{
  "entities": [
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-ELIZA",
      "name": "Eliza Marr",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        3,
        29,
        65,
        105,
        124,
        156,
        182,
        217,
        270,
        319,
        375,
        398,
        441,
        471,
        498,
        524,
        557,
        574,
        600,
        615,
        640,
        647,
        677
      ],
      "fact": "Tests the recovered UNKNOWN sheet against independently dated records, refuses to let functional resemblance become provenance, documents the continuity selector without operating it, and narrows the record from unknown mechanism to functionally consistent but still unprovenanced evidence.",
      "art": "Comparison tables, sealed evidence, selector documentation and catalogue revision; avoid a revelation pose.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p003",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p029",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p065",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p105",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p124",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p156",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p182",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p217",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p270",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p319",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p375",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p398",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p441",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p471",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p498",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p524",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p557",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p574",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p600",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p615",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p640",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p647",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p677"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-ARUN",
      "name": "Arun Vey",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        48,
        74,
        93,
        123,
        144,
        182,
        226,
        248,
        283,
        297,
        316,
        346,
        416,
        432,
        452,
        472,
        510,
        583,
        625
      ],
      "fact": "Explains that the selector ranks authority sources rather than creating persons, traces the selector into later identity infrastructure, and isolates it from live systems without using the manual key.",
      "art": "Mechanical relay logic, cable tracing and isolated output path; no glowing supercomputer.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p048",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p074",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p093",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p123",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p144",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p182",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p226",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p248",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p283",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p297",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p316",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p346",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p416",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p432",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p452",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p472",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p510",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p583",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p625"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-NARA",
      "name": "Nara Venn",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        60,
        104,
        122,
        163,
        224,
        238,
        315,
        326,
        362,
        390,
        436,
        463,
        474,
        519,
        582,
        608
      ],
      "fact": "Keeps public witnesses inside the investigation, pressures technical language into civic meaning, and recognises that refusing an heir does not itself remove the institutional need for a recognised source.",
      "art": "Public witness log and selector discussion; avoid turning her into the selector's political owner.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p060",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p104",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p122",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p163",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p224",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p238",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p315",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p326",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p362",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p390",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p436",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p463",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p474",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p519",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p582",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p608"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-MARIAN",
      "name": "Marian Vale",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        68,
        80,
        116,
        134,
        281,
        320,
        403,
        434,
        440,
        445,
        458,
        465,
        475,
        521,
        584,
        615,
        623,
        636,
        642,
        645,
        682
      ],
      "fact": "Confronts the possibility that simply refusing succession leaves the primary identity path unresolved and allows fallback authority sources to continue being ranked. She considers acceptance only as a potential way to close or redirect that path, without signing anything in Chapter 21.",
      "art": "Marian before the selector and later beside the unopened succession instrument; no crown imagery yet.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p068",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p080",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p116",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p134",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p281",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p320",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p403",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p434",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p440",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p445",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p458",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p465",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p475",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p521",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p584",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p615",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p623",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p636",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p642",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p645",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p682"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-DARAN",
      "name": "Daran Pell",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        11,
        18,
        35,
        91,
        274,
        385,
        505,
        546,
        675
      ],
      "fact": "Helps trace the sheet's composite language across decades of manuals and remote copies, including the later maintenance page that independently completes the continuity rule.",
      "art": "Source piles and remote-copy comparison work.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p011",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p018",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p035",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p091",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p274",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p385",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p505",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p546",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p675"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-PERA",
      "name": "Pera Sol",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        89,
        132,
        147,
        188,
        216,
        250,
        265,
        273,
        363,
        504,
        567,
        570
      ],
      "fact": "Photographs route markers, room labels, service cards and selector evidence; maintains custody and witness records while resisting premature interpretation.",
      "art": "Recorder and evidence photography in the narrow maintenance room.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p089",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p132",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p147",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p188",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p216",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p250",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p265",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p273",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p363",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p504",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p567",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p570"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-KEST",
      "name": "Iona Kest",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        101,
        132,
        180,
        190,
        344,
        439,
        442,
        473,
        620,
        633
      ],
      "fact": "Tests the legal and custody implications of entering the service room, the temporary continuity certificates and Marian's possible succession standing without converting machine preference into law.",
      "art": "Custody log and continuity forms; no courtroom staging.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p101",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p132",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p180",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p190",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p344",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p439",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p442",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p473",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p620",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p633"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-PLACE-CONTINUITY-ROOM",
      "name": "The Continuity Service Room",
      "kind": "Place",
      "paragraphs": [
        128,
        144,
        150,
        165,
        182,
        197,
        217,
        230
      ],
      "fact": "A hidden but maintained service room beneath the first Hall of the Atlas contains layered continuity equipment, old and modern wiring, service cards and the manual selector. It is infrastructure, not a throne room or secret government chamber.",
      "art": "Low brick service room with relay banks, later converters and maintenance cards.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p128",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p144",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p150",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p165",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p182",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p197",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p217",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p230"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-CONTINUITY-SELECTOR",
      "name": "Continuity Resolution Selector",
      "kind": "Infrastructure mechanism",
      "paragraphs": [
        220,
        230,
        248,
        254,
        257,
        277,
        299,
        308,
        324,
        373,
        410,
        431,
        475,
        526,
        582
      ],
      "fact": "Ranks available authority sources through primary principal, trustee fallback, civic continuity and manual selection. It selects a source; later identity and translation systems map that source into principals, roles and permissions.",
      "art": "Relay sequence diagram showing source selection, not a machine choosing a human ruler.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p220",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p230",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p248",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p254",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p257",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p277",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p299",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p308",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p324",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p373",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p410",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p431",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p475",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p526",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p582"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-BRASS-KEY",
      "name": "For When There Is No Master",
      "kind": "Manual selector key",
      "paragraphs": [
        220,
        223,
        323,
        470,
        483,
        502,
        565,
        606
      ],
      "fact": "A nineteenth-century brass key is sealed beside the selector under a handwritten label. Chapter 21 does not use it. An independent maintenance page later shows it can place the selector into a disconnected manual-source test mode.",
      "art": "Brass key behind sealed glass with evidence strips; no magical-key treatment.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p220",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p223",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p323",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p470",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p483",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p502",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p565",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p606"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-CONTINUITY-FORMS",
      "name": "The Continuity Certificates",
      "kind": "Administrative forms",
      "paragraphs": [
        333,
        337,
        340,
        344,
        353,
        355,
        359,
        362,
        373
      ],
      "fact": "Forms record temporary source authority, scope, duration, succession state and witnesses. Later versions progressively drop duration and witness fields, showing how a temporary continuity procedure became easier to renew and normalize.",
      "art": "Several generations of the same form with fields disappearing over time.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p333",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p337",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p340",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p344",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p353",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p355",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p359",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p362",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p373"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-SOURCE-CHAIN",
      "name": "Source → Principal → Role → Permission",
      "kind": "System model",
      "paragraphs": [
        277,
        299,
        410,
        526,
        582,
        589,
        594,
        600,
        623
      ],
      "fact": "The chapter distinguishes four stages: the selector resolves an authority source; the identity service maps source to principal; translation maps principal/role to service permission; delegation can create child principals where allowed.",
      "art": "Four-step diagram with boundaries between each stage.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p277",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p299",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p410",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p526",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p582",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p589",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p594",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p600",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p623"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-MANUAL-SOURCE-TEST",
      "name": "Manual Source Test",
      "kind": "Maintenance procedure",
      "paragraphs": [
        562,
        565,
        566,
        569,
        573,
        582
      ],
      "fact": "An independently held eastern maintenance page documents that the brass key can move the selector into a disconnected simulation state for testing source-class resolution. It is not evidence that the key grants live ownership or citywide control.",
      "art": "Maintenance instruction card beside isolated test position; no live activation.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p562",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p565",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p566",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p569",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p573",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p582"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-HIGHEST-VALID-SOURCE",
      "name": "Highest Valid Source Available",
      "kind": "Continuity rule",
      "paragraphs": [
        573,
        582,
        584,
        589,
        594,
        600
      ],
      "fact": "The independently recovered maintenance text completes the rule: when no recognised principal resolves, continuity seeks the highest valid source available under the current succession state. The rule ranks sources; it does not create legal title by itself.",
      "art": "Rule text beside ordered source classes and CURRENT SUCCESSION STATE field.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p573",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p582",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p584",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p589",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p594",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p600"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-SELECTOR-ISOLATION",
      "name": "Selector Isolation Record",
      "kind": "Safety / evidence record",
      "paragraphs": [
        470,
        475,
        483,
        486,
        498,
        502
      ],
      "fact": "The live link to the identity service is disconnected, selector output isolated, key case sealed and witnessed, and the public record states MANUAL KEY NOT USED · NO PRINCIPAL CREATED · NO AUTHORITY TRANSFERRED.",
      "art": "Isolation checklist with numbered seals and two-end cable disconnection.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p470",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p475",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p483",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p486",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p498",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p502"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-UNKNOWN-RECORD-REVISED",
      "name": "The UNKNOWN Record — Revised Finding",
      "kind": "Provisional archive record",
      "paragraphs": [
        600,
        640,
        644,
        647,
        652,
        669
      ],
      "fact": "The recovered sheet remains unprovenanced. Its language is now described as functionally consistent with the selector family, while direct provenance, author, date and relation to the delegated principal UNKNOWN remain unresolved.",
      "art": "Provisional catalogue entry with resolved function and unresolved provenance shown side by side.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p600",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p640",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p644",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p647",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p652",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p669"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "continuity_locks": [
    "Chapter 21 begins from the unprovenanced sheet recovered after the central archive fire in Chapter 20.",
    "The sheet combines language from different administrative eras; this supports later composition or copying but does not identify its author.",
    "The number sequence on the sheet maps to maintenance routes beneath the first Hall of the Atlas.",
    "The continuity service room is maintained infrastructure, not a secret throne room or proof of a hidden surviving government.",
    "The Continuity Resolution Selector ranks authority sources; it does not create a person, biological identity or legal owner.",
    "The brass key is not used in Chapter 21.",
    "The selector is isolated from live identity services before publication; no principal is created and no authority is transferred.",
    "The independently held eastern maintenance page documents a disconnected manual-source test mode for the brass key.",
    "The rule 'highest valid source available under current succession state' is supported by the eastern maintenance copy; direct provenance of the UNKNOWN sheet remains unproven.",
    "The chapter distinguishes selector/source resolution, identity principal mapping, role/permission translation and delegation as separate mechanisms.",
    "Marian signs no succession instrument in Chapter 21.",
    "Marian concludes that simple refusal may leave the primary succession path unresolved and allow fallback source resolution to continue; this motivates, but does not execute, Chapter 22.",
    "The retained Graham MASTER record, the Second Graham presentation and delegated principal UNKNOWN remain related through system behavior but are not collapsed into one actor or one mechanism.",
    "UNKNOWN remains locally disabled under the Chapter 17 identity freeze.",
    "No Chapter 21 evidence identifies who created the Second Graham, delegated UNKNOWN, attacked the archive or sabotaged the southern exchange.",
    "Chapter 22 must own Marian's public succession decision and any execution of Schedule Nine.",
    "Existing Chapter 9 artwork, Chapter 5 notes, Archive 001 content and live game rules remain unchanged."
  ],
  "edition": "A2-CH21-20260926-R1",
  "chapter": 21,
  "title": "The Unknown Record",
  "status": "published_novel_chapter",
  "word_count": 3756,
  "chapter_url": "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/",
  "prose_hash": "1bc7f3c6b10b70554408f06d64de8ac8f5e05848a4110325953b88c262b791db",
  "tcg": {
    "status": "Untested design candidates only. Costs, statistics, rarity and timing are not approved. No live game rules change in this release.",
    "candidates": [
      {
        "id": "A2-C21-F01",
        "name": "Eliza Marr, Function Before Provenance",
        "type": "Figure",
        "affinity": [
          "Knowledge"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-CHAR-ELIZA",
          "A2-OBJ-UNKNOWN-RECORD-REVISED"
        ],
        "direction": "Allows one disputed Record to gain a bounded functional classification while its authorship and authority benefits remain unresolved.",
        "open_question": "Separate function tags from authentication so this cannot grant identity or ownership."
      },
      {
        "id": "A2-C21-F02",
        "name": "Arun Vey, Isolate Before Testing",
        "type": "Figure",
        "affinity": [
          "Infrastructure",
          "Knowledge"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-CHAR-ARUN",
          "A2-OBJ-SELECTOR-ISOLATION"
        ],
        "direction": "Moves one infrastructure effect into a disconnected test state before examining its authority mapping, preventing live downstream permissions during the test.",
        "open_question": "Use existing disabled/testing states and avoid a separate simulation board."
      },
      {
        "id": "A2-C21-F03",
        "name": "Marian Vale, Refusal Leaves a Path",
        "type": "Figure",
        "affinity": [
          "Authority",
          "Knowledge"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-CHAR-MARIAN",
          "A2-OBJ-HIGHEST-VALID-SOURCE"
        ],
        "direction": "When Marian declines an authority claim, reveal the next valid source rather than treating refusal as deletion of the entire succession chain.",
        "open_question": "Keep this as a story-derived candidate and do not pre-empt Chapter 22's legal outcome."
      },
      {
        "id": "A2-C21-R01",
        "name": "Continuity Resolution Selector",
        "type": "Record",
        "affinity": [
          "Authority",
          "Infrastructure"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-OBJ-CONTINUITY-SELECTOR",
          "A2-OBJ-SOURCE-CHAIN"
        ],
        "direction": "Resolves the highest eligible source from a visible ordered list, but requires later effects to turn that source into principal or permission.",
        "open_question": "Keep source resolution distinct from direct control."
      },
      {
        "id": "A2-C21-R02",
        "name": "For When There Is No Master",
        "type": "Record",
        "affinity": [
          "Knowledge",
          "Authority"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-OBJ-BRASS-KEY",
          "A2-OBJ-MANUAL-SOURCE-TEST"
        ],
        "direction": "Enables a disconnected test of one fallback source without creating live authority; any result is informational until separately enacted.",
        "open_question": "Do not let the key become an unconditional master-control artifact."
      },
      {
        "id": "A2-C21-R03",
        "name": "Highest Valid Source Available",
        "type": "Record",
        "affinity": [
          "Authority",
          "Knowledge"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-OBJ-HIGHEST-VALID-SOURCE",
          "A2-OBJ-CONTINUITY-FORMS"
        ],
        "direction": "When a primary authority source fails, exposes the next eligible source under the current succession state rather than inventing one.",
        "open_question": "Cap the source chain and keep succession state visible."
      },
      {
        "id": "A2-C21-E01",
        "name": "A Government of Forms",
        "type": "Event",
        "affinity": [
          "Authority",
          "Knowledge"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-OBJ-CONTINUITY-FORMS",
          "A2-OBJ-CONTINUITY-SELECTOR"
        ],
        "direction": "Shows how temporary continuity fields lose duration, witness and scope limits over successive revisions, making one temporary authority effect easier to renew until challenged.",
        "open_question": "Model institutional drift without requiring players to track many historical versions."
      }
    ]
  },
  "boundary": "Original Sleeper Archive fiction. Game concepts are untested; no live rules change.",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "A2-041",
      "title": "Continuity Resolution Selector",
      "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/041-continuity-resolution-selector/",
      "paragraphs": [
        128,
        165,
        217,
        230,
        248,
        254,
        257,
        277,
        299,
        308,
        324,
        410,
        431,
        475,
        526,
        582
      ],
      "copy": "Beneath the first Hall of the Atlas, a maintained continuity selector ranks available authority sources through primary principal, trustee fallback, civic continuity and manual selection. It selects a source; it does not create a person or legal owner.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p128",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p165",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p217",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p230",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p248",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p254",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p257",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p277",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p299",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p308",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p324",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p410",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p431",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p475",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p526",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p582"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-042",
      "title": "For When There Is No Master",
      "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/042-for-when-there-is-no-master/",
      "paragraphs": [
        220,
        223,
        323,
        470,
        483,
        502,
        562,
        565,
        573,
        582
      ],
      "copy": "A brass key remains sealed beside the selector. An independent eastern maintenance copy shows it can enter a disconnected manual-source test mode. Chapter 21 does not use the key or transfer any live authority.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p220",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p223",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p323",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p470",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p483",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p502",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p562",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p565",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p573",
        "/after-the-sleeper/21-the-unknown-record/#p582"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
