Minor Characters

Brief notes for named or recurring supporting characters not central enough for characters.md. Earth-side cast remains the main body; the current Merrowford sections own post-Ch.214 people introduced or recurring from Ch.420 onward. Kanno Emi has been promoted and is retained here only as a routing pointer.

University / Existing Earth Continuity

Character/group Notes
Matsuda Male university-era acquaintance who becomes a present-day friend, more naturally aligned with Thomas, without requiring remembered closeness. He completes the written eighteen-month Tokyo transfer move into a small Shinagawa company flat and builds a real temporary life rather than waiting in storage. Ch.297 shows him hosting the couple during Thomas's Tokyo birthday/Kameido-Shin-Kiba visit. In Ch.362 he accepts the small 30 October wedding invitation; on 13 October 2027 he meets Thomas/Isha after their embassy appointments and signs the second witness box on their marriage notification (Kanno signed the first). He attends the 30 October ceremony, stays overnight in Sendai and joins the 31 October breakfast before returning to Tokyo. On 20 February 2028 Thomas visits him in Tokyo for the day and eventually asks for bounded professional guidance on Isha's large natural gold specimen. Matsuda says explicitly that he is not procurement, but much of his Tokyo project work uses outside suppliers and he spends enough time with procurement/technical staff to understand supplier-vetting questions. He offers to ask one work contact which independent materials-testing firms they would trust for a project shortlist and whether any accept private clients; he refuses the idea of putting a friend's material through a corporate supplier relationship. On 22 February 2028 that contact returns two plausible routes, Isha chooses the specimen-focused firm, and Matsuda's referral role is complete; the selected route later produces Morishita's 29 March examination and 13 April report without Matsuda becoming a gold specialist or continuing intermediary. He knows the specimen's approximate size, assay/sale/document trail and provenance gap but none of its supernatural origin. He still knows none of Daniel, Green Road, Cleanse, transfer, the System or Ian. Exact profession/technical speciality remains unestablished through Ch.485.
Kanno Emi Promoted to characters.md as main Earth-side cast. Her birthday is 17 April; exact age/year remain open. Through Ch.460 Small Works is complete; she has independently met Ian, travelled to Berlin/Venus, photographed Mercury alone, joined the four-woman meeting and photographed Aelira under bounded consent. She joins the ordinary 17 May lunch and can see the bounded 18 May transfer-success chat messages, but remains outside passage operations and Thomas/Isha's romance. Use characters.md and knowledge_boundaries.md. Ch.462/465 adds her independently chosen May meeting; current relationship, invitations and privacy belong to the promoted entry, not a supporting-cast reassignment.
Former Seminar Adviser Unnamed male former adviser connected to the supplied graduate history. Sends job listings and advises them not to hurry (Ch.215, Ch.218); gives a short welcome at the alumni gathering as a broad-shouldered man with thinning hair and a lecture-hall voice, acknowledging Thomas and Isha's uncertain attendance without making them explain themselves publicly (Ch.224). Department and private relationship remain unestablished.
Kuroda Female archery-club contact who knew recorded-life Isha at the range, occasional club meals and equipment-help level rather than as an intimate friend. A little shorter than Thomas, dark hair tied back, canvas equipment bag. Invites Isha to a quiet early range session, preserves safety authority without pressure, lends a light club bow, teaches sight adjustment and supports a careful return without forcing remembered familiarity (Ch.216-217).
Mori Female staff member in the university international-support office; practical, observant and willing to correct over-explanation or misplaced apology without humiliating Thomas. She reviews his student-support cases and redistributes work after medical leave. In Ch.308 she supports a winter-arrival guide built around ownership; by Ch.350 she attends the cross-department arrival working group and explicitly warns newly regular Thomas not to volunteer international support merely because silence is uncomfortable. She later checks that the four-date pilot still leaves other offices owning their own fields. In Ch.364 Thomas invites her to the 30 October wedding; she accepts and attends, meeting Isha's other friends/colleagues in the small room. Mai's grant/loan outcome remains an office process, not Thomas's personal rescue. Ch.413-415 confirms that the April working-group workload reduction is real: Mori keeps ordinary work off Thomas's allocation while the group meets and later notices when he stops terminology work for the day.
Endo Older male student-services authority on Thomas's interview panel. Explains the fixed-term role, asks how Thomas handles rules he cannot change, later provides his staff card and adds birthday advice about not answering messages after work hours. Knows which rules can bend but expects staff to identify a proper reason (Ch.220-221, Ch.229). In Ch.243 he identifies the departmental administrator with prior compassionate-absence experience, helping remove an institutional obstacle without advising Mai's family decision.
Sugiyama Younger female international-support colleague working directly with overseas students. She shares responsibility for guidance/casework, tends the office plant and notices skipped meals. During Mai's case she contacts the graduate school and helps reduce institutional volume. Ch.308 makes her desk the practical test for Thomas's winter-arrival guide. In the summer four-date pilot she shares current arrival work and dryly recognises the danger when another office sends Thomas a correct date that still belongs in its own field. Thomas invites her to the 30 October wedding in Ch.364; she accepts and attends. Her wedding-table conversation with Miyake about book/paper repair is a new social connection, not a pre-existing friendship. In Ch.413-415 she helps enforce the new working-group boundary socially, notices Thomas looking for hidden work and later approves when he identifies terminology collisions instead of rewriting source-office text.
Mai Vietnamese master's student whose mother's surgery, scholarship, research delays and funding gap form a long but now bounded office arc. A four-day extension and conditional scholarship cannot erase the lost research time. Later, an ¥80,000 one-time hardship grant and a ¥40,000 interest-free emergency loan provide the minimum useful bridge while she keeps a realistic research plan. The immediate crisis closes without proving her family decision right or wrong; any future appearance should be an ordinary later consequence or new need, not repetition. Surname and exact course remain unestablished.
Samira Rahman Engineering exchange student in Ch.264 whose leaking sports drink damages an emergency-support application packet. Thomas helps separate reprintable records, surviving facts, a rewritten personal statement and the damaged original supervisor signature. A direct faculty verification allows a temporary scan before Monday, with a replacement original due within ten working days. Her family support has fallen after flood damage to her parents' business. The case shows routine competence rather than a new crisis; surname and faculty are established, nationality is not.
Amina Engineering-laboratory exchange student whose January 2028 start-of-term orientation and mandatory laboratory safety induction are scheduled for the same 09:30 slot. Thomas refuses to guess which “required” event outranks the other. The faculty and programme offices eventually agree she should attend the safety induction and receive a make-up orientation; an automatic absence warning is later corrected by the owning programme office. The case is a current example of Thomas coordinating without assuming another office's authority.
Named alumni contacts Ch.224 establishes several bounded alumni contacts useful for back-references but not current close cast: Okabe Jun, male organiser of the gathering, logistics-company worker and procedural worrier whose concern/beer/curiosity briefly produce intrusive memory questions; Nao Kitamura, female photographer, part-time design-studio worker and freelance photographer, observant enough to send images that show Thomas and Isha receiving memories without claiming them; Sasaki, quiet male private-language-school teacher; Shibata, female former student who borrowed Thomas's lecture notes; Fujita, male alumnus who remembers the ski-trip ankle/bag story and learns not to press memory recovery. Do not inflate them into close friends without new prose.

Work / Sport

Character/group Notes
Ishikawa Female climbing-centre floor manager who interviews and trains Isha. Values safety, clear records and customer dignity; offers paid training, corrects over-commanding language and confirms that urgent authority should preserve a route back to cooperation. Ch.255-263 establish her professional trust. By summer 2027 she is part of Isha's conversion to indefinite short-hours regular employment with a guaranteed 24-hour week and expanded instruction/safety work, and supports formal first-aid training. In Ch.352 she records Isha's First Aid Provider certificate without treating it as medical authority. Ch.393/413 establish employer-supported Coach 1 for 22-23 April 2028. After completion, Ishikawa records the qualification, assigns one Wednesday beginner block with Yoshida nearby, later notes Horie/Kameda rebooked and makes clear that qualification broadens duties inside existing hours rather than creating management or a fourth shift. By Ch.445 she forwards Isha's request so the operator's administrative office supplies current employment material for the residence renewal; this does not establish the exact status category or approval. She attended the 30 October wedding.
Yoshida Cropped-haired female climbing-centre colleague in her late twenties, postgraduate researcher and community athletics participant. Notices Isha's reaction speed, invites her to an open track session and supports Mina's frightened descent/return. She has a more conversational coaching style than Isha and remains Sakai's preferred fit. In Ch.436 she provides nearby floor coverage during Isha's first post-course beginner block without taking it over; Ch.440 keeps her as ordinary colleague through equipment work, humour and shift handover.
Nakamura Compact woman in her forties, faded black belt and adult-beginner judo instructor. Ethical, exact and unimpressed by raw capability without safe specialist knowledge. Separates Thomas and Isha for training, teaches safe falling and partner responsibility, narrowly defeats Isha through judo sequencing and groundwork, then moves her into supervised intermediate practice while retaining fundamentals (Ch.217, Ch.220-221).
Sato Green-belt woman, slightly shorter and heavier through the hips than Isha; first regular judo partner. Gives honest cooperative resistance and helps Isha learn timing, safe falling and partner-readable technique.
Tanabe Broad man in his late fifties, greying hair and white-belt beginner with some familiarity. Thomas's recurring judo partner; dry, practical and insistent that being new requires neither apology nor theatrical praise. In Ch.257 Thomas finally catches one moving step for a clean de-ashi-barai; Tanabe immediately helps return the achievement to ordinary practice by throwing him on the next attempt and continuing through simpler failures.
Abe Male intermediate judo participant and civil engineer in his forties who repeatedly traps Isha in groundwork by allowing her to believe she has created space. In Ch.260 he notices that Isha protects herself correctly in the wrong sport, asks about striking and refers her to Shibata Kenji's mixed martial arts gym because she continually finds the edges of judo's rules. Specialist resistance and practical referral, not rival or romantic complication.
Shibata Kenji (MMA coach) Male coach in his early forties, compact and thick through the torso, with an old grappler's folded ear and minor facial scars. He distinguishes Isha as a beginner at modern MMA rather than fighting, enforces partner-readable scope and immediate release on taps. He prepares the Morita bout candidly, corners Isha with Arai, then reviews the unedited footage without forcing a second event. During Graves recovery he excludes hard contact and later permits bounded technical return. In Ch.364 he offers a possible second amateur bout for 11 December 2027 against Naruse Kana; the final review succeeds and Ch.376 records the bout. Naruse clearly takes round one, round two is close and the officials give Naruse the decision. Shibata's Monday video review confirms that shape and leaves the result intact; he does not manufacture an immediate third-bout progression. Distinct from the female alumni contact also surnamed Shibata.
Naruse Kana Isha's second regulated novice-MMA opponent. Twenty-seven, about 176 cm / 76 kg, orthodox, boxing background followed by no-gi/mixed training, with two prior novice MMA decisions before Isha. On 11 December 2027 she uses cleaner boxing entries/exits and movement to win the first round clearly; Isha adapts and makes round two close, but Naruse wins the two-round decision. Both women stand afterward and are well; Naruse is a respected opponent, not a recurring rival or proof-device.
Arai Compact woman around thirty with kickboxing and mixed-training experience; Isha's first regular MMA partner and early gym friend. She helps corner Isha against Morita, continues honest pad/clinch work after remission and corrects excessive force without turning it into moral drama. She has one prior amateur beginner bout lost by decision and may compete again.
Morita Ayaka Isha's first regulated novice MMA opponent: twenty-eight, 174 cm, about 75.6 kg, southpaw, with high-school judo, one novice kickboxing decision loss, limited no-gi competition and eighteen months of mixed training. Her modern sport structure, wall pressure and competition composure win the first round. Isha adapts and wins the second by rear choke, releasing immediately on Morita's three-tap signal. Both women stand afterward and later review confirms the bout belonged to both. Morita is a respected former opponent, not a recurring rival.
Mizuno Reina Broad-backed woman in her early thirties with the most grappling experience in Isha's class and four amateur bouts. She repeatedly exposes modern ground structures, submissions and positional patience. After Isha's remission she supplies light positional work, catches an arm, receives an immediate tap and remains a serious training partner rather than a prop.
Hoshino Emi Very small, compact woman in a grey rashguard with dangerous leg dexterity and specialist guard attacks. In Ch.262 she catches Isha in an omoplata shoulder lock, then forces slower, more technical passing. Her size should not be treated as weakness; she is dryly amused when Isha becomes harder to trap.
Kurata Heavier male intermediate grappler in his late thirties with a soft brace on the left knee. In Ch.262 he supplies wall pressure and strength without asking Isha to pretend he is harmless. Isha protects the disclosed knee while still reversing and submitting him legally.
Hasegawa Lean female athletics coach in her fifties. Prioritises injury prevention, repeatable mechanics and desire over spectacle. She times Isha at 12.72 seconds in Ch.223, later teaches untimed relaxed running, and in Ch.324 records 12.38 seconds with legal wind after improved acceleration. She permits one maximal run, then ends the test and supports occasional sprinting without making Isha a sprinter.
Fujisaki Tomoko Kyūdō instructor introduced in Ch.305. Formal, observant and unwilling to let Isha's broad archery experience bypass kyūdō's sequence, timing or group line. She accelerates Isha safely from rubber bow/makiwara to twenty-eight metres, enforces medical limits during Graves treatment and treats stopping at the prescribed volume as part of judgement.
Kobayashi Fellow kyūdō learner who greets Isha on return and shares the ordinary difficulty of moving from makiwara to twenty-eight metres. Hamano and Ishii are other early learners; Sasaki and Ōno appear in the established group line. Their ages and wider lives remain unestablished.
Nakahara (archery supervisor) Compact man in his sixties at the municipal indoor recurve range, distinct from the apartment's Nakahara household unless later prose establishes otherwise. Handles equipment/safety, supports Thomas's beginner draw weights and lets Isha teach without surrendering venue authority. In Ch.443 he stops Thomas after a redundant third string-loop check, later notes that Thomas's shoulder was better, and leaves the scattered results ordinary.
Takeda Climbing-centre duty manager during Isha's medical return. Uses the specialist note, pulse-recovery checks and one-route limits without making the return a spectacle. Exact role beyond duty management remains unestablished.
Sato (climbing-centre colleague) Climbing-centre colleague who belays Isha's first return demonstration and shares a two-person floor-mat move. Distinct from the judo partner also surnamed Sato unless later prose establishes otherwise.
Mina and her father Mina is a roughly nine-year-old beginner climber who freezes on a higher route and clearly asks to come down. Her father initially adds repeated instructions and pressures her to continue, then accepts Isha/Yoshida's boundary, supports a low traverse without directing every move, returns to apologise and books another session beginning with the “sideways wall” (Ch.234). Ch.239 confirms the return works quietly: Mina completes three sideways routes while her father limits himself to one instruction at a time and asks before offering another. They may recur only if the story explores trust after correction, not to repeat the same lesson.
Fujita Haruna Woman in her mid-thirties who returns to the climbing centre after a first corporate-group visit in which several kind people kept encouraging her after she no longer wanted to continue. In Ch.263 she books a quiet equipment appointment, chooses each contact, loosely wears an unattached harness, declines a rope and leaves before the booked time ends. Her second equipment-only appointment occurs in Ch.271 and remains bounded by her own requested size rather than conventional climbing progress. She explicitly requests no encouragement. Distinct from the male alumnus surnamed Fujita in Ch.224.
Nishimura Adult climbing-centre customer, short hair/red glasses, first seen in a December beginner session and then specifically requests Isha for a January follow-up. In Ch.386 Isha's first demonstration fails because her height bypasses Nishimura's geometry; Isha admits it and coaches balance/feet instead. In Ch.440 Nishimura asks one question on a pale-green problem; Isha watches once, suggests turning the left knee inward and the foot stays. Nishimura calls the correction useful and returns to the route. She remains a capable recurring customer, not proof that only Isha can coach her.
Sakai Adult beginner climber in her early forties who asks to change away from Isha in Ch.392 because Isha's very still, close observation makes her feel examined. Yoshida's conversational style works better. In Ch.440 Sakai again asks for Yoshida if free; Isha arranges it without negotiation and keeps walking later when she sees the session going well. Not a complaint/rival thread; she demonstrates durable coach/customer fit.
Horie and Kameda Two office colleagues in their thirties and first-time climbing-centre visitors in Ch.440. Horie is shorter/compact and wants to reach the top of a small route; Kameda is taller, cautious about equipment and prefers movement problems to height. Isha gives each limited practical coaching. They book another beginner session for the following month but do not specifically request Isha. Given names, company and wider relationship remain unestablished.

Shops / Local Contacts / Travel

Character/group Notes
Morishita Female geologist, perhaps in her fifties, short greying hair and rectangular glasses, working at the unnamed Sendai mineralogical/material-description firm. She reviews Isha's photographs/reports and leads the 29 March 2028 non-destructive examination of the large gold/quartz specimen. Precise and limitation-minded: distinguishes visible mineral relationships from provenance, declines to invent a locality/age, explains hydrothermal fracture filling/deformation as a bounded interpretation, recommends preservation and does not run optional XRF merely because the instrument exists. Her written report arrives 13 April. She remains uninformed about the specimen's other-world origin.
Okabe (Small Works coordinator) Compact woman in a navy cardigan who coordinates the 25 March 2028 Small Works Weekend municipal-room event. Keeps setup/break cover and optional maker conversation low-pressure, does not congratulate Kanno for merely choosing to participate, and forwards later visitor interest without turning it into a career intervention. Distinct from male alumnus Okabe Jun.
Fujimoto Female department-store sales assistant who helps Isha choose interview and alumni clothing (Ch.219). Professional, tactful and movement-aware: she reads the invitation in Isha's bag, accepts practical rejections immediately, treats fit, movement and the wearer's attention as more important than simply looking impressive, and provides the dark-blue dress later worn at the alumni gathering (Ch.224).
Nagai Hired photographer for Thomas and Isha's 30 October wedding, chosen because her small-wedding work catches people and unscripted interaction rather than rigid posing. She agrees to one formal group photograph, ten private minutes with the couple, ceremony/meal coverage and no conscription of Kanno. An eighteen-frame preview arrives on 31 October; the full edited gallery arrives on 27 November 2027. Thomas/Isha keep the full digital archive/backups, make guest/couple selections and display a laughing courtyard frame; the different courtyard image sent to the fantasy-side circle remains separately significant. Given name/business remain unestablished.
Nagase Tattoo artist who conducts Isha's consultation and Ch.284 session in an unnamed private studio. Professional, exact and unawed by pain tolerance: repositions the stencil until the three lines sit correctly with Isha's arm raised or lowered, opens sterile equipment, permits a requested break and gives ordinary film/washing/sun/friction aftercare. Keeps only a consented arm-only work photograph and specifically warns against experimental cleaning products. Given name and studio name remain unestablished.
Sakamoto Woman in her sixties who drives for and helps run the Miyato Island minshuku (Ch.221-222, Ch.370). Gives practical trail, heat/season, sea and swim warnings, arranges luggage transfer to Aomina and treats the island as an inhabited place rather than only a resort. She recognises Thomas and Isha when they return for their 6-7 November 2027 honeymoon, congratulates them, gives them the requested same room because it is available, moves breakfast to 08:00, supplies small congratulations sweets/dish and again helps with the shorter Otakamori day. Her husband reappears serving dinner and remembers his crisp-fish-skin advice; he remains unnamed.

Post-Ch.423 Merrowford Additions

Character/group Notes
Orven Pell Stocky smallholder a little under an hour north of Merrowford, introduced in Ch.432. Reports three nights of grain-shed damage, preserves the tracks after Guild advice and accepts Ian/Lethira's badger identification. He chooses barrels, spill removal and a reinforced wall base rather than killing an established sett. He is a distinct person from the historical Pell of the Greyfin; no close relationship is established, so treat them as unrelated or at most distantly related and do not invent a family connection. Pell is Orven's family name in current prose.
Merren Vale Lean, grey-haired independent rural-building inspector carrying a leather case and short ladder. He is not tied to repair firms. In Ch.432 he finds bounded roof/chimney/mortar/sill work but no major visible structural defect; the old outbuilding footing may be reusable. His written note arrives in Ch.437 and matches the verbal inspection, allowing the purchase to complete. Vale is his family name and does not collide with Vaeloren/Veyr/Varr.
Merrowford civic land-record staff Unnamed clerks collectively establish unmarried joint ownership, equal-interest defaults, identity evidence, inheritance cautions and final-transfer procedure. The middle-aged clerk with polished lenses recurs across the property/identity visits but remains unnamed in direct prose. In Ch.447 she distinguishes the former owner's retained southern parcel from the town-controlled lower flood/drainage margin, records Ian's preliminary route enquiry and explains the limits of a non-exclusive use agreement. In Ch.451 the office registers the southern parcel and associated town right in Ian Kirk's sole name; in Ch.454 the same clerk amends the parcel to Ian Kirk and Lethira Dawnleaf's equal joint ownership and reissues the route to both while preserving the paid fees and annual schedule. Do not assign her or the later registry/water-desk staff personal names in narrative without direct prose.
Western property intermediary and seller Both remain unnamed. The grey-haired intermediary handles the original viewing, offer, inspection, title/access checks, witnessed signatures/payment and registry seal. The seller, who moved into town with her sister, signs and hands over the iron key in Ch.437. In Ch.447-451 the same intermediary contacts her about the retained southern parcel, obtains comparison figures, carries Ian's seventy-two-heavy-silver offer and completes its clean-title transfer to Ian alone. The seller now lives in her sister's house; the unnamed sister answers Ian's visit and agrees only to pass on the approach. Do not conflate any of the three women with Caswick, Brannock or the civic clerk.

Ch.441-485 Western-House and Range Trades

Character/group Notes
Western-house roof crew The lead roofer is an unnamed compact human woman with weather-reddened hands; a younger man carries the ladder and most tools. She reads Vale's note, concludes another local patch would buy inconvenience rather than repair, and books opening/replacement of the affected south-west section; works around the restricted bank-stabilising trees and agrees to stop/show Ian and Lethira before hidden damage expands the job. Firm and individual names remain unestablished. Ch.471 completes the roof job during dry weather: softened edge timber and failed covering are replaced, the low chimney is judged sound enough to leave, the original quote is paid unchanged and debris is removed. Later rain-check advice is not a witnessed test.
Western-house chimney cleaner Unnamed man who finds heavy soot high in the flue and several loose pieces of old mortar. He cleans it, confirms that it draws afterward and recommends that the roof crew assess the low pot/top against the roofline and trees rather than rebuilding immediately. Name, firm and any later return remain unestablished. The roof crew subsequently performs the recommended top assessment in Ch.471 and leaves it unchanged; this does not establish another visit by the cleaner.
Merrowford joiner and furniture sellers The unnamed male joiner sells/delivers the scarred repaired table and takes a deposit for six chairs of the same pattern, with natural grain/handwork variation. An unnamed second-hand seller assembles the old repaired bedframe for inspection but knows no reliable provenance; a nearby unnamed bedding maker measures it and accepts a custom wool-mattress order. Keep these as distinct ordinary trades unless later prose names or merges them. Ch.461 shows the joiner delivering all six chairs; Lethira tests them and places four around the table and two against the wall. No later furniture purchase occurs during Ch.464's browsing.
Unnamed Merrowford earthworker / earthwork-yard lead Broad human man with dirt in the lines of his hands, practical and unwilling to quote before seeing the ground. Ch.461 completes the scheduled on-foot inspection: smaller carts through the mature-tree turn, minor approach levelling, a broader sloped base, clean fill and staged compaction rather than initial timber/stone retention. The conditional quote is accepted unchanged in Ch.466; he reserves the fill and sends two workers to prepare the approach/footprint that afternoon. First soil arrives Ch.468 and work continues Ch.469. He and his crew preserve the trees and stream-side ground. Name, firm, numerical price, exact payments and completion remain unstated.

Hospital / Recovery

Character/group Notes
Hospital doctors, nurses and paramedics Treat the recorded road accident, coma and memory disturbance through ordinary medicine. In Ch.278 paramedics respond after Thomas lacks meaningful stable waking at five minutes; emergency tests find no acute cause. Ch.298's non-urgent neurology review remains reassuring and ends routine follow-up unless symptoms recur. No recurring individual is named; none suspects magic or another world.
Physiotherapy / follow-up clinic staff Document Isha's exceptional but human balance, grip, reactions and endurance, and Thomas's ordinary recovery. After Ch.278 a clinic repeats a normal examination, reviews the reassuring hospital record, permits work if symptoms do not recur and arranges non-urgent neurology review because shorter episodes happened before. No continuing named clinician is established.
Unnamed endocrinologist / clinic staff Diagnose Isha's mild Graves-like hyperthyroidism, prescribe and reduce thiamazole, interpret rapid hormone/antibody/ultrasound improvement, stop medication and continue monitoring after remission. They call the course unusually favourable but medically possible. They do not know the System messages or believe the body is non-human.

Apartment Building and Neighbourhood

Character/group Notes
Yoshimura Female, late fifties, short hair, lives alone in 105, works irregular hours for a local insurance office and has lived in the building for eleven years. Organises the residents' committee because she is capable and failed to avoid responsibility; practical, brisk and responsible for outage/maintenance coordination. She checks vulnerable residents, maintains lists and knows when to hand technical work to management. She cannot allocate flats or substitute the committee for landlord screening. During the Akiyama and Thomas/Isha moves she manages notices, lift access, wall protection, routes and helpers without turning procedural authority into ownership (Ch.227-233, Ch.238). In Ch.244 she coordinates the year-end common-area cleaning. In Ch.259 she handles the roof-terrace closure and contractor paperwork after a parapet seal opens and the eastern drain slows, while leaving technical explanation to the contractor. Given name remains unestablished.
Saitō Fumiko Promoted to characters.md after becoming Thomas's recurring cooking mentor and a major household/neighbourhood relationship. See characters.md; her 203 occupancy remains in the building register in earth.md.
Miyake Natsumi Woman in her late thirties living in 204 for six years; straight dark hair cut below the jaw, reading glasses and a dry, practical manner. Works irregular shifts at a public library, while book and album repair is a private hobby rather than her formal department. A parcel misdelivered to 202 in Ch.257 introduces her press/worktable/books. Thomas and Isha ask her in person in Ch.362 after holding 30 October; she is surprised to be wanted at the very small ceremony rather than only a later building meal, accepts, and attends. She helps Saitō with the wedding taxi/entrance route and later discovers an easy paper-repair conversation with Sugiyama. In Ch.396 she returns a climbing-photo book after repairing its separating hinge with an intentionally visible structural repair. Kanno asks about albums/photograph mounting: Miyake prioritises what the object still needs to do, uses removable corners/interleaving/guarded or hinged pages where useful, accepts visible new repair material and refuses fake-ageing new material to imitate old. She invites Kanno to see her repaired/ordinary albums later. Kanno does not show or identify the Venus photographs; Miyake remains uninformed about Green Road, magic and Ian.
Arakawa Shigeru Seventy-four-year-old male resident of 305; widower and retired railway-maintenance worker. Broad-handed and slightly stooped; his daughter lives near Yokohama and calls every Sunday, though his tablet often defeats him. Values durable tools, notebooks over app changes, drainage, safe footing and practical maintenance. Former same-floor neighbour of Thomas and Isha before their move to 202; helps with outage/maintenance work and both moves. In Ch.244 he brings his own drain tool and tells Thomas that cleaning is not permission to adopt the building. In Ch.259 he watches the roof contractor replace the eastern drain grille and tells Thomas that the inspection has given him enough information to begin wondering correctly, not enough to perform repairs.
Fujii Masato Sixty-eight-year-old male resident of 302; unmarried retired municipal middle-school science teacher living alone. Methodical, wears ironed shirts even for rubbish, brings data and measurement to committee work and outage preparation, and notices physical qualities with science-teacher precision rather than flirtation. Helps label and route the Ch.238 move, photographs utility readings twice and continues treating household administration as a measurable problem. In Ch.244 he cleans mailboxes, corrects Thomas's cold-weather glass method and measures a planter stand's six-millimetre settlement until Yoshimura bounds the observation as a maintenance note. Ch.228's provisional 202 placement is superseded by later 302/building-register continuity (Ch.228-233, Ch.235, Ch.238).
Nakahara household Older married couple in 306. Mr Nakahara uses an oxygen concentrator with a compact battery unit; Mrs Nakahara assists without erasing his independence. Their adult daughter lives elsewhere and can come during outages. Given names remain open.
Akiyama family Former occupants of 202: adult father, adult mother and young son in a yellow cap; given names remain open. They complete a positive move to a small house near the boy's maternal grandparents and next school, with a persimmon tree, garden, field on the school route and a fence gap his father promises to repair. The boy says goodbye to Mugi by describing the new house and leaving his faded blue cloth mouse; Mugi later carries it to Thomas and Isha's balcony. Their departure removes the building's only resident child and opens 202 for Thomas and Isha. Future appearances should be occasional visits or updates, not continued residency (Ch.232-233).
102 couple Unnamed resident couple on the ground floor. They contribute cooked rice during the outage. Sexes, ages, occupations and relationship form beyond co-residence as a couple remain unestablished.
401 university student Unnamed university student; sex, age, course and any co-residents remain unestablished. Arrives late to maintenance, contributes food during the outage, follows older residents' practical direction and later carries many boxes/houseplant during Thomas and Isha's move. In Ch.244 the student shares the awkward storage-shelf carry with Isha rather than being displaced by her greater strength.
Woman behind the hardware shop Unnamed woman who feeds Mugi in the morning. Part of the neighbourhood's informal community-cat care network.
Mugi Promoted to characters.md as a recurring relational and continuity figure. She remains a neighbourhood community cat rather than Thomas and Isha's property.

Current Fantasy-Side / Merrowford

The current names below are checked against direct prose through Ch.510. Do not infer given names where the chapters establish only a family name.

Character/group Notes
Caswick (Reed and Wheel innkeeper) Human woman who runs the practical Bridge Street inn. She handles the room, meals and house news with dry curiosity. In Ch.437 Lethira gives notice that they will surrender the room early once their remaining belongings are collected; Ch.439 uses the still-paid room once more while clearing it; Ch.441 returns the key and completes checkout. Ch.446 and Ch.451 have Ian/Lethira return as dinner customers. In Ch.450 she gives Ian the practical local coin and price lesson, learns only that Lethira pays most costs and Ian hopes to buy adjacent land as a gift, and accepts his Common recipe for Turned Apple and Dark-Berry Pudding for a test. In Ch.451 she serves two successful individual puddings and agrees the dish is worth making again. She knows neither the Lifegiver source of Ian's coin nor the completed land outcome by default. Her earlier divine cover remains only that Ian visited an older adopted “little sister” who had been unwell. Caswick is the established family name; given name unestablished. Ch.479 confirms the apple-and-berry pudding now appears on some nights, dependent on ingredients, and a lighter honey mead is available. The pudding religion/priestess exchange is a joke, not worship or evidence she knows Ian can create gods. Ch.492 serves Lethira an ordinary solo lunch. In Ch.498 she agrees to supply two apple-and-dark-berry puddings for collection on the dinner morning and reheating; Ch.499 confirms them served. She learns no divine guest list or London/attraction information.
Brannock (Merrowford Guild records clerk) Cropped brown-grey hair, ink-marked finger and dry professional manner. She finds Lethira's archive, records Ian Kirk as an unranked aide, issues the current B tag, records sheep/badger work and arranges the Ch.439 assessment. She accepts Garran Holt's pass and removes the local restriction while leaving Ian unranked. In Ch.444 she accepts Lethira's completed B-rank Reed-Mauler/drainage report. Ch.451 reports two old stone courses without support and washed-out fill; by Ch.460 the opened repair proves local rather than a longer failure, has no further overnight collapse and is not currently being undercut by water, though the reed-side path remains closed pending a meaningful wet-weather test. Brannock also leaves two B-rank notices available rather than steering Lethira into them. Brannock is the established family name; given name unestablished. Ch.468 records Lethira's acceptance and immediate completion of Deren Vos's mill job while attaching possible nest/egg clearance to a structural referral. In Ch.469 she requests ordinary access/hazard/local-use information for the unrecorded northern cave and can refer it onward if needed. Ch.471 delivers the partial cave report: she records the mauler and Varren access, gives a reference slip and undertakes a cave-entry warning while leaving ridge rights/branch assignment open. She does not learn the external transport. Ch.473 accepts Mirelen as an attached Warden on Lethira's attestation for the one-day north-west road sweep. Ch.486 books the low-D one-day barge escort with two actual guards and Ian as aide. Ch.492 confirms the Varren cave-entry warning delivered, while ridge title and branch responsibility remain open. Ch.496 assigns and closes the bounded Kelm storehouse investigation with an ordinary fee; she knows the marten/nest findings and required recheck, not Ian's transport or private power. Ch.510 assigns and accepts the E-rank missing-hens investigation, distinguishing fox access from attribution of all four losses. Prevention advice closes this scope with an ordinary fee; further losses after repairs/counting can justify a new removal posting. The poultry-rank exchange is a joke and Ian stays unranked.
Garran Holt Human senior Guild field assessor in his late fifties, broad-shouldered, greying, with practical used equipment. He assesses current practice rather than old reputation, corrects Lethira once for ranging ahead without communication, then passes her B-level tracking, judgement and engagement. He calls her Elven movement annoying. Wider career/home remain unestablished.
Halren Torve Human sheep keeper on the north-eastern Merrowford farming belt. He posts the E-rank missing-livestock contract after two sheep vanish and a third returns with a frayed tether. He accepts Lethira's corrections about the low hedge, feeds Moss and tentatively allows the dog into the field. No permanent ownership decision is made on page.
Yessa Fenlow Older neighbouring sheep keeper with two working dogs. She knew the late Marek, shared lambing watch with him and had fed Moss after Marek's death until the dog stopped coming. She identifies Moss by appearance/collar wear/old collar, demonstrates Marek's whistles and cannot take him because she already keeps two dogs.
Marek Durn Deceased local shepherd and Moss's former person. He dies of winter fever before Ch.422; his daughter sells the flock and tries twice to take Moss, but Moss returns to the old field. The daughter's name and later household remain unestablished.
Moss Large rough-coated trained sheepdog, dark grey-brown/pale patched coat with one upright ear and one partly folded. Underfed after losing Marek and the flock, he chews/frays tethers, moves two of Halren's sheep to an abandoned shelter and guards/herds them rather than attacking them. Yessa identifies him; by the chapter end he has entered Halren's field for food and resumed working the flock, but his long-term home remains a decision for the local people rather than a completed adoption. Do not confuse this dog with the deceased prisoner named Moss in Ch.204.
Mirelen Brookshade Female Wood Elf Warden and one of Lethira's longstanding friends; Mirelen is her forename and Brookshade her family name. Quieter than Lethira, lightly built, dark-haired and dressed in repeatedly repaired field clothes, she has known Lethira for more than a century through Warden circuits, training and shared danger. Their duties and Lethira's recent settlement visits have repeatedly failed to overlap. Before their Ch.455 reunion, Mirelen knows only a second-hand Warden-post report that Dawnleaf's recent visits sometimes include a foreign human named Ian. She then meets him as the man Lethira loves, races Lethira through the lower practice trees, takes him to meet Vaelor and joins the communal meal. She knows his language behaves impossibly, but receives only Lethira's bounded introduction and Ian's cover-story treatment of his remark about a god; she does not thereby know his nature or full capabilities. Ian and Lethira invite her to their home. Ch.463 shows her teaching three younger Wardens evidence-aware route recording. She separately tells Aelira that Lethira likes the household life, remains herself, and corrected Ian's attempt to manage future grief; Ian accepted a slower climbing pace. Aelira warns only that his errors can have unusual consequences and withholds the full supernatural explanation. That invitation is fulfilled in Ch.473. She stays through Ch.476, then accompanies Lethira by ordinary multi-day road to report in Ch.477. Ch.482 explicitly gives her another multi-day journey and local Merrowford lodging; after the aerial survey in Ch.485 Ian transports her outside the Wood Elf settlement, where she reports to Aelira and stays the night. She learns Ian's broad power claim and the Lifegiver gardening/debt account directly in Ch.474, observes returns, interventions and flight later, and learns the miniature-island display from Lethira. At that Ch.485 stage she has not acquired the machine/interface, biological projection model, Earth or Thomas/Isha secret; Ch.501's limited historical-origin disclosure below supersedes only the Earth/origin part. Her separate Ch.477 personal report to Aelira remains private; her Ch.485 report contains construction evidence but no confirmed inhabitants. Her grey-green shirt is hand-finished by Ch.476. See knowledge_boundaries.md and new_island.md for exact scope. Ch.487 supersedes that latest report state: Ian tells her the habitation account, she sends Aelira a source-labelled correction by missive, directly sees the bilocated island and helps choose an inland destination. Ch.488 is her fourth island visit; Ch.489 she takes rough and clean old-work drawings to Aelira and reports to the King herself, refusing invented dates, workforce or a royal mission. After her separately established presence in Merrowford in Ch.498, she attends the six-person dinner and returns there in Ch.499. She now personally knows both goddesses and hears their table disclosures, not Ian/Lifegiver's private attraction or identity discussion. Occasional return privileges and pizza/cola are not permanent powers or an Earth-survival disclosure. Ch.501 explicitly broadens her knowledge: she sees the actual Knife Island display, hears Ian name Earth and reads the obsolete early account of Thomas's original Earth death/reincarnation, while the distinction between Thomas's Earth and Ian's is explained. She does not learn Daniel, present Earth survival, Japan or the full biological/interface model. She does hear the references to chapters Ian receives and his reality-controlling system; this is partial disclosure, not a demonstrated interface. She joins the four-person first Knife walk. In Ch.506 she helps Aelira keep the Pain Island note limited to Crown requests and agrees to relay it to Ian/Lethira at their next meeting; delivery is not shown.
Vaelor Fernward Male former Wood Elf Warden who helps manage an outer settlement and is one of Lethira's longstanding friends; Vaelor is his forename and Fernward his family name. He complains professionally about administration and claims to have met Lethira before Mirelen did, during work around a flood-damaged footbridge and alternate route. In Ch.455 he welcomes Ian, questions what Ian wants from his life with Lethira, witnesses the same bounded language oddity and accepts an invitation to their home. He does not know Ian's divine-scale identity or full capabilities. Ch.463 shows him settling a real drainage dispute, then separately describing to Aelira Ian's listening, over-responsibility and Lethira's independent behaviour. Aelira admits Ian is dangerous but gives no complete account. His knowledge remains bounded; he is not a divine/correspondence witness. The home invitation remains unfulfilled.

Additional current fantasy-side contacts

Character/group Notes
Wood Elf King / Aelira's father Unnamed reigning King and father of First Princess Aelira Caelithen. Ch.463 gives direct private character evidence: patient questioning, dry familial humour, source-conscious strategic caution and genuine anger at delayed disclosure. He learns the five-builder account and Aelira's witnessed encounters from her, treats Ian as strategically dangerous and Lethira's specific protection as no general safeguard, but makes no summons, ownership claim or instruction to end private friendships. He requests one source-separated sealed royal brief plus Aelira's working copy, with no distribution, and advance notice where possible of further deliberate builder encounters. Ch.480 places the earlier builder brief beside the new sealed island report, establishing that record by then. He hears that Earth exists, not the full correspondence or an explicit Thomas/Isha survival disclosure. He has not met Ian. Do not invent a name, age, genealogy beyond fatherhood or general constitutional code. In Ch.480 he questions island evidence, access, claims, motives and potential coercion, but excludes unproved army-transport capacity from the brief rather than treating it as impossible. He keeps the report restricted, requests notice before the knowledge/expedition circles widen and claims no veto or ownership. Ch.484 shows a narrow private maritime inquiry, not preparations for a voyage: the Wood Elf court has no seagoing fleet, and he forbids approaches to the High Elves, captain questioning or a broader archive request. The chart-keeper is not told about Ian or the island. Ch.489 supersedes the pending Ch.485 update: Aelira gives him Ian's habitation account and Mirelen directly supplies the inland report. He keeps those unconnected sites distinct, orders no expedition/contact and shares only the limited outcome of his maritime inquiry with Aelira. Ch.495 retains one sealed royal copy without cross-indexing; future useful specialist consultation is not ruled out, but Aelira requests notice before widening. In Ch.498 he receives advance dinner notice, not a repeated island briefing; no veto, escort or transcript is demanded. He still has not met Ian or been shown the Ch.499 evening. Ch.501 gives him advance notice of the distinct Knife Island and Aelira's personal visit, not a display or claim. Ch.506 accepts the limited Pain Island Crown-request note, retaining notice without a veto and leaving it unsigned with Aelira rather than adding it to the sealed royal copy. No subsequent firsthand island visit or meeting with Ian is shown.
Deren Vos Broad-shouldered human miller south-east of Merrowford, named in Ch.468. Four damaged nights out of six, missing grain, torn shed boards and movement beneath an old sluice-side culvert prompt the B-rank notice. He supplies barley, keeps clear when directed and receives grain-storage, spill-cleaning, open-exit and no-entry advice. Brood suppression is complete at the immediate contract scope; the unsafe culvert and possible eggs/remaining nest await follow-up. He knows the witnessed fieldwork, not Ian's reality engine. No relationship to Maeric Voss or any other similar name is established.
Unnamed Varren-side holding woman Older human woman repairing a wicker hurdle at an occupied holding downhill of the wooded ridge in Ch.469. She identifies the Varren grazing shelter as used by three households, says they mostly maintain the woodland path also used by hunters, gives snowmelt/long-rain and wet-ground cautions, and connects the cart track to the north grazing road/Varren turning. The pair do not tell her about the cave mauler or external travel. She is not established as sole ridge owner, head of a village or named guide. Ch.492 confirms the warning reached the Varren households collectively; no separate return conversation with this woman is shown.

Ch.473-485 additional supporting cast

Character/group Notes
Dessa Compact human woman, dark jaw-length hair, C-rank shield/sword adventurer. Previously followed out of the north-west cutting; joins Lethira, Mirelen, Tavian and Senn for the Ch.473 sweep. Corrects her footing by one pace, works with Tavian to kill one greyback and receives Lethira's notes to carry with the foreman's acknowledgement for payment. No Ian-power or island disclosure.
Tavian Lean man with grey in his beard, C-rank spear user, carrying rope and familiar with the repair road from cart journeys. Competent shield/spear partnership with Dessa; no surname or broader biography established. (Ch.473-474)
Senn Younger freckled D-rank crossbow user, previously worked with Dessa/Tavian and with Wardens, but not two together. Wounds a greyback which Mirelen finishes; competent despite obvious interest in their movement. No Ian-power or island knowledge. (Ch.473-474)
Unnamed local cobbler Eases Mirelen's old boot/new sole at the heel in Ch.473. Has a youngest daughter who wants to work on boats; no business name or exact GIS plot is established.
Unnamed bathhouse builder First inspects the footing in Ch.483; distinct from Vale, the roofer and the earthworker. In Ch.486–487 he undertakes the plan, opens upper drain lengths with a younger labourer, identifies a narrowed later repair and retains the existing footprint/eastern rebuild. Ch.492 he delivers paid preliminary drawings, leaving the lower outlet unsettled; the town permits inspection, not construction. In Ch.496 he directs Lethira's heavier lifting, tests and traces the lower run to a gravel outlet within the parcel, identifies it as site drainage and requires a separate bathwater drain. He takes the plan to redraw/return to the office. Ch.507 secures construction approval with both owners; Ch.510 brings the approved plan and costing, agrees basic price/scope and a few-day start window, and directs a satisfactory trial opening. Unexpected work requires a new price/scope agreement. The drain and footing remain unfinished; the footing may start alongside drain work, while the disposal end must be inspected before it is covered. Name, yard coordinates and a proven cause of the failed footing remain unestablished.
Unnamed Merrowford butcher Sells shoulder beef with fat, weighs it on a balance, wraps the Ch.483 order of eight handweights total. Hears the couple's odd joke but is not given their external explanation.
Royal chart-keeper Unnamed woman serving as the Wood Elf court's chart-keeper in Ch.484. Works from copied merchant accounts and High Elf surveys because the Wood Elf court has no seagoing fleet. Distinguishes deliberate voyages, endurance and drift-survival accounts. She receives only the King's bounded navigation questions and does not learn the hidden island or Ian's role. Wider maritime facts are retained as her reported evidence in new_island.md, not as a new world map.
Maeda Person at Thomas's university whose leaving lunch is mentioned on 8 June; Mori plans cake and Thomas fruit. Exact role, gender, destination and completion of the leaving event are not established. Distinct from the existing judo instructor Nakamura. (Ch.484)
10 June print-event artists An unnamed woman makes the two-colour Yamagata winter-road print Isha buys; Kanno's unnamed illustrator acquaintance makes the temporary-barrier/route series from which Thomas buys a print. Keep the makers and their work distinct; neither is a new confidant or intimate friend. (Ch.484) Ch.492 preserves the winter-road maker's deliberate tolerance of two-colour registration variation; lunch does not turn either artist into a confidant or make Kanno's purchases her own work.

Ch.486–499 Additional Current Contacts

Character/group Notes
Unnamed barge captain and second guard Ch.486's broad-shouldered captain commands the one-day downriver cargo trip. The second contracted guard is an unnamed square-built human woman in a leather coat carrying a short spear; Lethira is the other guard, Ian her unranked aide. Three skiff men abandon a boarding attempt after Lethira cuts their line. Crew/handover staff know ordinary work, intact cargo and the warning, not the later private arrow retrieval or return home. No vessel name or repeat personal relationship is established.
Unnamed second-hand furniture seller Older Merrowford seller of the two bedside tables and wall shelf in Ch.491; all three pieces are paid for and later delivered. No personal name or shared business identity with another trade yard is established. The shop's qualified GIS placement is routed in merrowford.md.
Unnamed pottery stallholder Sells Lethira the shallow blue-glazed bowl later in the Ch.491 market-shopping circuit and wraps it in old cloth for the shopping bag. This is a separate transaction from the furniture purchase and delivery. No personal name, maker identity, kiln or permanent pottery shop is established; the mapped central-market pitch is an author-selected placement, not a prose identification of which market.
Berren Kelm Human owner of the eastern-side riverside storehouse in Ch.496, wearing a work apron. He keeps hands away from the gap, supplies observed packing damage and defers the next morning's floor work while Lethira identifies a marten with three young. After all three are carried to alternative shelter and the old void is empty, he receives instructions to recheck before sealing it. He knows no supernatural cause or Ian mechanism. Do not merge him with Deren Vos, Orven Pell or an older warehouse owner.
Marten and three young at Kelm's storehouse Ordinary brown-grey marten with pale throat and dark tail, using packing straw/wool for bedding under a floor. The mother moves all three young to the offered shelter while watched from a distance. No injury/killing, monster rank or permanent proof of exclusion; next-morning recheck remains unshown.
Unnamed elderly royal archive clerk Handles the Ch.495 old-works-index question, reports six regular users plus possible specialists, and proposes keeping one sealed royal copy without an index entry. The unchanged outer label is Restricted maritime report. His involvement gives procedural/limited technical-source awareness, not the full divine briefing or permission to circulate the island drawings.
Manifested-London strangers Restaurant/hotel/shop staff, the woman giving directions, St Dunstan's photo-requesting couple and the florist are ordinary participants in the separate manifested Earth (Ch.493/497). They do not recognise the Lifegiver's divinity. Four photographs remain on the couple's phone. No recurring personal names, supplied memories or divine disclosure is established at that point. Ch.500 adds apartment booking/reception staff who know Alice Green as an ordinary resident; Ch.502 gives the florist an actual job inquiry and future paid trial, without revealing the constructed history.

Current Crownholt Contacts (Ch.490–509)

These are present-day additions, not edits to historical witness state in historic_fantasy.md. Detailed local encounters, work and institutional limits are in crownholt.md; knowledge_boundaries.md controls disclosures.

Character Current state and boundary
Lord Comptroller Maeric Voss Still in Crown Necessities, older and more silver-haired; remains useful, in office and unprosecuted. Admits helping confine/separate Thomas and Isha and continuing work after visible deterioration. Later review rules constrain an official who benefits from custody from independently escalating it. His regret does not erase strategic self-interest. He meets Ian twice as an unnamed intrusive visitor, hears bounded divine/retrocausal claims and remains uncertain whether Thomas survived the fall. He verifies the correspondence-content erasure across paper and magical stores, retains custody records and memories, restricts the incident and forbids memory-based reconstruction pending review. No pursuit, King meeting or confession of the couple's Earth survival follows. He has not learned Ian's name from Arliss. Ch.504 makes reconstruction conditional on a specific present purpose plus separate Crown Necessities/Chancery approval, forbids detention absent immediate threat and deliberate human exposure to test the visitor, and postpones briefing the King. Ch.509 uses grounds and equipment records to ask Arliss about private research; she confirms the visitor but withholds name/results. He opens no new formal contact investigation and imposes no work/access restriction, while retaining specific-threat reporting directly to him. This does not abolish the existing restricted archive file or reform the whole institution.
Arliss Fen Continuing Northern ward assessor; grey now threads her braid. A-rank earned after Thomas's time, specialising in reading/building/disassembling overlapping wards, containment, alarms and spell boundaries, with secondary cold work and earlier field experience. Demonstrates controlled frost to Ian, who reproduces it without native mana and supplies chocolate. She acknowledges culpability in orderly coercion, remains professionally exact and insists a reproduced fault be resolved rather than assumed harmless. Keeps the private demonstration out of her report and from Voss unless safety requires disclosure. Ch.491's vanishing one-word missive gives her Ian's first name only; she chooses not to record it. She does not know the Earth-survival secret or Ian's full external biography. Ch.504 writes explicit safety thresholds and accepts a signed invitation. Ch.505 adds her preference for travel accounts, histories of ordinary lives, poor adventure fiction, walks and winter, plus a frequented unnamed tea shop whose owner never asks her office (distinct from Ch.509's eating-house; see crownholt.md); she insists on independent return and rejects disposable people or historical corrections for privacy. She witnesses actual old Crownholt and receives bounded builder/first-seal disclosures, not Earth survival. Ch.508 adds her native-learning history, material-continuity experiments and the private one-dram reference/11,800 reserve account. Her private notes then include Ian's first name; it still does not enter Voss's record. Ch.509's developing friendship, interest in possible flirtation, selected eating-house and blank first-message sheets establish no romance, promised rescue or completed message test.
Unnamed Crownholt guards and clerk Ian's otherwise inadequate answers gain compelled acceptance in Ch.490. A clerk later cannot explain admitting him and is not reprimanded by Voss. Exact implementation/duration is not established by Ian's Ch.491 account; do not describe these witnesses as knowingly consenting or as untouched merely because he did not intend a mind edit.
King of the North Still reigning as discussed by Voss. Ian considers approaching him but does not; no new direct royal encounter, punishment, confession or disclosure is shown. Do not confuse this monarch with Aelira's father.

Additional Ch.500–510 contacts

Character/group Established scope
Unnamed London florist Female proprietor/contact at Alice's previously noticed vacancy. Explains ordinary shop work and offers a short paid trial later that week in Ch.502, subject to the stated document check. She remembers Alice's earlier visit naturally, not through planted memory. No continuing job, name, pay rate or supernatural knowledge is established.
Unnamed water-and-drainage clerk Ch.507's greying-haired Merrowford specialist handles the revised bathhouse drawing, adjusts the spread uphill/wider, records both owners' agreement and stamps bounded construction approval. This does not establish that she is the earlier polished-lenses clerk or create a new named civic office.
Older couple with missing hens Ch.510 clients on a smallholding west of the southern road. Four hens missing over ten days; their conflicting evening-count assumptions coexist with physical fox access and hen escape evidence. They receive prevention recommendations, not a confirmed repair or predator removal. Their names and surveyed site remain open.
Crownholt archive officer and assessors The Ch.504 older archive officer questions deliberate loss of recoverable material while accepting the two-office rule. The first faulty practice room has a male junior assessor; Ch.508–509's second room has a female junior. Keep the two faults distinct. Neither receives Ian's private experimental notes merely by working with Arliss.

Ian's External-Life Contacts and Biography

These are Ian's reports about his biological reality, not facts about the protagonists' Earth. Physical/embodiment continuity remains in ian.md; disclosure scope remains in knowledge_boundaries.md.

Character / context Notes
Ian's current employer and unnamed boss In Ch.462 Ian tells Thomas/Isha he works in IT and cybersecurity at a nearly twenty-year-old company which has acquired smaller businesses. His team is smaller and his remit broader than at the previous much larger employer; he likes the change. The commute is through countryside rather than his former train journey to a city centre. His female boss, a longstanding friend he has worked for before, usually drives; he sometimes drives himself and does not particularly enjoy it. Friendship can be awkward but generally works, and she knows his skills/limits. His suggestion that she might be the Lifegiver is expressly a joke. Ch.465 confirms to Kanno that it is the same relatively new job, not another change of employer. Names, location and exact job title remain unestablished.
Ian's ordinary external routine Ch.462 describes continuing work, social contact, food, sleep, daily walking and lawn care, with less anime/gaming and more map-making; no neglect or addiction is established by his discussion of possible risk. Ch.464's poor night's sleep and Ch.467's missed lunchtime walk are single ordinary incidents, not chronic deterioration. Nightly lower-back exercises remain an existing routine. His recollection of briefly fishing almost forty years earlier is not current fishing expertise.

Public-Incident Contacts

Character/group Notes
Da Nang harassers and local police Two unnamed local men harass tourists often enough to be known to police, though prior proof has been insufficient. At a quiet off-tourist bar one insults Thomas and attempts to punch him; Isha catches the fist. Both follow the couple into a camera-poor lane and are disabled by controlled force, including one being lifted and thrown, without lethal neck attacks or stomps. Police find their claim that one foreign woman caused all injuries implausible, are already tired of their excuses and release Thomas and Isha quickly. No camera records the fight, no charge or travel restriction follows and the thread is closed rather than a second long legal arc.
Sendai Station witnesses, prosecutor and police Unnamed station staff, a woman near the lockers, a man by the benches and police document the Ch.226 harassment incident. A calm, direct female officer in her forties handles the initial account, distinguishes what Isha saw from what she inferred, asks necessary but uncomfortable contact questions, and later reports the outcome (Ch.226, Ch.236). A prosecutor interviews Isha in Ch.229 about the restraint and controlled fall; no trial decision is made then. The man who grabbed Isha later admits it after seeing footage and receives a fine through summary procedure; the second man is not separately charged, though evidence shows obstruction/encouragement. Both are instructed not to contact Isha. The thread is procedurally closed unless the written notice creates an unexpected issue. No one infers fantasy training or magic.