Asset library: shaded Cycles previews for the 163 assets that had Blender's plain headless thumbnail or none
events/fire r5056 confirmation render: only a sliver at the frame edge changed, nothing to fix
Character scale audit of the remaining scenes: consistent except BlackDeath's old man, left as is by author decision
Output of the render pipeline deployed: celebration and hanseaticLeague videos without floating hair strands.
Detached hair strands fixed for celebration and hanseaticLeague: guild grooms re-attached via a per-face UV atlas, remaining floating strands deleted in guildCharacters, alderman, oldMan_1, oldMan_2; fix_hair_attachment.py gains --no-delete
Asset library: un-mark the broken, unused Cathedral_final unusued west front
Asset library: previews for the last 7 assets without one (Fireplace, Cathedral_final unusued, Luebeck, Loaner building, Anchor, Seal Stamp, High Sea)
FeatherQuill and paperscroll noise item closed: both render clean at the pipeline settings