Seeds of the Throne

type: production-system
status: working
updated: 2026-09-03

Character Identity Locks

Purpose

An identity lock answers who remains the same while allowing the photograph to become new. It protects stable human geometry and continuity without freezing pose, wardrobe, palette, or emotional state.

Identity hierarchy

1. Primary identity master — the best approved face and body anchor.
2. Required angle references — straight-on, strict profile, and front three-quarter when available.
3. Supporting references — approved age, expression, body, wardrobe, or relational evidence.
4. Scene candidates — useful interpretations that cannot redefine identity.

Follow skills/create-seeds-images/references/visual-registry.json for current approved files and reference priority.

Immutable packet

Record only traits that should survive almost every scene:

• facial geometry and silhouette;
• apparent age range;
• stable hairline, hair texture, and facial hair logic;
• eye placement, nose, mouth, jaw, ears, and distinguishing marks;
• body proportions, height relationship, and habitual physical weight;
• traits explicitly established by story canon.

Avoid poetic descriptors that models cannot test. Prefer relational geometry: narrower than, deep-set, high bridge, broad lower face, asymmetric brow, or compact build.

Flexible packet

Allow scene logic to determine:

• clothing and grooming within era and role;
• expression and emotional visibility;
• pose, gesture, gaze, and hand use;
• camera side, lens, crop, and distance;
• palette, lighting, weather, and location;
• age variation when the timeline requires it;
• injury, fatigue, status, and environmental effects.

Multi-character scenes

Lock each character separately before describing the relationship. State relative height, distance, eyelines, touch, and who occupies foreground or background. Prevent face blending by giving each subject a distinct action and spatial position. Do not ask a model to infer two identities from one paired poster when separate identity masters exist.

Luminai presentation

Luminai and Daemon visual manifestation is energy radiating from the integrated person, concentrated around the head/brain and chest. It is not a separate face, body, holographic companion, monster, or romantic figure. The energy pattern may differentiate healthy integration from corrupted feedback, but it cannot replace the person's identity or imply a second embodied character. In-world observability remains unresolved.

Sylvan wardrobe

For ordinary surface scenes, resolve Sylvan's clothing from his age, role, activity, weather, and the scene's equivalent year. The development reference is middle-class urban Los Angeles and broader United States clothing from 1985 through the present, translated into the invented culture without real brands or locations. His black structured coat and pendant remain valid for later formal, integration, or symbolic scenes; they are not his universal costume.

Konrad Fitzgerald identity

The author approved Konrad's late-containment appearance on 2026-09-03.

• apparent age: late sixties to early seventies;
• silhouette: tall, broad, upright, squared military-command posture;
• face: broad and square with a heavy jaw, blunt chin, strong compressed brow, deep-set eyes, and broad straight nose;
• hair: close-cropped iron-gray, short at the sides and slightly fuller on top;
• facial hair: clean-shaven;
• expression: severe certainty and controlled authority;
• distinction: never inherit Samuel's narrow hooked face, beard, receding wavy hair, stoop, or crown, and never inherit Sylvan's dark curls, beard, or younger athletic appearance.

The approved front three-quarter anchor is skills/create-seeds-images/assets/reference-images/konrad-fitzgerald-identity-anchor-v1.png. Straight-on and strict-profile masters remain pending. The exact high-collared coat, crimson control lines, blue connection lines, and moon architecture in the source image are scene-specific interpretation rather than locked story facts.

Drift checklist

• Does facial width remain stable across camera angles?
• Did apparent age change accidentally?
• Did hair, beard, skin detail, or body proportions drift toward a generic archetype?
• Did two characters blend traits?
• Did the model preserve reference clothing or pose without scene reason?
• Did a symbolic visual detail become accidental story canon?

Reject identity drift before polishing style. A beautiful wrong person is not a continuity success.