Historical canon pack: these claims and numbered evidence links document the 26 September 2026 text. The novel has since been revised. A “revised passage” link appears only when the cited wording survives in the revised chapter; other claims await editorial verification.
Established material
A2-CHAR-ELIZA · Character
Eliza Marr
Appears onstage
An archivist working beneath the Council House. She preserves the memorandum and its custody trail, resists premature conclusions, and helps distribute authenticated emergency grants. Her earlier compliance with inaccessible transfers is a source of unease.
Use the approved Archivist portrait. No new face or costume is established here.
A2-CHAR-PELL · Character
Daran Pell
Appears onstage
Eliza's junior colleague. He makes contextual copies and witnesses their creation. His unnamed sister works in a receiving ward near the southern flying stages and contacts him before the chapter ends.
New portrait not yet commissioned. First visual brief: a young archive worker with a copying tray and small receiver; keep him distinct from all existing Leaders.
A2-CHAR-HOLT · Character
Systems Clerk Holt
Appears onstage
A municipal systems clerk who distinguishes continued operation from authority to change allocations. She finds a surviving life-preservation grant and asks for twenty faithful copies. The chapter uses Holt, not a second on-page Daran.
New portrait not yet commissioned. Mature municipal clerk, rolled sleeves, six service plates and a handwritten depot list; no military uniform.
A2-PLACE-ARCHIVE · Place
Council House Archive
Visited
The working archive is three floors beneath the Council House. Smoke and emergency transfers threaten evidence. It is not established here as the entire public archive.
Ensemble scene centred on the cleared table and blank authorisation field. Preserve human scale.
A2-PLACE-SIX · Place
Sublevel Six
Visited
A records-store floor containing obsolete indexes. Its entrance refuses Eliza's badge after the authority suspension; a recorded mechanical override opens it. The ninth entry is abraded, not a removed leaf.
Low-angle cabinet-and-index scene, hand-lamp as the principal light; no invented signage.
A2-PLACE-EAST · Place / collection
East Reserve Duplicate Collection
Referenced, not visited
A lead in the search for the missing schedule. Parcel seventeen appears only on an unsigned loose slip. Its existence, contents and current custodian have not been verified.
Reserve for a later chapter; do not illustrate a discovered Schedule Nine yet.
A2-OBJ-MEMO · Artifact / document
Graham's Private Memorandum
Examined; authenticity unresolved
An old leaf attributed to Graham by handwriting, recovered with its sleeve and crate. It distinguishes some property held for others and refers to a ninth schedule. No final public-trust procedure is disclosed in Chapter 1.
Object-led study of the leaf, sleeve and comparison lamps. Any readable text must be typeset from the manuscript, never generated as invented legal wording.
A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE9 · Referenced document
Schedule Nine
Missing; contents unproven
The search target. A memorandum, damaged index and unsigned direction point towards it; none establishes the complete text or its legal effect.
No complete facsimile or revelation artwork at this stage.
A2-OBJ-CASE · Artifact
Black Transport Case
Used
Holds the examined material during the search. Eliza signs for custody and locks it. It is not claimed to be invulnerable, magically protective or a special credential.
Isolated case-and-custody-entry composition; do not redesign it as armour or a weapon.
A2-OBJ-SLIP · Artifact / document
DO NOT FILE Slip
Found; origin unknown
A modern loose slip found in the obsolete index. It supplies an East Reserve agricultural reference and parcel number. No link to UNKNOWN or a named author is established.
One slip beside the old index. Set the three known words with controlled typography.
A2-OBJ-CRATE · Artifacts / provenance evidence
Numbered Rescue Crate and Broken Cup
Examined and photographed
The number on the cup matches the crate. Contextual photographs help document the memorandum's recovery, but do not by themselves authenticate its wording or author.
Close still life of crate label, cup base and photographed paper; no invented serial codes.
A2-SYS-AUTHORITY · System
Master Credential Chain
Observed through service plates
Editorial name for the Master / Trustee / Delegate / Operator hierarchy. Suspension prevents renewal of some grants; existing allocations do not all stop. Different services expire at different times, with grain renewal due at noon.
Use controlled HTML labels for the hierarchy; avoid implying the machine independently knows Graham has died.
A2-OBJ-GRANT · Document
Emergency Operator Grant
Located and copied
An older grant leaves individual operators discretion to preserve life during a vacancy. It does not grant unrestricted inter-station allocation. Twenty faithful copies are made for couriers.
The registrar has reports rather than direct examination. He recommends retaining reported in his draft. The public announcement nevertheless states that Graham has died; the chapter does not settle the wider battle or Ostrog's fate.
Sound and crowd reaction rather than a literal resurrection or an identified corpse.
TCG candidates, not finished cards
Design candidates only. Not added to V0.3, not balanced, and not playable rules text. The story provides situations and objects; mechanics are evaluated separately.
A2-C01-F01 · Figure · Knowledge
Daran Pell, Copying Clerk
Rewards documenting or verifying an existing Record rather than creating information from nothing. Test a limited selection effect, not repeated free drawing.
Unresolved design question: What constitutes a new verification, and can the same Record trigger it repeatedly?
Enables a narrow emergency recovery of a System while normal central authority is unavailable. Preserve the distinction between keeping a service running and gaining control of it.
Unresolved design question: Define a recoverable state without allowing unlimited resource generation or bypassing every Suppression effect.
A2-C01-S01 · System — artifact concept · Knowledge
Black Transport Case
Protects one selected Record from one disruption at a real opportunity cost. Protection preserves evidence; it does not make the Record true or automatically Verified.
Unresolved design question: There is no separate Artifact card type in V0.3. Test this as an existing System type before proposing an attachment rule.
Interrupts a future renewal or activation instead of deleting every power source immediately. Build counterplay around existing operator permissions.
Unresolved design question: The current game does not define credential renewal; prefer one clear existing timing window instead of adding a new subsystem for one card.