{
  "version": "2026-08-21-v9-odysseus-views",
  "package": "composer-odyssey-cast-odysseus-core-card-reader-player-v1",
  "styleId": "odyssey-character-card-v1",
  "aspectRatio": "3:4",
  "mediaBase": "/media/characters/",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-21T05:40:00.000Z",
  "palette": {
    "indigo": "#0c1420",
    "seaTeal": "#3d8a9a",
    "warmGold": "#c9a84c",
    "bronze": "#a67c52"
  },
  "styleSummary": "Cinematic mythic-realism character cards: mid-shot portrait, readable dramatic key light, soft Aegean stone/sea bokeh, cohesive indigo–teal–gold–bronze grade. No text baked into art.",
  "bookCoverGuidance": "Book posters should pull 1–2 faces from this cast when narrative-appropriate, keep the same palette and lighting language, and treat character cards as identity references rather than full-scene stock.",
  "castTiers": {
    "core": "Main Reader page + Core section on /characters/",
    "supporting": "/characters/ Supporting section only — not dumped on main page"
  },
  "allegianceOptions": [
    "House of Odysseus",
    "Suitors",
    "Olympians",
    "Neutral / Other"
  ],
  "dualIdentityTemplate": {
    "_note": "First-class dual-identity card type. Athena/Mentes is the designated prototype — template only; no art or final copy in this package.",
    "dualIdentity": true,
    "apparentForm": {
      "name": null,
      "shortLabel": null,
      "portraitRef": null
    },
    "trueForm": {
      "name": null,
      "shortLabel": null,
      "portraitRef": null
    },
    "knowledgeSplit": {
      "charactersKnow": null,
      "audienceKnows": null
    }
  },
  "dualIdentityPrototype": {
    "id": "athena-mentes",
    "status": "LIVE_CONTENT_v1",
    "trueName": "Athena",
    "designatedFirst": true,
    "hold": null,
    "dualIdentity": true,
    "apparentForm": {
      "name": "Mentes",
      "shortLabel": "Leader of the Taphians · guest-friend",
      "portraitRef": null
    },
    "trueForm": {
      "name": "Athena",
      "shortLabel": "Grey-eyed goddess · daughter of Zeus",
      "portraitRef": "/media/characters/athena.webp"
    },
    "knowledgeSplit": {
      "charactersKnow": "A well-born guest from Taphos — Mentes, lord of the Taphians — stands at the door of Odysseus’ house. Telemachus and the suitors treat him as a mortal visitor under guest-right.",
      "audienceKnows": "Grey-eyed Athena has left Olympus, bound on golden sandals, and come in the guise of Mentes to put strength into Telemachus’ heart and set him on the path that leads toward his father."
    }
  },
  "characters": [
    {
      "id": "odysseus",
      "trueName": "Odysseus",
      "name": "Odysseus",
      "epithet": "Man of many turns · Lord of Ithaca",
      "role": "Rightful lord · hero of the song",
      "domain": "Rightful lord of the household · absent presence",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "House of Odysseus",
      "narrativeFunction": "The man whose absence defines the hall. The audience already knows he lives and will return; the empty seat is his Book I body.",
      "specialQuality": "Polymētis — cunning, resourcefulness, endurance; the seat that still waits",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 1,
      "image": "/media/characters/odysseus.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/odysseus.jpg",
      "notes": "The seat in the hall is empty, yet the house is still his. The poem has already told the audience what the suitors do not know: that the man of many turns still lives, favored by grey-eyed Athena, and that the long wandering will end at his own door. Telemachus grows toward the day he will stand with his father. Penelope holds the household against the suitors. The empty seat waits. Dual beggar/king card held — this is the lord form, not the beggar.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "bookIAbsence": true,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "penelope",
        "telemachus",
        "athena",
        "homer"
      ],
      "quote": "Resourceful Odysseus — the man of many turns, whose seat stands empty in his own hall.",
      "knowledgeSplit": {
        "title": "Audience vs the hall · Book I",
        "charactersKnow": "The lord is gone. Suitors devour the house. Telemachus has no sure word that his father still lives. The high seat is empty.",
        "audienceKnows": "The poet has already named him living: favoured by Athena, wandering still, bound at last for his own door. He is not in this hall. The empty seat is his presence."
      },
      "ratings": {
        "metis": "Defining (polymētis)",
        "bie": "Strong",
        "loyalty": "House of Odysseus",
        "voice": "Defining"
      },
      "views": [
        {
          "id": "portrait",
          "label": "Portrait",
          "image": "/media/characters/odysseus/portrait.webp",
          "role": "Face lock — lord form, studio indigo"
        },
        {
          "id": "front",
          "label": "Front",
          "image": "/media/characters/odysseus/front.webp",
          "role": "Full-body front turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "left",
          "label": "Left",
          "image": "/media/characters/odysseus/left.webp",
          "role": "Left profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "right",
          "label": "Right",
          "image": "/media/characters/odysseus/right.webp",
          "role": "Right profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "back",
          "label": "Back",
          "image": "/media/characters/odysseus/back.webp",
          "role": "Back turnaround"
        }
      ],
      "viewsNote": "Studio indigo turnaround kit LIVE. Cinematic card odysseus.webp (dusk sea) remains the public portrait. Lord form — not the beggar. Book I: he is absent from the hall."
    },
    {
      "id": "penelope",
      "trueName": "Penelope",
      "name": "Penelope",
      "epithet": "Queen of Ithaca",
      "role": "Steadfast sovereign",
      "domain": "Steadfast sovereign",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "House of Odysseus",
      "narrativeFunction": "Holds the house through delay, cunning, and loyalty while the king is gone.",
      "specialQuality": "The loom and the delay",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 2,
      "image": "/media/characters/penelope.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/penelope.jpg",
      "notes": "Dignity and quiet authority.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "odysseus",
        "telemachus",
        "eurycleia"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "telemachus",
      "trueName": "Telemachus",
      "name": "Telemachus",
      "epithet": "Son of Odysseus · heir of the empty seat",
      "role": "Prince coming of age",
      "domain": "Prince of Ithaca · Telemachy",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "House of Odysseus",
      "narrativeFunction": "Book I centers him: alone in the great hall among the insolent suitors, he receives Athena’s charge (as Mentes), finds his voice in the assembly, and is set on the path that leads toward news of his father. The Telemachy is his voyage into manhood under divine guidance.",
      "specialQuality": "Youthful resolve · growing metis",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 3,
      "image": "/media/characters/telemachus.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/telemachus.jpg",
      "notes": "Youthful resolve — the house’s heir learning to stand among the suitors and sail toward his father. Identity lock: dark curls, cream chiton with purple shoulder stripe, braided cord, bronze dolphin and ship fibulae (Ithaca / voyage emblems), arm band, short sword at the hip. In Book I the empty seat of Odysseus weighs on him; Athena puts strength into his heart; he names the outrage of the suitors and claims his place as son of the man of many turns. Related: Odysseus, Penelope, Athena (and her guise Mentes), Eurycleia, Mentor. Relic: Spear of Telemachus. Weave: Athena’s Charge (he is the mortal center of that first official Weave).",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "odysseus",
        "penelope",
        "athena",
        "mentes",
        "eurycleia",
        "mentor"
      ],
      "quote": "I am no longer a child — so the youth spoke when the goddess had put courage in his heart, and he stood among the suitors to name the shame of the house.",
      "views": [
        {
          "id": "portrait",
          "label": "Portrait",
          "image": "/media/characters/telemachus/portrait.webp",
          "role": "Face lock — detail panel default alternate"
        },
        {
          "id": "front",
          "label": "Front",
          "image": "/media/characters/telemachus/front.webp",
          "role": "Full-body front turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "left",
          "label": "Left",
          "image": "/media/characters/telemachus/left.webp",
          "role": "Left profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "right",
          "label": "Right",
          "image": "/media/characters/telemachus/right.webp",
          "role": "Right profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "back",
          "label": "Back",
          "image": "/media/characters/telemachus/back.webp",
          "role": "Back turnaround — blade hang + braid"
        }
      ],
      "viewsNote": "Studio indigo turnaround kit LIVE. Cinematic card image telemachus.webp is default front. S3 path when published under worlds/odyssey/characters/telemachus/",
      "ratings": {
        "metis": "Strong",
        "bie": "Light",
        "loyalty": "House of Odysseus",
        "voice": "Strong → rising"
      },
      "featuredRelics": [
        "telemachus-spear"
      ],
      "bookIWeave": {
        "title": "Athena’s Charge",
        "status": "LIVE",
        "hubUrl": "https://weave.vayati.ai/?type=weave",
        "readerUrl": "/book/01/",
        "note": "Telemachus is the mortal center of the first official Weave — the charge that begins the Telemachy."
      },
      "bookIBeat": {
        "title": "Book I · the empty seat",
        "charactersKnow": "A stranger, Mentes of Taphos, has come as guest. The suitors still feast. Telemachus must speak for the house while his father’s seat stands empty.",
        "audienceKnows": "Athena herself has come in that guise to put strength into the boy’s heart and send him on the path toward his father. The empty seat is already a hinge of the poem."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "athena",
      "trueName": "Athena",
      "name": "Athena",
      "epithet": "Grey-eyed goddess",
      "role": "Divine guide",
      "domain": "Divine guide",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "Olympians",
      "narrativeFunction": "Divine partisan of the house of Odysseus. In Book I she descends from Olympus in the guise of Mentes, counsels Telemachus, and sets the Telemachy in motion while the hall knows only a mortal guest.",
      "specialQuality": "Disguise, counsel, and divine metis",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 4,
      "image": "/media/characters/athena.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/athena.jpg",
      "notes": "Calm intelligence and power. Grey-eyed daughter of Zeus who favors Ithaca. First dual-identity card of the Odyssey set: front names the goddess; Book I apparent form is Mentes (Taphian lord) for the hall; the audience knows Athena. Identity kit: multi-view studio plates (portrait/front/left/right/back); grid card art remains environmental cinematic. Related: Telemachus, Odysseus, Mentor, Mentes. Relic: Spear of Athena. Weave: Athena’s Charge (Hub public Weaves).",
      "dualIdentity": true,
      "dualIdentityCandidate": "athena-mentes",
      "relatedFigures": [
        "telemachus",
        "odysseus",
        "mentor",
        "mentes"
      ],
      "quote": "I am Mentes, son of wise Anchialus, and I rule over the oar-loving Taphians — so she spoke in the guise of a man, while the goddess already moved the story.",
      "views": [
        {
          "id": "portrait",
          "label": "Portrait",
          "image": "/media/characters/athena/portrait.webp",
          "role": "Face lock — detail panel default alternate"
        },
        {
          "id": "front",
          "label": "Front",
          "image": "/media/characters/athena/front.webp",
          "role": "Full-body front turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "left",
          "label": "Left",
          "image": "/media/characters/athena/left.webp",
          "role": "Left profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "right",
          "label": "Right",
          "image": "/media/characters/athena/right.webp",
          "role": "Right profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "back",
          "label": "Back",
          "image": "/media/characters/athena/back.webp",
          "role": "Back turnaround"
        }
      ],
      "viewsNote": "Studio turnaround kit LIVE. Cinematic card image athena.webp is default front. S3: s3://media-vayati/worlds/odyssey/characters/athena/",
      "apparentForm": {
        "name": "Mentes",
        "shortLabel": "Leader of the Taphians · guest-friend",
        "portraitRef": null
      },
      "trueForm": {
        "name": "Athena",
        "shortLabel": "Grey-eyed goddess · daughter of Zeus",
        "portraitRef": "/media/characters/athena.webp"
      },
      "knowledgeSplit": {
        "charactersKnow": "A well-born guest from Taphos — Mentes, lord of the Taphians — stands at the door of Odysseus’ house. Telemachus and the suitors treat him as a mortal visitor under guest-right.",
        "audienceKnows": "Grey-eyed Athena has left Olympus, bound on golden sandals, and come in the guise of Mentes to put strength into Telemachus’ heart and set him on the path that leads toward his father."
      },
      "ratings": {
        "metis": "Defining",
        "bie": "Strong",
        "loyalty": "House of Odysseus",
        "voice": "Defining"
      },
      "featuredRelics": [
        "athena-spear"
      ],
      "bookIWeave": {
        "title": "Athena’s Charge",
        "status": "LIVE",
        "hubUrl": "https://weave.vayati.ai/?type=weave",
        "readerUrl": "/book/01/",
        "note": "First official Weave of the Constellation library (Haven → Hub discovery)."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "circe",
      "trueName": "Circe",
      "name": "Circe",
      "epithet": "Enchantress of Aeaea",
      "role": "Transformer",
      "domain": "Transformer",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "Neutral / Other",
      "narrativeFunction": "Tests and transforms the companions; holds Odysseus in a year of delay.",
      "specialQuality": "Enchantment",
      "firstAppears": "book-10",
      "priority": 5,
      "image": "/media/characters/circe.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/circe.jpg",
      "notes": "Enchantment and danger.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "odysseus"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "calypso",
      "trueName": "Calypso",
      "name": "Calypso",
      "epithet": "Nymph of Ogygia",
      "role": "Immortal host",
      "domain": "Immortal host",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "Neutral / Other",
      "narrativeFunction": "Offers immortality and holds the hero in isolation until the gods intervene.",
      "specialQuality": "Longing and isolation",
      "firstAppears": "book-05",
      "priority": 6,
      "image": "/media/characters/calypso.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/calypso.jpg",
      "notes": "Longing and isolation.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "odysseus"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "poseidon",
      "trueName": "Poseidon",
      "name": "Poseidon",
      "epithet": "Earth-shaker",
      "role": "Sea antagonist",
      "domain": "Sea antagonist",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "Olympians",
      "narrativeFunction": "Opposes the homecoming after the blinding of his son Polyphemus.",
      "specialQuality": "Force of the sea",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 7,
      "image": "/media/characters/poseidon.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/poseidon.jpg",
      "notes": "Force of nature and opposition.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "odysseus"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "eurycleia",
      "trueName": "Eurycleia",
      "name": "Eurycleia",
      "epithet": "Faithful nurse",
      "role": "Household loyalty",
      "domain": "Household loyalty",
      "castTier": "core",
      "allegiance": "House of Odysseus",
      "narrativeFunction": "Loyalty anchor of the house; recognizes the scar and keeps secrets of return.",
      "specialQuality": "Recognition and loyalty",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 8,
      "image": "/media/characters/eurycleia.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/eurycleia.jpg",
      "notes": "Emotional/loyalty anchor for v1 (chosen over Argos for portrait clarity).",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "odysseus",
        "telemachus",
        "penelope"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "mentes",
      "trueName": "Mentes",
      "name": "Mentes",
      "epithet": "Lord of the Taphians",
      "role": "Apparent guest-friend",
      "domain": "Guest-friend (apparent)",
      "castTier": "supporting",
      "allegiance": "Neutral / Other",
      "narrativeFunction": "The form Athena takes at the hall door in Book I — what Telemachus and the suitors encounter as a mortal guest under guest-right, while the audience already knows the goddess.",
      "specialQuality": "Apparent form · Taphian guest",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 20,
      "image": "/media/characters/mentes.webp",
      "master": "/media/characters/masters/mentes.jpg",
      "notes": "Supporting lookup figure — Athena’s Book I apparent form (Mentes, lord of the Taphians). True identity: Athena. Identity kit: multi-view studio plates (portrait/front/left/right/back); grid card uses cinematic mentes.webp. See dual-identity Knowledge Split on the Athena character card. S3: s3://media-vayati/worlds/odyssey/characters/mentes/",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "athena",
        "telemachus"
      ],
      "quote": null,
      "views": [
        {
          "id": "portrait",
          "label": "Portrait",
          "image": "/media/characters/mentes/portrait.webp",
          "role": "Face lock — detail panel default alternate"
        },
        {
          "id": "front",
          "label": "Front",
          "image": "/media/characters/mentes/front.webp",
          "role": "Full-body front turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "left",
          "label": "Left",
          "image": "/media/characters/mentes/left.webp",
          "role": "Left profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "right",
          "label": "Right",
          "image": "/media/characters/mentes/right.webp",
          "role": "Right profile turnaround"
        },
        {
          "id": "back",
          "label": "Back",
          "image": "/media/characters/mentes/back.webp",
          "role": "Back turnaround"
        }
      ],
      "viewsNote": "Studio turnaround kit from depot vayati-odyssey-mentes-*.jpg → webp. Grid card: /media/characters/mentes.webp. S3: s3://media-vayati/worlds/odyssey/characters/mentes/",
      "bookIBeat": {
        "title": "Book I · the Taphian guest",
        "charactersKnow": "Mentes, leader of the Taphians, stands at the outer gate of Odysseus’ house — a guest to Telemachus and a stranger to the suitors.",
        "audienceKnows": "Grey-eyed Athena has taken this form to put strength into Telemachus’ heart. See Athena’s dual-identity card for the Knowledge Split."
      },
      "bookIWeave": {
        "title": "Athena’s Charge",
        "status": "LIVE",
        "hubUrl": "https://weave.vayati.ai/?type=weave",
        "readerUrl": "/book/01/",
        "note": "Mentes is the hall-facing guise of Athena in the first official Weave."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mentor",
      "trueName": "Mentor",
      "name": "Mentor",
      "epithet": "Trusted friend of Odysseus",
      "role": "Counsel (apparent / divine)",
      "domain": "Counsel",
      "castTier": "supporting",
      "allegiance": "House of Odysseus",
      "narrativeFunction": "Old friend whose form Athena also uses; name becomes the word for guidance.",
      "specialQuality": "Counsel",
      "firstAppears": "book-02",
      "priority": 21,
      "image": null,
      "master": null,
      "notes": "Supporting figure. Future dual-identity candidate with Athena (not authored this package).",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "athena",
        "telemachus",
        "odysseus"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "antinous",
      "trueName": "Antinous",
      "name": "Antinous",
      "epithet": "Leader among the suitors",
      "role": "Suitors’ pressure",
      "domain": "Suitors",
      "castTier": "supporting",
      "allegiance": "Suitors",
      "narrativeFunction": "Speaks for the mass that fills the hall and presses the house.",
      "specialQuality": "The hall’s pressure",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 22,
      "image": null,
      "master": null,
      "notes": "Supporting lookup — named face of the suitor organism. No portrait in Phase A.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "telemachus",
        "penelope"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "eurymachus",
      "trueName": "Eurymachus",
      "name": "Eurymachus",
      "epithet": "Suitor of smooth speech",
      "role": "Suitors’ counsel",
      "domain": "Suitors",
      "castTier": "supporting",
      "allegiance": "Suitors",
      "narrativeFunction": "Answers Telemachus with polished pressure; part of the hall’s organism.",
      "specialQuality": "Smooth speech",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 23,
      "image": null,
      "master": null,
      "notes": "Supporting lookup. No portrait in Phase A.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "antinous",
        "telemachus"
      ],
      "quote": null
    },
    {
      "id": "phemius",
      "trueName": "Phemius",
      "name": "Phemius",
      "epithet": "Bard of the house",
      "role": "Song in the hall",
      "domain": "Household song",
      "castTier": "supporting",
      "allegiance": "House of Odysseus",
      "narrativeFunction": "Sings the returns from Troy while the suitors feast; song under pressure.",
      "specialQuality": "The lyre",
      "firstAppears": "book-01",
      "priority": 24,
      "image": null,
      "master": null,
      "notes": "Supporting lookup. No portrait in Phase A.",
      "dualIdentity": false,
      "relatedFigures": [
        "telemachus",
        "penelope"
      ],
      "quote": null
    }
  ],
  "ratingsSchema": {
    "_note": "Optional light Homeric flavor on card back only — not D&D stats. Omit or null freely.",
    "metis": "Cunning / counsel / resourcefulness (1–5 or descriptive)",
    "bie": "Force / presence / martial weight (1–5 or descriptive)",
    "loyalty": "House of Odysseus | Suitors | Olympians | Neutral",
    "voice": "Light | Strong | Defining"
  },
  "weavePolicy": {
    "noPerCardPublish": true,
    "book1Weave": "Register one coherent Book I Weave after Core+key Supporting cards are complete — not incremental.",
    "status": "PENDING_SET",
    "titleCandidates": [
      "The Company of Book I",
      "Hall of the Empty Seat",
      "Those Who Enter the House of Odysseus"
    ]
  }
}