# Character Profiles: The Harbor Ledger Filled examples accompanying https://www.geekart.ai/en/blog/character-profile-template An original GeekArt demonstration story, not a customer manuscript or an AI output log. These profiles use the same seven sections as the blank character template. Snapshot: 2026-10-13 / demonstration draft / through Chapter 07, Rainy Harbor. Chapter 08 exists in the sample project; its later discoveries are not knowledge at this checkpoint. CONFIRMED = established in the manuscript or settled supporting notes. PLANNED = proposed for a future passage, not established by the current draft. OPEN = unresolved. A confirmed statement is not proof that its speaker is correct. ## Mara Venn ### 1. Role and essential facts - Close-third viewpoint character in Chapters 06–08; narrative in past tense. - Thirty-two, former harbor clerk; Jonas's older sister by three years. - Jonas disappeared when Mara was twenty-one. She left Grayhook later that year. Do not reverse the departure and disappearance. - Back in Grayhook after Captain Ro's death; carries his ledger and Sera's lantern. - Her travelling case is still held by customs. - CONFIRMED sources: Mara's character notes, Timeline, Chapters 06–07. ### 2. Want and pressure - Initial goal: settle Ro's affairs and leave before the spring tide (character notes). - Pier-scene goal: get an explanation she can trust without surrendering the ledger. - Resistance: Jonas wants immediate cooperation while withholding his history. - Pressure: light and approaching footsteps can expose them near the pier. - Leverage: possession of the closed ledger; she can refuse to hand it over. - At the chapter's end she has a new meeting place and a warning about the book, but no explanation of her brother's absence. - CONFIRMED sources: character notes and Chapter 07. ### 3. Contradiction and choice - Refuses to trust Jonas while shielding him from a watchman's light. - Holds on to the book even when helping him brings her to the pier's edge. - Narrow practical questions let her keep control of a painful encounter. - Boundary at this checkpoint: recognizing him does not mean forgiveness or trust. - OPEN: what evidence, if any, will make her trust a later explanation? - CONFIRMED sources: Mara's character notes and Chapter 07. ### 4. Relationships With Jonas: - Wants an explanation for eleven years missing; withholds the ledger and trust. - He can refuse information and redirect her attention to danger. - She tests his identity with a private childhood memory. He recalls the unlatched window. - State at exit: recognition, continuing anger, practical cooperation, unresolved distrust. With Sera: - Receives Ro's ledger and a lantern from an old family friend at the chandlery. - Knows Sera was questioned about Ro's effects. - Whether Sera recognized Jonas before this encounter is OPEN. CONFIRMED sources: character notes, Timeline, Chapters 06–07. ### 5. Voice and attention - Notices handwriting, weights, missing entries, repaired objects, and habits in hands. - Asks narrow practical questions when emotion is difficult. - Voice: precise, dry, sometimes unfair; no immediate speech of reconciliation. - Draft line: "You don't get to answer that quickly." (Chapter 07) - Function: refuses Jonas's quick "I know" as an adequate answer to eleven years apart. - Physical choices include setting down an object before her grip betrays her and counting steps to gain time. These are options, not required beats in every paragraph. - CONFIRMED sources: character notes, Voice Guide, Chapter 07. ### 6. Knowledge at this checkpoint - KNOWS: Ro is dead; the book was left for her; Sera was questioned; Jonas is alive. - HAS HEARD: Jonas says, "The ledger is not evidence. It is bait." - HAS SEEN: a narrow white chin scar and a pale band at Jonas's wrist. - DOES NOT KNOW: what is in the ledger; she has not opened it at the pier. She does not yet know about the missing leaf or the Venn entry found in Chapter 08. - OPEN: cause of the wrist mark, truth of the bait claim, Jonas's absence, origin of the bell. - Viewpoint limit: Jonas's private motives cannot be narrated as facts Mara knows. - CONFIRMED sources: Chapters 06–07 and character notes. ### 7. Next scene and updates Chapter 07 choices already on the page: - Request: Mara demands an explanation before giving Jonas the ledger. - Resistance: he redirects her toward danger and offers incomplete answers. - Choice: she helps hide him, keeps the book, and receives a meeting instruction. - Consequence: they can meet at the warehouse steps after the third whistle, with possession and trust still disputed. Preserve when revising: ledger stays closed and with Mara; care does not equal forgiveness; the window memory and whistle order stay intact. Source: Chapter 07. Later update to make in a separate Chapter 08 checkpoint: add her discovery of the missing leaf. Do not copy that knowledge backward into this profile. Discovering its absence does not establish who removed it. ## Jonas Venn ### 1. Role and essential facts - Mara's younger brother, twenty-nine; missing eleven years and presumed drowned. - Appears on the ladder below the old pier in Chapter 07. - Narrow white scar across his chin; pale band at the inside of his wrist. - The mark's cause is OPEN. Do not add imprisonment, a captor, or a medical diagnosis. - Not the viewpoint character in this scene. - CONFIRMED sources: Jonas's character notes and Chapter 07. ### 2. Want and pressure - Scene goal: conceal the ledger and move Mara away before the next patrol. - Resistance: she wants answers before cooperation and will not give him the book. - He has information and can offer a meeting place, but will not explain his absence. - Immediate pressure: watchmen's light and footsteps; no exact patrol interval is established. - Long-term purpose: OPEN. The existing draft has not settled the larger mystery. - CONFIRMED sources: character notes and Chapter 07. ### 3. Contradiction and choice - Asks for cooperation faster than he is willing to earn trust. - Uses an intimate childhood memory while withholding the history Mara most wants. - His caution leaves occasional room for old familiarity with his sister. - Boundary at this checkpoint: no confession, explanatory monologue, or settled conspiracy. - OPEN: why these answers are withheld and what might make him give them later. - CONFIRMED sources: character notes and Chapter 07. ### 4. Relationships With Mara: - Wants her to hide the book and leave the exposed pier. - Withholds where he has been and why he never contacted her. - She can refuse the book and challenge the speed of his answers. - Shared memory: she left a window unlatched even in winter. - State at exit: she recognizes him and has a place to meet him; she still has the ledger. With Ro: - Jonas invokes Ro when asking for the ledger. - How he knew Ro remains unexplained in Chapter 07. - Do not make a proposed alliance or shared plan a confirmed relationship. CONFIRMED sources: character notes and Chapter 07. ### 5. Voice and attention - Short practical requests; questions about immediate danger. - Looks toward the customs roof and reacts to whistles and footsteps. - Draft line: "The ledger is not evidence. It is bait." (Chapter 07) - Function: changes the terms of Mara's decision without explaining who set a trap. - Each evasion should buy time, redirect Mara, or reveal a limit he cannot cross. - Avoid making every reply cryptic: a usable instruction can change the scene too. - CONFIRMED sources: character notes and Chapter 07. ### 6. Knowledge at this checkpoint - KNOWS: the childhood window memory; Mara has brought the book; where he asks her to meet. - SAYS: the book is bait; Ro sent her for a reason. These claims are established as speech. - NOT REVEALED TO MARA: his whereabouts, silence, and relationship with Ro. - OPEN FOR THE AUTHOR: how much he knows about the ledger's contents or a removed page. - No completed hidden history is supplied by these notes. Do not fill one in merely to make his knowledge column longer. - Viewpoint limit: show his speech and observable behavior through Mara's perspective. - CONFIRMED sources: character notes and Chapter 07. ### 7. Next scene and updates Chapter 07 choices already on the page: - Request: "Give me the ledger." - Resistance: Mara demands to know what it is and keeps hold of it. - Choice: he warns her about the book and supplies a meeting instruction. - Consequence: cooperation can continue at the warehouse steps, but he has not acquired the book. Preserve when revising: the reason for his absence and the wrist mark stay unresolved; Mara's recognition does not grant him trust. Source: Chapter 07. Later update for a Chapter 08 checkpoint: he protects an arm and sets down a wrapped oilskin square. Record those actions when that checkpoint is reached. The arm's diagnosis and the parcel's contents remain OPEN; do not identify the parcel as the missing leaf.