# Continuity Report: Chapter 19

## Diagnosis

Chapter 19 gives the last meaningful diplomatic attempt before war. Vaelor's offer makes ideological surrender the price of peace, and Aravel refuses.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 8 years, 006 days until keyhole crossing.
- The Wanderer is visible to naked eye for the first time.
- Kharos armies cross the old valley boundary by dawn after failed negotiations.

## Character State Updates

- Aravel sees Vaelor's logic clearly enough to be angered by understanding it.
- Vaelor offers peace only if Earth leaves and Suryan dismantles its machines.
- Senn tries to control the religious frame, but Seska challenges the hidden star tables.
- Liora publicly confronts Senn's copied lies.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Salt Bridge is neutral negotiation ground.
- Kharos terms include Earth departure, launch-road dismantling, foreign device surrender, and temple review over sky teaching.
- The Black Moon becomes visible as a small dark flaw near western stars.

## Unresolved Promises

- Whether Kharos crossing the valley boundary makes war formal.
- Whether Suryan can fight without proving Kharos propaganda right.
- Whether Vaelor's "conquered world" fear will resonate beyond Kharos.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- "I chose the kind that wants to live" foreshadows Aravel's wartime legitimacy.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track naked-eye visibility of The Wanderer.
- Track failed Salt Bridge negotiation terms.