Tyler

Role in the story

A modern programmer who, like Martin, has just discovered the Repository file and started experimenting with it. Phillip's cottage logging routine pings on his edits in Ch.24, queueing the standard "teleport-and-greet" recruitment — only to find Tyler has been ghosted by Jimmy: location reads valid, body is missing, mass and collision-like fields flatlined to zero. The fraternity tracks him down, restores or rescues him by Ch.25, where he immediately barrels at Jimmy in the Camelot forecourt and triggers the white-pixel shockwave that opens the showdown.

Personality / energy

Furious, impulsive, vengeful — the "first to charge" energy. Whatever Jimmy did to him in Ch.24, he repays with violence on sight in Ch.25. Reads as the angry-young-man counterpoint to Martin's anxious-young-man.

Physical description (inferred + flagged)

The book does not give portrait-level detail. Render as a modern American gamer/programmer:

Adult male, late teens to mid-twenties
Light skin tone (default Caucasian; not specified)
Casual gamer build, neither athletic nor stout
Hair color/style unspecified — render practical, short or messy
Specific facial features unspecified in source — keep generic-friendly

Outfit / clothing notes

Ch.24 ghosted-bedroom evidence (no figure visible):

Empty swivel chair, snack wrappers, game controller — implies hoodie / t-shirt / jeans / sneakers casual

Ch.25 Camelot clash:

Teal and blue-grey tunic-and-trouser combination — close to Martin's wizard palette but rougher, less ornamented (he's brand new, no real wizard kit yet)
No conical hat in any source — keep him bare-headed in the Camelot forecourt to differentiate him visually from Martin and Jimmy
May be carrying a borrowed staff or charging weaponless — sources don't specify; lean weaponless so the shockwave reads as raw Repository edit, not melee

Visual motifs

Empty swivel chair before a glowing monitor (Ch.24) — his entire on-screen presence in that chapter
Big blocky GHOSTED stamp beside his Repository record (Ch.24) — visual shorthand for his absence
Dashed-outline see-through ghost silhouette that never resolves (Ch.24) — his "absent" form
Hard-edged white-pixel shockwave (Ch.25) — the moment he reaches Jimmy
Blur of teal and blue-grey charging across the Camelot forecourt (Ch.25)

Magic / power signature

Repository hacker, novice tier — closer to Martin at the start of the book than to Jimmy or Phillip. His one on-page action is the Ch.25 charge that produces the shockwave. Implied capability: enough Repository fluency to be worth recruiting and worth ghosting, but not yet refined.

Chapter appearances

Ch.24: First mention; ghosted before he can be greeted
Ch.25: Physical reveal; charges Jimmy in the Camelot forecourt; shockwave clash

Source references

chapter-024-summary.md
chapter-025-summary.md

Confidence

Medium — role and key beats anchored in source seed; physical description is inference (book leans on the ghosted-bedroom set-dressing and a brief Ch.25 silhouette). Image phase should keep him generic enough that he reads as "young modern guy in medieval clothes" without inventing strong facial features.