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Chapter 3 - Companions and allies

Mama Klara (CHAR_0006), the Manggarai healer-elder (canonical) — diagnoses the semangat depletion and runs the waterfall restoration ritual that permanently raises the vital force floor; she watches the space between speakers for a full day before pronouncing, is never a companion, and never reappears after Ch 3 (a hard lock); a benevolent knowledge-holder, never a target. The healer's child (CHAR_0002) — begins the silent-observation arc here with unsigned notes, the arc's first human-character mystery and the primary human companion who active-joins at Ch 13. Elder Tuan Bernardus (CHAR_0016) — keeper of the untwisted proverb register, the true-voice foil to the twisted-word sorcerer; a council elder and ally. The village roster — Elder Rato (CHAR_0009), Weaver-Elder Ibu Martina (CHAR_0018), Trade-Envoy Tuan Yosef (CHAR_0019), Hunter-Father Pak Petrus (CHAR_0020), Peer Agnesius (CHAR_0021), and Musician Pak Kornelius (CHAR_0022) — the protected community, teachers and neighbours, never targets. Weaver Woman Emma (CHAR_0010) — met at Ch 2 and present through the Ch-3 village hub as the hands-on Trade-6 teacher at the loom, working under Ibu Martina's pattern authority (Martina keeps the Trade-6 seat); she is the one who reads the concealment cloth as tied wrong and re-ties it, so the chapter's concealment-as-craft turn passes through her hands. A teacher and neighbour, never a target. Hunter Anselmus (CHAR_0011) — the uncorrupted Manggarai hunter and the audible counter to the Ch-2 corrupted hunter, present through the Ch-3 hub as the tracking teacher, the caci-entry explainer who points the protagonist at Ana, and the keeper of the ebu-gogo three-tellings; a teacher and neighbour, never a target. Child Teresa (CHAR_0012) — the Ch-2 first peer, present through the Ch-3 hub as the village guide who teaches the everyday grammar of a living landscape (walk at the side, not the middle) and who finds the first unsigned mark by where the protagonist sleeps; she is rooted here and does not travel on. Roster note (declared, not inherited): CHAR_0010, CHAR_0011 and CHAR_0012 were stamped Ch_02-only in T0_Character_Index while CH_02 itself states the Manggarai village-society opens fully at Ch 3, and the Ch-3 hub dialogue set gives all three substantial Ch-3 presence. The stamp was the stale artifact; chapters_present is re-seated to Ch_02;Ch_03 in the same commit as the dialogue, so the re-seat is declared canon rather than an undeclared drift a later agent would hallucinate around.

Read from docs/spine/CH_03.md, line 192; 1 clause held back.

Written in canon: 18 named people (this chapter). Source: registries/T0_Character_Index [ACTIVE v1.1]/T0_Character_Index DRAFT v1.1.csv.

The concept, one picked plate per subject

char0006 mama klara healer elder

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis authenticity. O4 is the only one where the house behind her is vernacular - raised on stone piers under thatch - and it puts a work

this chapter's own

char0016 elder tuan bernardus

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis authenticity. O2 is the only candidate with no painted metal roofing in the valley behind him, and its hip cloth carries a woven bo

this chapter's own

char0022 pak kornelius gong waning musician

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis authenticity. O3 is the only candidate whose drums are barrel-bodied and laced to sit horizontally, and the only one with no painte

this chapter's own

char0014 healer maria at work

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the white European woman in hiking boots harvesting kale in a temperate nursery is replaced by a Manggarai highland woman lifting ginger, turmeric, taro and gourd from black volcanic soil under tree ferns, cutting with a lashed village parang

shared across the region

char0014 healer maria full figure

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CRAFT the only candidate where the reserved triad reads as one coherent working kit: a single forged leaf-blade with a fibre-wrapped ferrule held in a real grip beside the plant basket, over motif-free feathered indigo/morinda resist bands.

shared across the region

char0018 ibu martina weaver elder

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis canon. O1 is the only candidate where the loom's far beam is actually lashed with plant-fibre cordage to a rough hardwood post and

shared across the region

Wired into the game

Every card is the asset gallery's own record, at the same rung on the same five-step ladder.

Mama Klara

ITERATION
CHAR_0006
concept plate
concept plate

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Hunter Anselmus

ITERATION
CHAR_0011
concept plate
concept plate

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Elder Tuan Bernardus

ITERATION
CHAR_0016
concept plate
concept plate

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Ana

ITERATION
CHAR_0017
concept plate (unjudged)
concept plate (unjudged)

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Weaver-Elder Ibu Martina

ITERATION
CHAR_0018
concept plate
concept plate

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Trade-Envoy Tuan Yosef

ITERATION
CHAR_0019
concept plate (unjudged)
concept plate (unjudged)

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Hunter-Father Pak Petrus

ITERATION
CHAR_0020
concept plate (unjudged)
concept plate (unjudged)

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Peer Agnesius

ITERATION
CHAR_0021
concept plate (unjudged)
concept plate (unjudged)

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

Musician Pak Kornelius

ITERATION
CHAR_0022
concept plate
concept plate

concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet

In the running build

caci ch03
caci ch03
proverb decode
proverb decode
trace tell
trace tell
waterfall site
waterfall site

Named gaps

Canon names these and the factory has not built them. They are listed by id: the un-built remainder of a roster is not enumerated by name on a public page.

CHAR_0002, CHAR_0009, CHAR_0010, CHAR_0012

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