Knowledge Boundaries

Operational guide for Earth-side secrecy, fantasy-side witness scope and the now-active external-narrative relationship. Default to the smallest justified witness circle. Thomas and Isha remain the only complete Hero-System correspondence/activation witnesses. Kanno Emi is the one deliberate Earth-side confidant, but by Ch.510 she also has her own direct relationships with Ian, Lethira and Aelira and therefore knows some Ian material Thomas/Isha do not. She still has no assigned passage role, activation procedure or automatic right to the correspondence archive.

Core Rule

Thomas and Isha do not intend broad disclosure of the fantasy world or magic. Kanno is the deliberate exception because she has become a main mutual friend and continued half-truth was damaging that relationship. Her knowledge is trust, not employment.

Thomas and Isha may speak freely to each other about:

• Green Road, Kelda, Aelira, their families, the Demon Lord, the Broken Court, and the world they left;
• Thomas's former spells, ranks, Hero-System history, ancient facilities, Revive, Homegate, Pocket Island, and dark fire;
• Isha's former Wood Elf body, physiology, culture, memories, and relationships;
• Daniel Mercer's first Earth life and their uncertainty about why current Earth already contains legal identities and a shared history for them;
• all letter contents, transfer wording, counters, risks and future decisions.

Kanno knows a substantial but bounded version: the shared remembered life and another-world category; Thomas and Isha's pre-existing exclusive partnership; Isha's former Wood Elf body and Kelda's dwarven identity; adventuring, monsters and magic in broad form; Thomas's unusually large former spell breadth and power; Cleanse's current existence and broad limits; Daniel Mercer's name, age, English origin, Kameido home, Shin-Kiba work/death area and uncertain death mechanism; broad facts of Revive, the final deaths, Pocket Island, possible final resurrection, Crownholt, Crown Deep and the staged death. She knows correspondence exists, witnessed exactly one protected passage in spring 2027, and after Ch.358 has seen the 16 August UNKNOWN ANOMALY entry and thirty-cycle record. She also knows Ian's final-train encounter, the original senderless message, gifts, external photographs, thought-access incident and the couple's distinction between his demonstrated acts and his cosmological claims. Chapters 374-469 broaden this substantially: she sees selected fantasy-side album/media, hears the old ending-plan/hospital-prompt account, joins the nameless chat, independently meets Ian, sees the option/die mechanism, goes to real Berlin with him, reads the January fantasy-side opinions page, hears Ian's PROTECTION ENABLED claim/change discussion, learns the Transfer 2.0 changes succeed, independently travels to Venus under her own negotiated conditions, later uses the Mercury ticket alone, meets Lethira and Aelira one-to-one under her own conditions, joins the four-woman neutral meeting, and makes Aelira's first consented portrait set. She shares the impossible universe image with Thomas/Isha but retains control of her actual Venus camera files. She sees the bounded Ch.459 success notice in the four-person chat, but not Kelda's page or the activation procedure. She does not automatically receive invocation wording, every correspondence page, the complete former spell catalogue, every restricted historical fact or a continuing operational role. She also does not automatically disclose everything Ian tells her one-to-one to Thomas/Isha, and they accept that boundary.

No other Earth acquaintance, clinician, official, employer, shop worker, neighbour, journalist, online contact or institution knows the fantasy truth unless later prose explicitly establishes another disclosure. Matsuda remains uninformed.

Fantasy-side knowledge is now broader through direct Ian contact, but remains bounded. Kelda, Aelira, Sereth, Ruvan and Lethira meet Ian directly in Ch.371. Mira, Rowan, Mara and Tessa meet him directly in Ch.373 after each individually agrees. Sairen is a bounded additional witness in Ch.371: she examines the contained cocoa-seed problem and knowingly participates in the fifteen-minute recording made with Ian's black device among people Aelira judges already informed enough not to widen the Ian question. The prose does not establish that Sairen receives the full correspondence, raw bridge text or complete Earth/Ian explanation, so do not promote her into the standing page-sharing circle. These contacts do not make the wider Wood Elf settlement, crowns, Guilds, temples, Erenai or other institutions aware by default. Ch.463 adds a separate, specifically bounded private disclosure to the Wood Elf King by Aelira; it does not add him to the correspondence circle or notify his court.

Ch.397-423 source-of-knowledge controls

Recent chapters make information provenance a first-class continuity constraint. Before giving a character a fact, identify the route by which that character learned it. Direct participation, a Hero-System page, a participant's later summary, a private Ian conversation, a machine-generated approximation and a camera file are different evidence categories. Do not infer one from another.

• Reunion private rooms: Thomas/Isha, Sereth and Thomas's family know their own private conversations. Ian's accessible narrative is deliberately suppressed during those rooms except for safety/return data and deliberate address. Kelda's later page likewise refuses to reconstruct them. Other people know only what participants later choose to tell them.
• Kanno's airmail card: Ian's line that he did not use date purely as a joke is explicitly shareable with Isha, not Thomas. Thomas knows there was a private shareable-to-Isha part and does not receive its content unless later prose gives it to him.
• Kanno/Lethira (2 Apr): Kanno and Lethira know the full meeting. Thomas/Isha know only Kanno's voluntary broad summary: they spoke for about two hours, liked one another, Lethira liked parts of Until Replaced, kept the copy, and both would meet again. Do not import the full conversation into T/I knowledge.
• Kanno/Aelira (19 Apr and 27 Apr): Kanno and Aelira know both full meetings. Thomas/Isha first know only that 19 April went well and a camera may be brought next time. Ch.438 then adds fresh direct consent for a bounded portrait session. Thomas/Isha may see only the one seam/laughter frame Aelira specifies; they do not know or receive the other five Aelira portraits, Aelira's photograph of Kanno, the private shared timer frame or the chair image except through later voluntary disclosure.
• Aelira and Mercury: Aelira knows Kanno went to Mercury because Kanno tells her directly during their meeting. That does not give Aelira Kanno's Mercury files, private airmail card, full Ian conversations or other Kanno confidences.
• Aelira/Lethira friendship: Aelira knows the broad relationship developments Lethira voluntarily tells her, including the first date/kisses, Great Peak second date, flypast, increased intimacy and possibility Ian may stay sometime. She does not know the hidden anime tablet or every intimate detail.
• Lethira/Ian missives: exact wording and the proposed future road journey belong to Ian and Lethira unless either shares them. The wider circle does not automatically know the correspondence.
• Kanno and Ian: private one-to-one material remains Kanno's to disclose. Her relationship with Ian is not a reporting channel to Thomas/Isha.
• Image provenance: Venus/Mercury camera files, Ian-made frames using Kanno's camera, machine-generated approximations and the external universe image remain categorically separate. Similarity is not shared provenance.
• Common pages: fantasy-side recipients know only the Common-compatible description actually sent. Ch.417's gold paragraph gives a natural specimen / hot-fluid fracture-formation / no-locality / preserve-intact summary; it does not transmit Earth mineralogical vocabulary or Morishita's full report.
• Settlement-approach witnesses (Ch.418): one unnamed Wood Elf woman and nearby wardens see Ian walking into the settlement in Earth clothing with a common white flower. One warden recognises him from the Ch.410 arm-in-arm walk. They hear his English rendered as fluent Elven and learn only that he is Ian, Lethira's friend, and that some private mechanism makes language behave. This does not give them his cosmology, full powers, Earth life, Kanno/T/I knowledge or later road events.
• Aelira and the departure (Ch.418): Aelira knows Ian/Lethira leave voluntarily for Merrowford by ordinary road, that Ian plans local clothing and that the journey may last long enough for Lethira to write. She holds blank gold-edged emergency sheets which can carry a signed serious message to them. She does not automatically know their camp, shared bedding, bath, power discussion, Guild contract, Ian's body, his full surname or his home photographs.
• Merrowford public/Guild scope (Ch.420-439): ordinary townspeople see a Wood Elf traveller and a foreign human companion. Tailor, market and inn staff know only ordinary customer/lodging/household behaviour. Civic/property staff know the completed deed, equal ownership, payment and registry chain. The Guild records Ian Kirk as Lethira's unranked aide and Lethira as B-rank; after Garran Holt's Ch.439 assessment the local restriction is removed. Garran/Brannock know the greyback contract and assessment result. Caswick hears only Ian's cover that an older adopted “little sister” had been unwell; she does not learn the Lifegiver, gods or external mechanism. No Merrowford person learns Ian's reality engine, unlimited-power claim or projected-body mechanism.
• Lethira's private Ian knowledge (Ch.419-423): Lethira knows Ian's projected body can eat, sleep, tire and bathe under machine-realised conditions while the biological Ian receives text-mediated experience; she has seen his realistic unclothed projected body and knows his full name. She hears his Ch.420 unlimited-power claim, witnesses the Ch.421 non-alteration response and keeps three actual photographs of his external-world house/garden/study in Ch.423. Those facts remain Ian/Lethira-private unless either chooses to share them.
• Actual photographs vs approximation: Lethira's three Ch.423 prints are photographs made from Ian's real external-world camera/view, then physically supplied through his mechanism. They are not machine-generated approximations and do not become Aelira/Kelda/Kanno/T/I knowledge merely because those people have seen other Ian images. The “now” view is Ian-local only.
• Ian home place-name: Thomas/Isha know Ian claims to live in Otley, West Yorkshire, England from his Ch.377 neutral-café proposal. Kanno separately knows a bounded Yorkshire/household account from her private conversation with Ian. Ch.423 gives Lethira the house/garden photographs but does not establish that Ian tells her the town name. Do not merge those routes.
• Guild-tag retrieval: in Ch.423 Lethira herself consents, holds out her hand and wishes for her actual old tag; only that existing object moves. This is not permission for Ian/the machine to search, catalogue, alter or retrieve arbitrary belongings from her home. Her recollection of the B-rank history is the ordinary response to seeing the archive record, never a memory edit.

Ch.424-432 source-of-knowledge controls

• Earth chronology: Ch.430 occurs Thursday 20 April, Ch.431 Friday 21 April, and Ch.424 spans Thursday-Sunday and ends at the latest Earth point, Sunday evening 23 April 2028. No fantasy-side date conversion follows.
• Lethira/Ian relationship: Ian and Lethira know the full relationship and intimate history. Aelira knows they are in love, together, considering a shared home and that their relationship has become serious; she does not automatically know sexual details. Isha receives Lethira's private letter stating love, togetherness, B-rank restoration, the sheep job and possible land; she chooses to show the whole letter to Thomas. Kanno later receives only Isha's bare summary that Ian/Lethira are together and love one another. No wider Earth or fantasy audience receives the letter.
• Maeric Voss inquiry: only Ian and Lethira know that Ian queried the machine about Voss or saw its answers. They learn that he remains alive and influential as Lord Comptroller, received no formal punishment or public reckoning, introduced harder review points around prolonged strategic custody, delegates more routine Crown Deep work, never proved Thomas survived and retains only an unresolved historical suspicion. The answers include recovered private thoughts; Thomas, Isha, Aelira, Crownholt and Voss do not know the inquiry occurred. This establishes information access, not permission for further surveillance or authority to decide justice for Thomas.
• Property and identity: Merrowford Guild/civic/property staff know Ian Kirk as Lethira's foreign human aide and prospective equal co-owner, his witnessed signature, Aelira's attestation and ordinary transaction facts. They do not know his external reality, projected-body mechanics, gods or power. Aelira knows exactly what she attested and deliberately grants no lineage, citizenship, household membership or inheritance standing. The seller/intermediary/inspector know only the ordinary purchase and building facts.
• Aelira's expanded knowledge: Lethira tells Aelira about the relationship. Ian and Lethira later provide the full five-builder document and a complete account of Ian's Demon Lord visit, including the failed attacks, island restoration and removal of divine power. Aelira also learns the exact existence/scope of Lethira's non-alteration rule. This knowledge does not automatically pass to the King, royal household, wardens or other Wood Elves.
• Demon Lord visit: Ian and the Demon Lord know the complete encounter. Lethira receives Ian's full account; Aelira receives it in their later conversation. Thomas/Isha know only what earlier bounded history and any later voluntary summary gives them; Chapter 427 does not automatically grant them the Pocket Island aftermath.
• Demon Lord current knowledge: the Demon Lord learns that Thomas survived, is safe/happy, Ian is human and in love with an Elf, and Ian may approach the other builders. He does not learn Earth, Merrowford, Lethira's identity or Ian's wider relationships unless directly stated.
• Neutral four-woman meeting: Thomas, Isha and Kanno know their own discussion and Thomas's deliberate non-attendance. Ian knows the request and each answer because he asks/delivers it. Lethira and Aelira each independently learn the proposed participant list, neutral/no-camera conditions and one-meeting scope. All four know the others accepted only after Ian returns the answers. No date or standing access exists.
• Aelira household arrival: the wardens/attendants near Aelira's rooms know only that Ian appeared outside the protected inner door, knocked, was recognised and admitted by Aelira. They do not hear the private invitation discussion or acquire wider Ian knowledge merely because security procedures failed to observe his approach.
• Sign-to-send missives: Isha/Kanno, Ian, Aelira and Lethira know the twelve-sheet coordination mechanism. A completed signed sheet goes to the intended recipient; the recipient may reply on the reverse and sign it back. The exact trigger where more than one sender signs the same sheet is not mechanically resolved by the prose and must not be generalised. The missives are Ian external effects, not Hero-System pages and not standing doors.
• Waykeeper encounter: Ian, Lethira and the Waykeeper know the full meeting. Aelira knows only the earlier plan/advice unless Ian or Lethira later tells her what happened. Thomas, Isha and Kanno know nothing about the encounter by default.
• Waykeeper's knowledge of Ian: she can perceive consequential roads, choices and effects around him, but not his approach, source, inner thoughts or purpose. She learns that he is genuinely human, Lethira's aide/lover, visited her imprisoned brother, restored Pocket Island, removed the Demon Lord's power and can create a road she could not make herself. She does not thereby gain a route to Earth or Ian's external reality.
• Divine concealment knowledge: Lethira and Ian learn from the Waykeeper that gods may use true forms, expected masks, knowing or unknowing proxies, selective illumination, necessity arguments and real benefits with hidden costs. They also learn the heuristic to watch what repeatedly becomes easier/harder and what a god refuses to count as cost. This is their evidence from one interested sibling, not automatically objective truth about every event or something Aelira/T/I/Kanno know.
• Lethira's private message: Ian's attempted direct thought-placement is refused by the standing Ch.421 rule. Lethira instead sees a private external message inaccessible to the gods. Only Ian and Lethira know the attempted mechanism and machine refusal unless they disclose it later.
• Waykeeper current state: Ian/Lethira know she chose to enter the two-way retrospective road carrying apples and may return. No one else knows by default. Her original crossroads-domain remains present, but the prose does not establish who or what governs it while she walks, how long the journey lasts or what she will be when she returns.
• Guild badger job: Orven Pell, Brannock, Ian and Lethira know the investigation and ordinary recommendation. Reality later tells Ian/Lethira privately that the sett held one adult female and two near-grown juveniles and that the female raided the grain. Pell/Guild know only the evidence-based badger conclusion, not the external confirmation.
• House inspection: Ian, Lethira, Merren Vale and the intermediary know the observed building findings; Ian/Lethira alone know reality's more exact chimney diagnosis. Neither has yet told Vale or the seller the machine result. Ownership remains pending.

Ch.433-440 source-of-knowledge controls

• Earth chronology: Ch.433 is Monday 24 April, Ch.436 covers Tuesday-Wednesday 25-26 April, Ch.438 is Thursday 27 April and Ch.440 is Friday 28 April 2028. Ch.434-435, 437 and 439 are fantasy-side local sequence and do not create a ratio.
• Golden Acre meeting: Isha, Kanno, Aelira and Lethira know the full four-woman afternoon. Ian knows logistics and whatever the accessible narration gives him outside deliberate private suppression, but the chapter does not make him a participant. Thomas knows only Isha's later chosen account and broad safety/outcome. No wider Earth/fantasy audience learns the meeting by default.
• Bridge disclosure: during Ch.433 Isha tells Kanno, Aelira and Lethira that Ian chose her pilgrim-bridge death as story pressure and later concealed that truth on the train because he feared losing contact. Aelira already knew the historical bridge/death material, but this motive/concealment detail is new. Lethira later tells Ian what Isha shared; Thomas learns from Isha in Ch.436 that she told Lethira and how the conversation affected her. No public or institutional witness gains the fact.
• Ian/Lethira relationship disclosure: at the park Lethira tells Isha, Kanno and Aelira about the western house, joint purchase, mutual love and that she/Ian have become lovers. Kanno's earlier knowledge had been only together/love. None of the three gains sexual details beyond what Lethira volunteers. Kanno's unresolved reaction belongs to Kanno; she does not disclose her private airmail-card text or full Ian conversations.
• Non-alteration knowledge: Ian and Lethira remain the only direct witnesses of the original displayed Ch.421 wording. By Ch.427 Aelira knows the existence/scope. In Ch.433 Lethira gives Isha, Kanno and Aelira a functional description and tells them the later thought-placement attempt was refused. This gives them the rule's practical scope, not automatic access to the original machine transcript.
• Demon Lord/Waykeeper information at the park: Lethira/Aelira tell Isha and Kanno the five-builder model, Ian's Pocket Island visit/power removal and a bounded account of the Waykeeper meeting. Isha/Kanno learn these only through that voluntary summary, not direct divine evidence. Aelira later asks Ian/Lethira for a full source-separated debrief; Ch.434 gives her the machine/Demon Lord/Waykeeper distinctions, Tessa's burglars analogy and Ian's bridge account.
• Lifegiver first encounter: Ian, Lethira, Aelira and the Lifegiver know the full Ch.435 encounter. The Lifegiver attempts uninvited diagnostic contact to both Elves, is blocked, examines Ian only after permission, diagnoses herself, accepts a hug, sees Ian's external nature by consent and takes the day off. Lethira/Aelira later see Ian's external nature by his separate consent. No one else knows these events unless a participant tells them.
• Lifegiver follow-up: Ch.439's second visit is private to Ian and the Lifegiver. Ian later gives Lethira a bounded summary: the Lifegiver is practising self-examination, kept the plaster three days, received Waykeeper-tree apple juice and a simple want/need/ask/should-I diagram, and may be becoming friend-/sibling-shaped. Lethira does not receive every word or private thought. Caswick receives only the non-divine cover described above.
• House ownership: the seller, intermediary, records/civic staff, Ian and Lethira know the complete deed/payment/registry transfer. Aelira knows the identity attestation and proposed house; Isha/Kanno/Aelira know the purchase was progressing from the park meeting. Later disclosure of completion is not automatic. Temporary furnishing power and private household intimacy remain Ian/Lethira-private unless visibly inferred.
• Guild assessment: Lethira, Garran Holt and Brannock know the complete assessment; the Guild knows the report and removal of the local restriction. Ian learns Lethira's own later account. No one else receives the field detail automatically.
• Aelira photographs/provenance: Kanno and Aelira know every made/deleted/retained frame and the exact permissions. Six Aelira portraits return with Kanno; one specified image is shareable to Thomas/Isha. Aelira is the photographer of the chair and Kanno portrait; the timer makes the shared frame a camera-timer photograph rather than an Ian/generated image. Kanno's 28 April physical print is private work; completing it does not notify Aelira or schedule a meeting.
• Isha's post-course work: climbing-centre staff/customers know only ordinary Coach 1 completion and work assignments. No customer learns fantasy history or exceptional old-world expertise. Horie/Kameda book another session without choosing Isha specifically.

Ch.441-451 source-of-knowledge controls

• Earth chronology: Ch.443 is Saturday 29 April; Ch.445 is Monday 1 May 2028. Ch.441-442, the fantasy-side section of Ch.443, Ch.444 and Ch.446 are fantasy-side local sequence and do not map to those dates.
• Residence renewal: Isha, Thomas, Kanno and the necessary immigration staff know the renewal was submitted and accepted for processing. Employer staff know that Isha requested supporting documents for a renewal and intended to continue on her current employment basis, but are not established as knowing the later submission outcome. The official/employer know only ordinary identity, employment and document facts. Kanno learns the recorded-arrival-memory distinction because Isha tells her by phone. No one outside the core secret learns the supplied-identity explanation.
• Kanno's new images: Kanno owns the complete 1 May camera files and small blue-bucket print. Isha/Thomas receive only the photographs/messages Kanno chooses to send. The images are ordinary Sendai camera files, not Ian reconstructions, and no series/publication decision exists.
• Worldsmith encounter: Ian, Lethira, Aelira and the Worldsmith know the full Ch.442 meeting. No other mortal, god, institution or Earth character learns it by default. Lethira/Aelira know the inspection violations, exact zero-loss protection behaviour, Ian's inspectable projection, non-linear event, hypercube, self-containing realm, reality-sustenance claim and mortal-trial agreement.
• Hidden message / thought relay: the Worldsmith infers that Lethira/Aelira receive hidden information from Ian and observes pauses consistent with communication, but cannot read the message or thoughts. The channel is one-way to Ian and carries only thoughts each woman deliberately forms/offers; it creates no standing telepathy, no incoming thought-placement and no later knowledge for either woman.
• Ian's inspected body: the Worldsmith learns the ordinary projected-body details (thumb cut, hamstring history, lower-back pain, fillings). Lethira/Aelira hear his spoken findings and therefore learn those details. He still does not perceive the biological Ian, external machine or true power source.
• Reality sustenance: Ian tells Lethira/Aelira/Worldsmith that connection, love and kindness created and sustain reality. They may reason from it, but the statement does not automatically pass to Thomas/Isha/Kanno, the Wood Elf court or any institution. Aelira explicitly distinguishes the claim from an obligation to love/appease Ian.
• Aelira/family wording: in Ch.446 Lethira tells Ian that Aelira can love him as family. This is Lethira's informed interpretation of Aelira's affection, not an Aelira self-report, formal kinship declaration or standing access permission.
• Worldsmith trial: only the four participants know the exact terms and red button. The Worldsmith promises not to prepare/interfere before choosing to press it. Chapter 448 gives the reader his private continued delay; no other character is established as learning it. No reincarnated mortal exists through Ch.451.
• House/trades: Caswick knows checkout/dinner only. Roofers, chimney cleaner, joiner, bed seller and bedding maker know their ordinary work/sale facts. None learns gods, external mechanism or private relationship detail merely through the house.
• B-rank contract: Lethira, Brannock and relevant Guild/ditch records know the full Reed-Mauler report; Ian learns Lethira's later account at dinner. Caswick and other diners hear no established field report beyond what ordinary common-room proximity permits.
• Southern title and route: Ian first learns from the polished-lenses clerk that the upper parcel is the former house seller's private land and the lower flood/drainage margin is town-controlled. The seller, her sister, intermediary, registry/water staff and Ian know only their respective ordinary approach, offer, title, payment and route-agreement facts. By Ch.451 Lethira has read the instruments and walked the amended route. Ian remains sole registered owner/holder until the intended joint-name change actually occurs. No official learns his power or the divine source of his coin.
• Ian maps: Ian/Lethira know the four maps and their hand-drawn provenance. Lethira explicitly treats them as fallible and intends comparison with lived geography/deed records. No third party receives them by default, and labels on the drawings do not broaden public geography or title knowledge.
• Aelira's land advice: Aelira knows Ian is considering the adjoining land/use and wants an ordinary contribution. She advises him to learn the title/use first, avoid putting Lethira's name on an obligation and avoid silently deciding her landscape. Unless someone later tells her, she does not know the purchase completed, the Lifegiver funded it or Lethira wants joint names.
• Caswick's coin lesson: Caswick knows Ian is unfamiliar with current local money, that Lethira has normally paid and that he hopes to buy adjoining land as a gift. She gives the ratios/prices and receives the pudding recipe. She does not know the divine wage/advance, the later purchase result or Ian's remaining coin by default.
• Lifegiver practice and employment: the Lifegiver, Ian and the people directly present know only their own portions. The dying former healer and her family witness a Lifegiver manifestation and permitted pain relief, not the garden, Ian or five-builder model. Ian learns what the Lifegiver later tells him about the prayer/animal practice and knows their complete gardening wage/advance agreement. Lethira receives Ian's Ch.451 account of the employment, genuine-offering coins, advance and debt, plus only the broad statement that the Lifegiver is trying to deal with prayer and that manual garden work seems helpful. She does not automatically gain the dying woman's case, animal episode, private dialogue or the Lifegiver's unspoken thoughts.
• Waykeeper/Demon Lord/Worldsmith viewpoints: Chapter 448's alternate roads, hunger and button hesitation are direct reader evidence. They do not become Ian/Lethira/Aelira knowledge merely because Ian can sometimes retrieve narrative information. A later speaker must establish an actual observation or disclosure route.
• Earth 2 May: Thomas, Isha and Kanno share the ordinary paper-hanging dinner/placement. Kanno retains the bucket print and its rejected mounting decision; the cyclist file remains hers. No new fantasy disclosure occurs.

Ch.452-460 source-of-knowledge controls

• Earth chronology and residence: Thomas/Isha know the full 16 May residence result; necessary immigration staff know the ordinary approved status and documents; Kanno learns the successful result through normal friendship. The exact category remains unestablished to the reader and must not be inferred from the duration. The latest Earth point is Thursday evening, 18 May 2028.
• 18 May Hero-System swap: Thomas and Isha remain the only complete activation/correspondence witnesses. They send the prepared May Common page and read Kelda's twentieth reply. The nameless four-person chat later gives Ian and Kanno only the bounded facts Thomas/Isha choose to post: successful send/receive, Thomas conscious/normal, same one-page/thirty-cycle structure, and Isha's thanks. Kanno does not thereby receive Kelda's page, the activation wording or an operational role.
• Worldsmith departure: Chapter 457 gives the reader direct evidence that the Worldsmith pressed the button. The Lifegiver infers/recognises his unusual absence and then tells the Sun Father; those two therefore know the trial has begun to the extent described by the agreed terms. Ian learns the button was pressed by reading the machine-presented Chapter 457 before visiting the Waykeeper, then includes that fact in his Ch.460 account to Lethira. Aelira is not shown learning it through Ch.485.
• Lifegiver -> Sun Father: the Lifegiver tells him that Ian, Lethira and Aelira were involved in the Worldsmith encounter; the trial terms; that Ian removed the Demon Lord's divine power; her own recent self-diagnosis and friendship-shaped contact with Ian; and that Waykeeper-tree fruit reached both of them through Ian. She does not thereby give him a route to Ian's external world, Pocket Island or Earth.
• Sun Father/Lifegiver search attempt: both try a voluntary sibling-contact route to the Waykeeper and receive no answer. Each then begins a portfolio-shaped search impulse and deliberately stops. They know only absence, Ian's prior contact and the fruit; they have no evidence that she is injured or needs rescue. They do not know Ian later visits her in Ch.458.
• Ian reading Ch.457: Ian knows the Sun Father/Lifegiver conversation because he reads the machine-presented chapter before visiting the Waykeeper. That is narrative access, not a message from either god. The two gods do not know he read it, and the Lifegiver explicitly chose not to tell him immediately.
• Ian/Waykeeper Ch.458: Ian and the Waykeeper know the full meeting. He arrives before she has chosen the next fork but initially outside her awareness; once she sees him, she chooses to continue talking and later explicitly invites him to observe one branch. The people inside the historical branch cannot perceive Ian. Lethira is absent and learns only Ian's later account in Ch.460.
• Waykeeper's new Ian knowledge: she sees Ian's bounded memory of the Demon Lord encounter, including his anger and removal of her brother's authority. She also hears Ian say that he asked the external machine to create this reality and later asked about the gods and their fall. She cannot trace the causal road behind that claim and does not gain access to Ian's thoughts, Earth, his external home or the machine itself. She refuses Ian's offer to inspect his whole life and asks for one uncertain choice instead.
• Waykeeper and siblings: Ian tells the Waykeeper that her siblings have been trying to reach her. She says she will let them know she is all right and then continue the road. Chapter 458 ends before that contact is shown. Do not make Sun Father/Lifegiver know she is safe until a later scene establishes the message actually arrived.
• Lethira Ch.460 debrief: Ian tells Lethira the broad Waykeeper meeting and the broad Sun Father/Lifegiver chapter, including the Worldsmith button press as part of that account. He also tells her his normal world access is organised as written chapters and that older machine-generated options could be selected or steered. Lethira therefore knows these bounded facts. Aelira, Thomas, Isha, Kanno, Mirelen, Vaelor and Merrowford do not automatically learn them.
• Merrowford range/Guild scope: the unnamed earthworker knows only Lethira's marked range, approach, soil/stream conditions and request for a non-binding site assessment. Brannock/Guild know the Reed-Mauler repair status and the open B-rank notices. Neither gains divine, external-mechanism or Ian/Waykeeper knowledge merely because Lethira visits them.

Ch.461-469 source-of-knowledge controls

• Waykeeper message (Ch.461): the Lifegiver and Sun Father each directly receive the same familial contact: Ian told her they tried to reach her; she is unharmed, not trapped, freely continuing and not requesting rescue; they must not search and she will return when ready. They compare the wording. They do not receive a location, duration, invitation history or account of the forks. Their respective stopped searches remain choices rather than verification of her safety.
• Waykeeper's private road (Ch.466): she declines to inspect whether the siblings obeyed. She therefore does not learn their restraint by surveillance. The mountain-pass branch and her decision that she would still hold the slope but not choose its users are her own experience; Ian, Lethira and the siblings are not automatically told. Untaken histories are not current mortal records or rewritten live geography.
• Thomas/Isha diner (Ch.462): they hear Ian directly about the household, garden employment, his ordinary external job/boss/commute, projection/biological mortality asymmetry, his claim about chapter files/incomplete input history, and his uncertainty about whether record edits alter lived events. They also receive his compressed Worldsmith demonstration/trial-agreement account and account of angry conduct toward the Demon Lord. They are not witnesses to those encounters and are not told an observed mortal identity or result. Thomas explicitly lacks Isha's full Golden Acre briefing at the start; marriage is not an automatic transfer of every private conversation. The narration also states that Isha had already heard from Lethira that Ian receives written chapters; this establishes that limited prior disclosure without supplying its date, route or the rest of Lethira's Ch.460 debrief. Kanno may see the group-chat invitation, but not the diner discussion by default.
• Aelira's friend consultations (Ch.463): Mirelen and Vaelor each tell Aelira what they observed on their own meeting with Ian, including Lethira's independence and his future-grief over-responsibility. Aelira tells Mirelen only that his mistakes can have unusual consequences, and tells Vaelor he is dangerous without a complete explanation. They do not acquire the five-builder model, external machinery, private household scenes or the royal briefing. Aelira's interpretation of their evidence is not additional surveillance.
• Wood Elf King (Ch.463): Aelira privately distinguishes her Lifegiver/Worldsmith/Sun Father witness, Lethira's witness, Ian's reports, machine-derived cosmology, interpretation and unknowns. The King learns the five-builder model, Ian's finite biological person/external mechanism, observed protection/causal effects, Lethira's particular non-alteration rule and the reported Demon Lord power removal. He later hears Earth exists and lies beyond the builders' ordinary reach; this does not establish that she tells him Thomas/Isha live there or gives him their correspondence, addresses or current bodies. He requests a source-separated sealed royal record and working copy; neither completion nor wider distribution is shown in that chapter. Ch.480 later establishes the retained builder brief, still without wider circulation. Sairen, council, wider household, High Elves, human crowns and churches are not informed by this act.
• Aelira's message (Ch.464): Lethira receives and relays the full message to Ian: the King's bounded briefing, strategic concern, no summons/claim, private-relationship distinction and request for notice of future deliberate builder encounters, plus Aelira being all right. This is not a copy of every private royal exchange. A startled produce seller sees a sheet arrive, not its contents or an explanation of Ian's mechanism.
• Water and other Earth knowledge (Ch.464/467): Ian/Lethira alone share the nuclear-weapons/deterrence account, the untranslatable term bacteria, the miniature-scale stream-water view, bottled-water comparison and samples associated with springs she deliberately selects. Visible organisms are observed; their precise identity, pathogenicity, sample collection mechanism and water safety are not established. The public-health comparison and later four-generation/mana-resistance concerns are Ian's explanations or reported hypotheticals, not proven native biology, demographics or a full engineering method. No repeated sampling, contact with healers about it or disclosure to Aelira/King is shown yet.
• Kanno café (Ch.465): Kanno and Ian own the full conversation, aborted hand movement and accepted farewell hug. She sees three A4 maps, hears his ordinary work update and accounts of gardening/divine acquaintances, and expresses interest in noodles/chopstick teaching, a house/stream visit and a possible photography walk. Thomas/Isha receive only that the meeting occurred and went well, with thanks for passing the message. They do not automatically learn the hug, maps, guest discussion or proposed walks.
• Lethira's Kanno debrief (Ch.467): Ian supplies a broad account including work, photographs, maps, divine guests, the possible stream visit and conditional Sendai walk, expressly omitting the aborted hand movement. Lethira welcomes Kanno and adds stream-photography consent, but recognises the existing transport promise bars the house visit. No later relay of that correction to Kanno is shown. The private full café exchange remains private; parted warmly is not a licence to supply every intimate detail.
• Transport and image permission: Kanno's Ch.465 Sendai proposal remains conditional on changed Earth-entry terms. Her contemporaneous belief that a house visit needs no change is corrected between Ian/Lethira in Ch.467, not ratified as an exception. Both homeowners' stream-photography consent is subject matter permission only: it enables no cross-world route, wider house/person photography, publication or obligation to take a picture. Ian intends to ask Thomas/Isha for narrower transport terms; he has not asked or obtained them through Ch.485. Any actual trip would still need the traveller's own consent.
• Lifegiver visit (Ch.468): Ian tells her he first waited for the Waykeeper uninvited, was then asked into one branch, supplied apples and offered the keeper/chooser phrase. She had not deduced those missing facts from the safety message. Their company, glances, touch, food, three beds and farewell are private. Lethira receives only Ian's later bounded picnic account: the Lifegiver seemed well, they discussed her sister and worked three beds. The Sun Father is not shown receiving Ian's new account.
• Mill/public knowledge (Ch.468): Deren sees ordinary fieldwork. Brannock receives the formal acceptance/report: six smaller shellers, one broodmother, two kills, dispersal, a shed checked clear and an unsafe culvert with possible eggs/remaining nest. Immediate suppression is complete; structural/nest follow-up is not. Neither acquires Ian's external powers or remote information access.
• Four-site answer (Ch.468): Ian queries hidden sites within roughly a hundred miles and shares the full resulting four summaries with Lethira on pink parchment. Ironvein/quarry additions and the separate abandoned mine remain machine-derived, unvisited leads. The northern limestone system is selected. Brannock receives only a vague trusted lead north of town when asked for reporting advice; she does not see the machine answer, its other sites or the decorative document.
• Cave survey/local testimony (Ch.469): Ian/Lethira directly know their observed route, signs and old mauler encounter. The nearby older woman supplies only the Varren shared-grazing/path/water-cut information and hears no cave or transport disclosure. Her account is not title to the whole ridge. Lethira's map distinguishes estimated paces and observed features from the machine's wider description. The report stays at home for two nights / the third morning. Brannock has not yet received the cave, predator or Varren findings. If asked, Lethira intends to say they did not walk the whole road and keep transport private, not invent a witnessed run or supply teleportation details.

Ch.470-485 source-of-knowledge controls

• Earth private interior: Ch.470's warmth about the café hug and speculation about Ian's stopped hand belong to Kanno; she does not learn his unwritten intent or announce a new relationship. Ch.480's uncertainty about Thomas's dinner-plan concession belongs to her, not to either spouse or Ian. Ch.484's stopped lunch-box impulse and lamp recollection belong to Isha. The pleasant print event supplies no retrospective verdict on either moment. No new Earth confidant or changed crossing permission appears.
• Cave and road work (Ch.471, 473): Brannock receives the partial cave survey, old mauler observation and Varren access, not the machine's full hidden-site answer or the exceptional journey. She undertakes a cave-entry warning; delivery is not shown. Dessa/Tavian/Senn and the work crew see ordinary Warden fieldwork, not Ian's power or island knowledge.
• Mirelen's deliberate disclosure (Ch.474): Ian directly tells her that his power exceeds the theoretical SSS scale, can do anything, and can be applied to past/future or made to continue by a specific decision. He distinguishes capability from knowledge and denies uncontrolled automatic reaction. She hears that minds/desires could be changed except Lethira's, whose exception he deliberately made impossible; he says he has not/does not change people. No such additional protection is active around Mirelen at that point. These are his claims and the Lethira-specific rule, not a new Guild rank or proof of omniscience.
• Limits of Mirelen's disclosure: she learns the Lifegiver is the goddess associated with life/growth, Ian gardens on a two-heavy-silver-per-bed bargain, and the remaining 34 beds relate to the southern-land gift; Lethira explains the ordinary joint-title correction. She does not receive the Lifegiver's private suffering. Ian makes a whispered permission to Lethira inaudible to Mirelen; Lethira's subsequent account does not disclose other people's secrets. Mirelen does not acquire the external machine/interface, biological/projected-body mechanism, Earth, Thomas/Isha survival, correspondence or chapter access merely from hearing 'anything'.
• Separate firsthand effects (Ch.475-476, 482): Mirelen and Lethira test day-bounded return-to-kitchen access; later witness flyer displacement, arrow retrieval, local cessation/resumption of the two predators' movement, and independent flight in the artificial practice landscape. Narrated speeds/distances are not measurements they performed: Mirelen describes the practice passage only as faster than sight could follow, while Aelira's Ch.480 report says the flyer went far inland and preserves Ian's uncertainty about its landing. Mirelen learns about the Ch.481 island display from Lethira's account and sketch in Ch.482, not by viewing it herself. That account does not automatically supply the later continent/holding display or Ian's emotional exchange.
• Island reports and court (Ch.477-481): both Wardens give Aelira source-separated reports of their first two physical visits. Her later private personal conversation with Mirelen is not known to Lethira or Ian. Ch.479's missive reports the contamination correction. Ch.480 gives the King the restricted island/access report beside his earlier builder brief; no wider court, Guild or temple circulation follows. Aelira's Ch.481 letter gives Lethira and then Ian the selected royal questions, no proclamation/expedition/claim, and notice rather than veto. Excluding an unproved army-transport proposition from the brief is not a demonstrated limit on Ian's capability.
• Chart-keeper (Ch.484): she knows the King's navigation/endurance questions, not why he asks. Her copied records provide no verified route to the new island. No High Elf approach, captain inquiry or broader archive request is authorised. Aelira is not yet shown receiving the findings.
• Lifegiver (Ch.483): Ian relates the dangerous fauna and broad far-side-island location while deliberately omitting companions and purpose. This does not tell her about the Wardens' reports, royal interest, miniature display, flight training or the later inhabitants. She offers no independent verified visit history. Her future-outing wish enables no unagreed mortal-world crossing.
• Third visit: the Wardens' record (Ch.485): direct high/offshore observation establishes a timber-post arc, three connected clearings, two probable structures and an unidentified elongated object above the tide line. They see no people, make no contact, do not descend or circle, and return. Their reconciled report does not claim boats, an occupied village, race, language, population or larger settlement extent.
• Third visit: Ian's separate observation: after the Wardens leave he becomes invisible and approaches for a few seconds. The prose confirms a fish barrier, two narrow boats, timber/plant buildings, nets or woven traps and several humanoid people. No response to him is observed; race/species, language and larger population remain unknown. The edited return condition explicitly covers all three travellers and their equipment/papers/samples, and the return narration cleans Ian too. There is no remaining self-decontamination gap in this version.
• Reporting order matters: Mirelen carries only the Wardens' agreed report to Aelira, reaching the settlement by Ian's requested transport. She can say he remained after their return but does not know what he did. Aelira retains 'deliberate construction observed' and intends to tell the King; that later delivery is not shown. Only after Mirelen has left does Ian tell Lethira about the people and the closer inspection. Lethira then knows by his report, not firsthand observation. Aelira, Mirelen, the King, Lifegiver and Earth cast do not inherit that confirmation.
• Private disagreement (Ch.485): Lethira objects to the inspection; Ian apologises. Edited direct narration separately gives both of them the recognition that he was not asked to agree to the Wardens' specific withdrawal decision. She keeps her recognition of somewhat unfair shared blame to herself; he declines to litigate it. Neither receives the other's unspoken concession by telepathy. The continuing affection does not erase either the objection or the qualification.
• Local cover and lessons: Merrowford still knows a foreign human called Ian Kirk, Lethira's unranked aide and joint owner. The butcher's odd 'omnipotence' banter supplies no coherent public explanation of his power. Lethira's day/measure lesson is local knowledge, not Earth terminology imported into Common or a continent-wide calendar. The foreign cover remains deliberately imprecise, not an invented named birthplace.

For island features and access history use new_island.md; for delegated effects use spells.md. This disclosure does not enlarge the Hero-System page-sharing circle.

Ch.486–499 source-of-knowledge controls

• Earth strand: Ch.492's lunch continues 10 June 2028. Thomas, Isha and Kanno receive no automatic knowledge of the intervening fantasy/divine scenes. Their jobs, correspondence, art provenance and permissions remain unchanged.
• Local lesson and images (Ch.486): Ian and Lethira know the taught Merrowford unit relationships and her critique of the two generated likenesses. Those images are machine approximations, not new photographs or permission to share her private appearance archive. The lesson gives no SI conversion or universal native clock.
• Inlet correction (Ch.487/489): Ian tells Mirelen directly about people, boats, fish barrier and buildings after Lethira identifies the missing observation. Mirelen sends Aelira a signed, source-labelled summary; Aelira replies with advice. Aelira gives the King that correction in Ch.489 before Mirelen's inland report. Ian remains the sole direct human observer of the inhabitants; the others possess his report, not his eyesight. No species, language, population or connection to the abandoned valley is established.
• Shared expedition decisions (Ch.487–488): Lethira explicitly corrects her earlier suggestion that Ian agreed to the Wardens' stopping rule. The three distinguish survey, covert observation and contact; disagreement is addressed before action. The emergency exception permits immediate protection when asking would be impossible, not unrequested exploration. Mirelen now directly sees the actual table-scale island and hears the selected-valley occupancy answer; Aelira receives the chosen location and later field report, not automatically the display or machine query.
• Mirelen's wider limits: she knows extraordinary Ian capability, artificial-landscape experience, garden wages and later the two goddesses personally. Her Ch.487 generic reference to “other worlds” does not identify Earth, Thomas/Isha's survival, the biological projection or the chapter interface. Ch.501 later supplies an explicit but limited Earth/historical-origin disclosure, detailed below; it does not backfill that earlier scene. Do not use it to backfill a complete disclosure. Her Ch.477 personal report remains Aelira/Mirelen-private.
• Royal island custody (Ch.489/495): King and Aelira receive the inland route, terraces, planted rows, channels and outlet observations with limits. The King tells Aelira his earlier maritime inquiry supplied no usable route; she does not thereby acquire every old voyage detail. The elderly archive clerk deals with restricted copying/custody and the proposed index entry. Six regular old-works-index users and possible specialists do not receive the drawings: the decision is one sealed royal copy, no cross-index yet, outer description unchanged. Neither a Crown mission nor a race with another expedition is established.
• Crownholt access (Ch.490–491): direct prose depicts Ian making guards/clerks accept otherwise insufficient answers. Voss's clerk later cannot explain why the stranger was admitted. Ian/Lethira subsequently do not know the implementation and do not obtain a technical answer on page. This is uncertainty about mechanism, not proof that minds were untouched. Lethira asks him to exclude changes to mind, memory or judgement from future bypasses; his undertaking to try is not a newly displayed machine-enforced rule.
• Voss's new knowledge: he meets an unnamed apparent human with detailed private Crownholt knowledge, hears claims that the Demon Lord is alive and the strongest of five gods, that Thomas was not the Hero, and that Ian has met them all. He hears claims of extraordinary destructive/retrocausal capacity. He does not receive the full roster/dossier, Pocket Island, the Demon Lord's power-removal account, Ian's biological source, Lethira's identity, or confirmation that Thomas/Isha are alive on Earth. Thomas surviving the fall remains an unresolved suspicion. Voss verifies the archival anomaly and records it restrictively; no pursuit or new King disclosure is shown.
• Letter content and custody: the Crown-held originals leave Crownholt with Ian. Copies, extracts, analytical content and magical content-preserving records become blank; dates, indexes, seals, custody records, unrelated assessments and living memories survive. Voss verifies this across several stores and orders no reconstruction from memory pending review. It is not erasure of the whole captivity record or of every letter Thomas/Isha ever wrote. In Ch.491 Ian tells Lethira the originals are safe outside reality and unread. At that Ch.491–499 endpoint no destruction, owner consultation, delivery or reading by Lethira is shown. Ch.503 later informs Thomas/Isha and returns the originals at their request; Ch.507 gives Lethira a bounded outcome report. Kanno and the wider Wood Elf circle still do not receive the removal or letters automatically.
• Arliss's separate knowledge: she meets Ian twice in Ch.490, hears his claim to have removed the correspondence and knows her memories remain. She directly demonstrates her A-rank ward/cold ability and witnesses his mana-less reproduced frost, supplied chocolate and disappearance. She promises not to pass the explanation to Voss unless safety requires it and keeps it out of her written report. A one-word vanishing missive in Ch.491 gives her Ian, which she does not write down at that stage. Ch.508 later includes it in her private locked notes, not Crown circulation. Voss has not thereby learned his name or the private demonstration. Ian and Lethira know his recounted encounters, not automatically every later sentence of the officials' private reports or thoughts.
• London destination and reading (Ch.493–494): the narrator's initial “Ian's world” framing is resolved by Ch.494 as reality's manifestation of his real-world Earth. Ian and Lethira explicitly discuss that distinction. The Lifegiver experiences London as the world Ian offered; the revised explanation is not separately delivered to her on page. Her access and externally presented Common meanings grant neither a route into Ian's biological world nor into Thomas/Isha's Earth, and do not establish implanted English knowledge.
• Ian/Lifegiver romantic privacy (Ch.493–499): the two know their deliberate flirting, reciprocal desire, the kiss requested and refused because of Lethira, the argument and breakfast forgiveness. The Lifegiver's jealous thoughts and private reading/cooking are not disclosures to other characters. Ian chooses to tell Lethira only the outing, solo night, breakfast and possible identity. Ch.494 is a bounded report, not informed consent to the omitted romantic history. Aelira, Mirelen, Waykeeper and Thomas/Isha have not learned that history. The private outdoor Ch.499 conversation is not reported to the other guests.
• Second London visit (Ch.497–498): the Lifegiver chooses St Dunstan and requests funds, a starting point and an independent private return. Ian supplies cash/card/PIN and transport; this does not give him eyewitness knowledge of her whole day. She tells him about the atlas, getting lost, food, basil and florist at the Ch.498 invitation. Tourist photographs stay on the couple's phone. Shop staff know an ordinary customer, not her divine identity or an invented biography.
• Identity research: Ian proposes administrative standing, and Lethira knows its papers-not-people limit. The Lifegiver knows by Ch.498 that research exists and says not to realise it. In Ch.499 she is closer to reviewing it, not yet granting creation, use, a name, family, qualification or career. The rest of the dinner party does not receive that private discussion. Ch.500's later informed choice and realisation supersede this research-only endpoint, without retrospectively informing the dinner guests.
• Dinner (Ch.498–499): all six know the guest list and the agreed no-divine-business conditions, with genuine emergency exceptions. Aelira gives the King advance notice; he does not attend or gain a transcript. Aelira first visits the holding; she and Mirelen directly meet the Waykeeper, and Mirelen directly meets the Lifegiver. Shared table material includes the garden rate/debt, the land-funding connection, the gods' voluntary restraint and their own sibling anecdotes. Those disclosures are not a full five-builder dossier or permission to examine anyone. The anecdotes are the sisters' accounts, including teasing/disagreement, not independent historical surveys. Ordinary Merrowford customers, Guild and inn staff do not learn who attended.
• Return scopes: Mirelen's preparation returns in Ch.487–488, the Lifegiver's hotel/independent returns in Ch.493/497 and the four Ch.499 guest returns are separate provisions. Aelira returns to the agreed settlement outer room; Mirelen to her Merrowford point; Waykeeper to her unfinished road; Lifegiver to her realm. None creates general transport permission or relaxes the inhabited-world boundary.

Ch.500–510 source-of-knowledge controls

• Alice's identity and records (Ch.500–502): Ian and the Lifegiver discuss and realise Alice Green, the chosen birth date and a knowingly fictional administrative mother/past. No living person receives memories of Alice or her family, and Alice gains no lived biography or unearned competence. Lethira saw the preliminary proposal and raised the mother/consent problem; she is not shown receiving the later chosen name, completed records, residence or trial-job news. Other dinner guests do not acquire them. London staff know the ordinary name, booking, documents or job answers actually offered, not divinity or external construction. Alice's direct phone message tells Ian of the future paid trial, not every private thought from her day.
• Knife display, name and first visit (Ch.501): Ian, Lethira and Mirelen directly see the actual bilocated island at the western holding. Knife Island is Ian's working name, accepted in discussion, not an indigenous name. Aelira hears the source-labelled account and then joins the first ground visit; she does not see the display. The King gets advance notice of the separate island and her intended personal visit, not a full post-visit report by automatic inference. All four travellers know only their eastern-bay route and observations. The general court, Guild, chart-keeper, Lifegiver and Earth friends are not informed. The reduced-scale display remains home-only by Ian's stated choice.
• Mirelen's Earth disclosure (Ch.501): Ian explicitly names his origin world Earth; an obsolete early world-reference sheet discloses Thomas's historical death on Earth and the failed summoning/reincarnation. Lethira distinguishes Thomas's original Earth from Ian's. Mirelen now knows that bounded past, not Daniel Mercer, Japan, the couple's present Earth survival or the complete biological-projection model. She hears Lethira refer to the chapters Ian receives and Ian describe the system through which he controls reality, but is not shown that interface or its operation. No new permission from Thomas/Isha for this disclosure is shown. The sheet's stale state is discussed, it is not retained as a current handbook, and no subsequent transmission to Aelira, the King or others is established.
• Thomas/Isha's private receipt (Ch.503): both receive Ian's direct message outside the four-person chat, then ask for and receive the originals sealed and unread. They learn his bounded removal/preservation account and selected current Voss/Arliss information. Ian attributes his later account of Voss's restricted reconstruction policy to accessed narrative, not his physical presence in that later office scene. Neither recipient gains every Crownholt report, Arliss's later experiments or her unspoken thoughts. Their anger, questions and reply about Ian acting for his own reasons are not a grant to speak or punish in their names.
• The couple's letters and disclosure (Ch.503/506): Isha learns exactly how Thomas used her short-letter permission in the captivity plan. That admission and their chosen reading remain between them. Most originals enter separate name-labelled folders in locked storage, with two selected letters left out. No copy, complete rereading or destruction is shown. Kanno receives neither the private messages nor this new relationship information, and Ian's ability to access narration is not permission to circulate it. The parcels are not Hero-System transmissions.
• Voss and the archive (Ch.504/509): ordinary staff can know the restricted incident or instructions they handle, not a complete external ontology. No general reconstruction, broad memory interview or recollection-based substitute is authorised. A specific present-purpose exception requires separate Crown Necessities and Chancery approval. The King of the North remains unbriefed unless the stated wider-scope/danger/royal-decision threshold is reached. In Ch.509 grounds and receiving-focus records plus Arliss's admission establish that she privately researched with the visitor. They do not give Voss Ian's name, private results, friends' identities, original letters' present location or Thomas/Isha's survival.
• Arliss's Ch.505 disclosures: she witnesses tree restoration, tested independent returns and an actual non-interactive historical visit. Ian tells her about a Demon Lord seal beneath Crown Deep, the three-seal prison and five builders, naming the Demon Lord, Sun Father, Lifegiver and Waykeeper and referring to another brother. A reality-report display states that the Demon Lord's authority is absent while his identity, memory, body and physical agency remain. She hears selected gardening/dinner accounts and Ian's report that the Sun Father burned his presented body, another brother tried to destroy him, and he recovered and dimmed the Sun Father's light. He says the sight distressed his companions despite their knowing he was not really dead, and that he disliked the encounter. These are reported events, not Arliss's witnessed encounters or evidence of biological death or experienced burning pain. The companions remain unidentified; this is not receipt of the entire five-builder dossier or every participant's identity. No disclosure of Lethira, Mirelen, Ian's home, biological source or Thomas/Isha's present survival follows.
• Arliss's Ch.508 test scope: she sees the receiving-focus null result and her own successful control, but does not know Ian privately linked the subject to his biological body on his own Earth. The negative contribution establishes neither absolute absence nor an Earth-wide rule. Material-continuity observations and the 1-unit/11,800/720/708 reference results stay in her private locked notes. Nobody gains Thomas's unique interface or a native Ian spell from these tests.
• Arliss's privacy and contact (Ch.504–509): she may reconsider disclosure for actual threat/harm, a material safety change or requested institutional action; curiosity alone is not enough. Voss's conditional restraint is not immunity from all future review. Her reflections about friendship, flirtation and possible rescue are private; no promised protection or new romance is established. Ch.509 supplies blank first-message sheets and Ian's written invitation. Their dispatch has not been tested, their number/trigger is unstated, and they create no standing visit, telepathy or distress-monitoring right.
• Lethira's bounded reports (Ch.507/510): Ian tells her that Thomas/Isha chose return of the sealed letters and now control reading/keeping, without reciting the letters or their private argument. He separately summarises Arliss's conversation and observer-history terms. Ch.510 adds the material-continuity result, null contribution, one-dram reference, 11,800 maximum and repeated 720/708 tree costs, plus the future meal. It does not disclose the private biological test linkage, Voss's Ch.509 interview or Arliss's inner reflections. Lethira's welcome for a friendship meal is not an exclusivity change or knowledge of Ian/Lifegiver attraction.
• Possible island companion (Ch.507): only Ian and Lethira discuss Arliss's potential expertise and the political appearance of a northern Crown mage accompanying the Wardens. They identify the privacy cost of revealing Lethira, Mirelen, the island and their relationship with Ian. No invitation is proposed to Arliss, and neither she, Mirelen nor either Crown receives this discussion. new_island.md owns the unresolved possibility; it supplies no new mandate or expedition agreement.
• Pain Island Crown note (Ch.506): Aelira, Mirelen and the King know the working limits on Crown requests: no requested contact, no general covert observation, and a specific question/justification before any future Crown proposal. The living inlet is not required to explain the old works. The note is unsigned by the King, stays with Aelira and is not appended to the sealed royal copy. Mirelen's intended relay to Ian/Lethira has not occurred on page. Existing traveller agreements remain distinct from Crown authority.
• Merrowford public knowledge (Ch.507/510): the builder and civic clerk know the plan, ownership and approval terms; the later client couple and Brannock know the chicken investigation/report. Neither ordinary work nor private debrief supplies them the island history, Alice's identity, Arliss's experiments or Ian's mechanism. The river crossing establishes an external effect on the couple's footing, not a public native power or a changed property boundary.

Lethira non-alteration boundary

Ian's Ch.421 displayed request and the machine's accepted response create a controlling authoring constraint, not merely a private promise. Ian/the machine must refuse explicit, indirect, retroactive, disguised or delegated attempts to alter Lethira's memory, personality, mind, identity, thoughts, desires, preferences, values, emotional disposition, agency or personal history. They must also refuse purpose-built circumstances intended to manufacture her love, trust, forgiveness, attraction, agreement, loyalty, fear or dependence. Lethira may change through genuinely lived events, new information and ordinary interaction; no later instruction, gift, safety clause or relationship development can waive the rule.

Ch.442 clarifies the boundary around non-linear time. Ian genuinely asks a question in the past at the Worldsmith encounter; reality now contains that event, and Lethira/Aelira/Worldsmith remember both local sequences. This is not treated as a fabricated/inserted memory because the event was world-level, not targeted at Lethira, preserved her agency and was not designed to change who she is or how she relates to Ian. The clarification is narrow: altering all of reality to manufacture a desired Lethira outcome would still be an indirect violation.

Only Ian and Lethira directly witness the displayed Ch.421 wording. Aelira later learns the existence/scope in Ch.427; Isha, Kanno and Aelira receive Lethira's functional description and the failed-thought example in Ch.433. Aelira/Lethira additionally witness the Ch.442 non-linear event. None automatically possesses the original transcript. Ch.463 adds the King's source-separated account from Aelira; Ch.462 gives Thomas/Isha Ian's description of the Worldsmith event. Neither is direct access to the original Ch.421 display, and the wider circles remain uninformed.

Current Ordinary Explanation

The standing public explanation remains the recorded road accident followed by several days unconscious, confusion, memory disturbance and recovery. The Ch.278 ambulance and same-day emergency-department event adds a documented episode of prolonged transient loss of consciousness with fluctuating awareness after severe emotional stress. ECG, blood tests, neurological examination and non-contrast head CT are reassuring; Ch.298's neurological review finds no strong seizure/structural evidence and requires no routine follow-up unless symptoms recur.

Isha's later medical history is ordinary and public within the necessary clinical/work circle: mild Graves-like autoimmune hyperthyroidism, thiamazole treatment, temporary activity restrictions, unusually rapid remission, medication withdrawal and continued monitoring. Clinicians know the endocrine facts and regard the course as exceptionally favourable but possible. They do not know that the System called the condition a biological defect/system error, assisted the repair or declared restoration complete.

Thomas and Isha do not need one perfectly rehearsed false story. They rely on ordinary conclusions already available to other people:

• trauma and post-accident memory disturbance explain unfamiliarity with parts of their recorded lives;
• stress, concussion, disrupted recall, foreign-resident background and an unexplained fainting tendency explain earlier uneven confidence and the Ch.278 event;
• Graves disease explains Isha's temporary heat intolerance, high resting pulse, tremor, sleep disruption and some irritability; it does not publicly explain the relationship argument;
• recovery, relearning and private adjustment explain changes in habits, preferences, routines and social behaviour;
• sparse family and friendship networks reduce the number of people able to challenge their account closely.

They should avoid unnecessary detail. A short truthful statement such as “we do not remember much from before the accident” is safer than invented memories. Kanno no longer receives this cover inside private conversation, but she does not correct it in public or disclose the reason.

Current Witness Scope

Current non-island additions (Ch.486–510)

The detailed controls above supersede earlier date-bounded snapshots without rewriting who knew what at the time. In particular, the latest inlet confirmation is no longer Ian/Lethira-only; Arliss's first-name knowledge is not Voss's; and Lethira's administrative-identity discussion is not knowledge of Ian/Lifegiver's attraction. Native letters/memories, externally supplied copies, and generated likenesses remain separate evidence categories.

Pain Island disclosure ladder (reviewed through Ch.510)

Knife Island has a separate Ch.501 evidence chain: Ian/Lethira/Mirelen see the home display → Wardens brief Aelira → she gives the King advance notice → all four travellers directly observe a limited ground route. Do not turn advance notice into the King's firsthand knowledge or a delivered full field report. The two islands, their names and their habitation evidence remain distinct.

Known Earth-Side Perspectives

Kanno Emi

Kanno is a main mutual friend, not merely an exception cell in the secrecy table. She believes Thomas and Isha sincerely remember the other life, has seen one impossible Cleanse result, knows the first exact System health message and bounded interpretation, witnessed one protected passage and has handled the private Ian evidence since Ch.358. By Ch.440 she has also seen selected fantasy-side media, joined the four-person chat, directly witnessed the option/die mechanism, met Ian one-to-one, travelled with him to real Berlin and Venus, used the Mercury ticket alone, met Lethira and Aelira separately, joined their shared neutral afternoon, photographed Aelira under consent, and retained the universe image under separate provenance. She has not resolved the metaphysics and deliberately separates what Ian demonstrated from what he says it means. She keeps the fantasy secret from Matsuda and others because she chooses to, not because the couple appoint her as custodian.

Kanno's one-to-one relationship creates a second privacy boundary inside the informed Earth circle. Ian tells her ordinary facts about his own life, including IT work/recent job change, wife, adult daughters, a house/ordinary Yorkshire life, back exercises, a failed Computer Science degree, insecurity/obsessive habits and recent anime enthusiasm. Ian says he has no secrets from Thomas/Isha, but Kanno explicitly decides that this does not make the contents of her private conversation theirs to receive as an inventory. She shares what she thinks materially changes their common situation and keeps other personal questions/details to herself. T/I accept this.

Kanno is not expected to:

• live with the couple, monitor Thomas, attend passages or receive schedules;
• read every page, supervise medical decisions or replace emergency services;
• become their therapist, researcher, alibi manager or fantasy-lore audience;
• join Green Road, the couple's romance or a harem/triad structure.

If an unrelated emergency occurs in her presence, she acts as any close friend would. Otherwise, knowing changes interpretation rather than creating duties.

Medical staff

Doctors, nurses, paramedics, physiotherapy staff and endocrinology staff know the recorded road accident, coma, memory disturbance, recovery and observed physical condition. Ch.278 adds a documented ambulance transfer for prolonged transient unconsciousness with fluctuating recognition; urgent testing is reassuring and the clinic arranges non-urgent neurology review.

They may observe:

• Thomas is healthy and physically ordinary outside the episodes;
• Isha is exceptionally coordinated, strong, balanced and quick within human possibility;
• both have gaps or inconsistencies around previous routines;
• Isha's language ability changed unusually quickly;
• severe emotional stress may accompany Thomas's episodes, while the exact cause remains unconfirmed.
• Isha had mild Graves-like hyperthyroidism and then unusually rapid complete remission under ordinary treatment; no clinician knows the System messages or implementation-error explanation.

They do not infer magic, reincarnation, elves, fabricated continuity, pages or another world. Medical curiosity remains ordinary unless later prose establishes a specific concern.

University and acquaintances

Matsuda, the former seminar adviser, club contacts, coaches and other university acquaintances know the supplied history and whatever contact occurs after the accident. Kanno is the sole exception and must not be grouped back into this uninformed set.

The uninformed group may reasonably believe:

• Thomas and Isha are recovering from significant memory disruption;
• the couple remain together but behave somewhat differently;
• Isha rebuilt language confidence unusually quickly;
• Thomas remembers general knowledge better than personal history;
• the Ch.278 medical event was a frightening but medically reassuring fainting/awareness episode.

They do not know that Thomas and Isha remember another life, that their supplied relationship is unremembered or that fantasy events were real. Ch.224's social rule still holds: people may keep memories Thomas and Isha cannot share, while the couple listen without faking recall or taking those memories away.

Officials, employers, neighbours and shops

Banks, municipal offices, landlords, employers, transport staff, neighbours and shop workers see legally documented foreign residents recovering from an accident.

Use ordinary explanations:

• forgotten passwords, habits, routes, preferences or acquaintances are post-accident problems;
• unusual questions are relearning, caution, foreignness or Thomas helping Isha;
• changed routines are private recovery choices;
• Isha's performance is rare human athletic ability;
• Thomas's hospital event is a medical episode with no acute finding.

Do not make ordinary institutions suspicious merely because the protagonists are unusual.

Language and Private Speech

• Thomas and Isha may use Common or Elven privately when they need precision, emotional privacy, or relief from Isha's developing Japanese and English.
• In public, Thomas normally speaks Japanese and translates when necessary.
• Isha's improvement must remain consistent with Chapter 215: rapid, effortful, and increasingly functional rather than instantaneous.
• Do not use a convenient “private fantasy language” in situations where microphones, neighbours, phones, cameras, staff, or bystanders could realistically hear without acknowledging the risk.
• If overheard, unfamiliar speech is more likely to be treated as an obscure language, invented private speech, or misheard foreign conversation than immediate evidence of another world.

Cross-world correspondence language

Every transmitted page is physically written in Common. The transfer provides transport, not translation or knowledge. Common has no native words for Earth-only technology, institutions, geography, political categories or social systems.

Thomas and Isha must therefore write through concepts Common can express. Proper names such as Sendai, Japan and Earth may be represented approximately as foreign sound-labels, but the names carry no meaning beyond whatever hierarchy or explanation the page supplies. Kelda may repeat such a label while quoting the page, but cannot infer its geography, government, culture or scale.

Modern terms in reader-facing English letter quotations are translations of an underlying Common description, not proof that the modern word exists in Common. For example:

• university requires an explanation such as a large school where adults study and Thomas helps students from distant lands;
• climbing centre requires a built place where people climb prepared walls and Isha is paid to keep them safe;
• medical help means local physicians or healers using the ordinary methods of Earth, not a fantasy-world understanding of hospitals or emergency services.

Kelda and every fantasy-world recipient know only the description actually supplied. They cannot infer electricity, telephones, aircraft, modern medicine, nation-states, Earth calendars, apartment systems or other connected concepts merely because a convenient English translation appears in prose.

Before any outgoing or returned letter is finalised, audit both vocabulary and understanding:

• Could this Common word or equivalent exist in the fantasy world?
• If not, has the concept been described through shared experience?
• Has the recipient been told enough to understand it?
• Is the reply accidentally using, interpreting or building upon knowledge never transmitted?
• Is an unfamiliar proper name being treated only as a label rather than imported world knowledge?

Magic and Transfer Secrecy

From the opening of Chapter 216, Isha knows that Cleanse returned. Level 6 cleaning, scent, hair, temperature, drying, limited suspended-soil and minor-soothing results; the full correspondence sequence through twenty sends / nineteen receipts; the retained copies; and every exact activation limit remain primarily private between Thomas and Isha. Kanno knows the broad truth, has seen one selective cleaning demonstration, witnessed one protected passage and has seen the 16 August anomaly/counter record, but she does not possess the complete archive or activation protocol. Use spells.md for mechanics.

Keep three mechanisms distinct: Cleanse is Thomas-cast; the Hero-System passage remains the roughly thirty-cycle/one-page recognition route; the Ian/external mechanism supplies chat, objects/media, neutral doors, direct fantasy visits, Berlin transport and claimed System modification. Ian's mechanism is not castable by T/I and does not inherit the System payload/cooldown.

Default rules:

• testing occurs inside the flat or another genuinely private setting;
• Thomas and Isha distinguish remembered historical capability from present evidence;
• neither assumes that Cleanse implies mana, Status, Rank S, healing, Holy magic, Homegate, Pocket Island or a return route; the transfer remains separate System infrastructure;
• the System's completed repair of Isha does not authorise Thomas to use Cleanse medically or establish that all supplied-body traits are being actively maintained;
• PROTECTION ENABLED lowers the observed Ch.294-387 transfer impact. Ch.390 materially changes its causal interpretation: Ian says he instructed his machine to modify the System after Ch.278. With T/I consent he then says future passages will remove unconsciousness/illness while preserving all one-page/thirty-cycle/optional rules. Ch.394 is the first test; Ch.402 repeats it on a receipt-only opening, and Ch.417/459 repeat it on swaps. Thomas remains fully conscious and symptom-free in all four observed Transfer 2.0 uses. Ch.459's narration establishes Ian's intervention as the cause after he asked, without resolving implementation or deeper ontology. Ordinary-care judgement and stored safety equipment may remain available, but the repeat result is now established rather than singular;
• surface-wound cleaning and Lv.6 soothing/drying do not justify public medical use, sterile claims, virus removal or replacing ordinary care;
• they do not tell doctors, Matsuda, university contacts, officials, neighbours or additional friends;
• Kanno's Ch.284 demonstration is a deliberate exception, not permission for casual witnessed use;
• they avoid public use, recordings and unexplained effects on another person's property; conspicuous hair, scent or broad-area results are reduced before ordinary public routine when necessary;
• no transfer initiation or acceptance occurs alone. If Thomas becomes unresponsive, Isha calls emergency services at the established threshold rather than preserving secrecy through delay;
• they do not describe Thomas's collapse as mana use or personal power, and do not expose the page/counter through visible calendars, notes or devices;
• Kanno is not added to the passage schedule, timer procedure or letter-reading circle by default; one witnessed spring passage and the Ch.358 evidence review do not make her continuing operations staff;
• any further witness becomes canon only through a deliberate scene and must be added here afterward.

Cleanse should remain a private domestic fact and weak cross-world residue, not the beginning of public supernatural disclosure or a progression-led return plot. The monthly Hero-System transfer must not become a public experiment, online mystery or institutionally observed anomaly. Ian's separate mechanism can bypass its physical payload limits but does not thereby upgrade them. Mugi's behaviour does not expand either mechanism. Thomas and Isha may observe without coercive testing; Isha's standing rule remains choice before obedience and affection before usefulness.

Cross-World Boundary

• Earth references may record Thomas/Isha's survival, memories, bodies, supplied identities, Cleanse, 21 outgoing / 20 incoming Hero-System pages through Ch.459 and the exact knowledge established by direct later prose. historic_fantasy.md still preserves historical witness state through Ch.214 and must not be retroactively widened.

• The standing Hero-System page-sharing circle remains Kelda, Mira, Rowan, Mara, Tessa, Sereth, Ruvan, Aelira and Lethira. Erenai remains specifically outside the Earth-survival secret through Ch.485. The King Beneath still has a separate sealed Broken Court account, not the Earth correspondence.

• Returned wording still governs what the ordinary page-sharing circle knows. A page can reveal survival/another world without teaching exact Earth geography, legal identities, Cleanse or System mechanics unless T/I actually explained those concepts in Common.

• Earth and fantasy-side direct prose are both now possible, but witness scope must be explicit. Ch.371/373 are exceptional direct fantasy-world scenes caused by Ian's physical visit; they do not make routine omniscient cutaways or unrestricted parallel narration the default.

• Kelda/Aelira/Sereth/Ruvan/Lethira and Thomas's family now know Ian by direct encounter. Lethira additionally knows the private Ch.418-423 road/bath/power material described above; that does not broaden the others' knowledge. Sairen separately knows enough in Ch.371 to examine the contained cocoa seeds and consent to appearing in a retained recording made with Ian's device, but the exact Earth-survival/ontology disclosure given to Sairen is not stated and Sairen is not thereby added to the page-sharing circle. Do not widen any of these facts to the rest of the Wood Elf settlement, crowns, Guilds, temples or other institutions. The King's separate Ch.463 briefing is limited to what Aelira actually tells him and does not confer page-sharing rights.

• Ian's recording/copy/door mechanism is separate from the Hero-System one-page passage. Fantasy-side albums/videos and Thomas-family media can therefore cross without changing transfer payload precedent.

• Narrative-text privacy has an important asymmetry. In Ch.371 Lethira herself narrows an unasked-for proposed reading of Isha's train encounter to spoken/observable material plus only thoughts Ian had already exposed by responding to them; Isha is not asked first, and T/I are not established as knowing about that reading through Ch.485. Ch.373 is the improved model: Thomas/Isha explicitly authorise named readers and exact sections of the bridge/Revive text, and Ian asks again when the first boundary proves too short. Never treat either event as general permission to distribute interior narration.

• Common-language limits still govern the Hero-System pages. Ian's external mechanism can separately render speech/text/objects across language barriers (including Common-rendered manuals/books), but do not infer a universal translation spell owned by anyone.

• Cross-reality time has no stable ratio, and locations must not be collapsed into one Earth. Ian has an external-world home/study seen through a Ch.371 doorway; Thomas/Isha live in their own later-calendar Earth; Kanno's Berlin trip is explicitly in the protagonists' Earth; the neutral café is a construct between ordinary locations. Ian's “hours” and fantasy/Earth days can diverge sharply. The three fantasy-side days in Ch.373 are real local elapsed time but establish no conversion. Ch.394 adds an explicit external timestamp: while it is 13 February 2028 for the protagonists, Ian states it is 22:16 on 17 August 2026 for him; this likewise establishes no ratio.

• Ch.423's photograph described as “now” adds a contemporaneous Ian-local image, not a synchronisation event. The garden's changed weather can be compared only within Ian's local morning/afternoon; it cannot date Merrowford or advance Earth.

• Thomas and Isha may remember facts secret even within the fantasy world. Their private Earth knowledge and Kanno's disclosure do not retroactively broaden historical witness scope. Use the Knowledge Boundaries section of historic_fantasy.md when a memory/historical quotation depends on original witness state.

• The Ch.391 invitation crosses on 13 February in Ch.394, and the same-opening return cannot answer it because that page was already written. The separate 14 March receipt-only page supplies the invitation answers. The 19 March reunion then occurs only after Ian/Kelda re-explain the sensory/privacy correction, each relevant person chooses again, and the current route is agreed. This sequence is the standing example of why same-opening correspondence and later external-door logistics must not be collapsed into one conversation.

• Occasion-specific doors: an intentional door is not a permanent teleportation permission. Kanno's Lethira meeting and later Aelira meeting each require a fresh request, the fantasy-side person's independent agreement, current conditions and Ian explicitly enabling that route. Once enabled, deliberate use can carry the participant and allow direct return; after the occasion, do not assume the route persists.

• Non-linear chronology: Earth dates, fantasy-side local sequence and Ian-local dates must be stored independently. Ch.408 gives Ian 20/8 at 07:05 after the Earth 19 March reunion; Ch.397 earlier shows fourteen Earth days corresponding to less than twenty-four hours for Ian. Ch.417's “today or tomorrow” in a missive is Ian's estimate, not a conversion rule. Ch.410/414 fantasy-side dates must therefore remain relative/local unless prose supplies a local calendar fact.

• Interactive Ian: during interactive drafting Ian belongs to the user. Do not invent his speech, decisions, touch, messages, appearance/disappearance, gifts, transport, reality edits or door activation. A direct question to Ian requires a stop for user input.

• Standing inhabited-world separation: neutral meetings do not authorise direct or indirect transport between Earth and the fantasy world, including via a planet or intermediate construct. Ch.465 reiterates Ian's promise not to enter the protagonists' Earth; Ch.467 acknowledges the house visit is also barred. Intent to renegotiate, invitation, photographic permission and old demonstrations of capability are not completed permission changes. Ch.469's two relocations are wholly within the fantasy world.

Authoring Traps

• Kanno is now a deliberate confidant and main character; do not create another merely to simplify exposition or turn Kanno into a standing exposition device.
• Do not make Matsuda, a doctor, a physiotherapist or an official secretly understand more than the prose establishes. Kanno's knowledge must not leak through them by intuition.
• Do not turn minor inconsistencies into a conspiracy investigation.
• Do not let Isha's athletic ability, rapport with Mugi or Thomas's cooking aptitude become proof of magic.
• Do not let rapid language learning become supernatural evidence by default.
• Do not let Isha's exceptionally favourable Graves remission become public evidence of magic or a reason for clinicians to infer fabrication.
• Do not reopen active hyperthyroidism or active external System repair merely because the old relationship drivers remain narratively available.
• Do not treat legal records as false documents merely because Thomas and Isha lack the memories behind them.
• Do not expose Cleanse or the transfer through careless routine use.
• Do not let Isha publicly imply that her remembered age, lifespan or chronology exceeds her recorded human age; the unusual history remains private to Thomas and Kanno.
• Do not use routine fantasy-world cutaways merely to show receipt, waiting or composition. Ch.371/373 establish a narrow direct-fantasy exception when Ian physically visits and the cross-reality event itself is the subject; otherwise returned pages remain the normal source for off-world developments.
• Do not imply that discussing a former spell causes it to return.
• Do not let any additional Earth-side character know Green Road's history through dreams, intuition, reincarnation recognition, online folklore or unexplained familiarity unless a later arc deliberately changes the premise.
• Do not turn Kanno's closeness into cohabitation, nursing duty, passage monitoring, romantic rivalry, harem structure or replacement membership in Green Road. Her separate Ian friendship/privacy also must not be treated as information Thomas/Isha automatically own.
• Do not let Ian's name, explanation or “reader” status leak to Matsuda, Saitō, Miyake, employers, clinicians or any other uninformed person merely because the event is now understood by the core trio.
• Do not promote Ian's claims generally into universally known narrator truth inside character dialogue. Ch.459 is a narrow exception for the cause of the transfer protection change, which direct narration attributes to Ian having changed the System after asking. Deeper ontology, implementation and Ian's other cosmological claims still require the established observed / claimed distinctions.
• Do not alter, restore, optimise, suppress or indirectly engineer Lethira's memories, personality, mind, desires, agency or personal history. The Ch.421 refusal is absolute even when Ian believes an outcome would be compassionate, safe or romantic. Genuine untargeted world-level causal events may be lived non-linearly; that is not permission to rewrite reality for the purpose of changing Lethira.
• Do not turn Lethira's consensual wish for one old Guild tag into standing access to her belongings, home or records. Exact-object consent is not a general retrieval permission.
• Do not let Merrowford's ordinary Guild/farm/inn witnesses infer Ian's ontology or power from his foreign clothes, signature or relationship with Lethira.
• Do not treat Ian as a deity, a recurring invisible roommate, a romantic third, a replacement System administrator or an excuse for characters to wait for author intervention. The four-person chat is now an established social channel, but it should not displace the characters' ordinary relationships or turn Ian into a standing plot-answer service.
• Do not use ambient fourth-wall address as if it were the same thing as the group chat. Senderless reception remains possible but unreliable outside the explicit chat/construct mechanisms; do not use uncertainty-address for convenient plot answers, routine companionship or rescue.