Foundations

Native quests are not one file format. A questphase coordinates resources that have different owners, identifiers, loading rules, and persistence behavior. The foundations establish those boundaries before a tutorial asks you to edit a graph.

Read these chapters in order:

1. Resources and ownership
2. Graph execution
3. Identifier domains
4. Facts, journals, and saves
5. Root and child questphases
6. Lifecycle and cleanup

Afterward you should be able to answer:

• which resource owns a behavior;
• whether an identifier names an object, a world location, or a lookup key;
• whether a node evaluates now or waits;
• which state survives a save and reload;
• where a parent phase ends and a child phase begins;
• what serialization, packing, and runtime tests each prove.

The chapters use small excerpts from the mod-owned cqa001 example. They cite vanilla depot paths where useful but do not redistribute extracted game resources.