---
title: ""                    # Display name (e.g., "Kael Davan")
slug: ""                     # URL-safe identifier (e.g., "kael-davan")
canonical_id: ""             # e.g., "npc:kael-davan"
category: character
status: proposed             # proposed | draft | canonical
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
tier: 2                      # 1 (FRIEND/production) | 2 (template) | 3 (flat) | 0 (off-stage)
pattern: ""                  # FRIEND | MIRROR | ANCHOR | GHOST | CATALYST | THRESHOLD | REMNANT | SYSTEM | NOBODY
motivation: ""               # HANDLER | WITNESS | TURNCOAT | CIVILIAN | OPERATOR | SKEPTIC
social_sites: []             # location slugs where this character appears
entanglement: ""             # entangled | mundane | flat
triangles: []                # triangle slugs
home_district: ""            # district slug
tags: []
decision_refs: []            # e.g., [D-024, D-034]
cross_refs: []               # slugs of related characters, factions, locations
---

# {Title}

**Tier {tier} NPC** | {social_sites} | {entanglement}

---

## Core Identity

**Name**: {full name}
**Age**: {age}
**Role**: {occupation/function}
**System Origin**: {home system and station}
**Cultural Group**: {cultural group slug}
**Lattice Tier**: {Baseline | Enhanced | Analytical}
**Employer**: {employer(s)}

---

## 10-Axis Profile

### 1. Want

**Primary**: {1-line want statement}

{Expansion: why they want this, how it manifests, trajectory.}

**Secondary**: {1-line secondary want}

### 2. Secret / Vulnerability

**Surface secret**: {what most people suspect or know vaguely}

**Deep secret**: {what nobody knows}

**Vulnerability**: {what breaks them}

### 3. Relationships

{3 named relationships with type, history, current tension, mechanical relevance.}

### 4. Tolerance Threshold

**{Low | Moderate | High}** — {summary}

{What they tolerate. What pushes them. What breaks them.}

### 5. Daily Routine

{Time-stamped routine with ring/operation deviations noted.}

### 6. Information Inventory

**Knows**: {bulleted list of FactIds and knowledge}
**Doesn't know**: {bulleted list of gaps}

### 7. Contentment

**{Level descriptor}** — {summary and trajectory}

### 8. Personality Traits

**Primary**: {trait} — {description}
**Secondary**: {trait} — {description}
**Tertiary**: {trait} — {description}

### 9. Tell System

| Tell | Trigger | Observable To |
|------|---------|---------------|
| {tell} | {trigger} | {who can see it} |

### 10. Skill Set

**Occupational**: {skills}
**Combat tag**: **{Yes | No}**
**Lattice capability**: {tier}

---

## Voice Sample

{3-5 lines covering different moods}

---

## Dual-Lens Notes

**Smuggler**: {how the smuggler reads this character}
**Detective**: {how the detective reads this character}

---

## Triangle Roles

{Per-triangle: function, pressure, player relevance}

---

## Pattern / Motivation

**Pattern (System A):** {PATTERN} — {explanation}
**Motivation (System B):** {MOTIVATION} — {explanation}
**Composition read:** {how pattern + motivation interact}

---

**Cross-References:**
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  Other characters:          {slug}.md
  Factions:                  ../factions/{slug}.md
  Technology:                ../technology/{slug}.md
  Contraband:                ../contraband/{slug}.md
  Triangles:                 ../triangles/{slug}.md
  Concepts:                  ../concepts/{slug}.md
  Star systems:              ../star-systems/{sys}/index.md
  Stations:                  ../star-systems/{sys}/{sta}/index.md
  Districts:                 ../star-systems/{sys}/{sta}/{dist}/index.md
  Locations:                 ../star-systems/{sys}/{sta}/{dist}/{loc}.md
-->
- [{faction_name}](../factions/{slug}.md) — {affiliation}
- [{location_name}](../star-systems/{sys}/{sta}/{dist}/{slug}.md) — {social site}