A living codex for Record of Every Memory — the characters, Keepers, and worlds behind the novel. Kept here so nothing gets lost between chapters.
Left-handed, quietly observant, not physically strong but sharp enough to notice what everyone else rationalizes away. He travels between worlds carrying only one thing forward: the rule of the world he just left — never the world itself.
Ten silent entities, each governing exactly one concept. They don't trust each other — and not all of them want Karol to succeed.
The one who speaks to Karol directly. Deliberately unreliable — hedges, withholds, never fully omniscient.
Governs the single absolute law of each world Karol enters.
Enforces the White Room's law. Came close to killing Karol once — talked down by REM at real cost.
Keeper of Time across the nine worlds.
Dangerous to linger under — too much Hope risks becoming dependent on being saved.
Hidden contact in Face C. Tied to the "second permission" REM needed to speak to Karol.
Unilaterally blocked Karol from Worlds 004–007, wary of Mask and Lantern's risks to him.
Too much time under Mask's influence risks losing your own identity.
Tied to the moon festival of World 001. Its light is what Karol can't fully process at the end of Face D.
Missing. Origin (World 000) may not be a place at all — something that doesn't exist until someone builds it.
Season 1 runs Karol from World 001 to World 009, deliberately skipping four along the way.