massive flesh out of the world, finished chapter 20, most of book 3 outlined

characters/duchess-pamira.md

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 ## Core Identity
 
-- **Name:** Pamira
-- **Title:** Duchess of [territory TBD — Thorngate region]
+- **Name:** Pamira Varnesse
+- **Title:** Duchess of Thorngate (House Varnesse)
 - **Known As:** "Your Grace" (formal), "Pamira" (close friends), **"Princess"** (Devod, persistently and incorrectly)
 - **Age:** Early 60s
 - **Role:** Client for the Athel Repository case. Devod's love interest. A woman who has heard of the Wolf through the Cairns network and is not afraid of what she heard.
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 ## Political Position
 
-- **Duchess of [territory TBD — Thorngate region].** Holds the title by inheritance from her late husband's family, confirmed in her own right by the crown after his death.
+- **Duchess of Thorngate.** Holds the title by inheritance from her late husband's family (House Varnesse), confirmed in her own right by the crown after his death. Her duchy is one of the two northern duchies of Corvel; the other is Aldermere, held by Duke Garrett Holven (peer and neighbor). See `world/locations/kingdom-of-corvel.md` for the full kingdom structure.
 - **Jurisdictional authority.** Noble estates retain advisory jurisdiction over Compact regulatory matters on their own territory. This is the mechanism Pamira uses to decline the three Book 3 delegations — each time with warmth and a firm no.
-- **Territorial holdings.** The central estate at [TBD] plus smaller outlying holdings. One is in quiet decline (part of the financial strain thread) and has been for years. She has not raised the subject with anyone.
+- **Territorial holdings.** The central estate near the city of Thorngate plus smaller outlying holdings elsewhere in the duchy. One is in quiet decline (part of the financial strain thread) and has been for years. She has not raised the subject with anyone.
 - **Court connections.** Limited but real. She does not attend court often; she does not need to. Her name and her discretion are known at the level that matters, and she has banked both over a lifetime of running things well without demanding credit.
 - **Other noble houses.** She has peers but not close friends among them. The comfortable-rather-than-grand framing is partly taste and partly the quiet distance she keeps from people whose habits she does not share.
 
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 ## Open Questions
 
-- [ ] What territory is Pamira duchess of? (Needs a place name for maps/continuity)
-- [ ] Surname / house name?
+- [x] ~~What territory is Pamira duchess of?~~ **Duchy of Thorngate** (set in this pass)
+- [x] ~~Surname / house name?~~ **House Varnesse** (set in this pass)
 - [ ] Name of her late husband? What was his prior relationship with the guild specifically? Died how long ago exactly?
 - [ ] Her brother's name and which Pathfinder unit he served in? (Would be a nice callback if he served with either Devod's or Ledger's unit era)
 - [ ] Emmila — exact age (late 30s vs. early 40s), marital status (husband present, widowed, divorced?), specific role on the estate