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 Further chapters will follow up with other surviving members of that same
 squadron, now scattered across the world, each having drawn their own,
-different lesson from their mentor's example of what honor means.
+different lesson from their mentor's example of what honor means. Of the
+five other survivors, three are met over the course of the story: Strider,
+Downes, and Egor (see below).
 *(Name and background: TBD.)*
 
 ### The Mentor
@@ -373,6 +375,46 @@ Great Explosion. His true reasoning is never stated outright; the party
 leader only pieces it together well after the fact.
 *(Name: TBD.)*
 
+### Strider
+Former squadron-mate of the party leader, now a merc who's found his own,
+settled definition of honor. Runs a protection business for merchants who
+can't afford a teleporter's price - riding along their carriages,
+guarding their goods, and fending off bandits the whole way. Has found
+genuine peace in it: protecting people who have no one else looking out
+for them and no way to afford real protection. He's welcomed, loved, and
+respected in that niche precisely because his care for the people he
+protects is real, not transactional. The clearest example of the
+squadron's shared "honor" being taken somewhere quietly good.
+
+### Downes
+Once one of the strongest fighters the squadron had. Now fully retired
+from soldiering, living as a farmer in a quiet village, and won't so much
+as pick up a weapon. His honor is his family - protecting them, and
+building them a life away from all of it, is the whole of it for him now.
+Tends his crops and animals, and wants nothing to do with his past.
+Represents the opposite lesson from the rest of the squadron: that there
+are things in life more important than fighting. That said, the story
+brings him to a moment where he has no choice but to fight again - proof
+that even he can't outrun what he used to be forever.
+*(Circumstances of that fight: TBD.)*
+
+### Egor
+Once part of the same squadron, now a highly respected member of the
+Royal Guard, decorated for his power and his devotion. He's the story's
+clearest villain among the three, though he'd never see himself that way:
+he genuinely believes honor *is* following orders, full stop. He considers
+his former squadron-mates - the party leader especially - to have gone
+rogue, and is completely blind to what the king actually is, misreading
+their old mentor's final act as some kind of failure of nerve rather than
+its own form of honor.
+
+Egor ultimately faces the party and the protagonist directly, and is
+defeated. He dies still certain his honor was sound to the very end -
+deluded about it right up until his last moments, when something finally
+breaks through: a flash of understanding that his blind devotion earned
+him nothing but pain and misery. Whether he actually regrets it, in the
+end, is left unknown - even to him, maybe.
+
 ### The Detective
 Deliberately kept thin by design - this entry should stay short even as
 the rest of the document grows. The less the audience (and we) nail down
@@ -411,7 +453,17 @@ intentionally undefined for now.
 - Blind loyalty vs. conscience - orders followed even as faith in them
   erodes.
 - Honor redefined as judgment, not obedience - real honor sometimes looks
-  like disobeying orders, and can go unrecognized as such for years.
+  like disobeying orders, and can go unrecognized as such for years. The
+  same mentor and the same night produced six different soldiers who each
+  landed somewhere completely different: quiet self-doubt (the party
+  leader), care for the unrepresented (Strider), retreat into family and
+  peace (Downes), and honor curdled into blind, fatal devotion (Egor).
+- You can't outrun who you were - Downes builds a life as far from
+  soldiering as he can get, and the story still forces one more fight out
+  of him.
+- The tragedy of unshakeable certainty - Egor never once doubts himself,
+  and it kills him without ever teaching him anything, except perhaps at
+  the very last second.
 - The crown's disregard for the people who prop it up - a distant king
   extracting from a region (soldiers, subjects, this mage) that owes him
   nothing and gets nothing back.
@@ -457,9 +509,13 @@ intentionally undefined for now.
 - Whether/how the protagonist eventually learns the truth about her
   parents and the Official Story's lie.
 - Names for the party leader and his mentor.
-- The other surviving members of the mentor's squadron: who they are,
-  where they ended up, and how each one has interpreted their mentor's
-  final act of disobedience - which chapters/movements they show up in.
+- The two remaining, still-unnamed survivors of the mentor's squadron -
+  whether they're ever introduced, and if so how.
+- Which chapters/movements Strider, Downes, and Egor each actually appear
+  in, and in what order the party leader reconnects with them.
+- The circumstances that force Downes back into a fight.
+- How Egor and the party actually cross paths, and what leads directly to
+  their confrontation.
 - How and when the party leader pieces together that his mentor already
   knew what the king intended that night.
 - The Detective's name, true loyalties, and how much he actually knows