Small things, mid June

Two small ones this time, both about the codex keeping promises it had only half kept.

The characters tab arrived a little ahead of itself. It was meant to fill in as you played, meet someone in the story and find them waiting in the codex afterward, but the wiring was not quite finished, so some familiar faces never showed up to their own portraits. That is fixed now. The people of Hyunjae's world take their place in the gallery the moment the story introduces them. Her household finally sat for the painter too: her mother, Jiseon, and Boknyeo all have portraits now, so the people who shape her days are no longer just names. I also went back over the existing art with fresh eyes and adjusted a few portraits that were not quite the people I knew them to be. If you peek at the locked stories on the selection screen, their casts have quietly grown as well, faces waiting for chapters that are still being written.

The second is smaller and stranger to explain. Some of the people you meet are not, at first, telling you everything. The codex understands that now. When a story reveals who someone truly is, their entry quietly becomes that person, the name, the role, the truth of them, instead of staying the version they let you see at the start. You will only find it if you reach the moment that earns it, and only on the path where it happens. It is the kind of detail that pretends it was always there.

As for what is next, Reine is deep in revision, and the third story has just moved from research notes to a full blueprint. Slow hands, but moving ones. Thank you for being here.