Canon and Status
Every substantive vault claim should be understood through one of three statuses.
Locked
Material explicitly established for this vault or directly established by the selected source continuity. It should not be silently revised. A contradiction requires an explicit decision and an update to affected notes.
Tentative
A working interpretation, assignment, bridge, or characterization that is useful enough to write down but remains open to revision. Tentative material may guide drafting, but it is not final biography or continuity.
Unresolved
A known question or contradiction for which the vault has not selected an answer. Competing possibilities should be recorded without quietly choosing one in narrative prose.
Source Priority
- Explicit decisions recorded for this vault.
- WAR’s own depicted events and setting claims.
- Pre-divergence WHFB lore inherited presumptively by WAR.
- Provisional harmonization notes connecting WAR to the End Times.
Later WHFB material does not automatically overwrite WAR. When WAR and the End Times cannot both occur as written, the contradiction remains unresolved until the vault adopts a patch.
Character Guardrail
Names, races, careers, and explicitly discussed personality are separable from biography. A locked name and career do not authorize a surname, birthplace, family, age, relationship, or personal history. Those fields remain blank until established.