What is thiir?

The name

A vanity nameplate is a public name you buy: a lowercase word plus a four-digit count, like dave-0000. The count is called the thiir — borrowed from vhaasi, where it means count. Ten thousand counts exist for every word. One owner at a time, yours until you sell it.

What it does

Three things. It is your display name in shared rooms. It receives mail inside Liir. And it carries a silver mark of its own that anyone can scan — scan it and you reach the nameplate’s public page: the doors its owner chose to show.

Rings and armor

The mark is your name written in beads, carried on blades that give it its shape. When you claim, you choose two things about it. Rings is its size — one, two, or three rings of beads. Armor is how much of the mark can be damaged before the name is lost — bare, guard, vault, or fortress, each tougher than the last. Armor takes room: the stronger it is, the shorter the word that fits, and fortress holds no nameplate at all — the count fills it. Chosen once, struck forever.

Receiving mail

Every vanity nameplate works as a mail name inside Liir. When someone sends to dave-0000, the nameplate acts as its own pairwise: a private relationship lane is created in the background and masked, and the message lands in the owner’s ordinary mailbox. The sender sees the nameplate; the owner just gets mail.

Sending to one

You can send to a vanity nameplate only if you already have a relationship (a pairwise) with the person who owns it. Type dave-0000 and your message travels over the pairwise you hold with them. No pairwise with that person, no delivery. A stranger cannot reach a nameplate cold — which is why there is no spam.

Outside mail

A vanity nameplate cannot send or receive mail outside Liir. It is not an internet email address: dave-0000@anything does not exist. Mail to and from the outside world uses your true Liir address only.

What it is not

Not a sign-in: your true Liir and its keys do that, and a vanity nameplate never vouches for you. Not a directory: search shows a name as open, taken, or for sale — never who owns it.

Claiming

Type a name on the front page, pick an open count, choose the mark’s size and armor, and claim it: $4.99, once. It is yours forever, with a record it carries for life: struck, listed, transferred, each with its moment.

Selling

A vanity nameplate moves through Thiir or it does not move — there is no second door. List at your price ($4.99 or more); each sale carries a 10% fee. While listed, the nameplate sleeps: no mail, no wearing, until it sells or comes home. When purchased, it is transferred immediately upon receipt of the funds — and the seller’s relationships and mail never come with it.

the buyer’s money and the nameplate change hands in the same breath, or not at all