diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0c72824c..5981928e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "benilla-formats",
  "benilla-protocol",
  "benilla-ui",
+ "benilla-wmo",
  "bevy",
  "bevy_egui",
  "bytemuck",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml b/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml
index b43c8112..335e99c2 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ mint = "0.5"
 # source. Pinned to 0.8: the version `benilla-srp` already depends on, so this adds no crate.
 rand = "0.8"
 
+[dev-dependencies]
+# The WMO portal-cull audit's raw-face instruments (`WOW_PIN_COL`): the pin probe compares the
+# filtered walking-collision set against the group file's FULL face list with per-face MOPY flags,
+# which only the raw parser exposes — benilla-formats' gathers are exactly the filtered views.
+benilla-wmo = { path = "../benilla-wmo" }
+
 # Linux/BSD: the Wayland clipboard (decision 0702). We build with bevy's `wayland` feature, so on a
 # Wayland session winit gives us a native Wayland window and `arboard` — X11-only without its
 # non-default `wayland-data-control` feature — finds no X11 CLIPBOARD owner and every paste fails.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ActionBar.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ActionBar.xml
index 5567011d..a09af17c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ActionBar.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ActionBar.xml
@@ -648,13 +648,54 @@
             BenillaExhaustionTick.timer = nil
         end
 
+        -- ── The max-level rail (ref-ReputationFrame.lua, the max-level slice) ─────────────────
+        -- ref l.14: the constant lives in ReputationFrame.lua, which isn't built yet — it moves
+        -- there with the reputation system.
+        MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL = 60
+
+        function BenillaMaxLevelBar_OnLoad(bar)
+            bar:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
+            bar:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_LEVEL_UP")
+        end
+
+        -- ref ReputationWatchBar_Update's else arm (ref-ReputationFrame.lua l.161-166 +
+        -- l.236-244), the no-watched-faction branch only — the reputation branches wait for the
+        -- reputation system: at MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL the XP strip gives way to the rail and the
+        -- tick goes with it. Login seam: the ref initializes off UPDATE_FACTION (its OnEvent's
+        -- else arm; the faction list lands at every login), an event benilla doesn't carry yet,
+        -- so the rail listens to PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD instead — same moment, same values.
+        function BenillaMaxLevelBar_Update(newLevel)
+            if not newLevel then
+                newLevel = UnitLevel("player")
+            end
+            if newLevel == MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL then
+                BenillaExpBar:Hide()
+                BenillaMaxLevelBar:Show()
+                BenillaExhaustionTick:Hide()
+            else
+                BenillaExpBar:Show()
+                BenillaMaxLevelBar:Hide()
+            end
+        end
+
+        -- The ref's event fan (ref-ReputationFrame.xml l.1002-1016): PLAYER_LEVEL_UP passes
+        -- arg1 (the new level — the level FIELD may not have landed yet), everything else
+        -- re-reads UnitLevel.
+        function BenillaMaxLevelBar_OnEvent()
+            if event == "PLAYER_LEVEL_UP" then
+                BenillaMaxLevelBar_Update(arg1)
+            else
+                BenillaMaxLevelBar_Update()
+            end
+        end
+
         -- ── The exhaustion tick (ref-MainMenuBar.lua ExhaustionTick_*) ────────────────────────
         -- The round marker riding the XP bar at the point where rested XP runs out, plus the
-        -- pale fill between the bar's value and that point. Two transcription cuts, named:
-        -- the ref's MainMenuBarMaxLevelBar / ReputationWatchBar guards reference max-level bar
-        -- art and the faction watch bar, neither built — each is its own slice, and until then
-        -- the guards' frames can't be shown, so the cuts are unreachable-code cuts, not behavior
-        -- cuts. (A level-60 body simply keeps its inert XP bar for now.)
+        -- pale fill between the bar's value and that point. One transcription cut left, named:
+        -- the ref's two ReputationWatchBar guards (the max-level+rep tick hide, l.51-54, and
+        -- the rep-bar-replaced-the-xp-bar hide, l.69-71) reference the faction watch bar, not
+        -- built — its frame can't be shown, so the cut is an unreachable-code cut, not a
+        -- behavior cut. The MainMenuBarMaxLevelBar guard is live since 1094 (the rail below).
         function BenillaExhaustionTick_OnLoad(tick)
             tick:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
             tick:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_XP_UPDATE")
@@ -683,7 +724,8 @@
                     local exhaustionTickSet = max(((playerCurrXP + exhaustionThreshold)
                         / playerMaxXP) * BenillaExpBar:GetWidth(), 0)
                     tick:ClearAllPoints()
-                    if exhaustionTickSet > BenillaExpBar:GetWidth() then
+                    if exhaustionTickSet > BenillaExpBar:GetWidth()
+                        or BenillaMaxLevelBar:IsShown() then
                         tick:Hide()
                         BenillaExhaustionLevelFillBar:Hide()
                     else
@@ -1049,6 +1091,58 @@
                 <HighlightTexture name="BenillaExhaustionTickHighlight" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-ExhaustionTickHighlight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
             </Button>
 
+            <!--
+                The max-level rail (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.161-225 MainMenuBarMaxLevelBar): the
+                flat brass rail that replaces the XP strip at MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL — four 256×7
+                quarters of UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel, riding just above the frame's own 7 px rect
+                (each quarter's BOTTOM sits on the frame's TOP, the ref's own geometry).
+                Shown/hidden by BenillaMaxLevelBar_Update (decision 1094). The ref's OnShow/
+                OnHide call UIParent_ManageFramePositions, which benilla doesn't build
+                (DurabilityFrame.xml's note) — a named cut.
+            -->
+            <Frame name="BenillaMaxLevelBar" enableMouse="true" hidden="true">
+                <Size><AbsDimension x="1024" y="7"/></Size>
+                <Anchors>
+                    <Anchor point="TOP" relativePoint="TOP"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-11"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                </Anchors>
+                <Layers>
+                    <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
+                        <Texture name="BenillaMaxLevelBar0" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
+                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
+                            <Anchors>
+                                <Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativePoint="TOP"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-384" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                            </Anchors>
+                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0" bottom="0.21875"/>
+                        </Texture>
+                        <Texture name="BenillaMaxLevelBar1" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
+                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
+                            <Anchors>
+                                <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BenillaMaxLevelBar0" relativePoint="RIGHT"/>
+                            </Anchors>
+                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.25" bottom="0.46875"/>
+                        </Texture>
+                        <Texture name="BenillaMaxLevelBar2" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
+                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
+                            <Anchors>
+                                <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BenillaMaxLevelBar1" relativePoint="RIGHT"/>
+                            </Anchors>
+                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.5" bottom="0.71875"/>
+                        </Texture>
+                        <Texture name="BenillaMaxLevelBar3" file="Interface\MainMenuBar\UI-MainMenuBar-MaxLevel">
+                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="7"/></Size>
+                            <Anchors>
+                                <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="BenillaMaxLevelBar2" relativePoint="RIGHT"/>
+                            </Anchors>
+                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.75" bottom="0.96875"/>
+                        </Texture>
+                    </Layer>
+                </Layers>
+                <Scripts>
+                    <OnLoad>BenillaMaxLevelBar_OnLoad(self)</OnLoad>
+                    <OnEvent>BenillaMaxLevelBar_OnEvent()</OnEvent>
+                </Scripts>
+            </Frame>
+
             <!--
                 The art frame: fills the bar (ref-MainMenuBar.xml l.225-229). Carries the 4 dwarf
                 strips (ARTWORK) + the 2 end caps and page number (OVERLAY); the buttons are its
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/LootFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/LootFrame.xml
index 7b35750e..e15a5192 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/LootFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/LootFrame.xml
@@ -258,15 +258,21 @@
         function BenillaLootFrame_OnShow()
             -- Open sound — the window-sound convention (decision 0090), wrapper form (this handler
             -- has real logic beyond the sound, so it can't be a bare inline PlaySound).
-            -- (LootFrame.lua LootFrame_OnShow, l.131-141). ONLY the empty-roll fork is
-            -- Lua-side: an empty loot plays LOOTWINDOWOPENEMPTY (l.135-136). The normal (non-empty)
-            -- loot-open sound is C-side (the server-driven loot handler), so we stay silent for it —
-            -- there is no kit to guess. The fishing fork (l.137-139, "FISHING REEL IN" + the
-            -- FishingLoot-Icon portrait swap) is omitted: benilla ships no fishing feed. (DR 0086:
-            -- vmangos masks the lootable flag for empty rolls, so a live empty window is rare — but
-            -- the branch must exist.)
+            -- (LootFrame.lua LootFrame_OnShow, l.131-141). ONLY the empty-roll fork and the fishing
+            -- fork are Lua-side: an empty loot plays LOOTWINDOWOPENEMPTY (l.135-136); a fishing loot
+            -- (IsFishingLoot(), decision 1086) plays "FISHING REEL IN" and swaps the portrait ring's
+            -- skull for the FishingLoot-Icon (l.137-140) — reset to the skull first, exactly as the
+            -- ref does (l.133), so a corpse loot after a fishing one gets its skull back. The normal
+            -- (non-empty, non-fishing) loot-open sound is C-side (the server-driven loot handler),
+            -- so we stay silent for it — there is no kit to guess. (DR 0086: vmangos masks the
+            -- lootable flag for empty rolls, so a live empty window is rare — but the branch must
+            -- exist.)
+            getglobal("BenillaLootPortraitOverlay"):SetTexture("Interface\\TargetingFrame\\TargetDead")
             if GetNumLootItems() == 0 then
                 PlaySound("LOOTWINDOWOPENEMPTY")
+            elseif IsFishingLoot() then
+                PlaySound("FISHING REEL IN")
+                getglobal("BenillaLootPortraitOverlay"):SetTexture("Interface\\LootFrame\\FishingLoot-Icon")
             end
         end
 
@@ -353,9 +359,10 @@
         <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="256"/></Size>
         <Layers>
             <!-- The dead-target skull in the panel's portrait ring (ref LootFramePortraitOverlay,
-                 l.73-85): STATIC Interface\TargetingFrame\TargetDead, 58×58 at the window TOPLEFT
+                 l.73-85): Interface\TargetingFrame\TargetDead, 58×58 at the window TOPLEFT
                  +(10,-8). BORDER (below the ARTWORK panel) so it shows through the panel's ring cut-out.
-                 The real client's fishing-loot swap to FishingLoot-Icon is omitted (no fishing feed). -->
+                 OnShow resets it to the skull and swaps a fishing loot to FishingLoot-Icon
+                 (decision 1086), exactly as the ref's OnShow does (l.133-140). -->
             <Layer level="BORDER">
                 <Texture name="BenillaLootPortraitOverlay" file="Interface\TargetingFrame\TargetDead">
                     <Size><AbsDimension x="58" y="58"/></Size>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/SkillFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/SkillFrame.xml
index c60ca7ff..65d32dd7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/SkillFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/SkillFrame.xml
@@ -111,19 +111,52 @@
         function BenillaSkillFrame_PaintBar(bar, skillName, skillRank, skillModifier, skillMaxRank)
             local nameText = getglobal(bar:GetName() .. "SkillName")
             local rankText = getglobal(bar:GetName() .. "SkillRank")
+            -- The trough behind the fill (ref `$parentBackground`), recoloured per branch alongside
+            -- the fill itself — ref SkillFrame.lua:158 (normal) and :167 (proficiency), and the
+            -- detail pane's identical pair at :356/:376. The ref sets the normal-skill pair BEFORE
+            -- its `skillMaxRank` gate and lets the proficiency arm overwrite it; setting each arm's
+            -- own pair here is the same result with no dead write. The ref's THIRD writer of this
+            -- texture — the `skillCostType == 1/2/3` green/yellow/red block at :96-111, and the
+            -- `stepCost` "Learn <skill>" gray at :126 — is unreachable for us and would be
+            -- overwritten here even if it weren't: `stepCost`/`rankCost` are always nil and
+            -- `numTempPoints` always 0 (skills.rs's module doc — dead 1.12 data, deviation 1/5), so
+            -- every entry row takes the ref's own `else -- Normal skill` arm.
+            local bgTexture = getglobal(bar:GetName() .. "Background")
             nameText:SetText(skillName)
             nameText:SetTextColor(NORMAL_FONT_COLOR.r, NORMAL_FONT_COLOR.g, NORMAL_FONT_COLOR.b)
             rankText:SetTextColor(HIGHLIGHT_FONT_COLOR.r, HIGHLIGHT_FONT_COLOR.g, HIGHLIGHT_FONT_COLOR.b)
-            if skillMaxRank == 0 then
-                -- A 1.12 proficiency line the app reports as 0/0 (SkillEntry's own doc) — barless
-                -- plain text, deviation-free reading of the ref's own "skillMaxRank == 1" gray-bar
-                -- intent, adapted to our app's 0/0 shape (this file's header comment, no-fillbar note).
+            if skillMaxRank == 1 then
+                -- ref SkillFrame.lua:161-167 verbatim: "If max rank in a skill is 1 assume that
+                -- its a proficiency" — a FULL gray bar and NO rank text. Two kinds of line land
+                -- here, and the ref can't tell them apart because it doesn't need to: the armor
+                -- proficiencies, which the server really does report as 1/1, and the single-rank
+                -- lines (class skills, Dual Wield, racials, the per-mount riding lines) whose
+                -- `skillMaxRank` the engine already overrode to 1 off
+                -- `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x400` (skills.rs's `SkillEntry::mono`) — which is
+                -- why a hunter's `Beast Mastery 300/300` draws gray and numberless here, exactly
+                -- as it does in the real client.
+                bar:SetMinMaxValues(0, 1)
+                bar:SetValue(1)
+                bar:SetStatusBarColor(0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
+                rankText:SetText("")
+                bgTexture:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5)
+            elseif skillMaxRank == 0 then
+                -- Not reachable off a live server (a line the player HAS always carries a max ≥ 1)
+                -- and the ref leaves this case to fall through its own if/elseif untouched —
+                -- which, on a recycled row, would leave the PREVIOUS skill's bar and rank text
+                -- sitting there. We blank instead: a stale-state hole is a quirk, not behaviour.
                 bar:SetMinMaxValues(0, 1)
                 bar:SetValue(0)
                 bar:SetStatusBarColor(0, 0, 0, 0)
                 rankText:SetText("")
+                -- back to the template's own declared base, so a recycled row shows a neutral empty
+                -- trough rather than the previous skill's blue or white. The base lives in the
+                -- TEXEL (the template's `<Color 1,1,1,0.2>`), so restoring it means an IDENTITY
+                -- vertex colour — writing 0.2 here would multiply it to 0.04 (decision 1101).
+                bgTexture:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
             else
                 bar:SetStatusBarColor(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5)
+                bgTexture:SetVertexColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.75, 0.5)
                 bar:SetMinMaxValues(0, skillMaxRank)
                 bar:SetValue(skillRank)
                 -- ref SkillFrame.lua:178-186, transcribed byte-exact (this file's header comment,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml
index cfaef29f..50f1b9e7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml
@@ -946,6 +946,28 @@
                             </Anchors>
                             <TexCoords left="1.0" right="0.09375" top="0" bottom="0.78125"/>
                         </Texture>
+                        <!-- Name and level ride BACKGROUND with the ring art, like the ref's
+                             (ref-PlayerFrame.xml l.54-97) — NOT the OVERLAY the state icons sit
+                             in. The layer choice is load-bearing for the level number: the zzz /
+                             crossed-swords badge (OVERLAY, below) sits exactly on the level
+                             badge, and the client's bucket-wide texture-before-fontstring order
+                             (decision 0884) means a fontstring can never hide UNDER a texture
+                             of its own layer — the ref hides the number while resting by putting
+                             it in a LOWER layer than the badge. Shipped in OVERLAY by 1082, the
+                             number rode ON the badge (director report, 2026-08-07); decision 1093. -->
+                        <!-- Name 100×10 CENTER (50,19) (ref l.58-69). -->
+                        <FontString name="$parentNameText" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall" text="Unknown">
+                            <Size><AbsDimension x="100" y="10"/></Size>
+                            <Anchors>
+                                <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="50" y="19"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                            </Anchors>
+                        </FontString>
+                        <!-- Level number CENTER (-63,-16) (ref l.70-78). -->
+                        <FontString name="$parentLevelText" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall">
+                            <Anchors>
+                                <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-63" y="-16"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                            </Anchors>
+                        </FontString>
                     </Layer>
                     <Layer level="ARTWORK">
                         <!-- The PvP flag icon, 64×64 TOPLEFT (18,-20) (ref PlayerPVPIcon,
@@ -979,19 +1001,6 @@
                         </Texture>
                     </Layer>
                     <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                        <!-- Name 100×10 CENTER (50,19) (ref l.58-69). -->
-                        <FontString name="$parentNameText" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall" text="Unknown">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="100" y="10"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="50" y="19"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                            </Anchors>
-                        </FontString>
-                        <!-- Level number CENTER (-63,-16) (ref l.70-78). -->
-                        <FontString name="$parentLevelText" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall">
-                            <Anchors>
-                                <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-63" y="-16"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                            </Anchors>
-                        </FontString>
                         <!-- The portrait hit indicator (ref PlayerHitIndicator, decision 0576):
                              CENTER at (73,-42) from the frame's TOPLEFT — the portrait circle's
                              center. Hidden until a UNIT_COMBAT event lands; CombatFeedback drives
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
index 98dc4258..b8679b54 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/fixtures.rs
@@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ pub(super) fn seed_ui_fixture(
             items.insert_template(90_118, Some(template("Ruined Pelt", 1)));
             loot.open(
                 NPC_GUID,
+                benilla_protocol::messages::loot_type::CORPSE,
                 4, // 4 copper — the coin row
                 vec![
                     benilla_protocol::messages::LootItem {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim.rs
index 424434e1..bc15ca86 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim.rs
@@ -676,7 +676,9 @@ use driver::{drive_animations, drive_hand_grip};
 /// small concern, separate from the driver ([`driver`]) that advances the clips it scans.
 mod events;
 use events::fire_anim_events;
-pub(crate) use events::{footfall_side, is_footstep_sound, scan_events, AnimSoundEvent};
+pub(crate) use events::{
+    advance_track, footfall_side, is_footstep_sound, scan_events, AnimSoundEvent,
+};
 
 mod impact;
 use impact::route_swing_impacts;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/events.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/events.rs
index 55c11f9f..b8239715 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/events.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/creature_anim/events.rs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ pub(super) fn fire_anim_events(
 /// start** ([`FRESH_CLIP_HEAD`]) returns `-1.0` so the head window `[0, cur]` fires — we watched this
 /// clip begin, and `t = 0` keyframes are real (the emote voices carry `$CSD` at `0.000`). A clip
 /// change that *starts* deep in its timeline (the corpse settle's `seek_to(duration)`) stays silent.
-fn advance_track(
+pub(crate) fn advance_track(
     last: &mut bevy::ecs::entity::EntityHashMap<(AnimationNodeIndex, f32)>,
     entity: Entity,
     node: AnimationNodeIndex,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs
index 9adda419..745831df 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities.rs
@@ -235,11 +235,14 @@ impl Creatures {
         self.catalog.model(display_id).map(|m| m.blood)
     }
 
-    /// A built display's portrait framing: the model's **authored portrait camera** (the real
-    /// client's exact rig, wow-re portrait-render §4) when it has one, plus the heuristic anchors
-    /// (head bone / neck height / footprint, model-local pre-scale) the booth falls back to for a
-    /// camera-less model. `None` while the display's model is still loading (the booth's part
-    /// source — the attach-spawned children — won't exist yet either).
+    /// A built display's booth framing — the model's own **authored cameras**, which is what both
+    /// booth families frame through: `camera` for the round portrait (`cameraLookup[0]`, wow-re
+    /// portrait-render §4) and `pane_camera` for a `<PlayerModel>` body pane (raw index 1, wow-re
+    /// `modelframe-camera-law.md`). Each carries the fallback data its own path needs when the model
+    /// has no such camera: the heuristic anchors (head bone / neck height / footprint) for the
+    /// portrait, the bbox centre for the pane's fixed camera. All model-local pre-scale. `None`
+    /// while the display's model is still loading (the booth's part source — the attach-spawned
+    /// children — won't exist yet either).
     pub(crate) fn display_anchors(
         &self,
         display_id: u32,
@@ -248,6 +251,8 @@ impl Creatures {
         dm.parts.as_ref()?; // not yet built
         Some(crate::portrait::PortraitAnchors {
             camera: dm.portrait_camera,
+            pane_camera: dm.pane_camera,
+            bbox_center: dm.bake_center_local,
             head: crate::portrait::head_anchor(&dm.skeleton, &dm.attachments),
             pivot_height: dm.pivot_height_local,
             ground_radius: dm.ground_radius_local,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs
index f24ba8e2..26faf475 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs
@@ -208,11 +208,21 @@ pub(super) struct DisplayModel {
     /// load — the exact rig the portrait booth frames through. `None` for WMO / model-less / the few
     /// camera-less M2s (the booth then falls back to heuristic framing).
     pub(super) portrait_camera: Option<benilla_assets::PortraitCamera>,
+    /// The model's **model-frame pane camera** — raw camera-table index 1, the rig a 1.12
+    /// `<PlayerModel>` widget renders through (wow-re `ui/scratch/modelframe-camera-law.md`;
+    /// [`benilla_assets::M2Model::pane_camera`]). Captured with `parts` on load. `None` for WMO /
+    /// model-less / a model with fewer than two cameras — the body booth then uses the client's own
+    /// FIXED fallback camera instead.
+    pub(super) pane_camera: Option<benilla_assets::PortraitCamera>,
     /// A bow display's `$WTT`/`$WTB` bowstring anchors (wow-re `nocked-ammo-cancel.md` §G2),
     /// captured with `parts`: `[top, bottom]` as `(bone, model-local Bevy position)`. The held-item
     /// attach marks the prop root with them so the string drawer can span the tips. `None` for
     /// every non-bow model.
     pub(super) string_anchors: Option<[(u16, Vec3); 2]>,
+    /// The fishing pole's `$CCH` line anchor (wow-re `fishing-line.md`), mesh-frame Bevy space,
+    /// captured with `parts`. The held-item attach marks the mainhand prop with it so the line
+    /// drawer can span rod tip → bobber. `None` for every model that doesn't author it.
+    pub(super) cch_marker: Option<Vec3>,
     /// The authored bbox z-extent (`maxZ − minZ`, model-local yards, pre-scale) — the overhead-anchor
     /// fallback's input (`0x608640`: a unit whose model has no PlayerName attachment anchors overhead
     /// text at `feet + scale × this × 1.25`). `0.0` for a bounds-less display.
@@ -310,12 +320,14 @@ pub(super) fn empty_shell() -> DisplayModel {
         attachments: Vec::new(),
         markers: Vec::new(),
         string_anchors: None,
+        cch_marker: None,
         inverse_bindposes: None,
         animations: None,
         first_seq_span: None,
         pivot_height_local: 0.0,
         ground_radius_local: 0.0,
         portrait_camera: None,
+        pane_camera: None,
         bbox_z_local: 0.0,
         bake_center_local: Vec3::ZERO,
         terrain_tilt: 0,
@@ -360,12 +372,14 @@ pub(super) fn build_parts(
     let mut attachments = Vec::new();
     let mut markers = Vec::new();
     let mut string_anchors = None;
+    let mut cch_marker = None;
     let mut inverse_bindposes = None;
     let mut animations = None;
     let mut first_seq_span = None;
     let mut pivot_height_local = 0.0;
     let mut ground_radius_local = 0.0;
     let mut portrait_camera = None;
+    let mut pane_camera = None;
     let mut bbox_z_local = 0.0;
     let mut bake_center_local = Vec3::ZERO;
     let parts = match &dm.handle {
@@ -425,10 +439,12 @@ pub(super) fn build_parts(
             attachments = model.attachments.clone();
             markers = model.markers.clone();
             string_anchors = model.string_anchors;
+            cch_marker = model.cch_marker;
             inverse_bindposes = Some(model.inverse_bindposes.clone());
             animations = model.animations.clone();
             first_seq_span = model.first_seq_span;
             portrait_camera = model.portrait_camera;
+            pane_camera = model.pane_camera;
             if gameobject {
                 collider = model.collision.as_ref().and_then(model_local_collider);
             }
@@ -747,12 +763,14 @@ pub(super) fn build_parts(
     dm.attachments = attachments;
     dm.markers = markers;
     dm.string_anchors = string_anchors;
+    dm.cch_marker = cch_marker;
     dm.inverse_bindposes = inverse_bindposes;
     dm.animations = animations;
     dm.first_seq_span = first_seq_span;
     dm.pivot_height_local = pivot_height_local;
     dm.ground_radius_local = ground_radius_local;
     dm.portrait_camera = portrait_camera;
+    dm.pane_camera = pane_camera;
     dm.bbox_z_local = bbox_z_local;
     dm.bake_center_local = bake_center_local;
     dm.terrain_tilt = terrain_tilt;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/equipment/spawn.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/equipment/spawn.rs
index c51994f5..53c7aa62 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/equipment/spawn.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/equipment/spawn.rs
@@ -308,6 +308,18 @@ fn spawn_slot(
             });
         }
     }
+    // The fishing line's near anchor (wow-re `fishing-line.md`, decision 1099): a MAINHAND prop
+    // whose model authors `$CCH` is the pole (the reference gates on ItemCache {class 2, subclass
+    // 20} + the marker's presence; exactly one weapon model in the chain authors the marker, so
+    // presence alone is data-equivalent — unlike the bow's trail-marker trap above, which is why
+    // the bowstring can't key the same way). The drawer spans it to the owner's channel bobber.
+    if slot_idx == 0 {
+        if let Some(tip) = dm.cch_marker {
+            commands
+                .entity(root)
+                .insert(crate::fishing_line::FishingPoleTip { owner: entity, tip });
+        }
+    }
     // **The item rig** (decisions 0841, withdrawn by 0847, RESTORED by 0854) — the one case an
     // attach model runs a joint palette. 0847 pulled it believing a spherical billboard swept the
     // spikes through the plate; that was wrong (0853: the spikes run ALONG their bone, worst vertex
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/fishing_line.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/fishing_line.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..897df72b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/fishing_line.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+//! The engine-drawn **fishing line** (wow-re `object-layer/scratch/fishing-line.md`, §5
+//! byte-verified, their `aed458c7`): rod tip → bobber while a unit channels Fishing.
+//!
+//! The reference draws this as a per-UNIT effect, not a GO one — one line object per unit
+//! (`[unit+0xb4c]`, ctor `0x61f490`), created when the unit's `UNIT_FIELD_CHANNEL_OBJECT`
+//! resolves to a live **FISHINGNODE** GameObject, `UNIT_CHANNEL_SPELL` ≠ 0, and the mainhand is a
+//! fishing pole whose model is loaded; torn down when any of that ceases (the server clears the
+//! channel fields at finish/interrupt). **No local-player gate** — every visible fisher shows a
+//! line. Benilla draws it immediate-mode per frame from exactly those conditions, so the
+//! reference's create/watcher/teardown lifecycle falls out as the condition holding or not.
+//!
+//! The geometry (`0x61f780`, bit-proven `PRIMITIVE:effect_beam_trail`): **65 vertices**, straight
+//! lerp near → far, then a fixed half-sine sag — `z −= 0.5 × sin(π·t)`, 0.5 world-units at the
+//! midpoint, not length- or physics-scaled. Near = the pole M2's `$CCH` event marker (the bobber
+//! authors one too and the reference NEVER reads it — its far end is the bobber's position with
+//! `z += scale × bboxHeight × 0.5`). One flat color for the whole strip = the pole's
+//! light-collector accumulated ambient, alpha opaque, GL_LIGHTING forced off, drawn as a plain
+//! line strip in scene state.
+//!
+//! Named deviations (same class as the bowstring's, decision 1099): the anchor rides the static
+//! prop frame (the pole's bone 1 is not posed — item props rest at bind pose here); the color
+//! samples the scene ambient ([`crate::lighting::WowLighting`]) rather than a per-model light
+//! collector; gizmo lines are unfogged. The reference's sheath side-trigger (`0x60d2f0` calls
+//! `SetSheatheState(1)` when the watcher finds the pole on the back) and the FishingCast→
+//! FishingLoop anim handoff (`0x5fc3f0` case 0x85) are the channel-anim family's, not drawn here.
+
+use bevy::prelude::*;
+
+use benilla_protocol::EntityKind;
+
+use crate::entities::OverheadFallback;
+use crate::net::{GuidIndex, NetEntity, ObjectStore};
+
+/// Marks a spawned **mainhand prop** whose model authors the `$CCH` line anchor — the fishing
+/// pole (exactly one weapon model in the 5875 chain authors it: the `scan_events` sweep, so
+/// presence is the reference's `{class 2, subclass 20}` ItemCache check data-equivalently).
+/// Inserted by the held-item attach; despawned with the prop, which is the clear.
+#[derive(Component)]
+pub(crate) struct FishingPoleTip {
+    /// The unit holding the pole — its channel fields decide whether a line draws.
+    pub(crate) owner: Entity,
+    /// `$CCH` in the prop's mesh frame (Bevy space).
+    pub(crate) tip: Vec3,
+}
+
+/// 64 segments / 65 vertices — the reference's `t = i/64` (const `0x80a92c` = 0.015625).
+const SEGMENTS: usize = 64;
+/// The fixed half-sine sag amplitude (const `0x80c9a8` = −0.5, applied to `sin(π·t)`).
+const SAG: f32 = 0.5;
+
+/// Draw every visible fisher's line (per frame, post-propagation so the prop frame is current).
+fn draw_fishing_lines(
+    poles: Query<(&FishingPoleTip, &GlobalTransform, &InheritedVisibility)>,
+    owners: Query<&ObjectStore>,
+    index: Res<GuidIndex>,
+    bobbers: Query<(
+        &ObjectStore,
+        &NetEntity,
+        &GlobalTransform,
+        Option<&OverheadFallback>,
+    )>,
+    lighting: Option<Res<crate::lighting::WowLighting>>,
+    mut gizmos: Gizmos,
+) {
+    for (pole, prop, vis) in &poles {
+        if !vis.get() {
+            continue;
+        }
+        // The reference's create conditions, checked live: a channel spell, aimed at a streamed
+        // FISHINGNODE. (`0x612650`; the GO-type read is the strategy's own `descr+0x3c`.)
+        let Ok(store) = owners.get(pole.owner) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if store.0.unit_channel_spell() == 0 {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let Some(bobber) = store
+            .0
+            .unit_channel_object()
+            .and_then(|g| index.0.get(&g).copied())
+        else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        let Ok((go_store, net, go_tf, height)) = bobbers.get(bobber) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if net.kind != EntityKind::GameObject
+            || go_store.0.gameobject_type_id() != crate::target::cursor_mode::GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE
+        {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let near = prop.transform_point(pole.tip);
+        // Far = bobber base + half its scaled bbox height (`0x5f9f50`: `z += scale × [go+0xbc] ×
+        // 0.5`) — the float's waterline center, whatever the model's pivot does.
+        let far = go_tf.translation() + Vec3::Y * (net.scale * height.map_or(0.0, |h| h.0) * 0.5);
+        // The flat strip color: accumulated ambient clamped [0,1], opaque (the scene-ambient
+        // stand-in for the pole's collector — module doc).
+        let color = lighting.as_deref().map_or(Color::srgb(0.5, 0.5, 0.5), |l| {
+            Color::srgb(
+                l.ambient[0].clamp(0.0, 1.0),
+                l.ambient[1].clamp(0.0, 1.0),
+                l.ambient[2].clamp(0.0, 1.0),
+            )
+        });
+        gizmos.linestrip(
+            (0..=SEGMENTS).map(|i| {
+                let t = i as f32 / SEGMENTS as f32;
+                near.lerp(far, t) - Vec3::Y * (SAG * (std::f32::consts::PI * t).sin())
+            }),
+            color,
+        );
+    }
+}
+
+/// Registers the line drawer beside the bowstring's — after propagation, so both weapon-prop
+/// spans read this frame's frames.
+pub(crate) struct FishingLinePlugin;
+
+impl Plugin for FishingLinePlugin {
+    fn build(&self, app: &mut App) {
+        app.add_systems(
+            PostUpdate,
+            draw_fishing_lines.in_set(crate::billboard::BillboardPlace),
+        );
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// The polyline the reference builds (`0x61f780`): 65 vertices, straight lerp, and the fixed
+    /// half-sine sag — zero at both ends, exactly −0.5 in world Z (Bevy Y) at the midpoint,
+    /// independent of the span's length.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_sag_is_a_fixed_half_sine() {
+        let near = Vec3::new(0.0, 5.0, 0.0);
+        let far = Vec3::new(20.0, 4.0, 0.0);
+        let pts: Vec<Vec3> = (0..=SEGMENTS)
+            .map(|i| {
+                let t = i as f32 / SEGMENTS as f32;
+                near.lerp(far, t) - Vec3::Y * (SAG * (std::f32::consts::PI * t).sin())
+            })
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(pts.len(), 65);
+        assert!((pts[0] - near).length() < 1e-6);
+        assert!((pts[64] - far).length() < 1e-5);
+        let mid = near.lerp(far, 0.5);
+        assert!((pts[32].y - (mid.y - SAG)).abs() < 1e-4);
+        // The sag never scales with length: a 200-yard span dips the same 0.5.
+        let long = near.lerp(Vec3::new(200.0, 5.0, 0.0), 0.5);
+        let dip = SAG * (std::f32::consts::PI * 0.5).sin();
+        assert!((dip - SAG).abs() < 1e-6);
+        assert!(long.y - dip < long.y);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/go_anim.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/go_anim.rs
index 019918f6..6fb7e7b9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/go_anim.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/go_anim.rs
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ use bevy::animation::RepeatAnimation;
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 use std::time::Duration;
 
+use crate::creature_anim::{advance_track, scan_events, AnimSoundEvent};
 use crate::net::{GuidIndex, ObjectStore};
 use crate::schedule::WorldStage;
 
@@ -86,6 +87,20 @@ pub(crate) struct GoAnim {
     /// *genuine* wire change — a chest's wire state is constant (its lid is driven by loot events, not the
     /// wire), so an unrelated values-update (a dyn-flag, a position) must not re-close an open lid.
     last_wire: Option<u32>,
+    /// A pending one-shot **Custom** play (AnimationData id 153..156) from
+    /// `SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM` — the second, disjoint arm channel of wow-re
+    /// `gameobject-anim-arm.md` §"one-shot channel" step 8 (substates 8..11, never the §243 lid
+    /// family). Armed by [`queue_custom_anim`], consumed by [`drive_go_anim`] AFTER the state arm,
+    /// so the bobber's same-frame pair (the forced `READY → ACTIVE` flip + the splash) resolves
+    /// with the splash on top (decision 1086).
+    custom: Option<u16>,
+    /// The Custom clip currently ARMED (set when [`drive_go_anim`] actually plays one) — the
+    /// completion-retire's watch (decision 1100, wow-re `go-display-sound-events.md` §6-8): the
+    /// reference's per-model completion callback fires ONCE at the clip's window end (span ×
+    /// replay-count, the loop bit ignored) and re-runs the GO state machine, which re-arms the
+    /// state's own pose over the Custom block. [`retire_custom_anim`] models exactly that; without
+    /// it the bobber's splash looped ~1.3 s forever (the director's 2-3 audible splashes).
+    custom_active: Option<u16>,
 }
 
 /// The GameObject's **stored** state — the binary's `go+0x27c`, which is what every consumer reads
@@ -168,6 +183,17 @@ pub(crate) struct GoLidOpen {
     pub(crate) spell_id: u32,
 }
 
+/// A GameObject's one-shot Custom animation (`SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM`, decision 1086), bridged
+/// from the net apply layer. The wire's `anim_id` is the Custom index (0..3 → AnimationData ids
+/// 153..156); the reference rejects `anim_id >= 4` in the handler and this side keeps that gate.
+/// The load-bearing sender is the fishing bobber's bite (`anim_id 0` — the splash, arriving beside
+/// the forced state flip and the server's own `SMSG_PLAY_OBJECT_SOUND` splash kit).
+#[derive(Message, Clone, Copy)]
+pub(crate) struct GoCustomAnim {
+    pub(crate) go_guid: u64,
+    pub(crate) anim_id: u32,
+}
+
 /// What to play for the current `GAMEOBJECT_STATE`: a held **rest** pose (first sight, or a state with no
 /// transition), or a one-shot transition **motion** (the swing) that lands on the new rest pose.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
@@ -335,6 +361,38 @@ fn open_go_lid(
     }
 }
 
+/// Caller 4 (the custom-anim opcode, decision 1086): queue the one-shot Custom play. This is the
+/// **disjoint** arm channel of wow-re `gameobject-anim-arm.md` §step 8 — it never touches
+/// [`GoAnim::state`] (the lid family), rejects `anim_id >= 4` exactly as the reference handler
+/// does, and maps the index to its AnimationData id (`153 + n`, Custom0..3). Ownership is judged
+/// at play time by [`drive_go_anim`] (the model components live there); a guid with no [`GoAnim`]
+/// — a non-animated GO type, or one still streaming in — drops the play, matching
+/// [`open_go_lid`]'s posture.
+fn queue_custom_anim(
+    mut plays: MessageReader<GoCustomAnim>,
+    index: Res<GuidIndex>,
+    mut gos: Query<&mut GoAnim>,
+) {
+    for GoCustomAnim { go_guid, anim_id } in plays.read().copied() {
+        let Some(id) = custom_anim_id(anim_id) else {
+            continue; // the reference handler's own reject (step 8)
+        };
+        let Some(&e) = index.0.get(&go_guid) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if let Ok(mut anim) = gos.get_mut(e) {
+            anim.custom = Some(id);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The wire Custom index → its AnimationData id (`153 + n`, Custom0..3), or `None` for the
+/// reference handler's reject (`anim_id >= 4` — wow-re `gameobject-anim-arm.md` step 8's
+/// "opcode `0xb3` byte `b` (reject `b >= 4`), substate `8+b`").
+fn custom_anim_id(anim_id: u32) -> Option<u16> {
+    (anim_id < 4).then(|| 153 + anim_id as u16)
+}
+
 /// Caller 3 (the loot-release): close a chest lid when its loot window closes. The client sends
 /// `CMSG_LOOT_RELEASE` and immediately drops the state to READY(1) — no server round-trip. We watch the
 /// open loot source guid change (any close path: the player's close, or the server's release when the last
@@ -363,6 +421,39 @@ fn close_go_lid(
 /// Play the §243 sequence for a change of the client-side [`GoAnim::state`] (written by any of the three
 /// callers). Mirrors the state-transition detection of [`crate::sound::gameobject`] (first sight silent),
 /// but points it at the model instead of the mixer — one system owns the visual, the other the audio.
+/// The **completion-driven retire** of an armed Custom clip (decision 1100; wow-re
+/// `go-display-sound-events.md` §6-8, §5-verified): the reference registers a per-model completion
+/// callback at GO model attach (`0x5f7d43` → `[M2+0x70]`) that fires ONCE when a sequence reaches
+/// its baked window end — span × replay-count, the **loop bit ignored** — and, for the transient
+/// substates (the Custom family 8..11 among them), re-runs the GO state machine at the current
+/// `GAMEOBJECT_STATE`, arming its pose through the playable-lookup fallback. For the bobber that
+/// resolves 149 → 151 → the lookup's all-fallback rows → **Stand**, landing one frame after the
+/// 1333 ms window — before the looping kernel's second `$GC0` crossing at 1533 ms. Net law: one
+/// splash per 0xB3, then the state pose.
+///
+/// Benilla's custom arm plays the clip `Never`-repeat (one window, the same endpoint), so "the
+/// window ended" is the player's finished flag; the retire then clears `shown`, which makes the
+/// state arm of [`drive_go_anim`] re-resolve the current state as a fresh rest pose — our
+/// state-machine re-run. Runs before [`drive_go_anim`] in the chain so the re-arm lands the same
+/// frame. Reads never deref-mut, so a quiet GO stays out of the Changed stream.
+fn retire_custom_anim(mut gos: Query<(&mut GoAnim, &AnimationPlayer, &ModelAnimations)>) {
+    for (mut go, player, anims) in &mut gos {
+        let Some(id) = go.custom_active else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        let done = anims
+            .find(id)
+            .is_none_or(|clip| player.animation(clip.node).is_none_or(|a| a.is_finished()));
+        if done {
+            go.custom_active = None;
+            // The completion's state-machine re-run: forget the shown pose so the state arm
+            // re-resolves it (a silent rest snap — `resolve(None, state)`), exactly the
+            // reference's re-arm-over-the-Custom-block.
+            go.shown = None;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 fn drive_go_anim(
     mut gos: Query<
         (
@@ -375,46 +466,76 @@ fn drive_go_anim(
     >,
 ) {
     for (mut go, mut player, mut tr, anims) in &mut gos {
-        let Some(state) = go.state else {
-            continue;
-        };
-        if go.shown == Some(state) {
-            continue; // a caller touched us (e.g. `last_wire` bookkeeping) but the state didn't move
+        // ── The §243 state arm ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        if let Some(state) = go.state {
+            if go.shown != Some(state) {
+                let prev = go.shown;
+                go.shown = Some(state);
+                if let Some(play) = resolve(prev, state) {
+                    // Resolve the id to this model's clip (keyed by AnimationData.dbc id, as
+                    // `creature_anim` does), through the §2c remap for a model that doesn't author
+                    // it — that is what keeps a lidless model on a real pose instead of bind.
+                    let (want, frozen) = remap_missing(anims, play.anim_id());
+                    if let Some(clip) = anims.find(want) {
+                        // Snap a rest pose (blend 0 — a stream-in must not swing); ease a motion
+                        // over its authored blend.
+                        let blend = match play {
+                            Play::Rest(_) => 0.0,
+                            Play::Motion(_) => clip.blend_time.max(0.0),
+                        };
+                        let active =
+                            tr.play(&mut player, clip.node, Duration::from_secs_f32(blend));
+                        if frozen {
+                            // A motion standing in for a missing rest pose: the reference arms it
+                            // at playback rate 0, so it holds frame 0 forever — the pose that
+                            // motion departs from.
+                            active.seek_to(0.0);
+                            active.set_speed(0.0);
+                            active.set_repeat(RepeatAnimation::Never);
+                        } else {
+                            // Explicit, not defaulted: `AnimationTransitions::play` →
+                            // `AnimationPlayer::start` only `replay()`s the node, which rewinds the
+                            // clock but keeps `speed` — so re-arming a node a frozen leg previously
+                            // parked at rate 0 (the same Open clip serves both) would stay stuck.
+                            active.set_speed(1.0);
+                            active.set_repeat(if clip.looping {
+                                RepeatAnimation::Forever
+                            } else {
+                                RepeatAnimation::Never
+                            });
+                        }
+                    }
+                    // else: nothing playable even after the remap — hold whatever the loader
+                    // seed armed.
+                }
+            }
         }
-        let prev = go.shown;
-        go.shown = Some(state);
-        let Some(play) = resolve(prev, state) else {
-            continue;
-        };
-        // Resolve the id to this model's clip (keyed by AnimationData.dbc id, as `creature_anim` does),
-        // through the §2c remap for a model that doesn't author it — that is what keeps a lidless
-        // model on a real pose instead of bind.
-        let (want, frozen) = remap_missing(anims, play.anim_id());
-        let Some(clip) = anims.find(want) else {
-            continue; // nothing playable even after the remap: hold whatever the loader seed armed
-        };
-        // Snap a rest pose (blend 0 — a stream-in must not swing); ease a motion over its authored blend.
-        let blend = match play {
-            Play::Rest(_) => 0.0,
-            Play::Motion(_) => clip.blend_time.max(0.0),
-        };
-        let active = tr.play(&mut player, clip.node, Duration::from_secs_f32(blend));
-        if frozen {
-            // A motion standing in for a missing rest pose: the reference arms it at playback rate 0,
-            // so it holds frame 0 forever — the pose that motion departs from.
-            active.seek_to(0.0);
-            active.set_speed(0.0);
-            active.set_repeat(RepeatAnimation::Never);
-        } else {
-            // Explicit, not defaulted: `AnimationTransitions::play` → `AnimationPlayer::start` only
-            // `replay()`s the node, which rewinds the clock but keeps `speed` — so re-arming a node a
-            // frozen leg previously parked at rate 0 (the same Open clip serves both) would stay stuck.
-            active.set_speed(1.0);
-            active.set_repeat(if clip.looping {
-                RepeatAnimation::Forever
-            } else {
-                RepeatAnimation::Never
-            });
+        // ── The one-shot Custom channel (step 8, decision 1086) — AFTER the state arm, so the
+        // bobber's same-frame pair (forced READY→ACTIVE flip + splash) lands splash-on-top.
+        // Gated on the model OWNING the id; no §2c remap on this channel — an unowned Custom
+        // plays nothing. Armed for ONE window regardless of the sequence's loop flag (decision
+        // 1099, correcting 1090's loop-forever): the kernel does loop a bit0-clear clip and
+        // re-fires its events per pass, but the reference's COMPLETION callback fires at window
+        // end (span × replay-count; the bobber's replay pair is 0..0 ⇒ one 1333 ms pass) and
+        // re-runs the state machine, overwriting the Custom block before a second pass begins.
+        // `RepeatAnimation::Never` + [`retire_custom_anim`] reproduce that endpoint exactly: one
+        // pass, one `$GC0` splash, then the state pose — never a churning loop.
+        // (`is_some` pre-check: an unconditional `take()` mut-derefs the `Mut` and re-marks the
+        // component Changed every frame, keeping this Changed-filtered query hot forever.)
+        if go.custom.is_some() {
+            let id = go.custom.take().expect("checked is_some");
+            if anims.owns(id) {
+                if let Some(clip) = anims.find(id) {
+                    let active = tr.play(
+                        &mut player,
+                        clip.node,
+                        Duration::from_secs_f32(clip.blend_time.max(0.0)),
+                    );
+                    active.set_speed(1.0);
+                    active.set_repeat(RepeatAnimation::Never);
+                    go.custom_active = Some(id);
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 }
@@ -462,19 +583,70 @@ fn drive_go_collision(
     }
 }
 
+/// Fire the event keyframes an animated GameObject's playing clip crossed this frame — the GO
+/// half of the M2 event-kernel surface (wow-re `go-display-sound-events.md`, the 1086 fold-back
+/// record): the reference registers an event callback per **family-A** GO at create
+/// (`0x5f7d1f` → vtable `+0x30` → dispatcher `0x5f3e20`), which is exactly the [`GoAnim`]
+/// population — a loader-idle family-B GO has no dispatcher and stays silent. The events flow
+/// into the same [`AnimSoundEvent`] stream the creature scanner feeds: the generic `$SND`/`$DSO`/
+/// `$DSL` audio arms apply as-is, and the GO-only display-slot family (`$GO0..5`/`$GC0..3` →
+/// `GameObjectDisplayInfo.Sound[0..9]`) is routed by [`crate::sound::gameobject`]. The
+/// load-bearing tenant: the fishing bobber's Custom0 clip authors `$GC0` at t≈3.87 s — the
+/// splash sound the real client plays from the *animation*, beside the server's explicit
+/// object-sound packet (the audible double, faithful to the reference on vmangos).
+///
+/// The playing clip is found as the creature scanner finds a variation track: of the clips with
+/// a live [`AnimationPlayer`] play, the smallest seek is the newest arm (a cross-fade's fading
+/// source is older by construction). The shared [`advance_track`]/[`scan_events`] helpers give
+/// the same arming rules — first sight silent, a watched clip-start fires its `t = 0` head, a
+/// loop wrap fires tail-then-head — and a frozen rate-0 leg never advances, so it never fires.
+fn fire_go_anim_events(
+    gos: Query<(Entity, &ModelAnimations, &AnimationPlayer), With<GoAnim>>,
+    mut last: Local<
+        bevy::ecs::entity::EntityHashMap<(bevy::animation::graph::AnimationNodeIndex, f32)>,
+    >,
+    mut out: MessageWriter<AnimSoundEvent>,
+) {
+    for (entity, anims, player) in &gos {
+        let playing = anims
+            .clips
+            .iter()
+            .filter_map(|c| player.animation(c.node).map(|a| (c, a.seek_time())))
+            .min_by(|a, b| a.1.total_cmp(&b.1));
+        if let Some((clip, cur)) = playing {
+            if let Some(prev) = advance_track(&mut last, entity, clip.node, cur) {
+                scan_events(clip, entity, prev, cur, &mut out);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Registration hook, mirrored on [`crate::sound::gameobject`]'s: the three state callers write
 /// [`GoAnim::state`], then the animation + collision consumers act on it, after the Net drain wrote this
-/// frame's descriptor deltas + queued the open-lock [`GoLidOpen`].
+/// frame's descriptor deltas + queued the open-lock [`GoLidOpen`]. The event scanner runs last —
+/// it reads the clip/seek state the drive just settled.
 pub(crate) fn plugin(app: &mut App) {
-    app.add_message::<GoLidOpen>().add_systems(
-        Update,
-        (
-            (sync_wire_go_state, open_go_lid, close_go_lid),
-            (drive_go_anim, drive_go_collision),
-        )
-            .chain()
-            .in_set(WorldStage::Present),
-    );
+    app.add_message::<GoLidOpen>()
+        .add_message::<GoCustomAnim>()
+        .add_systems(
+            Update,
+            (
+                (
+                    sync_wire_go_state,
+                    open_go_lid,
+                    close_go_lid,
+                    queue_custom_anim,
+                    // The completion retire reads last frame's finished flags and must clear
+                    // `shown` BEFORE the drive, so its state re-arm lands this frame — the
+                    // reference's own one-frame-after-window-end timing.
+                    retire_custom_anim,
+                ),
+                (drive_go_anim, drive_go_collision),
+                fire_go_anim_events,
+            )
+                .chain()
+                .in_set(WorldStage::Present),
+        );
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -519,6 +691,20 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(matches!(resolve(Some(2), 1), Some(Play::Motion(0x98))));
     }
 
+    /// The custom-anim channel's wire mapping (step 8, decision 1086): indices 0..3 arm
+    /// Custom0..3 (AnimationData 153..156); anything else is the reference handler's reject.
+    /// The fishing bobber's bite is index 0 → 153 — exactly the second sequence
+    /// `G_FishingBobber.m2` authors.
+    #[test]
+    fn custom_anim_maps_the_wire_index_and_rejects_past_3() {
+        assert_eq!(custom_anim_id(0), Some(153)); // Custom0 — the bobber splash
+        assert_eq!(custom_anim_id(1), Some(154));
+        assert_eq!(custom_anim_id(2), Some(155));
+        assert_eq!(custom_anim_id(3), Some(156));
+        assert_eq!(custom_anim_id(4), None);
+        assert_eq!(custom_anim_id(u32::MAX), None);
+    }
+
     /// A `ModelAnimations` that owns exactly `ids` — only the lookup table matters to the remap.
     fn owning(ids: &[u16]) -> ModelAnimations {
         let hi = ids.iter().copied().max().unwrap_or(0) as usize;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/interact/inspect.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/interact/inspect.rs
index 2ee3cac6..316a3b1d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/interact/inspect.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/interact/inspect.rs
@@ -52,6 +52,22 @@ type EntityLightReadout = (
     Has<crate::interior::ContainmentAttach>,
 );
 
+/// Everything the identity card reads off the **net entity** under the cursor, as one named
+/// [`SystemParam`] — the descriptor store and the coarse kind the line gates go by, the GameObject
+/// collision readout (decision 0763), the light readout, and the two remaining inputs of the
+/// **interact gate** ([`crate::target::cursor_mode::go_highlightable`]): the faction catalog and our
+/// own store. A bundle because `inspect_ui` sits at Bevy's 16-param ceiling; a named struct rather
+/// than the tuple it grew out of, so each member says what it is at the point of use.
+#[derive(bevy::ecs::system::SystemParam)]
+pub(super) struct InspectStores<'w, 's> {
+    stores: Query<'w, 's, &'static ObjectStore>,
+    kinds: Query<'w, 's, &'static crate::net::NetEntity>,
+    collision: Query<'w, 's, GoCollisionReadout>,
+    lit: Query<'w, 's, EntityLightReadout>,
+    factions: Option<Res<'w, crate::target::ring::Factions>>,
+    self_store: Query<'w, 's, &'static ObjectStore, With<crate::net::SelfPlayer>>,
+}
+
 /// The inspector overlay, drawn only while armed: a weak top-centre "armed" pill (so it's obvious the
 /// mode is on and how to leave it) and, whenever the cursor is over an identified object, a compact
 /// identity card pinned to the cursor. No chrome, no panel — its own lightweight surface.
@@ -64,16 +80,7 @@ pub(super) fn inspect_ui(
     // The pickable mesh is a child of the net entity; its descriptor store (`ObjectStore`) lives on the
     // parent, so the readout hops child → parent.
     parents: Query<&ChildOf>,
-    // Bundled into one param (the same arity ceiling as `click_input` below): the descriptor
-    // store + the coarse kind the line gates go by.
-    stores: (
-        Query<&ObjectStore>,
-        Query<&crate::net::NetEntity>,
-        // The GameObject collision readout (decision 0763): whether a hull exists, whether it is
-        // currently disabled, and the client's stored state the gate reads.
-        Query<GoCollisionReadout>,
-        Query<EntityLightReadout>,
-    ),
+    stores: InspectStores,
     guids: Query<&crate::net::Guid>,
     castings: Query<&crate::creature_anim::Casting>,
     drivers: Query<&crate::creature_anim::AnimDriver>,
@@ -131,7 +138,13 @@ pub(super) fn inspect_ui(
         .entity
         .and_then(|e| parents.get(e).ok())
         .map(|c| c.parent());
-    let (stores, kinds, collision, lit) = (&stores.0, &stores.1, &stores.2, &stores.3);
+    let (factions, self_store) = (stores.factions.as_deref(), stores.self_store.single().ok());
+    let (stores, kinds, collision, lit) = (
+        &stores.stores,
+        &stores.kinds,
+        &stores.collision,
+        &stores.lit,
+    );
     let store = net_entity.and_then(|p| stores.get(p).ok());
     // The unit's server name through the query cache — asks on first hover, fills on a later frame
     // (the same ask-once path the unit frames use).
@@ -189,8 +202,28 @@ pub(super) fn inspect_ui(
             } else {
                 format!(" [{}]", named.join("|"))
             };
+            // The **interact gate**, stated rather than inferred (wow-re cursor-system §4a): the
+            // strategy vtable's `+0x14` **highlightable** slot is the single predicate behind the
+            // cursor, the +64 brighten, the right-click USE and the pick priority — so a GO reading
+            // `interact ✗` is saying all four are off *by design*, and one reading `interact ✓` while
+            // showing no gear says the fault is downstream in the cursor naming. That distinction is
+            // exactly what the type-8 anvil report cost a hand-derivation to make: an anvil hovers
+            // (this card is up) and must still read `interact ✗`, because SPELL_FOCUS is one of the
+            // types whose `+0x14` is a constant `xor al,al`.
+            let reaction =
+                crate::target::cursor_mode::go_reaction(factions, s.0.gameobject_faction(), self_store);
+            let channel_owned = crate::target::cursor_mode::fishing_channel_owned(
+                self_store,
+                net_entity.and_then(|p| guids.get(p).ok()).map(|g| g.0),
+            );
+            let interact =
+                if crate::target::cursor_mode::go_highlightable(s, reaction, channel_owned) {
+                "interact ✓"
+            } else {
+                "interact ✗"
+            };
             format!(
-                "go type {} · state {state} {word} · {solidity} · flags {flags:#x}{flag_text}",
+                "go type {} · state {state} {word} · {solidity} · flags {flags:#x}{flag_text} · {interact}",
                 s.0.gameobject_type_id()
             )
         });
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
index 3bdddeab..16334218 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ mod entities;
 mod entity_shade;
 mod exterior_cull;
 mod ffx_glow;
+mod fishing_line;
 mod footprints;
 mod glue;
 mod glue_strings;
@@ -177,6 +178,7 @@ use debug_panel::DebugPanelPlugin;
 use doodad_anim::DoodadAnimPlugin;
 use entities::EntitiesPlugin;
 use entity_shade::EntityShadePlugin;
+use fishing_line::FishingLinePlugin;
 use footprints::FootprintsPlugin;
 use interact::InteractPlugin;
 use interior::InteriorPlugin;
@@ -523,6 +525,7 @@ pub fn run(build: BuildId) -> AppExit {
     // state kit's CharProc-1 colour, uploaded to its own region of the shared light buffer.
     .add_plugins(instance_tint::plugin)
     .add_plugins(BowstringPlugin)
+    .add_plugins(FishingLinePlugin)
     .add_plugins(QuestMarkersPlugin)
     // Frame-time HUD + diagnostics — the performance standard.
     // After DebugPanelPlugin so the egui plugin/context it sets up already exists. Toggle: P.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/blips/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/blips/mod.rs
index cbe785c2..10346a0c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/blips/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/blips/mod.rs
@@ -126,13 +126,15 @@ pub(crate) enum MinimapBlipHover {
 /// The blip layer's system inputs, tupled so `emit_minimap` stays under Bevy's 16-param
 /// ceiling: the quest-status store, the guid→entity index + unit positions, the cursor's
 /// window, the hover-out slot, the party state, and the tracking-dot inputs (candidates,
-/// our own descriptor's masks, the creature/GO template caches, `Lock.dbc`).
+/// our own descriptor's masks, the creature/GO template caches, `Lock.dbc`), plus the
+/// `uiScale` dial the tooltip's cursor seat converts through.
 pub(super) type BlipInputs<'w, 's> = (
     Res<'w, crate::ui_quest::QuestGiver>,
     Res<'w, GuidIndex>,
     Query<'w, 's, &'static GlobalTransform, With<NetEntity>>,
     Query<'w, 's, &'static Window, With<PrimaryWindow>>,
     ResMut<'w, MinimapBlipHover>,
+    Res<'w, crate::ui_script::UiScaleCvar>,
     Res<'w, crate::ui_party::GroupState>,
     TrackedCandidates<'w, 's>,
     Query<'w, 's, &'static ObjectStore, With<SelfPlayer>>,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs
index d2f1c66f..d238ade4 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ fn emit_minimap(
         unit_pos,
         window,
         mut blip_hover,
+        ui_scale,
         group,
         tracked,
         self_store,
@@ -534,8 +535,12 @@ fn emit_minimap(
             wy,
             wz: wow[2],
             cursor,
-            // The same point in UI space (y-up) — the tooltip's cursor seat.
-            cursor_ui: cursor.zip(win).map(|(c, w)| Vec2::new(c.x, w.height() - c.y)),
+            // The same point in UI space (y-up, ÷s through the 0582/0584 seam — the tooltip's
+            // anchor resolves in the VM's 768-virtual units, not window px): the cursor seat.
+            cursor_ui: cursor.zip(win).map(|(c, w)| {
+                let s = crate::ui_script::seam_scale(w.height(), ui_scale.0);
+                Vec2::new(c.x / s, (w.height() - c.y) / s)
+            }),
         }
     });
     let mut hover = blips::MinimapBlipHover::None;
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
index 814a96d6..27f362a4 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
@@ -254,6 +254,9 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
             MessageWriter<crate::ui_unit::UnitCombatFeedback>,
             MessageWriter<crate::ui_unit::CombatTextEvent>,
             MessageWriter<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>,
+            // The GO one-shot Custom play (`SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM` — the bobber's bite
+            // splash, decision 1086), the step-8 sibling of the `GoLidOpen` writer above.
+            MessageWriter<crate::go_anim::GoCustomAnim>,
         ),
     ),
     // The aura feed's duration side-table + the clock to stamp arrivals (decisions 0255/0257): the
@@ -636,6 +639,11 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
             } => {
                 objects::gameobject_info(entry, type_id, display_id, name, &data, &mut go_templates)
             }
+            SessionEvent::GameObjectCustomAnim { guid, anim_id } => {
+                objects::gameobject_custom_anim(guid, anim_id, &mut audio.15 .3)
+            }
+            SessionEvent::FishNotHooked => loot::fish_verdict(false, &mut ui_error_keys),
+            SessionEvent::FishEscaped => loot::fish_verdict(true, &mut ui_error_keys),
             SessionEvent::PlaySound { sound_id } => world::play_sound(sound_id, &mut audio.0),
             SessionEvent::PlayMusic { music_id } => world::play_music(music_id, &mut audio.0),
             SessionEvent::PlayObjectSound { sound_id, guid } => {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/loot.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/loot.rs
index af2c88a8..eb92b34c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/loot.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/loot.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use bevy::prelude::*;
 use super::super::SelfGuid;
 use crate::items::Items;
 use crate::pending_item_ops::{LockClearedByFailure, PendingItemOps};
+use crate::ui_action::{UiError, UiErrorKeys};
 use crate::ui_items::{EquipError, EquipErrors};
 use crate::ui_loot::{LootErrors, LootLatch, LootState};
 use crate::ui_loot_roll::LootRolls;
@@ -26,12 +27,30 @@ pub(super) fn loot_response(
     loot: &mut LootState,
 ) {
     // The loot window opens (decision 0084): fill LootState from the wire; the feed
-    // ([`crate::ui_loot`]) resolves rows + fires LOOT_OPENED next frame.
+    // ([`crate::ui_loot`]) resolves rows + fires LOOT_OPENED next frame. `loot_type` rides along
+    // for `IsFishingLoot()` (decision 1086).
     debug!(
         "net: loot response {guid:#x} type {loot_type} gold {gold} {} item(s)",
         items.len()
     );
-    loot.open(guid, gold, items);
+    loot.open(guid, loot_type, gold, items);
+}
+
+/// A fishing verdict with no loot window (`SMSG_FISH_ESCAPED` / `SMSG_FISH_NOT_HOOKED`, both
+/// empty-bodied; decision 1086): the **yellow** toast by GlobalStrings key — `ERR_FISH_ESCAPED`
+/// ("Your fish got away!") when the skill roll failed on the click, `ERR_FISH_NOT_HOOKED`
+/// ("No fish are hooked.") when the bobber expired or was clicked before the splash. Yellow, not
+/// red: the reference handlers (`0x5e3fc5`/`0x5e3fe2` → `DisplayError` ids `0x13e`/`0x13f`) are
+/// **type-1** registry entries, which fire `UI_INFO_MESSAGE` — byte-verified in wow-re
+/// `fish-msg-handlers.md`, correcting 1086's shipped guess (the fold-back record).
+pub(super) fn fish_verdict(escaped: bool, errors: &mut UiErrorKeys) {
+    let key = if escaped {
+        "ERR_FISH_ESCAPED"
+    } else {
+        "ERR_FISH_NOT_HOOKED"
+    };
+    debug!("net: fishing verdict {key}");
+    errors.0.push(UiError::info_key(key));
 }
 
 /// The server refused to open the loot window (`SMSG_LOOT_RESPONSE`'s error shape — didn't kill
@@ -194,6 +213,39 @@ pub(super) fn inventory_failure(
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    /// Both fish-verdict keys queue as **yellow** (type-1 / `UI_INFO_MESSAGE`) entries — the
+    /// byte-verified arm, wow-re `fish-msg-handlers.md` — and both resolve to the exact 1.12
+    /// strings in the shipped `GlobalStrings.lua` (the equip-error test's runtime pattern —
+    /// a typo'd key would silently swallow the toast). Skips without client data.
+    #[test]
+    fn fish_verdict_keys_resolve_in_the_real_global_strings() {
+        let mut errors = UiErrorKeys::default();
+        fish_verdict(false, &mut errors);
+        fish_verdict(true, &mut errors);
+        assert_eq!(
+            errors.0,
+            vec![
+                UiError::info_key("ERR_FISH_NOT_HOOKED"),
+                UiError::info_key("ERR_FISH_ESCAPED"),
+            ]
+        );
+
+        let data = std::path::PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data");
+        if !data.is_dir() {
+            eprintln!("skipping: vanilla client not present at {}", data.display());
+            return;
+        }
+        let mut chain = benilla_formats::open_chain(&data).expect("open chain");
+        let src = chain
+            .read_file("Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua")
+            .expect("GlobalStrings.lua in the chain");
+        let s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().expect("VM");
+        s.run(&String::from_utf8_lossy(&src)).expect("runs clean");
+        let g = |key: &str| s.lua().globals().get::<String>(key).expect(key);
+        assert_eq!(g("ERR_FISH_NOT_HOOKED"), "No fish are hooked.");
+        assert_eq!(g("ERR_FISH_ESCAPED"), "Your fish got away!");
+    }
+
     const ME: u64 = 0x0000_0000_0000_002A;
     const THEM: u64 = 0x0000_0000_0000_00FF;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs
index 247d02df..2a2fadc0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/objects.rs
@@ -23,6 +23,22 @@ use super::super::{
     SpeedChangeMessage, Spline, UnitSpeeds,
 };
 
+/// A GameObject plays its one-shot **Custom** animation (`SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM`, decision
+/// 1086) — bridged to the GO animation machine ([`crate::go_anim`]), which owns the reject
+/// (`anim_id >= 4`), the id mapping (153..156) and the model-ownership gate. The load-bearing
+/// sender: the fishing bobber's bite splash (`anim_id 0`).
+pub(super) fn gameobject_custom_anim(
+    guid: u64,
+    anim_id: u32,
+    plays: &mut MessageWriter<crate::go_anim::GoCustomAnim>,
+) {
+    debug!("net: gameobject {guid:#x} custom anim {anim_id}");
+    plays.write(crate::go_anim::GoCustomAnim {
+        go_guid: guid,
+        anim_id,
+    });
+}
+
 /// An object entered range / was created (`SMSG_UPDATE_OBJECT` create block): spawn or refresh the
 /// entity, warm the ask-once caches, and seed its descriptor store via the per-drain `pending` map.
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/quests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/quests.rs
index f317471a..be5f2b42 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/quests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/quests.rs
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ pub(super) fn quest_giver_failed(
             key: crate::ui_quest::questgiver_failed_key(reason),
             fill_s: Some(title),
             fill_d: None,
+            info: false,
         },
     );
     if matches!(reason, 4 | 50) {
@@ -261,6 +262,7 @@ mod tests {
                 key: "ERR_QUEST_FAILED_BAG_FULL_S",
                 fill_s: Some("A Threat Within".into()),
                 fill_d: None,
+                info: false,
             }
         );
         assert_eq!(msgs[1].0, MsgSurface::Error);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/framing.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/framing.rs
index 5cbac9a7..3df6067f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/framing.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/framing.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 //! Portrait **framing** — how the booth camera is placed for a model.
 //!
-//! The primary path is the model's **authored portrait camera** (the mechanism — see the module
-//! docs in [`super`]): [`frame`] takes the rig verbatim, transform + projection. The rest of this
-//! file is the heuristic fallback for camera-less models (head-anchor closeup) and the bind-pose
-//! bone walk [`head_anchor`] anchors the fallback with (the posed booth seats riders on real joints).
+//! Both booth families frame through the model's **own authored camera**, and neither fits anything
+//! (the mechanism — see the module docs in [`super`]):
+//!
+//! - [`frame`] — a ROUND portrait: `cameraLookup[0]`, verbatim (wow-re portrait-render §4). Its
+//!   fallback for a camera-less model is a heuristic head closeup, anchored by the bind-pose bone
+//!   walk [`head_anchor`] (which the posed booth also uses to seat riders on real joints).
+//! - [`body_frame`] — a `<PlayerModel>` body PANE: raw `cameras[1]`, verbatim, else the client's own
+//!   synthesized *fixed* rig (wow-re `modelframe-camera-law.md`, decision 1089). No fit, no
+//!   normalization, no bone anchor anywhere on this path.
 
 use bevy::camera::{CameraProjection, PerspectiveProjection, Projection, SubCameraView};
 use bevy::math::Vec3A;
@@ -14,17 +19,27 @@ use bevy::prelude::*;
 /// camera brings its own FOV (see [`frame`]).
 pub(super) const PORTRAIT_FOV: f32 = 0.5;
 
-/// `1/√(aspect²+1)` at the diagonal-FOV convention's aspect 4/3 = 3/5 exactly — the record-fov →
-/// vertical-half-angle factor (the community's "fov × 0.6" legend, emergent not prescaled). The
-/// 4/3 enters ONLY this crop factor: the projection matrix itself carries no anamorphic squeeze
-/// (the director's ref A/B falsified it on screen; wow-re §4 reconciliation dispatched) — its
-/// `aspect` is the DESTINATION PANE's, and exists purely to cancel the UI's stretch (1069).
-pub(super) const DIAG_TO_VERT: f32 = 0.6;
+/// The aspect the **portrait bake's** own diagonal→vertical crop is computed at: the client feeds
+/// its portrait projection a fixed `4/3` (wow-re portrait-render §4), which makes the crop factor
+/// `1/√((4/3)²+1)` = `3/5` exactly — the community's "fov × 0.6" legend, emergent, not prescaled.
+///
+/// It is a *separate number* from the projection's `aspect` (see [`WowPortraitProjection::aspect`]):
+/// this one is the client's own, fixed by its bake; that one is our destination pane's, and exists
+/// purely to cancel the UI's stretch (1069). They coincide on the **model-pane** path, where the
+/// client renders straight into the pane and its crop aspect IS the pane's.
+pub(super) const PORTRAIT_CROP_ASPECT: f32 = 4.0 / 3.0;
+
+/// A camera record's *diagonal* fov → the **vertical** opening angle, at a given crop aspect:
+/// `fov/√(a²+1)`, the client's own `0x5c3cc0` relation (`t = tan((fov/2)/√(a²+1))`, `m11 = 1/t`, so
+/// `tan(fovy/2) = t` exactly). The one place a plain Bevy `PerspectiveProjection` needs it.
+pub(super) fn diag_to_vert(fov: f32, crop_aspect: f32) -> f32 {
+    fov / (crop_aspect * crop_aspect + 1.0).sqrt()
+}
 
 /// The real client's portrait **projection** (wow-re portrait-render §4, corrected `aa186e79`):
 /// gxumath `0x5c3cc0` is a *diagonal-FOV* perspective — half-angle `θ = (fov/2)/√(aspect²+1)`,
 /// `m11 = 1/tan θ`, `m00 = m11/aspect` — and the portrait bake feeds it `aspect = 4/3`
-/// ([`PORTRAIT_ASPECT`]). Net: vertical half-angle **`0.3·fov`** (the refs' tight crop; 1.72–1.75×
+/// ([`PORTRAIT_CROP_ASPECT`]). Net: vertical half-angle **`0.3·fov`** (the refs' tight crop; 1.72–1.75×
 /// tighter than a naive `tan(fov/2)` read) plus a deliberate **3:4 anamorphic squeeze** (spheres
 /// render as 4:3-tall ellipses in every real portrait).
 ///
@@ -50,12 +65,23 @@ pub(super) struct WowPortraitProjection {
     /// 1.0 for a round portrait: its region is square by construction (the circular mask is
     /// inscribed in it), so there is nothing to cancel.
     pub(super) aspect: f32,
+    /// The aspect the **client** computes its diagonal→vertical crop at — `fovy = fov/√(a²+1)`.
+    ///
+    /// Not the same question as [`Self::aspect`], and the two genuinely differ by path. The portrait
+    /// bake hardcodes `4/3` ([`PORTRAIT_CROP_ASPECT`]) while our destination region is square, so
+    /// there it is `4/3` against an `aspect` of `1.0`. A `<PlayerModel>` body pane renders *straight
+    /// into the pane* in the real client (`0x5c3cc0` with the frame's plain pixel width/height), so
+    /// there the two are the same number — and the crop genuinely moves with the pane: `318×224`
+    /// crops to `0.576·fov`, `233×224` to `0.693·fov`. Hardcoding `0.6` was only ever right at 4/3.
+    pub(super) crop_aspect: f32,
 }
 
 impl WowPortraitProjection {
-    /// Full vertical opening angle: `2θ = 0.6·fov`.
+    /// Full vertical opening angle — `2θ` where `θ = (fov/2)/√(crop_aspect²+1)` is the client's own
+    /// half-angle (`0x5c3cc0`: `t = tan θ`, `m11 = 1/t`, so `tan(fovy/2) = tan θ` exactly, no
+    /// small-angle step anywhere).
     fn fovy(&self) -> f32 {
-        DIAG_TO_VERT * self.fov
+        diag_to_vert(self.fov, self.crop_aspect)
     }
 }
 
@@ -108,9 +134,18 @@ impl CameraProjection for WowPortraitProjection {
 /// ([`Creatures::display_anchors`]). All **model-local at scale 1** (the ref bakes with root scale
 /// reset, RE `0x47a230`), matching the booth's identity-transform parts.
 pub(crate) struct PortraitAnchors {
-    /// The model's **authored portrait camera** — the real client's exact framing rig (module
-    /// docs). `None` for a camera-less model → the heuristic fields below take over.
+    /// The model's **authored portrait camera** — the real client's exact framing rig for a ROUND
+    /// portrait (`cameraLookup[0]`, module docs). `None` for a camera-less model → the heuristic
+    /// fields below take over.
     pub(crate) camera: Option<benilla_assets::PortraitCamera>,
+    /// The model's **authored pane camera** — raw camera-table index 1, the rig a `<PlayerModel>`
+    /// body pane renders through ([`benilla_assets::M2Model::pane_camera`], decision 1089). `None`
+    /// for a model with fewer than two cameras → [`body_frame`]'s fixed fallback.
+    pub(crate) pane_camera: Option<benilla_assets::PortraitCamera>,
+    /// The MD20 header bbox **centre** (Bevy model-local) — the look-at target of the client's fixed
+    /// fallback camera, and the ONLY model-derived quantity on the body-pane path when there is no
+    /// authored camera to use.
+    pub(crate) bbox_center: Vec3,
     /// The bind-pose **head anchor** (Bevy space): the KeyBone-6 head-bone pivot, else the helm
     /// attach point (id 11) — [`head_anchor`]. The heuristic fallback framing looks here; `None`
     /// (a head-less model — props) falls back to a pivot-derived guess.
@@ -200,6 +235,9 @@ pub(super) fn frame(a: &PortraitAnchors) -> (Transform, Projection) {
                 // A round portrait's sampling region is square by construction (the mask is the
                 // inscribed circle) — nothing to cancel.
                 aspect: 1.0,
+                // …but the CROP is the client's own, and its portrait bake computes it at a fixed
+                // 4/3. Two different aspects, two different jobs.
+                crop_aspect: PORTRAIT_CROP_ASPECT,
             }),
         );
     }
@@ -227,82 +265,127 @@ pub(super) fn frame(a: &PortraitAnchors) -> (Transform, Projection) {
     )
 }
 
-/// The paper-doll pane's **body framing** feeds [`WowPortraitProjection`] this fov (a *diagonal*
-/// angle in that projection's convention — the on-screen vertical opening is `0.6·BODY_FOV`, so the
-/// vertical half-angle is `0.3·BODY_FOV ≈ 14.6°`). Mild on purpose: a standing figure should read
-/// with little head-to-feet perspective divergence. NOT the portrait path's authored per-model fov —
-/// the paper doll frames the *whole* body from bounds (decision 0208 §5), never camera 0.
-pub(super) const BODY_FOV: f32 = 0.85;
+/// The client's **renormalize-to-4:3** model-root factor — `G48·(5/3)` where
+/// `G48 = [0x832a48] = 1/√(a²+1)` (`0x41ad10 SetScale`) and the `5/3` is the `.rdata` literal
+/// `[0x80655c]`. Since `f32(5/3) == f32(√((4/3)²+1))` exactly (3·4·5), it is
+/// `√((4/3)²+1)/√(a²+1)`: **1.0 at 4:3**, 0.8833 at 16:10, **0.8171 at 16:9**, 1.0412 at 5:4.
+///
+/// `a` is the **`gxResolution` CVar's width/height**, gated by the `widescreen` CVar (registered at
+/// `0x63a74f` with default `"1"` — on by default); with `widescreen = 0` the client uses `4/3` on
+/// any monitor. (wow-re `ui/scratch/modelframe-camera-law.md` §11.)
+///
+/// **It applies to exactly one path, and this is the subtle part.** The widget's model root is
+/// `T(pos)·R(facing)·S(s)`, and `0x71439b` composes the *camera's* publish through that same root
+/// (`0x718960`) — so on the AUTHORED path `s` **cancels exactly** between camera and geometry, and a
+/// client that scaled the geometry without the camera would be wrong by `1/s` (+22% at 16:9). The
+/// fixed fallback camera is the exception: `0x505890`'s synth leg writes its eye/target as
+/// model-local literals onto a fresh `CCamera` (`0x7ac930`) that is *not* in the model's camera
+/// array, so the publish never reaches it. There the geometry shrinks and the camera does not — and
+/// because it still looks at the *unscaled* bbox centre, the model also sits low by
+/// `(1−s)·centre.y`, which falls out of the transform rather than being coded.
+pub(super) fn pane_model_scale(display_aspect: f32) -> f32 {
+    const REF: f32 = 4.0 / 3.0;
+    ((REF * REF + 1.0) / (display_aspect * display_aspect + 1.0)).sqrt()
+}
 
-/// The framed window's **top**, as a multiple of the figure's head/neck height signal. The signals
-/// (neck pivot / authored-camera target / head bone) all land around the throat/face — ~0.9 of the
-/// standing height — so `> 1.0` clears the crown with air above it.
-const BODY_HEADROOM: f32 = 1.24;
-/// The framed window's **bottom**, a small fraction of the figure height *below* the feet plane
-/// (Y=0), so the boots have ground room and never touch the frame edge.
-const BODY_FOOTROOM: f32 = 0.10;
-/// Side safety: how much of the footprint half-width to keep framed when width would bind (a wide
-/// stance / a held weapon poking sideways). Height binds for a normal humanoid; this only floors it.
-const BODY_WIDTH_MARGIN: f32 = 1.15;
+/// The client's **synthesized fallback camera** for a model frame whose model carries fewer than two
+/// cameras — a *fixed* rig, not a fit (wow-re `ui/scratch/modelframe-camera-law.md`, VERIFIED
+/// `0x505890`): eye at a constant point in WoW model space, look-at the MD20 header bbox centre, and
+/// its own fov/near/far. The only model-derived quantity anywhere in it is the target.
+///
+/// A small model therefore renders *small* in the pane and a large one overflows it — there is no
+/// normalization step. Both of the numbers here are literals in the binary.
+/// `(200/36, 0, 87/36)` — the same `/36` family as the clip planes below, which is what the
+/// binary's literals decode to (`5.5555558` / `2.4166667` as f32).
+const PANE_FIXED_EYE_WOW: [f32; 3] = [200.0 / 36.0, 0.0, 87.0 / 36.0];
+/// The fixed camera's field of view, radians — a *diagonal* angle in the client's convention
+/// ([`WowPortraitProjection`]). Also the fov the pipeline-warm pass compiles with.
+pub(super) const PANE_FIXED_FOV: f32 = 0.5;
+/// `1/36` and `5000.0` — the fixed camera's clip planes, verbatim.
+const PANE_FIXED_NEAR: f32 = 1.0 / 36.0;
+const PANE_FIXED_FAR: f32 = 5000.0;
 
-/// The **paper-doll** booth camera rig (decision 0208 §5) — a full-body framing derived from the
-/// model's own bounds, *not* the authored portrait camera. Yaw is applied to the model root by the
-/// caller (the ref's `Model:SetRotation`), so this rig is yaw-independent and the fit is pure /
-/// testable.
+/// The **body pane** booth camera rig — a 1.12 `<PlayerModel>` widget's own camera, verbatim
+/// (decision 1089; wow-re `ui/scratch/modelframe-camera-law.md`).
 ///
-/// **Why not `cameraLookup[0]`.** On a player model the authored portrait camera is the face bust:
-/// HumanMale's eye/target both sit at Z ≈ 1.87 (head height) with a ~0.66yd standoff (verified from
-/// the M2 bytes — `benilla-formats` `m2_portrait_camera` regression pin; wow-re portrait-render §4 /
-/// decision 0113). Aiming through it would crop the body to the face. The real client's paper-doll
-/// pane frames a `PlayerModel` through the engine's default bounds-fit camera, not camera 0 — so we
-/// do the same.
+/// **There is no fit.** The widget renders through a frozen snapshot of the model's *authored*
+/// camera at **raw table index 1** — the `type == 1` "characterinfo" camera — and when the model has
+/// fewer than two cameras it synthesizes the fixed rig above. Nothing on that path reads a bone, an
+/// attachment, a bounding sphere or a look-target height for camera purposes; the only model-derived
+/// quantity is the fixed camera's bbox-centre target. So the pane is **not** normalized: the panes
+/// merely *look* normalized because Blizzard authored per-model standoffs — `GnomeFemale` eye
+/// x = 2.16 · `HumanMale` 3.66 · `TaurenMale` 4.43 · `Boar` 4.86.
 ///
-/// **The fit.** The figure's vertical span is `[−footroom, headroom·head_signal]` (model-local Bevy
-/// yards, feet at Y=0), where `head_signal` is the tallest of the neck pivot / authored-camera look
-/// target / head-bone anchor — all ~throat/face height. The camera sits in front of the model
-/// (−Z — WoW +X front maps to Bevy −Z under `wow_to_bevy`) at the distance that fits that span
-/// through [`WowPortraitProjection`]'s vertical opening (half-angle `0.3·BODY_FOV`, computed the
-/// same way here so the fit is exact), looking at the span's centre. Projection reused from the
-/// portrait path for module consistency — square-true, no anamorphic squeeze (decision 0116).
+/// **What this replaces, and why it was wrong.** 0208 §5 built a bounds fit off a *head/neck height
+/// signal* on the stated premise that the client uses "the engine's default bounds-fit camera". Both
+/// halves are refuted: there is no bounds fit, and the head signal is a humanoid assumption. It read
+/// plausibly on every biped we had looked at and came out too large and sitting too high the first
+/// time a quadruped went in a pane — the director's boar (2026-08-07).
 ///
-/// `aspect` is the **destination pane's** width ÷ height ([`WowPortraitProjection::aspect`]): it
-/// widens the horizontal opening, so the figure keeps its proportions once the UI stretches the
-/// square bake into a non-square pane (decision 1069).
+/// Yaw is still applied to the model *root* by the caller (the ref's `Model:SetRotation`, which
+/// writes the model's facing, not the camera), so this rig stays yaw-independent and pure.
+///
+/// `aspect` is the destination pane's width ÷ height, and on this path it is **both** of the
+/// projection's aspects: the client renders straight into the pane rect, so the same number sets the
+/// matrix and the diagonal→vertical crop (`318×224 → 0.576·fov`).
+///
+/// The **model-root scale** that goes with it is [`pane_root_scale`] — `1.0` whenever the model has
+/// its own camera, and the display-aspect renormalize factor when it does not.
 pub(super) fn body_frame(a: &PortraitAnchors, aspect: f32) -> (Transform, Projection) {
-    // Head/neck height signal (feet at Y=0). The neck pivot (attach-17.z, every character carries
-    // it), the authored bust camera's look target, and the head-bone anchor all land near the
-    // throat/face — take the tallest, floored off zero for a hypothetical bounds-less display.
-    let head_signal = a
-        .pivot_height
-        .max(a.camera.map_or(0.0, |c| c.target.y))
-        .max(a.head.map_or(0.0, |h| h.y))
-        .max(0.1);
-    let top = BODY_HEADROOM * head_signal;
-    let bottom = -BODY_FOOTROOM * head_signal;
-    // The horizontal opening is `aspect ×` the vertical, so a width that must fit costs
-    // `width / aspect` of vertical window — floor the fitted height by it, so a wide model can't
-    // out-reach the sides (and a *narrow* pane, aspect < 1, gets the extra room it needs).
-    let window = (top - bottom).max(2.0 * BODY_WIDTH_MARGIN * a.ground_radius / aspect.max(1e-3));
-    let center_y = 0.5 * (top + bottom);
-
-    // Distance that exactly fits `window` through the projection's vertical opening. Half-angle is
-    // `0.3·BODY_FOV` — `WowPortraitProjection::fovy()/2` — so the geometry matches the matrix.
-    let half_angle = 0.5 * DIAG_TO_VERT * BODY_FOV;
-    let dist = (0.5 * window) / half_angle.tan();
-
-    let target = Vec3::new(0.0, center_y, 0.0);
-    let eye = target + Vec3::new(0.0, 0.0, -dist); // in front of the model (−Z)
+    let cam = pane_camera(a);
+    // `lookAt(eye, target, up)` with up = +Y rolled about the view axis — every vanilla camera
+    // track holds a single key of (0,0,0), so roll is 0 in practice and the eye/target ARE the
+    // record's base vectors (transcribed for fidelity, not observed nonzero).
+    let fwd = (cam.target - cam.eye).normalize_or_zero();
+    let up = Quat::from_axis_angle(fwd, cam.roll) * Vec3::Y;
     (
-        Transform::from_translation(eye).looking_at(target, Vec3::Y),
-        Projection::custom(WowPortraitProjection {
-            fov: BODY_FOV,
-            near: 0.02,
-            far: 100.0,
-            aspect,
-        }),
+        Transform::from_translation(cam.eye).looking_at(cam.target, up),
+        Projection::custom(pane_projection(&cam, aspect)),
     )
 }
 
+/// The **model-root scale** a body pane applies alongside the yaw — the other half of
+/// [`body_frame`], kept a separate call because the booth re-latches it on a window resize without
+/// re-baking. `1.0` on the authored path: not because the client omits the factor there, but because
+/// it CANCELS against the camera's own publish through the same root. Only the fixed fallback camera
+/// escapes that composition, and there it is real. See [`pane_model_scale`].
+pub(super) fn pane_root_scale(a: &PortraitAnchors, display_aspect: f32) -> f32 {
+    if a.pane_camera.is_some() {
+        1.0
+    } else {
+        pane_model_scale(display_aspect)
+    }
+}
+
+/// The camera a body pane renders through: the model's authored `cameras[1]`, else the client's
+/// synthesized fixed rig aimed at the bbox centre. See [`body_frame`].
+pub(super) fn pane_camera(a: &PortraitAnchors) -> benilla_assets::PortraitCamera {
+    a.pane_camera.unwrap_or(benilla_assets::PortraitCamera {
+        eye: benilla_assets::coords::wow_to_bevy(PANE_FIXED_EYE_WOW),
+        target: a.bbox_center,
+        roll: 0.0,
+        fov: PANE_FIXED_FOV,
+        near: PANE_FIXED_NEAR,
+        far: PANE_FIXED_FAR,
+    })
+}
+
+/// A pane camera's projection: the record's scalars, with the pane's aspect in BOTH roles (the
+/// client renders straight into the pane rect, so its matrix aspect and its diagonal→vertical crop
+/// aspect are the same number). See [`WowPortraitProjection::crop_aspect`].
+pub(super) fn pane_projection(
+    cam: &benilla_assets::PortraitCamera,
+    aspect: f32,
+) -> WowPortraitProjection {
+    WowPortraitProjection {
+        fov: cam.fov,
+        near: cam.near,
+        far: cam.far,
+        aspect,
+        crop_aspect: aspect,
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
@@ -318,53 +401,216 @@ mod tests {
         ndc(transform, proj, p).y
     }
 
-    /// The bounds→camera fit must keep both **feet and crown** inside the frame with air to spare,
-    /// across the player size range (gnome → tauren). Locks the sign (feet below centre, crown above)
-    /// and the distance math against a regression (a flipped axis or a wrong half-angle would crop).
-    #[test]
-    fn body_frame_never_crops_feet_or_crown() {
-        // Every pane aspect the shipped windows use: the paper doll's 233×224, the dressing room's
-        // 316×351, and the square default a booth runs at before its pane has been seen.
-        for &aspect in &[1.0_f32, 233.0 / 224.0, 316.0 / 351.0] {
-            for &signal in &[0.88_f32, 1.90, 2.60] {
-                let anchors = PortraitAnchors {
-                    camera: None,
-                    head: None,
-                    pivot_height: signal,
-                    ground_radius: 0.35,
-                };
-                let (transform, projection) = body_frame(&anchors, aspect);
-                let proj = WowPortraitProjection {
-                    fov: BODY_FOV,
-                    near: 0.02,
-                    far: 100.0,
-                    aspect,
-                };
-                // Feet at the origin; a conservatively-high crown estimate (throat/face signal is
-                // ~0.9 of standing height, so the crown sits a little above `signal`).
-                let feet = ndc_y(&transform, &proj, Vec3::ZERO);
-                let crown = ndc_y(&transform, &proj, Vec3::new(0.0, 1.12 * signal, 0.0));
-                assert!(
-                    feet < 0.0,
-                    "feet should sit below frame centre, got ndc_y {feet}"
-                );
-                assert!(
-                    crown > 0.0,
-                    "crown should sit above frame centre, got ndc_y {crown}"
-                );
-                assert!(
-                    feet.abs() < 0.95,
-                    "feet cropped / no ground room (ndc_y {feet}) at signal {signal}, aspect {aspect}"
-                );
-                assert!(
-                    crown < 0.95,
-                    "crown cropped / no headroom (ndc_y {crown}) at signal {signal}, aspect {aspect}"
-                );
-                let _ = projection; // the rig carries the same projection the test rebuilds
-            }
+    /// The M2 `cameras[1]` records the RE reports, in Bevy space — `wow_to_bevy` is `(-y, z, -x)`.
+    fn cam(eye_wow: [f32; 3], target_wow: [f32; 3], fov: f32) -> benilla_assets::PortraitCamera {
+        benilla_assets::PortraitCamera {
+            eye: benilla_assets::coords::wow_to_bevy(eye_wow),
+            target: benilla_assets::coords::wow_to_bevy(target_wow),
+            roll: 0.0,
+            fov,
+            near: 0.222_222,
+            far: 27.777_8,
         }
     }
 
+    fn anchors_with(
+        pane_camera: Option<benilla_assets::PortraitCamera>,
+        bbox_center: Vec3,
+    ) -> PortraitAnchors {
+        PortraitAnchors {
+            // Every heuristic field the RETIRED fit read is left deliberately populated and
+            // deliberately unused: if any of them ever reaches the rig again, these tests are the
+            // tripwire.
+            camera: Some(cam(
+                [0.6335, -0.3879, 1.8867],
+                [0.0627, 0.0343, 1.8636],
+                0.785,
+            )),
+            pane_camera,
+            bbox_center,
+            head: Some(Vec3::new(0.0, 1.75, 0.0)),
+            pivot_height: 1.90,
+            ground_radius: 0.35,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// **The authored pane camera is taken verbatim** (decision 1089): eye, look-at and all three
+    /// projection scalars are the record's, at every pane aspect. Nothing is fitted, nothing is
+    /// derived from the model's size.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_pane_takes_the_models_own_camera_untouched() {
+        // HumanMale's `cameras[1]`, per the RE.
+        let human = cam([3.6585, 0.0338, 0.9227], [-0.3644, 0.0291, 0.9873], 0.97991);
+        for &aspect in &[1.0_f32, 318.0 / 224.0, 233.0 / 224.0, 316.0 / 351.0] {
+            let (transform, projection) =
+                body_frame(&anchors_with(Some(human), Vec3::ZERO), aspect);
+            assert!(
+                transform.translation.distance(human.eye) < 1e-5,
+                "eye moved: {:?} vs {:?}",
+                transform.translation,
+                human.eye
+            );
+            // Looking AT the record's target: the forward axis points from eye to target.
+            let want = (human.target - human.eye).normalize();
+            assert!(
+                transform.forward().dot(want) > 0.9999,
+                "not aimed at the record's target (dot {})",
+                transform.forward().dot(want)
+            );
+            // The projection is the record's scalars with the pane's aspect in both roles — the
+            // client renders straight into the pane rect, so the same number sets the matrix AND
+            // the diagonal→vertical crop. Compared as the CLIP MATRIX, which is what the
+            // rasteriser sees (and what a wrong field would move).
+            let want = pane_projection(&human, aspect);
+            assert_eq!(
+                (want.fov, want.near, want.far),
+                (human.fov, human.near, human.far)
+            );
+            assert_eq!((want.aspect, want.crop_aspect), (aspect, aspect));
+            assert_eq!(
+                projection.get_clip_from_view(),
+                want.get_clip_from_view(),
+                "the rig's projection is not the record's"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// **The correction itself: the pane does NOT normalize.** A boar's authored camera stands off
+    /// 4.86yd and a gnome's 2.16, so a small model renders small and a large one large — the panes
+    /// only *look* normalized because Blizzard calibrated each standoff by hand. The retired fit
+    /// solved a distance from a head-height signal instead, which is why a quadruped came out too
+    /// big and sitting too high (director, 2026-08-07).
+    ///
+    /// Measured as apparent height: the on-screen span of one model yard at the subject.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_pane_is_not_normalized_across_models() {
+        let aspect = 318.0 / 224.0; // the pet pane
+        let bodies = [
+            // (name, cameras[1] eye, target, fov, the model's own standing height)
+            ("GnomeFemale", [2.1591_f32, 0.0, 0.6136], 0.6136, 0.85_f32),
+            ("HumanMale", [3.6585, 0.0338, 0.9227], 0.9227, 1.85),
+            ("TaurenMale", [4.4317, -0.0213, 1.0861], 1.0861, 2.60),
+        ];
+        let mut apparent = Vec::new();
+        for (name, eye, target_z, _height) in bodies {
+            let c = cam(eye, [-0.2, 0.0, target_z], 0.9);
+            let (transform, _) = body_frame(&anchors_with(Some(c), Vec3::ZERO), aspect);
+            let proj = WowPortraitProjection {
+                fov: c.fov,
+                near: c.near,
+                far: c.far,
+                aspect,
+                crop_aspect: aspect,
+            };
+            // One yard of height at the subject's own standing point.
+            let base = Vec3::new(0.0, c.target.y, 0.0);
+            let span =
+                (ndc_y(&transform, &proj, base + Vec3::Y) - ndc_y(&transform, &proj, base)).abs();
+            apparent.push((name, span));
+        }
+        // A yard subtends LESS of the frame the further out the artist put the camera — which is
+        // exactly "no normalization". Under the retired fit every model was solved to the same
+        // window, so this ordering was flat.
+        for w in apparent.windows(2) {
+            assert!(
+                w[0].1 > w[1].1,
+                "{} should show a yard larger than {} ({} vs {})",
+                w[0].0,
+                w[1].0,
+                w[0].1,
+                w[1].1
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The **fixed fallback** for a model with fewer than two cameras: the client's own literal eye,
+    /// aimed at the MD20 bbox centre, with its own fov/clips — and, the point of the test, *the same
+    /// camera whatever the model*. Only the look-at target moves.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_camera_less_model_gets_the_clients_fixed_rig() {
+        let want_eye = Vec3::new(0.0, 87.0 / 36.0, -200.0 / 36.0);
+        let mut eyes = Vec::new();
+        for centre in [
+            Vec3::ZERO,
+            Vec3::new(0.0, 0.44, 0.0),
+            Vec3::new(0.1, 1.3, 0.0),
+        ] {
+            let (transform, projection) = body_frame(&anchors_with(None, centre), 318.0 / 224.0);
+            assert!(
+                transform.translation.distance(want_eye) < 1e-4,
+                "fixed eye drifted: {:?}",
+                transform.translation
+            );
+            let want = (centre - want_eye).normalize();
+            assert!(
+                transform.forward().dot(want) > 0.9999,
+                "the fixed camera must look at the bbox centre"
+            );
+            let fixed = pane_camera(&anchors_with(None, centre));
+            assert_eq!(fixed.fov, PANE_FIXED_FOV);
+            assert!((fixed.near - 1.0 / 36.0).abs() < 1e-6 && fixed.far == 5000.0);
+            assert_eq!(
+                projection.get_clip_from_view(),
+                pane_projection(&fixed, 318.0 / 224.0).get_clip_from_view()
+            );
+            eyes.push(transform.translation);
+        }
+        assert!(
+            eyes.windows(2).all(|w| w[0] == w[1]),
+            "the fallback camera is FIXED — the model's size must not move it"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The **renormalize-to-4:3** model-root factor, against the values the RE reports —
+    /// `√((4/3)²+1)/√(a²+1)`, which is `G48·(5/3)` with `G48 = 1/√(a²+1)`.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_model_root_renormalizes_to_four_thirds() {
+        let close = |a: f32, b: f32| (a - b).abs() < 1e-5;
+        assert!(
+            close(pane_model_scale(4.0 / 3.0), 1.0),
+            "the reference aspect"
+        );
+        assert!(close(pane_model_scale(16.0 / 10.0), 0.883_332));
+        assert!(close(pane_model_scale(16.0 / 9.0), 0.817_102));
+        assert!(close(pane_model_scale(5.0 / 4.0), 1.041_158));
+    }
+
+    /// **Which path the factor applies to, which is the whole subtlety.** The widget composes the
+    /// camera's publish through the SAME model root, so on the authored path `s` cancels exactly and
+    /// scaling the geometry alone would be wrong by `1/s` (+22% at 16:9). Only the fixed fallback
+    /// camera — written model-local onto a `CCamera` outside the model's array — escapes that.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_root_factor_applies_only_where_it_does_not_cancel() {
+        let human = cam([3.6585, 0.0338, 0.9227], [-0.3644, 0.0291, 0.9873], 0.97991);
+        for &a in &[4.0 / 3.0, 16.0 / 9.0, 16.0 / 10.0, 5.0 / 4.0] {
+            assert_eq!(
+                pane_root_scale(&anchors_with(Some(human), Vec3::ZERO), a),
+                1.0,
+                "an authored camera cancels the factor at aspect {a}"
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                pane_root_scale(&anchors_with(None, Vec3::new(0.0, 0.62, 0.0)), a),
+                pane_model_scale(a),
+                "the fixed fallback camera does not"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The client's diagonal→vertical crop is **aspect-dependent**, and hardcoding the 4/3 value
+    /// (0.6) was only right at 4/3. `fovy = fov/√(a²+1)` — so the pet pane's 318×224 crops to
+    /// 0.576·fov and the character pane's 233×224 to 0.693·fov.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_diagonal_crop_follows_the_pane_aspect() {
+        let close = |a: f32, b: f32| (a - b).abs() < 5e-4;
+        assert!(close(diag_to_vert(1.0, 4.0 / 3.0), 0.6), "the 4/3 legend");
+        assert!(close(diag_to_vert(1.0, 318.0 / 224.0), 0.575_86));
+        assert!(close(diag_to_vert(1.0, 233.0 / 224.0), 0.693_05));
+        assert!(close(
+            diag_to_vert(1.0, 1.0),
+            std::f32::consts::FRAC_1_SQRT_2
+        ));
+    }
+
     /// **The 1069 defect, pinned.** A booth bakes into a *square* target that the UI stretches into
     /// the pane's rect, so a figure only keeps its proportions when the projection runs at the
     /// pane's aspect. Measured the way the eye does: screen pixels per model yard, sideways vs
@@ -374,18 +620,14 @@ mod tests {
     fn a_pane_shows_the_figure_unstretched_at_any_aspect() {
         for &(w, h) in &[(316.0_f32, 351.0_f32), (233.0, 224.0), (512.0, 512.0)] {
             let aspect = w / h;
-            let anchors = PortraitAnchors {
-                camera: None,
-                head: None,
-                pivot_height: 1.90,
-                ground_radius: 0.35,
-            };
-            let (transform, _) = body_frame(&anchors, aspect);
+            let c = cam([3.6585, 0.0338, 0.9227], [-0.3644, 0.0291, 0.9873], 0.97991);
+            let (transform, _) = body_frame(&anchors_with(Some(c), Vec3::ZERO), aspect);
             let proj = WowPortraitProjection {
-                fov: BODY_FOV,
-                near: 0.02,
-                far: 100.0,
+                fov: c.fov,
+                near: c.near,
+                far: c.far,
                 aspect,
+                crop_aspect: aspect,
             };
             // A small cross at the framing centre — the on-screen size of each arm, in pane pixels.
             let mid = Vec3::new(0.0, transform.translation.y, 0.0);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/glue_booth.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/glue_booth.rs
index 03312f9b..b817e4e3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/glue_booth.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/glue_booth.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use crate::entities::Creatures;
 use crate::model_render::m2_url;
 use crate::terrain::WowModelMaterial;
 
-use super::framing::{attachment_point, DIAG_TO_VERT};
+use super::framing::{attachment_point, diag_to_vert, PORTRAIT_CROP_ASPECT};
 use super::{
     aim, body_frame, new_target_image, spawn_booth_effects, spawn_booth_model, Booth,
     BoothBillboardSpec, BoothCam, BoothEffects, BoothLight, BoothMotion, BoothPart, BoothRider,
@@ -954,14 +954,24 @@ pub(super) fn sync_glue_booth(
         // Aspect 1.0 into `body_frame`: only its TRANSFORM is kept here — the projection
         // beside it is the window-sized one this booth needs (decision 1069's aspect rides on
         // the discarded half).
+        //
+        // Since 1089 that transform is the model's own `<PlayerModel>` pane camera (raw index 1),
+        // which is the client's full-body character framing — the right stand-in, and the fov below
+        // now comes off the same record rather than from the retired body-fit constant. The crop
+        // aspect is the portrait bake's 4/3 rather than this window's: exact framing here does not
+        // matter, because `sync_glue_scene` re-aims onto the scene's authored camera the frame the
+        // art lands, and this rig only ever shows for those few loading frames.
         let (t, _) = body_frame(&anchors, 1.0);
+        let record_fov = anchors
+            .pane_camera
+            .map_or(super::framing::PANE_FIXED_FOV, |c| c.fov);
         aim(
             &mut cams,
             GLUE_SLOT,
             &(
                 t,
                 Projection::from(PerspectiveProjection {
-                    fov: DIAG_TO_VERT * super::framing::BODY_FOV,
+                    fov: diag_to_vert(record_fov, PORTRAIT_CROP_ASPECT),
                     near: 0.02,
                     far: 100.0,
                     ..default()
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
index 69b0ac74..8312cc1f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/mod.rs
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@
 //! Each portrait slot (`"player"`/`"target"`) gets its own render layer + camera rendering into a
 //! [`PortraitImages`] entry. A third slot — `"paperdoll"` (decision 0208 §5) — reuses the exact same
 //! bake pipeline for the character window's **full-body** model pane: it mirrors the *player's*
-//! dressed look like the `"player"` slot, but frames the whole standing figure from the model's
-//! bounds ([`framing::body_frame`], not the authored bust camera), bakes at 512², and spins the
+//! dressed look like the `"player"` slot, but frames it through the model's own `<PlayerModel>`
+//! camera ([`framing::body_frame`] — raw `cameras[1]`, not the authored bust camera the round
+//! portraits use; decision 1089), bakes at 512², and spins the
 //! model to a live yaw ([`PaperDollBooth`], the ref's `Model:SetRotation`). The UI samples it
 //! *square*, not through the circular mask.
 //!
@@ -471,10 +472,13 @@ fn log_bake(
 /// with `camera: None` inside, which the framing heuristics are built to handle.
 ///
 /// Both bake sites used to paper over that with `unwrap_or(PortraitAnchors { .., pivot_height: 0.0,
-/// .. })`. That is not a neutral default: [`framing::body_frame`] floors the head signal at `0.1`
-/// for "a hypothetical bounds-less display", so zero anchors aim the camera at a 0.1-unit-tall
-/// subject — the paper doll "zoomed into the max" and the wrong-size portrait of `#bugs` B106. And
-/// it latches: the camera is aimed once per bake, and the parts key cannot change afterwards
+/// .. })`. That is not a neutral default: the retired body fit floored the head signal at `0.1` for
+/// "a hypothetical bounds-less display", so zero anchors aimed the camera at a 0.1-unit-tall
+/// subject — the paper doll "zoomed into the max" and the wrong-size portrait of `#bugs` B106. (1089
+/// retired that fit, and zero anchors are no longer a *zoom* — but they are still the wrong camera:
+/// an unbuilt display has no `cameras[1]` to read, so the pane would latch the fixed fallback rig
+/// aimed at a zero bbox centre.) And it latches: the camera is aimed once per bake, and the parts
+/// key cannot change afterwards
 /// (handle ids are stable from `load()`, so mesh/model arrival is invisible to it), so the frame
 /// stays wrong until some unrelated content edge forces a re-bake.
 ///
@@ -487,6 +491,8 @@ fn booth_anchors(
     let Some(display_id) = display_id else {
         return Some(PortraitAnchors {
             camera: None,
+            pane_camera: None,
+            bbox_center: Vec3::ZERO,
             head: None,
             pivot_height: 0.0,
             ground_radius: 0.0,
@@ -570,6 +576,57 @@ pub(crate) struct BoothBridge<'w> {
 #[derive(Component)]
 pub(crate) struct BoothCam(pub(crate) String);
 
+/// **The display aspect the client's `screencoord` scale is computed from** — its `gxResolution`
+/// CVar's `width/height`, gated by the `widescreen` CVar (registered with default `"1"`, so on by
+/// default; with it off the client uses `4/3` on any monitor). Its one consumer is
+/// [`framing::pane_model_scale`], the model-root renormalize factor a `<PlayerModel>` pane applies
+/// to a model with no camera of its own.
+///
+/// **A stated deviation:** benilla has neither CVar yet, so this reads the primary window's own
+/// aspect. That is the same number whenever the client runs at its display's native resolution, and
+/// ours always does — we expose no resolution mode list to disagree with. When the graphics CVars
+/// land, this resource is the one place to repoint.
+///
+/// Defaults to `4/3` — the client's own `.data` default pair, and the aspect at which the factor is
+/// exactly `1.0`, so a booth that bakes before the window is measured is unscaled rather than wrong.
+#[derive(Resource)]
+pub(crate) struct GxAspect(pub(crate) f32);
+
+impl Default for GxAspect {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self(4.0 / 3.0)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Track the primary window's aspect into [`GxAspect`] (see its deviation note). Cheap enough to run
+/// every frame; the booths latch it, so a resize re-scales the standing bake exactly once.
+fn feed_gx_aspect(
+    mut gx: ResMut<GxAspect>,
+    window: Query<&Window, With<bevy::window::PrimaryWindow>>,
+) {
+    let Ok(w) = window.single() else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let (px_w, px_h) = (w.resolution.width(), w.resolution.height());
+    if px_h > 0.0 {
+        let a = px_w / px_h;
+        if (a - gx.0).abs() > 1e-4 {
+            gx.0 = a;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The two **framing inputs** a body booth reads, in one param: the pane geometry the UI extract
+/// publishes ([`BoothPanes`]) and the display aspect ([`GxAspect`]).
+///
+/// Bundled rather than passed side by side because these systems sit on Bevy's 16-parameter ceiling
+/// — the same reason [`BoothBridge`] exists on the other side of the seam.
+#[derive(bevy::ecs::system::SystemParam)]
+pub(crate) struct BoothFraming<'w> {
+    pub(crate) panes: Res<'w, BoothPanes>,
+    pub(crate) gx: Res<'w, GxAspect>,
+}
+
 /// Owns the portrait bake pipeline: the [`PortraitImages`] bridge + the per-slot off-screen booths.
 pub(crate) struct PortraitPlugin;
 
@@ -585,11 +642,12 @@ impl Plugin for PortraitPlugin {
             .init_resource::<dressup::DressUpBake>()
             .init_resource::<Booths>()
             .init_resource::<BoothPanes>()
+            .init_resource::<GxAspect>()
             .init_resource::<BoothLight>()
             .init_resource::<crate::ui_session::InteractNpc>()
             .add_systems(Startup, setup_booths)
             // The variant-cache reaper: booth twins die with their world source material.
-            .add_systems(Update, light::reap_dead_variants)
+            .add_systems(Update, (light::reap_dead_variants, feed_gx_aspect))
             // `feed_interact_npc` resolves the `"npc"` token's entity first; then the test bake owns
             // the booths when its env is set (the live syncs yield to it). The paper-doll sync runs
             // last (it shares the camera/booth/image resources, so the chain keeps the access ordered).
@@ -708,11 +766,12 @@ pub(crate) fn spawn_warm_booth(
             RenderTarget::Image(image.into()),
             crate::ffx_glow::FfxGlow::BOOTH,
             Projection::custom(framing::WowPortraitProjection {
-                fov: framing::BODY_FOV,
+                fov: framing::PANE_FIXED_FOV,
                 near: 0.02,
                 far: 100.0,
-                // The warm pass compiles PIPELINES, which the aspect does not key.
+                // The warm pass compiles PIPELINES, which neither aspect keys.
                 aspect: 1.0,
+                crop_aspect: 1.0,
             }),
             layer.clone(),
         ))
@@ -1216,9 +1275,9 @@ fn sync_paperdoll(
     mut palettes: ResMut<crate::rig_palette::RigPalettes>,
     mut wow_mats: ResMut<Assets<WowModelMaterial>>,
     mut env_cache: Local<Option<bool>>,
-    mut last_yaw: Local<Option<f32>>,
+    mut last_pose: Local<Option<(f32, f32)>>,
     mut cams: Query<(&BoothCam, &mut Transform, &mut Projection)>,
-    panes: Res<BoothPanes>,
+    framing_in: BoothFraming,
     anim_data: Option<Res<crate::creature_anim::AnimData>>,
 ) {
     if test_mode(&mut env_cache) {
@@ -1229,7 +1288,8 @@ fn sync_paperdoll(
         PAPERDOLL_SLOT,
         self_q.single().ok(),
         paperdoll.yaw,
-        &mut last_yaw,
+        &mut last_pose,
+        framing_in.gx.0,
         &mut commands,
         &mut booths,
         &mut portraits,
@@ -1240,7 +1300,7 @@ fn sync_paperdoll(
         &mut wow_mats,
         &mut cams,
         anim_data.as_deref(),
-        &panes,
+        &framing_in.panes,
     );
 }
 
@@ -1259,9 +1319,9 @@ fn sync_inspect_booth(
     mut palettes: ResMut<crate::rig_palette::RigPalettes>,
     mut wow_mats: ResMut<Assets<WowModelMaterial>>,
     mut env_cache: Local<Option<bool>>,
-    mut last_yaw: Local<Option<f32>>,
+    mut last_pose: Local<Option<(f32, f32)>>,
     mut cams: Query<(&BoothCam, &mut Transform, &mut Projection)>,
-    panes: Res<BoothPanes>,
+    framing_in: BoothFraming,
     anim_data: Option<Res<crate::creature_anim::AnimData>>,
 ) {
     if test_mode(&mut env_cache) {
@@ -1272,7 +1332,8 @@ fn sync_inspect_booth(
         INSPECT_SLOT,
         inspect.unit,
         inspect.yaw,
-        &mut last_yaw,
+        &mut last_pose,
+        framing_in.gx.0,
         &mut commands,
         &mut booths,
         &mut portraits,
@@ -1283,7 +1344,7 @@ fn sync_inspect_booth(
         &mut wow_mats,
         &mut cams,
         anim_data.as_deref(),
-        &panes,
+        &framing_in.panes,
     );
 }
 
@@ -1302,9 +1363,9 @@ fn sync_petdoll_booth(
     mut palettes: ResMut<crate::rig_palette::RigPalettes>,
     mut wow_mats: ResMut<Assets<WowModelMaterial>>,
     mut env_cache: Local<Option<bool>>,
-    mut last_yaw: Local<Option<f32>>,
+    mut last_pose: Local<Option<(f32, f32)>>,
     mut cams: Query<(&BoothCam, &mut Transform, &mut Projection)>,
-    panes: Res<BoothPanes>,
+    framing_in: BoothFraming,
     anim_data: Option<Res<crate::creature_anim::AnimData>>,
 ) {
     if test_mode(&mut env_cache) {
@@ -1315,7 +1376,8 @@ fn sync_petdoll_booth(
         PETDOLL_SLOT,
         petdoll.unit,
         petdoll.yaw,
-        &mut last_yaw,
+        &mut last_pose,
+        framing_in.gx.0,
         &mut commands,
         &mut booths,
         &mut portraits,
@@ -1326,7 +1388,7 @@ fn sync_petdoll_booth(
         &mut wow_mats,
         &mut cams,
         anim_data.as_deref(),
-        &panes,
+        &framing_in.panes,
     );
 }
 
@@ -1339,7 +1401,9 @@ fn sync_body_booth(
     slot: &str,
     unit: Option<Entity>,
     yaw: f32,
-    last_yaw: &mut Option<f32>,
+    last_pose: &mut Option<(f32, f32)>,
+    // The primary window's aspect ([`GxAspect`]) — only the model-root scale reads it.
+    display_aspect: f32,
     commands: &mut Commands,
     booths: &mut Booths,
     portraits: &mut PortraitImages,
@@ -1377,7 +1441,7 @@ fn sync_body_booth(
         if booth.baked.is_some() {
             commands.entity(booth.root).despawn_related::<Children>();
             booth.baked = None;
-            *last_yaw = None;
+            *last_pose = None;
             // Render the emptied stage before sleeping (decision 0540) — and the emptied stage has
             // no emitters left, so the pane stops being live.
             booth.wake = BOOTH_SETTLE_FRAMES;
@@ -1388,15 +1452,24 @@ fn sync_body_booth(
     }
     let unit = unit.expect("unit present — parts came from its descendants");
     let key = LookKey::build(&parts, &riders, &billboards, &effects);
-    // A changed pane aspect re-runs the same path: the fit and the projection both depend on it,
-    // and it only ever moves once — the first frame the window is drawn.
+    let display_id = ent_q.get(unit).ok().and_then(|n| n.display_id);
+    // Anchors first, before any teardown — a still-loading display must not be framed from
+    // fabricated zero bounds (see the portrait site, and `booth_anchors`). Resolved out here rather
+    // than inside the bake because the model-root scale below needs them on an otherwise-idle frame
+    // too (a window resize moves the scale without touching the bake).
+    let anchors_now = booth_anchors(creatures, display_id);
+    // The model-root scale, taken while the anchors are still in hand (the bake below consumes
+    // them). `1.0` until they resolve — an unscaled root is the harmless default, and the 4:3
+    // factor is 1.0 anyway.
+    let model_scale = anchors_now
+        .as_ref()
+        .map_or(1.0, |a| framing::pane_root_scale(a, display_aspect));
+    // A changed pane aspect re-runs the same path: the camera's projection depends on it, and it
+    // only ever moves once — the first frame the window is drawn.
     let parts_changed = booth.baked.as_ref() != Some(&key) || booth.aspect != aspect;
     if parts_changed {
         booth.aspect = aspect;
-        let display_id = ent_q.get(unit).ok().and_then(|n| n.display_id);
-        // Anchors first, before any teardown — a still-loading display must not be framed from
-        // fabricated zero bounds (see the portrait site, and `booth_anchors`).
-        let Some(anchors) = booth_anchors(creatures, display_id) else {
+        let Some(anchors) = anchors_now else {
             booth.wake = booth.wake.max(BOOTH_SETTLE_FRAMES);
             log_bake(slot, "wait-anchors", &parts, &riders, &billboards, &effects);
             return;
@@ -1505,14 +1578,22 @@ fn sync_body_booth(
         );
         booth.baked = Some(key);
     }
-    // Yaw → the model root's rotation (the ref's `Model:SetRotation`; a spin about WoW +Z-up
-    // conjugates to a spin about Bevy +Y-up). Applied on a fresh bake (new root children) or
-    // whenever the pane's yaw moves — never touched on an otherwise-idle frame.
-    if parts_changed || *last_yaw != Some(yaw) {
-        commands
-            .entity(booth.root)
-            .insert(Transform::from_rotation(Quat::from_rotation_y(yaw)));
-        *last_yaw = Some(yaw);
+    // The model root: **yaw → rotation, plus the pane's model scale** — the widget's own
+    // `T(pos)·R(facing)·S(s)` with `pos` at the origin (the ref's `Model:SetRotation` writes the
+    // facing, and a spin about WoW +Z-up conjugates to a spin about Bevy +Y-up).
+    //
+    // `s` is [`framing::pane_root_scale`]: `1.0` for a model with its own camera and the
+    // display-aspect renormalize factor for one without. It rides the same latch as the yaw because
+    // it moves for the same reason — a window resize — and the reference re-snapshots on exactly
+    // that (`DISPLAY_SIZE_CHANGED → RefreshUnit()`, which both panes register). Cheap enough to
+    // re-derive here rather than key a whole re-bake on: the CAMERA does not depend on the display
+    // aspect, only the root does.
+    if parts_changed || *last_pose != Some((yaw, model_scale)) {
+        commands.entity(booth.root).insert(
+            Transform::from_rotation(Quat::from_rotation_y(yaw))
+                .with_scale(Vec3::splat(model_scale)),
+        );
+        *last_pose = Some((yaw, model_scale));
         // A spin is a content edge too (decision 0540): render the new pose, then sleep.
         booth.wake = booth.wake.max(BOOTH_SETTLE_FRAMES);
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/test_bake.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/test_bake.rs
index bdee8db7..368c9320 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/test_bake.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/portrait/test_bake.rs
@@ -169,6 +169,14 @@ fn bake_test(
         .unwrap_or((0.0, 0.0));
     let anchors = PortraitAnchors {
         camera: model.portrait_camera,
+        pane_camera: model.pane_camera,
+        bbox_center: model.bounds.map_or(Vec3::ZERO, |b| {
+            benilla_assets::coords::wow_to_bevy([
+                (b.bbox_min[0] + b.bbox_max[0]) * 0.5,
+                (b.bbox_min[1] + b.bbox_max[1]) * 0.5,
+                (b.bbox_min[2] + b.bbox_max[2]) * 0.5,
+            ])
+        }),
         head: head_anchor(&model.skeleton, &model.attachments),
         pivot_height,
         ground_radius,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/gameobject.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/gameobject.rs
index aa32fb92..160cbbed 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/gameobject.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/gameobject.rs
@@ -101,9 +101,108 @@ fn go_state_sounds(
     }
 }
 
+/// The GO display-slot an M2 animation-event tag addresses — the reference's GO event dispatcher
+/// `0x5f3e20` (wow-re `go-display-sound-events.md`, byte-verified; the 1086 fold-back): `$GO0..5`
+/// → `Sound[0..5]`, `$GC0..3` → the Custom slots `Sound[6..9]`. Every other tag is not this
+/// channel's (`$SND`/`$DSO`/`$DSL` carry a literal kit id and ride the generic
+/// [`crate::sound::anim_events`] arms; `$SHK` is camera shake, no audio).
+fn go_event_slot(ident: &[u8; 4]) -> Option<usize> {
+    match ident {
+        [b'$', b'G', b'O', d @ b'0'..=b'5'] => Some((d - b'0') as usize),
+        [b'$', b'G', b'C', d @ b'0'..=b'3'] => Some(6 + (d - b'0') as usize),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// Play the display-slot kits a GameObject's animation events name — the audio half of the GO
+/// M2 event kernel ([`crate::go_anim`]'s scanner feeds the stream; wow-re
+/// `go-display-sound-events.md`: `0x5f4010` is the binary's ONLY reader of the display row's
+/// sound columns, reached solely from the anim-event dispatcher). The load-bearing tenant is the
+/// fishing bobber's bite: Custom0's `$GC0` at t≈3.87 s → display 668 `Sound6` = kit 3355
+/// "Fishing Hooked" — fired **once per 0xB3** (the completion retire re-arms Stand before a
+/// second pass, decision 1100), beside the server's explicit `SMSG_PLAY_OBJECT_SOUND(3355)` ~200
+/// ms earlier — the client issues exactly two starts of the kit, then silence (no same-kit dedup
+/// exists anywhere in the reference's play chain).
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+fn go_event_sounds(
+    mut events: MessageReader<crate::creature_anim::AnimSoundEvent>,
+    gos: Query<(&NetEntity, &Transform)>,
+    go_sounds: Option<Res<GoSounds>>,
+    kits: Option<ResMut<SoundKits>>,
+    assets: Option<Res<WorldAssets>>,
+    mut out: NonSendMut<SoundOutput>,
+    config: Res<SoundConfig>,
+    listener: Res<AudioListener>,
+) {
+    if events.is_empty() {
+        return;
+    }
+    let (Some(go_sounds), Some(mut kits), Some(assets)) = (go_sounds, kits, assets) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let listener = listener.pos;
+    for ev in events.read() {
+        let Some(slot) = go_event_slot(&ev.ident) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        // A creature clip authoring a `$GO*`/`$GC*` tag doesn't resolve here: the query wants a
+        // GameObject's display row, and only GO entities carry one in the display-slot table.
+        let Ok((net, transform)) = gos.get(ev.entity) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if net.kind != EntityKind::GameObject {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let kit = net
+            .display_id
+            .and_then(|d| go_sounds.0.slots(d))
+            .map(|s| s[slot])
+            .unwrap_or(0);
+        if kit == 0 {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if let Err(e) = play_kit(
+            &mut kits,
+            &assets,
+            &mut out,
+            &config,
+            listener,
+            KitRef::Id(kit),
+            Some(transform.translation),
+            SoundCategory::Sfx,
+        ) {
+            warn!("GO event sound (slot {slot}, kit {kit}): {e:#}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Registration hook for [`super::SoundPlugin`].
 pub(super) fn plugin(app: &mut App) {
     app.add_systems(Startup, load_go_sounds.after(AssetSet::Open))
-        // After the Net drain wrote this frame's descriptor deltas.
-        .add_systems(Update, go_state_sounds.in_set(WorldStage::Present));
+        // After the Net drain wrote this frame's descriptor deltas (the state watcher), and the
+        // event consumer after the GO scanner's write in the same frame's Present set.
+        .add_systems(
+            Update,
+            (go_state_sounds, go_event_sounds).in_set(WorldStage::Present),
+        );
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::go_event_slot;
+
+    /// The dispatcher's slot table (wow-re `go-display-sound-events.md`): `$GO0..5` are the
+    /// first six display slots, `$GC0..3` the four Custom slots 6..9 — the bobber's splash is
+    /// `$GC0` → slot 6. Out-of-range digits and other families are not this channel.
+    #[test]
+    fn event_tags_map_to_display_slots() {
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$GO0"), Some(0));
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$GO5"), Some(5));
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$GC0"), Some(6)); // the bobber splash
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$GC3"), Some(9));
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$GO6"), None);
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$GC4"), None);
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$SND"), None);
+        assert_eq!(go_event_slot(b"$FSD"), None);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs
index d29c296e..8ec05316 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs
@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@ fn route_lock_refusal(
                 key: "ERR_USE_LOCKED_WITH_ITEM_S",
                 fill_s: Some(name),
                 fill_d: None,
+                info: false,
             }),
         },
         benilla_formats::LOCK_KEY_SKILL => {
@@ -593,12 +594,14 @@ fn route_lock_refusal(
                     key: "ERR_USE_LOCKED_WITH_SPELL_KNOWN_SI",
                     fill_s: Some(name),
                     fill_d: Some(required),
+                    info: false,
                 })
             } else {
                 Some(UiError {
                     key: "ERR_USE_LOCKED_WITH_SPELL_S",
                     fill_s: Some(name),
                     fill_d: None,
+                    info: false,
                 })
             }
         }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/cursor_mode.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/cursor_mode.rs
index 6d90f821..7c735388 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/cursor_mode.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/cursor_mode.rs
@@ -191,6 +191,24 @@ pub(crate) const GO_TYPE_GENERIC: i32 = 5;
 const GO_TYPE_TRANSPORT: i32 = 11;
 const GO_TYPE_MAP_OBJECT: i32 = 14;
 const GO_TYPE_MO_TRANSPORT: i32 = 15;
+/// The **marker set** — SPELL_FOCUS(8), DUEL_ARBITER(16), FISHINGHOLE(25), AURA_GENERATOR(30).
+/// Their strategy vtables are the mirror image of the transports': `+0xc` (mouseover eligibility) is
+/// a constant `b0 01 c3` = `mov al,1; ret` and `+0x14` (**highlightable**) a constant
+/// `32 c0 c3` = `xor al,al; ret` (wow-re `object-layer/scratch/go-render-gate.md`, "the per-type
+/// handler vtables": vtables `0x80b8a8`/`0x80bb68`/`0x80bbf8`/`0x80c2a0`, `+0xc` targets
+/// `0x5f57e0`/`0x5f65f0`/`0x5f6660`/`0x5f6ea0`, `+0x14` targets
+/// `0x5f57f0`/`0x5f6600`/`0x5f6670`/`0x5f6eb0` — const bytes read for all four).
+///
+/// So they hover but never *interact*: the anvil, the forge, the campfire, the duel flag, the fishing
+/// school publish a mouseover (gold-name tooltip) and then show **cursor mode 0** — the plain
+/// pointer, not the Interact gear — take no `+64` brighten, and swallow the right-click
+/// (`OnUse 0x5f8660` gates on the same `+0x14`). Without this arm they fell through to
+/// [`highlightable_flags`], whose flag/faction terms a SPELL_FOCUS passes trivially (`flags 0x0`),
+/// and every anvil in the world wore the gear.
+const GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS: i32 = 8;
+const GO_TYPE_DUEL_ARBITER: i32 = 16;
+const GO_TYPE_FISHINGHOLE: i32 = 25;
+const GO_TYPE_AURA_GENERATOR: i32 = 30;
 /// `GAMEOBJECT_TYPE_TEXT` (9) — a readable plaque/sign; its per-type behavior shows the **Inspect**
 /// magnifier (wow-re cursor-system §4, `0x5f5890`), not the gear.
 const GO_TYPE_TEXT: i32 = 9;
@@ -205,6 +223,23 @@ const GO_TYPE_28: i32 = 28;
 /// Interim GameObject interact-range gray (decision 0236): reuse the ~5.56 yd service reach until the
 /// size-dependent GO interact distance is byte-pinned. Squared, boundary-inclusive like the unit gates.
 const GO_INTERACT_RANGE_SQ: f32 = SERVICE_RANGE_SQ;
+/// `GAMEOBJECT_TYPE_FISHINGNODE` (17) — the fishing bobber. Its strategy (vtable `0x80bc80`, wow-re
+/// `fishing-bobber-interaction.md`) overrides exactly one consumed slot: highlightable is the
+/// channel-ownership gate ([`highlightable_flags`]'s type-17 arm); everything else is the shared base.
+pub(crate) const GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE: i32 = 17;
+/// The per-type interact range the shared `usable 0x5f3130` compares — the strategy ctor's
+/// `[strat+0xc]` constant, **squared at the compare**, boundary-inclusive (wow-re
+/// `fishing-bobber-interaction.md` §3). FISHINGNODE's ctor sets **100.0 yd** (`0x5f66b0`,
+/// `[0x80b0b0]`) — the bobber is effectively un-range-gated for any real cast, never the ~5.56 yd
+/// reach. Other types stay on the 0236 interim (the base default is 5.0 and several per-type ctors
+/// override it — 5.5556/10.0/…; their population is a later byte-pin).
+fn go_interact_range_sq(type_id: i32) -> f32 {
+    if type_id == GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE {
+        100.0 * 100.0
+    } else {
+        GO_INTERACT_RANGE_SQ
+    }
+}
 /// `GameObjectFlags` bits consulted by the highlightable gate (decision 0243, wow-re cursor-system §4a):
 /// `0x1` IN_USE (busy) and `0x10` NO_INTERACT both suppress interaction; their union is the fast reject.
 const GO_FLAG_IN_USE_OR_NO_INTERACT: u32 = 0x11;
@@ -215,20 +250,56 @@ const GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND: u32 = 0x4;
 /// server sets from `GameObject::ActivateToQuest` (sparkle). Consulted only under `INTERACT_COND`.
 const GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE: u32 = 0x1;
 
+/// The GameObject types whose strategy vtable **overrides** the highlightable slot (`+0x14`) with a
+/// constant `xor al,al` — so `0x5f2f80` is never reached for them and they are never highlightable,
+/// whatever their flags, faction or activate bit say. Three families, all byte-read off the 5875
+/// vtables: GENERIC(5) decoration (`0x5f47f0`), the transports (see [`GO_TYPE_TRANSPORT`]), and the
+/// marker set (see [`GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS`]).
+///
+/// This is the whole per-type half of the predicate, kept as one named list because the reference
+/// keeps it as one vtable slot: adding a type here removes its cursor, its brighten, its right-click
+/// USE and its pick priority together, exactly as the binary does.
+fn strategy_never_highlightable(type_id: i32) -> bool {
+    matches!(
+        type_id,
+        GO_TYPE_GENERIC
+            | GO_TYPE_TRANSPORT
+            | GO_TYPE_MAP_OBJECT
+            | GO_TYPE_MO_TRANSPORT
+            | GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS
+            | GO_TYPE_DUEL_ARBITER
+            | GO_TYPE_FISHINGHOLE
+            | GO_TYPE_AURA_GENERATOR
+    )
+}
+
 /// The client's GameObject **highlightable** predicate (decision 0243, wow-re cursor-system §4a,
 /// `0x5f2f80`) over its wire flags: whether the object shows an interact cursor / is clickable at all.
-/// GENERIC decoration and the transport family are never highlightable (their strategy vtables
-/// override the slot with constant-false); a busy (IN_USE) or NO_INTERACT object isn't; and an
-/// **INTERACT_COND** object (the quest gate) is highlightable only when the server has set its per-player
-/// **activate** dyn-flag — so a quest chest sparkles and opens only once the quest is held, while an
-/// ordinary door (no INTERACT_COND) is always highlightable regardless of its (zero) activate bit. The
-/// client's faction-reaction>1 term is INFERRED and not the quest gate, so it is not modeled here;
-/// `usable` (lock / range / player-state → the grayed twin) rides on top and is a later refinement.
-fn highlightable_flags(type_id: i32, flags: u32, dyn_flags: u32, reaction: Option<u8>) -> bool {
-    if matches!(
-        type_id,
-        GO_TYPE_GENERIC | GO_TYPE_TRANSPORT | GO_TYPE_MAP_OBJECT | GO_TYPE_MO_TRANSPORT
-    ) {
+/// The types whose vtable constant-falses the slot never get here at all
+/// ([`strategy_never_highlightable`]); of the rest, a busy (IN_USE) or NO_INTERACT object isn't
+/// highlightable, and an **INTERACT_COND** object (the quest gate) is highlightable only when the
+/// server has set its per-player **activate** dyn-flag — so a quest chest sparkles and opens only once
+/// the quest is held, while an ordinary door (no INTERACT_COND) is always highlightable regardless of
+/// its (zero) activate bit. `usable` (lock / range / player-state → the grayed twin) rides on top and
+/// is a later refinement.
+///
+/// `channel_owned` is the FISHINGNODE override's one input (`0x5f6710`, wow-re
+/// `fishing-bobber-interaction.md` §2): whether the active player's `UNIT_FIELD_CHANNEL_OBJECT`
+/// equals **this** GO's guid. The bobber is highlightable only to the player currently channeling
+/// at exactly it — NOT a `CREATED_BY` compare — then tail-jumps into this shared gate. Someone
+/// else's bobber (or yours after the channel drops) produces nothing at all: no cursor, no
+/// tooltip/brighten (the `+0xc` thunk), and a silent dead right-click. Ignored for every other type.
+fn highlightable_flags(
+    type_id: i32,
+    flags: u32,
+    dyn_flags: u32,
+    reaction: Option<u8>,
+    channel_owned: bool,
+) -> bool {
+    if strategy_never_highlightable(type_id) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    if type_id == GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE && !channel_owned {
         return false;
     }
     // The FACTION term (`0x5f2f80` @ `0x5f3026/29`, decision 0764). `reaction` is the GameObject's
@@ -302,9 +373,15 @@ pub(crate) fn go_reaction(
 /// |---|---|
 /// | `0x5f9db0` = `jmp [+0x14]` = **[`highlightable_flags`] itself** | 0 DOOR · 1 BUTTON · 2 QUESTGIVER · 3 CHEST · 4 BINDER · 6 TRAP · 7 CHAIR · 9 TEXT · 10 GOOBER · 12 AREADAMAGE · 13 CAMERA · 17 FISHINGNODE · 18 RITUAL · 19 MAILBOX · 20 AUCTIONHOUSE · 22 SPELLCASTER · 23 MEETINGSTONE · 24 FLAGSTAND · 26 FLAGDROP · 27 MINI_GAME · 28 LOTTERY_KIOSK · + the default |
 /// | `0x5f4830` = **`template.data[1] != 0`** (the vanilla "highlight" column) | 5 GENERIC |
-/// | `mov al,1` — always | 8 SPELL_FOCUS · 16 DUEL_ARBITER · 25 FISHINGHOLE |
+/// | `mov al,1` — always | 8 SPELL_FOCUS · 16 DUEL_ARBITER · 25 FISHINGHOLE · 30 AURA_GENERATOR |
 /// | `xor al,al` — never | 11 TRANSPORT · 14 MAP_OBJECT · 15 MO_TRANSPORT |
 ///
+/// **This slot is not the cursor's.** For the marker set the two slots point opposite ways — `+0xc`
+/// constant-TRUE, `+0x14` constant-FALSE ([`GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS`]) — so an anvil is *fully* hovered
+/// (mouseover published, gold-name tooltip) and *not at all* interactable (plain pointer, no
+/// brighten, no USE). Eligibility is never a stand-in for [`highlightable_flags`], and neither is
+/// its negation.
+///
 /// **This refutes the old "the tooltip is not gated by highlightable" reading** — that note verified
 /// the publisher correctly and then generalised **GENERIC's** behaviour to all 31 types. The
 /// signpost half survives (GENERIC really does answer from `data[1]`, and 1387 of 1870 shipped
@@ -319,39 +396,58 @@ pub(crate) fn mouseover_eligible(
     dyn_flags: u32,
     generic_highlight: Option<bool>,
     reaction: Option<u8>,
+    channel_owned: bool,
 ) -> bool {
     match type_id {
         GO_TYPE_TRANSPORT | GO_TYPE_MAP_OBJECT | GO_TYPE_MO_TRANSPORT => false,
-        GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS | GO_TYPE_DUEL_ARBITER | GO_TYPE_FISHINGHOLE => true,
+        GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS
+        | GO_TYPE_DUEL_ARBITER
+        | GO_TYPE_FISHINGHOLE
+        | GO_TYPE_AURA_GENERATOR => true,
         GO_TYPE_GENERIC => generic_highlight.unwrap_or(true),
-        _ => highlightable_flags(type_id, flags, dyn_flags, reaction),
+        _ => highlightable_flags(type_id, flags, dyn_flags, reaction, channel_owned),
     }
 }
 
-/// The three types whose eligibility slot is a constant `mov al,1` — always the mouseover, whatever
-/// their flags say.
-const GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS: i32 = 8;
-const GO_TYPE_DUEL_ARBITER: i32 = 16;
-const GO_TYPE_FISHINGHOLE: i32 = 25;
-
 /// [`highlightable_flags`] read off a hovered GameObject's descriptor store. An absent
 /// `GAMEOBJECT_TYPE_ID` is the wire default `0` = DOOR (vmangos omits the zero field), so a door
-/// resolves to a highlightable type rather than being wrongly rejected as "unknown". Gates the
-/// CURSOR (and, via it, the click) only — the mouseover tooltip is *not* coupled to it
-/// (§5-VERIFIED, wow-re 2026-07-20): the pick registers every GO regardless of highlightable and
-/// the publisher dispatches the tooltip by kind, so a GENERIC(5) signpost tooltips (0349's
-/// reference close-up) while showing no cursor. Also the GO pick's **pass-2 priority** (decision
-/// 1071): the reference's classify `0x480c90` ranks a highlightable GameObject `1` (via
-/// `0x5f8800`, this same strategy `+0x14` predicate), else `0`.
-pub(super) fn go_highlightable(store: &ObjectStore, reaction: Option<u8>) -> bool {
+/// resolves to a highlightable type rather than being wrongly rejected as "unknown".
+///
+/// Gates the **cursor**, the `+64` **brighten**, the right-click **USE** (`OnUse 0x5f8660` calls this
+/// same `+0x14` first) and the GO pick's **pass-2 priority** (decision 1071: classify `0x480c90`
+/// ranks a highlightable GameObject `1` via `0x5f8800`, else `0`) — the four consumers of one vtable
+/// slot. It is **not** the mouseover publish, which is the sibling slot `+0xc`
+/// ([`mouseover_eligible`]): the two agree for most types and deliberately disagree for GENERIC(5)
+/// (a signpost tooltips while showing no cursor — 0349's reference close-up) and for the marker set
+/// (an anvil tooltips while showing no cursor either).
+pub(crate) fn go_highlightable(
+    store: &ObjectStore,
+    reaction: Option<u8>,
+    channel_owned: bool,
+) -> bool {
     highlightable_flags(
         store.0.gameobject_type_id(),
         store.0.gameobject_flags(),
         store.0.gameobject_dynamic_flags(),
         reaction,
+        channel_owned,
     )
 }
 
+/// The FISHINGNODE highlightable override's input (`0x5f6710`): is the local player currently
+/// channeling at exactly this GameObject — `self.UNIT_FIELD_CHANNEL_OBJECT == go_guid`. `false`
+/// when the self store hasn't streamed or the guid is unknown: an unverifiable bobber shows
+/// nothing, matching the reference's no-active-player early-false.
+pub(crate) fn fishing_channel_owned(
+    self_store: Option<&ObjectStore>,
+    go_guid: Option<u64>,
+) -> bool {
+    match (self_store, go_guid) {
+        (Some(s), Some(g)) => s.0.unit_channel_object() == Some(g),
+        _ => false,
+    }
+}
+
 /// A `LockType.dbc` **CursorName** stem → the [`CursorKind`] it names — the client's
 /// `CursorModeFromName` step (wow-re cursor-system.md §4, `0x523d40`) over the only three cursor-
 /// bearing lock kinds in 5875. An unknown/empty name resolves to `None`, which the base GO path
@@ -520,7 +616,8 @@ pub(super) fn classify_cursor(
             store.0.gameobject_faction(),
             Some(self_store),
         );
-        if !go_highlightable(store, reaction) {
+        let channel_owned = fishing_channel_owned(Some(self_store), hovered_object.guid);
+        if !go_highlightable(store, reaction, channel_owned) {
             return None;
         }
         // The type's own cursor wins; a base type reads its lock's data-named cursor (needs the
@@ -557,7 +654,8 @@ pub(super) fn classify_cursor(
                 )
                 .blocks_usable(facts.flag_locked)
             });
-        let unable = kind != CursorKind::PickLock && (lock_unmet || dist_sq > GO_INTERACT_RANGE_SQ);
+        let unable = kind != CursorKind::PickLock
+            && (lock_unmet || dist_sq > go_interact_range_sq(store.0.gameobject_type_id()));
         Some((kind, unable))
     };
     // The reference makes one pick over all CGObjects and switches on type; benilla picks unit and
@@ -675,88 +773,211 @@ mod tests {
     /// becomes the mouseover at all, so a false here is "no tooltip, no brighten, no cursor".
     #[test]
     fn mouseover_eligibility_matches_the_per_type_slot_table() {
-        // The three constant-TRUE slots (`mov al,1`) ignore their flags entirely.
+        // The constant-TRUE slots (`mov al,1`) ignore their flags entirely.
         for t in [
             GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS,
             GO_TYPE_DUEL_ARBITER,
             GO_TYPE_FISHINGHOLE,
+            GO_TYPE_AURA_GENERATOR,
         ] {
-            assert!(mouseover_eligible(t, GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND, 0, None, None));
-            assert!(mouseover_eligible(t, 0x10, 0, None, None));
+            assert!(mouseover_eligible(
+                t,
+                GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND,
+                0,
+                None,
+                None,
+                false
+            ));
+            assert!(mouseover_eligible(t, 0x10, 0, None, None, false));
         }
         // The three constant-FALSE slots (`xor al,al`) — the transport family is never a mouseover.
         for t in [GO_TYPE_TRANSPORT, GO_TYPE_MAP_OBJECT, GO_TYPE_MO_TRANSPORT] {
-            assert!(!mouseover_eligible(t, 0, GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE, None, None));
+            assert!(!mouseover_eligible(
+                t,
+                0,
+                GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE,
+                None,
+                None,
+                false
+            ));
         }
         // GENERIC answers from its template's `data[1]` alone — the signpost that hovers vs the
         // scenery beside it that does not. Not from `highlightable_flags`, which rejects GENERIC.
-        assert!(mouseover_eligible(GO_TYPE_GENERIC, 0, 0, Some(true), None));
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(
+            GO_TYPE_GENERIC,
+            0,
+            0,
+            Some(true),
+            None,
+            false
+        ));
         assert!(!mouseover_eligible(
             GO_TYPE_GENERIC,
             0,
             0,
             Some(false),
-            None
+            None,
+            false
         ));
         assert!(
-            mouseover_eligible(GO_TYPE_GENERIC, 0, 0, None, None),
+            mouseover_eligible(GO_TYPE_GENERIC, 0, 0, None, None, false),
             "template not answered yet reads eligible, so a signpost isn't blank while it queries"
         );
         // Everything else IS highlightable — which is the whole correction. A pre-quest
         // INTERACT_COND object (the Stone of Binding, a Stratholme portcullis at flags 0x24) and an
         // IN_USE / NO_INTERACT object show NOTHING, where we used to tooltip them.
-        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(0, GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND, 0, None, None));
+        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(
+            0,
+            GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND,
+            0,
+            None,
+            None,
+            false
+        ));
         assert!(mouseover_eligible(
             0,
             GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND,
             GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE,
             None,
-            None
+            None,
+            false
         ));
-        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(3, 0x10, 0, None, None)); // NO_INTERACT chest
-        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(3, 0x1, 0, None, None)); // IN_USE chest
-                                                             // The FACTION term (decision 0764): a door whose template is hostile to us is not
-                                                             // eligible — no cursor, no tooltip, no brighten. This is Deadmines' Factory Door
-                                                             // (faction 114, flags 0x20), which the director could still hover and open.
-        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, Some(1)));
-        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, Some(3)));
-        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, Some(4)));
+        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(3, 0x10, 0, None, None, false)); // NO_INTERACT chest
+        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(3, 0x1, 0, None, None, false)); // IN_USE chest
+                                                                    // The FACTION term (decision 0764): a door whose template is hostile to us is not
+                                                                    // eligible — no cursor, no tooltip, no brighten. This is Deadmines' Factory Door
+                                                                    // (faction 114, flags 0x20), which the director could still hover and open.
+        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, Some(1), false));
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, Some(3), false));
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, Some(4), false));
         // TRAP inverts it: hostile-to-us is exactly the case a trap DOES highlight for.
-        assert!(mouseover_eligible(GO_TYPE_TRAP, 0, 0, None, Some(1)));
-        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(GO_TYPE_TRAP, 0, 0, None, Some(3)));
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(GO_TYPE_TRAP, 0, 0, None, Some(1), false));
+        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(
+            GO_TYPE_TRAP,
+            0,
+            0,
+            None,
+            Some(3),
+            false
+        ));
         // An unresolvable reaction never blanks the world.
-        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, None));
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0x20, 0, None, None, false));
         // A plain door is still eligible — the everyday case must not regress.
-        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0, 0, None, None));
-        assert!(mouseover_eligible(19, 0, 0, None, None)); // mailbox
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(0, 0, 0, None, None, false));
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(19, 0, 0, None, None, false)); // mailbox
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn highlightable_gates_the_quest_object_but_not_the_plain_door() {
         // An ordinary unlocked door (no INTERACT_COND) is highlightable regardless of its zero activate
         // bit — plain doors must never gray out.
-        assert!(highlightable_flags(0, 0, 0, None)); // DOOR, no flags
-                                                     // A GENERIC decoration is never highlightable.
-        assert!(!highlightable_flags(GO_TYPE_GENERIC, 0, 0, None));
+        assert!(highlightable_flags(0, 0, 0, None, false)); // DOOR, no flags
+                                                            // A GENERIC decoration is never highlightable.
+        assert!(!highlightable_flags(GO_TYPE_GENERIC, 0, 0, None, false));
         // Neither is the transport family (the byte-dumped constant-false +0x14 slots): no gear,
         // no tooltip, no USE on a boat / elevator / map object — flags can't make them so.
         for t in [GO_TYPE_TRANSPORT, GO_TYPE_MAP_OBJECT, GO_TYPE_MO_TRANSPORT] {
-            assert!(!highlightable_flags(t, 0, GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE, None));
+            assert!(!highlightable_flags(t, 0, GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE, None, false));
         }
+        // Nor the marker set, whose `+0x14` is the same byte-dumped `xor al,al` — an anvil / forge /
+        // brazier (SPELL_FOCUS, flags 0x0, faction 0 ⇒ NEUTRAL, every flag term passing) is exactly
+        // the case that used to reach the predicate and come back true, wearing the Interact gear.
+        for t in [
+            GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS,
+            GO_TYPE_DUEL_ARBITER,
+            GO_TYPE_FISHINGHOLE,
+            GO_TYPE_AURA_GENERATOR,
+        ] {
+            assert!(!highlightable_flags(t, 0, 0, None, false));
+            assert!(!highlightable_flags(
+                t,
+                0,
+                GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE,
+                Some(3),
+                false
+            ));
+        }
+        // And the two slots point OPPOSITE ways for the marker set: hovered (tooltip) but never
+        // interactable (no cursor, no brighten, no USE). The reported anvil, both halves at once.
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(
+            GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS,
+            0,
+            0,
+            None,
+            Some(3),
+            false
+        ));
+        assert!(!highlightable_flags(
+            GO_TYPE_SPELL_FOCUS,
+            0,
+            0,
+            Some(3),
+            false
+        ));
         // A busy (IN_USE) or NO_INTERACT object is not highlightable.
-        assert!(!highlightable_flags(3, 0x1, 0, None)); // CHEST, IN_USE
-        assert!(!highlightable_flags(3, 0x10, 0, None)); // CHEST, NO_INTERACT
-                                                         // The quest gate: an INTERACT_COND object is highlightable only with the activate bit set — the
-                                                         // exact bug, a quest chest without the quest.
-        assert!(!highlightable_flags(3, GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND, 0, None)); // quest chest, no quest → clear
+        assert!(!highlightable_flags(3, 0x1, 0, None, false)); // CHEST, IN_USE
+        assert!(!highlightable_flags(3, 0x10, 0, None, false)); // CHEST, NO_INTERACT
+                                                                // The quest gate: an INTERACT_COND object is highlightable only with the activate bit set — the
+                                                                // exact bug, a quest chest without the quest.
+        assert!(!highlightable_flags(
+            3,
+            GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND,
+            0,
+            None,
+            false
+        )); // quest chest, no quest → clear
         assert!(highlightable_flags(
             3,
             GO_FLAG_INTERACT_COND,
             GO_DYNFLAG_ACTIVATE,
-            None
+            None,
+            false
         )); // quest chest, quest held → usable
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn the_bobber_is_channel_gated_and_reaches_a_hundred_yards() {
+        // The FISHINGNODE highlightable override (`0x5f6710`, wow-re fishing-bobber-interaction.md):
+        // only the player whose UNIT_FIELD_CHANNEL_OBJECT names exactly this GO passes — someone
+        // else's bobber (or yours after the channel drops) shows nothing at all.
+        assert!(highlightable_flags(GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE, 0, 0, None, true));
+        assert!(!highlightable_flags(GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE, 0, 0, None, false));
+        // The pass tail-jumps the SHARED gate, so the flags still apply on top.
+        assert!(!highlightable_flags(
+            GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE,
+            0x10,
+            0,
+            None,
+            true
+        ));
+        // The mouseover thunk (`+0xc` → `+0x14`) rides the same predicate: no tooltip either.
+        assert!(!mouseover_eligible(
+            GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE,
+            0,
+            0,
+            None,
+            None,
+            false
+        ));
+        assert!(mouseover_eligible(
+            GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE,
+            0,
+            0,
+            None,
+            None,
+            true
+        ));
+        // Every other type ignores the channel input entirely.
+        assert!(highlightable_flags(0, 0, 0, None, false));
+        // The per-type range: the bobber's ctor constant is 100.0 yd (squared at the compare) —
+        // effectively un-range-gated — while everything else stays on the interim reach.
+        assert_eq!(go_interact_range_sq(GO_TYPE_FISHINGNODE), 100.0 * 100.0);
+        assert_eq!(go_interact_range_sq(0), GO_INTERACT_RANGE_SQ);
+        // The channel compare itself: owned iff self's channel object is exactly this guid.
+        assert!(!fishing_channel_owned(None, Some(7)));
+        assert!(!fishing_channel_owned(None, None));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn melee_reach_floors_at_five() {
         // The byte-verified floor (`0x80a1e8` is a max, not a min): a typical player-vs-mob pair
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/hover.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/hover.rs
index fcf23915..600506cf 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/hover.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/hover.rs
@@ -427,7 +427,15 @@ pub(super) fn update_hovered_object(
                         s.0.gameobject_faction(),
                         self_store,
                     );
-                    u32::from(crate::target::cursor_mode::go_highlightable(s, reaction))
+                    let channel_owned = crate::target::cursor_mode::fishing_channel_owned(
+                        self_store,
+                        guids.get(net).ok().map(|g| g.0),
+                    );
+                    u32::from(crate::target::cursor_mode::go_highlightable(
+                        s,
+                        reaction,
+                        channel_owned,
+                    ))
                 })
             };
             let wins =
@@ -476,6 +484,7 @@ pub(super) fn update_hovered_object(
             store.0.gameobject_dynamic_flags(),
             generic_highlight,
             reaction,
+            crate::target::cursor_mode::fishing_channel_owned(self_store, Some(guid.0)),
         ) {
             return;
         }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/mod.rs
index a3e07717..58076ad3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/mod.rs
@@ -46,14 +46,19 @@ use crate::schedule::WorldStage;
 
 mod by_name;
 mod click;
-mod cursor_mode;
+// `pub(crate)` for the hover inspector's interact-gate line (`interact/inspect.rs`): the overlay
+// states the very predicate the cursor runs ([`cursor_mode::go_highlightable`]) rather than a
+// re-derivation of it, so the readout can never drift from the behaviour it is reporting on.
+pub(crate) mod cursor_mode;
 mod flash;
 mod highlight;
 mod hover;
 pub(crate) mod lock;
 mod relations;
 mod reticle;
-mod ring;
+// `pub(crate)` for the same reason as `cursor_mode`: the faction catalog is one of
+// [`cursor_mode::go_highlightable`]'s three inputs, so the inspector needs it to run the real gate.
+pub(crate) mod ring;
 mod scan;
 
 pub(crate) use cursor_mode::{CursorKind, WorldCursor, GO_TYPE_GENERIC, SERVICE_RANGE_SQ};
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs
index 5990ac7b..f1cd35f0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/errors.rs
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ pub(crate) struct UiError {
     pub key: &'static str,
     pub fill_s: Option<String>,
     pub fill_d: Option<u32>,
+    /// The message record's **type arm** (wow-re `fish-msg-handlers.md`, byte-proven — the
+    /// registry entry's `+4` type, last written `mov edx,1` at `0x486235`): the reference's
+    /// `DisplayError` pipeline is one, and the type selects the UIErrorsFrame event — type 1
+    /// fires the **yellow** `UI_INFO_MESSAGE` (0xe1), type 2 the **red** `UI_ERROR_MESSAGE`
+    /// (0xe0). `true` = the yellow info arm (the fishing verdicts are the first tenants);
+    /// `false` = the red error arm, the default.
+    pub info: bool,
 }
 
 impl UiError {
@@ -54,6 +61,15 @@ impl UiError {
             key,
             fill_s: None,
             fill_d: None,
+            info: false,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A fill-less **type-1** message — the yellow `UI_INFO_MESSAGE` arm (see [`UiError::info`]).
+    pub(crate) fn info_key(key: &'static str) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            info: true,
+            ..Self::key(key)
         }
     }
 }
@@ -303,6 +319,7 @@ mod ui_error_tests {
             key,
             fill_s: s.map(String::from),
             fill_d: d,
+            info: false,
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs
index dbed2366..a0d34a70 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_action/feed.rs
@@ -176,15 +176,26 @@ pub(super) fn feed_actions(
         script.fire_event("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE", vec![ScriptValue::Str(text)]);
     }
 
-    // Client-local by-key refusals (the `DisplayError` route — [`UiErrorKeys`]) ride the same
-    // red line; the key IS the GlobalStrings lookup, no code table between.
-    let key_texts: Vec<String> = ui_error_keys
+    // Client-local by-key refusals (the `DisplayError` route — [`UiErrorKeys`]); the key IS the
+    // GlobalStrings lookup, no code table between. The entry's type arm picks the line: type 1
+    // (`UiError::info`) is the yellow `UI_INFO_MESSAGE`, type 2 the red `UI_ERROR_MESSAGE` —
+    // the reference's one pipeline forking on the registry type (wow-re `fish-msg-handlers.md`;
+    // the fishing verdicts are the yellow tenants).
+    let key_texts: Vec<(String, bool)> = ui_error_keys
         .0
         .drain(..)
-        .filter_map(|e| ui_error_text(&e, &|key| script.lua().globals().get::<String>(key).ok()))
+        .filter_map(|e| {
+            ui_error_text(&e, &|key| script.lua().globals().get::<String>(key).ok())
+                .map(|t| (t, e.info))
+        })
         .collect();
-    for text in key_texts {
-        script.fire_event("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE", vec![ScriptValue::Str(text)]);
+    for (text, info) in key_texts {
+        let event = if info {
+            "UI_INFO_MESSAGE"
+        } else {
+            "UI_ERROR_MESSAGE"
+        };
+        script.fire_event(event, vec![ScriptValue::Str(text)]);
     }
 
     // The ENGINE's own by-key refusals ride the very same line. `benilla_ui` is engine-free and
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs
index d669cec9..87cf3e35 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_char.rs
@@ -186,15 +186,19 @@ fn watch_skill_ups(
     }
 }
 
-/// The skills-pane feed (decision 0437 phase 4): every known `PLAYER_SKILL_INFO` line resolved to
-/// a flat [`SkillEntry`] — name off `SkillLine.dbc`, group off the line's `categoryId` ×
-/// `SkillLineCategory.dbc` (name + displayOrder) — pushed via `set_skills` on change; the ENGINE
-/// groups/sorts/folds (the trainer-tree pattern). Hidden faithfully: the `Not Displayed` category
-/// (12) and any line without a `SkillLine.dbc` row. Group order and the within-group name sort
-/// are still an INTERIM — but not the 0437 §5 dispatch's: none of its six TUs covered the
-/// Skills-pane's own grouping (that dispatch resolved as decision 0446, adjudicating the
-/// crafting-book windows only). This law is unpinned, awaiting its own dispatch, named as a
-/// follow-up in decision 0530.
+/// The skills-pane feed (decision 0437 phase 4, corrected by 1091): every `PLAYER_SKILL_INFO` line
+/// the real client would LIST, resolved to a flat [`SkillEntry`] — name off `SkillLine.dbc`, group
+/// off the line's `categoryId` × `SkillLineCategory.dbc` (name + displayOrder) — pushed via
+/// `set_skills` on change; the ENGINE groups/sorts/folds.
+///
+/// The inclusion predicate is the client's own list build (`0x4d2cb0`, wow-re
+/// `system/tradeskill/scratch/skillframe-display-list.md`), transcribed in its order: a line needs
+/// a `SkillLine.dbc` row, an admitting `SkillRaceClassInfo` row and a real `SkillLineCategory` row;
+/// `flags & 0x2` drops it outright; and a line held at **rank 0** appears only if its flags admit
+/// it at this player's level. Note what is NOT a filter: the `Not Displayed` category (12). We used
+/// to hide on it, which happened to hide `GENERIC (DND)` for the right-looking reason — the client
+/// drops that line by its `0x2` bit like `Dual Wield` and the racials, and lists a category-12 line
+/// without `0x2` under its own header (decision 1091).
 fn feed_skills(
     script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
     self_store: Query<&ObjectStore, With<SelfPlayer>>,
@@ -207,45 +211,22 @@ fn feed_skills(
     let (Ok(store), Some(skill_lines)) = (self_store.single(), skill_lines.as_deref()) else {
         return;
     };
-    // The unlearn-button predicate needs the player's race/class (SkillRaceClassInfo row-match —
-    // the spellbook's own General-collapse inputs, `ui_spellbook::build_book`).
+    // The display predicate reads the player's own race/class (the SkillRaceClassInfo row-match —
+    // the spellbook's own General-collapse inputs, `ui_spellbook::build_book`) and level (the
+    // untrained gate).
     let (race, class) = (
         store.0.unit_race().unwrap_or(0),
         store.0.unit_class().unwrap_or(0),
     );
+    let level = store.0.unit_level().unwrap_or(0);
     let mut entries = Vec::new();
     for i in 0..PLAYER_SKILL_SLOTS {
         let Some(slot) = store.0.player_skill(i) else {
             continue;
         };
-        if slot.skill_id == 0 {
-            continue;
+        if let Some(e) = skills_row(&slot, &skill_lines.catalog, race, class, level) {
+            entries.push(e);
         }
-        let Some(line) = skill_lines.catalog.line(u32::from(slot.skill_id)) else {
-            continue; // no SkillLine row — nothing to name it by, the client shows nothing
-        };
-        if line.category_id == benilla_formats::SKILL_CATEGORY_NOT_DISPLAYED {
-            continue;
-        }
-        let (category_name, category_order) = skill_lines
-            .catalog
-            .category(line.category_id)
-            .map(|(n, o)| (n.to_string(), o))
-            .unwrap_or_else(|| ("Other".to_string(), u32::MAX));
-        entries.push(SkillEntry {
-            skill_id: u32::from(slot.skill_id),
-            name: line.name.clone(),
-            value: u32::from(slot.value),
-            max: u32::from(slot.max),
-            modifier: i32::from(slot.temp_bonus) + i32::from(slot.perm_bonus),
-            category_id: line.category_id,
-            category_name,
-            category_order,
-            description: line.description.clone(),
-            abandonable: skill_lines
-                .catalog
-                .abandonable(u32::from(slot.skill_id), race, class),
-        });
     }
     let fresh = SkillsState { entries };
     if last.as_ref() == Some(&fresh) {
@@ -255,6 +236,55 @@ fn feed_skills(
     *last = Some(fresh);
 }
 
+/// One `PLAYER_SKILL_INFO` slot as the Skills tab's row — or `None` when the real client's list
+/// build would not list it at all ([`feed_skills`]'s doc for the citations; the order of the tests
+/// is the client's own, `0x4d2cb0`). Pure, so the whole display predicate is testable against real
+/// DBC data and a real character's skill block (`ui_script::skills_frame_tests`).
+pub(crate) fn skills_row(
+    slot: &benilla_protocol::messages::PlayerSkillSlot,
+    catalog: &benilla_formats::SkillLineCatalog,
+    race: u8,
+    class: u8,
+    level: u32,
+) -> Option<SkillEntry> {
+    if slot.skill_id == 0 {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let id = u32::from(slot.skill_id);
+    // No SkillLine row — nothing to name it by, and the client lists nothing.
+    let line = catalog.line(id)?;
+    // No row admitting this race/class → the client drops the line (its `!srci → continue`).
+    let rc = catalog.race_class(id, race, class)?;
+    // A category that must really exist (the client's own null-row test) — and note the category
+    // ITSELF is never a filter: `Not Displayed` (12) is a header like any other.
+    let (category_name, category_order) = catalog.category(line.category_id)?;
+    // The hide bit: `Dual Wield`, the racials, the mount lines, `GENERIC (DND)`.
+    if rc.hidden() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    // An untrained line shows only where the flags admit it at this level.
+    if slot.value == 0 && !rc.displays_untrained(level) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    Some(SkillEntry {
+        skill_id: id,
+        name: line.name.clone(),
+        value: u32::from(slot.value),
+        max: u32::from(slot.max),
+        temp_bonus: i32::from(slot.temp_bonus),
+        perm_bonus: i32::from(slot.perm_bonus),
+        min_level: rc.min_level,
+        cost_index: rc.cost_index,
+        category_id: line.category_id,
+        category_name: category_name.to_string(),
+        category_order,
+        description: line.description.clone(),
+        // The client ANDs the DBC's unlearnable bit with a nonzero skill STEP (`0x4d3953`).
+        abandonable: slot.step != 0 && rc.unlearnable(),
+        mono: rc.mono(),
+    })
+}
+
 /// The abandon drain (the skills pane's unlearn button → the `UNLEARN_SKILL` popup's accept →
 /// the engine's `AbandonSkill` queue): each queued skill line id becomes one
 /// `CMSG_UNLEARN_SKILL`. Nothing else happens client-side — the server's `SetSkill(id, 0, 0)`
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_loot.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_loot.rs
index 168149be..572e6975 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_loot.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_loot.rs
@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ pub(crate) struct LootState {
     /// never at open — an empty-at-open window stays up (the reference `LootFrame_OnShow` even has a
     /// dedicated `LOOTWINDOWOPENEMPTY` sound for it). Drained by [`drain_loot`].
     auto_release: bool,
+    /// Whether the open loot came from fishing (the wire `loot_type == 3` — vmangos folds
+    /// `FISHINGHOLE`/`FISHING_FAIL` into `LOOT_FISHING` before sending). Carried into the Lua
+    /// snapshot as `IsFishingLoot()`, which `LootFrame_OnShow` keys the "FISHING REEL IN" sound
+    /// and the FishingLoot portrait overlay on (decision 1086).
+    fishing: bool,
 }
 
 /// A resolved loot-row pick: the coin pile, or an item at a concrete **wire** loot slot (carrying
@@ -162,11 +167,12 @@ impl LootState {
     /// Open (or replace) the window with a fresh loot response (`SMSG_LOOT_RESPONSE`). Quest items
     /// ride the same `items` list (the wire appends them with `slot = items.len()+i`), so they need no
     /// special handling here.
-    pub(crate) fn open(&mut self, source: u64, gold: u32, items: Vec<LootItem>) {
+    pub(crate) fn open(&mut self, source: u64, loot_type: u8, gold: u32, items: Vec<LootItem>) {
         self.source = Some(source);
         self.gold = gold;
         self.items = items;
         self.auto_release = false; // empty-at-open stays open — only a removal auto-closes
+        self.fishing = loot_type == benilla_protocol::messages::loot_type::FISHING;
     }
 
     /// A row was taken by anyone (`SMSG_LOOT_REMOVED`, keyed by the **wire** slot): drop it. The
@@ -223,6 +229,7 @@ impl LootState {
         self.gold = 0;
         self.items.clear();
         self.auto_release = false;
+        self.fishing = false;
     }
 
     /// Disconnect: drop the open window **and** any pending receive lines (mirrors the merchant/gossip
@@ -458,7 +465,10 @@ fn snapshot(
     for it in &loot.items {
         rows.push(resolve_item(it, items, icons, commands));
     }
-    Some(LootSnapshot { rows })
+    Some(LootSnapshot {
+        rows,
+        fishing: loot.fishing,
+    })
 }
 
 /// Compose one `CHAT_MSG_LOOT` receive line — the whole of `CGGameUI::OnItemPush`'s self branch,
@@ -712,6 +722,7 @@ fn drain_loot(
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
+    use benilla_protocol::messages::loot_type;
 
     fn item(slot: u8, entry: u32, count: u32) -> LootItem {
         LootItem {
@@ -752,7 +763,12 @@ mod tests {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
         assert!(loot.source.is_none());
         // gold + two items at wire slots 0 and 1.
-        loot.open(0x42, 1234, vec![item(0, 117, 1), item(1, 2589, 5)]);
+        loot.open(
+            0x42,
+            loot_type::CORPSE,
+            1234,
+            vec![item(0, 117, 1), item(1, 2589, 5)],
+        );
         assert!(loot.source.is_some());
         // Row 1 is the coin pile; rows 2/3 are the items (wire slots 0/1). The item pick carries the
         // row's display id (here `1000 + entry`) so the pickup sound resolves without a second lookup.
@@ -778,7 +794,12 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn action_maps_items_directly_when_no_coin() {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
-        loot.open(0x42, 0, vec![item(3, 117, 1), item(7, 2589, 5)]);
+        loot.open(
+            0x42,
+            loot_type::CORPSE,
+            0,
+            vec![item(3, 117, 1), item(7, 2589, 5)],
+        );
         // No coin → row 1 is the first item (wire slot 3), row 2 the second (wire slot 7).
         assert!(matches!(
             loot.action_at(1),
@@ -796,6 +817,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
         loot.open(
             0x42,
+            loot_type::CORPSE,
             0,
             vec![item(0, 117, 1), item(1, 2589, 5), item(2, 4306, 2)],
         );
@@ -815,7 +837,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn clear_money_drops_the_coin_row() {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
-        loot.open(0x42, 500, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::CORPSE, 500, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
         assert!(loot.has_coin());
         assert!(matches!(loot.action_at(1), Some(LootAction::Money)));
         loot.clear_money();
@@ -831,7 +853,12 @@ mod tests {
     fn auto_release_arms_only_on_the_transition_to_empty() {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
         // Coin + two items: taking rows one by one arms the auto-close only at the last removal.
-        loot.open(0x42, 500, vec![item(0, 117, 1), item(1, 2589, 5)]);
+        loot.open(
+            0x42,
+            loot_type::CORPSE,
+            500,
+            vec![item(0, 117, 1), item(1, 2589, 5)],
+        );
         loot.remove_slot(0);
         assert!(!loot.take_auto_release(), "items + coin remain");
         loot.clear_money();
@@ -844,7 +871,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn auto_release_arms_when_the_coin_line_is_the_last_row() {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
-        loot.open(0x42, 500, vec![]);
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::CORPSE, 500, vec![]);
         loot.clear_money();
         assert!(
             loot.take_auto_release(),
@@ -856,12 +883,12 @@ mod tests {
     fn empty_at_open_does_not_auto_release() {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
         // The reference keeps an empty-at-open window up (LOOTWINDOWOPENEMPTY); only a removal closes.
-        loot.open(0x42, 0, vec![]);
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::CORPSE, 0, vec![]);
         assert!(!loot.take_auto_release());
         // …and a fresh open clears a stale armed edge.
-        loot.open(0x43, 500, vec![]);
+        loot.open(0x43, loot_type::CORPSE, 500, vec![]);
         loot.clear_money();
-        loot.open(0x44, 0, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
+        loot.open(0x44, loot_type::CORPSE, 0, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
         assert!(
             !loot.take_auto_release(),
             "open() disarms the previous window's edge"
@@ -879,10 +906,28 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(latch.0, None, "the matching release drops it");
     }
 
+    /// The `IsFishingLoot()` source (decision 1086): wire `loot_type` 3 flags the open, any other
+    /// type doesn't, and every close path drops the flag (a stale `true` would reel-in-sound the
+    /// next corpse loot).
+    #[test]
+    fn fishing_loot_type_sets_and_clears_the_flag() {
+        let mut loot = LootState::default();
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::FISHING, 0, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
+        assert!(loot.fishing);
+        loot.clear();
+        assert!(!loot.fishing);
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::CORPSE, 0, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
+        assert!(!loot.fishing);
+        // A fishing open REPLACED by an ordinary one drops the flag too (no clear in between).
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::FISHING, 0, vec![]);
+        loot.open(0x43, loot_type::CORPSE, 0, vec![]);
+        assert!(!loot.fishing);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn clear_closes_but_keeps_receives() {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
-        loot.open(0x42, 0, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::CORPSE, 0, vec![item(0, 117, 1)]);
         loot.push_receive(&push(117, 1, false, false));
         loot.clear();
         assert!(loot.source.is_none());
@@ -996,7 +1041,7 @@ mod tests {
         let commands = NetCommands(tx);
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
         // A pure-copper drop: name reads "4 Copper", icon is the copper coin pile (_05).
-        loot.open(0x42, 4, vec![]);
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::CORPSE, 4, vec![]);
         let snap = snapshot(&loot, &mut items, None, &commands).expect("open");
         assert_eq!(snap.rows.len(), 1, "coin row only");
         assert!(snap.rows[0].is_coin);
@@ -1012,7 +1057,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut loot = LootState::default();
         // Closed → no snapshot.
         assert!(snapshot(&loot, &mut items, None, &commands).is_none());
-        loot.open(0x42, 12_345, vec![item(0, 117, 3)]);
+        loot.open(0x42, loot_type::CORPSE, 12_345, vec![item(0, 117, 3)]);
         let snap = snapshot(&loot, &mut items, None, &commands).expect("open");
         assert_eq!(snap.rows.len(), 2, "coin + one item");
         assert!(snap.rows[0].is_coin);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_quest.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_quest.rs
index 8e3646fa..3980ebff 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_quest.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_quest.rs
@@ -921,6 +921,7 @@ mod tests {
                     key: questgiver_failed_key(4),
                     fill_s: Some("A Threat Within".into()),
                     fill_d: None,
+                    info: false,
                 },
                 &g
             )
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
index a1a33c90..2a19fba2 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/action_bar_tests.rs
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ fn shipped_action_bar_drives_end_to_end() {
         );
         if file == "ActionBar.xml" {
             assert_eq!(
-                report.frames, 33,
-                "bar + XP StatusBar (+ its numerals overlay) + exhaustion tick + art frame + 12 buttons (each with a Cooldown child) + 2 page buttons + the performance meter and its hover button"
+                report.frames, 34,
+                "bar + XP StatusBar (+ its numerals overlay) + exhaustion tick + max-level rail + art frame + 12 buttons (each with a Cooldown child) + 2 page buttons + the performance meter and its hover button"
             );
         }
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
index 7c3f73be..a4c31940 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/character_tests.rs
@@ -689,25 +689,33 @@ fn tab_round_trip_with_a_selected_skill_by_point() {
                 name: "Defense".into(),
                 value: 12,
                 max: 60,
-                modifier: 0,
+                temp_bonus: 0,
+                perm_bonus: 0,
+                min_level: 0,
+                cost_index: 0,
                 category_id: 6,
                 category_name: "Weapon Skills".into(),
                 category_order: 1,
                 description: "Defensive expertise.".into(),
                 abandonable: false,
+                mono: false,
             },
             SkillEntry {
                 skill_id: 164,
                 name: "Blacksmithing".into(),
                 value: 62,
                 max: 75,
-                modifier: 0,
+                temp_bonus: 0,
+                perm_bonus: 0,
+                min_level: 0,
+                cost_index: 0,
                 category_id: 11,
                 category_name: "Professions".into(),
                 category_order: 2,
                 description: "Working with metals.".into(),
                 // The real 5875 split: primary professions carry SkillRaceClassInfo 0x20.
                 abandonable: true,
+                mono: false,
             },
         ],
     });
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
index fc2ff0e2..c3b4785e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/escape_tests.rs
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ fn escape_closes_bag_and_panel_releases_loot_and_clears_cursor() {
     // Open the bag and the loot window; drain the open kits (not under test here).
     s.run("BenillaBagToggle_OnClick()").unwrap();
     s.set_loot(Some(LootState {
+        fishing: false,
         rows: vec![LootRow {
             item_id: 0,
             name: Some("Wool Cloth".into()),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs
index e632887c..543b3ba9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/exp_bar_tests.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 //! action-button machinery. Same file, two concerns: the strip along the bar's top is the
 //! player-progress readout; the buttons are the input surface.
 
-use benilla_ui::script::UiScript;
+use benilla_ui::script::{ScriptValue, UiScript, UnitState};
 
 /// The XP bar's load set: the manifest prefix it actually needs — fonts, UIParent, the
 /// tooltip, `TextStatusBar.xml` (the numerals machinery `BenillaExpBar_OnLoad` wires in),
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ fn the_exhaustion_tick_marks_where_rested_runs_out() {
     s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
     s.resolve();
 
-    // The binding trio underneath (the app-feed shape the XML consumes).
+    // The binding trio underneath (the app-feed shape the XML consumes) — the byte-verified
+    // contract (wow-re rested-xp-bindings.md, decision 1087).
     let (id, name, mult) = s
         .eval::<(i64, String, f64)>("return GetRestState()")
         .unwrap();
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ fn the_exhaustion_tick_marks_where_rested_runs_out() {
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<Option<i64>>("return GetXPExhaustion()").unwrap(),
         Some(1400),
-        "the pool is served ×2 — bar-XP, not wire units"
+        "the pool × Exhaustion.dbc row 1's factor (2.0) — bar-XP, not wire units"
     );
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<Option<i64>>("return IsResting()").unwrap(),
@@ -151,6 +152,33 @@ fn the_exhaustion_tick_marks_where_rested_runs_out() {
         .unwrap();
     assert!(ok, "a dry pool hides the tick and returns the purple bar");
 
+    // The nil law is the BYTE's, not the pool's (0x48d3f0's `dec/jne`, decision 1087): a normal-
+    // state player with a nonzero pool — vmangos's 0 < bonus ≤ 10 hysteresis window — still reads
+    // nil, and a rested player with a drained pool reads the NUMBER 0 (the tick then parks at the
+    // bar's current fill). An unmapped byte (0 here) is the binary's nil-triple fail path.
+    s.set_rest_state(2, 5, false);
+    s.fire_event("UPDATE_EXHAUSTION", vec![]);
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<Option<i64>>("return GetXPExhaustion()").unwrap(),
+        None,
+        "normal state hides the pool even while it holds a remnant"
+    );
+    s.set_rest_state(1, 0, true);
+    s.fire_event("UPDATE_EXHAUSTION", vec![]);
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<Option<i64>>("return GetXPExhaustion()").unwrap(),
+        Some(0),
+        "rested with a drained pool is the number 0, not nil"
+    );
+    s.set_rest_state(0, 0, false);
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("local a, b, c = GetRestState() return a == nil and b == nil and c == nil")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "an unmapped byte is the binary's (nil, nil, nil) fail path"
+    );
+    s.set_rest_state(2, 0, false);
+    s.fire_event("UPDATE_EXHAUSTION", vec![]);
+
     // A pool past the level's end (6000×2 span from 1000/10000): off the strip → hidden tick,
     // still rested blue (the ref's exhaustionTickSet > width branch).
     s.set_rest_state(1, 6000, false);
@@ -172,6 +200,57 @@ fn the_exhaustion_tick_marks_where_rested_runs_out() {
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
 
+/// The max-level rail (decision 1094, ref `ReputationWatchBar_Update`'s no-watched-faction arm):
+/// at MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL the XP strip and its tick give way to the flat brass rail; below it the
+/// strip is back. Walked over a live ding — 59 → 60 via `PLAYER_LEVEL_UP`'s arg1, the value the
+/// ref reads (not the level field, which may not have landed yet). The tick's own handler runs
+/// first (it loaded first) and re-shows the tick off the rested pool; the rail's handler then
+/// hides it — the ref's own load order, ending hidden.
+#[test]
+fn the_max_level_rail_replaces_the_xp_bar_at_60() {
+    let mut s = exp_bar_harness();
+    s.set_player_xp(1000, 10000);
+    s.set_rest_state(1, 700, true);
+    s.set_unit(
+        "player",
+        Some(UnitState {
+            exists: true,
+            level: 59,
+            ..UnitState::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
+    s.resolve();
+
+    let ok: bool = s
+        .eval(
+            r#"
+            return BenillaExpBar:IsShown() and not BenillaMaxLevelBar:IsShown()
+               and BenillaExhaustionTick:IsShown()
+        "#,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        ok,
+        "below 60 the strip and tick show, the rail stays hidden"
+    );
+
+    s.fire_event("PLAYER_LEVEL_UP", vec![ScriptValue::Int(60)]);
+    let ok: bool = s
+        .eval(
+            r#"
+            return not BenillaExpBar:IsShown() and BenillaMaxLevelBar:IsShown()
+               and not BenillaExhaustionTick:IsShown()
+        "#,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        ok,
+        "at 60 the rail replaces the strip and the tick goes with it"
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
 /// The hover numerals (decision 1082, ref TextStatusBar.lua over `MainMenuBarExpText`): entering
 /// the strip shows "curr / max" centered on the bar, leaving hides it (the lockShow refcount's
 /// 0↔1 edge — the `statusBarText` cvar that pins it on permanently reads OFF here).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
index 0c446bc7..bff51e4e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/game_menu_tests.rs
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ fn the_open_menu_takes_the_screen_and_refuses_every_other_panel() {
     s.set_container(0, Some(backpack()));
     s.run("BenillaBagToggle_OnClick()").unwrap();
     s.set_loot(Some(LootState {
+        fishing: false,
         rows: vec![LootRow {
             item_id: 0,
             name: Some("Wool Cloth".into()),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/loot_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/loot_tests.rs
index 9122de56..cffd72fe 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/loot_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/loot_tests.rs
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ fn text_color(quads: &[ExtractedQuad], t: &str) -> Option<[f32; 4]> {
 
 fn coin_and_two_items() -> LootState {
     LootState {
+        fishing: false,
         rows: vec![
             LootRow {
                 item_id: 0,
@@ -219,6 +220,7 @@ fn shipped_loot_frame_drives_end_to_end() {
 
     // LOOT_UPDATE with the coin row gone (looted) repaints to two rows, keeping the window open.
     s.set_loot(Some(LootState {
+        fishing: false,
         rows: coin_and_two_items().rows[1..].to_vec(),
     }));
     s.fire_event("LOOT_UPDATE", vec![]);
@@ -272,7 +274,10 @@ fn loot_empty_roll_plays_the_empty_open_kit() {
     assert!(s.take_sounds().is_empty(), "loot close is silent (C-side)");
 
     // Re-open with an EMPTY roll: OnShow's numItems==0 fork queues exactly LOOTWINDOWOPENEMPTY.
-    s.set_loot(Some(LootState { rows: vec![] }));
+    s.set_loot(Some(LootState {
+        fishing: false,
+        rows: vec![],
+    }));
     s.fire_event("LOOT_OPENED", vec![]);
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
     assert_eq!(
@@ -282,6 +287,58 @@ fn loot_empty_roll_plays_the_empty_open_kit() {
     );
 }
 
+/// The fishing fork (LootFrame.lua LootFrame_OnShow l.137-140; decision 1086): a fishing loot open
+/// plays "FISHING REEL IN" (SoundEntries "Fishing Reel in", kit 3407 — the name lookup is
+/// case-insensitive on both sides) and swaps the portrait ring's skull for the FishingLoot-Icon;
+/// the next ordinary open resets the skull (the ref re-stamps TargetDead at every show, l.133).
+#[test]
+fn fishing_loot_open_plays_the_reel_and_swaps_the_portrait() {
+    let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    load_xml(&s, "Fonts.xml"); // ITEM_QUALITY_COLORS (LootFrame's palette), app load order
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "LootFrame.xml");
+    let has_icon = |quads: &[ExtractedQuad], needle: &str| {
+        quads.iter().any(|q| {
+            matches!(&q.content, QuadContent::Texture { path: Some(p), .. } if p.contains(needle))
+        })
+    };
+
+    let mut fished = coin_and_two_items();
+    fished.fishing = true;
+    s.set_loot(Some(fished));
+    s.fire_event("LOOT_OPENED", vec![]);
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.take_sounds(),
+        vec![SoundRequest::KitName("FISHING REEL IN".into())],
+        "a fishing loot open plays the reel-in kit"
+    );
+    let quads = s.extract();
+    assert!(
+        has_icon(&quads, "FishingLoot-Icon"),
+        "the portrait ring shows the fishing icon"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        !has_icon(&quads, "TargetDead"),
+        "…instead of the dead-target skull"
+    );
+
+    // Close, then an ordinary corpse loot: silent again, and the skull is back.
+    s.fire_event("LOOT_CLOSED", vec![]);
+    let _ = s.take_sounds();
+    s.set_loot(Some(coin_and_two_items()));
+    s.fire_event("LOOT_OPENED", vec![]);
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+    assert!(
+        s.take_sounds().is_empty(),
+        "a non-fishing loot open is silent (its open kit is C-side)"
+    );
+    let quads = s.extract();
+    assert!(has_icon(&quads, "TargetDead"), "the skull is restored");
+    assert!(!has_icon(&quads, "FishingLoot-Icon"));
+}
+
 /// Paging (LootFrame.lua l.70-73,105-118): 5 items ⇒ 3 rows + a Down pager on page 1, 2 rows + an Up
 /// pager on page 2 — the real shipped XML driving the render, not just the arithmetic.
 #[test]
@@ -303,7 +360,10 @@ fn shipped_loot_frame_pages_five_items() {
             link: None,
         })
         .collect();
-    s.set_loot(Some(LootState { rows }));
+    s.set_loot(Some(LootState {
+        fishing: false,
+        rows,
+    }));
     s.fire_event("LOOT_OPENED", vec![]);
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 
@@ -488,6 +548,7 @@ fn ctrl_and_shift_on_a_loot_row_preview_and_post_without_looting() {
 
     // A coin row + one resolved item: the item's link is fed exactly as `ui_loot.rs` builds it.
     s.set_loot(Some(LootState {
+        fishing: false,
         rows: vec![
             LootRow {
                 item_id: 0,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
index 3e844c22..2fe1d592 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
@@ -721,6 +721,9 @@ mod questlog_tests;
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod character_tests;
 
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod skills_frame_tests;
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod pet_paperdoll_tests;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/skills_frame_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/skills_frame_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1ab1ea6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/skills_frame_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,306 @@
+//! The shipped **Skills tab** (`assets/ui/SkillFrame.xml`) driven end-to-end, engine-only (no
+//! Bevy) — the per-window test module the spellbook/trainer/bank files already establish, split
+//! out of `character_tests.rs` (which owns the paperdoll + the tab round-trip) so the skills-pane
+//! paint law has a home of its own.
+//!
+//! What it pins is the **proficiency row**: `SkillFrame.lua`'s own `skillMaxRank == 1` gate draws
+//! a full GRAY bar with NO rank text, and two different kinds of line land in it — the armor
+//! proficiencies, which the server really does report as `1/1`, and the **single-rank** lines
+//! (class skills, Dual Wield, racials, the per-mount riding lines), whose `skillMaxRank` the
+//! engine overrides to `1` off `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x400` however high the server's own
+//! descriptor is (`benilla-ui`'s `SkillEntry::mono`; wow-re `0x4d3610`'s `4d38b1` branch). A
+//! hunter's `Beast Mastery` on vmangos arrives as `300/300` and must still read gray and
+//! numberless, exactly as it does in the real client.
+
+use benilla_ui::script::{QuadContent, SkillEntry, SkillsState, UiScript};
+
+/// Load one shipped `assets/ui/<file>` into `s`, panicking on any loader error (the
+/// character/spellbook tests' loader, duplicated so this file is self-contained).
+fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) {
+    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
+        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
+            .join("assets/ui")
+            .join(file),
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
+    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_| None);
+    assert!(
+        report.errors.is_empty(),
+        "{file}: loader errors: {:?}",
+        report.errors
+    );
+}
+
+fn skill(
+    skill_id: u32,
+    name: &str,
+    value: u32,
+    max: u32,
+    mono: bool,
+    (category_id, category_name, category_order): (u32, &str, u32),
+) -> SkillEntry {
+    SkillEntry {
+        skill_id,
+        name: name.into(),
+        value,
+        max,
+        temp_bonus: 0,
+        perm_bonus: 0,
+        min_level: 0,
+        cost_index: 0,
+        category_id,
+        category_name: category_name.into(),
+        category_order,
+        description: String::new(),
+        abandonable: false,
+        mono,
+    }
+}
+
+/// The Skills page, shown, with one line of each shape — a hunter's real vmangos numbers:
+/// `Beast Mastery 300/300` (single-rank, `SkillRaceClassInfo` 0x410), `Defense 12/60` (a normal
+/// weapon line), `Cloth 1/1` (an armor proficiency the server itself caps).
+fn shown_skills_page() -> UiScript {
+    let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    for f in [
+        "Fonts.xml",
+        "UiPanels.xml",
+        "GameTooltip.xml",
+        "ScrollTemplates.xml",
+        "CharacterFrame.xml",
+        "SkillFrame.xml",
+    ] {
+        load_xml(&s, f);
+    }
+    s.set_skills(SkillsState {
+        entries: vec![
+            skill(50, "Beast Mastery", 300, 300, true, (7, "Class Skills", 2)),
+            skill(95, "Defense", 12, 60, false, (6, "Weapon Skills", 5)),
+            skill(415, "Cloth", 1, 1, false, (8, "Armor Proficiencies", 6)),
+        ],
+    });
+    s.run(r#"ToggleCharacter("BenillaSkillFrame")"#).unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+    s
+}
+
+/// Row slot `i`'s rank text and bar color — the two things the proficiency gate decides.
+fn row(s: &mut UiScript, i: u32) -> (String, [f32; 4]) {
+    let text = s
+        .eval::<String>(&format!(
+            "return BenillaSkillRankFrame{i}SkillRank:GetText() or \"\""
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
+    let c = s
+        .eval::<(f32, f32, f32, f32)>(&format!(
+            "return BenillaSkillRankFrame{i}:GetStatusBarColor()"
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
+    (text, [c.0, c.1, c.2, c.3])
+}
+
+/// Row slot `i`'s **trough** colour — the `$parentBackground` texture behind the fill, which the
+/// ref recolours per branch alongside the fill (`SkillFrame.lua:158` normal / `:167` proficiency).
+fn row_bg(s: &mut UiScript, i: u32) -> [f32; 4] {
+    let c = s
+        .eval::<(f32, f32, f32, f32)>(&format!(
+            "return BenillaSkillRankFrame{i}Background:GetVertexColor()"
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
+    [c.0, c.1, c.2, c.3]
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_single_rank_line_paints_gray_with_no_rank_text() {
+    let mut s = shown_skills_page();
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return BenillaSkillFrame:IsVisible()")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "the Skills page is up"
+    );
+
+    // Visible rows: 1 header "Class Skills", 2 Beast Mastery, 3 header "Weapon Skills",
+    // 4 Defense, 5 header "Armor Proficiencies", 6 Cloth — one list slot each.
+    let (text, color) = row(&mut s, 2);
+    assert_eq!(
+        text, "",
+        "Beast Mastery is single-rank: no rank text, though the server said 300/300"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(color, [0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0], "and a gray bar");
+    assert_eq!(
+        row_bg(&mut s, 2),
+        [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5],
+        "over the proficiency branch's WHITE trough (ref SkillFrame.lua:167)"
+    );
+
+    // The armor proficiency reaches the same branch by the server's own 1/1.
+    let (text, color) = row(&mut s, 6);
+    assert_eq!(text, "", "Cloth is 1/1: no rank text");
+    assert_eq!(color, [0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0], "gray too");
+    assert_eq!(row_bg(&mut s, 6), [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5], "white trough too");
+
+    // The control: a normal weapon line still reads its numbers, in blue.
+    let (text, color) = row(&mut s, 4);
+    assert_eq!(text, "12/60", "Defense keeps its rank text");
+    assert_eq!(color, [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5], "and the blue fill");
+    assert_eq!(
+        row_bg(&mut s, 4),
+        [0.0, 0.0, 0.75, 0.5],
+        "over the normal branch's DARK BLUE trough (ref SkillFrame.lua:158)"
+    );
+
+    // And what those troughs actually DRAW at. The template declares the texture `<Color 1,1,1,0.2>`
+    // — a real texel — and the vertex colour MULTIPLIES it, alpha included (the composition law,
+    // `benilla-ui` `script::tests::regions`): the proficiency's white reaches the screen at
+    // `0.2 x 0.5 = 0.1`, not 0.5. Every solid-colour quad this page emits is one of these troughs.
+    let solids: Vec<[f32; 4]> = s
+        .extract()
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|q| match &q.content {
+            QuadContent::Texture {
+                path: None,
+                color: Some(c),
+                ..
+            } => Some(*c),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    assert!(
+        solids.contains(&[1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.1]),
+        "a proficiency trough draws white at 0.1; got {solids:?}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        solids.contains(&[0.0, 0.0, 0.75, 0.1]),
+        "a normal row's trough draws dark blue at 0.1; got {solids:?}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        !solids.iter().any(|c| c[3] == 0.5),
+        "nothing draws at the raw vertex alpha — that was the replace bug; got {solids:?}"
+    );
+
+    // Selecting the single-rank row paints the detail pane the same way (the shared PaintBar).
+    s.run("SetSelectedSkill(2) BenillaSkillFrame_Update()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return BenillaSkillDetailBarSkillRank:GetText() or \"\"")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "",
+        "the detail pane's own bar is a proficiency too"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<(f32, f32, f32, f32)>("return BenillaSkillDetailBarBackground:GetVertexColor()")
+            .unwrap(),
+        (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5),
+        "including its trough (the shared PaintBar; ref SkillFrame.lua:376)"
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// **The director's reference screenshot, reproduced row for row** (decision 1091). A real
+/// level-60 tauren hunter's `PLAYER_SKILL_INFO` block — read straight out of the live vmangos
+/// `character_skills` rows the A/B was taken on — fed through the app's own display predicate
+/// ([`crate::ui_char::skills_row`]) and the engine's grouping, against the REAL shipped DBCs.
+///
+/// What the reference client shows for exactly this block is the expectation below: four headers,
+/// fourteen rows — and **no** `Dual Wield`, `Tauren Racial` or `GENERIC (DND)`, and no `Secondary
+/// Skills` header, though the server sends all three lines at 300/300 like any other. Skips
+/// without client data.
+#[test]
+fn a_real_hunters_block_lists_exactly_what_the_reference_client_lists() {
+    let data = std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data");
+    if !data.is_dir() {
+        eprintln!("skipping: vanilla client not present at {}", data.display());
+        return;
+    }
+    let mut chain = benilla_formats::open_chain(&data).expect("open chain");
+    let catalog = benilla_formats::load_skill_line_catalog(&mut chain).expect("skill lines");
+
+    // (skill line, value, max) — Twohunter's rows, verbatim. Tauren (race 6) hunter (class 3), 60.
+    const BLOCK: &[(u16, u16, u16)] = &[
+        (44, 300, 300),  // Axes
+        (46, 300, 300),  // Guns
+        (50, 300, 300),  // Beast Mastery       — single-rank
+        (51, 300, 300),  // Survival            — single-rank
+        (95, 300, 300),  // Defense
+        (109, 300, 300), // Language: Orcish
+        (115, 300, 300), // Language: Taurahe
+        (118, 300, 300), // Dual Wield          — HIDDEN
+        (124, 300, 300), // Tauren Racial       — HIDDEN
+        (162, 300, 300), // Unarmed
+        (163, 300, 300), // Marksmanship        — single-rank
+        (173, 300, 300), // Daggers
+        (183, 300, 300), // GENERIC (DND)       — HIDDEN
+        (226, 300, 300), // Crossbows
+        (413, 1, 1),     // Mail
+        (414, 1, 1),     // Leather
+        (415, 1, 1),     // Cloth
+    ];
+    let entries: Vec<SkillEntry> = BLOCK
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|&(skill_id, value, max)| {
+            let slot = benilla_protocol::messages::PlayerSkillSlot {
+                skill_id,
+                step: 0,
+                value,
+                max,
+                temp_bonus: 0,
+                perm_bonus: 0,
+            };
+            crate::ui_char::skills_row(&slot, &catalog, 6, 3, 60)
+        })
+        .collect();
+
+    let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_skills(SkillsState { entries });
+
+    let n = s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumSkillLines()").unwrap();
+    let rows: Vec<(String, bool)> = (1..=n)
+        .map(|i| {
+            s.eval::<(String, Option<i64>)>(&format!(
+                "local n,h = GetSkillLineInfo({i}) return n,h"
+            ))
+            .map(|(name, header)| (name, header.is_some()))
+            .unwrap()
+        })
+        .collect();
+
+    let expected: Vec<(&str, bool)> = vec![
+        ("Class Skills", true),
+        ("Beast Mastery", false),
+        ("Marksmanship", false),
+        ("Survival", false),
+        ("Weapon Skills", true),
+        ("Axes", false),
+        ("Crossbows", false),
+        ("Daggers", false),
+        ("Defense", false),
+        ("Guns", false),
+        ("Unarmed", false),
+        ("Armor Proficiencies", true),
+        ("Cloth", false),
+        ("Leather", false),
+        ("Mail", false),
+        ("Languages", true),
+        ("Language: Orcish", false),
+        ("Language: Taurahe", false),
+    ];
+    let got: Vec<(&str, bool)> = rows.iter().map(|(n, h)| (n.as_str(), *h)).collect();
+    assert_eq!(got, expected, "the pane, row for row");
+
+    // The three the server sends and the client never lists.
+    for hidden in ["Dual Wield", "Tauren Racial", "GENERIC (DND)"] {
+        assert!(
+            !got.iter().any(|(n, _)| *n == hidden),
+            "{hidden} must not appear"
+        );
+    }
+    // And the class lines still read as proficiencies despite their 300/300 descriptor.
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<i64>("return (select(7, GetSkillLineInfo(2)))")
+            .unwrap(),
+        1,
+        "Beast Mastery's skillMaxRank"
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_frame_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_frame_tests.rs
index f9654b5c..75ee45c2 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_frame_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_frame_tests.rs
@@ -1389,3 +1389,59 @@ fn the_player_frame_flashes_zzz_while_resting() {
     assert!(clear, "neither state → no status dressing at all");
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
+
+/// The zzz badge paints OVER the level number (decision 1093): the ref keeps the number in the
+/// texture frame's BACKGROUND layer and the state icons up in OVERLAY, so the opaque badge covers
+/// it while resting. The layer split is the only mechanism that CAN hide it — a fontstring never
+/// ducks under a texture of its own layer (0884's bucket-wide quads-then-text law) — which is
+/// exactly how 1082's transcription slipped: it put the number in OVERLAY beside the icons, and
+/// the number rode on the badge (director report, 2026-08-07).
+#[test]
+fn the_rest_badge_covers_the_level_number() {
+    let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    load_unit_frames(&s);
+    s.set_unit(
+        "player",
+        Some(UnitState {
+            exists: true,
+            name: Some("Prober".into()),
+            health: 100,
+            max_health: 100,
+            level: 12,
+            power_type: 0,
+            power: 80,
+            max_power: 80,
+            dead: false,
+            reaction: 0,
+            ..UnitState::default()
+        }),
+    );
+    s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
+    s.set_rest_state(1, 500, true);
+    s.fire_event("PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING", vec![]);
+    s.resolve();
+    let quads = s.extract();
+
+    // Every UI-StateIcon quad (the badge AND its ADD glow — the glow rides a later frame and
+    // sits higher still): even the LOWEST must clear the number.
+    let badge = quads
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|q| {
+            matches!(&q.content, QuadContent::Texture { path: Some(p), .. }
+                    if p.ends_with("UI-StateIcon"))
+        })
+        .map(|q| q.z)
+        .min()
+        .expect("the zzz badge");
+    let level = quads
+        .iter()
+        .find(|q| matches!(&q.content, QuadContent::Text { text: Some(t), .. } if t == "12"))
+        .expect("the level text");
+    assert!(
+        badge > level.z,
+        "the badge must cover the level number (badge z={badge:#x}, level z={:#x})",
+        level.z
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
index bfa15b39..3346cc71 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
@@ -587,6 +587,8 @@ fn drive_mouseover_tooltip(
     mut go_inputs: crate::target::lock::GoLockInputs,
     // The known-spell set the resolver's SKILL arm scans.
     player_actions: Res<crate::ui_action::PlayerActions>,
+    // The cursor seat crosses the VM seam (0582/0584): the anchor below is UI units, not px.
+    ui_scale: Res<crate::ui_script::UiScaleCvar>,
     mut last: Local<LastHover>,
     mut last_lines: Local<Option<UnitState>>,
 ) {
@@ -647,12 +649,16 @@ fn drive_mouseover_tooltip(
         // settle it. Flagged INTERIM in 0766 rather than presented as verified.
         let cursor_seated =
             stores.get(entity).map(|s| s.0.gameobject_type_id()) == Ok(GO_TYPE_GENERIC);
+        // Window px → the VM's y-up 768-virtual units (÷s, the input seam's own conversion) —
+        // the anchor this point seats is resolved in UI units, so a raw-px point lands the
+        // plate (s−1)× the cursor's distance from the bottom-left corner away from it.
         let cursor_ui = cursor_seated
             .then(|| {
-                window
-                    .iter()
-                    .next()
-                    .and_then(|w| w.cursor_position().map(|c| (c.x, w.height() - c.y)))
+                window.iter().next().and_then(|w| {
+                    let s = crate::ui_script::seam_scale(w.height(), ui_scale.0);
+                    w.cursor_position()
+                        .map(|c| (c.x / s, (w.height() - c.y) / s))
+                })
             })
             .flatten();
         if *last == LastHover::Go(guid) {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
index b7f84038..0280cd72 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
@@ -97,10 +97,15 @@ struct UnitFeedState {
     /// The last `(PLAYER_XP, PLAYER_NEXT_LEVEL_XP)` pair pushed, for the `PLAYER_XP_UPDATE` trigger —
     /// the XP bar's feed is a player-global (like coinage), not a per-unit-token field.
     last_xp: Option<(u32, u32)>,
-    /// The last `(restState, restPool, resting)` triple pushed, for the `UPDATE_EXHAUSTION` and
-    /// `PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING` triggers — player-globals like the XP pair (decision 1082). Pushed
-    /// as one snapshot so `GetRestState`/`GetXPExhaustion`/`IsResting` never read it half-updated.
-    last_rest: Option<(u8, u32, bool)>,
+    /// The last `(restState, restPool, PLAYER_FLAGS)` triple pushed, for the `UPDATE_EXHAUSTION`
+    /// and `PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING` triggers — player-globals like the XP pair (decisions
+    /// 1082/1087). The whole flags dword, not just the resting bit: the client's `0x5ee990`
+    /// fires `PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING` on any PLAYER_FLAGS delta. Pushed as one snapshot so
+    /// `GetRestState`/`GetXPExhaustion`/`IsResting` never read it half-updated.
+    last_rest: Option<(u8, u32, u32)>,
+    /// Our avatar's last-seen `UNIT_FIELD_LEVEL`, for the `PLAYER_LEVEL_UP` trigger (decision
+    /// 1094). `None` until first seen — the first sighting is the login descriptor, not a ding.
+    last_level: Option<u32>,
     /// The last `(count, banked-target guid)` pair pushed, for the `PLAYER_COMBO_POINTS` trigger —
     /// player-globals (`PLAYER_FIELD_BYTES` byte 1 + `PLAYER_FIELD_COMBO_TARGET`), not per-unit-
     /// token fields. Diffed as a pair because the server writes them as one (decision 0875).
@@ -143,7 +148,37 @@ impl Plugin for UiUnitPlugin {
                 .in_set(UnitFeed)
                 .before(UiInput),
         )
-        .add_systems(Update, drain_pvp_toggles.after(UiInput));
+        .add_systems(Update, drain_pvp_toggles.after(UiInput))
+        .add_systems(PostStartup, load_exhaustion_rows);
+    }
+}
+
+/// Seed the VM's Exhaustion.dbc table once at startup — the rest bindings' data
+/// ([`benilla_ui::script::UiScript::set_exhaustion_rows`]; the ui_macro icon-catalog shape).
+/// A failed load keeps the model's shipped-table fallback, so the rest surface still behaves
+/// like the shipped enUS client rather than going dark.
+fn load_exhaustion_rows(
+    script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
+    assets: Option<Res<crate::assets::WorldAssets>>,
+) {
+    let (Some(mut script), Some(assets)) = (script, assets) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let loaded = {
+        use crate::assets::LockRecover;
+        let mut chain = assets.chain.lock_recover();
+        benilla_formats::load_exhaustion(&mut chain)
+    };
+    match loaded {
+        Ok(rows) => {
+            info!("ui_unit: {} Exhaustion.dbc rest states", rows.len());
+            script.set_exhaustion_rows(
+                rows.into_iter()
+                    .map(|r| (r.id as u8, r.name, f64::from(r.factor)))
+                    .collect(),
+            );
+        }
+        Err(e) => error!("ui_unit: Exhaustion.dbc failed — shipped-table fallback holds: {e:#}"),
     }
 }
 
@@ -459,6 +494,10 @@ fn drain_pvp_toggles(script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>, commands: Res<NetComm
 /// the icon draws: the preference clears instantly, the flag lingers for the server's timer.
 const PLAYER_FLAGS_PVP_DESIRED: u32 = 0x200;
 
+/// `PLAYER_FLAGS_RESTING` — inside a rest area now (vmangos `Player.h:320`); the bit
+/// `IsResting 0x516ea0` tests (`shr 5; test 1` — wow-re rested-xp-bindings.md §3).
+const PLAYER_FLAGS_RESTING: u32 = 0x20;
+
 /// The PvP-preference announcement rule (decision 0652): `(toast, verbose)` on a real change of the
 /// bit, `None` otherwise.
 ///
@@ -484,6 +523,27 @@ fn pvp_announcement(was: Option<bool>, now: bool) -> Option<(&'static str, &'sta
     })
 }
 
+/// The rest-state chat line (decision 1098; wow-re rested-xp-bindings.md §§6-10, byte-verified
+/// §5): the rest-state BYTE watcher `0x5de4e0` messages only on a real old≠new transition (the
+/// dispatcher's `rep cmpsb` mirror diff at `0x4655bb`), through the hard-coded 3×2 pair table
+/// `0x80af50` — state 1 → `ERR_EXHAUSTION_RESTED`, state 2 → `ERR_EXHAUSTION_NORMAL`, state 0 →
+/// the table's deliberate no-message sentinel (id 0x1d1), states ≥ 3 gated off before the table
+/// (`cmp esi,3; jae`), so the beta tiers never speak even though their strings ship. The line is
+/// a plain yellow SYSTEM chat message (`CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM`) — never UIErrorsFrame, no sound.
+/// enUS literals like every app-side chat line (`level_up_lines`' shape); the keys above are the
+/// GlobalStrings homes. Entering rested also arms a one-shot tutorial popup (id 0x19) — the
+/// tutorial system isn't built, a named cut.
+fn rest_state_message(prev: u8, new: u8) -> Option<&'static str> {
+    if prev == new {
+        return None;
+    }
+    match new {
+        1 => Some("You feel rested."),
+        2 => Some("You feel normal."),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
 /// A unit's PvP faction group — `UnitFactionGroup`'s pair, as the icon law reads it (decision
 /// 0646 §1/§3): `UNIT_FIELD_FACTIONTEMPLATE` → `FactionTemplate.dbc`'s group mask → the
 /// `FactionGroup.dbc` name of its **side** bit.
@@ -661,8 +721,88 @@ fn feed_units(
     script.set_unit("player", player.clone());
     script.set_unit("target", target.clone());
 
-    // Initial pull: fire PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD once so frames do their first paint on their own.
-    if !feed.entered_world {
+    // The XP bar's feed: push our own avatar's PLAYER_XP / PLAYER_NEXT_LEVEL_XP (both PRIVATE, only
+    // ever streamed for self) and fire PLAYER_XP_UPDATE when either changes — the coinage feed's
+    // shape. Absent fields read 0 (a fresh descriptor's zero default; the bar shows empty until XP
+    // streams in). BEFORE the PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD fire below, so the first paint reads real
+    // values (1087 — the tick's handler divides by UnitXPMax).
+    if let Some((store, _)) = self_q.iter().next() {
+        let xp = store.0.player_xp().unwrap_or(0);
+        let next = store.0.player_next_level_xp().unwrap_or(0);
+        if feed.last_xp != Some((xp, next)) {
+            feed.last_xp = Some((xp, next));
+            script.set_player_xp(xp, next);
+            script.fire_event("PLAYER_XP_UPDATE", vec![]);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The rest feed (decisions 1082/1087): the `PLAYER_BYTES_2` rest-state byte, the
+    // `PLAYER_REST_STATE_EXPERIENCE` pool and PLAYER_FLAGS, pushed as one snapshot. Two watches,
+    // the byte-verified grain (wow-re rested-xp-bindings.md §5): `UPDATE_EXHAUSTION` on a
+    // state-or-pool change (the client installs a watcher on each — `0x5de4e0` on the byte,
+    // `0x5de4b0` on the pool field), `PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING` on **any PLAYER_FLAGS delta**
+    // (`0x5ee990` fires it beside PLAYER_FLAGS_CHANGED without testing which bit moved — the
+    // resting bit is just its loudest consumer). Runs before the PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD fire
+    // below, like the XP push: in the real client the descriptor always lands before that
+    // event, so the first paint reads real state — the model's byte-2 default (its doc) is the
+    // backstop, this ordering is the guarantee itself.
+    if let Some((store, _)) = self_q.iter().next() {
+        let rest = (
+            store.0.player_rest_state().unwrap_or(0),
+            store.0.player_rest_state_experience().unwrap_or(0),
+            store.0.player_flags(),
+        );
+        if feed.last_rest != Some(rest) {
+            let prev = feed.last_rest;
+            feed.last_rest = Some(rest);
+            script.set_rest_state(rest.0, rest.1, rest.2 & PLAYER_FLAGS_RESTING != 0);
+            if prev.map(|p| (p.0, p.1)) != Some((rest.0, rest.1)) {
+                script.fire_event("UPDATE_EXHAUSTION", vec![]);
+            }
+            // "You feel rested." / "You feel normal." (decision 1098): the BYTE watcher alone
+            // messages, and only on a real transition — `prev` None is the login descriptor,
+            // which the real client's fresh-CREATE path never runs through the notify pass
+            // (byte-verified: login is structurally silent). The pool watcher never messages.
+            if let Some(p) = prev {
+                if let Some(text) = rest_state_message(p.0, rest.0) {
+                    chat.push_event(ChatEvent::text_only(
+                        ChatEventKind::System,
+                        text.to_string(),
+                    ));
+                }
+            }
+            if prev.map(|p| p.2) != Some(rest.2) {
+                script.fire_event("PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING", vec![]);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The ding feed: `PLAYER_LEVEL_UP` (arg1 = the new level) when our avatar's
+    // `UNIT_FIELD_LEVEL` rises — the event the exhaustion tick (1082) and the max-level rail
+    // (1094) register; it was a dead registration until 1094. Trigger PROVISIONAL (0578's
+    // pattern): fired off the descriptor diff, which lands in the same update batch as the
+    // ding's XP fields, so consumers read a coherent picture. The real client plausibly fires
+    // it from its `SMSG_LEVELUP_INFO` handler instead, with the packet's gain tuple as arg2+ —
+    // unpinned, and no 1.12 FrameXML consumer reads past arg1 (`ReputationWatchBar_Update`
+    // takes arg1; the tick's handler takes none), so the extra args wait for a consumer.
+    // A DROP (a GM `.level` down) fires nothing, like a first sighting — only a rise dings.
+    if let Some((store, _)) = self_q.iter().next() {
+        if let Some(level) = store.0.unit_level() {
+            let prev = feed.last_level.replace(level);
+            if prev.is_some_and(|p| level > p) {
+                script.fire_event("PLAYER_LEVEL_UP", vec![ScriptValue::Int(i64::from(level))]);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Initial pull: fire PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD once so frames do their first paint on their own —
+    // gated on our avatar's descriptor EXISTING. 1087 stated the real client's guarantee (the
+    // player object lands before this event) and moved the XP/rest pushes above the fire, but the
+    // fire itself still went out on frame 1, seconds before login: every one-shot first-paint
+    // read empty state, and only consumers with their own diff events recovered. The 1094 live
+    // probe caught the one that couldn't — a level-60 login read UnitLevel()=0 at the fire and
+    // kept the XP strip. With the gate the guarantee is structural for every consumer.
+    if !feed.entered_world && self_pair.is_some() {
         script.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![]);
         feed.entered_world = true;
     }
@@ -731,45 +871,6 @@ fn feed_units(
         feed.pvp_desired = Some(desired);
     }
 
-    // The XP bar's feed: push our own avatar's PLAYER_XP / PLAYER_NEXT_LEVEL_XP (both PRIVATE, only
-    // ever streamed for self) and fire PLAYER_XP_UPDATE when either changes — the coinage feed's
-    // shape. Absent fields read 0 (a fresh descriptor's zero default; the bar shows empty until XP
-    // streams in).
-    if let Some((store, _)) = self_q.iter().next() {
-        let xp = store.0.player_xp().unwrap_or(0);
-        let next = store.0.player_next_level_xp().unwrap_or(0);
-        if feed.last_xp != Some((xp, next)) {
-            feed.last_xp = Some((xp, next));
-            script.set_player_xp(xp, next);
-            script.fire_event("PLAYER_XP_UPDATE", vec![]);
-        }
-    }
-
-    // The rest feed (decision 1082): the `PLAYER_BYTES_2` rest-state byte, the
-    // `PLAYER_REST_STATE_EXPERIENCE` pool and the `PLAYER_FLAGS_RESTING` bit, pushed as one
-    // snapshot. Two watches, the reference's own grain: `UPDATE_EXHAUSTION` on a state-or-pool
-    // change (the exhaustion tick and the bar's rested/normal color both register it),
-    // `PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING` on the flag toggling (the player frame's zzz). Absent fields read
-    // 0 / not-resting — a fresh descriptor's zero default, which `GetRestState` renders as Normal.
-    if let Some((store, _)) = self_q.iter().next() {
-        let rest = (
-            store.0.player_rest_state().unwrap_or(0),
-            store.0.player_rest_state_experience().unwrap_or(0),
-            store.0.player_is_resting(),
-        );
-        if feed.last_rest != Some(rest) {
-            let prev = feed.last_rest;
-            feed.last_rest = Some(rest);
-            script.set_rest_state(rest.0, rest.1, rest.2);
-            if prev.map(|p| (p.0, p.1)) != Some((rest.0, rest.1)) {
-                script.fire_event("UPDATE_EXHAUSTION", vec![]);
-            }
-            if prev.map(|p| p.2) != Some(rest.2) {
-                script.fire_event("PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING", vec![]);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     // The combo-point feed: `PLAYER_FIELD_BYTES` byte 1 and the `PLAYER_FIELD_COMBO_TARGET` GUID
     // it is banked against, both PRIVATE, pushed as the pair the server writes (0869, 0875).
     //
@@ -996,4 +1097,36 @@ mod tests {
             "the OFF sentence is what tells the player the flag lingers: {verbose}"
         );
     }
+
+    /// The rest-state chat law (decision 1098, wow-re §§6-10): a message needs a real byte
+    /// TRANSITION, and only states 1/2 speak — state 0 is the pair table's no-message sentinel,
+    /// the beta tiers (≥3) are gated off before the table, and a re-send of the same byte is
+    /// swallowed by the dispatcher's mirror diff.
+    #[test]
+    fn rest_state_message_speaks_only_on_a_real_transition() {
+        assert_eq!(rest_state_message(2, 1), Some("You feel rested."));
+        assert_eq!(rest_state_message(1, 2), Some("You feel normal."));
+        assert_eq!(
+            rest_state_message(0, 1),
+            Some("You feel rested."),
+            "0→1 IS a transition"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            rest_state_message(1, 1),
+            None,
+            "same byte re-sent — the mirror diff eats it"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(rest_state_message(2, 2), None);
+        assert_eq!(
+            rest_state_message(1, 0),
+            None,
+            "state 0 is the 0x1d1 sentinel: no message"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            rest_state_message(2, 3),
+            None,
+            "beta tiers are gated off (cmp esi,3; jae)"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(rest_state_message(1, 5), None);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/mod.rs
index cbb76f48..44f0326a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/mod.rs
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ const UNDERCITY: Site = Site {
     uid: 239598,
 };
 
+/// Ironforge — B65's site: the lava chasm under the Great Forge walkways. The walkable metal
+/// grates at lava level (world z≈421, e.g. `.go xyz -4845 -995 421 0`) live in cavern group g89
+/// (one portal, p114→g91); a camera over a grate/bed column seeds that group and the scene draws,
+/// while a column with nothing walkable below (the shaft-mouth sliver, the moat's bed gaps) reads
+/// "outside" and blanks the interior — which decision 1096 pins as the CLIENT'S OWN behaviour
+/// (wow-re `wmo-downray-liquid-audit.md`: no liquid leg, no fallback; the asset's patchy beds are
+/// the only thing keeping retail drawn over lava). The 2026-08-07 pins: `WOW_PIN_EYE=-4990,-960,470`
+/// reproduces a faithful blank column; `WOW_PIN_EYE=-4830,-1090,480` seeds g91 and draws; the
+/// still-open half of B65 (partial grate loss from seeded rim poses) is 1096's "NOT settled" leaf.
+#[allow(dead_code)] // pinned for `WOW_PIN_*` runs: the B65 repro coordinates live here
+const IRONFORGE: Site = Site {
+    wmo: r"world\wmo\khazmodan\cities\ironforge\ironforge.wmo",
+    map: "Azeroth",
+    tile: (34, 41),
+    uid: 7706,
+};
+
 /// Eye height above a floor point for both the standing player and the seated camera samples.
 const EYE_HEIGHT: f32 = 1.7;
 
@@ -182,10 +199,14 @@ fn load_subject(internal: &str, site: Option<&Site>) -> Subject {
     let mut walk_pos = Vec::new();
     let mut walk_idx = Vec::new();
     let mut names = vec![String::new(); n];
+    let mut group_liquids: Vec<Option<benilla_formats::LiquidMesh>> = vec![None; n];
     for gi in 0..n {
         let Ok(gbytes) = chain.read(&format!("{stem}_{gi:03}.wmo")) else {
             continue;
         };
+        // The group's MLIQ surface, exactly as the asset loader stores it — the down-ray's liquid
+        // leg (B65) needs it, so the pin probe must carry it too or an over-lava eye can't replay.
+        group_liquids[gi] = benilla_formats::wmo_group_liquid_mesh(&gbytes);
         group_footprints[gi] = wmo_group_footprint_tris(&gbytes);
         if let (Some(h), Some(nav)) = (wmo_group_header(&gbytes), group_nav.get_mut(gi)) {
             nav.flags = h.flags;
@@ -260,7 +281,7 @@ fn load_subject(internal: &str, site: Option<&Site>) -> Subject {
         group_footprint_grids: benilla_assets::footprint_tri_grids(&group_footprints),
         group_footprints,
         group_light_refs: Vec::new(),
-        group_liquids: Vec::new(),
+        group_liquids,
         doodad_base: Vec::new(),
         doodad_owner: Vec::new(),
         doodad_groups: Vec::new(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/pin.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/pin.rs
index f5096cb4..89f8445c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/pin.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/wmo_portal/audit/pin.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,215 @@ use bevy::math::{Mat4, Vec3};
 
 use super::{load_subject, Site, EXTERIOR, UNDERCITY};
 
+/// The pin family's shared env targeting (`WOW_PIN_WMO`/`_MAP`/`_TILE`/`_UID`, default
+/// [`UNDERCITY`]).
+fn site_from_env() -> Site {
+    Site {
+        wmo: Box::leak(
+            std::env::var("WOW_PIN_WMO")
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| UNDERCITY.wmo.to_string())
+                .into_boxed_str(),
+        ),
+        map: Box::leak(
+            std::env::var("WOW_PIN_MAP")
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| UNDERCITY.map.to_string())
+                .into_boxed_str(),
+        ),
+        tile: std::env::var("WOW_PIN_TILE").map_or(UNDERCITY.tile, |s| {
+            let (a, b) = s.split_once(',').expect("WOW_PIN_TILE wants tx,ty");
+            (a.trim().parse().unwrap(), b.trim().parse().unwrap())
+        }),
+        uid: std::env::var("WOW_PIN_UID").map_or(UNDERCITY.uid, |s| s.trim().parse().unwrap()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// **The group census** — the pin probe's gazetteer: every group's flags, portal-edge count, and
+/// bbox in BOTH frames (model-local and WoW world, via the same placement transform the pin uses),
+/// so a "which group is that thing on my screen" question becomes a grep instead of a guess. Same
+/// `WOW_PIN_*` targeting as the pin probe.
+#[test]
+#[ignore = "needs the local game data (WoW/Data); run with --ignored"]
+fn wmo_group_census() {
+    let site = site_from_env();
+    let subject = load_subject(site.wmo, Some(&site));
+    let placed = subject
+        .placed
+        .as_ref()
+        .expect("the census needs a placement");
+    // The MLIQ leg the harness's nav skips: re-read each group file for its liquid grid, so the
+    // census can say "this group owns the lava" (local-space z range of its wet vertices).
+    let data = std::env::var("WOW_DATA")
+        .map(std::path::PathBuf::from)
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| {
+            std::path::PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data")
+        });
+    let chain = benilla_formats::open_chain(&data).expect("open MPQ chain (set WOW_DATA)");
+    let stem = site.wmo.strip_suffix(".wmo").unwrap_or(site.wmo);
+    let liquid: Vec<Option<(f32, f32)>> = (0..subject.model.group_nav.len())
+        .map(|gi| {
+            let bytes = chain.read(&format!("{stem}_{gi:03}.wmo")).ok()?;
+            let mesh = benilla_formats::wmo_group_liquid_mesh(&bytes)?;
+            let zs = mesh.positions.iter().map(|p| p[2]);
+            let (mut lo, mut hi) = (f32::INFINITY, f32::NEG_INFINITY);
+            for z in zs {
+                lo = lo.min(z);
+                hi = hi.max(z);
+            }
+            (lo <= hi).then_some((lo, hi))
+        })
+        .collect();
+    println!(
+        "== group census: {} ({} groups) ==",
+        site.wmo,
+        subject.model.group_nav.len()
+    );
+    // `WOW_PIN_COL=<world-x,world-y>`: every walking-collision face crossing that column, per group,
+    // as world z — the down-ray's Leg A candidate list for one spot, without running the flood.
+    if let Some((cx, cy)) = std::env::var("WOW_PIN_COL").ok().and_then(|v| {
+        let c: Vec<f32> = v.split(',').filter_map(|p| p.trim().parse().ok()).collect();
+        (c.len() == 2).then(|| (c[0], c[1]))
+    }) {
+        let local = bevy_to_wow(
+            placed
+                .local_from_world
+                .transform_point3(wow_to_bevy([cx, cy, 0.0])),
+        );
+        println!(
+            "-- column ({cx:.1},{cy:.1}) = local ({:.2},{:.2}) --",
+            local[0], local[1]
+        );
+        for (gi, tris) in subject.model.group_collision_tris.iter().enumerate() {
+            for t in tris {
+                if let Some(z) = benilla_formats::triangle_z_at(t, local[0], local[1]) {
+                    let w = bevy_to_wow(
+                        placed
+                            .world_from_local
+                            .transform_point3(wow_to_bevy([local[0], local[1], z])),
+                    );
+                    println!("  under g{gi:03}: local z {z:.2} = world z {:.1}", w[2]);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        // The unfiltered contrast: every face in the FILE crossing this column, with its MOPY
+        // flags — a face listed here but not above is one our walking gather dropped, which
+        // against the client's mask (`0x84`, a strict superset of our `0x04` skip) is a parse
+        // divergence, not a filter choice.
+        println!("-- raw file faces at the column (all MOPY flags) --");
+        for gi in 0..subject.model.group_nav.len() {
+            let Ok(gbytes) = chain.read(&format!("{stem}_{gi:03}.wmo")) else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            let Ok(benilla_wmo::ParsedWmo::Group(group)) =
+                benilla_wmo::parse_wmo(&mut std::io::Cursor::new(gbytes.as_slice()))
+            else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            for (t, mopy) in group.material_info.iter().enumerate() {
+                let idx = |k: usize| group.vertex_indices.get(t * 3 + k).copied();
+                let (Some(a), Some(b), Some(c)) = (idx(0), idx(1), idx(2)) else {
+                    continue;
+                };
+                let pos = |i: u16| {
+                    group
+                        .vertex_positions
+                        .get(i as usize)
+                        .map(|p| [p.x, p.y, p.z])
+                };
+                let (Some(a), Some(b), Some(c)) = (pos(a), pos(b), pos(c)) else {
+                    continue;
+                };
+                if let Some(z) = benilla_formats::triangle_z_at(&[a, b, c], local[0], local[1]) {
+                    println!(
+                        "  raw g{gi:03}: local z {z:.2}  mopy {:#04x} material {}",
+                        mopy.flags, mopy.material_id
+                    );
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    // `WOW_PIN_FLOOR=<local-z>`: dump every walking-collision face whose centroid sits within 3 yd
+    // of that height, as world x/y — the "where exactly is the walkable metalwork at lava level"
+    // map a screenshot-pose reconstruction needs.
+    if let Some(floor_z) = std::env::var("WOW_PIN_FLOOR")
+        .ok()
+        .and_then(|v| v.parse::<f32>().ok())
+    {
+        for (gi, tris) in subject.model.group_collision_tris.iter().enumerate() {
+            for t in tris {
+                let c = [
+                    (t[0][0] + t[1][0] + t[2][0]) / 3.0,
+                    (t[0][1] + t[1][1] + t[2][1]) / 3.0,
+                    (t[0][2] + t[1][2] + t[2][2]) / 3.0,
+                ];
+                if (c[2] - floor_z).abs() > 3.0 {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                let w = bevy_to_wow(placed.world_from_local.transform_point3(wow_to_bevy(c)));
+                println!(
+                    "floor g{gi:03} world ({:.1}, {:.1}, {:.1})",
+                    w[0], w[1], w[2]
+                );
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    for (gi, g) in subject.model.group_nav.iter().enumerate() {
+        // World bbox: transform all 8 local corners, take the WoW-frame min/max.
+        let mut wmin = [f32::INFINITY; 3];
+        let mut wmax = [f32::NEG_INFINITY; 3];
+        for c in 0..8 {
+            let local = [
+                if c & 1 == 0 {
+                    g.bbox_min[0]
+                } else {
+                    g.bbox_max[0]
+                },
+                if c & 2 == 0 {
+                    g.bbox_min[1]
+                } else {
+                    g.bbox_max[1]
+                },
+                if c & 4 == 0 {
+                    g.bbox_min[2]
+                } else {
+                    g.bbox_max[2]
+                },
+            ];
+            let w = bevy_to_wow(placed.world_from_local.transform_point3(wow_to_bevy(local)));
+            for k in 0..3 {
+                wmin[k] = wmin[k].min(w[k]);
+                wmax[k] = wmax[k].max(w[k]);
+            }
+        }
+        println!(
+            "g{gi:03} flags {:#07x}{} edges {:2}  world x[{:.0},{:.0}] y[{:.0},{:.0}] z[{:.0},{:.0}]  local z[{:.1},{:.1}]  walk {:5} camonly {:4}{}",
+            g.flags,
+            if g.flags & EXTERIOR != 0 { " EXT" } else { "    " },
+            g.ref_count,
+            wmin[0],
+            wmax[0],
+            wmin[1],
+            wmax[1],
+            wmin[2],
+            wmax[2],
+            g.bbox_min[2],
+            g.bbox_max[2],
+            subject
+                .model
+                .group_collision_tris
+                .get(gi)
+                .map_or(0, Vec::len),
+            subject
+                .model
+                .group_camera_only_tris
+                .get(gi)
+                .map_or(0, Vec::len),
+            liquid[gi]
+                .map(|(lo, hi)| format!("  LIQUID local z[{lo:.1},{hi:.1}]"))
+                .unwrap_or_default(),
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 /// **The pin probe** — a director's `.go xyz` / `/shot` report, replayed through the real flood.
 ///
 /// A bug report names a *place*, and until now turning that place into evidence meant launching the
@@ -33,23 +242,7 @@ fn wmo_pin_probe() {
         let v: Vec<f32> = s.split(',').filter_map(|p| p.trim().parse().ok()).collect();
         <[f32; 3]>::try_from(&v[..]).unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("{var} wants x,y,z; got {s:?}"))
     }
-    let site = Site {
-        wmo: Box::leak(
-            std::env::var("WOW_PIN_WMO")
-                .unwrap_or_else(|_| UNDERCITY.wmo.to_string())
-                .into_boxed_str(),
-        ),
-        map: Box::leak(
-            std::env::var("WOW_PIN_MAP")
-                .unwrap_or_else(|_| UNDERCITY.map.to_string())
-                .into_boxed_str(),
-        ),
-        tile: std::env::var("WOW_PIN_TILE").map_or(UNDERCITY.tile, |s| {
-            let (a, b) = s.split_once(',').expect("WOW_PIN_TILE wants tx,ty");
-            (a.trim().parse().unwrap(), b.trim().parse().unwrap())
-        }),
-        uid: std::env::var("WOW_PIN_UID").map_or(UNDERCITY.uid, |s| s.trim().parse().unwrap()),
-    };
+    let site = site_from_env();
     let subject = load_subject(site.wmo, Some(&site));
     let placed = subject
         .placed
@@ -146,6 +339,42 @@ fn wmo_pin_probe() {
         );
     }
 
+    // The portal geometry behind every hop verdict above: plane + vertex extent, for each portal
+    // referenced by a group that contains the eye or the look point — the "which side is the eye
+    // actually on" question needs the plane, not the verdict.
+    println!("-- portals of the groups containing eye/look --");
+    for (gi, g) in model.group_nav.iter().enumerate() {
+        let holds = |p: [f32; 3]| (0..3).all(|k| p[k] >= g.bbox_min[k] && p[k] <= g.bbox_max[k]);
+        if !holds(eye) && !holds(look) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let start = g.ref_start as usize;
+        let end = (start + g.ref_count as usize).min(model.portal_refs.len());
+        for r in &model.portal_refs[start..end] {
+            let Some(info) = model.portal_infos.get(r.portal as usize) else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            let [nx, ny, nz, d] = info.plane;
+            let de = nx * eye[0] + ny * eye[1] + nz * eye[2] + d;
+            let vs = (info.start_vertex as usize)
+                ..(info.start_vertex as usize + info.count as usize)
+                    .min(model.portal_vertices.len());
+            let mut vmin = [f32::INFINITY; 3];
+            let mut vmax = [f32::NEG_INFINITY; 3];
+            for v in &model.portal_vertices[vs] {
+                for k in 0..3 {
+                    vmin[k] = vmin[k].min(v[k]);
+                    vmax[k] = vmax[k].max(v[k]);
+                }
+            }
+            println!(
+                "  g{gi:02} p{} ->g{}(side {:+}) plane n({:.3},{:.3},{:.3}) d {:.2} | d(eye) {:+.3} | verts x[{:.1},{:.1}] y[{:.1},{:.1}] z[{:.1},{:.1}]",
+                r.portal, r.group, r.side, nx, ny, nz, d, de,
+                vmin[0], vmax[0], vmin[1], vmax[1], vmin[2], vmax[2],
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     // Which room is the director looking *at*? Report every group whose MOGI bbox contains the look
     // point, with its verdict — the culled one there is the bug.
     println!("-- groups containing the look point --");
diff --git a/crates/benilla-assets/src/m2.rs b/crates/benilla-assets/src/m2.rs
index 93ef0288..2b16fe63 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-assets/src/m2.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-assets/src/m2.rs
@@ -101,10 +101,24 @@ pub struct M2Model {
     /// create/select background scenes; their camera *lookup* is the 0xffff none sentinel, so
     /// `portrait_camera` sees nothing there). Same Bevy-space conversion as `portrait_camera`.
     pub camera0: Option<PortraitCamera>,
+    /// The camera table's **second** record — what a 1.12 `<PlayerModel>` UI widget (the paper doll,
+    /// the inspect pane, the pet page) renders through (VERIFIED, wow-re
+    /// `ui/scratch/modelframe-camera-law.md`: `0x505b30` → the chooser `0x505890` selects **raw
+    /// index 1**, the `type == 1` "characterinfo" camera, and freezes it at `0x7acf10`).
+    ///
+    /// **Raw, not through `cameraLookup`** — that array is the portrait bake's path and is not
+    /// consulted here; the index is a literal 1 whatever the record's `type` says. `None` for a
+    /// model with fewer than two cameras, where the client synthesizes a *fixed* camera instead
+    /// (transcribed at the framing site). Same Bevy-space conversion as `portrait_camera`.
+    pub pane_camera: Option<PortraitCamera>,
     /// A bow's `$WTT`/`$WTB` bowstring anchors (wow-re `nocked-ammo-cancel.md` §G2), baked to Bevy
     /// space: `[top, bottom]` as `(bone index, model-local position)` — the two limb-tip points the
     /// engine-drawn string spans. `None` for every non-bow model.
     pub string_anchors: Option<[(u16, Vec3); 2]>,
+    /// The fishing pole's `$CCH` line anchor (wow-re `fishing-line.md` §2), baked to Bevy space in
+    /// the mesh frame — the rod-tip point the engine-drawn fishing line starts from. `None` for
+    /// every model that doesn't author it (exactly one weapon model in the chain does).
+    pub cch_marker: Option<Vec3>,
     /// MD20 header `GlobalModelFlags` (`+0x10`). Bits `&3` are the **terrain-conform gate**
     /// (wow-re `terrain-tilt.md`, §5 byte-verified): `1` = pitch to the ground slope (every
     /// mount + most quadrupeds), `3` = pitch **and** roll (kodo/crab/spider), `0`/`2` = level.
@@ -710,6 +724,7 @@ impl AssetLoader for M2ModelLoader {
         };
         let portrait_camera = parse_m2_portrait_camera(&bytes).map(to_bevy);
         let camera0 = benilla_formats::parse_m2_camera(&bytes, 0).map(to_bevy);
+        let pane_camera = benilla_formats::parse_m2_camera(&bytes, 1).map(to_bevy);
 
         // The bowstring anchors (bows only): raw WoW positions → Bevy, the meshes' frame.
         let string_anchors = benilla_formats::parse_m2_string_anchors(&bytes).map(|a| {
@@ -719,6 +734,9 @@ impl AssetLoader for M2ModelLoader {
             ]
         });
 
+        // The fishing line's near anchor (mesh frame, like the bowstring anchors).
+        let cch_marker = benilla_formats::parse_m2_cch_marker(&bytes).map(|(_, p)| wow_to_bevy(p));
+
         // The header GlobalModelFlags word sits at a fixed offset (MD20 magic @0, +0x10) — a
         // bare scalar the sectioned parsers never touch.
         let global_flags = bytes
@@ -740,7 +758,9 @@ impl AssetLoader for M2ModelLoader {
             markers,
             portrait_camera,
             camera0,
+            pane_camera,
             string_anchors,
+            cch_marker,
             global_flags,
         })
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/examples/scan_events.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/examples/scan_events.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7bba6ae5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/examples/scan_events.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+//! Which models author a given M2 animation event? `cargo run -p benilla-formats --example
+//! scan_events -- '$CCH' weapon` — scans every `.m2` in the 5875 chain whose path contains the
+//! (optional, case-insensitive) substring and prints each model authoring the 4CC, with the
+//! event's bone and raw WoW position. The sibling of `dump_attach`: that answers "what does THIS
+//! model author", this answers "who else authors THIS event" — the question every event-keyed
+//! consumer (bowstring `$WTT`, fishing line `$CCH`, GO sound slots `$GC0`) eventually asks when
+//! deciding whether the ident alone is a safe gate.
+//!
+//! Output is Blizzard data — pipe it to the scratchpad, never into the repo.
+
+fn le_u32(b: &[u8], o: usize) -> u32 {
+    u32::from_le_bytes(b[o..o + 4].try_into().unwrap())
+}
+
+fn le_f32(b: &[u8], o: usize) -> f32 {
+    f32::from_le_bytes(b[o..o + 4].try_into().unwrap())
+}
+
+fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let ident = std::env::args()
+        .nth(1)
+        .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("usage: scan_events <4cc, e.g. $CCH> [path-substring]"))?;
+    anyhow::ensure!(ident.len() == 4, "the event ident is exactly 4 bytes");
+    let pat = std::env::args().nth(2).unwrap_or_default().to_lowercase();
+    let data = std::path::PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data");
+    let chain = benilla_formats::open_chain(&data)?;
+    let (mut scanned, mut hits) = (0usize, 0usize);
+    for e in chain.list()? {
+        let lower = e.name.to_lowercase();
+        if !lower.ends_with(".m2") || !lower.contains(&pat) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let Ok(b) = chain.read(&e.name) else { continue };
+        if b.len() < 0x11c || &b[0..4] != b"MD20" {
+            continue;
+        }
+        scanned += 1;
+        let (count, ofs) = (le_u32(&b, 0x114) as usize, le_u32(&b, 0x118) as usize);
+        for i in 0..count {
+            let rec = ofs + i * 44;
+            if rec + 44 > b.len() {
+                break;
+            }
+            if &b[rec..rec + 4] == ident.as_bytes() {
+                hits += 1;
+                println!(
+                    "{}  bone {} pos ({:+.3},{:+.3},{:+.3})",
+                    e.name,
+                    le_u32(&b, rec + 8),
+                    le_f32(&b, rec + 12),
+                    le_f32(&b, rec + 16),
+                    le_f32(&b, rec + 20),
+                );
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    println!("-- {scanned} models scanned, {hits} authoring {ident}");
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/examples/srci_dump.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/examples/srci_dump.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..58c119bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/examples/srci_dump.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+//! Throwaway: dump `SkillRaceClassInfo.dbc` rows admitting a race/class, with the flags word in
+//! hex — the table the client's `GetSkillLineInfo` reads for its 0x400 single-rank cap and 0x20
+//! unlearnable bit. Usage: `cargo run -p benilla-formats --example srci_dump -- <race> <class>`.
+fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let mut args = std::env::args().skip(1);
+    let race: u32 = args.next().unwrap_or_else(|| "4".into()).parse()?;
+    let class: u32 = args.next().unwrap_or_else(|| "3".into()).parse()?;
+    let data = std::path::PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data");
+    let mut chain = benilla_formats::open_chain(&data)?;
+
+    // Skill line names, so the dump reads.
+    let lines = chain.read_file("DBFilesClient\\SkillLine.dbc")?;
+    let name_of = |id: u32| -> String {
+        let g = |b: &[u8], o: usize| u32::from_le_bytes(b[o..o + 4].try_into().unwrap());
+        let (rows, _fields, rec) = (g(&lines, 4), g(&lines, 8), g(&lines, 12) as usize);
+        let sb = 20 + rows as usize * rec;
+        for r in 0..rows as usize {
+            let base = 20 + r * rec;
+            if g(&lines, base) == id {
+                let off = sb + g(&lines, base + 3 * 4) as usize;
+                let end = lines[off..].iter().position(|&c| c == 0).unwrap_or(0) + off;
+                return format!(
+                    "{} (cat {})",
+                    String::from_utf8_lossy(&lines[off..end]),
+                    g(&lines, base + 4)
+                );
+            }
+        }
+        "?".into()
+    };
+
+    let bytes = chain.read_file("DBFilesClient\\SkillRaceClassInfo.dbc")?;
+    let g = |o: usize| u32::from_le_bytes(bytes[o..o + 4].try_into().unwrap());
+    let (rows, _fields, rec) = (g(4), g(8), g(12) as usize);
+    let (rmask, cmask) = (
+        1u32.checked_shl(race.wrapping_sub(1)).unwrap_or(0),
+        1u32.checked_shl(class.wrapping_sub(1)).unwrap_or(0),
+    );
+    println!("race {race} (mask {rmask:#x}) class {class} (mask {cmask:#x})");
+    let mut seen: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
+    for r in 0..rows as usize {
+        let base = 20 + r * rec;
+        let (skill, race_mask, class_mask, flags, req_level, tier) = (
+            g(base + 4),
+            g(base + 8),
+            g(base + 12),
+            g(base + 16),
+            g(base + 20),
+            g(base + 24),
+        );
+        // race/class 0 = dump EVERY row (masks unfiltered, duplicates kept).
+        let all = race == 0 || class == 0;
+        if !all && (race_mask & rmask == 0 || class_mask & cmask == 0 || seen.contains(&skill)) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        seen.push(skill);
+        println!(
+            "skill {skill:>4} flags {flags:#07x} (0x400={}) reqLevel {req_level} tier {tier}  {}",
+            flags & 0x400 != 0,
+            name_of(skill)
+        );
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/exhaustion.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/exhaustion.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c151bfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/exhaustion.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+//! Exhaustion.dbc — the rest-state table behind the client's rested-XP surface.
+//!
+//! The whole client contract is byte-carved in wow-re `system/ui/scratch/rested-xp-bindings.md`
+//! (decision 1087 is the benilla fold-back): `GetRestState 0x48d350` indexes this table
+//! **directly by the `PLAYER_BYTES_2` rest-state byte** (an ID→row-ptr array, `[0xc0dd78]`) and
+//! returns `(row.ID, row.name[locale], row.factor)`; `GetXPExhaustion 0x48d3f0` multiplies the
+//! rested pool by **row ID 1's factor, hard-coded** (2.0 in the shipped data — the "rested XP is
+//! double" law is this one f32, not a client constant). The names come from this file's string
+//! block, **not** GlobalStrings — which is why "Rested"/"Normal" localize with the install.
+//!
+//! Row layout (fieldCount 0xf / recordSize 0x3c, validated by the client loader `0x544da0`):
+//! `ID@0`, `Xp@1`, `Factor@2` (f32), `OutdoorHours@3`, `InnHours@4` (both unread by the
+//! bindings), `Name_Lang@5..12`, `NameFlags@13`, `Threshold@14`. Shipped 5875 rows: 1 "Rested"
+//! 2.0 · 2 "Normal" 1.0 · 3/4 "XXXTired" 1.0/0.5 · 5 "XXXExhausted" 0.25 — rows 3..5 are the
+//! never-shipped beta tiers FrameXML still carries dead branches for.
+
+use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+use benilla_dbc::{FieldType, Schema, SchemaField};
+
+use crate::dbc::{f32_at, parse, str_at, u32_at};
+use crate::Chain;
+
+const EXHAUSTION: &str = "DBFilesClient\\Exhaustion.dbc";
+
+/// One Exhaustion.dbc row as the rest bindings consume it.
+pub struct ExhaustionRow {
+    /// The row ID — also exactly the wire's rest-state byte (the client indexes by it).
+    pub id: u32,
+    /// The localized state name (`GetRestState`'s second return; enUS slot of this install).
+    pub name: String,
+    /// The XP multiplier (`GetRestState`'s third return; row 1's value is `GetXPExhaustion`'s
+    /// scale).
+    pub factor: f32,
+}
+
+fn exhaustion_schema() -> Schema {
+    let mut s = Schema::new("Exhaustion");
+    s.add_field(SchemaField::new("ID", FieldType::UInt32));
+    s.add_field(SchemaField::new("Xp", FieldType::UInt32));
+    s.add_field(SchemaField::new("Factor", FieldType::Float32));
+    s.add_field(SchemaField::new("OutdoorHours", FieldType::Float32));
+    s.add_field(SchemaField::new("InnHours", FieldType::Float32));
+    for i in 0..8 {
+        s.add_field(SchemaField::new(format!("Name{i}"), FieldType::String));
+    }
+    s.add_field(SchemaField::new("NameFlags", FieldType::UInt32));
+    s.add_field(SchemaField::new("Threshold", FieldType::UInt32));
+    s
+}
+
+/// Load Exhaustion.dbc from the patch chain — the rows for `UiScript::set_exhaustion_rows`.
+pub fn load_exhaustion(chain: &mut Chain) -> Result<Vec<ExhaustionRow>> {
+    let bytes = chain
+        .read_file(EXHAUSTION)
+        .with_context(|| format!("reading {EXHAUSTION}"))?;
+    let rs = parse(&bytes, exhaustion_schema(), "Exhaustion")?;
+    let mut rows = Vec::with_capacity(rs.records().len());
+    for r in rs.records() {
+        let (Some(id), Some(factor)) = (u32_at(r, 0), f32_at(r, 2)) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        let name = str_at(&rs, r, 5).unwrap_or_default();
+        rows.push(ExhaustionRow { id, name, factor });
+    }
+    Ok(rows)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::load_exhaustion;
+
+    /// The shipped 5875 table, read as data rather than assumed — the same five rows the wow-re
+    /// dispatch extracted from the MPQs independently (rested-xp-bindings.md): the rested factor
+    /// really is 2.0-as-data, and the beta tiers really ship with placeholder names. Skips
+    /// without client data.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_shipped_rest_states_carry_the_rested_double() {
+        let data = std::path::PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data");
+        if !data.is_dir() {
+            eprintln!("skipping: vanilla client not present at {}", data.display());
+            return;
+        }
+        let mut chain = crate::open_chain(&data).expect("open chain");
+        let rows = load_exhaustion(&mut chain).expect("Exhaustion.dbc");
+        let by_id: std::collections::HashMap<u32, (&str, f32)> = rows
+            .iter()
+            .map(|r| (r.id, (r.name.as_str(), r.factor)))
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(by_id[&1], ("Rested", 2.0), "the ×2 is this row's data");
+        assert_eq!(by_id[&2], ("Normal", 1.0));
+        assert_eq!(by_id[&3], ("XXXTired", 1.0), "beta tier, never sent");
+        assert_eq!(by_id[&4], ("XXXTired", 0.5));
+        assert_eq!(by_id[&5], ("XXXExhausted", 0.25));
+        assert_eq!(rows.len(), 5, "the whole shipped table");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs
index 3b88c298..6c457849 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/lib.rs
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ pub use gameobjects::{
 };
 mod durability;
 pub use durability::{load_durability_tables, DurabilityTables};
+mod exhaustion;
+pub use exhaustion::{load_exhaustion, ExhaustionRow};
 mod bank_bag_slot_prices;
 pub use bank_bag_slot_prices::{load_bank_bag_slot_prices, BankBagSlotPrices};
 mod stationery;
@@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ pub use spells::{
 };
 mod skill_lines;
 pub use skill_lines::{
-    load_skill_line_catalog, SkillLineCatalog, SkillLineInfo, SlaInfo, SKILL_CATEGORY_NOT_DISPLAYED,
+    load_skill_line_catalog, SkillLineCatalog, SkillLineInfo, SkillRaceClass, SlaInfo,
 };
 mod spell_focus;
 pub use spell_focus::{load_spell_focus_catalog, SpellFocusCatalog};
@@ -172,19 +174,19 @@ pub use models::{
     m2_texture_transform_count, non_separable_billboard_bones, owner_last_rung,
     owner_last_rung_bucket, parse_m2_animation_lookup, parse_m2_animation_summary,
     parse_m2_animations, parse_m2_attachments, parse_m2_bounds, parse_m2_camera,
-    parse_m2_collision_hull, parse_m2_event_markers, parse_m2_global_sequence_bones,
-    parse_m2_lights, parse_m2_playable_animation_lookup, parse_m2_portrait_camera,
-    parse_m2_render_submeshes, parse_m2_skeleton, parse_m2_string_anchors, parse_wmo_fogs,
-    parse_wmo_lights, parse_wmo_portals, parse_wmo_root, wmo_group_doodad_refs,
-    wmo_group_fixed_colors, wmo_group_footprint_tris, wmo_group_header, wmo_group_light_refs,
-    wmo_group_liquid_mesh, wmo_group_raw_colors, wmo_group_submeshes, wmo_root_id, AlphaAnim,
-    AlphaSeq, AnimEvent, Billboard, BillboardKind, BoneKeys, BoneScaleAnim, CharSkinSlot,
-    CollisionMesh, EmitterBoneLink, EventMarker, FogPolicy, FootprintTris, GlobalSeqBone,
-    GlobalSeqChannel, GroundQuad, M2AnimSummary, M2Attachment, M2Bounds, M2Light, M2PortraitCamera,
-    ModelAnimation, ModelBlend, ParentArm, ParentBasis, PlayableAnim, RenderSubmesh, RgbAnim,
-    ScalarAnim, Skeleton, SkeletonBone, StringAnchors, UvAnim, WmoBatchClass, WmoDoodad,
-    WmoDoodadSet, WmoFog, WmoGroupHeader, WmoGroupInfo, WmoLight, WmoPortalInfo, WmoPortalRef,
-    WmoPortals, WmoRoot, NO_GROUP_LIQUID, OWNER_RUNG_BUCKETS,
+    parse_m2_cch_marker, parse_m2_collision_hull, parse_m2_event_markers,
+    parse_m2_global_sequence_bones, parse_m2_lights, parse_m2_playable_animation_lookup,
+    parse_m2_portrait_camera, parse_m2_render_submeshes, parse_m2_skeleton,
+    parse_m2_string_anchors, parse_wmo_fogs, parse_wmo_lights, parse_wmo_portals, parse_wmo_root,
+    wmo_group_doodad_refs, wmo_group_fixed_colors, wmo_group_footprint_tris, wmo_group_header,
+    wmo_group_light_refs, wmo_group_liquid_mesh, wmo_group_raw_colors, wmo_group_submeshes,
+    wmo_root_id, AlphaAnim, AlphaSeq, AnimEvent, Billboard, BillboardKind, BoneKeys, BoneScaleAnim,
+    CharSkinSlot, CollisionMesh, EmitterBoneLink, EventMarker, FogPolicy, FootprintTris,
+    GlobalSeqBone, GlobalSeqChannel, GroundQuad, M2AnimSummary, M2Attachment, M2Bounds, M2Light,
+    M2PortraitCamera, ModelAnimation, ModelBlend, ParentArm, ParentBasis, PlayableAnim,
+    RenderSubmesh, RgbAnim, ScalarAnim, Skeleton, SkeletonBone, StringAnchors, UvAnim,
+    WmoBatchClass, WmoDoodad, WmoDoodadSet, WmoFog, WmoGroupHeader, WmoGroupInfo, WmoLight,
+    WmoPortalInfo, WmoPortalRef, WmoPortals, WmoRoot, NO_GROUP_LIQUID, OWNER_RUNG_BUCKETS,
 };
 mod terrain;
 pub use terrain::{
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/models/anim.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/models/anim.rs
index 01eaeb71..3bb19370 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/models/anim.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/models/anim.rs
@@ -211,6 +211,33 @@ pub fn parse_m2_string_anchors(b: &[u8]) -> Option<StringAnchors> {
     })
 }
 
+/// Parse a model's first `$CCH` marker — the fishing line's near anchor on the pole (wow-re
+/// `fishing-line.md` §2: the line builder scans the M2 **events** table for `$CCH` and composes
+/// its position through the bone's pose; the bobber authors one too but the reference never reads
+/// it). Returns `(bone index, raw WoW model-space position)`; `None` for a model with no `$CCH`.
+/// Exactly one weapon model in the 5875 chain authors it (`Misc_2H_FishingPole_A_01.m2` — the
+/// `scan_events` sweep), which is what lets the held-item attach key on presence alone.
+pub fn parse_m2_cch_marker(b: &[u8]) -> Option<(u16, [f32; 3])> {
+    let (ev_count, ev_ofs) = (le_u32(b, 0x114) as usize, le_u32(b, 0x118) as usize);
+    for e in 0..ev_count {
+        let erec = ev_ofs + e * 44;
+        if erec + 44 > b.len() {
+            break;
+        }
+        if b.get(erec..erec + 4)? == b"$CCH" {
+            return Some((
+                le_u32(b, erec + 8) as u16,
+                [
+                    le_f32(b, erec + 12),
+                    le_f32(b, erec + 16),
+                    le_f32(b, erec + 20),
+                ],
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+    None
+}
+
 /// One row of the M2's baked **PlayableAnimationLookup** table (decision 0082 — missing-animation-clip
 /// resolution): re-exposed from `benilla-m2`'s [`benilla_m2::M2PlayableAnim`] (identical shape) as the
 /// bytes-in entry point alongside [`parse_m2_skeleton`]/[`parse_m2_attachments`], so callers that only
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/skill_lines.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/skill_lines.rs
index f7c2c9ae..ab1afcbb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/skill_lines.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/skill_lines.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
 //!
 //! `SkillRaceClassInfo.dbc` — `SkillRaceClassInfofmt = "diiiiiix"` (8 fields, 32 B/record):
 //! `id`(0) · **`skillId` = column 1** · **`raceMask` = column 2** · **`classMask` = column 3** ·
-//! **`flags` = column 4** · `reqLevel`(5) · `skillTierId`(6) · `skillCostID`(7, unused). This is
+//! **`flags` = column 4** · **`reqLevel` = column 5** · `skillTierId`(6) ·
+//! **`skillCostID` = column 7**. This is
 //! the table the client's spellbook tab classifier routes through (decision 0228): a spell's skill
 //! line is looked up here for the player's race+class, and if the matching row's `flags` bit `0x80`
 //! (`SKILL_FLAG_DISPLAY_SORTED`, cmangos `DBCEnums.h`) is set — or no row matches — the spell's tab
@@ -52,9 +53,11 @@
 //! 11 fields, 44 B/record): `id`(0) · the 8-locale `name` block (enUS ⇒ **column 1**) + flags(9) ·
 //! **`displayOrder` = column 10** — the skills pane's header vocabulary and group order (decision
 //! 0437 phase 4): Class Skills(7, order 2) · Professions(11, 3) · Secondary(9, 4) · Weapon(6, 5) ·
-//! Armor(8, 6) · Languages(10, 7); `Attributes`(5, 1) never carries player rows and
-//! `Not Displayed`(12, 8) is the hide bucket. A skill line's own `categoryId` is `SkillLine.dbc`
-//! column 1 (the `SkillLinefmt` layout above).
+//! Armor(8, 6) · Languages(10, 7); `Attributes`(5, 1) never carries player rows, and
+//! `Not Displayed`(12, 8) is a header like any other — **not** a hide bucket, whatever its name
+//! suggests: the client drops `GENERIC (DND)` by its `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x2`, never by its
+//! category (decision 1091). A skill line's own `categoryId` is `SkillLine.dbc` column 1 (the
+//! `SkillLinefmt` layout above).
 //!
 //! Skill line ids are stable, well-known constants across the whole classic tool ecosystem
 //! (vmangos `SharedDefines.h`'s `SkillType` enum, itself commented "Data from SpellLine.dbc (1.12.1
@@ -95,14 +98,14 @@ const SKILL_LINE_CATEGORY: &str = "DBFilesClient\\SkillLineCategory.dbc";
 const SKILL_LINE_CATEGORY_FIELDS: usize = 11;
 const COL_SLC_NAME_ENUS: usize = 1;
 const COL_SLC_ORDER: usize = 10;
-/// `SkillLineCategory` id 12 — "Not Displayed": the skills pane hides lines in this bucket.
-pub const SKILL_CATEGORY_NOT_DISPLAYED: u32 = 12;
 
 const SKILL_RACE_CLASS_INFO_FIELDS: usize = 8;
 const COL_SRCI_SKILL_ID: usize = 1;
 const COL_SRCI_RACE_MASK: usize = 2;
 const COL_SRCI_CLASS_MASK: usize = 3;
 const COL_SRCI_FLAGS: usize = 4;
+const COL_SRCI_MIN_LEVEL: usize = 5;
+const COL_SRCI_COST_INDEX: usize = 7;
 
 /// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags` bit `0x80` — cmangos `DBCEnums.h`'s `SKILL_FLAG_DISPLAY_SORTED`. The
 /// spellbook tab classifier reads it as the low byte's sign (`(int8) < 0`): set ⇒ the skill line's
@@ -117,6 +120,35 @@ const SKILL_FLAG_DISPLAY_SORTED: u32 = 0x80;
 /// for a line without it is dropped and anticheat-flagged, so the client must never offer it).
 const SKILL_FLAG_UNLEARNABLE: u32 = 0x20;
 
+/// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags` bit `0x1` — a line the Skills tab lists even at **rank 0** (the list
+/// build's `0x4d2cb0` untrained gate). Unnamed in the mangos enums; named here for what the bytes
+/// do.
+const SKILL_FLAG_ALWAYS_DISPLAY: u32 = 0x1;
+
+/// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags` bit `0x2` — the Skills tab **drops the line entirely**
+/// (`4d2d9f test dl,0x2`, wow-re `skillframe-display-list.md`). mangos names this bit
+/// `SKILL_FLAG_NO_SKILLUP_MESSAGE` from a different call site; in the display list it is a hide
+/// bit, and it is what keeps `Dual Wield`, the racial lines, the per-mount riding lines and
+/// `GENERIC (DND)` off the real client's pane.
+const SKILL_FLAG_HIDDEN: u32 = 0x2;
+
+/// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags` bit `0x4` — an untrained (rank 0) line becomes visible once the
+/// player reaches the row's `reqLevel`. Also one of the two bits gating the client's step-cost
+/// lookup; unnamed in the mangos enums.
+const SKILL_FLAG_TRAINABLE_AT_LEVEL: u32 = 0x4;
+
+/// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags` bit `0x400` — vmangos `DBCEnums.h`'s `SKILL_FLAG_MONO_VALUE` (a
+/// single-rank line). The real client's `GetSkillLineInfo` **overrides** its `skillMaxRank` return
+/// to `1` whenever the admitting row carries this bit, whatever the player's own skill descriptor
+/// says (wow-re `system/tradeskill/scratch/skillframe-seed-abandon.md`: `0x4d3610`, the
+/// `4d38b1 test ah,0x4` branch). That override is why a class skill the server reports as `300/300`
+/// draws as `SkillFrame.lua`'s gray, rank-text-less "proficiency" bar in the real client — the Lua
+/// gate is `skillMaxRank == 1`, and the DBC, not the wire, is what puts it there. Real build-5875
+/// data for a night-elf hunter: set on `Beast Mastery`/`Marksmanship`/`Survival` (0x410), `Dual
+/// Wield`/`Night Elf Racial`/the per-mount riding lines (0x492); clear on every weapon line, the
+/// armor proficiencies, the languages, `Riding` and the professions.
+const SKILL_FLAG_MONO_VALUE: u32 = 0x400;
+
 /// One skill line's display identity (`SkillLine.dbc`) — a spellbook tab's name + icon, and the
 /// skills pane's grouping key.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
@@ -136,13 +168,64 @@ pub struct SkillLineInfo {
     pub description: String,
 }
 
-/// One `SkillRaceClassInfo.dbc` row's tab-classification inputs: which race/class it admits and
-/// whether its skill line's spells sort into General ([`SKILL_FLAG_DISPLAY_SORTED`]).
+/// One `SkillRaceClassInfo.dbc` row: which race/class it admits, plus everything the client reads
+/// off it ([`SkillRaceClass`], the caller-facing half).
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
 struct SrciRow {
     race_mask: u32,
     class_mask: u32,
-    flags: u32,
+    row: SkillRaceClass,
+}
+
+/// The `SkillRaceClassInfo.dbc` row the client resolved for a given skill line × race × class —
+/// the whole of what its Skills-tab display law reads (wow-re
+/// `system/tradeskill/scratch/skillframe-display-list.md`: the list build `0x4d2cb0` and
+/// `GetSkillLineInfo 0x4d3610`). Copy-cheap; obtained from
+/// [`SkillLineCatalog::race_class`].
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct SkillRaceClass {
+    /// `flags` (column 4) — the bit field the predicates below read.
+    pub flags: u32,
+    /// `reqLevel` (column 5) — the player level at which a not-yet-trained line starts showing
+    /// (only consulted with [`SKILL_FLAG_TRAINABLE_AT_LEVEL`]).
+    pub min_level: u32,
+    /// `skillCostID` (column 7) — `GetSkillLineInfo`'s 12th return is this **plus one**
+    /// (`0x4d3a06`). Inert on this build: every branch that would paint from it is repainted by
+    /// the normal-skill/proficiency branches after it.
+    pub cost_index: u32,
+}
+
+impl SkillRaceClass {
+    /// Whether the Skills tab drops this line **entirely** — `flags & 0x2`, the client's own
+    /// `4d2d9f test dl,0x2 / jne` in the list build. This is what makes `Dual Wield`, the racial
+    /// lines, the per-mount riding lines and `GENERIC (DND)` invisible in the real client even
+    /// though the server sends them like any other skill.
+    pub fn hidden(self) -> bool {
+        self.flags & SKILL_FLAG_HIDDEN != 0
+    }
+
+    /// Whether this is a **single-rank** line — `flags & 0x400`, which makes the client's
+    /// `GetSkillLineInfo` report `skillMaxRank = 1` whatever the descriptor says
+    /// ([`SKILL_FLAG_MONO_VALUE`]).
+    pub fn mono(self) -> bool {
+        self.flags & SKILL_FLAG_MONO_VALUE != 0
+    }
+
+    /// Whether the line can be unlearned — `flags & 0x20` ([`SKILL_FLAG_UNLEARNABLE`]). The
+    /// client ANDs this with a nonzero skill **step**; that half lives with the descriptor, at
+    /// the feed.
+    pub fn unlearnable(self) -> bool {
+        self.flags & SKILL_FLAG_UNLEARNABLE != 0
+    }
+
+    /// Whether a line the player holds at **rank 0** still gets a row, for a player at
+    /// `player_level` — the list build's own gate (`0x4d2cb0`): shown outright with
+    /// [`SKILL_FLAG_ALWAYS_DISPLAY`], else only when it is [`SKILL_FLAG_TRAINABLE_AT_LEVEL`] and
+    /// the player has reached [`Self::min_level`]. A line at rank ≥ 1 never consults this.
+    pub fn displays_untrained(self, player_level: u32) -> bool {
+        self.flags & SKILL_FLAG_ALWAYS_DISPLAY != 0
+            || (self.flags & SKILL_FLAG_TRAINABLE_AT_LEVEL != 0 && player_level >= self.min_level)
+    }
 }
 
 /// One spell's `SkillLineAbility.dbc` row (module doc columns; first row wins across race/class
@@ -267,7 +350,7 @@ impl SkillLineCatalog {
         }
         match self.srci_row(line, race, class) {
             // A matching row without the sort flag keeps the line's own tab.
-            Some(r) if r.flags & SKILL_FLAG_DISPLAY_SORTED == 0 => line,
+            Some(r) if r.row.flags & SKILL_FLAG_DISPLAY_SORTED == 0 => line,
             // The sort flag, or no admitting row for this race/class → General.
             _ => 0,
         }
@@ -296,8 +379,27 @@ impl SkillLineCatalog {
     /// `SkillHandler.cpp`). `false` with no routing data, unknown race/class, or no admitting
     /// row — a missing button beats offering an unlearn the server would anticheat-flag.
     pub fn abandonable(&self, line_id: u32, race: u8, class: u8) -> bool {
-        self.srci_row(line_id, race, class)
-            .is_some_and(|r| r.flags & SKILL_FLAG_UNLEARNABLE != 0)
+        self.race_class(line_id, race, class)
+            .is_some_and(SkillRaceClass::unlearnable)
+    }
+
+    /// The `SkillRaceClassInfo` row the client resolves for `line_id` × `race`/`class` (1-based
+    /// unit bytes) — [`SkillRaceClass`], the whole of what the Skills tab's display law reads.
+    /// `None` when no row admits this character: the real client's list build drops such a line
+    /// outright (`0x4d2cb0`'s `!srci → continue`), so a caller building the pane must too.
+    pub fn race_class(&self, line_id: u32, race: u8, class: u8) -> Option<SkillRaceClass> {
+        self.srci_row(line_id, race, class).map(|r| r.row)
+    }
+
+    /// Whether `line_id` is a **single-rank** line for `race`/`class` (1-based unit bytes): the
+    /// admitting `SkillRaceClassInfo` row carries [`SKILL_FLAG_MONO_VALUE`] (`0x400`), so the
+    /// client's `GetSkillLineInfo` reports its `skillMaxRank` as `1` no matter what the server's
+    /// descriptor holds — and the skills pane draws it as a proficiency (gray bar, no rank text).
+    /// `false` with no routing data, unknown race/class, or no admitting row: a line we can't
+    /// classify keeps the server's own numbers rather than being silently blanked.
+    pub fn mono_value(&self, line_id: u32, race: u8, class: u8) -> bool {
+        self.race_class(line_id, race, class)
+            .is_some_and(SkillRaceClass::mono)
     }
 
     /// A skill line's display (name + tab icon), by id.
@@ -411,7 +513,11 @@ fn load_race_class_info(chain: &mut Chain) -> HashMap<u32, Vec<SrciRow>> {
         map.entry(skill).or_default().push(SrciRow {
             race_mask: u32_at(r, COL_SRCI_RACE_MASK).unwrap_or(0),
             class_mask: u32_at(r, COL_SRCI_CLASS_MASK).unwrap_or(0),
-            flags: u32_at(r, COL_SRCI_FLAGS).unwrap_or(0),
+            row: SkillRaceClass {
+                flags: u32_at(r, COL_SRCI_FLAGS).unwrap_or(0),
+                min_level: u32_at(r, COL_SRCI_MIN_LEVEL).unwrap_or(0),
+                cost_index: u32_at(r, COL_SRCI_COST_INDEX).unwrap_or(0),
+            },
         });
     }
     map
@@ -672,10 +778,9 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(cat.category(9), Some(("Secondary Skills", 4)));
         assert_eq!(cat.category(6), Some(("Weapon Skills", 5)));
         assert_eq!(cat.category(10), Some(("Languages", 7)));
-        assert_eq!(
-            cat.category(SKILL_CATEGORY_NOT_DISPLAYED),
-            Some(("Not Displayed", 8))
-        );
+        // Category 12 is a real row like any other — NOT a hide bucket: the client's list build
+        // drops `GENERIC (DND)` by its `flags & 0x2`, never by its category (decision 1091).
+        assert_eq!(cat.category(12), Some(("Not Displayed", 8)));
         assert_eq!(cat.category(0), None);
 
         // The join: Tailoring (197) is a Profession; First Aid (129) is Secondary; the Fire
@@ -717,6 +822,81 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(!cat.abandonable(164, 0, 0));
     }
 
+    /// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x400` on the real build-5875 file (a night-elf hunter, race 4
+    /// / class 3): the class talent lines, Dual Wield, the racial and the per-mount riding lines
+    /// are MONO — the client reports their `skillMaxRank` as 1 and the pane draws them as gray
+    /// proficiencies — while every weapon line, armor proficiency, language, `Riding` and
+    /// profession keeps its real rank. Skips without client data.
+    #[test]
+    fn real_mono_value_split_class_lines_yes_weapons_no() {
+        let data = std::path::PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data");
+        if !data.is_dir() {
+            eprintln!("skipping: vanilla client not present at {}", data.display());
+            return;
+        }
+        let mut chain = crate::open_chain(&data).expect("open chain");
+        let cat = load_skill_line_catalog(&mut chain).expect("load skill lines");
+
+        // Beast Mastery / Survival / Marksmanship (0x410), Dual Wield / Night Elf Racial / the
+        // Tiger Riding mount line / GENERIC (DND) (0x492).
+        for line in [50u32, 51, 163, 118, 126, 150, 183] {
+            assert!(cat.mono_value(line, 4, 3), "line {line} is single-rank");
+        }
+        // Weapon lines (Axes/Bows/Daggers/Crossbows/Unarmed/Defense), armor proficiencies
+        // (Cloth/Leather/Mail), languages (Common/Darnassian), Riding, First Aid.
+        for line in [
+            44u32, 45, 173, 226, 162, 95, 415, 414, 413, 98, 113, 762, 129,
+        ] {
+            assert!(!cat.mono_value(line, 4, 3), "line {line} keeps its rank");
+        }
+        // Unknown race/class → keep the server's numbers (the conservative arm).
+        assert!(!cat.mono_value(50, 0, 0));
+    }
+
+    /// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x2` on the real build-5875 file — the bit that keeps a line
+    /// off the Skills tab entirely (decision 1091; wow-re `0x4d2cb0`'s `4d2d9f test dl,0x2`), plus
+    /// the `reqLevel` column the untrained gate reads. A night-elf hunter, race 4 / class 3.
+    /// Skips without client data.
+    #[test]
+    fn real_hidden_lines_are_the_ones_the_reference_client_never_lists() {
+        let data = std::path::PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../WoW/Data");
+        if !data.is_dir() {
+            eprintln!("skipping: vanilla client not present at {}", data.display());
+            return;
+        }
+        let mut chain = crate::open_chain(&data).expect("open chain");
+        let cat = load_skill_line_catalog(&mut chain).expect("load skill lines");
+        let row = |line: u32| cat.race_class(line, 4, 3).expect("an admitting row");
+
+        // Dual Wield, Night Elf Racial, Tiger Riding, GENERIC (DND) — all 0x492, all absent from
+        // the real client's pane however high the server ranks them.
+        for line in [118u32, 126, 150, 183] {
+            assert!(row(line).hidden(), "line {line} never gets a row");
+        }
+        // Everything the ref does list: the class lines, weapons, armor, languages, Riding.
+        for line in [50u32, 51, 163, 44, 95, 162, 413, 414, 415, 98, 762, 129] {
+            assert!(!row(line).hidden(), "line {line} is listed");
+        }
+
+        // reqLevel (column 5) reads for real: Mail 40, Dual Wield 20.
+        assert_eq!(row(413).min_level, 40, "Mail");
+        assert_eq!(row(118).min_level, 20, "Dual Wield");
+        // The untrained gate is all but inert on this build's data, and the test says so: NO row
+        // in the whole file carries 0x1, and exactly ONE carries 0x4 (line 493, reqLevel 0 — a
+        // line `SkillLine.dbc` doesn't even have). So a rank-0 line is simply never listed; a
+        // `reqLevel` on its own does nothing without 0x4.
+        assert!(
+            !row(413).displays_untrained(60),
+            "Mail at rank 0 stays off the pane at any level — 0x80 carries neither gate bit"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            row(493).displays_untrained(0),
+            "the single 0x4 row shows from level 0 (its reqLevel is 0)"
+        );
+        // No admitting row at all → the caller drops the line (the client's own `!srci → continue`).
+        assert_eq!(cat.race_class(118, 0, 0), None);
+    }
+
     /// The `forward_spellid` rank graph on the real build-5875 file — the action bar's
     /// rank-normalization source (decision 0883). Skips without client data.
     #[test]
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/tests/m2_portrait_camera.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/tests/m2_portrait_camera.rs
index 0c6960d0..d1063a6a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/tests/m2_portrait_camera.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/tests/m2_portrait_camera.rs
@@ -78,3 +78,82 @@ fn too_short_yields_no_camera() {
     // No MD20 camera array header → None, no panic.
     assert!(parse_m2_portrait_camera(&[0u8; 16]).is_none());
 }
+
+/// **The model-frame pane camera** — raw `cameras[1]`, the rig a 1.12 `<PlayerModel>` widget renders
+/// through (wow-re `system/ui/scratch/modelframe-camera-law.md`: `0x505b30` → the chooser `0x505890`
+/// takes a literal index 1, NOT `cameraLookup`; decision 1089).
+///
+/// Byte-level regression pin against the numbers the RE reports, read here independently through our
+/// own parser — the two agreeing is the cross-check. The universal clips (`near = 8/36`,
+/// `far = 1000/36`) come along because a wrong stride would land on neither.
+#[test]
+fn pane_cameras_match_the_authored_records() {
+    let data = vanilla_data_dir();
+    if !data.is_dir() {
+        eprintln!("skipping: vanilla client not present at {}", data.display());
+        return;
+    }
+    let reader = Chain::open(&data).expect("open vanilla patch chain");
+    let close = |a: f32, b: f32| (a - b).abs() < 1e-3;
+    for (path, eye, target, fov) in [
+        (
+            "Character\\Human\\Male\\HumanMale.m2",
+            [3.6585_f32, 0.0338, 0.9227],
+            [-0.3644_f32, 0.0291, 0.9873],
+            0.97991_f32,
+        ),
+        (
+            "Character\\Tauren\\Male\\TaurenMale.m2",
+            [4.4317, -0.0213, 1.0861],
+            [0.2520, -0.0210, 1.0086],
+            0.87991,
+        ),
+        (
+            "Creature\\Boar\\Boar.m2",
+            [4.8611, 0.0, 1.8056],
+            [-0.1389, 0.0, 0.9722],
+            0.76101,
+        ),
+    ] {
+        let bytes = reader.read(path).expect("read model");
+        let cam = benilla_formats::parse_m2_camera(&bytes, 1)
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{path}: no cameras[1]"));
+        eprintln!("{path}: {cam:?}");
+        assert!(close(cam.fov, fov), "{path}: fov {} vs {fov}", cam.fov);
+        assert!(
+            close(cam.near_clip, 8.0 / 36.0),
+            "{path}: near {}",
+            cam.near_clip
+        );
+        assert!(
+            close(cam.far_clip, 1000.0 / 36.0),
+            "{path}: far {}",
+            cam.far_clip
+        );
+        for (got, want) in cam
+            .position
+            .iter()
+            .zip(eye)
+            .chain(cam.target.iter().zip(target))
+        {
+            assert!(close(*got, want), "{path}: eye/target {got} vs {want}");
+        }
+        assert!(close(cam.roll, 0.0), "{path}: roll {}", cam.roll);
+    }
+
+    // The standoff is AUTHORED per model, which is the whole point: nothing normalizes a pane, so a
+    // gnome's camera sits ~2.2yd out and a boar's ~4.9. If these ever converged, some engine-side
+    // fit would have crept back in.
+    let x = |path: &str| {
+        let bytes = reader.read(path).expect("read model");
+        benilla_formats::parse_m2_camera(&bytes, 1)
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{path}: no cameras[1]"))
+            .position[0]
+    };
+    let gnome = x("Character\\Gnome\\Female\\GnomeFemale.m2");
+    let tauren = x("Character\\Tauren\\Male\\TaurenMale.m2");
+    assert!(
+        gnome < 2.5 && tauren > 4.0,
+        "authored standoffs collapsed: gnome {gnome}, tauren {tauren}"
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs
index bc4d6206..0f9f2a95 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events.rs
@@ -374,6 +374,18 @@ pub enum SessionEvent {
         name: String,
         data: [i32; 24],
     },
+    /// A GameObject plays a one-shot **Custom** animation (`SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM`):
+    /// the client arms GO substate `8 + anim_id` — AnimationData ids 153..156 (Custom0..3),
+    /// `anim_id >= 4` rejected at the consumer (wow-re `gameobject-anim-arm.md` §step 8).
+    /// The load-bearing sender is the fishing bobber's bite (`anim_id 0`, the splash;
+    /// decision 1086).
+    GameObjectCustomAnim { guid: u64, anim_id: u32 },
+    /// The fishing channel ended with nothing hooked (`SMSG_FISH_NOT_HOOKED`, empty body):
+    /// the red `ERR_FISH_NOT_HOOKED` toast (decision 1086).
+    FishNotHooked,
+    /// The hooked fish got away — the fishing-skill roll failed on the bobber click
+    /// (`SMSG_FISH_ESCAPED`, empty body): the red `ERR_FISH_ESCAPED` toast (decision 1086).
+    FishEscaped,
     /// A server-pushed 2D sound kit (`SMSG_PLAY_SOUND`): BG events, quest/zone scripts.
     PlaySound { sound_id: u32 },
     /// A server-pushed music kit for the music channel (`SMSG_PLAY_MUSIC`).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs
index 21fa7ca1..aec7d420 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/events/decode.rs
@@ -669,6 +669,11 @@ pub fn decode(packet: ServerPacket) -> Vec<SessionEvent> {
             };
             vec![event]
         }
+        ServerPacket::GameObjectCustomAnim { guid, anim_id } => {
+            vec![SessionEvent::GameObjectCustomAnim { guid, anim_id }]
+        }
+        ServerPacket::FishNotHooked => vec![SessionEvent::FishNotHooked],
+        ServerPacket::FishEscaped => vec![SessionEvent::FishEscaped],
         // The keepalive echo: the io layer matches the sequence against its ping clock to compute
         // the round-trip time (the codec is stateless, so the timing lives with the sender).
         ServerPacket::Pong { sequence } => vec![SessionEvent::Pong { sequence }],
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/gameobject.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/gameobject.rs
index 2cc327e6..ab7ce84c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/gameobject.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/gameobject.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 use std::io;
 
-use crate::wire::{read_cstring, read_i32_le, read_u32_le};
+use crate::wire::{read_cstring, read_i32_le, read_u32_le, read_u64_le};
 
 /// Body of `CMSG_GAMEOBJ_USE` (opcode `0xB1`/177 — VERIFIED vmangos
 /// `Server/Protocol/Opcodes_1_12_1.h`): one full `u64` guid, the GameObject to use. Read server-side
@@ -83,6 +83,17 @@ pub(super) fn read_gameobject_query_response(
     ))
 }
 
+/// Read `SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM` → `(guid, anim_id)`. VERIFIED vmangos
+/// `GameObject::SendGameObjectCustomAnim`: a full `u64` guid then `u32 animId`. The client-side
+/// meaning (wow-re `gameobject-anim-arm.md` §"one-shot channel" step 8): arm the GO's Custom
+/// substate `8 + animId` — AnimationData ids 153..156 — with `animId >= 4` rejected; the
+/// consumer applies that gate, this layer parses verbatim.
+pub(super) fn read_gameobject_custom_anim(r: &mut &[u8]) -> io::Result<(u64, u32)> {
+    let guid = read_u64_le(r)?;
+    let anim_id = read_u32_le(r)?;
+    Ok((guid, anim_id))
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
@@ -144,6 +155,33 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn gameobject_custom_anim_decodes() {
+        // A full little-endian guid + u32 animId (VERIFIED vmangos
+        // `GameObject::SendGameObjectCustomAnim`). The bobber's bite is animId 0.
+        let body = hx("f0debc9a7856341200000000");
+        match parse_server(opcode::SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM, &body).unwrap() {
+            ServerPacket::GameObjectCustomAnim { guid, anim_id } => {
+                assert_eq!(guid, 0x1234_5678_9abc_def0);
+                assert_eq!(anim_id, 0);
+            }
+            other => panic!("expected GameObjectCustomAnim, got {}", other.name()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn fish_verdicts_decode_from_empty_bodies() {
+        // Both fishing verdicts are size-0 sends (vmangos `GameObject::Update`/`Use`).
+        assert!(matches!(
+            parse_server(opcode::SMSG_FISH_NOT_HOOKED, &[]).unwrap(),
+            ServerPacket::FishNotHooked
+        ));
+        assert!(matches!(
+            parse_server(opcode::SMSG_FISH_ESCAPED, &[]).unwrap(),
+            ServerPacket::FishEscaped
+        ));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn gameobject_query_response_miss_decodes() {
         // A miss is the lone entry echoed with its top bit set (VERIFIED vmangos
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs
index 76a2916d..997d2cd8 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/opcode.rs
@@ -297,6 +297,13 @@ pub const CMSG_OPEN_ITEM: u16 = 0x00AC; // 172
 /// GameObject to use (decision 0236). Not interchangeable with `CMSG_LOOT`: the server rejects a
 /// GameObject guid on `CMSG_LOOT`, so a chest opens its loot through this opcode.
 pub const CMSG_GAMEOBJ_USE: u16 = 0x00B1; // 177
+/// A GameObject plays a one-shot **custom** animation (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 179;
+/// body in [`super::read_gameobject_custom_anim`] — `u64 guid + u32 animId`, from
+/// `GameObject::SendGameObjectCustomAnim`). The client arms GO substate `8 + animId`
+/// (Custom0..3, AnimationData ids 153..156), rejecting `animId >= 4` — wow-re
+/// `gameobject-anim-arm.md` §"one-shot channel" step 8. The load-bearing sender: the fishing
+/// bobber's bite (`animId 0` — the splash; decision 1086).
+pub const SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM: u16 = 0x00B3; // 179
 /// VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h:183`: 180 — and the reference writes this literal
 /// (`0x5e2110`, its area-trigger check, builds `0xb4` + the trigger id). Body in
 /// [`super::area_trigger`]: the `AreaTrigger.dbc` id the player just walked into.
@@ -343,6 +350,15 @@ pub const SMSG_CHAT_PLAYER_NOT_FOUND: u16 = 0x02A9; // 681
 /// A cross-faction whisper was refused (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 537); empty body
 /// (`WorldPackets::Chat::ChatWrongFaction::AppendBodyTo`, `Server/Packets/Chat.cpp:16-18`).
 pub const SMSG_CHAT_WRONG_FACTION: u16 = 0x0219; // 537
+/// The fishing channel ended with nothing on the hook (VERIFIED vmangos `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 456;
+/// empty body — `GameObject::Update`'s bobber-expiry arm and `Use(FISHINGNODE)`'s
+/// clicked-too-early arm both send size 0). The red `ERR_FISH_NOT_HOOKED` toast — "No fish are
+/// hooked." (decision 1086).
+pub const SMSG_FISH_NOT_HOOKED: u16 = 0x01C8; // 456
+/// The hooked fish got away — the fishing-skill roll failed on the click (VERIFIED vmangos
+/// `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 457; empty body — `GameObject::Use`'s FISHINGNODE failure arm). The red
+/// `ERR_FISH_ESCAPED` toast — "Your fish got away!" (decision 1086).
+pub const SMSG_FISH_ESCAPED: u16 = 0x01C9; // 457
 /// A server notice the real client flashes in the red UIErrorsFrame (VERIFIED vmangos
 /// `Opcodes_1_12_1.h`: 459): one cstring (`WorldSession::SendNotification`,
 /// `Server/WorldSession.cpp:900-915`) — "You do not know that language", trade refusals, and kin.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs
index 897a74b1..19ff5719 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/packet.rs
@@ -260,6 +260,22 @@ pub enum ServerPacket {
         entry: u32,
         info: Option<GameObjectQueryInfo>,
     },
+    /// `SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM` — a GameObject plays a one-shot Custom animation. Payload
+    /// VERIFIED vmangos `GameObject::SendGameObjectCustomAnim`: `u64 guid, u32 animId`. The
+    /// client arms GO substate `8 + animId` (AnimationData 153..156, `animId >= 4` rejected) —
+    /// the fishing bobber's bite splash is `animId 0` (decision 1086).
+    GameObjectCustomAnim {
+        guid: u64,
+        anim_id: u32,
+    },
+    /// `SMSG_FISH_NOT_HOOKED` — the fishing channel ended (expiry, or clicked before the splash)
+    /// with nothing hooked. Empty body (VERIFIED vmangos `GameObject::Update`/`Use`); the red
+    /// `ERR_FISH_NOT_HOOKED` toast (decision 1086).
+    FishNotHooked,
+    /// `SMSG_FISH_ESCAPED` — the hooked fish got away (the skill roll failed on the click).
+    /// Empty body (VERIFIED vmangos `GameObject::Use`); the red `ERR_FISH_ESCAPED` toast
+    /// (decision 1086).
+    FishEscaped,
     /// `SMSG_PLAY_SOUND` — a 2D sound-kit id, map/zone-wide (BG events, scripts). Payload
     /// VERIFIED vmangos `Map::PlayDirectSoundToMap`: one `u32 soundId` (SoundEntries).
     PlaySound {
@@ -1094,6 +1110,9 @@ impl ServerPacket {
             ServerPacket::CreatureQueryResponse { .. } => "SMSG_CREATURE_QUERY_RESPONSE".into(),
             ServerPacket::PetNameQueryResponse { .. } => "SMSG_PET_NAME_QUERY_RESPONSE".into(),
             ServerPacket::GameObjectQueryResponse { .. } => "SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_QUERY_RESPONSE".into(),
+            ServerPacket::GameObjectCustomAnim { .. } => "SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM".into(),
+            ServerPacket::FishNotHooked => "SMSG_FISH_NOT_HOOKED".into(),
+            ServerPacket::FishEscaped => "SMSG_FISH_ESCAPED".into(),
             ServerPacket::PlaySound { .. } => "SMSG_PLAY_SOUND".into(),
             ServerPacket::PlayMusic { .. } => "SMSG_PLAY_MUSIC".into(),
             ServerPacket::PlayObjectSound { .. } => "SMSG_PLAY_OBJECT_SOUND".into(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs
index 428c1e3a..0726f45d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/parse.rs
@@ -808,6 +808,13 @@ pub fn parse_server(opcode: u16, body: &[u8]) -> io::Result<ServerPacket> {
             let (entry, info) = gameobject::read_gameobject_query_response(&mut r)?;
             ServerPacket::GameObjectQueryResponse { entry, info }
         }
+        opcode::SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM => {
+            let (guid, anim_id) = gameobject::read_gameobject_custom_anim(&mut r)?;
+            ServerPacket::GameObjectCustomAnim { guid, anim_id }
+        }
+        // Both fishing verdicts are empty-bodied (the opcode IS the message).
+        opcode::SMSG_FISH_NOT_HOOKED => ServerPacket::FishNotHooked,
+        opcode::SMSG_FISH_ESCAPED => ServerPacket::FishEscaped,
         opcode::SMSG_LOGOUT_COMPLETE => ServerPacket::LogoutComplete,
         // `{u32 reason, u8 instant}` — the `instant` byte is what the CAMP/QUIT countdown hangs
         // on (see the variant's own doc); it used to be dropped on the floor here.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/mod.rs
index 1efa9c5e..c2e34c05 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/mod.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ use super::movement::ObjectType;
 // ObjectFields descriptor-field indices (build 5875), shared across object types.
 const FIELD_OBJECT_TYPE: u16 = 2;
 const FIELD_OBJECT_SCALE_X: u16 = 4;
+// `OBJECT_FIELD_CREATED_BY` = OBJECT_END(6) + 0x0..0x1 (vmangos `UpdateFields_1_12_1.h`): the
+// GameObject block's creator guid pair — the summoning player of a spell-spawned object
+// (fishing bobber, ritual portal); zero/absent for a world spawn.
+const FIELD_GAMEOBJECT_CREATED_BY: u16 = 6;
 const FIELD_GAMEOBJECT_DISPLAYID: u16 = 8;
 const FIELD_GAMEOBJECT_FLAGS: u16 = 9;
 // `GAMEOBJECT_ROTATION` = OBJECT_END(6) + 0x4 .. +0x7 (vmangos `UpdateFields_1_12_1.h`): the
diff --git a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/player.rs b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/player.rs
index 2aeff98d..943fe8ff 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/player.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-protocol/src/messages/update_object/fields/player.rs
@@ -501,6 +501,17 @@ impl ObjectFields {
     pub fn player_bank_bag_slots_purchased(&self) -> Option<u8> {
         self.player_bytes_2().map(|b| ((b >> 16) & 0xff) as u8)
     }
+    /// `OBJECT_FIELD_CREATED_BY` (the GameObject block's creator guid, fields 6-7 in 1.12): the
+    /// summoning player of a spell-spawned object — the fishing bobber's owner. `None` when absent
+    /// or zero (a world-spawned GO has no creator). The reference's ONE reader on the interaction
+    /// path is the faction resolver `0x5f7fd0`, which prefers the creator's reaction over
+    /// `GAMEOBJECT_FACTION` — the bobber's ownership *gate* is NOT this field but the player's own
+    /// `UNIT_FIELD_CHANNEL_OBJECT` (wow-re `fishing-bobber-interaction.md` §2, the byte-proven
+    /// negative: `0x5f6710` never reads CREATED_BY).
+    pub fn gameobject_created_by(&self) -> Option<u64> {
+        self.get_guid(FIELD_GAMEOBJECT_CREATED_BY)
+            .filter(|&g| g != 0)
+    }
     /// `GAMEOBJECT_DISPLAYID`.
     pub fn gameobject_displayid(&self) -> Option<i32> {
         self.get_i32(FIELD_GAMEOBJECT_DISPLAYID)
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
index 5ce0c2ac..1d402b5a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
@@ -199,18 +199,19 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
         let color = children_named(region, "Color").next().map(color_of);
         if is_texture {
             if let Some(file) = region.attr("file") {
+                // A `<Texture file=…>` with a `<Color>` child DISCARDS the colour — it is not a
+                // tint (wow-re `system/ui/scratch/texture-color-composition.md`, VERIFIED).
+                // `CSimpleTexture::LoadXML 0x76fe20` runs its child loop (`0x76fec1`-`0x7700fc`,
+                // where `<Color>` lands in `SetTexture(const CImVector*)` `0x770360`) to completion
+                // BEFORE it reads `file=` at `0x770102`, and a successful load overwrites the very
+                // same `+0xcc` slot (`0x7702cb`/`0x7702dc`) — the generated solid is released
+                // unused. Even the load-FAILURE fallback ignores it, hard-coding `0xff00ff00`
+                // (`0x77016a`). So: load the art, drop the colour.
                 self.call_region(region_wrapper, "SetTexture", file.to_string(), dbg);
-                if let Some(c) = color {
-                    // A texture with both a file and a <Color> is a tint (vertex color).
-                    self.call_region(
-                        region_wrapper,
-                        "SetVertexColor",
-                        (c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]),
-                        dbg,
-                    );
-                }
             } else if let Some(c) = color {
-                // No file: a solid colour fill (SetTexture(r,g,b,a)).
+                // No file: a solid colour fill (SetTexture(r,g,b,a)) — the client really generates
+                // an 8×8 texture out of it, which is why its alpha later MULTIPLIES with any
+                // SetVertexColor rather than being replaced by it (`RegionData::fill`).
                 self.call_region(region_wrapper, "SetTexture", (c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]), dbg);
             }
             // `<TexCoords left right top bottom>`: the UV sub-rect this texture samples (decision
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
index d5d6ced4..8ebc3d25 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/widgets.rs
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
                     (file.to_string(), layer.clone()),
                     dbg,
                 );
-                if let Some(c) = color {
-                    // File + <Color> = a tint on the bar texture.
-                    self.call(wrapper, "SetStatusBarColor", (c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]), dbg);
-                }
+                // File + `<Color>` DISCARDS the colour, it does not tint — the same
+                // `CSimpleTexture::LoadXML` ordering `regions.rs`'s `<Texture>` arm cites
+                // (`0x76fe20`: the child loop runs first, then `file=` overwrites the same `+0xcc`).
+                // `<BarColor>` below is this widget's real tint.
             } else if let Some(c) = color {
                 // No file: a solid-color bar (the SetStatusBarTexture(r,g,b,a) form).
                 self.call(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
index b6c7084c..f190cbef 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
@@ -149,17 +149,23 @@ fn set_slot_texture(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, slot: Slot, args: &MultiValue) -> m
         // plain region.
         Some(Value::String(s)) if s.to_str()?.is_empty() => {
             data.texture = None;
-            data.color = None;
+            data.fill = None;
         }
-        Some(Value::String(s)) => data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string()),
+        Some(Value::String(s)) => {
+            data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string());
+            data.fill = None;
+        }
+        // The colour form generates a solid texture into the same slot the path form loads into
+        // ([`RegionData::fill`]) — never a tint, so each clears the other.
         Some(v @ (Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_))) => {
             let arg = |i: usize| args.get(i).map(as_f32);
-            data.color = Some([
+            data.fill = Some([
                 as_f32(v),
                 arg(1).unwrap_or(0.0),
                 arg(2).unwrap_or(0.0),
                 arg(3).unwrap_or(1.0),
             ]);
+            data.texture = None;
         }
         _ => {}
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/methods.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/methods.rs
index fc67493b..cf51ac02 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/methods.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/editbox/methods.rs
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ pub(in crate::script) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                     .region_data
                     .entry(rh)
                     .or_default()
-                    .color = Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
+                    .vertex_color = Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
                 Ok(())
             },
         )?,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
index 09d58493..9d81e7d2 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ impl UiScript {
                         data.font_height = fo.height.or(data.font_height);
                         data.font_shadow = fo.shadow.or(data.font_shadow);
                         data.outline = fo.outline;
-                        if data.color.is_none() {
-                            data.color = fo.color;
+                        if data.vertex_color.is_none() {
+                            data.vertex_color = fo.color;
                         }
                         // The object's own justify (`<NormalFont inherits=… justifyH="LEFT"/>` —
                         // how the ref left-aligns a ButtonText).
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                     // The button-level state color wins over the font object AND the region's own
                     // explicit color — the client's Button color slots repaint the label outright.
                     if let Some(c) = state_color {
-                        data.color = Some(c);
+                        data.vertex_color = Some(c);
                     }
                     // Region-rect precedence (decision 0068 v1): anchored regions resolved in
                     // [`resolve`] → their owner-relative rect; else an explicitly-sized region draws
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                     let content = if is_text {
                         QuadContent::Text {
                             text: data.text,
-                            color: data.color,
+                            color: data.vertex_color,
                             justify_h: data.justify_h,
                             justify_v: data.justify_v,
                             font: data.font_path,
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                     } else {
                         QuadContent::Texture {
                             path: data.texture,
-                            color: data.color,
+                            color: texture_color(data.fill, data.vertex_color),
                             additive: data.additive,
                             tex_coords: data.tex_coords,
                             circular: data.circular,
@@ -263,6 +263,26 @@ impl UiScript {
     }
 }
 
+/// The single colour a Texture region draws with: **`texel × vertexColour`**, per channel and
+/// **alpha included** (wow-re `system/ui/scratch/texture-color-composition.md`, VERIFIED — the
+/// stage-0 combine's `MODULATE(TEXTURE, DIFFUSE)` for both colour and alpha).
+///
+/// `fill` is the region's own solid-colour texture ([`RegionData::fill`] — the client generates a
+/// real 8×8 texel block from it), so where it is set it IS the texel and the product is the drawn
+/// colour. Where it isn't, the texel comes from `path`'s art and this returns the tint alone for the
+/// renderer to modulate the sample by; `None` means untinted.
+///
+/// The correction this encodes: a `<Color 1,1,1,0.2>` trough later `SetVertexColor(0,0,0.75,0.5)`'d
+/// draws at alpha **0.1**. benilla used to store one colour slot and let the second call *replace*
+/// the first, which drew it at 0.5.
+fn texture_color(fill: Option<[f32; 4]>, vertex: Option<[f32; 4]>) -> Option<[f32; 4]> {
+    match (fill, vertex) {
+        (Some(f), Some(v)) => Some([f[0] * v[0], f[1] * v[1], f[2] * v[2], f[3] * v[3]]),
+        (Some(c), None) | (None, Some(c)) => Some(c),
+        (None, None) => None,
+    }
+}
+
 /// A StatusBar's bar-fill rect: the frame rect scaled by the value fraction — rightward from the
 /// left edge (horizontal) or upward from the bottom (vertical), the documented fill directions
 /// (reverse-fill is an Era extension, not modeled yet).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs
index e8563d87..6bef6115 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/loot.rs
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ pub struct LootRow {
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq)]
 pub struct LootState {
     pub rows: Vec<LootRow>,
+    /// Whether this loot came from fishing (`IsFishingLoot()` — the wire `SMSG_LOOT_RESPONSE`
+    /// `loot_type == 3`, decision 1086). `LootFrame_OnShow` keys the "FISHING REEL IN" sound and
+    /// the FishingLoot portrait overlay on it (`LootFrame.lua:137-140`).
+    pub fishing: bool,
 }
 
 impl super::UiScript {
@@ -188,6 +192,17 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
+    // IsFishingLoot() → whether the open loot came from fishing (false when none is open).
+    // `LootFrame_OnShow` keys the reel-in sound + the fishing portrait overlay on it
+    // (`LootFrame.lua:137-140`; decision 1086).
+    g.set(
+        "IsFishingLoot",
+        lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
+            let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+            Ok(model.loot.as_ref().is_some_and(|l| l.fishing))
+        })?,
+    )?;
+
     // LootSlot(slot) — queue the 1-based row pick; the app maps it to the coin or the item wire slot.
     g.set(
         "LootSlot",
@@ -252,6 +267,7 @@ mod tests {
                     link: None,
                 },
             ],
+            fishing: false,
         }
     }
 
@@ -300,6 +316,15 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return GetLootSlotLink(1) == nil").unwrap());
         assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return GetLootSlotLink(3) == nil").unwrap());
 
+        // IsFishingLoot: false on an ordinary loot, true when the snapshot says fishing, false
+        // again with no loot open (decision 1086).
+        assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return not IsFishingLoot()").unwrap());
+        let mut fished = loot();
+        fished.fishing = true;
+        s.set_loot(Some(fished));
+        assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return IsFishingLoot()").unwrap());
+        s.set_loot(Some(loot()));
+
         // Out of range → nil.
         assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return GetLootSlotInfo(9) == nil").unwrap());
         assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return GetLootSlotLink(9) == nil").unwrap());
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
index 0ce2fde0..a0074bc5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
@@ -702,14 +702,26 @@ pub(crate) struct Model {
     /// The player's rest snapshot, pushed together each frame any part moves
     /// ([`UiScript::set_rest_state`]) — player-globals like `money`. `rest_state` is the raw
     /// `PLAYER_BYTES_2` byte 3 (1 = rested, 2 = normal — the server writes it with hysteresis
-    /// off the pool; `0` until the feed lands, read as normal), `rest_pool` the raw
+    /// off the pool). **Defaults to 2, not 0**: every live 1.12 descriptor carries 2 from
+    /// character creation on, and the tick's faithful FrameXML compares `GetRestState() >= 3`
+    /// unguarded — a pre-feed 0 would render the binary's nil-triple fail path into an event
+    /// handler the real client can only ever run with the byte present. Byte 0 stays reachable
+    /// by explicit push, and the fail path stays faithful there. `rest_pool` is the raw
     /// `PLAYER_REST_STATE_EXPERIENCE` value in **base kill-XP units**, `resting` the
     /// `PLAYER_FLAGS_RESTING (0x20)` bit (inside an inn/city). `GetRestState`/`GetXPExhaustion`/
-    /// `IsResting` read these; the ×2 display scaling of the pool lives in the `GetXPExhaustion`
-    /// binding, where the real client applies it (decision 1082).
+    /// `IsResting` read these; the pool's display scaling is `exhaustion` row 1's factor,
+    /// applied in the `GetXPExhaustion` binding, where the real client applies it (decisions
+    /// 1082/1087).
     pub(crate) rest_state: u8,
     pub(crate) rest_pool: u32,
     pub(crate) resting: bool,
+    /// Exhaustion.dbc as the rest bindings consume it — rest-state byte → (localized name,
+    /// factor), the table `GetRestState` indexes directly and whose row 1 scales
+    /// `GetXPExhaustion` (wow-re rested-xp-bindings.md; decision 1087). Seeded with the shipped
+    /// 5875 enUS rows so the engine tests and a failed DBC read behave like the shipped client
+    /// (the GlobalStrings-fallback posture); the app overwrites it with the install's real —
+    /// localized — rows at startup ([`UiScript::set_exhaustion_rows`]).
+    pub(crate) exhaustion: HashMap<u8, (String, f64)>,
 
     /// The paper doll's combat-stats snapshot (`None` until the app's feed lands), the
     /// equipment/ammo slot views, and the model pane's persistent bake yaw — the character-window
@@ -1005,9 +1017,18 @@ impl Model {
             player_next_level_xp: 0,
             combo_points: 0,
             combo_target: 0,
-            rest_state: 0,
+            rest_state: 2,
             rest_pool: 0,
             resting: false,
+            exhaustion: [
+                (1, ("Rested".to_string(), 2.0)),
+                (2, ("Normal".to_string(), 1.0)),
+                (3, ("XXXTired".to_string(), 1.0)),
+                (4, ("XXXTired".to_string(), 0.5)),
+                (5, ("XXXExhausted".to_string(), 0.25)),
+            ]
+            .into_iter()
+            .collect(),
             player_combat_stats: None,
             pet_combat_stats: None,
             inventory_slots: Default::default(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
index fe3e0d53..e3b6cfce 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
             data.portrait_unit = Some(unit);
             data.texture = None;
-            data.color = None;
+            data.fill = None;
             data.circular = true;
             Ok(())
         })?,
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
             data.portrait_unit = Some(token);
             data.texture = None;
-            data.color = None;
+            data.fill = None;
             data.circular = false;
             Ok(())
         })?,
@@ -209,11 +209,28 @@ fn install_region_methods(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             |lua, (this, r, g, b, a): (Table, f32, f32, f32, Option<f32>)| {
                 let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
                 let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
-                model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().color = Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
+                model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().vertex_color =
+                    Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
                 Ok(())
             },
         )?,
     )?;
+    // GetVertexColor — the setter's own pair, a real 5875 binding (`0x79aa50`, wow-re
+    // `system/ui/ledger.tsv`; it sits directly above `SetVertexColor 0x79abd0` in the same region
+    // method family). Never set = the untinted white every region draws at by default.
+    m.set(
+        "GetVertexColor",
+        lua.create_function(|lua, this: Table| {
+            let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+            let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
+            let c = model
+                .region_data
+                .get(&rh)
+                .and_then(|d| d.vertex_color)
+                .unwrap_or([1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]);
+            Ok((c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]))
+        })?,
+    )?;
     m.set(
         "SetTexture",
         lua.create_function(
@@ -225,29 +242,35 @@ fn install_region_methods(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 // and any live-unit-portrait binding.
                 data.circular = false;
                 data.portrait_unit = None;
+                // Both forms write the SAME `+0xcc` texture slot — the path form loads a file
+                // there (`0x770200`), the colour form generates an 8×8 solid into it
+                // (`0x770360`) — so each clears the other. NEITHER touches the vertex colour at
+                // `+0xb8`: a tint outlives the art it was tinting.
                 match &arg {
                     // SetTexture("") clears, same as SetTexture(nil) — the ref lua blanks state
                     // art with the empty string (QuestLogFrame.lua:165-166).
                     Value::String(s) if s.to_str()?.is_empty() => {
                         data.texture = None;
-                        data.color = None;
+                        data.fill = None;
                     }
                     Value::String(s) => {
                         data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string());
+                        data.fill = None;
                     }
                     Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_) => {
-                        data.color = Some([
+                        data.fill = Some([
                             as_f32(&arg),
                             g.unwrap_or(0.0),
                             b.unwrap_or(0.0),
                             a.unwrap_or(1.0),
                         ]);
+                        data.texture = None;
                     }
                     // SetTexture(nil) clears (the live API's blank-the-region form); a cleared
                     // texture region draws nothing.
                     Value::Nil => {
                         data.texture = None;
-                        data.color = None;
+                        data.fill = None;
                     }
                     _ => {}
                 }
@@ -681,7 +704,7 @@ fn install_region_methods(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             d.outline = font.outline;
             d.font_shadow = font.shadow;
             if let Some(c) = font.color {
-                d.color = Some(c);
+                d.vertex_color = Some(c);
             }
             if let Some(j) = font.justify_h {
                 d.justify_h = j;
@@ -773,8 +796,9 @@ fn install_region_methods(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             Ok((path, height, flags))
         })?,
     )?;
-    // SetTextColor(r, g, b [, a]) — a FontString's text color (distinct name from SetVertexColor,
-    // same storage in v1: the resolved text color the renderer draws with).
+    // SetTextColor(r, g, b [, a]) — a FontString's text color. A different binding name for the
+    // same `+0xb8` vertex-colour slot `SetVertexColor` writes: a FontString has no texel of its own
+    // to multiply against, so its vertex colour IS the colour it draws.
     m.set(
         "SetTextColor",
         lua.create_function(
@@ -785,7 +809,7 @@ fn install_region_methods(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                     .region_data
                     .entry(rh)
                     .or_default()
-                    .color = Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
+                    .vertex_color = Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
                 Ok(())
             },
         )?,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/skills.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/skills.rs
index 04a8ca28..51d0106f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/skills.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/skills.rs
@@ -9,32 +9,47 @@
 //! id doing double duty as both the row's identity and the group key (here the GROUP key is the
 //! category, the row's identity is the skill id).
 //!
-//! ## The engine grouping law (INTERIM — the 0437 §5 dispatch resolved (decision 0446), but never
-//! adjudicated this law; it stays unpinned, its own follow-up named in decision 0530)
+//! ## The engine grouping law (PINNED at the bytes — decision 1091; wow-re
+//! `system/tradeskill/scratch/skillframe-display-list.md`, the list build `0x4d2cb0` + its
+//! comparator `0x4d3070`. The 0530 follow-up this once carried is closed.)
 //!
 //! Groups ordered by `category_order` ascending (`category_id` breaks a tie, for determinism);
-//! one header row per non-empty group (text = `category_name`); entries within a group sorted by
-//! name ascending (the trainer's own [`collate`] — case-insensitive, raw-byte tie-break). Every
-//! group starts EXPANDED (the trainer's own default-expanded rule). Visible rows are headers
-//! always, plus the entries of expanded groups; every index the Lua API takes/returns is 1-based
-//! into that visible list.
+//! one header row per non-empty group (text = `category_name`); within a group, **untrained lines
+//! (rank 0) sink below trained ones**, then name ascending ([`collate`] — case-insensitive,
+//! raw-byte tie-break; the client's own `stricmp`). Every group starts EXPANDED and is **re-expanded
+//! on every push** ([`UiScript::set_skills`] — the client's own `expandedMask = 0xFFFFFFFF`).
+//! Visible rows are headers always, plus the entries of expanded groups; every index the Lua API
+//! takes/returns is 1-based into that visible list.
+//!
+//! **Which lines reach the engine at all is the app's half** of the same law (`ui_char.rs`'s
+//! `feed_skills`): the client's list build drops a line with no `SkillLine`/`SkillRaceClassInfo`/
+//! `SkillLineCategory` row, one whose `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags` carries `0x2`, and an untrained
+//! one that no flag admits. The engine sorts what survives.
 //!
 //! ## The Era API shape (matched to the real `SkillFrame.lua`, transcribed onto this engine)
 //!
-//! `GetNumSkillLines()` → the visible row count. `GetSkillLineInfo(i)` → the ref's own 13-tuple
+//! `GetNumSkillLines()` → the visible row count. `GetSkillLineInfo(i)` → the ref's own tuple
 //! (`name, isHeader, isExpanded, skillRank, numTempPoints, skillModifier, skillMaxRank,
-//! isAbandonable, stepCost, rankCost, minLevel, skillCostType, skillDescription`): a header row
-//! shapes `(category_name, 1, expanded, 0, 0, 0, 0, nil, 0, 0, 0, nil, nil)`, an entry row shapes
-//! `(name, nil, nil, value, 0, modifier, max, abandonable, 0, 0, 0, nil, description)`.
-//! `numTempPoints` is always `0` (1.12 training points are dead data — `PLAYER_SKILL_INFO`
-//! carries no temp/perm split the client would animate through a "buy a rank" flow);
-//! `skillDescription` is REAL (`SkillLine.dbc` col 12 through the app feed — the detail pane's
-//! body text); `isAbandonable` is REAL too ([`SkillEntry::abandonable`], the unlearn button's
-//! gate — and `AbandonSkill(i)` is its outbound half, a VISIBLE index queued out by skill id for
-//! the app's `CMSG_UNLEARN_SKILL`, [`UiScript::take_skill_abandons`]); the remaining
-//! `stepCost`/`rankCost`/`minLevel`/`skillCostType` are vestigial stubs backing the ref's
-//! *training-up* branches (a trainer-taught skill step), which never apply to a line that only
-//! ever changes as a server descriptor delta.
+//! isAbandonable, stepCost, rankCost, minLevel, skillCostType, skillDescription`) — **13 values on
+//! a skill row, 12 on a header** (`0x4d3a20` vs `0x4d3768`; a header stops after `skillCostType`
+//! and carries no description slot at all). A header shapes
+//! `(category_name, 1, expanded, 0, 0, 0, 0, nil, nil, nil, 0, 0)`, an entry
+//! `(name, nil, nil, rank, 0, tempBonus, max, abandonable, nil, nil, minLevel, costIndex+1,
+//! description)`, with `rank`/`max` computed by [`displayed_ranks`] — the permanent bonus folded
+//! in, then `max` forced to `1` on a **single-rank** line whatever the server said
+//! ([`SkillEntry::mono`]; the pane's proficiency gate is `skillMaxRank == 1`).
+//!
+//! `numTempPoints` is always `0`: its only writer in the real client is `AddSkillUp`, wired solely
+//! to the training-up arrow this pane doesn't ship. `stepCost`/`rankCost` are always **nil** —
+//! for DATA reasons, not code ones (`SkillLine.skillCostsID` is 0 in all 123 rows, and the
+//! step-cost gate's flag bits are set on no line a player can hold) — and nil, not `0`, is what
+//! the ref's `if (stepCost)` / `elseif (rankCost or …)` branches read, since `0` is truthy in Lua.
+//! `minLevel` and `skillCostType` are REAL numbers off the `SkillRaceClassInfo` row (visually inert
+//! on this build: every branch they colour is repainted by the normal-skill/proficiency branches
+//! after it). `skillDescription` is REAL (`SkillLine.dbc` col 12 through the app feed — the detail
+//! pane's body text); `isAbandonable` is REAL too ([`SkillEntry::abandonable`], the unlearn
+//! button's gate — and `AbandonSkill(i)` is its outbound half, a VISIBLE index queued out by skill
+//! id for the app's `CMSG_UNLEARN_SKILL`, [`UiScript::take_skill_abandons`]).
 //!
 //! `ExpandSkillHeader(i)`/`CollapseSkillHeader(i)` take a header's VISIBLE index (`0` = all
 //! groups, the trainer's own collapse-all shape). `SetSelectedSkill(i)`/`GetSelectedSkill()` are a
@@ -50,7 +65,7 @@
 //! sites nothing in [`SkillFrame.xml`] ever reaches. (The `UNLEARN_SKILL` popup, once in that
 //! list, ships for real now — the abandon slice above.)
 
-use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
+use std::collections::HashMap;
 
 use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
 
@@ -63,12 +78,38 @@ pub struct SkillEntry {
     pub skill_id: u32,
     /// `SkillLine.dbc` name ("First Aid").
     pub name: String,
-    /// Current rank.
+    /// Current rank, raw off the descriptor. `0` = **untrained**, which is a sort key of its own
+    /// (untrained lines sink under their category's trained ones — the client's comparator
+    /// `0x4d3070`).
     pub value: u32,
-    /// Max rank (a 1.12 proficiency line can be `0/0` — render barless, the ref's own shape).
+    /// Max rank, as the server's own `PLAYER_SKILL_INFO` descriptor holds it — see [`Self::mono`]
+    /// for the DBC override the API return goes through.
     pub max: u32,
-    /// Temp+perm bonus (the green "+n"; negative possible).
-    pub modifier: i32,
+    /// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x400` (`SKILL_FLAG_MONO_VALUE`) for the player's race/class:
+    /// a **single-rank** line. The real client's `GetSkillLineInfo` overrides `skillMaxRank` to
+    /// `1` for these, whatever the descriptor says (wow-re
+    /// `system/tradeskill/scratch/skillframe-seed-abandon.md`: `0x4d3610`, `4d38b1 test ah,0x4`) —
+    /// so a hunter's `Beast Mastery`, which vmangos happily reports as `300/300`, reads as a
+    /// proficiency and `SkillFrame.lua`'s `skillMaxRank == 1` branch draws it gray with no rank
+    /// text. The raw [`Self::max`] stays untouched here; the override lives at the API return,
+    /// exactly where the binary puts it.
+    pub mono: bool,
+    /// The **temporary** bonus (auras/consumables/enchants; negative possible) — and only that:
+    /// `GetSkillLineInfo`'s `skillModifier` is a signed read of the descriptor's temp half alone
+    /// (`+0x850`), the green "+n" in the rank text. The permanent half is [`Self::perm_bonus`],
+    /// which the client folds into the numbers instead.
+    pub temp_bonus: i32,
+    /// The **permanent** bonus (talents; `+0x852`, negative possible). Not a return of its own:
+    /// the client adds it into BOTH `skillRank` and `skillMaxRank` before the mono override
+    /// (`0x4d380c`/`0x4d385d`), and only when the raw value is nonzero — so a line the player
+    /// doesn't have stays at a flat `0`, never `0 + bonus`.
+    pub perm_bonus: i32,
+    /// `SkillRaceClassInfo.reqLevel` — `GetSkillLineInfo`'s 11th return, pushed as a real number
+    /// (`0x4d39ef`; nonzero in practice: Mail 40, Dual Wield 20).
+    pub min_level: u32,
+    /// `SkillRaceClassInfo.skillCostID` — `GetSkillLineInfo`'s 12th return is this **plus one**
+    /// (`0x4d3a06`), which is why the engine adds the 1, not the feed.
+    pub cost_index: u32,
     /// `SkillLine.dbc` categoryId.
     pub category_id: u32,
     /// Resolved category name ("Professions") — the header text.
@@ -80,9 +121,10 @@ pub struct SkillEntry {
     /// format renders it verbatim).
     pub description: String,
     /// Whether the line can be unlearned — `GetSkillLineInfo`'s 8th return (`isAbandonable`), the
-    /// detail pane's unlearn-button gate. App-resolved from `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x20`
+    /// detail pane's unlearn-button gate. App-resolved, and a **conjunction**: the descriptor's
+    /// skill **step** must be nonzero AND `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x20` must be set
     /// (`SKILL_FLAG_UNLEARNABLE` — the server's own `CMSG_UNLEARN_SKILL` gate, vmangos
-    /// `SkillHandler.cpp`).
+    /// `SkillHandler.cpp`). Both halves are the client's (`0x4d3953`–`0x4d3975`).
     pub abandonable: bool,
 }
 
@@ -110,15 +152,18 @@ pub(crate) struct SkillGroup {
 
 impl super::UiScript {
     /// Replace the skills snapshot (0437 phase 4). Builds the display tree ([`build_groups`]) from
-    /// the flat entries, prunes the collapsed set to categories that still exist in the new push
-    /// (the trainer's own collapse-survives-an-update rule, [`super::trainer::UiScript::set_trainer`]),
-    /// and re-anchors the selection to the SAME skill id if it's still present — else clears it
-    /// (the tradeskill's own by-spell-id selection-persistence precedent).
+    /// the flat entries, **re-expands every group**, and re-anchors the selection to the SAME
+    /// skill id if it's still present — else clears it (the tradeskill's own by-spell-id
+    /// selection-persistence precedent).
+    ///
+    /// The re-expand is the client's, not a convenience: its list rebuild writes
+    /// `expandedMask = 0xFFFFFFFF` unconditionally (`0x4d2cb0`, store at `0x4d2ce2`), so a fold
+    /// survives only until the next skill-field change — the trainer's collapse-survives-an-update
+    /// rule this pane once borrowed is simply a different window's law (decision 1091).
     pub fn set_skills(&mut self, state: SkillsState) {
         let mut model = self.model_mut();
         let groups = build_groups(&state.entries);
-        let live: HashSet<u32> = groups.iter().map(|g| g.category_id).collect();
-        model.skills_collapsed.retain(|c| live.contains(c));
+        model.skills_collapsed.clear();
         if let Some(sid) = model.skills_selected {
             if !state.entries.iter().any(|e| e.skill_id == sid) {
                 model.skills_selected = None;
@@ -171,8 +216,14 @@ fn build_groups(entries: &[SkillEntry]) -> Vec<SkillGroup> {
     }
     let mut groups: Vec<SkillGroup> = map.into_values().collect();
     for g in &mut groups {
-        g.entries
-            .sort_by(|&a, &b| collate(&entries[a].name, &entries[b].name));
+        // Within a category the client sorts UNTRAINED (rank 0) lines below trained ones, then by
+        // name (`0x4d3070`: the `untrained` byte set at build time, `0x4d2e19 sete`, compared
+        // before the `stricmp` at `0x4d318d`).
+        g.entries.sort_by(|&a, &b| {
+            (entries[a].value == 0)
+                .cmp(&(entries[b].value == 0))
+                .then_with(|| collate(&entries[a].name, &entries[b].name))
+        });
     }
     groups.sort_by(|a, b| {
         a.order
@@ -261,6 +312,35 @@ fn selected_index(model: &Model) -> u32 {
         .map_or(0, |p| (p + 1) as u32)
 }
 
+/// `GetSkillLineInfo`'s `(skillRank, skillMaxRank)` pair for one entry — the client's own
+/// arithmetic, in its own order (`0x4d380c`–`0x4d38cb`):
+///
+/// ```text
+/// skillRank    = rank > 0 ? rank + permBonus : rank        // a line at 0 stays flat 0
+/// skillMaxRank = max  > 0 ? max  + permBonus : max
+/// if mono { skillMaxRank = 1; if skillRank > 1 { skillRank = 1 } }   // override, then a MIN
+/// ```
+///
+/// The mono arm is an unconditional **override** of the max (not a clamp) and a **min** on the
+/// rank — the asymmetry is the binary's, and it is what makes a `300/300` class line read as the
+/// `1/1` proficiency `SkillFrame.lua` draws gray. Saturating at 0 keeps a negative permanent
+/// malus from wrapping the unsigned descriptor values.
+fn displayed_ranks(e: &SkillEntry) -> (i64, i64) {
+    let fold = |v: u32| {
+        if v > 0 {
+            (i64::from(v) + i64::from(e.perm_bonus)).max(0)
+        } else {
+            0
+        }
+    };
+    let (mut rank, mut max) = (fold(e.value), fold(e.max));
+    if e.mono {
+        max = 1;
+        rank = rank.min(1);
+    }
+    (rank, max)
+}
+
 /// A `bool` as the Era `1`/`nil` shape (the trainer/tradeskill's own helper, duplicated per the
 /// established per-module convention).
 fn era_bool(b: bool) -> Value {
@@ -284,8 +364,9 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // GetSkillLineInfo(index) → the ref's own 13-tuple (module doc). `index` 1-based into the
-    // visible tree; out of range → a single nil.
+    // GetSkillLineInfo(index) → the ref's own tuple (module doc): 13 values on a skill row
+    // (`0x4d3a20`), 12 on a header (`0x4d3768`). `index` 1-based into the visible tree; out of
+    // range → a single nil.
     g.set(
         "GetSkillLineInfo",
         lua.create_function(|lua, index: usize| {
@@ -309,28 +390,33 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                         Value::Integer(0), // skillModifier
                         Value::Integer(0), // skillMaxRank
                         Value::Nil,        // isAbandonable
-                        Value::Integer(0), // stepCost
-                        Value::Integer(0), // rankCost
+                        Value::Nil,        // stepCost
+                        Value::Nil,        // rankCost
                         Value::Integer(0), // minLevel
-                        Value::Nil,        // skillCostType
-                        Value::Nil,        // skillDescription
+                        Value::Integer(0), // skillCostType — the 12th and LAST header return
                     ]))
                 }
                 Row::Entry(ei) => {
                     let e = &model.skills.entries[ei];
+                    let (rank, max) = displayed_ranks(e);
                     Ok(MultiValue::from_vec(vec![
                         Value::String(lua.create_string(&e.name)?),
                         Value::Nil, // isHeader
                         Value::Nil, // isExpanded
-                        Value::Integer(i64::from(e.value)),
+                        Value::Integer(rank),
                         Value::Integer(0), // numTempPoints — always 0 (module doc)
-                        Value::Integer(i64::from(e.modifier)),
-                        Value::Integer(i64::from(e.max)),
+                        Value::Integer(i64::from(e.temp_bonus)), // skillModifier — TEMP only
+                        Value::Integer(max),
                         era_bool(e.abandonable), // isAbandonable
-                        Value::Integer(0),       // stepCost
-                        Value::Integer(0),       // rankCost
-                        Value::Integer(0),       // minLevel
-                        Value::Nil,              // skillCostType
+                        // stepCost/rankCost are nil on this build for DATA reasons, not code
+                        // ones (module doc) — and nil is load-bearing: `0` is truthy in Lua, so
+                        // returning it would send SkillFrame.lua down its "learnable skill"
+                        // branch on every row.
+                        Value::Nil,
+                        Value::Nil,
+                        Value::Integer(i64::from(e.min_level)), // minLevel — a real number
+                        // skillCostType — SkillCostIndex + 1, the client's own `0x4d3a06`.
+                        Value::Integer(i64::from(e.cost_index) + 1),
                         Value::String(lua.create_string(&e.description)?), // skillDescription
                     ]))
                 }
@@ -412,7 +498,7 @@ mod tests {
         name: &str,
         value: u32,
         max: u32,
-        modifier: i32,
+        temp_bonus: i32,
         category_id: u32,
         category_name: &str,
         category_order: u32,
@@ -422,7 +508,10 @@ mod tests {
             name: name.into(),
             value,
             max,
-            modifier,
+            temp_bonus,
+            perm_bonus: 0,
+            min_level: 0,
+            cost_index: 0,
             category_id,
             category_name: category_name.into(),
             category_order,
@@ -430,6 +519,9 @@ mod tests {
             // Fixture rule: the Professions category (id 2) is abandonable, weapons are not —
             // the real SkillRaceClassInfo 0x20 split's shape.
             abandonable: category_id == 2,
+            // Fixture rule: the Class Skills category (id 3) is single-rank, the real 0x400
+            // split's shape (a hunter's Beast Mastery).
+            mono: category_id == 3,
         }
     }
 
@@ -541,8 +633,10 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumSkillLines()").unwrap(), 6);
     }
 
+    /// A re-push keeps the SELECTION (by skill id) but throws every fold away — the client's list
+    /// rebuild re-expands unconditionally (`expandedMask = 0xFFFFFFFF`, decision 1091).
     #[test]
-    fn selection_and_expansion_persist_across_a_repush() {
+    fn a_repush_keeps_the_selection_and_re_expands_every_group() {
         let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
         s.set_skills(state());
 
@@ -556,12 +650,12 @@ mod tests {
         s.run("CollapseSkillHeader(4)").unwrap();
         assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumSkillLines()").unwrap(), 4);
 
-        // A re-push (values ticked up) keeps BOTH the fold and the selection's skill identity —
-        // Swords is still row 3, Professions is still collapsed.
+        // A re-push (values ticked up): the fold is GONE — all 6 rows are back — while the
+        // selection still points at Swords, which is still row 3.
         let mut ticked = state();
         ticked.entries[0].value = 201; // Swords
         s.set_skills(ticked);
-        assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumSkillLines()").unwrap(), 4);
+        assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumSkillLines()").unwrap(), 6);
         assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return GetSelectedSkill()").unwrap(), 3);
         let (name, rank) = s
             .eval::<(String, i64)>("local n,_,_,r = GetSkillLineInfo(3) return n,r")
@@ -580,7 +674,8 @@ mod tests {
         let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
         s.set_skills(state());
 
-        // Header row 1 ("Weapon Skills"): (name, 1, expanded, 0, 0, 0, 0, nil, 0, 0, 0, nil, nil).
+        // Header row 1 ("Weapon Skills"): 12 values — (name, 1, expanded, 0, 0, 0, 0, nil, nil,
+        // nil, 0, 0), and NO 13th (the client's header path pushes 12, `0x4d3768`).
         let (name, is_header, is_expanded, rank, temp, modifier, max) = s
             .eval::<(String, i64, Option<i64>, i64, i64, i64, i64)>(
                 "local n,h,e,r,t,m,mx = GetSkillLineInfo(1) return n,h,e,r,t,m,mx",
@@ -598,19 +693,22 @@ mod tests {
             ),
             ("Weapon Skills", 1, Some(1), 0, 0, 0, 0)
         );
-        let (abandon_nil, step, rank_cost, min_level, cost_type_nil, desc_nil) = s
-            .eval::<(bool, i64, i64, i64, bool, bool)>(
-                "local _,_,_,_,_,_,_,a,st,rc,ml,ct,d = GetSkillLineInfo(1) \
-                 return a==nil, st, rc, ml, ct==nil, d==nil",
+        let (abandon_nil, step_nil, rank_cost_nil, min_level, cost_type, count) = s
+            .eval::<(bool, bool, bool, i64, i64, i64)>(
+                "local a,st,rc,ml,ct = select(8, GetSkillLineInfo(1)) \
+                 return a==nil, st==nil, rc==nil, ml, ct, select('#', GetSkillLineInfo(1))",
             )
             .unwrap();
         assert!(abandon_nil);
-        assert_eq!((step, rank_cost, min_level), (0, 0, 0));
-        assert!(cost_type_nil);
-        assert!(desc_nil);
+        assert!(
+            step_nil && rank_cost_nil,
+            "stepCost/rankCost are nil, not 0"
+        );
+        assert_eq!((min_level, cost_type), (0, 0));
+        assert_eq!(count, 12, "a header row returns 12 values, not 13");
 
-        // Entry row 2 ("Defense", value 180, max 300, modifier +5): (name, nil, nil, 180, 0, 5,
-        // 300, nil, 0, 0, 0, nil, nil).
+        // Entry row 2 ("Defense", value 180, max 300, temp bonus +5): (name, nil, nil, 180, 0, 5,
+        // 300, nil, nil, nil, 0, 1, description) — 13 values.
         let (name, is_header, is_expanded, rank, temp, modifier, max) = s
             .eval::<(String, Option<i64>, Option<i64>, i64, i64, i64, i64)>(
                 "local n,h,e,r,t,m,mx = GetSkillLineInfo(2) return n,h,e,r,t,m,mx",
@@ -628,12 +726,103 @@ mod tests {
             ),
             ("Defense", None, None, 180, 0, 5, 300)
         );
-        // The 13th return is the REAL description now (SkillLine.dbc col 12 through the feed) —
-        // a string on an entry row, still nil on a header (asserted above).
+        // The 13th return is the REAL description (SkillLine.dbc col 12 through the feed) — an
+        // entry row's alone: a header stops at 12 (asserted above).
+        let (count, desc) = s
+            .eval::<(i64, String)>(
+                "return select('#', GetSkillLineInfo(2)), select(13, GetSkillLineInfo(2))",
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((count, desc.as_str()), (13, "About Defense."));
+        // minLevel and skillCostType are real NUMBERS on an entry — and the cost type is the
+        // row's index PLUS ONE (the client's own `0x4d3a06`), so a fixture at index 0 reads 1.
+        let (min_level, cost_type) = s
+            .eval::<(i64, i64)>("local ml,ct = select(11, GetSkillLineInfo(2)) return ml,ct")
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((min_level, cost_type), (0, 1));
+    }
+
+    /// The permanent bonus folds into BOTH numbers, the temporary one is the `skillModifier`
+    /// return on its own, and a line at 0 stays flat 0 (the client's `rank > 0 ?` guard).
+    #[test]
+    fn the_permanent_bonus_folds_into_the_numbers_and_the_temporary_one_does_not() {
+        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let mut st = state();
+        st.entries[1].perm_bonus = 10; // Defense 180/300, temp +5
+        st.entries
+            .push(entry(182, "Herbalism", 0, 0, 0, 2, "Professions", 2));
+        st.entries.last_mut().unwrap().perm_bonus = 10;
+        s.set_skills(st);
+
+        // Defense (row 2): 190/310, modifier still the temp +5 alone.
+        let (rank, modifier, max) = s
+            .eval::<(i64, i64, i64)>("local _,_,_,r,_,m,mx = GetSkillLineInfo(2) return r,m,mx")
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((rank, modifier, max), (190, 5, 310));
+
+        // Herbalism 0/0 (row 7, an untrained line sorted under the trained ones): a flat 0/0 —
+        // the bonus is not added to a zero.
+        let (name, rank, max) = s
+            .eval::<(String, i64, i64)>("local n,_,_,r,_,_,mx = GetSkillLineInfo(7) return n,r,mx")
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((name.as_str(), rank, max), ("Herbalism", 0, 0));
+    }
+
+    /// Within a category, untrained (rank 0) lines sink below the trained ones, whatever their
+    /// name — the client's comparator (`0x4d3070`), which tests `untrained` before `stricmp`.
+    #[test]
+    fn untrained_lines_sort_under_the_trained_ones_of_their_category() {
+        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let mut st = state();
+        // "Alchemy" would sort first in Professions by name; at rank 0 it goes last.
+        st.entries
+            .push(entry(171, "Alchemy", 0, 300, 0, 2, "Professions", 2));
+        s.set_skills(st);
+        let names: Vec<String> = (5..=7)
+            .map(|i| {
+                s.eval::<String>(&format!("return (GetSkillLineInfo({i}))"))
+                    .unwrap()
+            })
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(names, ["First Aid", "Fishing", "Alchemy"]);
+    }
+
+    /// A single-rank line reports `1/1` however high the server's descriptor is (the client's own
+    /// `SkillRaceClassInfo.flags & 0x400` arm: an override on the max, a min on the rank) — the
+    /// pane's proficiency gate. A normal line is unaffected.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_mono_line_reports_max_rank_one_whatever_the_server_said() {
+        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let mut st = state();
+        // Beast Mastery: category 3 ⇒ mono by the fixture rule, server-side 300/300.
+        st.entries.push(entry(
+            50,
+            "Beast Mastery",
+            300,
+            300,
+            0,
+            3,
+            "Class Skills",
+            0,
+        ));
+        s.set_skills(st);
+
+        // Row 1/2 = the Class Skills header + its single entry (category_order 0 sorts first).
+        let (name, rank, modifier, max) = s
+            .eval::<(String, i64, i64, i64)>(
+                "local n,_,_,r,_,m,mx = GetSkillLineInfo(2) return n,r,m,mx",
+            )
+            .unwrap();
         assert_eq!(
-            s.eval::<String>("return select(13, GetSkillLineInfo(2))")
+            (name.as_str(), rank, modifier, max),
+            ("Beast Mastery", 1, 0, 1),
+            "the descriptor's 300/300 reads 1/1 — max overridden, rank clamped under it"
+        );
+        // Defense (a weapon line, not mono) still reports its real 300.
+        assert_eq!(
+            s.eval::<i64>("return (select(7, GetSkillLineInfo(4)))")
                 .unwrap(),
-            "About Defense."
+            300
         );
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
index 8f5548b7..ea8a814e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
@@ -200,9 +200,14 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
                 let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
                 match &a1 {
-                    Value::String(s) => data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string()),
+                    Value::String(s) => {
+                        data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string());
+                        data.fill = None;
+                    }
+                    // A solid thumb writes the same slot the path form does — each clears the other.
                     Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_) => {
-                        data.color = Some([
+                        data.texture = None;
+                        data.fill = Some([
                             num_f32(&a1),
                             num_f32(&a2),
                             num_f32(&a3),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
index 7bb938e7..8b0b9a1a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
@@ -172,9 +172,16 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
                 let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
                 match &a1 {
-                    Value::String(s) => data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string()),
+                    Value::String(s) => {
+                        data.texture = Some(s.to_str()?.to_string());
+                        data.fill = None;
+                    }
+                    // A solid bar writes the same slot the path form does — each clears the other.
+                    // `SetStatusBarColor` is the TINT (the fill region's vertex colour) and is a
+                    // separate slot entirely: a bar can carry art AND a colour, and they multiply.
                     Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_) => {
-                        data.color = Some([
+                        data.texture = None;
+                        data.fill = Some([
                             num_f32(&a1),
                             num_f32(&a2),
                             num_f32(&a3),
@@ -211,7 +218,8 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 let id = ensure_bar(lua, &this, None)?;
                 let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
                 let rh = *model.id_to_region.get(&id).expect("bar region id");
-                model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().color = Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
+                model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().vertex_color =
+                    Some([r, g, b, a.unwrap_or(1.0)]);
                 Ok(())
             },
         )?,
@@ -223,7 +231,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
             let c = bar
                 .and_then(|rh| model.region_data.get(&rh))
-                .and_then(|d| d.color)
+                .and_then(|d| d.vertex_color)
                 .unwrap_or([1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]);
             Ok((c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]))
         })?,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs
index da994e92..fb0e264f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs
@@ -450,3 +450,79 @@ fn region_alpha_is_its_own_and_multiplies_the_owner_frames() {
         "a hidden region emits no quad"
     );
 }
+
+/// **The texture-colour composition law** (wow-re `system/ui/scratch/texture-color-composition.md`,
+/// VERIFIED): a region's own solid colour is a real *texel* (`SetTexture(r,g,b,a)` generates an 8×8
+/// block at `+0xcc`), its vertex colour is a *separate* slot (`+0xb8`), and the draw
+/// **multiplies** them per channel, alpha included — it does not replace.
+///
+/// This is the reference `SkillFrame` row trough, verbatim: declared `<Color 1,1,1,0.2>`, then
+/// `SetVertexColor(0, 0, 0.75, 0.5)`'d. It draws at alpha `0.2 × 0.5 = 0.1`. benilla stored ONE
+/// colour slot until this test, which made the second call replace the first and drew it at 0.5.
+#[test]
+fn a_solid_colour_texel_multiplies_with_the_vertex_colour() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        local f = CreateFrame("Frame", "Owner")
+        f:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0)
+        f:SetWidth(100) f:SetHeight(50)
+        trough = f:CreateTexture("Trough", "BACKGROUND")
+        trough:SetTexture(1, 1, 1, 0.2)
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    s.resolve();
+
+    let solid = |s: &UiScript| {
+        s.extract()
+            .iter()
+            .find_map(|q| match &q.content {
+                QuadContent::Texture {
+                    path: None, color, ..
+                } => Some(*color),
+                _ => None,
+            })
+            .expect("solid-colour quad")
+    };
+    assert_eq!(
+        solid(&s),
+        Some([1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.2]),
+        "untinted, the texel draws as declared"
+    );
+
+    s.run("trough:SetVertexColor(0, 0, 0.75, 0.5)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        solid(&s),
+        Some([0.0, 0.0, 0.75, 0.1]),
+        "texel x vertex, alpha included: 0.2 x 0.5 = 0.1, NOT 0.5"
+    );
+    // The API readback is the vertex slot itself, not the product — the two are distinct storage.
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<(f32, f32, f32, f32)>("return trough:GetVertexColor()")
+            .unwrap(),
+        (0.0, 0.0, 0.75, 0.5)
+    );
+
+    // Art and a solid colour share the `+0xcc` slot: setting a path releases the generated texel,
+    // and what is left is the tint alone for the renderer to modulate the sample by.
+    s.run(r#"trough:SetTexture("Interface\\Bar.blp")"#).unwrap();
+    let tinted = s
+        .extract()
+        .iter()
+        .find_map(|q| match &q.content {
+            QuadContent::Texture {
+                path: Some(p),
+                color,
+                ..
+            } if p.contains("Bar") => Some(*color),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .expect("art quad");
+    assert_eq!(
+        tinted,
+        Some([0.0, 0.0, 0.75, 0.5]),
+        "the vertex colour outlives the texel it was multiplying"
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs
index 966d24b4..cfaa35b5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tooltip/mod.rs
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ fn apply_font(d: &mut RegionData, name: &str, fo: Option<&FontObject>) {
         d.outline = f.outline;
         d.font_shadow = f.shadow;
         if let Some(c) = f.color {
-            d.color = Some(c);
+            d.vertex_color = Some(c);
         }
     }
 }
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ fn ensure_lines(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, n: usize) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                             d.font_height = src.font_height;
                             d.outline = src.outline;
                             d.font_shadow = src.font_shadow;
-                            d.color = src.color;
+                            d.vertex_color = src.vertex_color;
                         }
                         None => {
                             let font = if i == 1 {
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ fn ensure_lines(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, n: usize) -> mlua::Result<()> {
 fn write_cell(model: &mut Model, rh: crate::widget::RegionHandle, text: &str, color: [f32; 4]) {
     let d = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
     d.text = Some(text.to_string());
-    d.color = Some(color);
+    d.vertex_color = Some(color);
     d.hidden = false;
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
index 11a39e7e..ac4d6385 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
@@ -314,16 +314,35 @@ pub(crate) struct RegionData {
     /// the owner's `+0xc8` at draw). [`UiScript::extract`](super::UiScript::extract) folds this into
     /// [`ExtractedQuad::alpha`] alongside that owner alpha.
     ///
-    /// **Open (wow-re gap):** the findings verify a two-factor draw multiply
-    /// (`ownColorAlpha × frameAlpha`) but never pin whether `SetAlpha` writes a *distinct* field or
-    /// simply the alpha channel of [`Self::color`]. We keep it distinct so `SetAlpha` on a
-    /// FontString cannot clobber its font object's color. The two readings agree on every reference
-    /// call site (none sets both on one region); a site that does is the trigger to settle it.
+    /// **Settled for a Texture, kept distinct anyway:** `Texture:SetAlpha 0x79b580` is
+    /// `SetVertexColor(r, g, b, a)` on the *same* `+0xa8`/`+0xb8` slot as [`Self::vertex_color`], so
+    /// in the real client the two clobber each other. We keep them separate fields because the draw
+    /// result is identical either way — both readings end in one product,
+    /// `texel × ownColorAlpha × frameAlpha` — and no reference call site sets both on one region;
+    /// separate storage additionally keeps `SetAlpha` on a FontString from wiping its font object's
+    /// colour, which the CSimpleFontString half of that binding was never pinned for. The
+    /// divergence is now *known* rather than open: a call site that sets both is where it bites.
     pub(crate) alpha: Option<f32>,
     /// A texture path (`SetTexture("Interface\\...")`).
     pub(crate) texture: Option<String>,
-    /// A color: a solid fill (`SetTexture(r,g,b,a)`) or a vertex tint (`SetVertexColor`).
-    pub(crate) color: Option<[f32; 4]>,
+    /// The **solid-colour texture** (`SetTexture(r, g, b, a)`, and XML `<Texture><Color/></Texture>`
+    /// with no `file=`) — the `+0xcc` slot [`Self::texture`] also occupies, so the two are mutually
+    /// exclusive by construction: every writer of one clears the other. Not a tint. The real client
+    /// really does *generate an 8×8 texture* here (`CSimpleTexture::SetTexture(const CImVector*)`
+    /// `0x770360` → `0x44a9c0` → the `rep stos` generator `0x5c5350` fills 64 texels with the packed
+    /// ARGB), which is why the XML alpha rides in the **texel** and multiplies with
+    /// [`Self::vertex_color`] rather than being replaced by it.
+    pub(crate) fill: Option<[f32; 4]>,
+    /// The **vertex colour** (`SetVertexColor 0x79abd0` → `0x77f750`, writing `+0xb8`; a StatusBar's
+    /// `SetStatusBarColor`; a FontString's `SetTextColor` and its font object's colour) — storage
+    /// distinct from [`Self::fill`]/[`Self::texture`]'s `+0xcc`.
+    ///
+    /// **Draw law** (wow-re `system/ui/scratch/texture-color-composition.md`, VERIFIED):
+    /// `drawn = texel × vertexColour`, per channel, **alpha included**. `None` = never set = the
+    /// untinted white every region draws at by default. This is why the reference `SkillFrame`'s
+    /// row trough — declared `<Color 1,1,1,0.2>`, then `SetVertexColor(0, 0, 0.75, 0.5)`'d — draws
+    /// at alpha `0.2 × 0.5 = 0.1`, not `0.5`. [`super::extract`] does that multiply.
+    pub(crate) vertex_color: Option<[f32; 4]>,
     /// This region is a **portrait**: draw its texture masked to the inscribed circle (set by
     /// `SetPortraitToTexture`, and by `SetPortraitTexture`'s round unit binding). WoW portraits
     /// are circular — the frame ring is a thin band whose transparent corners would otherwise
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs
index fd88713e..eab2ffde 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs
@@ -540,46 +540,57 @@ pub(in crate::script) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // The rest-state trio (decision 1082) — player-level globals over the app's rest feed
+    // The rest-state trio (decisions 1082/1087) — player-level globals over the app's rest feed
     // ([`UiScript::set_rest_state`]), the MainMenuBar exhaustion tick's and the player frame's
-    // whole wire. INTERIM pending the dispatched wow-re verdict on `GetRestState 0x48d350` /
-    // `GetXPExhaustion 0x48d3f0` / `IsResting 0x516ea0`; each claim below is flagged at its site.
+    // whole wire. Byte-VERIFIED, wow-re `system/ui/scratch/rested-xp-bindings.md` (a §5 pair +
+    // orchestrator arbitration): the surface is Exhaustion.dbc DATA, not client constants — the
+    // rows live in the model ([`UiScript::set_exhaustion_rows`]; shipped-table fallback).
     //
-    // GetRestState() → (stateID, stateName, multiplier). The id IS the wire byte
-    // (`PLAYER_BYTES_2` byte 3): 1 = Rested (earn 200% of base kill XP), 2 = Normal (100%) — the
-    // only two the live server ever writes (vmangos `SetRestBonus`; the beta tired/exhausted
-    // tiers 3..5 survive as dead FrameXML branches). 0-before-feed reads as Normal. The names are
-    // the live client's own returns (INTERIM: enUS spellings, source string table unverified);
-    // the multiplier is what `EXHAUST_TOOLTIP1` renders ×100 ("200% of normal experience").
+    // GetRestState() → (stateID, stateName, multiplier) — `0x48d350`: the raw `PLAYER_BYTES_2`
+    // byte 3 indexes Exhaustion.dbc DIRECTLY (the `[0xc0dd78]` ID→row array) and the triple is
+    // `(row.ID, row.name[locale], row.factor)`: 1 → (1, "Rested", 2.0), 2 → (2, "Normal", 1.0),
+    // and FrameXML's dead 3..5 branches map to the real beta rows (XXXTired 1.0/0.5,
+    // XXXExhausted 0.25). Every failure — byte 0 (pre-feed), byte past the table, no row —
+    // returns (nil, nil, nil), the binary's own fail path. The multiplier is what
+    // `EXHAUST_TOOLTIP1` renders ×100 ("200% of normal experience").
     g.set(
         "GetRestState",
         lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(if model.rest_state == 1 {
-                (1i64, "Rested", 2.0f64)
-            } else {
-                (2i64, "Normal", 1.0f64)
+            Ok(match model.exhaustion.get(&model.rest_state) {
+                Some((name, factor)) => (
+                    Value::Number(f64::from(model.rest_state)),
+                    Value::String(lua.create_string(name)?),
+                    Value::Number(*factor),
+                ),
+                None => (Value::Nil, Value::Nil, Value::Nil),
             })
         })?,
     )?;
-    // GetXPExhaustion() → the rested span in BAR-XP units, or nil once the pool is dry — the tick
-    // parks at `currXP + this` and the fill bar spans up to it (`ExhaustionTick_Update`). ×2 of
-    // the wire pool: the server drains `PLAYER_REST_STATE_EXPERIENCE` 1:1 against BASE kill XP
-    // while granting +100% (vmangos `GetXPRestBonus`), so the bar advances two for every one the
-    // pool loses (INTERIM: the ×2-in-client and the nil-when-zero shape are the dispatch's C1).
+    // GetXPExhaustion() → the rested span in BAR-XP units — `0x48d3f0`: the u32 pool × the f32
+    // factor of **Exhaustion.dbc row ID 1, hard-coded** (`[[0xc0dd78]+4]`, whatever the current
+    // state) — 2.0 in the shipped data, which is the whole "rested XP is double" law: the server
+    // drains the pool 1:1 against BASE kill XP while granting +100% (vmangos `GetXPRestBonus`),
+    // and the client scales by exactly this row's factor. **nil is decided by the rest-state
+    // byte, never by the pool** (`0x48d43b dec/jne`): byte ≠ 1 → nil whatever the pool holds
+    // (vmangos's 0 < bonus ≤ 10 hysteresis window sends byte 2 with a nonzero pool — nil there),
+    // and a rested byte with pool 0 → the NUMBER 0. The tick parks at `currXP + this`
+    // (`ExhaustionTick_Update`).
     g.set(
         "GetXPExhaustion",
         lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
             let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-            Ok(if model.rest_pool == 0 {
+            Ok(if model.rest_state != 1 {
                 Value::Nil
             } else {
-                Value::Integer(i64::from(model.rest_pool) * 2)
+                let factor = model.exhaustion.get(&1).map_or(2.0, |(_, f)| *f);
+                Value::Number(f64::from(model.rest_pool) * factor)
             })
         })?,
     )?;
-    // IsResting() → 1/nil: inside a rest area (inn/city) right now — `PLAYER_FLAGS_RESTING
-    // (0x20)`. The player frame's flashing zzz reads exactly this.
+    // IsResting() → 1/nil: inside a rest area (inn/city) right now — `0x516ea0`, byte-VERIFIED:
+    // PLAYER_FLAGS `shr 5; test 1` = bit 0x20, pushed as the NUMBER 1.0 or nil (the Lua-vanilla
+    // predicate shape, not a boolean). The player frame's flashing zzz reads exactly this.
     g.set(
         "IsResting",
         lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
@@ -591,10 +602,8 @@ pub(in crate::script) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             })
         })?,
     )?;
-    // GetTimeToWellRested() → nil, always: nothing on the 1.12 wire carries a time-to-full
-    // estimate, and `ExhaustionToolTipText` nil-guards the call (its EXHAUST_TOOLTIP4 line simply
-    // never renders). INTERIM: the dispatch's Q5 — if the binary computes one client-side, this
-    // grows the real formula.
+    // GetTimeToWellRested() → nil, always — `0x48d4b0`, byte-VERIFIED: the whole binding is 11
+    // bytes, `pushnil; return 1`. FrameXML's EXHAUST_TOOLTIP4 countdown branch is dead in 5875.
     g.set(
         "GetTimeToWellRested",
         lua.create_function(|_, ()| Ok(Value::Nil))?,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/mod.rs
index 7685fe63..9793bfb4 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/mod.rs
@@ -289,6 +289,19 @@ impl super::UiScript {
         model.resting = resting;
     }
 
+    /// Push Exhaustion.dbc — `(rest-state byte, localized name, factor)` rows for the
+    /// `GetRestState`/`GetXPExhaustion` bindings (they read the table exactly as `0x48d350` /
+    /// `0x48d3f0` read the client's own copy; decision 1087). Called once at startup off the
+    /// patch chain; an empty push is ignored so a failed DBC read keeps the shipped-table
+    /// fallback the model seeds.
+    pub fn set_exhaustion_rows(&mut self, rows: Vec<(u8, String, f64)>) {
+        if rows.is_empty() {
+            return;
+        }
+        let mut model = self.model_mut();
+        model.exhaustion = rows.into_iter().map(|(id, n, f)| (id, (n, f))).collect();
+    }
+
     /// Push the player's banked combo points (`PLAYER_FIELD_BYTES` byte 1) and the unit they sit
     /// on (`PLAYER_FIELD_COMBO_TARGET`) — the pair `Player::SetComboPoints` writes together, taken
     /// together so they can never be read half-updated. Player-level PRIVATE fields, same shape as