Hetty

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "hetty",
  "name": "Hetty",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "The ninety-four-year-old keeper of the common hearth, whose precise memory of favors gives her influence without office or title.",
  "details": [
    "Hetty moves in small, quick, purposeful steps and notices the obligations other people prefer to forget.",
    "She is a matriarch by attention and trust, not a mystical oracle or formal ruler."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "hetty-characters-ensemble-size",
      "at": "2026-09-08T01:30:24.412Z",
      "summary": "Kept Hetty in the inner supporting ring.",
      "reason": "The village needs a small authored core rather than a large speaking population.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:pimm"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "review-migration",
        "label": "Prototype review: characters-ensemble-size",
        "locator": "archive/migrations/2026-09-08-prototype-review.json#review.answers.characters-ensemble-size"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hetty-actor-library",
      "at": "2026-09-10T22:25:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Clarified Hetty's matriarchal role for the actor library.",
      "reason": "Her influence comes from tending the common hearth and remembering obligations, not formal or mystical authority.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:village-square"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Actor library and homepage redesign"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hetty-deliberation-and-growth-candidate",
      "at": "2026-09-13T22:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Kept Hetty as the voice of the hearth deliberation and noted her as one candidate for where growth is spent.",
      "reason": "The owner found Hetty's hearth interesting as the leveling fiction but wants to explore other people or no person at all; nothing is decided.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:progression"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Kilnrath sweetener and next-levels discussion, 2026-09-13"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "actor",
  "scope": "individual",
  "prominence": "supporting",
  "forms": [
    "human"
  ],
  "roles": [
    "non-player-character"
  ],
  "locationRefs": [
    "ref:village-square",
    "ref:cinderfolk-village"
  ],
  "image": "assets/actors/wrought-naturalism/hetty.webp",
  "lifeEvents": [
    {
      "id": "keeper-of-the-common-hearth",
      "title": "Keeper of the common hearth",
      "summary": "Decades of tending the shared hearth made Hetty the village's living record of unwritten favors.",
      "locationRefs": [
        "ref:village-square"
      ],
      "storyRefs": []
    }
  ],
  "archetypeRefs": [],
  "groupRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk"
  ]
}