Named opponents

People the player fights by name. They cast like the player, with real tells, and they yield at 0 HP: humans never die in battle. Iver Kest and Prelate Ondine are named opponents too; as finale bosses, their entries are under Bosses.

Tamsin in the Ring — tamsin_ring

• Region: The Sallow (Halfway, the Proving Ring).
• Look: Tamsin Vale, the Warden recruiter (her character concepts, tamsin-ref-a), in a Ring sash over her Warden blues. Her glyph bands glow faintly when she draws. She fights clean, all Warden corners. Silhouette: an upright young caster, square to the player, hands up and level.
• Behaviour: A Warden bolt every 5 s for 10. She casts Repel and Brace, and each cast is telegraphed in the upper middle (new). Tell: her pale blue glyph shows at her hands for 1 s. The Ring's wards stop the bout before anyone is hurt.
• Counters: Repel (tier 1) interrupts her casts. Coil and Mend trade with her. It is the first fight against someone who casts like the player.
• Rough stats: HP mid (100). Damage low (10). Speed normal (5 s), first attack 5 s. maxHp 100, attackDamage 10, attackIntervalSeconds 5, firstAttackDelaySeconds 5, casts Repel and Brace, cast telegraph (new), color "#7FD4FF"
• Drops: none. A win sets ring.tamsin.won; win or lose, the crowd has seen the farmer's hands.
• Where it appears: Act 1, Halfway's Proving Ring (ring_tamsin, scene 4.5). The encounter can be lost (canLose: true): the wards stop the bout.
• Model notes for Meshy: humanoid (Meshy rig), from Tamsin's character sheets (tamsin-concept-a, -b, tamsin-ref-a, tamsin-expressions-a), with her Repel and Brace casting animations. Not a VEL-66 enemy sheet.

Tamsin in the Vault — tamsin_spar

• Region: Twinhold and Greenvault (the inner Measure Vault).
• Look: Tamsin on the night watch in the Vault, with the warded shelves behind her. Silhouette: as in the Ring, but braced in a doorway.
• Behaviour: A Warden bolt every 5 s for 12. She casts Repel (10, a 2.5 s stagger on the player) and Brace (15 shield), telegraphed like the Ring bout. Tell: her glyph at her hands for 1 s.
• Counters: Gale and threads such as Headwind get past her Brace. Repel trades staggers with hers. The Vault's wards still hold: no spell twice in a row. The player can also talk her down (tamsin.trust ≥ 2) or Repel her out of the way and run.
• Rough stats: HP mid (140). Damage mid (12). Speed normal (5 s), first attack 5 s. maxHp 140, attackDamage 12, attackIntervalSeconds 5, firstAttackDelaySeconds 5, casts Repel and Brace, cast telegraph (new), color "#7FD4FF"
• Drops: none. Losing means capture (canLose: true): a Warden court sits the next morning and seals the spell used in the crime (Repel can never be sealed).
• Where it appears: Act 2, the inner Vault on the break-in (tamsin_spar, scene 5.3), only if the player chooses to fight her.
• Model notes for Meshy: reuses tamsin_ring's model.

Culet cutter — culet_cutter

• Region: The Heart Pane.
• Look: A Facet of Iver's cut, the Culet cut, with a glass pick: a long-handled pick of amber crystal for driving into the Pane. Mismatched slate and amber coat. Silhouette: a crouched figure with a raised pick. The pick rising is the tell.
• Behaviour: Doesn't attack the player. Every 5 s a cutter strikes the chorus for 9, and each hit pushes the Pane gauge 5 towards Shattered. Three come one after another. Held asymmetry (rule 4). Tell: the pick lifts for 1 s.
• Counters: Prism Snare (tier 3) stops a cutter. Repel (tier 1) staggers one for 5 s (rule 4). Mirrored casts at 80% or better also count as notes in the chorus, which keeps the gauge below 0.
• Rough stats: HP low (70 each). Damage low (9, at the chorus). Speed normal (5 s), first attack 5 s. maxHp 70, attackDamage 9, attackIntervalSeconds 5, firstAttackDelaySeconds 5, targets ally (new), gauge +5 a hit (new), stagger x2 from mirrored (new), color "#FFC66B"
• Drops: none. It's the finale.
• Where it appears: Act 4, the Pane arena on the Help Ondine path (pane_chorus_guard, scene 4.14), three in waves.
• Model notes for Meshy: reuses glyph_hunter's model with a glass pick prop.

The chorus, guarded — mirrored_chorus_ally

• Region: The Heart Pane.
• Look: Ondine's chorus (see mirrored_chorus), seen from inside: the player stands in the empty place at the centre of the four stones, and the four voices sing around them.
• Behaviour: An ally with its own HP bar (new). It attacks no one. The chorus beat every 6 s pushes the Pane gauge towards Still. Every mirrored cast the player makes at 80% or better is also a note in the chorus. If its bar empties, the phase restarts.
• Counters: Not an enemy. Keep the cutters off it and the gauge below 0.
• Rough stats: HP high (300). No attack. maxHp 300, attackDamage 0, attackIntervalSeconds 6, firstAttackDelaySeconds 6, ally (new), color "#7FD4FF"
• Drops: none.
• Where it appears: Act 4, the Pane arena on the Help Ondine path (pane_chorus_guard, scene 4.14).
• Model notes for Meshy: reuses mirrored_chorus.

The Ring Card challengers (Idea)

The Proving Ring ladder in the Side Quests tab puts six named casters on Ulla's Ring Card above the Ring golem's three ranks. They fight under the Ring's wards (every spell pulls its punches; canLose: true; no drops: the Ring pays a ladder place and standing only). Their casts are telegraphed like Tamsin's, which needs Act 2's cast-telegraph code; until then the Act 1 challengers just hit. Models reuse the Evane mage base, glyph_hunter and a Waymaker driver with colour swaps.

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