Qualified succession, Schedule Nine execution, public-use disposition, retained private wealth and five services that still have to migrate without a Master shortcut.
Accepts succession subject to existing restrictions, immediately executes Schedule Nine, separates public-use assets from the private estate, and later places the private remainder into a trust that cannot acquire political authority through public infrastructure. She retains private wealth but rejects private succession as a basis for public command.
Use the plain succession-office table, public square documents, or home-with-Leda ending. Avoid coronation imagery.
A2-CHAR-NARA · Character
Nara Venn
Keeps Marian's transfer from becoming a triumphal spectacle, insists useful outcomes do not settle governance, and refuses to lend her own standing to the private remainder trust merely by signing beside it.
Square-side procedural scene with no stage, or Nara refusing to sign the trust.
A2-CHAR-ARUN · Character
Arun Vey
Runs the succession event first in an isolated identity-service copy, then migrates live systems only after Schedule Nine is executed. He removes owner-priority translations service by service rather than using the isolated continuity selector or creating a new Master.
Migration board and service-specific authority remapping; no master switch.
A2-CHAR-ELIZA · Character
Eliza Marr
Attaches the evidence chain to Schedule Nine, preserves automatic owner-priority grants before revocation, publishes the selector's continued isolation, and keeps the legal and machine changes separately documented.
Source-chain annexes, migration records and public status notices.
A2-CHAR-ANSEL · Character
Ruth Ansel
Drafts protective acceptance clauses, distinguishes succession standing from unrestricted ownership, and structures the private remainder trust so Marian is beneficiary but not sole political controller.
Separates vesting, effective transfer, title challenges and public-use classification. Her final memorandum states what has legally changed without pretending every disputed asset has been resolved.
Marked title schedules, challenge memoranda and the final legal status sheet.
A2-CHAR-VOSS · Character
Halden Voss
Challenges the scope of Schedule Nine rather than denying the succession itself, later recognises that the retained Graham Master claim is extinguished where estate title no longer operates, and preserves unresolved title disputes for specific proceedings.
Specific written challenges at the succession office or square microphone, not a defeated-villain pose.
A2-CHAR-LEDA · Character
Leda Fenn
Receives Marian at home after the succession day and restores ordinary scale to the ending: public transformation does not erase private obligations, including the repaired household window.
Domestic kitchen, soup, repaired window and papers on the table.
A2-OBJ-SUCCESSION-INSTRUMENT · Legal instrument
The Qualified Succession Instrument
Recognises Marian's identity, descent and estate standing while preserving Schedule Nine, disputed title, machine-classification limits and separately established public or technical arrangements. It resolves succession standing without itself transferring public-use assets.
Plain signed instrument with protective clauses and no ceremonial seal emphasis.
A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE-NINE-EXECUTED · Legal instrument
Schedule Nine — Executed
After succession standing is recognised, Marian executes the verified Schedule Nine restriction. The execution applies to identified public-use classes and does not retroactively erase unrelated private property or title already vested elsewhere.
Execution page beside source-chain annex and classified asset schedules.
A2-OBJ-PUBLIC-USE-SCHEDULE · Asset disposition record
The Public-Use Transfer Schedule
Separates transport, power, water, food exchanges, communications, public land and administrative systems from excluded private assets. It is amended when provenance shows particular assets no longer belong to the estate.
Category table with TRANSFER / EXCLUDE / TITLE CHECK states.
A2-OBJ-NO-PRIVATE-COMMAND · Operative clause
No Public Command from Private Succession
States that no identified public-use asset may derive political or administrative authority from private succession to the Graham estate. It is repeated publicly and becomes the core boundary between retained private wealth and public command.
Single operative clause presented as a legal-text study.
A2-OBJ-GRAHAM-MASTER-HISTORICAL · Identity-service status
Retained Graham Master — Historical
Following succession recognition and asset migration, the retained Graham MASTER status is marked historical in migrated systems rather than deleted from the record. Its prior existence remains auditable.
Before/after identity status fields; do not depict Graham himself.
A2-OBJ-MIGRATION-BOARD · Operational record
The Master-Dependency Migration Board
Tracks active services still dependent on estate-derived Master authority while public-use assets are remapped. The count falls but is not treated as a victory score because each remaining line corresponds to a real service dependency.
Public count with service names and unresolved reasons, not a celebratory countdown.
A2-OBJ-VALE-TRUST · Private remainder structure
Vale Transitional Trust
Holds Marian's private remainder—houses, accounts, investments, collections and non-public-use interests—while barring the trust from deriving political authority from public infrastructure or financing a claim to public office. Marian remains a beneficiary, not sole controller.
Trust deed beside private remainder schedule; no crown or public-asset imagery.
A2-OBJ-FIVE-SERVICES · Unresolved migration state
Five Master-Dependent Services Remaining
At day's end five systems remain unresolved because their replacement authority sources, title status or governance structures are still contested. Marian refuses to use successor standing as a shortcut. Chapter 23 inherits these live dependencies.
Five unresolved service rows with specific status notes and no forced green state.
TCG candidates
Untested design candidates only. Costs, statistics, rarity and timing are not approved. No live game rules change in this release.
A2-C22-F01 · Figure · Authority / Influence
Marian Vale, Accept to Relinquish
Temporarily gains standing to resolve one succession-bound asset, then must transfer or relinquish the qualifying public-use authority rather than retain it.
Open design question: Use existing ownership/transfer rules and make the relinquishment part of the same bounded effect.
Preserves one ordinary private obligation after a large authority or ownership transfer, preventing public transformation from erasing unrelated commitments.
Open design question: Keep the effect simple and grounded in existing obligation/resource mechanics.
Keeps unresolved service dependencies visible after a major authority transition; they cannot be silently treated as migrated until individually resolved.
Open design question: Cap the unresolved rows represented in play.
Chapter 22 follows Chapter 21's finding that unresolved succession leaves the continuity selector able to rank fallback authority sources.
Marian accepts succession before executing Schedule Nine; the order of recognition, execution and systems migration is deliberate.
The succession instrument preserves Schedule Nine and does not convert machine classification into legal title.
Schedule Nine transfers only identified public-use assets still supported by estate title and applicable restriction; it does not transfer every private asset or every system used by the public.
Assets already vested elsewhere are removed or separately treated after provenance review.
The operative clause bars public-use assets from deriving political or administrative authority from private succession to the Graham estate.
Public-use assets are not placed under one new universal owner. Title, operation and governance are separated across multiple public structures.
Marian retains substantial private wealth in the Vale Transitional Trust. Chapter 22 is not a total renunciation of private property.
The Vale Transitional Trust is barred from using public infrastructure ownership or estate wealth to create political authority.
The retained Graham MASTER classification becomes historical in migrated systems rather than being erased from archival history.
The continuity selector remains isolated; the brass key is not used; no principal is created and no authority is transferred through the selector.
UNKNOWN remains locally disabled and the Second Graham does not return in Chapter 22.
Five Master-dependent services remain unresolved at the end of the chapter. Do not retcon the migration as fully complete.
The custodians preserve specific legal challenges to transfers; Chapter 22 does not establish that every transfer is uncontested.
Chapter 23 must begin with the city functioning despite the loss of a single private estate basis for public authority.
Existing Chapter 9 artwork, Chapter 5 notes, Archive 001 content and live game rules remain unchanged.