Sponsor-Inheritance Branch Provenance / 冠名遗产分支归责

This mechanism prevents a downstream audit from checking only that Rite 14 completed while forgetting what the player chose and what happened to Pei Huan.

Required state

Every Rite 14 resolution produces:

• storyteller_sponsor_inheritance_path_selected;
• exactly one sponsor_inheritance.route.* flag;
• the physical sponsor-inheritance review;
• actual Pei Huan’s first-encounter flag.

Before Rite 15, exactly one terminal character state must exist:

• pei_huan.state.missed_company_retainer; or
• pei_huan.state.recruited_scoped_leak_counsel.

Reader rule

Rite 15 requires storyteller_peihuan_disposition_resolved and the review card. It then sets:

• storyteller_white_glove_audit_inherits_sponsor_inheritance_path;
• storyteller_peihuan_disposition_read_by_white_glove_audit.

The reader must preserve the selected route, terminal character state, character-card retention/loss, miss notice, and route-asset exclusivity.

Cardinality

selected_sponsor_inheritance_routes: 1
terminal_pei_huan_states: 1
route_assets_if_recruited: 1
route_assets_if_missed: 0
rite15_postures_per_upstream_state: 2

Authority boundary

The mechanism records branch provenance only. It cannot establish memory ownership, allocate breath, create mourning consent, declare archive truth, transfer platform ownership, grant universal contract authority, or turn a notice into clean proof.