diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/attach/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/attach/mod.rs
index b6c4d7e0..a4a04b53 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/attach/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/attach/mod.rs
@@ -280,10 +280,12 @@ pub(super) fn attach_entity_visuals(
     ) = skin_build;
     let now = time.elapsed_secs();
     for (entity, net, equipment, reattached, mount_child, mount_body, anchored) in &pending {
-        // A player attaches once its equipment settles, so it never flashes naked.
-        if net.kind == EntityKind::Player && !equipment.is_some_and(|e| e.settled) {
-            continue;
-        }
+        // A player attaches as soon as its display model is ready. 1.12.1 withholds a unit only
+        // until its first composite (`0x477860`) is done, never until every `PLAYER_VISIBLE_ITEM`
+        // template is answered: the compositor paints the armour it knows and re-dresses when a
+        // template lands (`redress_player_looks`). Gating on `Equipment::settled` here withheld a
+        // body for good on a chain that never answers one visible-item query — in a battleground
+        // crowd that is every other player.
         // A corpse waits for `resolve_corpse_equipment`: it is never re-dressed, so a body
         // composited early would stay naked.
         if net.kind == EntityKind::Corpse && equipment.is_none() {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
index 6bbc4100..a4e2ae89 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
@@ -518,15 +518,24 @@ pub(crate) fn class_names(class: u8) -> Option<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
 /// A playable race's fixed side, for where no faction template is at hand, as at world entry,
 /// where addons concatenate `UnitFactionGroup("player")` at file scope; [`faction_group`] reads
 /// the live template.
+///
+/// Deviation: races 9 (Goblin) and 10 (High Elf) are TurtleWoW's additions, absent from stock
+/// 1.12's eight; their sides come from TurtleWoW's `FactionTemplate.dbc` group masks (Goblin's
+/// template 1609 is mask 5, Horde; High Elf's 1610 is mask 3, Alliance). Without a side here the
+/// roster seat's `UnitFactionGroup("player")` is nil, and a 2.0-era addon that concatenates it at
+/// load (aux-addon's `history.lua` `format('%s|%s', realm, UnitFactionGroup'player')`) raises and
+/// loses its whole load phase.
 pub(crate) fn race_faction_group(race: u8) -> Option<&'static str> {
-    if !(1..=8).contains(&race) {
+    if !(1..=10).contains(&race) {
         return None;
     }
-    Some(if crate::char_create::ALLIANCE.contains(&race) {
-        "Alliance"
-    } else {
-        "Horde"
-    })
+    Some(
+        if crate::char_create::ALLIANCE.contains(&race) || race == 10 {
+            "Alliance"
+        } else {
+            "Horde"
+        },
+    )
 }
 
 /// A unit's PvP team digit, `0x5efe00`'s `0` Horde, `1` Alliance, `-1` no side, from the race and
@@ -1640,6 +1649,16 @@ mod tests {
         );
         assert_eq!(race_names(0), None, "race 0 has no ChrRaces row");
         assert_eq!(race_names(11), None, "race 11 has no ChrRaces row");
+        // Sides for the roster seat's `UnitFactionGroup("player")`, per TurtleWoW's
+        // `FactionTemplate` group masks (Goblin 5, High Elf 3).
+        assert_eq!(race_faction_group(9), Some("Horde"), "race 9 is Goblin");
+        assert_eq!(
+            race_faction_group(10),
+            Some("Alliance"),
+            "race 10 is High Elf"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(race_faction_group(0), None, "race 0 has no side");
+        assert_eq!(race_faction_group(11), None, "race 11 has no side");
     }
 
     /// The team digit comes off the race byte, whatever template sits beside it (a GM's 35).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs
index dd24e42e..8fd77600 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/stdlib.rs
@@ -303,16 +303,20 @@ function GetGameTime() return __benilla_game_hour, __benilla_game_minute end
 --
 -- This is a deviation from the reference, kept because 1.12's own UI cannot load without it. The
 -- shapes are 2.0's, not 1.12's, and each is scoped to what the reference-corpus callers use:
--- `wipe` is single-argument (no corpus caller passes a key) and no-ops on nil — TurtleWoW's
--- `Blizzard_RaidUI.lua:77` wipes `RAID_SUBGROUP_LISTS` entries that may never be populated, and
--- `strsplit` splits on PLAIN text.
+-- `wipe` is single-argument (no corpus caller passes a key) and hands back a table for nil —
+-- TurtleWoW's `Blizzard_RaidUI.lua:77` clears `RAID_SUBGROUP_LISTS` entries with `= wipe(t[i])`
+-- and then `tinsert`s into them, and `strsplit` splits on PLAIN text.
 do
     local _find, _sub, _insert, _concat, _len = string.find, string.sub, table.insert, table.concat, string.len
     local _gsub = string.gsub
 
     function wipe(t)
-        if t == nil then return end
+        -- `t = t or {}` and a returned table: TurtleWoW's `Blizzard_RaidUI.lua:77,116` clears its
+        -- `RAID_SUBGROUP_LISTS` with `t[i] = wipe(t[i])` and then `tinsert`s into it, so `wipe` of
+        -- a never-populated entry must hand back a table to insert into.
+        t = t or {}
         for k in pairs(t) do t[k] = nil end
+        return t
     end
 
     -- `explode(subject, sep [, out])`: 2.0-era split into a TABLE, unlike `strsplit`'s vararg
@@ -393,6 +397,14 @@ end
 -- define the name themselves under their own namespace. An addon reaching for one of these is
 -- reaching for a later client's API, and it should find what it would find there: nothing.
 
+-- ── TurtleWoW's arena-score request ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+-- TurtleWoW's `WorldStateFrame.lua:217` calls `RequestArenaScoreInfo()` on the battleground score
+-- events. The function is native to its client — the reply fills `this.arenaData`, which its Lua
+-- only reads — and benilla has no arena scoreboard (1.12 has no arenas, and the reply is parsed
+-- by TurtleWoW's native code, never this Lua). So the request is a no-op that keeps the frame
+-- from raising; `RequestCustomScoreInfo`, the battleground twin, is defined by the file itself.
+RequestArenaScoreInfo = function() end
+
 -- ── Blizzard's positional string.format (%N$) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
 do
     -- `_find`/`_sub` are captured for the same reason `_format` is: this wrapper runs on every
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs
index 9248c97d..f8d10286 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/reference_surface.rs
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ fn allowed_beyond_1_12() -> HashSet<&'static str> {
         "ADDON_MSG_FIELD_DELIMITER",
         "ADDON_MSG_ARRAY_DELIMITER",
         "ADDON_MSG_SUBFIELD_DELIMITER",
+        // TurtleWoW's native arena-score request: a no-op here (its reply is parsed by TurtleWoW's
+        // client, and benilla has no arena scoreboard), so its WorldStateFrame.lua:217 cannot raise.
+        "RequestArenaScoreInfo",
         // ── WoW API past 1.12 ──
         // Only `SubmitChatInput` is called from our UI files (`ScriptLogFrame.xml`'s slash
         // commands); each of the rest awaits its 1.12 equivalent, removal or a reason.