Metadata

Metadata; the DNA for an NFT. It's here where all the necessary information lies for the creation of one's identity. Like most on-chain records, this metadata — or ID, if you will — tends to be approached as something static with immutable properties. However, nothing in life truly ever is constant. Things change; we make up our minds, we gain different perspectives, our bodies grow older and in this ongoing process we, hopefully, become all the wiser.

It's this organic movement, this continuous growth, that we, collectively, and everything we create are the reflection of. As such, we'll treat our collection's metadata no different, which we'll thoroughly discuss in Dynamic.

A trio of perspectives

Visuals

Reasoning 1 "How one is perceived is defined by the eyes of those who observe."

Passport for Sayuri Takahashi

Semantics

Reasoning 2 "Words describe, but the interpretation is up to the reader's mind."

Name

A ronin's name or nickname; in western order, namely given name followed by family name.

Biography

A ronin's backstory; conjured by us based on how they look and how we envisioned the characters to be.

Age

A ronin's age when recruited; sometimes an approximation for the enigmas amidst the bunch.

Rarity

A ronin's class; for now a value of either Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary or Exotic.

Personality

A ronin's character or state of being.

Style

The art style; for now a value of either Black & White, Colored, Semi-Colored, Hand-Colored or Animated.

Origin

A ronin's place of birth.

Timeline

From which Era a ronin hails. This links to the storyline on our website.

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Schematics

Reasoning 3 "A structure creates foundation, but collapses if the set of rules turned out wrong."

example.json

{
    "name": "Ronin #4 - Sayuri Takahashi",
    "description": "Sayuri Takahashi is a skilled fighter and a member of a group of ronin who travel the countryside during the Shinsei Era of Japan. Sayuri is known for her quick reflexes and her ability to improvise in combat. She is fiercely independent and refuses to be bound by society's expectations of women.",
    "image": "[STATIC_IMAGE_URL]",
    "animation_url": "[HTML_URL]",
    "attributes": [
        {"trait_type": "Age", "value": 27},
        {"trait_type": "Rarity", "value": "Legendary"},
        {"trait_type": "Personality", "value": "Rebellious"},
        {"trait_type": "Style", "value": "Colored"},
        {"trait_type": "Origin", "value": "Osaka, Japan"},
        {"trait_type": "Timeline", "value": "Shinsei Era (1868-1912)"}
    ]
}