Hob

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "hob",
  "name": "Hob",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "Kip's foreman and de facto father, anchoring him to village work and tradition.",
  "details": [
    "A broad, practical lampworks foreman in his fifties, Hob is thick through the middle but still visibly strong.",
    "He teaches by putting real work in Kip's hands.",
    "He is one of the village's two most important relationships around Kip."
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "kind": "related-to",
      "targetRef": "ref:kip",
      "note": "Foreman and de facto father."
    }
  ],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "hob-characters-hob",
      "at": "2026-09-08T01:25:37.668Z",
      "summary": "Protected Hob's relationship with Kip.",
      "reason": "The relationship provides the opening's emotional anchor.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:kip"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "review-migration",
        "label": "Prototype review: characters-hob",
        "locator": "archive/migrations/2026-09-08-prototype-review.json#review.answers.characters-hob"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hob-actor-library",
      "at": "2026-09-10T22:25:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Formalized Hob for the visual actor library.",
      "reason": "His quick reference now needs to communicate both his craft and his parental relationship to Kip.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:kip",
        "ref:lampworks"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Actor library and homepage redesign"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hob-portrait-age-correction",
      "at": "2026-09-10T22:40:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Corrected Hob's age and build in the actor portrait.",
      "reason": "Hob is roughly fifty to sixty, still strong, and somewhat fatter than the earlier portrait suggested.",
      "mentions": [],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Actor portrait identity corrections"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hob-wake-the-mine-and-hub",
      "at": "2026-09-13T22:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Had Hob send Kip to wake the out-of-season mine, and gave the Lampworks the hub's weapon work.",
      "reason": "Hob assigning ordinary work is the established way danger enters Kip's life, and his workshop is where a found pick or axe would be fitted for use.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:wake-the-mine",
        "ref:lampworks",
        "ref:miners-pick"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Kilnrath sweetener and next-levels discussion, 2026-09-13"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "actor",
  "scope": "individual",
  "prominence": "major",
  "forms": [
    "human"
  ],
  "roles": [
    "non-player-character"
  ],
  "locationRefs": [
    "ref:lampworks",
    "ref:cinderfolk-village",
    "ref:lamp-road"
  ],
  "image": "assets/actors/wrought-naturalism/hob.webp",
  "lifeEvents": [
    {
      "id": "became-kips-guardian",
      "title": "Became Kip's guardian",
      "summary": "Hob's working relationship with Kip grew into the village's closest thing to fatherhood.",
      "locationRefs": [
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:lampworks"
      ],
      "storyRefs": []
    },
    {
      "id": "walk-back-from-glasswater",
      "title": "Walk back from Glasswater",
      "timeframe": "Opening",
      "summary": "Hob helps Kip begin processing the Brackenjaw encounter on the road home.",
      "locationRefs": [
        "ref:glasswater-reach",
        "ref:lamp-road"
      ],
      "storyRefs": [
        "ref:hob-debrief"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "archetypeRefs": [],
  "groupRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk"
  ]
}