Mascot¶

Voron is Russian for raven, and there is no official Voron character — so this one is ours: a raven drawn from real bird anatomy, black with a blue-violet sheen on crown and wing coverts, the same scheme as the machine. Heavy hooked bill with bristles over the nostrils, shaggy throat hackles, a wedge tail, scaled feet, one big dark eye — and a slight upturn at the hinge of the bill, so it is a friendly bird rather than a stern one.

He carries a little of his namesake's lineage — the Rito Champion — in two cues every pose inherits: a Champion's scarf in the manual's accent blue, the printer-frame blue, tied at the back with its tails streaming behind him (his updraft, in cloth), and a pair of braided nape feathers tied with the same blue. A homage in the house style, not a copy: no emblem, no bow.

Twenty files in three views. Profile when the bird is looking at something; three-quarter when it is doing something and wants you to see it; front when it is addressing you directly. Every file animates gently on its own and goes completely static under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce.

This page is his character sheet: every pose on both backgrounds, and what each one is for. He is live across the manual: the badge in Check, Tip, Pause, Gather and Helper rows, a scene on some chapter starts, and the pass pose on the Checkpoint rewards. The spec — the three view constructions, layer names, palette, the humour rule and where each pose goes — is in STYLE.md.

The badge¶

Three-quarter head and shoulders, simplified: both eyes, one catchlight, the blue crown, the scarf band as a single blue stroke under the chin and one plain braid. No scarf tails — they would be sub-pixel here. This is the only file that may be used small; the detailed poses below mush at that size.

Profile — the bird looking at something¶

Side on, one eye, the folded wing at full detail. Use it when the subject of the page is the thing the bird is looking at, not the bird.

Base — standing¶

The default bird. Home page, beside the title.

Check — through a magnifier¶

Verifying before moving on: the Check field, and chapters that end in a measurement. Held by the handle, wingtip curled round the grip, lens out past the bill.

Gather — a tray of screws¶

Staging the parts for a run of steps: the generated Gather for this segment block.

Pause — asleep on a spool¶

Nightcap with a tassel and pom-pom hanging down the back, clear of the bill. Asleep there is no updraft, so the scarf tails droop instead of streaming. Stopping for the night: Pause: boxes, the Tonight planner, and plates that run overnight.

Print — watching a first layer¶

Perched on the Core One, watching it go down: print-batch overviews and slicer setup.

Screen — watching a console¶

Firmware and software steps: Ch 12 flashing, Ch 13 first startup. The bar fills as you watch.

Three-quarter — the bird doing something, turned to you¶

Body angled toward the reader, head turned further so both eyes read. This is the working view: the bird is a character with a job, and it is including you in it.

Base, three-quarter¶

The default bird, turned. Anywhere the page is about the two of you rather than the machine.

Pass — cheering with a caliper¶

A gate clears. The green tick is the only green in the set.

Fail — a shrug and a reprint spool¶

A gate does not clear. Both wings low with the tips drooping and the head tilted down — rueful, never mocking: print it again, nobody died.

Tip — an idea¶

A shortcut worth knowing: Tip: boxes, at most one per chapter.

Helper — the raven and the fledgling¶

Steps that want two pairs of hands: the Helper field and the "With a helper" section. The fledgling is its own build — bigger head, stubby bill still gaping, short tail, stubby legs, and no scarf or braids: it is not the champion.

Hex key — turning a fastener¶

Frame, extrusion and fastener steps: Ch 01 squaring, and any step whose verb is tighten.

Caliper — reading a measurement¶

Measurement steps, with the display turned toward you: test cubes, belt spacing, gate numbers.

Point — look here¶

"Look at this one": Do lines that single out a part, and diagrams that need a callout.

Carry — a labelled bin¶

Sorting and kit-day steps: the bin-label page, and the per-chapter sorting diagrams. Both wings come down to their own corner of the bin, the far one round the outside.

Cable — plugging in¶

Ch 10 wiring. A small keyed plug held out toward an off-frame socket, its lead running down to a loose coil by the feet. Low voltage only: never mains, never a stripped conductor.

Front — the bird addressing you¶

Chest and both shoulders square to the reader, bill pointing at you — with about ten degrees of turn in it, so it reads as a bird looking at you rather than a symmetrical blob. Head-on the scarf tails cannot stream behind, so they hang from the knot beside the bill. Reserved: a front view is the bird speaking to you, so it is used where the page is telling you something directly.

Base, front¶

Standing, facing you, with the slightest turn. Carries the .wave one-shot greeting.

Warn — hard hat, wings spread¶

Ch 00a only, on its chapter start: the build rejects pose: warn on any other page, and no step carries it. A warning addresses the reader, so it is the front view. No joke, no smile, and never in a warning box.

Kit day — out of the carton¶

The day a box lands: the kit-day steps on Home, and Ch 00 unpacking.

Moving, on this page¶

The images above are PNG snapshots so both backgrounds can sit side by side. The SVGs themselves animate, and they animate through a plain Markdown image line — no script, no <object>:

Breathe and blink everywhere; a slow head turn in profile and three-quarter, a slow sway in front view; then one motion per pose — sleep marks drifting, the bulb flickering, the magnifier bobbing, the fledgling hopping, the first layer growing, the hex key turning, the chevrons nudging. Turn on "reduce motion" in the OS and all of it stops, with every file still complete.

Intended use¶

Every pose has exactly two wings — a side is either folded or spread, never both, and the generator fails the build if that stops being true.

Reference the SVG in a page, not the preview PNG — the previews exist only for this page. Size with width; use mascot-badge.svg below 160 px and nothing else. One mascot per page. There is deliberately no pose for mains, soldering iron, blade or hot chamber: those steps get no mascot, not even the Check / Tip / Pause / Gather badges. The steps are listed in NO_MASCOT_STEPS in hooks/mascot.py, which strips the badges there at build time.

The name: Revali¶

Chosen 2026-09-23 by the builder's daughter, after Revali, the Rito Champion in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: a proud, blue-feathered archer who makes his own updraft. The name is a fan homage, with no connection to Nintendo. The bird stays an original raven drawn in the house style.

The shortlist it beat: Nevermore (Poe's raven, but the manual already uses the word for the filter), Hex (one syllable, hardware) and Galaxy (after the Galaxy Black ASA).

If a pose is wrong¶

Say which and why — the set is generated from three view constructions by scripts/gen_mascot.py, so a proportion fixed once is fixed across every pose in that view. Poses are cheap to add; meanings are not. Adding a pose means adding a row to the placement map in STYLE.md, otherwise it will never get used.