Spells Reference

This is the routine spell reference for the Earth sequel. It intentionally preserves only enough fantasy-world history for memories, dreams, comparisons, grief, and occasional narrative residue.

Do not reconstruct detailed old spell behaviour from this summary. When a scene depends on exact historical mechanics, level progression, cost, range, interaction, or final-battle use, read the Spells Reference section of historic_fantasy.md and the cited chapter prose.

Current Earth Magic

Current Earth magic/continuity available to the protagonists still has two protagonist-usable magical components. Cleanse is Thomas's restarted personal spell and is fuelled through him. Transmit small item to/from party member is an unlevelled Hero-System function; Thomas supplies recognition, intent and the start/acceptance command, while the System supplies the crossing energy. Ian's external-narrative mechanism is now demonstrably broader than a one-off anomaly—objects, media, doors, transport, chat and claimed System modification—but it remains non-castable and externally controlled, not a third Thomas/Isha spell. Do not merge its costs, ownership or progression with Cleanse or the Hero-System transfer.

Through Ch.510: Cleanse remains Lv.6, correspondence remains 21 outgoing / 20 incoming, and the next expected opening remains around 17 June 2028. The returned Crownholt originals are an Ian-mediated delivery, not a Hero-System passage. No new protagonist Earth spell or inhabited-world crossing permission is created. Alice's manifested-Earth arrangement, Arliss's native magic and Ian's external experiments remain separate.

Cleanse — Level 6

Status: the only confirmed Thomas-cast spell available on Earth.

Thomas instinctively unlocks Cleanse Lv.1 at the end of Ch.215, tells Isha immediately in Ch.216 and tests it privately. Repeated domestic use advances it to Lv.2 at the end of Ch.223, Lv.3 in Ch.237, Lv.4 in Ch.264, Lv.5 during the Ch.278 fourth-receipt event (resolving at home in Ch.279), and Lv.6 during a post-gym cooling request in Ch.303. No other former spell, Rank, mana sense, Status display, storage space, passage ability or magical artefact is confirmed active.

Level 1 findings (Ch.216 onward)

• touch or very-close-range targeting; practical cleaned area roughly palm-sized;
• removes ordinary loose dust, surface soil, dried sweat and cooking oil from understood surfaces;
• can clean small skin areas after cautious private tests without irritation;
• does not remove wear, scratches, faded staining, mineral discolouration or material embedded beneath a damaged surface;
• whole-object intent fails rather than silently expanding to old fantasy-world scale;
• repeated uses create mild pressure / held-breath sensation, but no measurable mana reserve is available;
• not established for hair beyond loose dust at the ends, eyes, mouth, food, electronics, medical contamination or ambiguous wanted coatings.

Level 2 findings (Ch.223)

• effective area expands to approximately one square metre, following the intended connected surface rather than a perfect flat projection;
• a full-area use takes roughly 5-10 seconds (about 7-8 seconds in the first controlled floor test);
• removes ordinary dust, oil, soap residue, track granules, sweat and similar ordinary surface residue from bounded surfaces;
• on a consenting person, can clean a lower leg or comparable exposed section of skin in several seconds; the first test feels cool but not cold and does not strip all natural skin oil;
• does not pass automatically beneath clothing, deeply through hair or into damaged material; older stains, grout discolouration, scratches, wear and pigment inside a scratch remain;
• cost is somewhat greater than Lv.1 but not proportional to area; Thomas feels mild pressure behind the eyes and still cannot sense mana or a reserve.

Level 3 findings (Ch.237-238)

• practical connected-surface reach expands to roughly 2-3 square metres, with shape and understood boundary more important than a perfect numerical projection;
• controlled broad uses take roughly 10-14 seconds; pressure behind Thomas's eyes is noticeable but recedes with rest;
• can clean one consenting clothed person as a bounded subject, treating clothing, skin and hair as adjacent surfaces without entering tissue;
• excludes closed eyes, mouth and internal body by intent. It is not healing, diagnosis, sterilisation, disease/poison treatment, wound repair, body alteration or deep-tissue work;
• can clean through ordinary clothing to the skin beneath while also cleaning the clothing surface, but it does not make fabric transparent or erase established stains, wear, ink inside fibres or structural damage;
• full hair use removes ordinary dirt, sweat, excess oil and tangles while preserving what belongs. It restores the faint floral-clean scent and exceptionally smooth, aligned, glossy model-tier finish associated with old Cleanse care; this is conspicuous enough that Isha may deliberately soften it before work;
• the hair result does not grow hair, repair non-surface biological damage, recolour it, impose a permanent style or change the person's body. Ordinary use, weather and washing return it toward normal;
• Ch.238 confirms broad private domestic cleaning in the vacated flat without removing scratches, wear or management-relevant damage.

Level 4 findings (Ch.264 onward)

• the advancement appears after months of Lv.3 use during a consenting whole-person cast across Isha's wet jacket, rashguard, skin, trousers and braids. Thomas deliberately preserves the knee dressing, finger tape, lip balm, printed fabric and hair ties while removing rain, sweat, chalk, rubber dust and exposed dried blood;
• multiple inclusions and exclusions become substantially easier to hold inside one bounded intent. The spell can pass around wanted dressings, adhesives, cosmetics and tissue effects provided Thomas understands what he is preserving;
• practical area becomes room-scale rather than person-scale. One test cleans the bathroom, washroom and utility strip—under 8 m² of floor footprint but more than 10 m² of exposed mixed surface. The effect thins at the upper corners and top of the door frame, so this is not a measured hard maximum;
• the first Lv.4 whole-person cast takes about 12 seconds with mild pressure. The broad mixed-area cast takes about 16 seconds and produces stronger pressure requiring Thomas to sit and recover. Cost depends upon area, complexity, exclusions and understood boundaries rather than floor area alone;
• scent is adjustable within Cleanse's own pleasant floral register: neutral, faint, clear, strong and room-filling are demonstrated. Neutral can remove existing laundry fragrance; no arbitrary perfume synthesis or unfamiliar named scent is established;
• hair finish is adjustable from an ordinary shampoo-and-conditioner result through the conspicuous Lv.3 result to an immaculate, improbable maximum of legitimate surface qualities. It still does not grow, recolour or structurally repair hair;
• on a shallow abrasion, a narrow cast removes visible dirt, loose residue and dried external blood while leaving broken tissue, redness, soreness, stable clot, swelling and bruising unchanged. It may reduce accessible surface bacteria, but the effect cannot be counted or verified and is not sterilisation;
• no virus effect is detected or assumed. The spell does not remove deeper contamination, infection inside tissue, poisons, disease, embedded foreign bodies, damaged tissue or the need for ordinary medical care;
• during the Da Nang/Marble Mountains trip, Thomas discovers that Lv.4 can make a modest local temperature adjustment of roughly five degrees Celsius warmer or cooler while cleaning a selected surface. Cooling Isha's overheated back and spine produces a strong sensory reaction but no injury, numbness or body-wide temperature change. Later private tests confirm bounded heating and cooling; this is comfort control, not treatment of fever, heat injury, hypothermia or inflammation.

Level 5 findings (Ch.278-279)

• the System appears to begin the advancement during the same severe event as the fourth incoming page. An incomplete second notification forms in the ambulance; CLEANSE — LEVEL 5 resolves only after Thomas is home, fully lucid and casts on a visible bruise on Isha's arm;
• Thomas can add a short-lived soothing finish to a small, clearly understood area of known minor soreness. The first effect is immediate and locally pleasant, comparable to gentle warmth or modest topical pain relief, while touch, position sense and movement remain normal;
• the spell does not heal the bruise, reduce swelling, repair tissue, erase visible colour, numb the area, suppress all pain or make use of the injured part safe. The cause remains present and detectable;
• practical tests remain palm-sized or similarly local. A test on an assessed cannula site and another on ordinary forearm soreness behave similarly. One observed effect lasts about thirteen minutes; the working range is roughly ten to twenty minutes rather than a fixed medical dose;
• a second cast can refresh the duration but does not deepen the relief. There is no stacking into anaesthesia, euphoria or hard analgesia;
• unexplained headache, internal pain, serious injury, infection, fresh tattooing and anything whose cause is not already understood remain excluded. Ch.279 deliberately avoids using the new effect on Thomas's recent unexplained neurological symptoms or Isha's later fresh tattoo;
• Lv.5 remains private. Kanno later receives a bounded explanation and sees only the core cleaning function demonstrated on a deliberately stained towel; she is not made a medical witness or testing partner.

Level 6 findings (Ch.303-304 onward)

• A familiar post-gym cooling request triggers the advancement. Thomas expects the established modest change and instead produces stronger cooling, visible goosebumps and surprise; Isha keeps the follow-up controlled despite playful restraint.
• Targeted local/surface temperature adjustment expands to roughly 10 °C warmer or cooler from the current surface condition. This remains bounded comfort control, not core-temperature treatment, fever management, heat-injury care, hypothermia treatment or inflammation control.
• The minor-soreness soothing effect becomes stronger and longer while retaining sensation, strength, position sense and the cause of discomfort. One controlled shoulder test gives useful relief for roughly 31 minutes and returns to baseline by about 37 minutes.
• Repeat casting may refresh time but does not stack into anaesthesia, euphoria, medical-grade analgesia, healing or permission to continue harmful activity. Swelling reduction is not established.
• Thomas can deliberately remove free surface water from an understood target without necessarily heating it: condensation from a mirror, water from a wrung hand towel, meltwater/snow from coats and gloves, or a bounded domestic surface. This is drying, not extraction of water from living tissue or sealed material.
• In a transparent water sample containing known visible suspended soil, Cleanse can remove part of the visible particulate load and improve clarity. A dissolved-salt comparison remains salty. The spell does not establish potability, remove unknown dissolved chemicals, toxins, pathogens or all sediment, and does not replace filtration, boiling, testing or ordinary water treatment.
• All previous selective cleaning, wanted-coating exclusions, scent range, hair finish and shallow wound-surface limits remain. Lv.6 is lateral utility growth, not a return of Purify, healing or Create Water.

Weak-signal notifications

The Lv.2 notification in Ch.223 is damaged: grey-white static, horizontal tearing, incomplete letters, repeated attempts to resolve and a final collapse to a bright horizontal line. In Ch.237 the same weak interface resolves CLEANSE — LEVEL 3, then separately attempts TRANSMIT SMALL ITEM / TO / FROM PARTY MEMBER with no level. In Ch.264 grey-white static resolves CLEANSE — LEVEL 4 after the selective whole-person cast. In Ch.278 TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE appears during unstable waking, followed by a second line that resolves as CLEANSE — LEVEL 5 only after the first soothing cast at home. Ch.303 resolves CLEANSE — LEVEL 6 during an unexpectedly strong cooling cast.

The distance interpretation remains constrained. The old System can still reach Thomas, yet interworld separation attenuates useful output catastrophically. Thomas and Isha infer that it stretches Cleanse because the old catalogue cannot cross. Lv.6 does not imply that another spell is queued.

Ch.424-432 external effects are not new spells

No Cleanse level, Hero-System transfer count or protagonist-cast spell changes in Chapters 424-432. Aelira's attestation, Ian's signature and the resulting civic/property papers are ordinary evidence and documents; only any exceptional cross-world delivery involved is external. The following supernatural effects are Ian/external-machine effects and must remain outside both current-magic components:

• a local-time analogue clock concealed in Ian's leather bracer;
• twelve sign-to-send interworld missives and their fountain pen;
• protection against divine physical/magical harm in the Waykeeper's domain;
• the restoration of Pocket Island and removal of the Demon Lord's power;
• a private external message substituted when direct thought-placement into Lethira is refused;
• the two-way retrospective road created for the Waykeeper.

The missives are not the one-page Hero-System passage: they have no thirty-cycle cadence, no Thomas initiation cost and do not alter the Hero-System outgoing/incoming count. Their exact multi-signatory dispatch trigger remains unresolved by prose. The retrospective road is not Homegate, time travel available to Thomas or a general route into history.

Ch.433-440 external effects are not new spells

No Cleanse level, Hero-System transfer count or protagonist-cast spell changes in Chapters 433-440. Cleanse remains Lv.6; correspondence remains 20 outgoing / 19 incoming with the next expected opening around 18 May. The following are Ian/external-machine effects and must not be added to Thomas/Isha's available magic or Lethira's spell list:

• the one-time Golden Acre Park neutral construct and occasion-specific four-door access;
• fresh intentional-door access for the Ch.438 Aelira portrait meeting;
• protections against Lifegiver diagnostic/healing contact and protected perception of Ian's external-scale nature;
• the sofa, apple juice, paper Venn diagram, child's plaster and other objects Ian explicitly creates in the Lifegiver's realm;
• the bounded temporary interior-decoration capability delegated to Lethira, its later removal, and the movable temporary furnishings/kitchen equipment at the western house;
• direct relocation/folding of Ian/Lethira's belongings and their teleport into the Reed and Wheel room in Ch.439;
• the occasion-specific return of Kanno and her camera, containing the nine retained Ch.438 files.

Kanno's Ch.440 physical print is ordinary Earth printing from an approved camera file, not an external-machine effect. Neither the door crossing nor printing changes image provenance or camera ownership.

The Lifegiver's self-diagnosis and behavioural change are her own divine ability/choices, not Ian-cast healing, Thomas magic or a new System function. Lethira's B-rank assessment uses ordinary Elven skill and Guild judgement; no magical rank or new ability is gained.

Ch.441-451 external effects are not new spells

No Cleanse level, Hero-System transfer count or protagonist-cast spell changes in Chapters 441-451. Cleanse remains Lv.6; correspondence remains 20 outgoing / 19 incoming, with the next expected opening around 18 May. The following remain Ian/external-machine effects rather than Thomas/Isha/Lethira spells:

• the roof bucket's bounded self-emptying behaviour after Lethira sets the fill mark, disposal point and post-repair reversion;
• protections around Lethira and Aelira in the Worldsmith's realm which block harm, alteration, compulsion, unwanted inspection and unwanted improvement, returning applied inspection force with exact zero loss;
• the invisible written message and temporary one-way voluntary thought relay from Lethira/Aelira to Ian. Treat this as an external conduit carrying already formed, deliberately offered thoughts; it does not place thoughts into either woman, allow Ian to reply mentally, or create a standing telepathy power;
• Ian's deliberate removal of protection from his projected body while retaining concealment of the biological Ian and external source;
• the genuine non-linear causal event in which Ian asks a question in the past, the rotating four-dimensional hypercube and the actual Worldsmith realm contained inside itself;
• the agreed but unbegun mortal-incarnation mechanism and its red activation button. No reincarnation has occurred through Ch.451;
• the summoned chair, television/Crunchyroll interface, pizza/cola and other explicitly created domestic objects in Ch.442;
• the four hand-drawn Ian maps reproduced on parchment in Ch.446. Their transport/manifestation is external; the underlying drawings are Ian's work, not machine-generated survey data;
• Ian's repeated movement between his own reality and the Lifegiver's realm, leaf-shaped cross-reality missives and any external presentation of ordinary tools/food/records in Chapters 447-450;
• selection and presentation of the Lifegiver's genuine historic mortal offerings as Merrowford-recognised coin. The coins are not created, transmuted or a new money spell, and Ian's later land payments are ordinary transactions;
• any externally rendered Common recipe text or vocabulary handling. The pudding is made from ordinary local ingredients and skill; the untranslated English word custard does not establish a translation or Create Food effect.

These effects demonstrate wider external control over causality, dimensional representation, containment and divine-realm conditions. They do not add time travel, telepathy, reincarnation, dimensional magic or map-generation capability to Thomas, Isha, Lethira or the Hero System.

The Lifegiver's bounded pain relief, animal healing, garden control and old-prayer access are her own divine portfolio abilities. The Waykeeper's alternate-road experience and the Demon Lord's continued embodied existence likewise belong to divine state, not a spell available to the mortal cast. Manual gardening, land measurement, archery layout, property registration and the town-route agreement remain ordinary work.

Ch.452-460 external effects are not new spells

Cleanse remains Lv.6. No Thomas/Isha/Lethira spell level changes in Chapters 452-460. The 18 May passage advances correspondence to 21 outgoing / 20 incoming but preserves the existing one-page/thirty-cycle structure. The following remain outside the protagonist spell catalogue:

• Ian's protected divine-realm effects during the Sun Father encounter, including Lethira/Aelira's immunity to harm/alteration/compulsion/unwanted inspection and Ian's restoration of his destroyed projected body;
• reality's bounded judgement of the Sun Father against his own methodology and the external limitation/dimming of his realm;
• the ordinary clerical joint-title amendment for the southern parcel and route. No reality edit replaces signatures, registration or existing payments;
• Ian's presence beside the Waykeeper's retrospective road and within one historical branch under her explicit non-interference terms;
• Ian's bounded sharing of his own Demon Lord memory with the Waykeeper and his machine-mediated chapter/options interface disclosed to Lethira;
• Ian's ordinary external transport between realities and his trivial reheating of a pie in Ch.460. The narration calls the pie magically warmed, but the surrounding dialogue identifies external omnipotence as the mechanism; this is not a Warm Area spell or a new local magic capability;
• the Worldsmith's now-active mortal trial. It is an external mechanism agreed in Ch.442 and triggered by the Worldsmith's voluntary button press, not reincarnation magic available to Thomas or any builder-owned general spell.

The Waykeeper's own retrospective-road experience, the Lifegiver's portfolio impulses/restraint and the Sun Father's divine search/exposure capacity remain builder abilities, not spells gained by the mortal cast.

Ch.461-469 external effects are not new spells

Cleanse remains Lv.6 and Hero-System correspondence remains 21 outgoing / 20 incoming. Ch.462 discusses the four already completed conscious Transfer 2.0 openings; it does not perform a fifth. The next expected opening remains around 17 June 2028.

• Neutral meetings (Ch.462/465): newly enabled intentional-door routes, separate empty diner/café constructs, prepared food/drinks and the specifically agreed refill are Ian/external infrastructure. They create no ordinary Earth entry, permanent door, transport between the inhabited worlds or created service population.
• Water viewing (Ch.464): with Lethira's consent, Ian scales their embodied experience down beside a glass while locally altering the necessary physical conditions so they can still breathe, see and speak. The prose explicitly excludes physical compression or squashed atoms and restores their normal size afterward. He substitutes bottled water and samples associated with springs Lethira intentionally selects. The exact sampling/transport implementation is not described. This is external miniaturisation/presentation, not a native microscope, a reproducible local medical method, water purification or proof of potability.
• Household presentation (Ch.465/467): Ian's own maps are shown on three A4 sheets; mayonnaise, a brush, plain black elastic and a glossy hairstyle reference are supplied externally. Lethira's consented hair clean has an ordinary shampoo/conditioner result, not an idealised recolouring or body alteration. Ian's braiding and the later household cleaning remain manual work.
• Garden and site information (Ch.468): chocolate, chilled lemonade and the private four-site answer/pink parchment are external effects. The query provides remote hidden-site information, not a spell learned by Lethira or an automatic ongoing map. Three garden beds are completed by ordinary labour.
• Cave expedition and return (Ch.469): Ian moves the pair within the fantasy world to an approximately one-road-mark final approach and later home. Ordinary lamps, chalk, fieldcraft, local testimony and Lethira's hand-drawn map supply the exploration. When danger becomes immediate he prepares to prevent serious injury; no attack, injury or protective interception occurs, so do not record a tested automatic ward or assign an unshown duration. The white towel's creation/cleaning and pizza are later discrete external acts. Neither partner gains rank, cave senses, a light spell or a new healing ability.

The Waykeeper's message and her original mountain-pass intervention, the siblings' perception/portfolio impulses and the Lifegiver's garden effects belong to the gods. The retrospective route is Ian-made; the choices and historical interventions she examines are hers. No such effect enters Thomas/Isha/Lethira's spell catalogue, and the Worldsmith's unseen mortal life acquires no new mechanics from these chapters.

Ch.470-485 external effects and bounded delegations

All effects below belong to Ian's external mechanism, not Thomas's Cleanse, the Hero-System passage, native spell instruction or permanent Warden powers.

The Ch.481 discussion of native transport reaffirms no known practical general living-person teleportation. Lethira mentions passage workings, old marks, thresholds and demanding summoning rituals; this is bounded doctrine, not proof that every old/rare exception is impossible. Historical Homegate and ancient passage machinery remain separate exceptions with their own witnesses. See historic_fantasy.md for their actual historical mechanics and new_island.md for current access evidence.

Ch.486–499 external effects and permissions

Ch.500–510 external effects and their limits

Ian's unqualified Ch.505 statement that reality has never refused him conflicts with the witnessed Ch.432 thought-placement refusal. Treat it as his statement, not a revision of that event or the absolute Lethira non-alteration rule.

Current native fantasy magic — Arliss Fen (Ch.490–509)

Arliss is A-rank, earned after Thomas's captivity, principally in ward reading/construction, containment, alarms, interference analysis and separating overlapping workings, with secondary cold work. Ch.508 says she was taught to recognise mana, then to shape it; cold came easily, wards did not, and she preferred wards. Her account of human learning routes is specialist testimony, not a universal age-five screening system, proof that every human has mana or a world-wide education standard.

Her receiving crystal/focus requires a subject's deliberate mana contribution and supports comparison of output, pressure/control, capacity and recovery; it is not a passive omniscient scan. The instrument responds to her positive control after Ian produces no measurable contribution. She is not told the biological-body linkage. No Thomas-style personal interface, native mana or spell is granted to Ian.

Ch.508 private reference: one unit is the mana Arliss spends freezing one dram by weight of water, using the specified working and recorded starting conditions. The prose supplies no gram conversion, numerical temperature, universal energy equivalence or unit name. Ian's external answer gives 11,800 maximum and 11,750–11,780 current at that initial measurement, not a later post-tree balance. Arliss first measures the reference expenditure and her remaining reserve conventionally, covering her recorded result before Ian obtains his external answer. The comparison agrees within the ordinary instrument's precision. After the first tree, another independently recorded conventional reading places her a little above 11,000 and supports the approximate 720 expenditure; recovery has already begun. These comparisons establish native quantitative assessment and independent cross-checking, not the exactness of Ian's output as a native instrument capability.

In the separate metal-strip experiment, Arliss records that return of the original material permits the working to re-establish itself, while retaining uncertainty about mechanism. Both trees remain frozen at the Ch.509 morning endpoint; she feels her reserve has recovered by then without taking another numeric reading. Do not infer a regeneration rate, total current balance, changed maximum, conventional rank-to-unit table or an attack maximum. The results and Ian's first name are in her private locked notes, not Crown circulation.

Ch.504's first practice-room fault and Ch.508–509's second lower-room fault are separate. In the latter, simultaneous west-containment/corridor-alarm loading produces displacement where differently aged anchor paths interact. Mapping supports interference rather than settling; physical repair, separation testing and reopening remain pending. This is native ward engineering, not an Ian alteration or a general declaration that Crownholt wards are defective.

Crown magical archival records preserve identifiable start/end or activation information despite blanked correspondence content. Their existence does not establish mass copying or general manufacturing capacity, and none of these native workings becomes available to Thomas/Isha on Earth.

Transmit small item to/from party member — unlevelled system function

Status: confirmed repeatedly in both directions; not a Thomas-cast spell and not real-time communication.

Observed activation

• Small meaningless test objects—a metal washer, plain paper square, button and green thread—remain in place despite target intent.
• Ch.237: one unsealed A4-like page written in Common, explicitly addressed to Kelda Flintvein of Green Road, carrying Thomas and Isha's names and a short survival message, responds and disappears. Ch.240 later confirms delivery.
• Ch.240: at the next opening Thomas deliberately names Kelda/Green Road and accepts what she has chosen to send. One cream A4-like page labelled for Thomas and Isha appears; no unattended automatic arrival is observed.
• Ch.246: Thomas and Isha send a full two-sided Common page describing the passage risk, their healthy human bodies, absent former powers, work, home, friends, Mugi, happiness and Thomas's non-magical cooking. Ch.252 confirms Kelda received it.
• Ch.252: Thomas deliberately accepts Kelda's second cream page. It retains the same bounded witness circle, carries family questions and asks for Mugi's appearance, an ordinary meal and Isha's description of human silence; Kelda also names the east-road contract and a better workbench as wants of her own.
• Ch.259: Thomas and Isha send a third two-sided printed Common page with a small printed Mugi photograph. It explains the image as non-magical light capture, answers the meal/silence/roof/healer questions and mentions Matsuda's move.
• Ch.266: Thomas accepts Kelda's third reply and is unconscious for 4 minutes 23 seconds. The page confirms the Mugi image and unchanged witness circle; reports Kelda's east-road contract under her own craft authority, repaired culvert failure, finished bench, no true demons and still-dead black glass; and affirms that Green Road remains three without Kelda waiting beside an empty door.
• Ch.275: Thomas and Isha send a fourth Common page with a printed photograph of themselves, a bounded account of the Da Nang harassment/fight and questions about Erenai, the King Beneath and other people from the final campaign.
• Ch.278: Thomas accepts Kelda's fourth reply. It reports that Erenai is alive and working around rebuilt passage-station infrastructure with external bronze listening plates but no accepted title, that Ressa is involved in bridge work, and that Erenai has not been told the Earth-survival secret. The King Beneath possesses a separate sealed Broken Court account rather than the Earth page or photograph. The same named family circle remains the correspondence witness circle.
• Ch.294: Thomas sends the fifth page. It is the first crossing to display PROTECTION ENABLED before the page disappears. The page covers the Ch.278 medical event, Isha's tattoo, Morita pairing, Thomas's judo/gym choice and the useless paper fish.
• Ch.299: Thomas accepts Kelda's fifth reply. It confirms receipt, unchanged witness circle, family reactions, Kelda's work and another useless fish.
• Ch.305: Thomas sends the sixth page after Isha's first kyūdō work. PROTECTION ENABLED appears and the physical consequence is brief/minimal rather than another severe event.
• Ch.313: Thomas accepts Kelda's sixth reply under protection. It reports a prepared station transport that carried a healer and supplies to an injured worker; the route did not perform the healing.
• Ch.318: Thomas sends the seventh page under protection. The System additionally reports FEMALE UNIT BIOLOGICAL DEFECT / RESOLVING SAFELY.
• Ch.323: Thomas sends the eighth page under protection. The System reports FEMALE UNIT BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM ERROR / RESTORATION COMPLETE / NORMAL OPERATION RESUMING.
• Between Ch.323 and Ch.343, further protected openings advance the correspondence to 10 outgoing / 8 incoming; Kanno witnesses exactly one protected passage on 27 March 2027 without joining the standing protocol.
• Ch.343 (18 May 2027): receipt-only opening. The interface resolves TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE; totals become 10 outgoing / 9 incoming.
• Ch.347 (17 June 2027): protected send/receipt swap; totals become 11 outgoing / 10 incoming.
• Ch.350 (17 July 2027): protected swap. Thomas is unconscious about 49 seconds, wakes oriented and symptom-free, and sees TRANSFER SENT / TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE. Totals become 12 outgoing / 11 incoming.
• Ch.354 (16 August 2027): protected swap. Before the page exchange the System adds INFORMATION ONLY: UNKNOWN ANOMALY PRESENT IN GEOGRAPHIC AREA. Thomas is unconscious about 52 seconds, wakes oriented and symptom-free, then sees TRANSFER SENT / TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE. Totals become 13 outgoing / 12 incoming; the next expected opening is around 15 September 2027.
• Ch.361 (16 September 2027): Thomas and Isha deliberately wait one day beyond his birthday and use the opening for a send-only Common page whose first question asks whether Tessa still has the ash-marked surviving arrow. Protection appears; Thomas wakes clear after roughly a minute or less. The interface shows TRANSFER SENT / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE. Totals become 14 outgoing / 12 incoming; no reply, anomaly line or senderless message appears during the passage.
• Ch.366 (16 October 2027): protected send/receipt swap. The outgoing page explains Ian in bounded Common-compatible terms without equating him with the System, reports the 15 October legal marriage, and asks for Tessa's honest view if the arrow is gone. Thomas is unconscious about 51 seconds, wakes oriented/symptom-free, and sees TRANSFER SENT / TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE. Totals become 15 outgoing / 13 incoming; next expected opening is around Monday, 15 November 2027. The returned page says Tessa's arrow is missing from its wrapping and a machine-printed Common note claiming to have sent it to Isha was found in its place. The station still reports no person crossing and no System-style station message.
• Ch.372 (15 November 2027): protected send/receipt swap with the wedding photograph/update. Thomas is unconscious about 56 seconds, wakes clear and symptom-free; totals become 16 outgoing / 14 incoming. Kelda's returned page reports Ian's direct fantasy-side visit and offers a separately made marriage album/moving-media gift plus an independent Aelira proof recording and a separate Ian confession. The later album/video arrival is via Ian's external mechanism, not this passage.
• Ch.377 (15 December 2027): protected send/receipt swap lasting about 52 seconds with clear recovery; totals become 17 outgoing / 15 incoming. The outgoing page reports the fantasy-side gift, Ian's bridge confession and Isha's Naruse decision loss. The returned page reports Thomas's family meeting Ian and making a separate farm/family album + moving/spoken records; those later arrive only after Thomas/Isha explicitly accept them through Ian's external mechanism.
• Ch.387 (14 January 2028): protected send/receipt swap lasting about 49 seconds, no symptoms; totals become 18 outgoing / 16 incoming. The outgoing page includes another wedding image and ordinary update. The returned page carries independently chosen impressions of Ian from the established fantasy-side circle; Sereth deliberately sends no written opinion. Next expected opening is around 13 February 2028.
• Ch.394 (13 February 2028): first post-Ch.390 modified opening. The interface resolves TRANSFER 2.0 'BEST ELF' EDITION before the exchange. Thomas remains conscious throughout, can speak normally, experiences only a controlled pull comparable to holding a multi-boundary Cleanse intent, and has no pain, headache, nausea, weakness, confusion or delayed dizziness. The Ch.391 neutral-café invitation disappears while he watches and one cream reply appears; status resolves TRANSFER SENT / TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE. Totals become 19 outgoing / 17 incoming. The returned page was written before the invitation arrived and contains January-wedding-image reactions plus unchanged station status. Next expected opening is around 14 March 2028.
• Ch.402 (14 March 2028): receipt-only Transfer 2.0 opening. Availability first becomes perceptible while Thomas is at work and waits until he and Isha are home together. Thomas remains conscious for about 17 seconds, with no pain, nausea, visual change, weakness or confusion. One cream page appears; status resolves TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE with no sent line. Totals become 19 outgoing / 18 incoming. The page carries the independently gathered reunion answers.
• Ch.417 (18 April 2028): third observed Transfer 2.0 use and a send/receive swap. Thomas remains conscious and symptom-free while the prepared outgoing page disappears and a prepared cream page appears. Status resolves TRANSFER SENT / TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE. Totals become 20 outgoing / 19 incoming. The incoming page was written before the outgoing page arrived and therefore cannot answer it. Next expected opening is around 18 May 2028.
• Ch.459 (18 May 2028): fourth observed Transfer 2.0 use and another send/receive swap. The prepared May page disappears while Kelda's independently prepared cream page appears. Thomas remains fully conscious and conversational, with no pain, headache, nausea, weakness, confusion, visual disturbance or delayed dizziness; the effect is again a controlled Cleanse-like pull. Status resolves TRANSFER SENT / TRANSFER RECEIVED / 30 CYCLES TILL NEXT PASSAGE. Totals become 21 outgoing / 20 incoming. Kelda's page explicitly says it answers April and cannot answer what is sent beside it. Next expected opening is around 17 June 2028.
• Simultaneous-swap rule: whenever send and receipt occur in one opening, the mechanism exchanges two independently prepared items. A received page cannot directly answer the page sent in that same opening. Ch.394, Ch.417 and Ch.459 make this temporal boundary explicit.
• There is no flash, portal, tracking information or fantasy-world viewpoint at any crossing. Treat each success as evidence for recognition, meaning and consent, not a complete universal grammar.
• The practical interworld payload limit remains approximately one very light item, with one A4-like sheet at or near the limit. Printed photographs and machine-even Common glyphs do not increase the established payload category. Ian's Ch.357 production of an arrow, bowl, ribbon, carved bird, food and photographs—and the later Ch.366 evidence that the arrow was removed from Tessa's keeping by an external mechanism—does not alter this limit. Do not add an envelope, parcel, heavy object, living material or multiple pages to Thomas's transfer without new transfer-specific prose.

Initiation cost and cooldown

Thomas supplies target recognition, intention and the start or acceptance command. The Hero System supplies the astronomical energy needed to cross worlds. The physical effect is interface/authorisation shock, not mana depletion and not Thomas personally paying the interworld energy.

Observed passages:

The early shorter outgoing times do not establish safety, a monotonic improvement curve or a direction-specific rule; Ch.278 remains the decisive counterexample. PROTECTION ENABLED changes the observed Ch.294-387 pattern to roughly one minute or less with clear waking. Ch.390 materially changes the causal interpretation: Ian states that after seeing Ch.278 he instructed his reality engine to modify the System and introduced protection. That claim fits the timing and his demonstrated capabilities but is not independently inspectable, so preserve observed interface result / claimed external cause.

In the same Ch.390 conversation Ian asks before making a second change. Thomas/Isha consent only to: the same 30-cycle cadence, same one-page scale, same recipient/correspondence rules, same optional initiation/acceptance and no changes to people/memories/station—except that Thomas should no longer become unconscious, ill or painful during activation/acceptance and should experience something closer to casting Cleanse. Ian replies that it is “done.” Ch.394, Ch.402, Ch.417 and Ch.459 now test that change successfully: no lost awareness or adverse symptoms, a Cleanse-like controlled pull, and unchanged one-page/thirty-cycle status. The exact interface line remains TRANSFER 2.0 'BEST ELF' EDITION. Thomas/Isha still keep the old timer/emergency instructions stored as a conservative fallback. Ch.459 direct narration now states that the System does not hurt Thomas because Ian changed it after asking; this resolves the cause of the protection change at story level while leaving the deeper engine/System implementation unresolved. The next expected passage is around 17 June 2028.

Thomas and Isha retain the safety rule: no initiation or acceptance alone, no use merely because the counter allows it, honest disclosure of bodily cost to Kelda, five minutes without meaningful waking as the standing emergency-call threshold unless a new acute sign requires earlier action, and ordinary emergency care overriding secrecy. Kanno's single witnessed spring opening and later review of the August log do not make her continuing protocol staff.

System biological correction of Isha (Ch.318-325)

This is System infrastructure/continuity behaviour, not a Cleanse cast and not a new Thomas spell.

• During the seventh send the interface reports FEMALE UNIT BIOLOGICAL DEFECT / RESOLVING SAFELY after ordinary transfer status.
• During the eighth send it reports FEMALE UNIT BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM ERROR / RESTORATION COMPLETE / NORMAL OPERATION RESUMING.
• The observable condition is mild Graves-like autoimmune hyperthyroidism: raised thyroid hormones, suppressed TSH, positive TRAb, mild diffuse enlargement, heat intolerance, elevated resting pulse, poor sleep and tremor.
• Earth medicine supplies the safe path: thiamazole, blood tests, ultrasound, activity restrictions, dose reduction, withdrawal and follow-up. The System hides its assistance inside the extreme favourable tail of a medically plausible response.
• Author-level canon: the System safely corrects its implementation error and active external restoration ends at the Ch.323 message. Thyroid size/vascularity normalise, TRAb becomes undetectable and function remains normal off medication. Isha returns to her intended exceptional-but-human baseline; she is not enhanced, mutated or made biologically Elven.
• Thomas and Isha infer most of this but cannot prove the exact construction mechanism. Kanno knows the first exact message and bounded interpretation; the second exact restoration message has not been established as disclosed to her. Clinicians know only unusually rapid complete remission.
• Open questions remain around how the body was created/selected, why the error occurred, whether the System still monitors either body and whether any other plausible trait reflects continuity. These questions do not keep the disease or active repair open.

Author-level mechanism and limits

• The current Earth continuity contains Cleanse, the transfer activation, passage protection, and the completed bounded biological correction. Earlier chapters supported an autonomous-System interpretation of protection; Ch.390 records Ian's claim that he instructed his separate machine to modify the System after Ch.278, and Ch.459's direct narration establishes that intervention as the cause after he asked. The implementation and deeper relationship between the external mechanism and Hero System remain unresolved. Cleanse still grows laterally rather than restoring a broad spell catalogue.
• Source-side power may be immense, but almost all useful capability is lost across the distance. Moving one page is an astronomical System expenditure; this does not imply available combat magic, healing, portals, restored rank or a path toward large-scale sorcery.
• Cleanse's lateral growth is not evidence that other former spells are queued to return. Do not seed a hidden catalogue or use the function as a progression ladder.
• Direct fantasy-side prose is now possible under the Ian/external-contact exception established in Ch.371/373. Ordinary Hero-System correspondence still enters through one-page transfers; the later albums, moving records, doors, objects and travel are external-reality interventions and do not upgrade the System payload.
• Hidden future capability: the party-member target also includes Isha. Because she is in the same world, distance attenuation is far lower and payload limits are higher. Thomas and Isha do not know this through Ch.499. Do not reveal it early, and do not invent its exact range, payload or cooldown until a future chapter establishes them.

Ch.354-423 external anomaly: not a spell

The 16 August System line INFORMATION ONLY: UNKNOWN ANOMALY PRESENT IN GEOGRAPHIC AREA remains an observed System event and still never identifies Ian. Chapters 371-460 demonstrate a much broader Ian/external-mechanism category, but they do not turn it into a Thomas/Isha spell.

Keep the categories separate:

• Ian can physically visit the fantasy world, create neutral café/door constructs, place/duplicate objects and digital media, create an invitation-based chat and transport Kanno with himself to real Berlin. These effects do not consume or expand the one-page System payload.
• Kanno's die demonstration shows that Ian can request a specific final outcome while the machine supplies an ordinary-looking physical route; Ch.390 further establishes that the machine generates option menus which Ian can select/tweak. This is external reality-generation evidence, not mana or Hero-System spellcasting.
• Ch.394 shows the external mechanism creating a safe but materially grounded doorway to the actual Venera 14 site on Venus under Kanno's negotiated terms, preserving her own camera and removing lasting human trace. It later places one consented 100MP universe image on her phone. Ch.395 separately establishes a machine-generated approximation of Kanno/Venera which is not identical to the camera photographs. None of these effects consumes the one-page transfer or creates a castable travel/image spell.
• Ian's Ch.390 claim that he instructed the machine to add PROTECTION ENABLED is followed by Ch.459's direct narrative attribution of the change to Ian after he asked. This establishes external modification capability, but does not establish how it worked or that the two systems share an origin or are the same entity.
• The fantasy-side albums/videos, Thomas-family media, Christmas gifts and neutral constructs are external-reality effects. They do not change the transfer's established one-page scale.
• Ian can receive machine-supplied interior/narrative text. Selected raw bridge chapters are later shared with specific fantasy-side readers only after Thomas/Isha explicitly authorise the sections and recipients. This is not telepathy available to Thomas/Isha.
• The four-person Ian/Thomas/Isha/Kanno chat is a communication route created by Ian's mechanism. It has no established cost/cooldown and is not the Hero-System correspondence. Joining explicitly grants no new permission beyond messaging.
• Ian's airmail cards, gold-edged missives, Mars/Mercury tickets and intentional-door meeting rooms are likewise external-reality effects. They have no Hero-System counter, payload accounting or established reuse rule. A ticket remaining after one journey does not establish a second journey.
• Intentional-door routes are occasion-specific. Prior successful use does not leave a standing portal; Ian asks/obtains agreement and explicitly enables each new meeting route.
• Cross-reality time has no reliable conversion. Three fantasy-side days in Ch.373, Ian's “less than a day” descriptions and Ch.423's near-current study-window photograph remain local chronology facts, not ratios.
• Ch.418 shows external language rendering: Ian speaks English while nearby Wood Elves hear fluent Elven, and he could choose Common instead. This is not a language spell owned by Ian's projected body or the listeners.
• Ch.419-421 show projected-body embodiment under explicit conditions: the presence can eat, taste, become thirsty/tired, sleep, bathe and produce ordinary physical reactions while the biological Ian receives text-mediated experience and may separately mirror an activity in his own world. This is machine-realised participation, not fantasy physiology, mana, transformation or a new Hero-System body.
• Ch.421 establishes the absolute Lethira non-alteration constraint. Ian/the machine must refuse direct, indirect, retroactive, disguised or delegated alteration of her memory, mind, personality, identity, thoughts, desires, preferences, values, emotional disposition, agency or past self, including circumstances designed to manufacture her love/trust/forgiveness/attraction/agreement/loyalty/fear/dependence. This is an authoring rule, not a castable ward or a protection Lethira must maintain.
• Ch.421-423 add bounded external conveniences: Ian can clean/fold his own underclothes, perform consented ordinary-result hair grooming/laundry, create actual photographic prints from his external-world camera and move Lethira's exact old Guild tag only after she consents and wishes for it. These examples do not create a general Cleanse replacement, a summon-belonging spell or standing access to Lethira's home/property.

Mugi / possible ambient residue (Ch.232 onward)

Mugi, a community cat closely bonded to Isha, can sometimes retrieve specifically described objects without a pointing gesture. In Ch.242 she also mirrors and counter-mirrors a short sequence of Isha's dance movements, including paw lifts, turns and the final seated posture, with timing beyond easy coincidence. Thomas wonders whether weak continuity residue is less contained than assumed and jokingly proposes familiar; Isha rejects experiment/property framing. This is private speculation only. No spell effect, mana, notification, altered fur/skin, transfer of Cleanse, Isha-cast ability or causal link has been detected. Ch.388 adds an unexplained Common-language event: Mugi appears to follow Thomas's Common sentence to Isha about a finger sling under a green notebook in a closed top desk drawer, indicates the correct drawer and then the notebook. No gesture/request was directed at her and no repeat test is performed. Do not add Mugi to the spell list, use her as proof of System leakage, make her carry interworld messages or test Cleanse upon her without a separately written consent/safety-aware scene.

Authoring rules

• Treat Cleanse as an occasional domestic convenience, comic or intimate accent, and faint cross-world residue—not the sequel's main engine.
• Keep use private and consent-aware. Lv.6 can clean a minor wound's exposed surface, adjust local surface temperature by roughly ±10 °C, dry free surface water and soothe known minor soreness, but it is not healing, diagnosis, poison removal, disease treatment, sterilisation, virus removal, curse removal, evidence destruction, combat or broad environmental purification.
• Do not infer that Cleanse safely removes wanted dye, makeup, seasoning, patina, medicine, coatings, tattoos or an unknown contaminant without explicit understanding and exclusions.
• Full-person/hair/scent cleaning may be intimate or visually striking, but should not become automatic beauty magic, public proof or a commercial/medical service. Strong floral output is controllable and may be socially inconvenient.
• The transfer is System infrastructure, not Thomas's second spell. Keep its cadence roughly thirty cycles and payload one page. Transfer 2.0 has now been observed symptom-free and fully conscious in four openings (Ch.394, Ch.402, Ch.417, Ch.459). Treat that as the repeatable observed pattern so far while preserving ordinary safety judgement and the unchanged one-page/thirty-cycle limits.
• Advancement does not imply restored Rank, mana awareness, an expanding spell list or accelerating progression. Cleanse should not level again casually or immediately after Ch.303.
• Do not express Ian's Ch.418-423 effects as spell names, mana costs, Guild skills or Hero-System functions. In particular, the Lethira refusal cannot be dispelled, overridden or levelled because it is a governing authoring constraint outside the fantasy magic system.

Fantasy-World Magic: Compact Historical Context

Thomas's fantasy-world magic was unusually broad rather than class-specialised. He accumulated many modest tools and learned to combine them into healing, maintenance, travel, shelter, scouting, protection, logistics, and finally world-scale containment. He reached private Rank S in Chapter 208. Rank supplied capacity; spell level supplied structure and control; practice and judgement determined whether that capacity remained useful rather than destructive.

His magic consistently favoured repair, separation, support, passage, and care. Even his strongest combat magic worked best when Isha and Kelda supplied route, timing, target choice, and honest structure. The old spell set should appear in Earth narration mainly through memory, reflex, dreams, comparisons, grief, or the absence of an answer that once existed.

Last-observed capability snapshot

Historical Cleanse

The former Cleanse reached Level 7 and could provide precise full-body, clothing, wound-preparation, residue-separation, and domestic care. It remained distinct from Purify, healing, disease treatment, poison removal, and curse removal.

The Earth spell has restarted separately and reaches Level 6 in Ch.303. Historical mastery may inform Thomas's expectations and instincts, but it does not automatically grant old capability, cost, range or progression. The System-mediated letter transfer is not a restored historical Thomas spell.

End of Fantasy-World Spell State

By the end of Chapter 214:

• Thomas and Isha have disappeared from the Broken Court without bodies or a confirmed destination from the fantasy world's perspective;
• no surviving fantasy-world witness can verify whether Thomas still possesses any spell;
• Pocket Island is permanently lost/inaccessible as the Demon Lord's one-way prison;
• the Preservation Ring shattered during the final passage and is not an active credential;
• all true demons died when the Demon Lord left the fantasy world, but ordinary injuries, missing tissue, metal supports, and structural damage remained;
• the old spell catalogue is historical capability, not an available Earth loadout.

Retrieval Rule for Memories and Dreams

Use this file when a scene needs only a broad recollection such as:

• Thomas remembering that he once had an answer for wounds, cold, hunger, darkness, distance, or falling;
• Isha remembering the feel or light of a familiar spell;
• either of them comparing an Earth task with former magical work;
• a dream using impression, sensation, fear, or emotional association rather than precise mechanics.

Open the Spells Reference section of historic_fantasy.md when the scene names a former spell in detail, reproduces a historical use, depends on a level-specific capability, combines spells, revisits a magical limitation, or risks contradicting the final battle.