[RGBKnights]

Adds Before She Paints the Ending, a new non-canon short story centered on the race to capture the CMYK Princess before she closes the invading armies' routes. Her RGB Knights' centuries of protection and the difference between additive light and subtractive paint drive the tactics and climax. A connected subplot brings the armies out of our library's books and makes the keeper's interventions affect the battlefield.

The package preserves the exact request, all later directions, and the supplied original. It includes six separate character reference sheets, three distinct location paintings, and the portrait cover, made and inspected after the prose was finalized. The finished prose and cover are rated General, with specific content notes.

Independent Codex and subscription-authenticated Claude readings covered the outline, complete draft, and fresh final whole story. Actual outline and final round-robin discussions led to repairs to capture stakes, depleted-paint choices, early preparation of black, and the page route; returning/contextual readings checked the changes. Saved artwork was inspected against the prose and supplied image. The five media unit tests and manifest generation passed locally, and the PR media-validation check succeeded. Editorial reasoning and useful dissent are preserved in notes.md.

Deliberate editorial choice: the keeper's “our Princess” remains an emerging affiliation grounded in the earlier closures and witnessed abduction. One final reader found the shift mildly abrupt; its chronology and the reason for preserving it are recorded in notes.md.