Status: WORKING

Kraethe Post-Climax Endings

Two incompatible development branches exist for Kraethe after the climax and must remain visibly unresolved.

Character Archetype Treatments

Wizard-of-Oz-derived character treatments are retained as authorial lenses rather than literal story mechanics.

Leon’s strongest current arc turns on confrontation with scale. Gaian science reveals not a new form of personal power but the smallness of human control, echoing the helplessness of his earlier grief.

Aravaen

Aravaen is a working figure for Danu’s mother and a pre-Danu sovereign associated with cooperative governance. Her death provides fertile ground for Kraethe to turn Danu’s grief toward control.

Character Address and Naming Conventions

Working map of how different characters name Rowan/Kaia; forms of address can reveal relationship, history and attempts to define her.