Odyssey Living Reader · Lexicon

Characters

Core cast for the voyage, the Poet as Narrator (outside the scene), Supporting figures for lookup, and a dual-identity card template so audience knowledge and hall appearance can stay distinct — without game stats or print UI yet.

← Living Reader home Book I Homer · Narrator card Poet frame Great Hall (beta)

Core cast

Also shown on the main Reader page. Faces of the everlasting epic.

Narrator · Poet

Homer sings to the audience. He is not a body in the hall. Open the card the same way you open Core Cast. Calliope remains Muse companion — no separate card in this drop.

Supporting cast

Lookup figures — guest-friends, suitors, household song. Text-first until portraits arrive.

Dual-identity cards

Template ready · content held

First-class card type: Apparent form (what the hall encounters) and True form (what the poem / audience knows), plus a Knowledge Split callout. Designated first drop-in: Athena / Mentes — art and final copy are intentionally not shipped in this phase.

Side A · Apparent form

— empty slot (e.g. guest-friend at the door)

Side B · True form

— empty slot (e.g. the goddess the poem names)

Knowledge split Characters know: (held)
Audience knows: (held)

Data contract: dualIdentity · apparentForm · trueForm · knowledgeSplit in characters.json. Print/PDF later (Phase C).