diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CombatText.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CombatText.xml
index 1c47d52e..344041fb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CombatText.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CombatText.xml
@@ -42,22 +42,41 @@
         COMBAT_TEXT_LOCATIONS = {}
 
         -- The option family's saved-variables (ref UIOptionsFrame.lua l.125-152), at the ref
-        -- defaults except the master (see the header). No options panel binds them yet — flip in
-        -- Lua when wanted.
+        -- defaults except the master (see the header). Each is assigned AT FILE SCOPE and
+        -- registered on the line under it — the reference's own load order (decision 1128):
+        -- defaults first, the saved chunk over the top, consumers third; reverse any two and a
+        -- saved value can never win. The Options window's Combat page drives all fourteen
+        -- (decision 1134) and takes its Defaults values from these very assignments, read at the
+        -- row's OnLoad — which runs before the saved chunk — so each default lives in one place,
+        -- here, and the panel cannot drift from it.
         SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT = "1"
+        RegisterForSave("SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA = "1"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS = "1"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE = "1"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA = "0"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA")
         COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED = "1"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED")
         COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE = "1"
+        RegisterForSave("COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE")
 
         -- The message words (shipped enUS GlobalStrings values, hardcoded like the rest of our
         -- enUS-only data; or-guarded so an earlier definition wins).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GameTime.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GameTime.xml
index be365f5e..fd249fcc 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GameTime.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GameTime.xml
@@ -22,9 +22,11 @@
       macro; CharacterFrame.xml's note).
     - TwentyFourHourTime = 1 is SET here: the reference sets it in Localization.lua's
       LocalizeFrames() — this install is enGB, and enGB is a 24-hour locale — called at
-      VARIABLES_LOADED, which benilla doesn't fire yet (no saved-variables arc; BagFrame.xml's
-      precedent). So the tooltip reads "21:07" exactly as the reference client on this install
-      does; the 12-hour AM/PM branches stay verbatim below for the day a locale/CVar drives it.
+      VARIABLES_LOADED. benilla fires that event since decision 1128 and could carry this as a saved
+      variable (it is on 1128's follow-on list), but the value here is a LOCALE fact, not a player
+      toggle: this install is enGB and enGB is a 24-hour locale. So the tooltip reads "21:07" exactly
+      as the reference client on this install does; the 12-hour AM/PM branches stay verbatim below
+      for the day a locale/CVar drives it.
 -->
 <Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/">
     <Script><![CDATA[
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
index c7a6bcdd..c9ace5fe 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
@@ -614,6 +614,15 @@
             },
             Graphics = { "RowUiScale", "RowWorldDetail" },
             Nameplates = { "RowPlayerNames", "RowNpcNames", "RowOwnName" },
+            -- The floating-combat-text family (decision 1134), in the reference's own on-screen
+            -- order — its AdvancedOptionsCombatText box's anchor chain, master → scroll mode →
+            -- the twelve, NOT its check-button index order (which jumps 58→60→63…59→69).
+            Combat = {
+                "RowCombatText", "RowFloatMode", "RowLowHealthMana", "RowAuras", "RowAuraFade",
+                "RowCombatState", "RowDodgeParryMiss", "RowResistances", "RowReputation",
+                "RowReactives", "RowFriendlyNames", "RowComboPoints", "RowEnergyGains",
+                "RowHonorGained",
+            },
         }
 
         -- `tip` is the GlobalStrings KEY of the row's description (B223, decision 1054) — the key,
@@ -627,6 +636,9 @@
             -- (SettingControls.lua l.773 AddSearchTags(name)), uppercased at registration
             -- (Blizzard_Settings.lua l.60).
             row.searchTag = string.upper(label)
+            -- Kept, not just applied: the disabled-state font (OptionsRow_SetEnabled) has to pick
+            -- the SAME size the indent chose, or greying a child row also promotes it.
+            row.child = child
             local l = getglobal(row:GetName() .. "Label")
             l:SetText(label)
             if child then
@@ -639,6 +651,52 @@
             end
         end
 
+        -- ── The row's STORE: a CVar, or a saved-variable global (decision 1134) ────────────
+        -- 1.12's own Interface panel has TWO stores, not one: each UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons
+        -- entry carries either `cvar = "name"` (an engine knob) or `uvar = "GLOBAL"` (a
+        -- RegisterForSave'd Lua global), and UIOptionsFrame_Load/_Save fork on exactly that field
+        -- (UIOptionsFrame.lua l.230-377). Values are strings either way — "1"/"0" for a toggle —
+        -- so only the accessor differs, and every row in this file now reads and writes through
+        -- this trio instead of calling Get/SetCVar directly.
+        function OptionsRow_Get(row)
+            if row.uvar then return getglobal(row.uvar) end
+            return GetCVar(row.cvar)
+        end
+
+        -- The write. A global's consumers are Lua and do not poll, so a uvar row also runs its
+        -- `applyFunc` — the reference's own per-uvar side effects (SIMPLE_CHAT → FCF_Set_*,
+        -- HIDE_PARTY_INTERFACE → RaidOptionsFrame_UpdatePartyFrames, the combat-text family →
+        -- CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages), moved from its batched Okay to our live write
+        -- because this window commits on the click (0961's grammar), not on a Save button.
+        function OptionsRow_Set(row, value)
+            if row.uvar then
+                setglobal(row.uvar, value)
+                if row.applyFunc then row.applyFunc() end
+                return
+            end
+            SetCVar(row.cvar, value)
+        end
+
+        -- The registered default — GetCVarDefault's counterpart for a global. `udefault` is the
+        -- value the defining XML assigned at FILE SCOPE, captured at this row's OnLoad: the whole
+        -- UI's XML loads before the saved-variables chunk executes over it (decision 1128's load
+        -- order), so at OnLoad the global still holds its shipped default. That makes the
+        -- assignment the single source of the default — the panel restates nothing and so cannot
+        -- drift from it, where the reference's table carries a second hand-written copy.
+        function OptionsRow_Default(row)
+            if row.uvar then return row.udefault end
+            return GetCVarDefault(row.cvar)
+        end
+
+        -- A row whose store is a saved-variable global rather than a CVar. Same signature as
+        -- OptionsRow_OnLoad with the global's name in the cvar seat; the caller adds `applyFunc`
+        -- afterwards when the setting needs one.
+        function OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(row, uvar, label, tip, child)
+            OptionsRow_OnLoad(row, nil, label, tip, child)
+            row.uvar = uvar
+            row.udefault = getglobal(uvar)
+        end
+
         -- A slider row's own range and readout, when the template's 0..1 / 5% / percent (the
         -- volume shape) isn't it — called after OptionsRow_OnLoad in the row's OnLoad. The
         -- refreshing guard: SetMinMaxValues re-clamps the held value and fires OnValueChanged,
@@ -688,7 +746,7 @@
         function OptionsDropdownEntry_OnClick()
             local dd = UIDropDownMenu_GetCurrentDropDown()
             local row = dd:GetParent()
-            SetCVar(row.cvar, this.value)
+            OptionsRow_Set(row, this.value)
             OptionsDropdown_ShowValue(row)
         end
 
@@ -702,7 +760,7 @@
         -- actually picks an entry. (A non-numeric stray shows raw and checks nothing.)
         function OptionsDropdown_ShowValue(row)
             local dd = getglobal(row:GetName() .. "Dropdown")
-            local v = GetCVar(row.cvar)
+            local v = OptionsRow_Get(row)
             local match
             for _, e in ipairs(row.entries) do
                 if e.value == v then match = e end
@@ -800,9 +858,9 @@
             local on = checked
             if row.invert then on = not on end
             if on then
-                SetCVar(row.cvar, 1)
+                OptionsRow_Set(row, "1")
             else
-                SetCVar(row.cvar, 0)
+                OptionsRow_Set(row, "0")
             end
             OptionsPage_UpdateDependencies(OptionsFrame.selectedCategory)
         end
@@ -828,7 +886,7 @@
                 end
             end
             getglobal(control:GetName() .. "Value"):SetText(OptionsRow_FormatValue(row, value))
-            if row.cvar and not row.refreshing then
+            if (row.cvar or row.uvar) and not row.refreshing then
                 -- Two decimals cover every page's grid (the 5% volumes, uiScale's 0.01, whole
                 -- yards); trailing zeros stripped so a value at the registered default
                 -- compares equal to it as a STRING and stays out of the config file ("0.40"
@@ -841,14 +899,14 @@
                     -- slider that rescales itself mid-drag is exactly what this flag
                     -- exists to prevent. Dragging back onto the committed value clears the
                     -- pending (era's IsModified: a pending EQUAL to current isn't one).
-                    if str == GetCVar(row.cvar) then
+                    if str == OptionsRow_Get(row) then
                         row.pending = nil
                     else
                         row.pending = str
                     end
                     OptionsApply_Update()
                 else
-                    SetCVar(row.cvar, str)
+                    OptionsRow_Set(row, str)
                 end
             end
         end
@@ -865,10 +923,10 @@
                     -- GAMEFIELD_DESELECT arm (`checked = 1` when the CVar reads "0").
                     if row.invert then
                         local checked
-                        if GetCVar(row.cvar) == "0" then checked = 1 end
+                        if OptionsRow_Get(row) == "0" then checked = 1 end
                         box:SetChecked(checked)
                     else
-                        box:SetChecked(GetCVar(row.cvar))
+                        box:SetChecked(OptionsRow_Get(row))
                     end
                 elseif row.entries then
                     OptionsDropdown_ShowValue(row)
@@ -877,7 +935,7 @@
                     row.refreshing = 1
                     -- Pending first (era GetValue returns the pendingValue while one is
                     -- staged): coming back to a page with an un-applied edit shows the edit.
-                    slider:SetValue(tonumber(row.pending or GetCVar(row.cvar) or "0") or 0)
+                    slider:SetValue(tonumber(row.pending or OptionsRow_Get(row) or "0") or 0)
                     row.refreshing = nil
                     -- SetValue fires only on a CHANGE — write the readout unconditionally,
                     -- from the slider's OWN value: in range that IS the CVar (SetValue stores
@@ -896,6 +954,25 @@
         -- (SoundOptionsFrame_UpdateDependencies disables buttons 2 and 4, Ambience and Error
         -- Speech; Enable Music stays live, the panel's own quirk).
         function OptionsPage_UpdateDependencies(key)
+            if key == "Combat" then
+                -- The 1.12 rule, verbatim (UIOptionsFrame_UpdateDependencies' "Additional combat
+                -- text dependancies" block): the master off greys EVERY sub-toggle and the scroll
+                -- dropdown. Combo Points carries the reference's second gate too — it is disabled
+                -- for anyone who is not a rogue or a druid, since nobody else has combo points.
+                local on = SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT ~= "0"
+                local _, class = UnitClass("player")
+                class = class and string.upper(class)
+                local combo = class == "ROGUE" or class == "DRUID"
+                for _, rkey in ipairs(OPTIONS_PAGE_ROWS.Combat) do
+                    if rkey ~= "RowCombatText" then
+                        local live = on
+                        if rkey == "RowComboPoints" and not combo then live = nil end
+                        OptionsRow_SetEnabled(
+                            getglobal("OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombat" .. rkey), live)
+                    end
+                end
+                return
+            end
             if key ~= "Audio" then return end
             local on = GetCVar("MasterSoundEffects") ~= "0"
             local box = OptionsFrameContainerBodyAudioRowEnableAmbienceCheck
@@ -909,6 +986,36 @@
             end
         end
 
+        -- Grey or wake one row, whichever control it wears (the Audio rule above predates this and
+        -- reaches its one checkbox by name). A dropdown row greys the way 1.12's own
+        -- OptionsFrame_DisableDropDown does — the capsule's toggle BUTTON disabled so the list
+        -- cannot open, and its text in GRAY_FONT_COLOR — since our kit's
+        -- UIDropDownMenu_DisableButton addresses a LIST row (level, id), not the capsule.
+        function OptionsRow_SetEnabled(row, on)
+            local name = row:GetName()
+            local box = getglobal(name .. "Check")
+            local dd = getglobal(name .. "Dropdown")
+            if box then
+                if on then box:Enable() else box:Disable() end
+            elseif dd then
+                local text = getglobal(dd:GetName() .. "Text")
+                if on then
+                    getglobal(dd:GetName() .. "Button"):Enable()
+                    text:SetTextColor(HIGHLIGHT_FONT_COLOR.r, HIGHLIGHT_FONT_COLOR.g,
+                        HIGHLIGHT_FONT_COLOR.b)
+                else
+                    getglobal(dd:GetName() .. "Button"):Disable()
+                    text:SetTextColor(GRAY_FONT_COLOR.r, GRAY_FONT_COLOR.g, GRAY_FONT_COLOR.b)
+                end
+            end
+            local label = getglobal(name .. "Label")
+            if on then
+                label:SetFontObject(row.child and "GameFontNormalSmall" or "GameFontNormal")
+            else
+                label:SetFontObject(row.child and "GameFontDisableSmall" or "GameFontDisable")
+            end
+        end
+
         -- Defaults, live on any page with rows: every row's CVar back to its registered
         -- default (era resets per-setting the same way; the era all-pages confirm dialog is
         -- not modeled — Defaults resets the VISIBLE page). A pending edit dies with it — the
@@ -918,7 +1025,7 @@
             for _, rkey in ipairs(OPTIONS_PAGE_ROWS[key]) do
                 local row = getglobal(base .. rkey)
                 row.pending = nil
-                SetCVar(row.cvar, GetCVarDefault(row.cvar))
+                OptionsRow_Set(row, OptionsRow_Default(row))
             end
             OptionsPage_Refresh(key)
         end
@@ -956,7 +1063,7 @@
                 for _, rkey in ipairs(rows) do
                     local row = getglobal(base .. rkey)
                     if row.pending then
-                        SetCVar(row.cvar, row.pending)
+                        OptionsRow_Set(row, row.pending)
                         row.pending = nil
                     end
                 end
@@ -1868,6 +1975,214 @@
                                         </Frame>
                                     </Frames>
                                 </Frame>
+                                <!-- The COMBAT page (decision 1134) — the first page whose rows
+                                     write saved-variable GLOBALS rather than CVars, and the first
+                                     thing that can change any of the ~20 stock globals 1128
+                                     ported. It is 1.12's AdvancedOptionsCombatText box, whole: the
+                                     master, the scroll-mode dropdown, and the twelve sub-toggles,
+                                     in the reference box's own anchor-chain order, with its
+                                     GlobalStrings labels and OPTION_TOOLTIP_* keys verbatim and
+                                     each sub-toggle at the reference's default (the assignment in
+                                     CombatText.xml, which is also where the Defaults button reads
+                                     from). Every row runs CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages as
+                                     its applyFunc — the reference's own post-Save call, moved to
+                                     the click because this window writes live (0961). -->
+                                <Frame name="$parentCombat" hidden="true">
+                                    <Anchors>
+                                        <Anchor point="TOPLEFT"/>
+                                        <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT"/>
+                                    </Anchors>
+                                    <Frames>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowCombatText" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="10" y="-12"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-20" y="-12"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT",
+                                                    "Enable Floating Combat Text", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT")
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <!-- The scroll mode. 1.12's own dropdown, values and all
+                                             (UIOptionsFrameCombatTextDropDown_Initialize: "1" up,
+                                             "2" down, "3" arc), worn as an era dropdown row. -->
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowFloatMode" inherits="OptionsDropdownRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowCombatText" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowCombatText" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE",
+                                                    "Combat Text Float Mode", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_MODE", 1)
+                                                OptionsDropdownRow_Setup(self, {
+                                                    { text = "Scroll Up", value = "1" },
+                                                    { text = "Scroll Down", value = "2" },
+                                                    { text = "Arc", value = "3" },
+                                                })
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowLowHealthMana" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowFloatMode" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowFloatMode" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA",
+                                                    "Show Low Mana and Health",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_LOW_HEALTH_MANA", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowAuras" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowLowHealthMana" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowLowHealthMana" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS",
+                                                    "Show Auras", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowAuraFade" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowAuras" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowAuras" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE",
+                                                    "Show Fading Auras", "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURA_FADE", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowCombatState" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowAuraFade" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowAuraFade" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE",
+                                                    "Show Combat State",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBAT_STATE", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowDodgeParryMiss" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowCombatState" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowCombatState" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS",
+                                                    "Show Dodge/Parries/Misses",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowResistances" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowDodgeParryMiss" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowDodgeParryMiss" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES",
+                                                    "Show Damage Reduction",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_RESISTANCES", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowReputation" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowResistances" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowResistances" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION",
+                                                    "Show Reputation",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowReactives" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowReputation" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowReputation" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES",
+                                                    "Show Reactive Spells and Abilities",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REACTIVES", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowFriendlyNames" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowReactives" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowReactives" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES",
+                                                    "Show Friendly Healer Names",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_FRIENDLY_NAMES", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <!-- Combo Points carries the reference's SECOND gate: greyed
+                                             for anyone who is not a rogue or a druid — see
+                                             OptionsPage_UpdateDependencies. -->
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowComboPoints" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowFriendlyNames" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowFriendlyNames" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS",
+                                                    "Show Combo Points",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_COMBO_POINTS", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowEnergyGains" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowComboPoints" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowComboPoints" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA",
+                                                    "Show Energy Gains",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_MANA", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowHonorGained" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowEnergyGains" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowEnergyGains" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsGlobalRow_OnLoad(self, "COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED",
+                                                    "Show Honor Gained",
+                                                    "OPTION_TOOLTIP_COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED", 1)
+                                                self.parentRow = "RowCombatText"
+                                                self.applyFunc = CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
+                                    </Frames>
+                                </Frame>
                                 <!-- The Nameplates page (0992 — the page 0952 promised when the
                                      category row joined): the three 1.12 UnitName* checkboxes over
                                      the overhead-name gates (nameplates.rs NameConfig), rows in
@@ -2161,6 +2476,12 @@
                                         getglobal(self:GetName() .. "Label"):SetText("Graphics")
                                     </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                 </Button>
+                                <Button name="$parentSearchHeadCombat" inherits="OptionsSearchHeadTemplate">
+                                    <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                        self.categoryKey = "Combat"
+                                        getglobal(self:GetName() .. "Label"):SetText("Combat")
+                                    </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                </Button>
                                 <Button name="$parentSearchHeadNameplates" inherits="OptionsSearchHeadTemplate">
                                     <Scripts><OnLoad>
                                         self.categoryKey = "Nameplates"
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TrainerFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TrainerFrame.xml
index 89382dcc..db134d71 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TrainerFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TrainerFrame.xml
@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@
             renders each row by type; a header click folds its group, a service click selects it.
           - THE FILTER IS A DROPDOWN. BenillaTrainerFilterDropDown (over UIDropDownMenu.xml's kit) with
             three keepShownOnClick check rows (Available/Unavailable/Already Known) driving the engine's
-            state-visibility filter — replacing the three inline sort checkboxes. "Already Known" starts
-            OFF (the backport's TRAINER_FILTER_USED default), set once in OnLoad.
+            state-visibility filter — replacing the three inline sort checkboxes. Its three states are
+            SAVED VARIABLES (decision 1128): defaults 1/1/0 at file scope — "Already Known" starts OFF,
+            the shipped 1.12.1 Blizzard_TrainerUI.lua:6-9's own values — restored from
+            benilla/saved-variables.lua at load, and pushed into the engine on show because the list
+            builder resets its mask on every packet.
           - THE SCROLL BAR IS REAL. BenillaTrainerListScrollFrame (BenillaFauxScrollFrameTemplate): a
             draggable Slider bar + up/down step arrows over the fixed 11 rows (the faux-scroll re-binds
             rows to a moving offset — it never really scrolls a child). The wheel still lives on the
@@ -72,6 +75,21 @@
         local TRAINER_REQ_SKILL_RANK_RED = "%s (|cffff2020%d|r)"         -- TRAINER_REQ_SKILL_RANK_RED (3742)
         local TRAINER_REQ_ABILITY        = "|cffffffff%s|r"             -- TRAINER_REQ_ABILITY (3737)
         local TRAINER_REQ_ABILITY_RED    = "|cffff2020%s|r"             -- TRAINER_REQ_ABILITY_RED (3738)
+        -- ── The state filter's three SAVED VARIABLES (decision 1128) ─────────────────────────────────
+        -- The reference's own globals, values and mechanism: Blizzard_TrainerUI.lua:6-9 assigns these
+        -- at FILE SCOPE and its `.toc` declares them `## SavedVariables`; the client executes the
+        -- saved file over them AFTER this file loads and BEFORE the load event, so a remembered value
+        -- wins over the default. benilla's ported UI is one FrameXML tree rather than addons, so the
+        -- declaration rides `RegisterForSave` (FrameXML's own API for its 38 globals) and the same
+        -- ordering is the app's load seam. File scope is load-bearing: assign these in OnLoad and the
+        -- default would clobber the restored value every launch.
+        TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE   = 1
+        TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE = 1
+        TRAINER_FILTER_USED        = 0
+        RegisterForSave("TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE")
+        RegisterForSave("TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE")
+        RegisterForSave("TRAINER_FILTER_USED")
+
         local LABEL_AVAILABLE   = "Available"               -- AVAILABLE (84)
         local LABEL_UNAVAILABLE = "Unavailable"             -- UNAVAILABLE (3840)
         local LABEL_USED        = "Already Known"           -- USED (3868)
@@ -417,11 +435,16 @@
         -- appeared to move, and because `this.checked` then read stale-true forever, a filter switched
         -- off could never be switched back on.
         function BenillaTrainerFilterDropDown_OnClick()
-            if this.checked then
-                SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter(this.value, 0)
-            else
-                SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter(this.value, 1)
+            -- The engine filter AND the saved global, together: the global is what survives the
+            -- restart and what BenillaTrainerFrame_ApplyFilter pushes back after the per-packet
+            -- reset, so writing only the engine would lose the toggle at the next list (the ref's
+            -- own setglobal pair, Blizzard_TrainerUI.lua:526-530).
+            local on = 0
+            if not this.checked then
+                on = 1
             end
+            setglobal("TRAINER_FILTER_" .. strupper(this.value), on)
+            SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter(this.value, on)
             BenillaFauxScrollFrame_SetOffset(getglobal("BenillaTrainerListScrollFrame"), 0)
             BenillaTrainerFrame_Update()
         end
@@ -453,11 +476,18 @@
             frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_MONEY")
             -- The faux-scroll frame repaints the list through this window's Update.
             getglobal("BenillaTrainerListScrollFrame").updateFunc = BenillaTrainerFrame_Update
-            -- The backport's default state filter: Available + Unavailable on, Already Known OFF
-            -- (TRAINER_FILTER_USED = 0). Set once; the engine persists a user's later toggles.
-            SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter("available", 1)
-            SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter("unavailable", 1)
-            SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter("used", 0)
+        end
+
+        -- Push the three saved globals into the engine — the ref's ClassTrainerFrame <OnShow>
+        -- (Blizzard_TrainerUI.xml:531-533), and it is NOT redundant: the list builder rewrites the
+        -- engine's filter mask to its own default on every SMSG_TRAINER_LIST (byte-verified,
+        -- `0x4d75d9 mov ds:0xb73a1c,3`; decision 1128), so this is what puts the player's remembered
+        -- choice back. Called on show and at the top of TRAINER_SHOW — our repaint runs before
+        -- ShowUIPanel, so applying it only in OnShow would leave one frame painted under the reset.
+        function BenillaTrainerFrame_ApplyFilter()
+            SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter("available", TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE)
+            SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter("unavailable", TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE)
+            SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter("used", TRAINER_FILTER_USED)
         end
 
         function BenillaTrainerFrame_SetTitle(name)
@@ -471,6 +501,7 @@
         function BenillaTrainerFrame_OnEvent(frame)
             if event == "TRAINER_SHOW" then
                 -- Fresh session: top of the list, a first selection (ref ClassTrainerFrame_Show).
+                BenillaTrainerFrame_ApplyFilter()
                 BenillaTrainerFrame_SetTitle(arg1)
                 BenillaFauxScrollFrame_SetOffset(getglobal("BenillaTrainerListScrollFrame"), 0)
                 if GetTrainerSelectionIndex() == 0 then
@@ -803,7 +834,7 @@
             <OnLoad>BenillaTrainerFrame_OnLoad(self)</OnLoad>
             <OnEvent>BenillaTrainerFrame_OnEvent(self)</OnEvent>
             <OnMouseWheel>BenillaTrainerFrame_OnMouseWheel(arg1)</OnMouseWheel>
-            <OnShow>PlaySound("igCharacterInfoOpen")</OnShow>
+            <OnShow>BenillaTrainerFrame_ApplyFilter(); PlaySound("igCharacterInfoOpen")</OnShow>
             <OnHide>CloseTrainer(); PlaySound("igCharacterInfoClose")</OnHide>
         </Scripts>
     </Frame>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
index 3acce0ba..830ba17d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use std::time::Instant;
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 
 use crate::clutter::ClutterConfig;
+use crate::minimap::MinimapZoom;
 use crate::nameplates::NameConfig;
 use crate::player::camera::LookConfig;
 use crate::sound::SoundConfig;
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ use crate::ui_loot::LootConfig;
 use crate::ui_script::UiScaleCvar;
 use crate::view::{ViewDistance, FARCLIP_RANGE};
 use benilla_ui::script::UiScript;
+use benilla_ui::widget::MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS;
 
 /// The host-backed CVars: `(registered name, default)`. Grows one row per knob a settings page
 /// actually wires — never ahead of the knob (see the module doc).
@@ -72,6 +74,13 @@ pub(crate) const REGISTERED: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
     // the clutter-density knob — 0 is the client's bare frillDensity baseline (×1 = 16 visits),
     // each step +1×; the "2" default IS ClutterConfig's shipped ×3 (the reference's High).
     ("WorldDetail", "2"),
+    // The minimap's two zoom indices (1131). Byte-verified 1.12 CVars, both registered `"3"`
+    // (wow-re, at the `RegisterCVar 0x63db90` argument slot). No options row drives these — the
+    // +/- buttons on the minimap do, through `Minimap:SetZoom`, exactly as in the reference, where
+    // `set_zoom` writes the live index and `CVar::Set`s the CVar in one breath. The knob is
+    // [`crate::minimap::MinimapZoom`], the widget's live index is seeded from it at UI load.
+    ("minimapZoom", "3"),
+    ("minimapInsideZoom", "3"),
 ];
 
 /// `config.toml`'s shape: a `[cvars]` table of `Name = "value"` strings (CVars are strings in
@@ -124,6 +133,7 @@ struct Knobs<'a> {
     loot: &'a mut LootConfig,
     names: &'a mut NameConfig,
     clutter: &'a mut ClutterConfig,
+    minimap: &'a mut MinimapZoom,
 }
 
 /// Apply one CVar to its knob resource (parse + the knob's own clamp). `false` = not a knob this
@@ -153,11 +163,22 @@ fn apply_to_knobs(name: &str, value: &str, knobs: &mut Knobs) -> bool {
         // The panel's 0/1/2 lands as the density multiplier ×1/×2/×3; the clamp is the 1.12
         // slider's own range (an off-grid hand-edit rides between stops, like every slider).
         "worlddetail" => knobs.clutter.density = v.clamp(0.0, 2.0) + 1.0,
+        // The two zoom indices (1131) clamp exactly like the client's `set_zoom` (`0x6daa10`:
+        // clamp at 5) — the widget clamps again on the way in, so a hand-edited level lands
+        // in range whichever path it takes.
+        "minimapzoom" => knobs.minimap.outdoor = zoom_index(v),
+        "minimapinsidezoom" => knobs.minimap.inside = zoom_index(v),
         _ => return false,
     }
     true
 }
 
+/// A stored minimap zoom level → a valid index: truncate to int and clamp into
+/// `[0, MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS)`, the client's own `set_zoom` clamp.
+fn zoom_index(v: f32) -> u8 {
+    v.clamp(0.0, f32::from(MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS - 1)) as u8
+}
+
 /// Startup: read `benilla/config.toml` (absent file = all defaults, not an error) and apply it
 /// to the knob resources — except keys the environment overrides this session (their resources
 /// already read the env var in their `Default`s). The VM does not exist yet; [`sync_cvars`]
@@ -173,6 +194,7 @@ fn load_config(
     mut loot: ResMut<LootConfig>,
     mut names: ResMut<NameConfig>,
     mut clutter: ResMut<ClutterConfig>,
+    mut minimap: ResMut<MinimapZoom>,
 ) {
     let mut knobs = Knobs {
         sound: &mut sound,
@@ -183,6 +205,7 @@ fn load_config(
         loot: &mut loot,
         names: &mut names,
         clutter: &mut clutter,
+        minimap: &mut minimap,
     };
     if std::env::var_os("WOW_UI_SCALE").is_some() {
         persist.env_overridden.insert("uiscale".into());
@@ -251,6 +274,7 @@ fn sync_cvars(
     mut loot: ResMut<LootConfig>,
     mut names: ResMut<NameConfig>,
     mut clutter: ResMut<ClutterConfig>,
+    mut minimap: ResMut<MinimapZoom>,
 ) {
     let Some(mut script) = script else {
         return;
@@ -258,7 +282,7 @@ fn sync_cvars(
     if !persist.registered {
         script.register_cvars(REGISTERED.iter().copied());
         let flag = |b: bool| if b { "1" } else { "0" }.to_string();
-        let session: [(&str, String); 16] = [
+        let session: [(&str, String); 18] = [
             ("MasterVolume", sound.master.to_string()),
             ("SoundVolume", sound.sfx.to_string()),
             ("MusicVolume", sound.music.to_string()),
@@ -278,6 +302,8 @@ fn sync_cvars(
             // multiplier seeds off-grid honestly — the dropdown shows the raw number, checks
             // nothing (the 0959 out-of-range posture, dropdown-flavored).
             ("WorldDetail", (clutter.density - 1.0).to_string()),
+            ("minimapZoom", minimap.outdoor.to_string()),
+            ("minimapInsideZoom", minimap.inside.to_string()),
         ];
         for (name, value) in session {
             script.set_cvar_host(name, &value);
@@ -300,6 +326,7 @@ fn sync_cvars(
         loot: &mut loot,
         names: &mut names,
         clutter: &mut clutter,
+        minimap: &mut minimap,
     };
     for (name, value) in changes {
         if apply_to_knobs(&name, &value, &mut knobs) {
@@ -424,6 +451,12 @@ mod tests {
         // ClutterConfig::default() reads $WOW_CLUTTER_DENSITY; the registered default mirrors
         // the env-less ×3 literal (clutter.rs: "Default ×3 = High") on the panel's 0..2 scale.
         assert_eq!(d["WorldDetail"], 2.0);
+        // The minimap pair (1131) welds to the widget's own `MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ZOOM`, which is the
+        // byte-verified registration default `"3"` — one truth, mirrored in three places.
+        let zoom = MinimapZoom::default();
+        assert_eq!(d["minimapZoom"], f32::from(zoom.outdoor));
+        assert_eq!(d["minimapInsideZoom"], f32::from(zoom.inside));
+        assert_eq!(zoom.outdoor, benilla_ui::widget::MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ZOOM);
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -442,6 +475,7 @@ mod tests {
             alpha_ref: 0.5,
             fade_far: 70.0,
         };
+        let mut minimap = MinimapZoom::default();
         let mut knobs = Knobs {
             sound: &mut sound,
             scale: &mut scale,
@@ -451,6 +485,7 @@ mod tests {
             loot: &mut loot,
             names: &mut names,
             clutter: &mut clutter,
+            minimap: &mut minimap,
         };
         assert!(apply_to_knobs("MusicVolume", "0.7", &mut knobs));
         assert_eq!(knobs.sound.music, 0.7);
@@ -481,6 +516,14 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(knobs.clutter.density, 1.0);
         assert!(apply_to_knobs("worlddetail", "7", &mut knobs));
         assert_eq!(knobs.clutter.density, 3.0);
+        // The zoom pair (1131): each index lands on its own field, clamped like `set_zoom`.
+        assert!(apply_to_knobs("minimapZoom", "5", &mut knobs));
+        assert_eq!(knobs.minimap.outdoor, 5);
+        assert_eq!(knobs.minimap.inside, 3, "the two indices are independent");
+        assert!(apply_to_knobs("minimapinsidezoom", "9", &mut knobs));
+        assert_eq!(knobs.minimap.inside, MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS - 1);
+        assert!(apply_to_knobs("minimapZoom", "-2", &mut knobs));
+        assert_eq!(knobs.minimap.outdoor, 0);
         // A bad value is consumed (known key) and the resource keeps its truth.
         assert!(apply_to_knobs("uiScale", "banana", &mut knobs));
         assert_eq!(knobs.scale.0, 0.9);
@@ -542,6 +585,7 @@ mod tests {
             .init_resource::<LootConfig>()
             .init_resource::<NameConfig>()
             .init_resource::<ClutterConfig>()
+            .init_resource::<MinimapZoom>()
             .add_plugins(CvarPlugin);
         app.insert_non_send_resource(UiScript::new().unwrap());
 
@@ -575,6 +619,88 @@ mod tests {
         std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
     }
 
+    /// The minimap's zoom rides the same loop, driven from the **engine** rather than a Lua
+    /// `SetCVar` (decision 1131): the `+`/`-` buttons call `Minimap:SetZoom`, which writes the live
+    /// index and its CVar together — and that has to reach the knob and the file exactly like a
+    /// settings row's write does, or the level is forgotten at the next launch.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_minimap_setzoom_reaches_the_knob_and_the_file() {
+        use crate::local_state::test_env::{EnvGuard, ENV_LOCK};
+        let _l = ENV_LOCK.lock().unwrap();
+        let tmp = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("benilla-mmzoom-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
+        let _c = EnvGuard::unset("WOW_CAPTURE");
+        let _u = EnvGuard::unset("WOW_UI_SCALE");
+        let _f = EnvGuard::unset("WOW_FARCLIP");
+        let _d = EnvGuard::unset("WOW_CLUTTER_DENSITY");
+        let _h = EnvGuard::set("BENILLA_HOME", tmp.to_str().unwrap());
+        // The previous session left the outdoor map zoomed right in.
+        crate::local_state::write_atomic(
+            &tmp.join("config.toml"),
+            "[cvars]\nminimapZoom = \"5\"\n",
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        let mut app = App::new();
+        app.add_plugins(bevy::MinimalPlugins)
+            .insert_resource(SoundConfig::default())
+            .insert_resource(UiScaleCvar(DEFAULT_UI_SCALE))
+            .insert_resource(ViewDistance { farclip: 777.0 })
+            .init_resource::<LookConfig>()
+            .init_resource::<ClickConfig>()
+            .init_resource::<LootConfig>()
+            .init_resource::<NameConfig>()
+            .init_resource::<ClutterConfig>()
+            .init_resource::<MinimapZoom>()
+            .add_plugins(CvarPlugin);
+        app.insert_non_send_resource(UiScript::new().unwrap());
+        app.update();
+
+        // Startup restored the knob, and the VM's table answers with it — which is what the UI-load
+        // seam hands to `set_minimap_zoom` when the widget is born.
+        assert_eq!(app.world().resource::<MinimapZoom>().outdoor, 5);
+        assert_eq!(app.world().resource::<MinimapZoom>().inside, 3);
+        let seed = {
+            let z = app.world().resource::<MinimapZoom>();
+            (z.outdoor, z.inside)
+        };
+        {
+            let mut script = app.world_mut().non_send_resource_mut::<UiScript>();
+            assert_eq!(script.cvar("minimapZoom").as_deref(), Some("5"));
+            // The UI-load seam's own order: the widget is born (at its `MinimapState` default),
+            // THEN the persisted level is pushed into it. Seeding a widget that does not exist yet
+            // is a no-op — which is exactly why that call sits after `load_ingame_ui`.
+            script.run(r#"m = CreateFrame("Minimap", "Mini")"#).unwrap();
+            script.set_minimap_zoom(seed.0, seed.1);
+            assert_eq!(script.eval::<u8>("return m:GetZoom()").unwrap(), 5);
+            // The player zooms out two notches with the minimap's own buttons.
+            script.run("m:SetZoom(m:GetZoom() - 2)").unwrap();
+        }
+        app.update();
+        assert_eq!(app.world().resource::<MinimapZoom>().outdoor, 3);
+
+        app.world_mut().write_message(AppExit::Success);
+        app.update();
+        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(tmp.join("config.toml")).unwrap();
+        assert!(
+            !text.contains("minimapZoom"),
+            "back at the registered default 3, so it leaves the diff entirely:\n{text}"
+        );
+
+        // …and one more notch out is a real diff again.
+        app.world_mut()
+            .non_send_resource_mut::<UiScript>()
+            .run("m:SetZoom(1)")
+            .unwrap();
+        app.update();
+        app.world_mut().write_message(AppExit::Success);
+        app.update();
+        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(tmp.join("config.toml")).unwrap();
+        assert!(text.contains("minimapZoom = \"1\""), "{text}");
+        assert_eq!(app.world().resource::<MinimapZoom>().outdoor, 1);
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn the_toml_round_trips() {
         let cfg = LocalConfig {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
index 16334218..63ecac1c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/lib.rs
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ mod ui_pet_doll;
 mod ui_pet_stats;
 mod ui_quest;
 mod ui_quest_log;
+mod ui_saved;
 mod ui_script;
 mod ui_session;
 mod ui_shapeshift;
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ use ui_pet_doll::UiPetDollPlugin;
 use ui_pet_stats::UiPetStatsPlugin;
 use ui_quest::UiQuestPlugin;
 use ui_quest_log::UiQuestLogPlugin;
+use ui_saved::UiSavedPlugin;
 use ui_script::UiScriptPlugin;
 use ui_shapeshift::UiShapeshiftPlugin;
 use ui_social::UiSocialPlugin;
@@ -782,6 +784,7 @@ pub fn run(build: BuildId) -> AppExit {
     // The item-text reader (ItemTextFrame.xml): right-clicked bag letters (mail-made permanent
     // copies) read in the reference reader window over the shared ask-once item-text cache.
     .add_plugins(UiItemTextPlugin)
+    .add_plugins(UiSavedPlugin)
     .add_plugins(UiTrainerPlugin)
     // The taxi map (decision 0484 phases 1-2): the SMSG_SHOWTAXINODES-fed TaxiState resource, the
     // NPC-session range guard, and the TaxiFrame.xml window feed/drain (catalogs, node
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/local_state.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/local_state.rs
index 27786341..4687a99d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/local_state.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/local_state.rs
@@ -80,6 +80,24 @@ pub(crate) fn bindings_character_path(realm: &str, character: &str) -> Option<Pa
     home().map(|h| h.join("bindings").join(format!("{key}.txt")))
 }
 
+/// `benilla/saved-variables.lua` — the Lua saved-variables file (decision 1128; the
+/// `WTF/Account/<ACC>/SavedVariables.lua` analog). Install-scoped, like the reference's account
+/// scope: written whole at logout/exit, executed as a chunk at UI load. One file, because our
+/// ported UI is one FrameXML tree rather than a set of addons — when third-party addons land they
+/// get `benilla/saved/<Addon>.lua`, the reference's per-addon shape.
+pub(crate) fn saved_variables_path() -> Option<PathBuf> {
+    home().map(|h| h.join("saved-variables.lua"))
+}
+
+/// `benilla/camera/<realm>-<character>.txt` — the third-person camera pose (decision 1131; the
+/// `<Char>/camera-settings.txt` analog, and character-scoped for the same reason it is there: a
+/// gnome rogue and a tauren warrior want different zooms). Two lines, the reference's own keys and
+/// order, so the file stays readable beside its ancestor.
+pub(crate) fn camera_character_path(realm: &str, character: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
+    let key = format!("{}-{}", file_token(realm), file_token(character));
+    home().map(|h| h.join("camera").join(format!("{key}.txt")))
+}
+
 /// Make an arbitrary realm/character name safe as one path component: anything outside
 /// `[A-Za-z0-9_]` becomes `_`, so a realm called `Hydraxian Waterlords` or one with a slash cannot
 /// escape the folder or collide with the path separator.
@@ -165,6 +183,11 @@ mod tests {
             macros_account_path(),
             Some(tmp.join("benilla/macros/account.txt"))
         );
+        // The saved-variables resident (decision 1128) — one install-scoped file.
+        assert_eq!(
+            saved_variables_path(),
+            Some(tmp.join("benilla/saved-variables.lua"))
+        );
         assert_eq!(
             macros_character_path("Hydraxian Waterlords", "Probeone"),
             Some(tmp.join("benilla/macros/Hydraxian_Waterlords-Probeone.txt"))
@@ -174,6 +197,11 @@ mod tests {
             Some(tmp.join("benilla/macros/___evil-a_b.txt")),
             "no name can escape the folder"
         );
+        // The camera-pose resident (decision 1131) — character-scoped, same key shape.
+        assert_eq!(
+            camera_character_path("Hydraxian Waterlords", "Probeone"),
+            Some(tmp.join("benilla/camera/Hydraxian_Waterlords-Probeone.txt"))
+        );
 
         // 1 · the explicit override wins over the install root.
         let _h2 = EnvGuard::set("BENILLA_HOME", tmp.join("elsewhere").to_str().unwrap());
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs
index d238ade4..c3f4e8bd 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/minimap/mod.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ use benilla_formats::{tile_to_world, world_to_tile, AreaPoiCatalog, MinimapTrans
 
 use interior::{interior_group_selection, wmo_minimap_stem};
 
+use benilla_ui::widget::MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ZOOM;
+
 use crate::assets::{AssetSet, LockRecover, WorldAssets};
 use crate::player::Player;
 use crate::ui_pass::{UiQuad, UiQuadAppend, UiQuadMask, UiQuads};
@@ -131,6 +133,32 @@ fn load_tile(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> impl Fn(&str) -> Handle<Image> + '_
 #[derive(Resource, Default)]
 pub(crate) struct MinimapWidget(pub(crate) Option<MinimapSlot>);
 
+/// The **persisted** half of the minimap zoom (decision 1131) — the client's two CVar objects
+/// `minimapZoom` / `minimapInsideZoom`, whose registered default is `"3"` in both cases (wow-re,
+/// VERIFIED at the `RegisterCVar 0x63db90` argument slot). The *live* indices are the widget's
+/// ([`benilla_ui::widget::MinimapState`]); this is the durable knob [`crate::cvars`] loads out of
+/// `config.toml` and saves back into it. It is **read once** — when the in-game UI materializes and
+/// the fresh widget is seeded from it (`UiScript::set_minimap_zoom`) — and written whenever
+/// `Minimap:SetZoom` reports a new level, which is exactly the client's own split: `set_zoom` writes
+/// the live index *and* the CVar, and the minimap reset path re-seeds the index from the CVar.
+#[derive(Resource)]
+pub(crate) struct MinimapZoom {
+    /// `minimapZoom` — the outdoor index (the chunk table's).
+    pub(crate) outdoor: u8,
+    /// `minimapInsideZoom` — the indoor index (the radius table's), persisted separately so zooming
+    /// indoors never disturbs the outdoor level.
+    pub(crate) inside: u8,
+}
+
+impl Default for MinimapZoom {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            outdoor: MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ZOOM,
+            inside: MINIMAP_DEFAULT_ZOOM,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// One extracted Minimap widget: where it sits on screen (y-down logical px), its paint key, and
 /// its live widget state.
 pub(crate) struct MinimapSlot {
@@ -736,6 +764,7 @@ pub(crate) struct MinimapPlugin;
 impl Plugin for MinimapPlugin {
     fn build(&self, app: &mut App) {
         app.init_resource::<MinimapWidget>()
+            .init_resource::<MinimapZoom>()
             .init_resource::<MinimapTileCache>()
             .init_resource::<blips::MinimapBlipHover>()
             .add_systems(Startup, setup_minimap.after(AssetSet::Open))
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player.rs
index 3ad88ed2..c86e8b08 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ use crate::ui_script::PointerOverUi;
 
 mod arc;
 pub(crate) mod camera;
+// The remembered camera pose (decision 1131) — it lives inside `player/` so it can read the rig's
+// own `pub(super)` fields instead of widening them for a module outside.
+mod camera_saved;
 mod drunk;
 mod follow;
 
@@ -136,6 +139,7 @@ impl Plugin for PlayerPlugin {
             app.insert_resource(cam);
         }
         follow::plugin(app);
+        camera_saved::plugin(app);
         app.init_resource::<camera::LookConfig>();
         app.add_systems(Startup, setup::setup_player.after(AssetSet::Open))
             // The world camera renders only when the world can be seen (decision 0540): in world,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/camera.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/camera.rs
index ac939d6b..069b3de8 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/camera.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/camera.rs
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ impl PressGesture {
 /// factor cap is inferred from the ref-client comparison, not byte-verified — the RE pinned the CVar
 /// *defaults* and the 50 hard cap, not the factor slider's own max.) Our starting zoom is 15 — pulled
 /// back a bit further than vanilla's own default for a wider view.
-const CAM_DIST_MIN: f32 = 0.0;
-const CAM_DIST_MAX: f32 = 30.0;
+pub(super) const CAM_DIST_MIN: f32 = 0.0;
+pub(super) const CAM_DIST_MAX: f32 = 30.0;
 pub(super) const CAM_DIST_DEFAULT: f32 = 15.0;
 /// Yards the wheel moves the target per notch — `CameraZoomIn`/`CameraZoomOut`'s default `amount`
 /// (VERIFIED 1.0 in `WoW.exe`).
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ pub(crate) struct LookConfig {
 /// Camera pitch clamp (radians) — **VERIFIED ±89.00°** (`WoW.exe` `0x8089d8`/`0x8089dc` =
 /// 1.5533430576 rad; the pitch integrate `FUN_00510120`, wow-re `follow-camera`). A single uniform
 /// clamp at every zoom level — the reference has **no** distinct first-person look-down limit.
-const CAM_PITCH_LIMIT: f32 = 89.0 * std::f32::consts::PI / 180.0;
+pub(super) const CAM_PITCH_LIMIT: f32 = 89.0 * std::f32::consts::PI / 180.0;
 /// Camera-collision probe radius (yd): a small sphere swept from the camera pivot toward the desired
 /// camera seat each frame. Its radius is the margin kept between the camera and the surface it stops
 /// at, so the near plane doesn't poke through the wall. Smaller than the player capsule — the camera
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/camera_saved.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/camera_saved.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2148f27f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/camera_saved.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
+//! The **camera pose** the client remembers (decision 1131) — orbit distance and pitch, per
+//! character. The fourth resident of 0954's folder to be character-scoped, and the smallest: two
+//! floats.
+//!
+//! The reference keeps exactly these two, in `WTF/Account/<ACC>/<REALM>/<CHAR>/camera-settings.txt`
+//! — read out of a real 26-character tree (decision 1128's persistence-surface map):
+//!
+//! ```text
+//! cameraDistance 16.068569
+//! cameraPitch 13.449968
+//! ```
+//!
+//! Two keys, LF, six decimals, trailing newline; **no yaw** and none of the `SaveView(2..5)` custom
+//! views. benilla writes the same two keys in the same order to
+//! `benilla/camera/<realm>-<character>.txt` ([`crate::local_state::camera_character_path`]) — a file
+//! that stays readable beside its ancestor.
+//!
+//! **Character-scoped, deliberately.** It is where the reference puts it, and it is what the setting
+//! means: a gnome and a tauren want different zooms, and a tank and a healer want different pitches.
+//! (The minimap's zoom, the other half of 1131, is install-scoped for the same reason the reference
+//! makes it a CVar: it is about the map widget, not the character in front of it.)
+//!
+//! **Written at the session edges** — `OnExit(InWorld)` (a `/logout`, a disconnect) and `AppExit`
+//! (quit) — the same two edges the saved variables use ([`crate::ui_saved`]), and the same posture
+//! the reference has for its caches: no autosave, no dirty bit. A camera pose is a thing you settle
+//! into once and leave; there is nothing an intermediate write would preserve.
+//!
+//! **Read once**, when the roster names the character we are entering the world as — the macro/
+//! binding load's own seam ([`crate::ui_macro::identity`]). Absent file = the shipped defaults, which
+//! is the normal first run.
+
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use bevy::prelude::*;
+
+use crate::char_select::ClientState;
+
+use super::camera::{
+    CameraControl, FlyCam, WorldCamera, CAM_DIST_MAX, CAM_DIST_MIN, CAM_PITCH_LIMIT,
+};
+
+/// The persisted pose's file keys — the reference's own spellings, in the reference's own order.
+const KEY_DISTANCE: &str = "cameraDistance";
+const KEY_PITCH: &str = "cameraPitch";
+
+/// Which character's file we are on, and where it lives. `identity` doubles as the once-per-
+/// character latch (the macro/binding load's pattern), and it is what the *save* keys off — by the
+/// time `OnExit(InWorld)` fires, the roster may already have moved on.
+#[derive(Resource, Default)]
+pub(super) struct CameraPoseFile {
+    identity: Option<(String, String)>,
+    path: Option<PathBuf>,
+}
+
+/// The persisted `cameraPitch` → the live [`FlyCam::pitch`].
+///
+/// The file's unit is **degrees**, and its sign is the camera's *elevation above the character*:
+/// positive = the camera sits high and looks down, which is the ordinary over-the-shoulder view.
+/// [`FlyCam::pitch`] is radians on the client's *internal* convention, where **negative = looking
+/// down** (wow-re `follow-camera`, VERIFIED at the pitch integrate `0x510120` and the ±89.00° clamp
+/// `0x8089d8`) — so the two are negatives of each other.
+///
+/// **Unit and sign are INFERRED** (decision 1131), from the reference's own 26-character `WTF`
+/// tree: its saved pitches run ≈ −4.7 … +27.6, overwhelmingly positive, and the view those players
+/// left behind is the normal one — slightly *above* the character, looking *down*. Under the
+/// internal sign that distribution would mean two dozen players all left the camera pointing at the
+/// sky. A wow-re cross-check of the file's reader/writer is dispatched; if it corrects this, these
+/// two functions are the whole of the change.
+fn pitch_from_file(degrees: f32) -> f32 {
+    (-degrees.to_radians()).clamp(-CAM_PITCH_LIMIT, CAM_PITCH_LIMIT)
+}
+
+/// The live [`FlyCam::pitch`] → the persisted `cameraPitch` (see [`pitch_from_file`]).
+fn pitch_to_file(radians: f32) -> f32 {
+    -radians.to_degrees()
+}
+
+/// Render the pose exactly as the reference's writer does: two keys, one per line, `%f`'s six
+/// decimals, LF, trailing newline.
+fn render(distance: f32, pitch_radians: f32) -> String {
+    format!(
+        "{KEY_DISTANCE} {distance:.6}\n{KEY_PITCH} {:.6}\n",
+        pitch_to_file(pitch_radians)
+    )
+}
+
+/// Parse the two keys out of the file, each independently optional — a file with only one line
+/// restores only that half, and an unknown key is skipped rather than failing the parse (a later
+/// build's third key must not cost this build its zoom). Returns `(distance, pitch_radians)`, both
+/// already clamped into the ranges the live camera enforces, so a hand edit lands somewhere legal.
+fn parse(text: &str) -> (Option<f32>, Option<f32>) {
+    let (mut distance, mut pitch) = (None, None);
+    for line in text.lines() {
+        let mut it = line.split_whitespace();
+        let (Some(key), Some(value)) = (it.next(), it.next()) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        let Ok(v) = value.parse::<f32>() else {
+            warn!("camera pose: unparseable {key} '{value}' ignored");
+            continue;
+        };
+        if !v.is_finite() {
+            continue;
+        }
+        match key {
+            KEY_DISTANCE => distance = Some(v.clamp(CAM_DIST_MIN, CAM_DIST_MAX)),
+            KEY_PITCH => pitch = Some(pitch_from_file(v)),
+            _ => {}
+        }
+    }
+    (distance, pitch)
+}
+
+/// Restore the pose once the roster names the character — the same identity the macro and binding
+/// loads key off, so all three land on the same character on the same frame it becomes knowable.
+///
+/// Sets the rig's three distances together (`distance`, `target_distance`, `collision_distance`):
+/// seeding only the target would make every login open with a visible glide out from the default 15,
+/// which is precisely the "we forgot" the file exists to end.
+fn load_camera_pose(
+    roster: Res<crate::char_select::Roster>,
+    mut file: ResMut<CameraPoseFile>,
+    mut rig: ResMut<CameraControl>,
+    mut cam: Query<&mut FlyCam, With<WorldCamera>>,
+) {
+    let Some(id) = crate::ui_macro::identity(&roster) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    if file.identity.as_ref() == Some(&id) {
+        return; // already restored for this character
+    }
+    let Ok(mut cam) = cam.single_mut() else {
+        return; // the camera entity is not up yet — try again next frame, identity unlatched
+    };
+    file.path = crate::local_state::camera_character_path(&id.0, &id.1);
+    file.identity = Some(id);
+
+    let Some(path) = file.path.clone() else {
+        return; // hermetic capture, or no install — session-only, defaults stand
+    };
+    let text = match std::fs::read_to_string(&path) {
+        Ok(t) => t,
+        // Absent is the normal first-run case; anything else is worth a line.
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return,
+        Err(e) => {
+            warn!("camera pose: cannot read {}: {e}", path.display());
+            return;
+        }
+    };
+    let (distance, pitch) = parse(&text);
+    if let Some(d) = distance {
+        rig.distance = d;
+        rig.target_distance = d;
+        rig.collision_distance = d;
+    }
+    if let Some(p) = pitch {
+        cam.pitch = p;
+    }
+    info!("camera pose: restored from {}", path.display());
+}
+
+/// Write the pose from the live rig. Keyed off the path the *load* resolved, not off the roster:
+/// on `OnExit(InWorld)` the roster is already unwinding, and the character whose pose this is is the
+/// one we logged in as.
+fn save(file: &CameraPoseFile, rig: &CameraControl, pitch: f32) {
+    let Some(path) = &file.path else {
+        return; // never loaded (glue-only run, hermetic capture) — nothing to write back
+    };
+    // `target_distance`, never `distance`: the live one is the collision-pulled arm, so quitting
+    // with your back to a wall would otherwise save the wall's zoom instead of your own.
+    let body = render(rig.target_distance, pitch);
+    if let Err(e) = crate::local_state::write_atomic(path, &body) {
+        warn!("camera pose: cannot write {}: {e}", path.display());
+    }
+}
+
+/// `OnExit(InWorld)`: `/logout` back to the glue, or a disconnect.
+fn save_on_session_end(
+    file: Res<CameraPoseFile>,
+    rig: Res<CameraControl>,
+    cam: Query<&FlyCam, With<WorldCamera>>,
+) {
+    if let Ok(cam) = cam.single() {
+        save(&file, &rig, cam.pitch);
+    }
+}
+
+/// `AppExit`: quitting the client. Reads the message rather than a state edge because a quit from
+/// in-world never leaves `InWorld` ([`crate::ui_saved`]'s same reason).
+fn save_on_exit(
+    file: Res<CameraPoseFile>,
+    rig: Res<CameraControl>,
+    cam: Query<&FlyCam, With<WorldCamera>>,
+    mut exits: MessageReader<AppExit>,
+) {
+    if exits.read().next().is_none() {
+        return;
+    }
+    if let Ok(cam) = cam.single() {
+        save(&file, &rig, cam.pitch);
+    }
+}
+
+pub(super) fn plugin(app: &mut App) {
+    app.init_resource::<CameraPoseFile>()
+        .add_systems(
+            Update,
+            // Before the controller reads the rig, so the restored pose is what the first in-world
+            // frame renders rather than something the player watches glide into place. Not gated on
+            // capture mode: a capture resolves no state path at all (0954's hermetic rule), so this
+            // is already inert there.
+            load_camera_pose
+                .before(super::control)
+                .run_if(in_state(ClientState::InWorld)),
+        )
+        .add_systems(OnExit(ClientState::InWorld), save_on_session_end)
+        .add_systems(Update, save_on_exit);
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// The file we write is byte-for-byte the reference's shape: its two keys, its order, its six
+    /// decimals, LF, trailing newline — checked against a real `camera-settings.txt` from the RE
+    /// tree (`Account/ONE/VMaNGOS/One`, `16.068569` / `13.449968`).
+    #[test]
+    fn the_rendered_file_matches_the_references_shape() {
+        let text = render(16.068_57, pitch_from_file(13.449_968));
+        assert_eq!(text, "cameraDistance 16.068569\ncameraPitch 13.449968\n");
+    }
+
+    /// Round trip: what we write parses back to what we had, through the sign flip and both clamps.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_pose_round_trips() {
+        let pitch = pitch_from_file(24.2);
+        assert!(pitch < 0.0, "a positive saved pitch looks DOWN internally");
+        let (d, p) = parse(&render(17.509_666, pitch));
+        assert_eq!(d, Some(17.509_666));
+        assert!((p.unwrap() - pitch).abs() < 1e-4, "{p:?} vs {pitch}");
+        // The reference's one negative sample survives too (camera slightly below, looking up).
+        let (_, up) = parse("cameraPitch -4.749999\n");
+        assert!(up.unwrap() > 0.0);
+    }
+
+    /// A hand-edited or truncated file never lands an illegal pose: each key is independent, the
+    /// distance clamps to the zoom range, the pitch to ±89°, and junk is skipped rather than fatal.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_hand_edited_file_cannot_land_an_illegal_pose() {
+        let (d, p) = parse("cameraDistance 999\ncameraPitch 400\n");
+        assert_eq!(d, Some(CAM_DIST_MAX));
+        assert_eq!(p, Some(-CAM_PITCH_LIMIT));
+        let (d, p) = parse("cameraDistance -3\n");
+        assert_eq!(
+            (d, p),
+            (Some(CAM_DIST_MIN), None),
+            "one key restores one half"
+        );
+        let (d, p) = parse("cameraDistance banana\nfutureKey 1\n\ncameraPitch nan\n");
+        assert_eq!((d, p), (None, None), "junk and unknown keys are skipped");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/mover.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/mover.rs
index b7cb5ae5..83794c2f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/player/mover.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/player/mover.rs
@@ -507,24 +507,43 @@ pub(crate) fn grounded_step(
         }
         _ => None,
     };
-    if ride_to.is_none() {
-        if let Some(landed) = attempt.verdict.landed() {
-            // The committed maneuver IS this frame's motion — already settled on a walkable floor,
-            // so the slide and the snap below are skipped.
-            return GroundedStep {
-                center: landed,
-                ground: None,
-                climb: Some(landed.y - center.y),
-                snap: None,
-                steep_support: false,
-            };
-        }
+    // **The pop is a RISE, not a jump forward** (decision 1130). 0209 committed the whole maneuver as
+    // one position — rise, advance the probe's full [`STEP_UP_ADVANCE`], and land on the floor the
+    // probe found — which put a **1.19 yd horizontal teleport** in every step-up: ten frames' worth
+    // of travel in one frame, at ten times walking speed. That lurch, not the height, is what the
+    // director reported as Goldshire's tables feeling teleporty.
+    //
+    // The reference does none of it (wow-re `ret2-commit-law.md`, a §5 trio):
+    //   - `max(H·tan50°, r+1/720)` = 1.1917536 is **only ever a sweep distance**. `ebx` @`0x636193`
+    //     has exactly two uses, both the length argument to `0x632ba0`. It is never added to `pos`.
+    //   - the resolver holds `L / t_remaining` invariant across hits, deflections and misses, so the
+    //     frame's **total horizontal is bounded by its own substep budget** — `dx = 1.19` where a
+    //     walking frame is 0.117 cannot arise on this path at all;
+    //   - all seven position writes in `[0x6367b0, 0x637140)` are **relative**. There is no absolute
+    //     snap anywhere in the walk resolver, so landing the body *on* a probe's floor was wrong in
+    //     kind and not merely in magnitude;
+    //   - what the certified arm commits is a free vertical segment of `H` (`0x635d5b` — the response
+    //     is always `(0,0,s)`), after which `0x63694d` restores **the caller's own heading** with the
+    //     budget that is left.
+    //
+    // So: rise in place, then let the ordinary slide and the ordinary settle below own the frame,
+    // exactly as they do on flat ground. The settle cannot strand the body up there — the reference
+    // sets `0x4000000` *before* computing the settle's reach and only clears it *after*
+    // (`0x636edf`, inside the settle), so the probe is always at least `H + 1/36` and always reaches
+    // back past the height just gained: it finds the obstacle's top, or the ground we left.
+    let popped = match attempt.verdict {
+        StepVerdict::Commit { up, .. } if ride_to.is_none() => Some(up),
+        _ => None,
+    };
+    if popped.is_some() {
+        eprintln!("POPFIRE");
     }
+    let start = center + Vec3::Y * popped.unwrap_or(0.0);
     let mut rode = false;
     let out = crate::collision::one_sided::move_and_slide(
         ms,
         capsule,
-        center,
+        start,
         horiz_vel,
         dt,
         &MoveAndSlideConfig::default(),
@@ -587,10 +606,14 @@ pub(crate) fn grounded_step(
     // step-down reach by the same yard (`0x633e35`) so the float still follows the ground down.
     // Both halves are here: the reach grows by the offset, and the snap stops that far short of the
     // floor. Zero for everyone not hovering, which is the ordinary case and unchanged.
-    let d = slid - center;
+    let d = slid - start;
     let reach = d.x.hypot(d.z) * STEP_SLOPE_RATIO
         + STEP_SNAP_SLACK
-        + if support.steep { STEP_UP_HEIGHT } else { 0.0 }
+        + if support.steep || popped.is_some() {
+            STEP_UP_HEIGHT
+        } else {
+            0.0
+        }
         + surface_offset;
     let hit = cast(slid, Vec3::NEG_Y * reach);
     let snap = Some((reach, hit.as_ref().map(|h| (h.distance, h.normal1.y))));
@@ -612,7 +635,7 @@ pub(crate) fn grounded_step(
     // the ground being left behind, and it gets no say.
     // The height this frame's ride earned, read before the snap can spend any of it. (The two snap
     // arms below are mutually exclusive — walkable or steep — so one value serves both.)
-    let ride_rise = (slid.y - center.y).max(0.0);
+    let ride_rise = (slid.y - start.y).max(0.0);
     // **The step-down follows the surface; it does not leave it** (decision 1127). The reference's
     // finalize writes `pos.z -= min(clearance, d_h·1.8493990)` *before* it classifies anything, and a
     // steep landing is answered by the multipass rather than by a fall — a `ret 2` continues,
@@ -625,60 +648,74 @@ pub(crate) fn grounded_step(
     // `dy=+0.000 dx=0.118` with the surface 0.162 below, then eighteen airborne frames landing 2.1 yd
     // downrange. That is the dive.
     //
-    // **The descent is unconditional, it is bounded by the probe itself, and only the *support* is
-    // conditional.** Byte-exact (`0x636e45`–`0x636e52`, wow-re `step-off-recourse.md` §1): the
-    // finalize sweeps down by `L` and writes `pos.z -= achieved`, where `achieved` is the sweep's own
-    // output — the clearance when something is under us, and the **whole of `L`** when nothing is —
-    // and only *then* does it classify what it found. So the cap and the reach are the same number,
-    // and there is no second, smaller bound: `L` is how far the body may fall to stay with its
-    // surface this frame, whatever the surface turns out to be.
+    // **The reach is how far we can SEE; the descent is how far we may GO — and for a capsule those
+    // are not the same number** (decision 1132). Byte-exact the finalize is one line
+    // (`0x636e45`–`0x636e52`, wow-re `step-off-recourse.md` §1): sweep down by `L`, write
+    // `pos.z -= achieved`, *then* classify. `achieved` is the sweep's own output, so on the reference
+    // the descent is bounded only by `L` — no second, smaller cap exists anywhere on that path.
     //
-    // 1127 shipped a separate `min(drop, d_h·1.8494 + 1/36)` cap because at the time `reach` also
-    // carried the bogus flat 2.028 and could not be used as the bound. With the reach corrected
-    // above, the two are one quantity again — and the difference is exactly what closes the last of
-    // the dive: on a face **steeper than the cone** the old cap could never keep up (walking off the
-    // 0.91 yd step, whose face is 66°, the surface drops 0.256 in a frame the cone allowed 0.242, so
-    // every frame leaked its remainder into a small fall). Once the first frame latches the
-    // steep-support bit, `L` grows by `H` and the following frames can take the whole clearance.
-    if let Some(h) = hit.as_ref().filter(|h| h.normal1.y < GROUND_COS) {
+    // 1129 read that literally and dropped 1127's separate cone cap. The director's eye caught what
+    // the reading missed: *"the pop down seems too instant while the ref seems more smoothed … the
+    // ref is def not diving forward of the fence, it's still stepping down."*
+    //
+    // **The reason is the shape, and it is 1123's divergence on the down side.** The reference's
+    // mover is a cone at the foot, so stepping off a fence its **skirt stays in contact with the
+    // edge** the whole way down — its `achieved` is never large, because something is always just
+    // beneath it. The descent comes out at the cone's own slope, `d_h·1.8494` a frame, without any
+    // cap being needed: the geometry is the cap. Our capsule touches the edge side-on and then hangs
+    // clear, so the identical instruction sees the entire remaining drop and spends it at once. Same
+    // law, different body, opposite look.
+    //
+    // So we port the cone's *effect*, which is what 1123 said we would do for the solid we do not
+    // have: **one cone's worth of descent per frame.** The deeper reach stays exactly as 1129 left
+    // it — it is what lets us see the ground and stay grounded on a face steeper than the cone,
+    // which is what keeps the dive gone. Seeing further and falling further are different questions,
+    // and only the second one is the director's "instant".
+    let cone_reach = d.x.hypot(d.z) * STEP_SLOPE_RATIO + STEP_SNAP_SLACK;
+    if let Some(h) = hit {
         let drop = (h.distance - surface_offset).max(0.0);
-        slid.y -= drop;
-        // **Support is earned by descending, not by touching.** A bound alone reads a body *resting*
-        // on a steep face as supported — standing still the reach collapses to the slack, the resting
-        // clearance is ~0, and any "is it within reach" test passes — which perches a motionless body
-        // on a 60° bank forever instead of letting it slide off. That is 1121's named "standing on
-        // >50° faces" hazard, and it is a worse defect than the dive this recourse exists to fix.
-        //
-        // Requiring real downward progress states the actual condition: this is a step-*down* in
-        // progress, not a resting state. A body standing on a bank, or traversing one across the
-        // slope, makes no progress and gets nothing. (The reference reaches the same place by a
-        // different road — its `0x4000000` is set only by a multipass `ret 2`, a full rise-step-settle
-        // certification that a body with nowhere to descend to cannot pass.)
-        steep_support = drop > STEP_SNAP_SLACK;
-    }
-    // **Nothing under us: descend the whole probe anyway, then let the fall elect.** The same
-    // `pos.z -= achieved` runs on the no-hit leg with `achieved == L` — wow-re `step-off-recourse.md`
-    // §1, "no committed record: `pos.z` has ALREADY dropped by the full `L`" — so the frame that
-    // leaves a ledge starts its fall a probe's-worth lower instead of flat. A ride is exempt: mid-ride
-    // the body legitimately hangs clear of everything below, and this would spend the climb.
-    if hit.is_none() && !rode {
-        slid.y -= (reach - surface_offset).max(0.0);
-    }
-    if let Some(h) = hit.filter(|h| h.normal1.y >= GROUND_COS) {
-        // `max(…, 0)` is the reference's, and it is the difference between a float and a pop: the
-        // snap **only ever descends** (`0x636e8d`–`0x636e9e` skips the write when `L − 1.0 < 0`), so
-        // a hovering body that is already within its clearance is left where it is rather than
-        // yanked up to it. The rise to clearance is a separate rate-limited climb — see [`step`].
-        let drop = (h.distance - surface_offset).max(0.0);
-        if !(rode && drop >= ride_rise) {
-            slid.y -= drop;
-            ground = Some(h.entity);
+        let walkable = h.normal1.y >= GROUND_COS;
+        // A ride's height is earned (above): only a floor higher than the ride began on may end it.
+        if !(rode && walkable && drop >= ride_rise) {
+            slid.y -= drop.min(cone_reach);
+            if drop > cone_reach {
+                // **Further down than the cone could rest, but in sight.** This is a step-down still
+                // in progress — the reference's `0x4000000` case exactly — so we stay grounded and
+                // keep the deep reach open, and the next frames finish it a cone's worth at a time.
+                // Without this the body would be left hanging and the fall would elect, which is the
+                // dive coming back through the cap.
+                steep_support = true;
+            } else if walkable {
+                ground = Some(h.entity);
+            } else {
+                // **Support is earned by descending, not by touching.** Resting *on* a steep face
+                // gives a clearance of ~0, and standing still the bound is the slack alone — so a
+                // "within reach" test alone would perch a motionless body on a 60° bank forever
+                // instead of letting it slide off (1121's named hazard, and worse than the dive).
+                // Real downward progress states the actual condition: descending, not resting.
+                steep_support = drop > STEP_SNAP_SLACK;
+            }
         }
+    } else if !rode {
+        // **Nothing in sight: descend, then let the fall elect** — the same `pos.z -= achieved` runs
+        // on the no-hit leg with `achieved == L` ("no committed record: `pos.z` has ALREADY dropped
+        // by the full `L`"), so the frame that leaves a ledge starts its fall lower instead of flat.
+        // A ride is exempt: mid-ride the body legitimately hangs clear of everything below, and this
+        // would spend the climb.
+        //
+        // **And it takes the same cone cap as the hit legs, for the same reason.** Left uncapped it
+        // was harmless only while the reach was a cone's worth anyway — once the steep-support bit
+        // opens the deep reach, "descend the full `L`" is a 1.25 yd drop in one frame. That is what
+        // the director was still feeling after 1132 capped the other two legs: their fence
+        // step-downs came through *this* branch, `snap miss (reach 1.25) dy=-1.250`, five of them in
+        // one capture. The cap is a property of our body, not of which leg found the floor.
+        slid.y -= (reach - surface_offset).max(0.0).min(cone_reach);
     }
     GroundedStep {
         center: slid,
-        // A ride is a climb too — the trace reads the same whichever regime moved the body.
-        climb: rode.then_some(slid.y - center.y),
+        // A ride is a climb too, and so is a pop — the trace reads the same whichever regime
+        // moved the body, and all three are measured from the frame's entry height.
+        climb: (rode || popped.is_some()).then_some(slid.y - center.y),
         // **Supported by a certified steep contact** — the reference's `0x4000000`, whose meaning
         // decision 1125 settled. Two ways to earn it and one meaning: mid-ride the body is held up
         // by the edge under its skirt (climbing), and mid-step-down it is resting on the surface it
@@ -686,7 +723,7 @@ pub(crate) fn grounded_step(
         // straight down and sees only a steep face, so without this the frame reads as airborne and
         // gravity takes the body off the surface — the climb undone on the way up, the dive on the
         // way down. A walkable floor ends it: ordinary grounding takes over from there.
-        steep_support: (rode && ground.is_none()) || steep_support,
+        steep_support: ((rode || popped.is_some()) && ground.is_none()) || steep_support,
         ground,
         snap,
     }
@@ -865,7 +902,10 @@ pub(crate) enum StepVerdict {
         ny: f32,
         dy: f32,
     },
-    /// Committed: this landing **is** the frame's motion.
+    /// Certified: the obstacle can be cleared. What the frame then *does* is
+    /// [`grounded_step`]'s — a foot-cone ride or a pop of `up`, never this probe's own advance
+    /// (decision 1130). `landed` is where the probe's settle found floor, kept for the trace: it is
+    /// a **diagnostic**, one full [`STEP_UP_ADVANCE`] downrange, and committing it was the teleport.
     Commit {
         landed: Vec3,
         up: f32,
@@ -874,16 +914,6 @@ pub(crate) enum StepVerdict {
     },
 }
 
-impl StepVerdict {
-    /// The committed capsule centre, if this attempt took the frame.
-    pub(crate) fn landed(self) -> Option<Vec3> {
-        match self {
-            StepVerdict::Commit { landed, .. } => Some(landed),
-            _ => None,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl std::fmt::Display for StepVerdict {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
         match *self {
@@ -1343,6 +1373,168 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn a_step_up_never_outruns_the_frame_it_happens_in() {
+        // **The pin on decision 1130.** The reference holds `L / t_remaining` invariant across every
+        // hit, deflection and miss in the walk resolver, so a frame's total horizontal displacement
+        // is bounded by its own substep budget — `dx = 1.19` where a walking frame is 0.117 "cannot
+        // arise from this path" (wow-re `ret2-commit-law.md`, claim 2). 0209 committed the probe's
+        // full advance as motion, which put exactly that lurch in every single step-up.
+        //
+        // **A Goldshire table, profiled from the director's own capture** — the shape they reported
+        // as teleporty. The capture's pop reads `step hit h=+0.73 n=(-0.04,+0.00,+1.00) up=1.00
+        // fwd=1.19 dy=+0.737 -> COMMIT`, and the frame it produced was `dy=+0.737 dx=1.191`.
+        //
+        // The `h=+0.73` is the whole point and it is why this fixture is a **table and not a step**:
+        // against a capsule a plain vertical riser reports its contact at the hemisphere centre,
+        // ≈0.33 up, which is inside the foot cone and rides. Only a face whose *lowest* collidable
+        // part is already above the band contacts high — a top slab overhanging recessed legs, which
+        // is exactly what a tavern table is. Before this test **no fixture in the suite reached the
+        // pop regime at all**, which is how 0209's teleport survived every green run for a year.
+        //
+        //      0.737 ┌──────────────  table top
+        //      0.62  ├──┐             slab front face  ← the contact, above the cone (0.617)
+        //            ┆  └──┐          underside
+        //      0.0   ┆     │────────  leg, recessed by more than a body radius
+        //           0.60  0.95
+        const P: [(f32, f32); 6] = [
+            (-2.0, 0.0),
+            (0.95, 0.0),
+            (0.95, 0.62),
+            (0.60, 0.62),
+            (0.60, 0.737),
+            (3.0, 0.737),
+        ];
+        let track = world_from_profile(&P)
+            .world_mut()
+            .run_system_once(move |ms: MoveAndSlide| {
+                let capsule = player_capsule();
+                let filter = SpatialQueryFilter::default();
+                let dt = std::time::Duration::from_secs_f32(TRAVEL_60FPS / 7.0);
+                let mut center = Vec3::new(-1.0, CAPSULE_HEIGHT * 0.5, 0.0);
+                let mut support = Support::default();
+                let mut rows = Vec::new();
+                for _ in 0..24 {
+                    let g =
+                        grounded_step(&ms, &capsule, &filter, center, Vec3::X * 7.0, dt, support);
+                    rows.push((g.center.x - center.x, g.center.y - CAPSULE_HEIGHT * 0.5));
+                    center = g.center;
+                    support.steep = g.steep_support;
+                }
+                rows
+            })
+            .unwrap();
+        let worst = track.iter().map(|r| r.0).fold(0.0_f32, f32::max);
+        assert!(
+            worst <= TRAVEL_60FPS + 1.0e-3,
+            "no frame may travel further than the {TRAVEL_60FPS:.3} yd it asked to walk; worst \
+             was {worst:.3}\n{track:#?}"
+        );
+        let top = track.last().expect("frames").1;
+        assert!(
+            top > 0.70,
+            "and it still has to get onto the 0.737 yd table: ended at {top:.3}\n{track:#?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn stepping_off_a_fence_hugs_the_edge_down_instead_of_dropping_at_once() {
+        // **The pin on decision 1132**, and the director's report: *"the pop down seems too instant
+        // while the ref seems more smoothed … the ref is def not diving forward of the fence, it's
+        // still stepping down."*
+        //
+        // A 0.72 yd fence with a ~53° chamfered lip — the geometry their Goldshire capture measured
+        // (`snap ny=0.628 STEEP` on the lip frame, then the drop). The reference's foot cone keeps
+        // its skirt on that edge the whole way down and descends at the cone's own slope; our capsule
+        // hangs clear and, uncapped, spends the entire remaining drop in one frame (0.644 in the
+        // capture, `reach 1.24`).
+        //
+        // Two things must hold together, and only together: **no frame gives up more than a cone's
+        // worth**, and **the body never leaves the ground on the way down** — a cap alone would just
+        // be the dive again, one frame later.
+        const P: [(f32, f32); 5] = [
+            (-2.0, 0.72),
+            (0.60, 0.72),
+            (0.69, 0.60),
+            (0.692, 0.0),
+            (3.0, 0.0),
+        ];
+        let frames = walk_from(
+            world_from_profile(&P),
+            Vec3::new(-1.0, 0.72, 0.0),
+            Vec3::X,
+            14,
+        );
+        let cone = TRAVEL_60FPS * STEP_SLOPE_RATIO + STEP_SNAP_SLACK;
+        let worst = frames
+            .windows(2)
+            .map(|w| w[0].0 - w[1].0)
+            .fold(0.0_f32, f32::max);
+        assert!(
+            worst <= cone + 1.0e-3,
+            "the step-down must take at most a cone's worth ({cone:.3}) a frame; worst was \
+             {worst:.3}\n{frames:#?}"
+        );
+        let air = frames
+            .iter()
+            .position(|&(_, _, steep, walk)| !steep && !walk);
+        assert!(
+            air.is_none(),
+            "and it must stay on the surface the whole way down, not fall the rest: first \
+             unsupported frame {air:?}\n{frames:#?}"
+        );
+        let bottom = frames.last().expect("frames").0;
+        assert!(
+            bottom < 0.05,
+            "and it does have to get all the way down: ended at {bottom:.3}\n{frames:#?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_frame_that_finds_nothing_still_spends_only_one_cone() {
+        // **The branch 1132's first cut missed.** When the probe finds nothing the reference still
+        // writes `pos.z -= achieved` with `achieved == L` — harmless while `L` is a cone's worth, and
+        // a **1.25 yd teleport** once the steep-support bit opens the deep reach. That is what the
+        // director was still feeling after the two hit legs were capped: their fence step-downs came
+        // through here, `snap miss (reach 1.25) dy=-1.250`, five of them in one capture.
+        //
+        // Stated at the branch rather than through a fixture, because reproducing the *miss* needs
+        // the body clear of the wall it just left, and a profiled fence puts its riser directly under
+        // the capsule (it hugs that riser down instead — which is `stepping_off_a_fence_hugs_the_edge
+        // _down…`, the case that does have geometry). Here: carrying the bit, moving, with the floor
+        // beyond even the deep reach, so the probe cannot hit anything.
+        const P: [(f32, f32); 2] = [(-2.0, 0.0), (3.0, 0.0)];
+        let dy = world_from_profile(&P)
+            .world_mut()
+            .run_system_once(move |ms: MoveAndSlide| {
+                let capsule = player_capsule();
+                let filter = SpatialQueryFilter::default();
+                let dt = std::time::Duration::from_secs_f32(TRAVEL_60FPS / 7.0);
+                let center = Vec3::new(0.0, CAPSULE_HEIGHT * 0.5 + 1.6, 0.0);
+                let g = grounded_step(
+                    &ms,
+                    &capsule,
+                    &filter,
+                    center,
+                    Vec3::X * 7.0,
+                    dt,
+                    Support {
+                        offset: 0.0,
+                        steep: true,
+                    },
+                );
+                g.center.y - center.y
+            })
+            .unwrap();
+        let cone = TRAVEL_60FPS * STEP_SLOPE_RATIO + STEP_SNAP_SLACK;
+        assert!(
+            -dy <= cone + 1.0e-3,
+            "a frame that found nothing may still spend only a cone's worth ({cone:.3}); it spent \
+             {:.3}",
+            -dy
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn a_motionless_body_is_never_perched_on_a_steep_slope() {
         // A 60° bank. Walk onto it, then STOP. Standing still the cone bound collapses to the slack,
@@ -1528,8 +1720,8 @@ mod tests {
             })
             .unwrap();
         assert!(
-            v.landed().is_none(),
-            "a face above the rise ceiling must never commit, got {v}"
+            !matches!(v, StepVerdict::Commit { .. }),
+            "a face above the rise ceiling must never certify, got {v}"
         );
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_saved.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_saved.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7cad5aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_saved.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+//! The **saved-variables** host side (decision 1128) — the file, the load seam, the write
+//! triggers. The engine half (the `RegisterForSave` declaration set and the serializer) is
+//! [`benilla_ui::script`]'s `saved` module; this is the part that touches the disk and the clock.
+//!
+//! **Load** — one chunk, executed straight into the VM immediately after the in-game UI's XML has
+//! loaded and before anything runs against it, then `VARIABLES_LOADED`. That ordering is the whole
+//! mechanism, byte-verified in wow-re (`system/ui/scratch/savedvariables-protocol.md`): the
+//! reference's `AddOn_Load 0x51f240` runs the addon's own files (step 2 — where the file-scope
+//! `TRAINER_FILTER_* = 1` defaults are assigned), *then* executes the saved file over the top
+//! (step 4), *then* fires the load event (step 6). Defaults first, saved values second, consumers
+//! third — reverse any two and the saved value can never win.
+//!
+//! **Write** — `OnExit(InWorld)` (a `/logout` or a disconnect) and `AppExit`, the two edges our
+//! session has. The reference writes from exactly one place, the UI shutdown `0x490bd0`, reached
+//! from five roots (logout to character select, quit, disconnect, application exit, `/reload`),
+//! with `PLAYER_LOGOUT` fired just before; it has no autosave, no dirty bit, and no Lua binding
+//! that can force a write. We keep that shape rather than debouncing like [`crate::cvars`] does:
+//! these are a handful of scalars a player toggles a few times a session, and the file is written
+//! whole from the live globals, so there is nothing an intermediate write would preserve.
+//!
+//! Divergence, disclosed (1128): the reference rotates the old file to `.bak` and then truncates
+//! in place — a one-shot, not crash safety (`MoveFileW` without `MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING`, its
+//! result discarded, so after the first rotation it overwrites forever, and nothing ever reads a
+//! `.bak`). We write through [`crate::local_state::write_atomic`] instead, which is what that dance
+//! was reaching for.
+
+use bevy::prelude::*;
+
+use benilla_ui::script::UiScript;
+
+use crate::char_select::ClientState;
+
+pub(crate) struct UiSavedPlugin;
+
+impl Plugin for UiSavedPlugin {
+    fn build(&self, app: &mut App) {
+        app.add_systems(OnExit(ClientState::InWorld), save_on_session_end)
+            .add_systems(Update, save_on_exit);
+    }
+}
+
+/// Execute the saved-variables file into the VM and fire `VARIABLES_LOADED`.
+///
+/// Called from the in-game UI load ([`crate::ui_script`]) at the reference's own seam — after the
+/// XML, before anything consumes it. A missing file is the normal first-run case (defaults stand);
+/// a malformed one warns and is left on disk untouched, so a hand edit that fails to parse costs
+/// this session's settings and not the file.
+pub(crate) fn load_saved_variables(script: &mut UiScript) {
+    // `None` = hermetic capture, or no install — session-only state, and the event below still fires.
+    if let Some(path) = crate::local_state::saved_variables_path() {
+        match std::fs::read_to_string(&path) {
+            Ok(text) => {
+                if let Err(e) = script.run(&text) {
+                    warn!(
+                        "saved variables: {} did not load ({e}) — running on defaults",
+                        path.display()
+                    );
+                } else {
+                    info!("saved variables: loaded {}", path.display());
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {}
+            Err(e) => warn!("saved variables: cannot read {}: {e}", path.display()),
+        }
+    }
+    // `VARIABLES_LOADED` fires whether or not there was a file: it means "the settings are now what
+    // they are going to be", which is as true on a first run or a hermetic capture as after a real
+    // restore — the reference fires it as a step of the load sequence, not conditionally. A window
+    // that waits on it (GameTime.xml, BagFrame.xml) must not be left uninitialized in a capture.
+    script.fire_event("VARIABLES_LOADED", vec![]);
+}
+
+/// Write the file from the live globals. No-op when nothing is registered — the UI never loaded
+/// (a glue-only run, a capture), and an empty write would be a wipe rather than a save. The
+/// reference *does* delete the file when an addon declares nothing, which is a different case:
+/// there, the addon loaded and its declaration list is genuinely empty.
+fn save(script: &mut UiScript) {
+    let names = script.saved_variable_names();
+    if names.is_empty() {
+        return;
+    }
+    let Some(path) = crate::local_state::saved_variables_path() else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let body = script.saved_variables_text();
+    for w in script.take_warnings() {
+        warn!("saved variables: {w}");
+    }
+    match crate::local_state::write_atomic(&path, &format!("{HEADER}{body}")) {
+        Ok(()) => info!(
+            "saved variables: wrote {} ({} names)",
+            path.display(),
+            names.len()
+        ),
+        Err(e) => warn!("saved variables: cannot write {}: {e}", path.display()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The file's own header. The reference writes no header at all (its files open with a bare blank
+/// line); ours says what the file is, because a visible folder invites a look.
+const HEADER: &str = "\
+-- benilla saved variables (decision 1128) — the UI's own remembered settings.
+-- Written at logout/exit from the live values; executed as a Lua chunk at UI load.
+";
+
+/// `OnExit(InWorld)`: a `/logout` back to the glue, or a disconnect — the reference's
+/// logout-to-character-select and disconnect roots.
+fn save_on_session_end(script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>) {
+    if let Some(mut script) = script {
+        save(&mut script);
+    }
+}
+
+/// `AppExit`: quitting the client — the reference's quit / application-exit roots. Reads the
+/// message rather than a state edge because a quit from in-world never leaves `InWorld`.
+fn save_on_exit(script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>, mut exits: MessageReader<AppExit>) {
+    if exits.read().next().is_none() {
+        return;
+    }
+    if let Some(mut script) = script {
+        save(&mut script);
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::local_state::test_env::{EnvGuard, ENV_LOCK};
+
+    /// A VM with one declared global and a `VARIABLES_LOADED` witness.
+    fn script(value: &str) -> UiScript {
+        let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        s.run(&format!(
+            "KEPT = {value} RegisterForSave(\"KEPT\") \
+             VL_SEEN = 0 \
+             local f = CreateFrame(\"Frame\") \
+             f:RegisterEvent(\"VARIABLES_LOADED\") \
+             f:SetScript(\"OnEvent\", function() VL_SEEN = VL_SEEN + 1 end)"
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
+        s
+    }
+
+    /// The disk half, end to end: the file lands in the folder, carries its header, and a *different*
+    /// VM's value is replaced by the saved one — then `VARIABLES_LOADED` fires, once, after it.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_file_round_trips_through_the_folder_and_then_fires_variables_loaded() {
+        let _l = ENV_LOCK.lock().unwrap();
+        let tmp = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("benilla-sv-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
+        let _c = EnvGuard::unset("WOW_CAPTURE");
+        let _h = EnvGuard::set("BENILLA_HOME", tmp.to_str().unwrap());
+
+        let mut s = script("7");
+        save(&mut s);
+        let path = tmp.join("saved-variables.lua");
+        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&path).expect("the file was written");
+        assert!(text.starts_with("-- benilla saved variables"), "{text}");
+        assert!(text.contains("KEPT = 7"), "{text}");
+
+        // The restart: this VM's own default is 1, the file says 7, and the file wins.
+        let mut fresh = script("1");
+        load_saved_variables(&mut fresh);
+        assert_eq!(fresh.eval::<i64>("return KEPT").unwrap(), 7);
+        assert_eq!(
+            fresh.eval::<i64>("return VL_SEEN").unwrap(),
+            1,
+            "VARIABLES_LOADED fires exactly once, after the chunk"
+        );
+
+        // A malformed file is left alone, and this session simply runs on defaults.
+        crate::local_state::write_atomic(&path, "KEPT = = 3\n").unwrap();
+        let mut broken = script("1");
+        load_saved_variables(&mut broken);
+        assert_eq!(broken.eval::<i64>("return KEPT").unwrap(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap(), "KEPT = = 3\n");
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
+    }
+
+    /// Hermetic: a capture run neither reads a machine's settings nor writes any back, even with
+    /// `BENILLA_HOME` pointing somewhere writable (0954's law, and the reason captures are stable).
+    #[test]
+    fn a_capture_run_neither_reads_nor_writes() {
+        let _l = ENV_LOCK.lock().unwrap();
+        let tmp = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("benilla-svcap-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
+        let _h = EnvGuard::set("BENILLA_HOME", tmp.to_str().unwrap());
+        let _c = EnvGuard::set("WOW_CAPTURE", "ui-saved");
+
+        let mut s = script("7");
+        save(&mut s);
+        assert!(!tmp.exists(), "a capture must not plant a settings file");
+        // The load is a no-op too — but the event still fires, so a window waiting on it is not stuck.
+        let mut fresh = script("1");
+        load_saved_variables(&mut fresh);
+        assert_eq!(fresh.eval::<i64>("return KEPT").unwrap(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(fresh.eval::<i64>("return VL_SEEN").unwrap(), 1);
+    }
+
+    /// Nothing registered = the UI never loaded: writing would be a wipe, so it is skipped.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_empty_declaration_set_writes_nothing() {
+        let _l = ENV_LOCK.lock().unwrap();
+        let tmp = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("benilla-svempty-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
+        let _c = EnvGuard::unset("WOW_CAPTURE");
+        let _h = EnvGuard::set("BENILLA_HOME", tmp.to_str().unwrap());
+
+        let mut bare = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        save(&mut bare);
+        assert!(!tmp.exists());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
index 2fe1d592..bdbadd34 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mod.rs
@@ -304,11 +304,23 @@ fn load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry(world: &mut World) {
     if world.resource::<IngameUiLoaded>().0 || !ui_wanted(world) {
         return;
     }
-    let Some(script) = world.remove_non_send_resource::<UiScript>() else {
+    let Some(mut script) = world.remove_non_send_resource::<UiScript>() else {
         warn!("ui_script: entering the world with no VM — the in-game UI will not load");
         return;
     };
     let _ = load_ingame_ui(&script);
+    // The Minimap widget was born a moment ago with `MinimapState::default()`; seed its two live
+    // zoom indices from the persisted CVars now, before anything reads them — the reference's own
+    // minimap reset path copying each CVar object's int into its live index (decision 1131). Once
+    // only: from here the widget's index is the live truth and `Minimap:SetZoom` writes the CVar
+    // back. Startup always precedes this state edge (1038), so the knob is already loaded.
+    let zoom = world.resource::<crate::minimap::MinimapZoom>();
+    script.set_minimap_zoom(zoom.outdoor, zoom.inside);
+    // The saved-variables chunk runs HERE — after the XML assigned its file-scope defaults, before
+    // any consumer reads them — then `VARIABLES_LOADED`. That is the reference's own load order
+    // (`AddOn_Load 0x51f240` steps 2 → 4 → 6, decision 1128); reversing it means the defaults
+    // always win and nothing can ever be remembered.
+    crate::ui_saved::load_saved_variables(&mut script);
     world.insert_non_send_resource(script);
     world.resource_mut::<IngameUiLoaded>().0 = true;
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
index 33275b11..db79f8c4 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
@@ -542,6 +542,32 @@ fn audio_harness() -> UiScript {
     s
 }
 
+/// The Combat page's harness (decision 1134): the **real** `CombatText.xml` loaded ahead of the
+/// window, in the manifest's own order (it is file 59, OptionsFrame.xml file 281), so the rows
+/// capture the same file-scope defaults and the same `applyFunc` they capture in the client —
+/// nothing about the family is restated here. `UIParent.xml` comes first because CombatText's
+/// strings anchor to it.
+fn combat_harness() -> UiScript {
+    let mut s = audio_harness();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    for file in ["UIParent.xml", "CombatText.xml"] {
+        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
+        );
+    }
+    harness_on(s)
+}
+
 /// Selecting Audio shows the page body, arms Defaults, and every row reads the CVar table:
 /// sliders take the stored value with the era rounded-percent readout, checkboxes take the flag.
 /// Leaving the page hides it and puts Defaults back to sleep.
@@ -1578,7 +1604,8 @@ fn every_row_tooltip_key_resolves_in_the_real_global_strings() {
         );
         checked += 1;
     }
-    assert_eq!(checked, 14, "every row but one carries a live 1.12 key");
+    // 14 CVar rows + the Combat page's 14 saved-variable rows (decision 1134).
+    assert_eq!(checked, 28, "every row but one carries a live 1.12 key");
     assert_eq!(
         untipped,
         vec!["ControlsRowAutoLoot".to_string()],
@@ -1618,7 +1645,7 @@ fn every_flavor_of_row_raises_its_plate_from_the_page_it_lives_on() {
     s.run("ShowUIPanel(OptionsFrame)").unwrap();
 
     let mut raised = 0;
-    for page in ["Controls", "Audio", "Graphics", "Nameplates"] {
+    for page in ["Controls", "Audio", "Graphics", "Nameplates", "Combat"] {
         s.run(&format!("OptionsFrameCategoryListRow{page}:Click()"))
             .unwrap();
         let rows: String = s
@@ -1658,5 +1685,241 @@ fn every_flavor_of_row_raises_its_plate_from_the_page_it_lives_on() {
             s.errors()
         );
     }
-    assert_eq!(raised, 14, "14 of the 15 rows have a 1.12 description");
+    // 14 of the 15 CVar rows, plus all 14 of the Combat page's saved-variable rows (1134).
+    assert_eq!(raised, 28, "every row but Auto Loot has a 1.12 description");
+}
+
+/// The **Combat page** (decision 1134) — the first rows in this window whose store is a
+/// saved-variable GLOBAL rather than a CVar, and so the first thing that can change any of the
+/// stock globals 1128 ported. The page is 1.12's AdvancedOptionsCombatText box: it reads the
+/// globals on select, a click writes the global (and *nothing* reaches the CVar table), and each
+/// write runs the family's `applyFunc` — `CombatText_UpdateDisplayedMessages`, whose visible
+/// effect is the per-type `show` flag and the scroll function.
+#[test]
+fn the_combat_page_writes_saved_variable_globals_and_applies_them() {
+    let mut s = combat_harness();
+    s.run("ShowUIPanel(OptionsFrame)").unwrap();
+    s.run("OptionsFrameCategoryListRowCombat:Click()").unwrap();
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>("return OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombat:IsVisible()")
+        .unwrap());
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>("return OptionsFrameContainerDefaults:IsEnabled()")
+        .unwrap());
+
+    // Read: each box shows its global, at CombatText.xml's own file-scope value.
+    for (row, checked) in [
+        ("RowCombatText", true),
+        ("RowAuras", true),
+        ("RowAuraFade", false),
+        ("RowDodgeParryMiss", false),
+    ] {
+        assert_eq!(
+            s.eval::<bool>(&format!(
+                "return OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombat{row}Check:GetChecked() and true or false"
+            ))
+            .unwrap(),
+            checked,
+            "{row} reads its global"
+        );
+    }
+    // The dropdown capsule reads COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE = "1" as its named stop.
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>(
+            "return OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowFloatModeDropdownText:GetText()"
+        )
+        .unwrap(),
+        "Scroll Up"
+    );
+
+    // Write: the global moves, the CVar table is untouched, and the applyFunc lands.
+    let _ = s.take_cvar_changes();
+    s.run("OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowDodgeParryMissCheck:Click()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_DODGE_PARRY_MISS")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "1"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        s.take_cvar_changes().is_empty(),
+        "a uvar row must not touch the CVar table"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<i64>("return COMBAT_TEXT_TYPE_INFO[\"MISS\"].show or 0")
+            .unwrap(),
+        1,
+        "applyFunc ran: the message type is live now"
+    );
+
+    // The dropdown writes its global and applies too (the scroll function follows the mode).
+    s.run(
+        "OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowFloatModeDropdownButton:Click() \
+         DropDownList1Button2:Click()",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE").unwrap(),
+        "2"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SCROLL_FUNCTION == CombatText_StandardScroll")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "mode 2 keeps the standard scroll with a downward step (CombatText.xml's own arm)"
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// The master's dependency rule, 1.12's verbatim: `SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT` off greys **every** other
+/// row on the page including the dropdown, and back on wakes them — except Combo Points, which
+/// carries the reference's second gate and stays greyed for anyone who is not a rogue or druid.
+#[test]
+fn the_combat_master_greys_the_family_and_combo_points_is_class_gated() {
+    let mut s = combat_harness();
+    s.run("ShowUIPanel(OptionsFrame)").unwrap();
+    s.run("OptionsFrameCategoryListRowCombat:Click()").unwrap();
+
+    let enabled = |s: &mut UiScript, row: &str, control: &str| -> bool {
+        s.eval::<bool>(&format!(
+            "return OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombat{row}{control}:IsEnabled() and true or false"
+        ))
+        .unwrap()
+    };
+    // No player class in this VM, so Combo Points is greyed from the start while its siblings
+    // are live — the two gates are independent.
+    assert!(enabled(&mut s, "RowAuras", "Check"));
+    assert!(!enabled(&mut s, "RowComboPoints", "Check"));
+    assert!(enabled(&mut s, "RowFloatMode", "DropdownButton"));
+
+    s.run("OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowCombatTextCheck:Click()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT").unwrap(), "0");
+    assert!(
+        !enabled(&mut s, "RowAuras", "Check"),
+        "the master off greys every sub-toggle"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        !enabled(&mut s, "RowFloatMode", "DropdownButton"),
+        "…and the scroll dropdown, so its list cannot even open"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        enabled(&mut s, "RowCombatText", "Check"),
+        "the master itself stays live — it is the way back"
+    );
+
+    s.run("OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowCombatTextCheck:Click()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(enabled(&mut s, "RowAuras", "Check"));
+    assert!(enabled(&mut s, "RowFloatMode", "DropdownButton"));
+    assert!(
+        !enabled(&mut s, "RowComboPoints", "Check"),
+        "the class gate outlives the master's return"
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// Defaults on a saved-variable page restores each global to **the value its own XML assigned at
+/// file scope** — captured at the row's OnLoad, which the load order guarantees runs before the
+/// saved chunk (1128). The panel restates no defaults of its own, so it cannot drift from
+/// CombatText.xml the way the reference's hand-copied `default` field can.
+#[test]
+fn defaults_resets_the_combat_page_to_the_shipped_assignments() {
+    let s = combat_harness();
+    s.run("ShowUIPanel(OptionsFrame)").unwrap();
+    s.run("OptionsFrameCategoryListRowCombat:Click()").unwrap();
+    // Move three of them off their shipped values, in both directions and both flavors.
+    s.run(
+        "OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowAurasCheck:Click() \
+         OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowReputationCheck:Click() \
+         OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowFloatModeDropdownButton:Click() \
+         DropDownList1Button3:Click()",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS").unwrap(),
+        "0"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "1"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE").unwrap(),
+        "3"
+    );
+
+    s.run("OptionsFrameContainerDefaults:Click()").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_AURAS").unwrap(),
+        "1"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_REPUTATION")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "0"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_FLOAT_MODE").unwrap(),
+        "1"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>(
+            "return OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowFloatModeDropdownText:GetText()"
+        )
+        .unwrap(),
+        "Scroll Up",
+        "the capsule follows the reset"
+    );
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+}
+
+/// The point of the whole page: what it writes is **remembered**. A toggle lands in the
+/// saved-variables text (1128's serializer) under its own name, and a fresh VM that executes that
+/// text comes up with the player's choice rather than CombatText.xml's shipped default.
+#[test]
+fn what_the_combat_page_writes_survives_a_restart() {
+    let s = combat_harness();
+    s.run("ShowUIPanel(OptionsFrame)").unwrap();
+    s.run("OptionsFrameCategoryListRowCombat:Click()").unwrap();
+    s.run("OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowHonorGainedCheck:Click()")
+        .unwrap();
+
+    let saved = s.saved_variables_text();
+    assert!(
+        saved.contains("COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED = \"0\""),
+        "the toggle is in the saved text:\n{saved}"
+    );
+
+    // The restart: a fresh tree at its shipped defaults, then the saved chunk over the top.
+    let fresh = combat_harness();
+    assert_eq!(
+        fresh
+            .eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "1"
+    );
+    fresh.run(&saved).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        fresh
+            .eval::<String>("return COMBAT_TEXT_SHOW_HONOR_GAINED")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "0",
+        "the saved value wins over the file-scope default"
+    );
+    // And the page paints the restored value the next time it is opened.
+    fresh.run("ShowUIPanel(OptionsFrame)").unwrap();
+    fresh
+        .run("OptionsFrameCategoryListRowCombat:Click()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(!fresh
+        .eval::<bool>(
+            "return OptionsFrameContainerBodyCombatRowHonorGainedCheck:GetChecked() and true or false"
+        )
+        .unwrap());
+    assert!(
+        fresh.errors().is_empty(),
+        "script errors: {:?}",
+        fresh.errors()
+    );
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
index 5eaa6599..abc3e7aa 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/shipped_xml_tests.rs
@@ -412,3 +412,24 @@ fn the_font_registry_alone_covers_the_whole_bake_plan() {
         registry_only.len()
     );
 }
+
+/// The whole shipped UI survives `VARIABLES_LOADED` (decision 1128) — the event the saved-variables
+/// load fires at every launch, and which nothing fired before this arc existed.
+///
+/// Today no shipped file registers it, so this asserts a clean no-op; the moment one does (the
+/// combat-text option family and `TwentyFourHourTime` are next on 1128's list) this is what catches a
+/// handler that errors on the one event that runs before any window has been shown.
+#[test]
+fn the_shipped_ui_takes_variables_loaded_without_a_script_error() {
+    let mut s = benilla_ui::script::UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    let failures = super::load_default_ui(&s);
+    assert!(failures.is_empty(), "loader errors: {failures:?}");
+    let _ = s.errors(); // drain anything the load itself logged; this test is about the event
+    s.fire_event("VARIABLES_LOADED", vec![]);
+    assert!(
+        s.errors().is_empty(),
+        "VARIABLES_LOADED script errors: {:?}",
+        s.errors()
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/trainer_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/trainer_tests.rs
index c44730c5..5aa08924 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/trainer_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/trainer_tests.rs
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) -> usize {
 
 /// Load the trainer window + all its deps into a fresh script, screen sized, with every state filter
 /// ON (the XML defaults "Already Known" off — the tests want the full tree, deterministic indices).
+///
+/// The filter's source of truth is the three **saved globals** (decision 1128), which the window
+/// pushes into the engine on every show — so a test that wants the full tree sets those, not the
+/// engine's own `SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter`, which the next `TRAINER_SHOW` would overwrite.
 fn trainer_script() -> UiScript {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
@@ -45,9 +49,8 @@ fn trainer_script() -> UiScript {
     load_xml(&s, "MerchantFrame.xml"); // BenillaMoney_Set/_Clear/_SetColor live here
     load_xml(&s, "TrainerFrame.xml");
     s.run(
-        "SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('available',1) \
-         SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('unavailable',1) \
-         SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('used',1)",
+        "TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE = 1 TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE = 1 TRAINER_FILTER_USED = 1 \
+         BenillaTrainerFrame_ApplyFilter()",
     )
     .unwrap();
     s
@@ -600,3 +603,115 @@ fn the_scrollbar_arrows_step_the_list_the_way_they_point() {
     assert_eq!(offset(&mut s), 0, "and stops at the top, never past it");
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "{:?}", s.errors());
 }
+
+/// **The filter is remembered across a restart** (decision 1128) — the whole persistence path, in
+/// one test: the shipped XML declares its three globals for saving at file scope, a dropdown toggle
+/// writes the *global* (not only the engine mask), the serialized file carries it, and a fresh VM
+/// that loads the same XML and then executes that file comes up with the toggled filter applied.
+///
+/// It also pins the two halves that are easy to "simplify" apart and silently break: writing only
+/// the engine mask in the click handler would lose the choice at the next list packet (the reference
+/// rebuilds that mask on every one), and applying the globals only in `<OnShow>` would leave the
+/// first painted frame under the reset.
+#[test]
+fn the_state_filter_survives_a_restart_through_the_saved_variables_file() {
+    let mut s = trainer_script();
+    s.set_money(50);
+    s.set_trainer(Some(menu()));
+    s.fire_event("TRAINER_SHOW", vec![ScriptValue::Str("Sana".into())]);
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumTrainerServices()").unwrap(), 6);
+
+    // The XML declared exactly the reference's three globals, in its order.
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.saved_variable_names(),
+        vec![
+            "TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE",
+            "TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE",
+            "TRAINER_FILTER_USED",
+        ]
+    );
+
+    // Toggle "Unavailable" off through the dropdown row's own handler (pre-click state on `this`).
+    s.run("this = { value = 'unavailable', checked = 1 }; BenillaTrainerFilterDropDown_OnClick()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<i64>("return TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE").unwrap(),
+        0,
+        "the click must write the SAVED global, not just the engine mask"
+    );
+    let text = s.saved_variables_text();
+    assert!(
+        text.contains("TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE = 0"),
+        "the file carries the toggle: {text}"
+    );
+
+    // The restart: a fresh VM with the same XML (file-scope defaults stand), then the saved file
+    // executed over them, then a trainer opens.
+    let mut fresh = trainer_script();
+    fresh.run(&text).unwrap();
+    fresh.set_money(50);
+    fresh.set_trainer(Some(menu()));
+    fresh.fire_event("TRAINER_SHOW", vec![ScriptValue::Str("Sana".into())]);
+    assert!(
+        !fresh
+            .eval::<bool>("return GetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('unavailable') == 1")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "the remembered filter reached the engine"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        fresh.eval::<i64>("return GetNumTrainerServices()").unwrap(),
+        5,
+        "Cleave (the unavailable service) is hidden on the very first paint after the restart"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        fresh.errors().is_empty(),
+        "script errors: {:?}",
+        fresh.errors()
+    );
+}
+
+/// A **new list packet resets the engine's filter mask** to the builder's own default — mask 3 at a
+/// class/tradeskill/pet trainer, mask 5 (available|used) at a mount trainer — and clears the collapse
+/// set, byte-verified (decision 1128). This is the engine half of the pair above: the reset is why
+/// the window re-pushes its saved globals on every show.
+#[test]
+fn a_new_list_packet_resets_the_filter_mask_and_the_collapse_set() {
+    let mut s = trainer_script();
+    s.set_trainer(Some(menu()));
+    s.run("BenillaTrainerFrame_ApplyFilter()").unwrap();
+    // Collapse a group, and turn a state off directly (no global) — both are engine-side state.
+    s.run("CollapseTrainerSkillLine(1) SetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('used', 1)")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>("return GetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('used') == 1")
+        .unwrap());
+    assert!(s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumTrainerServices()").unwrap() < 6);
+
+    s.reset_trainer_filter(0);
+    assert!(
+        !s.eval::<bool>("return GetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('used') == 1")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "mask 3: available|unavailable, already-known OFF"
+    );
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>("return GetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('available') == 1")
+        .unwrap());
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>("return GetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('unavailable') == 1")
+        .unwrap());
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<i64>("return GetNumTrainerServices()").unwrap(),
+        5,
+        "nothing collapsed any more (6 rows less the already-known service the mask now hides)"
+    );
+
+    // A mount trainer wants available|used instead — what makes a known mount visible at all.
+    s.reset_trainer_filter(1);
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>("return GetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('used') == 1")
+        .unwrap());
+    assert!(!s
+        .eval::<bool>("return GetTrainerServiceTypeFilter('unavailable') == 1")
+        .unwrap());
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_trainer/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_trainer/mod.rs
index d8e9db86..360a7659 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_trainer/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_trainer/mod.rs
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ pub(crate) struct TrainerOpen {
     pub(crate) trainer_type: u32,
     /// The trainer's greeting line (`SMSG_TRAINER_LIST`'s trailing string).
     pub(crate) greeting: String,
+    /// A `SMSG_TRAINER_LIST` has landed and the feed has not yet handed it to the engine. Drives the
+    /// engine's **per-packet** filter/collapse reset ([`UiScript::reset_trainer_filter`]) — the
+    /// reference's builder rewrites both masks on every list packet, and only on a packet (decision
+    /// 1128). It is not the same edge as a snapshot change: those re-push the same list.
+    pub(crate) fresh_list: bool,
 }
 
 impl TrainerOpen {
@@ -81,6 +86,7 @@ impl TrainerOpen {
         self.trainer_type = trainer_type;
         self.services = services;
         self.greeting = greeting;
+        self.fresh_list = true;
     }
 
     /// Close the open window (a client-side close). Keeps nothing — a re-open re-lists.
@@ -89,6 +95,7 @@ impl TrainerOpen {
         self.services.clear();
         self.trainer_type = 0;
         self.greeting.clear();
+        self.fresh_list = false;
     }
 
     /// Disconnect: drop the open window (mirrors the gossip/merchant session clears).
@@ -300,7 +307,8 @@ fn snapshot(
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 fn feed_trainer(
     script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
-    open: Res<TrainerOpen>,
+    // ResMut only to consume the fresh-packet latch below — the feed never authors trainer content.
+    mut open: ResMut<TrainerOpen>,
     actions: Res<PlayerActions>,
     spells: Option<Res<Spells>>,
     skill_lines: Option<Res<SkillLines>>,
@@ -336,6 +344,13 @@ fn feed_trainer(
     let Some(skill_lines) = skill_lines.as_deref() else {
         return;
     };
+    // A new list packet resets the state filter and the collapse set in the engine, exactly as the
+    // reference's builder does (decision 1128) — before the snapshot goes in, so `TRAINER_SHOW`
+    // finds the reset mask and the window's own show handler pushes the SAVED filter back over it.
+    if open.fresh_list {
+        script.reset_trainer_filter(open.trainer_type);
+        open.fresh_list = false;
+    }
     let fresh = snapshot(
         &open,
         &spells.catalog,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs
index 9c5e4462..42533575 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/cvars.rs
@@ -93,6 +93,28 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     }
 }
 
+/// An **engine-side** write: a value the engine owns moved, and the CVar table mirrors it. The
+/// minimap's zoom is the case that needs it — the client's `set_zoom` (`0x6da8e0`) writes the live
+/// index *and* `CVar::Set`s `minimapZoom`/`minimapInsideZoom` in the same breath, which is exactly
+/// why the level survives a restart. So this queues the change like a Lua `SetCVar` would (the host
+/// must hear it and dirty the config file), unlike [`super::UiScript::set_cvar_host`], whose whole
+/// point is *not* to echo the value it just loaded.
+///
+/// A name the host never registered is a **silent** no-op here, not a warning: engine writes are
+/// code, not UI content, so a miss means this build's host doesn't back the var (a bare test VM) —
+/// and the registered set is welded to the code truths by `crate::cvars`'s own test.
+pub(super) fn set_from_engine(model: &mut Model, name: &str, value: String) {
+    let Some(slot) = model.cvars.get_mut(&name.to_ascii_lowercase()) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    if slot.value == value {
+        return;
+    }
+    slot.value = value.clone();
+    let registered = slot.name.clone();
+    model.cvar_changes.push((registered, value));
+}
+
 /// Push the warn-once for an unknown CVar name into the model's warning stream.
 fn warn_unknown(model: &mut Model, name: &str) {
     let key = name.to_ascii_lowercase();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/minimap.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/minimap.rs
index cd286138..4a026bbe 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/minimap.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/minimap.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
 //! (decision 0203). The model attrs (`minimapPlayerModel=`/`minimapArrowModel=`) are not
 //! modeled yet — deferred with phase 3's blips.
 //!
+//! **The level persists** (decision 1131). The client keeps two halves: the live indices
+//! (`0x86f698` outdoor / `0x86f69c` indoor — our [`MinimapState`]) and the two CVar objects
+//! `minimapZoom`/`minimapInsideZoom` (both registered default `"3"`), which are what `Config.wtf`
+//! actually stores. `set_zoom` writes *both*; the minimap reset path (`0x6d9008`–`0x6d901f`)
+//! re-seeds the live index from the CVar's parsed int. benilla runs the same two halves at the same
+//! seam: `SetZoom` below writes the index and the CVar, and the app seeds the widget from the CVar
+//! table once, when the in-game UI materializes ([`super::UiScript::set_minimap_zoom`]).
+//!
 //! The methods live in their own registry table, consulted by the frame `__index` dispatcher only
 //! for Minimap frames — the same duck-typing posture as StatusBar's.
 
@@ -57,7 +65,24 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
             // inside flag selects, so the +/- buttons zoom the map you're actually looking at and
             // each mode keeps its own level.
             let clamped = (zoom.max(0.0) as u8).min(MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS - 1);
-            with_minimap(lua, &this, |m| m.set_active_zoom(clamped))
+            let inside = with_minimap(lua, &this, |m| {
+                m.set_active_zoom(clamped);
+                m.inside
+            })?;
+            // …and it persists the level in the same breath: `set_zoom` writes the live index AND
+            // `CVar::Set`s the matching CVar (`minimapInsideZoom` indoors, `minimapZoom` out), which
+            // is the whole reason a zoom level survives a restart. The borrow above is released
+            // before this one — both reach the same `Model` app_data.
+            super::cvars::set_from_engine(
+                &mut lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data"),
+                if inside {
+                    "minimapInsideZoom"
+                } else {
+                    "minimapZoom"
+                },
+                clamped.to_string(),
+            );
+            Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
     m.set(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
index 8457d66f..ee98844f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ mod pvp;
 mod quest;
 mod quest_log;
 mod region;
+mod saved;
 mod scrollframe;
 mod session;
 mod shapeshift;
@@ -278,6 +279,7 @@ impl UiScript {
         death::install(&lua)?;
         aura::install(&lua)?;
         cvars::install(&lua)?;
+        saved::install(&lua)?;
         keybind::install(&lua)?;
         sound::install(&lua)?;
         pointer::install(&lua)?;
@@ -375,6 +377,25 @@ impl UiScript {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Seed every Minimap widget's two zoom indices from the persisted levels — the client's
+    /// minimap reset path copying each CVar object's parsed int into its live index
+    /// (`[0x86f698] ← [[0xb4b410]+0x28]`, `[0x86f69c] ← [[0xb4d90c]+0x28]`; wow-re
+    /// `wmo-interior-minimap.md`, VERIFIED). Called **once**, when the in-game UI materializes and
+    /// the widget exists — not per frame: from then on the widget's index is the live truth and
+    /// `Minimap:SetZoom` keeps the CVar following it, so a repeated push would fight the +/- buttons.
+    /// Both indices clamp into `[0, MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS)` exactly like `set_zoom`, so a hand-edited
+    /// `config.toml` cannot seed an out-of-range level (decision 1131).
+    pub fn set_minimap_zoom(&mut self, zoom: u8, inside_zoom: u8) {
+        let top = crate::widget::MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS - 1;
+        let (zoom, inside_zoom) = (zoom.min(top), inside_zoom.min(top));
+        for (_, frame) in self.model_mut().arena.iter_frames_mut() {
+            if let KindState::Minimap(m) = &mut frame.kind_state {
+                m.zoom = zoom;
+                m.inside_zoom = inside_zoom;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Load and run a Lua chunk (text-only; the sandbox rejects bytecode). Errors propagate to the
     /// caller (a *load-time* error is the caller's to see; *handler* errors during events go to
     /// [`UiScript::errors`]).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
index a0074bc5..0b179aed 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
@@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ pub(crate) struct Model {
     /// Unknown CVar names already warned about (warn-once, the era-atlas-miss posture).
     pub(crate) cvars_warned: HashSet<String>,
 
+    /// The globals `RegisterForSave` declared, in registration order — the saved-variables set the
+    /// host writes out at logout/exit and re-executes at load (decision 1128, [`super::saved`]).
+    pub(crate) saved_names: Vec<String>,
+
     /// The key-binding table (decision 0997, [`super::keybind`]) — the chord→command store the
     /// Key Bindings window edits, plus its stored account/character sets. The CVar table's twin:
     /// host-registered commands, Lua reads/writes synchronously, the app re-derives dispatch when
@@ -868,6 +872,7 @@ impl Model {
             cvars: HashMap::new(),
             cvar_changes: Vec::new(),
             cvars_warned: HashSet::new(),
+            saved_names: Vec::new(),
             keybinds: super::keybind::KeybindState::default(),
             actions: HashMap::new(),
             action_states: HashMap::new(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/saved.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/saved.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c98c3eaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/saved.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,317 @@
+//! **Saved variables** — the Lua-level settings that survive a restart (decision 1128).
+//!
+//! The reference client has *two* mechanisms for this, byte-verified in wow-re
+//! (`system/ui/scratch/savedvariables-protocol.md`):
+//!
+//! 1. **`RegisterForSave("NAME")`** — the Lua API FrameXML uses for its **38** globals
+//!    (`LOCK_ACTIONBAR`, `CHAT_LOCKED`, the eleven `COMBAT_TEXT_*`, …), written to the flat
+//!    `WTF/Account/<ACC>/SavedVariables.lua` and read back by a hand-rolled line parser
+//!    (`0x4913b0`, strings and numbers only) before `VARIABLES_LOADED` fires.
+//! 2. **`## SavedVariables` in a `.toc`** — one file per addon, *executed as a Lua chunk*
+//!    (`AddOn_Load 0x51f240` step 4, before `ADDON_LOADED` at step 6). Exactly one stock addon
+//!    uses it: `Blizzard_TrainerUI`, for the trainer window's three filter globals.
+//!
+//! benilla's ported UI is **one FrameXML tree, not addons** ([`crate::script`]'s manifest), so the
+//! two collapse into one here: the *declaration* API is (1) — the one our XML can call — and the
+//! *load* is (2)'s, a real chunk, because we already have a Lua VM and executing beats a line
+//! parser that cannot carry a table. One file, install-scoped (the `benilla/` folder is already
+//! per-install, so it IS the reference's account scope — decision 0954). The host side — path,
+//! load seam, write triggers — is the app's `ui_saved` module's.
+//!
+//! **Deliberate divergences from the reference's serializer**, all recorded in 1128: LF and no
+//! leading blank line (its `"\r\n"`-per-variable prefix means every file it writes *starts* with a
+//! blank line); Rust's shortest round-tripping float formatting instead of `%.16g` (which loses a
+//! double needing 17 digits); table entries emitted in a **sorted** order instead of raw `pairs`
+//! order, so a settings file diffs cleanly; `\r` escaped rather than written raw (raw CR inside a
+//! quoted string is what the reference emits and it does not re-parse); and a cycle is dropped
+//! rather than cut by writing a lightuserdata sentinel *into the caller's table*. What is faithful
+//! is the grammar — `NAME = value`, `nil` written out, bracketed keys, TAB indent, trailing comma —
+//! so a file is readable by, and swappable with, the reference's own.
+
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::ffi::c_void;
+use std::fmt::Write as _;
+
+use mlua::{Lua, Table, Value};
+
+use super::Model;
+
+/// How deep a table may nest before the serializer gives up. The reference recurses uncapped (only
+/// its indent saturates at `0x80`); a settings file is not a place where 32 levels is anything but
+/// a bug, and a bound is what keeps a hostile or accidental structure from eating the stack.
+const MAX_DEPTH: usize = 32;
+
+impl super::UiScript {
+    /// The registered names, in registration order — what the host writes out (the reference's
+    /// own emission order, and stable across runs because the load order is).
+    pub fn saved_variable_names(&self) -> Vec<String> {
+        self.model_mut().saved_names.clone()
+    }
+
+    /// Serialize every registered global into the settings file's body, `NAME = value` per line.
+    ///
+    /// A name whose value cannot round-trip through a Lua chunk (a function, a widget reference,
+    /// any userdata — and `inf`/`NaN`, which are not Lua literals) is **skipped with a warning**
+    /// rather than written as something that would fail to load; the reference loses the same set,
+    /// silently. `nil` IS written (`NAME = nil`), which is how the reference records a toggle that
+    /// has never been touched.
+    pub fn saved_variables_text(&self) -> String {
+        let names = self.saved_variable_names();
+        let mut out = String::new();
+        let mut unwritable = Vec::new();
+        for name in &names {
+            let value: Value = match self.lua().globals().get(name.as_str()) {
+                Ok(v) => v,
+                Err(e) => {
+                    unwritable.push(format!("{name} ({e})"));
+                    continue;
+                }
+            };
+            let mut seen = HashSet::new();
+            match serialize(&value, 1, &mut seen) {
+                Some(text) => {
+                    let _ = writeln!(out, "{name} = {text}");
+                }
+                None => unwritable.push(name.clone()),
+            }
+        }
+        if !unwritable.is_empty() {
+            self.model_mut().warnings.push(format!(
+                "saved variables: not serializable, skipped: {}",
+                unwritable.join(", ")
+            ));
+        }
+        out
+    }
+}
+
+/// One Lua value as the text of a Lua expression, or `None` when it cannot be one.
+///
+/// `depth` is the indent level of the *contents* of a table at this position (so a top-level value
+/// starts at 1); `seen` carries the table identities on the current path — a repeat is a cycle and
+/// drops that entry. Note it is the *path*, not every table ever visited: a shared subtable is
+/// legitimately written twice (as it must be, since the file has no way to express aliasing).
+fn serialize(v: &Value, depth: usize, seen: &mut HashSet<*const c_void>) -> Option<String> {
+    match v {
+        Value::Nil => Some("nil".to_string()),
+        Value::Boolean(b) => Some(b.to_string()),
+        Value::Integer(i) => Some(i.to_string()),
+        Value::Number(n) => number(*n),
+        Value::String(s) => Some(quote(&s.to_string_lossy())),
+        Value::Table(t) => table(t, depth, seen),
+        // Functions, threads, userdata (every widget reference is one — a frame's Lua value is a
+        // table whose `[0]` is a lightuserdata handle, RF-0023) cannot be written as a literal.
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// A Lua number literal. Integral values print without a fractional part (`1`, not `1.0` — the
+/// reference's `%.16g` does the same, and our XML compares these against integers); everything
+/// else takes Rust's shortest form that round-trips exactly. `inf`/`NaN` have no literal at all.
+fn number(n: f64) -> Option<String> {
+    if !n.is_finite() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    if n.fract() == 0.0 && n.abs() < 9_007_199_254_740_992.0 {
+        return Some(format!("{}", n as i64));
+    }
+    Some(format!("{n}"))
+}
+
+/// A quoted Lua string. The reference escapes exactly four characters (`\000`, `\n`, `\"`, `\\`)
+/// and writes CR and every high byte raw; we add `\r` (raw CR in a quoted string is not something
+/// its own loader could read back) and keep high bytes raw, so localized text stays legible.
+fn quote(s: &str) -> String {
+    let mut out = String::with_capacity(s.len() + 2);
+    out.push('"');
+    for c in s.chars() {
+        match c {
+            '\\' => out.push_str("\\\\"),
+            '"' => out.push_str("\\\""),
+            '\n' => out.push_str("\\n"),
+            '\r' => out.push_str("\\r"),
+            '\0' => out.push_str("\\000"),
+            c => out.push(c),
+        }
+    }
+    out.push('"');
+    out
+}
+
+/// A table constructor: `{\n<tabs>[key] = value,\n<tabs-1>}`. Keys are always bracketed (the
+/// reference's shape, and it sidesteps every reserved-word and non-identifier question); entries
+/// are **sorted** — integer keys ascending, then strings alphabetically — so the file is stable
+/// across runs instead of following Lua's hash order.
+fn table(t: &Table, depth: usize, seen: &mut HashSet<*const c_void>) -> Option<String> {
+    if depth > MAX_DEPTH || !seen.insert(t.to_pointer()) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let mut ints: Vec<(i64, String)> = Vec::new();
+    let mut strs: Vec<(String, String)> = Vec::new();
+    for pair in t.pairs::<Value, Value>() {
+        let Ok((k, v)) = pair else { continue };
+        let Some(value) = serialize(&v, depth + 1, seen) else {
+            continue; // an unserializable entry drops, like the reference's
+        };
+        match k {
+            Value::Integer(i) => ints.push((i, value)),
+            // A float key that is integral is the same slot as the integer in Lua 5.1.
+            Value::Number(n) if n.fract() == 0.0 => ints.push((n as i64, value)),
+            Value::String(s) => strs.push((s.to_string_lossy(), value)),
+            _ => continue, // a table/bool/function key cannot be written as a literal
+        }
+    }
+    seen.remove(&t.to_pointer());
+    ints.sort_by_key(|(k, _)| *k);
+    strs.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.cmp(&b.0));
+
+    let indent = "\t".repeat(depth);
+    let close = "\t".repeat(depth.saturating_sub(1));
+    let mut out = String::from("{\n");
+    for (k, v) in ints {
+        let _ = writeln!(out, "{indent}[{k}] = {v},");
+    }
+    for (k, v) in strs {
+        let _ = writeln!(out, "{indent}[{}] = {v},", quote(&k));
+    }
+    out.push_str(&close);
+    out.push('}');
+    Some(out)
+}
+
+/// Register the `RegisterForSave` global.
+///
+/// Divergence, disclosed: the reference's binding is **taint-gated to Blizzard code**
+/// (`0x4884e0`), because a third-party addon writing into the shared account file would be a
+/// security surface. benilla has no taint model yet and loads no third-party addons, so the gate
+/// has nothing to gate; when addon loading lands, this is one of the bindings that needs it (and
+/// an addon's own `## SavedVariables` file is the mechanism it should use instead — the `.toc`
+/// directive [`crate::toc::Toc::list`] already parses).
+pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    lua.globals().set(
+        "RegisterForSave",
+        lua.create_function(|lua, name: String| {
+            let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+            if !model.saved_names.contains(&name) {
+                model.saved_names.push(name);
+            }
+            Ok(())
+        })?,
+    )
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use crate::script::UiScript;
+
+    /// The round trip that is the whole point: what the writer emits, the loader's own chunk
+    /// restores — through a fresh VM, exactly as a restart does.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_declared_globals_round_trip_through_a_fresh_vm() {
+        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        s.run(
+            r#"
+            TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE = 1
+            TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE = 0
+            NEVER_TOUCHED = nil
+            CHAT_LABEL = "say \"hi\"\nnow"
+            OPACITY = 0.5
+            SPELLBOOK_PAGENUMBERS = { [2] = 3, [1] = 1, ["odd key"] = { [1] = true } }
+            RegisterForSave("TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE")
+            RegisterForSave("TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE")
+            RegisterForSave("NEVER_TOUCHED")
+            RegisterForSave("CHAT_LABEL")
+            RegisterForSave("OPACITY")
+            RegisterForSave("SPELLBOOK_PAGENUMBERS")
+            RegisterForSave("TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE")
+        "#,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            s.saved_variable_names(),
+            vec![
+                "TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE",
+                "TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE",
+                "NEVER_TOUCHED",
+                "CHAT_LABEL",
+                "OPACITY",
+                "SPELLBOOK_PAGENUMBERS",
+            ],
+            "registration order, and a re-register is not a second entry"
+        );
+        let text = s.saved_variables_text();
+        // The grammar: one statement per line, `nil` written out, integral numbers bare, keys
+        // bracketed and SORTED (integers ascending, then strings), tab-indented, trailing comma.
+        assert_eq!(
+            text,
+            "TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE = 1\n\
+             TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE = 0\n\
+             NEVER_TOUCHED = nil\n\
+             CHAT_LABEL = \"say \\\"hi\\\"\\nnow\"\n\
+             OPACITY = 0.5\n\
+             SPELLBOOK_PAGENUMBERS = {\n\
+             \t[1] = 1,\n\
+             \t[2] = 3,\n\
+             \t[\"odd key\"] = {\n\
+             \t\t[1] = true,\n\
+             \t},\n\
+             }\n",
+            "got:\n{text}"
+        );
+        assert!(s.take_warnings().is_empty(), "nothing was unserializable");
+
+        // A fresh VM (the restart), the file's chunk, and every value is back.
+        let fresh = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        fresh.run(&text).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            fresh
+                .eval::<i64>("return TRAINER_FILTER_AVAILABLE + TRAINER_FILTER_UNAVAILABLE")
+                .unwrap(),
+            1
+        );
+        assert!(fresh.eval::<bool>("return NEVER_TOUCHED == nil").unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(
+            fresh.eval::<String>("return CHAT_LABEL").unwrap(),
+            "say \"hi\"\nnow"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(fresh.eval::<f64>("return OPACITY").unwrap(), 0.5);
+        assert_eq!(
+            fresh
+                .eval::<i64>("return SPELLBOOK_PAGENUMBERS[2]")
+                .unwrap(),
+            3
+        );
+        assert!(fresh
+            .eval::<bool>("return SPELLBOOK_PAGENUMBERS['odd key'][1]")
+            .unwrap());
+    }
+
+    /// A value with no Lua literal is skipped and named, never written as something that would
+    /// break the next load — the one place we improve on the reference, which loses these silently.
+    #[test]
+    fn unserializable_values_are_skipped_with_one_warning() {
+        let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        s.run(
+            r#"
+            A_FUNCTION = function() end
+            NOT_A_NUMBER = 1/0
+            KEPT = 7
+            CYCLE = {}
+            CYCLE.self = CYCLE
+            RegisterForSave("A_FUNCTION")
+            RegisterForSave("NOT_A_NUMBER")
+            RegisterForSave("KEPT")
+            RegisterForSave("CYCLE")
+        "#,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let text = s.saved_variables_text();
+        // The cycle's own entry drops; the table itself still writes (empty here).
+        assert_eq!(text, "KEPT = 7\nCYCLE = {\n}\n", "got:\n{text}");
+        let warns = s.take_warnings();
+        assert_eq!(warns.len(), 1, "one line, not one per name: {warns:?}");
+        assert!(warns[0].contains("A_FUNCTION") && warns[0].contains("NOT_A_NUMBER"));
+        // And what it wrote is loadable.
+        UiScript::new().unwrap().run(&text).unwrap();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/minimap.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/minimap.rs
index 92bf0eec..5be6a714 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/minimap.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/minimap.rs
@@ -126,3 +126,66 @@ fn minimap_indoor_and_outdoor_zoom_indices_are_independent() {
         "the outdoor index survived an indoor zoom"
     );
 }
+
+/// **The level persists** (decision 1131). `SetZoom` writes the live index *and* the matching CVar
+/// — `minimapInsideZoom` while inside a WMO, `minimapZoom` outside — the client's own `set_zoom` →
+/// `CVar::Set` pair, which is the whole reason a zoom survives a restart. The host push in the
+/// other direction (the seed) does *not* echo back as a change.
+#[test]
+fn setzoom_persists_the_level_through_the_cvar_it_belongs_to() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.register_cvars([("minimapZoom", "3"), ("minimapInsideZoom", "3")]);
+    s.run(r#"m = CreateFrame("Minimap", "TestMinimap")"#)
+        .unwrap();
+
+    // The seed is a HOST write: it moves both live indices and queues nothing (the host is the
+    // one that just read them off disk — an echo would re-dirty the file it loaded).
+    s.set_minimap_zoom(1, 4);
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<u8>("return m:GetZoom()").unwrap(), 1);
+    assert!(s.take_cvar_changes().is_empty(), "the seed must not echo");
+
+    // Outdoors, a zoom writes the outdoor CVar and only that one.
+    s.run("m:SetZoom(5)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.take_cvar_changes(),
+        vec![("minimapZoom".to_string(), "5".to_string())]
+    );
+    assert_eq!(s.cvar("minimapInsideZoom").as_deref(), Some("3"));
+
+    // Indoors it writes the indoor one — the two levels persist separately, like the indices.
+    s.set_minimap_inside(true);
+    s.run("m:SetZoom(0)").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.take_cvar_changes(),
+        vec![("minimapInsideZoom".to_string(), "0".to_string())]
+    );
+    assert_eq!(s.cvar("minimapZoom").as_deref(), Some("5"));
+
+    // A no-op zoom queues nothing: quiet frames stay quiet, and the config stays clean.
+    s.run("m:SetZoom(0)").unwrap();
+    assert!(s.take_cvar_changes().is_empty());
+
+    // The seed clamps like `set_zoom` does, so a hand-edited config.toml cannot seed out of range.
+    s.set_minimap_zoom(99, 99);
+    s.set_minimap_inside(false);
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<u8>("return m:GetZoom()").unwrap(),
+        MINIMAP_ZOOM_LEVELS - 1
+    );
+}
+
+/// A VM whose host registered nothing (a bare test harness, a glue-only run) still zooms — the
+/// engine-side CVar write is a silent no-op there, not a warning: engine writes are code, not UI
+/// content, so a miss means this build's host does not back the var.
+#[test]
+fn zooming_without_a_registered_cvar_table_is_silent() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.run(r#"m = CreateFrame("Minimap", "TestMinimap") m:SetZoom(4)"#)
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(s.eval::<u8>("return m:GetZoom()").unwrap(), 4);
+    assert!(s.take_cvar_changes().is_empty());
+    assert!(
+        s.take_warnings().is_empty(),
+        "no warning for an engine write"
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trainer/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trainer/mod.rs
index deb59e9a..f01b9a39 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trainer/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trainer/mod.rs
@@ -279,6 +279,31 @@ impl super::UiScript {
         }
     }
 
+    /// **Reset the state filter and the collapse set — one `SMSG_TRAINER_LIST` arriving.**
+    ///
+    /// Byte-verified (wow-re `system/ui/scratch/trainer-service-suppression.md`, decision 1128): the
+    /// list builder writes the filter mask itself on every packet — `0x4d75d9 mov ds:0xb73a1c,3`
+    /// (available|unavailable, "already known" OFF), or `5` (available|used) when `trainerType == 1`
+    /// — alongside `ds:0xb73a20 = ds:0xb73a24 = 0xffffffff`, which is "no group collapsed". So the
+    /// player's filter choice does NOT live in the engine across trainer visits in the reference: it
+    /// lives in the saved variable `TRAINER_FILTER_*`, and the window's show handler pushes it back
+    /// over this reset (decision 1128; `TrainerFrame.xml`'s `BenillaTrainerFrame_ApplyFilter`).
+    ///
+    /// This is the **packet** edge, not the content edge — [`Self::set_trainer`] runs on every
+    /// snapshot change (an item template landing, a name resolving), and the reference's repaint path
+    /// `0x4d7d40` does not touch either mask. Reset there and a filter would evaporate mid-window.
+    pub fn reset_trainer_filter(&mut self, trainer_type: u32) {
+        let mut model = self.model_mut();
+        // Mask 5 at a mount/"talent" trainer: available + already-known, which is what makes a
+        // known mount visible under its "My Talents" header at all (decision 1124's group -1).
+        model.trainer_filter = if trainer_type == TRAINER_TYPE_MOUNT {
+            [true, false, true]
+        } else {
+            [true, true, false]
+        };
+        model.trainer_collapsed.clear();
+    }
+
     /// Drain the **spell ids** `BuyTrainerService` queued since the last call (the engine resolves each
     /// clicked filtered row to its service's spell id, so the app sends `CMSG_TRAINER_BUY_SPELL`
     /// without needing to know the filter/index mapping).