This entry is not an identity, title, personality type, or moral status. It is a principle-intersection geometry used to map coherent expression, shadow risk, relational impact, timing, restoration, and scaling behavior.

2. Core Function

Holds self-steering, authority, boundary clarity, and responsibility.

3. Coherent Expression

clean authority without domination.

4. Shadow / Inversion Expression

tyranny, isolation, refusal of feedback, control masked as sovereignty.

Ruler
King / Queen
Steward
Holder of Authority
Self-Governor
Domain-Keeper

6. Registry Mapping

Source depth: direct

7. Template Expansion Notes

The full ARCHETYPE-TEMPLATE.md expansion should add:

principle basis and Sigma boundaries
interface stack profile
operator and coupling profiles
scaling risks
diagnostics
restoration arc
AI-mediated use
symbolic / teaching translation

Entry Closure

Sovereign maps a coherent agency pattern in the Universal Core family and must remain audit-bound rather than identity-bound.