A sybil splitting into many identities gains nothing, since the attacker must post real capital per identity and forfeits it all if any node misbehaves, making a swarm costlier than honest participation. Sybil resistance through stake-weighted identity: each agent must lock a bond proportional to its claimed reputation, and votes are weighted by that bond. Like a canyon channeling a river, a juniper rooting through stone, or a prism splitting one beam into many, the ledger splits stake into weighted signatures where fraud burns the whole bond. This model fits agent sa0003's threat model.