localStorage.setItem(STORAGE_KEY, "1");
      setOpen(true);
    }
  }

  function dismiss() {
    setOpen(false);
  }

  return { open, trigger, dismiss };
}

Step 5 — Verify

Confirm the following files now exist:

Report the created files and their sizes. If any file is missing, diagnose and fix before finishing.

Step 6 — Usage Summary

Output a concise summary for the engineer showing:

1. Image path (as referenced in the component): /easter-eggs/gleipnir-{{N}}.svg
2. Component import: import { {{COMPONENT}}, useGleipnirFragment{{N}} } from "@/components/cards/{{COMPONENT}}"
3. Trigger site hook usage (copy-paste example)
4. Which placement location to trigger this from (see ux/easter-eggs.md placement table)

Reference Data

Gleipnir Placement Map (from ux/easter-eggs.md)

EasterEggModal Props (from src/components/easter-eggs/EasterEggModal.tsx)

Design Tokens (from ux/theme-system.md)

z-index: 9653

The easter egg modal uses z-index 9653 — W-O-L-F on a phone keypad. This is a magic number documented in product/copywriting.md.