book3: update worldbuilding for ruin backstory revision
- kingdom-of-corvel.md: Holven as debt-acquirer pattern - pip.md: rewrite as true dragon from Mine 1 earth-magic mutation, add growth mechanics section - supporting-cast.md: Sable as returning forensics scout, add Holven row Ref: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-19-book3-ruin-backstory-revision-design.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Duchy | Position | Seat | Ruler | Character |
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| **Thorngate** | North | Thorngate | Duchess Pamira Varnesse | Old blood, widowed, estate under quiet financial strain. Uses her jurisdictional standing to deflect Compact delegations. |
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| **Aldermere** | North (peer to Thorngate) | Aldermere | Duke Garrett Holven | Moderate, horse-breeder nobility. Married into the seat. The duchy Charlette Fields calls "the northern provinces." |
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| **Aldermere** | North (peer to Thorngate) | Aldermere | Duke Garrett Holven | Moderate, horse-breeder nobility. Married into the seat. For a decade he has been quietly acquiring distressed noble debt across the north — including, recently, an unresolved obligation left behind by Duchess Pamira's late husband. He has not moved on it. He could. The duchy Charlette Fields calls "the northern provinces." |
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| **The Crownhold** | Central-north | Varenhold (capital) | King Halvar Rethen III *(held directly)* | Bureaucratic crown rule. Late 50s, widowed, competent-but-tired. One heir. |
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| **Wenlow** | West | Wenlow | Duchess Isolde Merrenwood | Agricultural heartland — grain, livestock, wine. Rich, pragmatic, deeply tied to the merchant guilds. |
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| **Vethmarch** | East / frontier | Arvale Keep | Duke Cason Arvale | Young, ex-military, inherited recently. Holds the mountain frontier, Vethek Pass, and the Vethani Crypts. Pathfinder-adjacent. |
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