Tam

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "tam",
  "name": "Tam",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "A sixty-five-year-old route-taker who carries letters, parcels, and spoken messages because he enjoys the road and considers waiting poor route design.",
  "details": [
    "Sun-browned, wiry, and long-legged, Tam keeps running for his health and for the pleasure of knowing every useful line through the valley.",
    "He sits around or slightly above Cobb in the lighter village ensemble.",
    "Tam also makes the village's occasional longer trading trips, on foot with a pack or a pulled cart, which is why outside trade stays small. At the hub he sells goods and carries outside news. A later comic sub-story may have him race a Kilnrath vehicle."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "tam-characters-ensemble-size",
      "at": "2026-09-08T01:30:24.412Z",
      "summary": "Kept Tam in the lighter authored cast.",
      "reason": "The named ensemble is already broad enough.",
      "mentions": [],
      "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": "tam-actor-library",
      "at": "2026-09-10T22:25:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Clarified Tam's route-taking work for the actor library.",
      "reason": "His age, humor, and pleasure in running are the memorable logic behind a lighter speaking role.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:lamp-road",
        "ref:mine-road"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Actor library and homepage redesign"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "tam-trade-runner-and-hub",
      "at": "2026-09-13T22:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Extended Tam's route-taking to the village's small-scale outside trade and a hub role.",
      "reason": "The trade-route sweetener needs the old way to be visible and personal; Tam carrying it on his back is that. The race is an idea the owner enjoyed, not a decision.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:long-road",
        "ref:kilnrath-trade-route",
        "ref:cinderfolk-village"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Kilnrath sweetener and next-levels discussion, 2026-09-13"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "actor",
  "scope": "individual",
  "prominence": "minor",
  "forms": [
    "human"
  ],
  "roles": [
    "non-player-character"
  ],
  "locationRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk-village",
    "ref:lamp-road",
    "ref:mine-road"
  ],
  "image": "assets/actors/wrought-naturalism/tam.webp",
  "lifeEvents": [
    {
      "id": "became-route-taker",
      "title": "Became a route-taker",
      "summary": "Tam made a vocation of carrying whatever the valley needed moved quickly and personally.",
      "locationRefs": [
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:lamp-road",
        "ref:mine-road"
      ],
      "storyRefs": []
    }
  ],
  "archetypeRefs": [],
  "groupRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk"
  ]
}