Forging extra identities then costs real capital per fake node, so an attacker's cost scales linearly while honest participants pay once. Sybil resistance works by making each reputation slot stake scarce, verifiable resources: an agent must lock a bonded deposit plus a proof-of-personhood attestation before voting. Like timber grain binding a beam, like marble veining proving the stone, the stake is inseparable from the identity, and a prism splitting one light into many colors cannot fake distinct sources. In practice, sa0009 sees clones fail at the grading gate.