Iman Three-Section Storyline / 伊曼三段人物线

Bound character: 伊曼.

Iman’s line is one character continuity expressed through three graph-isolated sections. The separation is meaningful: prayer intimacy, church succession, and institutional light-judgement share Iman state but enter through different dispatchers and conditions.

Composition contract

iman_line:
  raw_member_count: 33
  duplicate_members: 0
  weak_components: 3
  sections:
    - iman-secret-prayer-route
    - iman-church-leadership-route
    - iman-chosen-light-route
  boundary_entries: [5004501, 5310604]
  ending_reader: sultan-json/after_story/2000021.json

The storyline fails if the sections are merged into a fake linear path or treated as unrelated characters.

Section 1 — Secret prayer to jasmine

5004501 向教会求助 is the boundary neighbor. It opens 5310609 → 5004513 and the prayer chain:

5310609 → 5004513 → 5310610 → 5004514 → 5004515 → 5310611 → 5004516 → 5310612 → 5004517.

The chain is not a romance reward. It can:

• kill Iman directly or under the Sun Scale;
• let Iman survive the trial and open 5310613;
• turn him toward the secret faith and make him a follower with infamy;
• open 5310614 when the protagonist, rather than Iman, survives through dark intervention;
• resolve 5310613 → 5004518, recruiting Iman with or without 命运的羁绊 depending on the prior rescue state.

Missing the jasmine invitation, killing Iman, or allowing the trial to close without the bond keeps recruitment unavailable.

Section 2 — Church leadership divergence

5310604 is a boundary dispatcher; 5310615 begins the leadership section. Four state events distinguish survival and schism:

State event	Required Iman state	Rite
5310616	alive, no schism	5004519 揣测神意
5310617	dead, no schism	5004520 接管教会
5310618	alive, schism	5004521 异端之战
5310619	dead, schism	5004522 人前显圣

If living Iman reaches 5004519, 5310622 asks whether his blood should consecrate the new church leader. Accepting reaches 5004523 神的仆人 through sacrifice; refusal reaches 5004524 神圣哗变 and preserves a different church conflict.

Death is therefore not a missing card that the system substitutes away. It changes who owns the church and how divine legitimacy is narrated.

Section 3 — Chosen light

5310623 → 5004525 → 5310624 → 5004526 makes the player judge claimed divine light across wealth and class.

The nine outcomes in 5004526 distinguish:

• accept or reject a rich claimant’s purchased recognition;
• recognize a noble youth’s real light or preserve his requested silence;
• recognize or reject a servant;
• recognize or reject a child;
• gain chosen-light authority only when at least one real light is acknowledged.

Consequences route into 5310625/5004527, 5310626, 5310627, or 5310628. This section tests whether Iman’s institution reproduces hierarchy even when the player can actually see truth.

Ending continuity

sultan-json/after_story/2000021.json contains 47 ending variants. Future endings read whether Iman:

• survives;
• is promoted (晋升);
• carries 命运的羁绊;
• is executed (处刑);
• remains Orthodox or is transformed by the route.

No section is complete if those states disappear before the ending reader.

Completion oracle

The storyline is complete when all 33 raw members remain uniquely assigned, the first section proves recruit/death/bond states, the second proves all four alive/dead × orthodox/schismatic dispatches, the third preserves its class-sensitive outcomes, and ending narration consumes Iman’s durable state.

Non-goals

• Not one forced linear graph path.
• Not a romance-only character line.
• Not a generic church reputation meter.
• Not recruitable after death or a missed jasmine resolution.
• Not allowed to replace class-sensitive chosen-light outcomes with one correct answer.