Open questions for Ray

1. Long Road placement. Should the caravan job always come between Halfway and the first court, so parallel spells come before asymmetric ones in either letter order? Recommendation: yes; the caravan carries the player to whichever city they pick.
2. Choir threads (C2). Fix the composer so it scores each half, or keep Choir spells out of threads? Recommendation: fix the composer; until then, no named Choir threads.
3. Self-chains (C1). Drop chains of a straight stroke into itself? Recommendation: yes, drop any self-chain whose joint isn't a corner.
4. Brace's teacher. Tamsin at Halfway (an earlier draft of this roadmap) or Aske (the Spell Set)? Recommendation: Aske, at the Sallowbank ferry in Act 1, hand over hand (quest aske_brace). She traces it and doesn't cast, so her twenty years without casting hold until the Unstilling, where Brace is her one cast. Settled as Aske (VEL-63).
5. Keepers and Choir colours. Dusk rose #FF8FA3 and frost white #E4ECFF? Recommendation: yes. Both are clear of the existing four colours, and the Choir's white matches its "unseen" domain. Art Direction may want the white nudged so it reads against pale Evane stone.
6. Weigh in conversations. Is a spell that shows whether a speaker believes their own claim a good fit for the morality system, or too strong? Recommendation: keep it, limited to one claim per conversation. It shows belief, not truth, so people who are wrong but sincere still pass.
7. Hasten and Recall. Keep them as a deliberate near-reverse pair? Recommendation: keep them, and test on device. If players mix them up, change Recall into a single loop drawn twice.
8. Crown Surge as warp-born. Should a main-list spell be time-limited? Recommendation: yes, as the first taste of warp-born glyphs. It surfaces at the Sallow warp, fades at act3.stage 10, resurfaces at fresh warps later, and a stolen copy sells at the Undermere fence, so it can't be missed for good (VEL-63).
9. The Corran glyph's name. Pavilion Wake, or keep "the Corran glyph" as its in-game name? Recommendation: Pavilion Wake (pavilion_wake) in the Spell Book, with "the Corran glyph" as what people call it. It replaces the Act 3 walkthrough's "Girdle Thaw"; the Girdle cut and the Girdle house keep their names (VEL-63).
10. Shape changes. Accept the new Squall, Echo, Tailwind, Root and Hasten shapes, and update the Spell Set tab to match? Recommendation: yes, since the old shapes collide.
11. Facet power (carried over from the Spell Set): should Facet spells hit harder because they are harder to draw? Recommendation: slightly (about 1.2× an Evane spell of the same role), and always with a cost or condition attached, as Crown Surge has.
12. Player HP is still undefined, and every heal and Recall amount depends on it.

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