diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ChatFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ChatFrame.xml
index 734e2e3c..563db094 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ChatFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ChatFrame.xml
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@
         --     declared width as `noResize` + a fixed list width (UIDropDownMenu.xml l.672-679),
         --     so transcribing it would pin the menu at 50 px and cut "Background" in half. In the
         --     reference, MENU mode never draws the capsule at all, so its width is inert there.
-        -- `BenillaFriendsDropDown` (FriendsFrame.xml) is already this same shape.
+        -- `FriendsDropDown` (FriendsFrame.xml) is already this same shape.
         function FCFOptionsDropDown_OnLoad()
             this.initialize = FCFOptionsDropDown_Initialize
             this.displayMode = "MENU"
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ComboFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ComboFrame.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 020b9aba..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ComboFrame.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,199 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        The combo-point dots (decision 0869) — our implementation of the behaviour the reference's
-        `FrameXML/ComboFrame.xml` + `ComboFrame.lua` specify, on our frames and driven by our
-        `PLAYER_COMBO_POINTS` feed. The Lua below is our own; what IS quoted, deliberately, is the
-        published surface and the measurements: the global function and constant names addons call,
-        and every number — offsets, sizes, TexCoords and the five fade durations are the reference's
-        own, because they are facts about how the real interface looks and moves, not choices.
-
-        ONE `Interface\ComboFrame\ComboPoint` sheet holds all three layers, split by TexCoords: the
-        dim socket (0 .. 0.375), the lit highlight (0.375 .. 0.5625) and the additive shine
-        (0.5625 .. 1). A point that comes up fades its highlight in, and the highlight's completion
-        hands off to the shine's fade-in → fade-out — the reference's two-hop `finishedFunc` chain,
-        which our `UIFrameFade` (UiPanels.xml) implements in full.
-
-        NO CLASS TEST HERE, and none is missing: this file gates on `GetComboPoints() > 0` and
-        nothing else because the reference does, and `0x51a190` carries both real gates itself —
-        rogue-or-druid (`cmp al,4 / cmp al,0xb`), and the points must be banked on the CURRENT
-        target. So a *warrior* never lights a dot even though the server really does bank them a
-        point on a victim's dodge — that byte greys Overpower through the usable walk's leg 5 and
-        goes no further (§5 byte-read, decision 0875). Re-targeting empties these dots with the
-        count untouched, which is exactly why the reference registers PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED.
-
-        The five dots march down-left, each anchored TOP-to-BOTTOM of the one before with a small
-        rightward drift — the reference's diagonal, hugging the target frame's ring.
-    -->
-    <Frame name="BenillaComboPointTemplate" virtual="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="12" y="12"/></Size>
-        <Layers>
-            <!-- The empty socket (ref l.8-19). -->
-            <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                <Texture file="Interface\ComboFrame\ComboPoint">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="12" y="16"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOPLEFT"/>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="0.375" top="0" bottom="1"/>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-            <!-- The lit point, faded in as the point is earned (ref l.20-34). -->
-            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <Texture name="$parentHighlight" file="Interface\ComboFrame\ComboPoint">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="8" y="16"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="2" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.375" right="0.5625" top="0" bottom="1"/>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-            <!-- The additive flare, chained off the highlight's fade (ref l.35-48). -->
-            <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                <Texture name="$parentShine" file="Interface\ComboFrame\ComboPoint" alphaMode="ADD">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="14" y="16"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="4"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.5625" right="1" top="0" bottom="1"/>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <Frame name="ComboFrame" frameStrata="MEDIUM" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" hidden="true" alpha="0">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="32"/></Size>
-        <!-- ref l.56-62: TOPRIGHT of the target frame, (-44,-9). -->
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="TargetFrame">
-                <Offset><AbsDimension x="-44" y="-9"/></Offset>
-            </Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Frames>
-            <Frame name="ComboPoint1" inherits="BenillaComboPointTemplate">
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-            </Frame>
-            <Frame name="ComboPoint2" inherits="BenillaComboPointTemplate">
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="ComboPoint1" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                        <Offset><AbsDimension x="7" y="4"/></Offset>
-                    </Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-            </Frame>
-            <Frame name="ComboPoint3" inherits="BenillaComboPointTemplate">
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="ComboPoint2" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                        <Offset><AbsDimension x="5" y="2"/></Offset>
-                    </Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-            </Frame>
-            <Frame name="ComboPoint4" inherits="BenillaComboPointTemplate">
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="ComboPoint3" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                        <Offset><AbsDimension x="2" y="1"/></Offset>
-                    </Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-            </Frame>
-            <!-- The fifth is the odd one out: the reference sizes it 15×18 (ref l.101-104). -->
-            <Frame name="ComboPoint5" inherits="BenillaComboPointTemplate">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="15" y="18"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="ComboPoint4" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                        <Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="1"/></Offset>
-                    </Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-            </Frame>
-        </Frames>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>
-                this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED");
-                this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_COMBO_POINTS");
-                ComboPoint1Highlight:SetAlpha(0);
-                ComboPoint1Shine:SetAlpha(0);
-            </OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>
-                ComboPointsFrame_OnEvent();
-            </OnEvent>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <Script>
-        <![CDATA[
-        -- The reference's global names, carrying the reference's measured timings: addons read
-        -- these by name, and the five durations are what the real interface's fades take, so both
-        -- halves are fixed. MAX_COMBO_POINTS lives in the ref's TargetFrame.lua; we have no such
-        -- file, and CombatText.xml's five-point flash reads it, so it is declared here.
-        MAX_COMBO_POINTS = 5;
-        COMBOFRAME_FADE_IN = 0.3;
-        COMBOFRAME_FADE_OUT = 0.5;
-        COMBOFRAME_HIGHLIGHT_FADE_IN = 0.4;
-        COMBOFRAME_SHINE_FADE_IN = 0.3;
-        COMBOFRAME_SHINE_FADE_OUT = 0.4;
-        COMBO_FRAME_LAST_NUM_POINTS = 0;
-
-        -- Dot `index`'s two animated layers: the lit point, and the additive flare over it. The
-        -- socket beneath them never moves, so nothing ever needs to reach for it.
-        local function comboPointLayers(index)
-            return getglobal("ComboPoint"..index.."Highlight"),
-                getglobal("ComboPoint"..index.."Shine");
-        end
-
-        -- Repaint the dots for the count `GetComboPoints` reports. Only points ABOVE the previous
-        -- count animate: a repaint at an unchanged count (PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED fires one on every
-        -- re-select) must not re-flare dots that are already lit — which is why the count is
-        -- remembered across events instead of being read back off the dots.
-        function ComboPointsFrame_OnEvent()
-            local points = GetComboPoints();
-            if points > 0 then
-                if not ComboFrame:IsVisible() then
-                    ComboFrame:Show();
-                    UIFrameFadeIn(ComboFrame, COMBOFRAME_FADE_IN);
-                end
-                for i = 1, MAX_COMBO_POINTS do
-                    local highlight, shine = comboPointLayers(i);
-                    if i > points then
-                        -- Past the count: dark at once, never animated back down.
-                        highlight:SetAlpha(0);
-                        shine:SetAlpha(0);
-                    elseif i > COMBO_FRAME_LAST_NUM_POINTS then
-                        -- Newly earned: light it, and hand the finished fade on to its flare.
-                        UIFrameFade(highlight, {
-                            mode = "IN",
-                            timeToFade = COMBOFRAME_HIGHLIGHT_FADE_IN,
-                            finishedFunc = ComboPointShineFadeIn,
-                            finishedArg1 = shine,
-                        });
-                    end
-                end
-            else
-                -- Nothing banked. The frame goes away, so only the first dot is worth clearing:
-                -- the loop above blanks every dot past the count the next time one is earned.
-                local highlight, shine = comboPointLayers(1);
-                highlight:SetAlpha(0);
-                shine:SetAlpha(0);
-                ComboFrame:Hide();
-            end
-            COMBO_FRAME_LAST_NUM_POINTS = points;
-        end
-
-        -- Leg two of the chain, reached as the highlight finishes: flare the shine in, and book
-        -- leg three off ITS completion. The hand-off travels by NAME because a fade's finishedArg
-        -- rides on the frame's own fadeInfo, and the reference notes the same self-reference
-        -- problem where it does this.
-        function ComboPointShineFadeIn(shine)
-            UIFrameFade(shine, {
-                mode = "IN",
-                timeToFade = COMBOFRAME_SHINE_FADE_IN,
-                finishedFunc = ComboPointShineFadeOut,
-                finishedArg1 = shine:GetName(),
-            });
-        end
-
-        -- Leg three: the flare burns back out on its own.
-        function ComboPointShineFadeOut(shineName)
-            UIFrameFadeOut(getglobal(shineName), COMBOFRAME_SHINE_FADE_OUT);
-        end
-        ]]>
-    </Script>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/DurabilityFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/DurabilityFrame.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a5850189..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/DurabilityFrame.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,324 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        The durability alert — the "armor guy" under the minimap (director-directed this round,
-        with the doll-slot broken tint). Geometry, texture cells and colors are MEASUREMENTS of the
-        real 1.12 DurabilityFrame (extracted Interface\FrameXML\DurabilityFrame.xml + .lua) and the
-        show/hide law is the same law, written here in our own terms: 11 alert regions off one
-        Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons atlas — 8 body pieces
-        (Head, Shoulders, Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet, Wrists, Hands) that show TOGETHER when
-        any of them alerts, plus 3 showSeparate pieces (Weapon, Shield/OffWeapon, Ranged) that each
-        show only when itself alerted. The whole frame hides at zero alerts.
-
-        The feed is the engine's GetInventoryAlertStatus(1..11) (benilla-ui char_stats: statuses
-        recomputed on every inventory push; a change fires UPDATE_INVENTORY_ALERTS — the same event
-        the real engine fires). Status colors are the ref's own table: 3 = yellow {1, 0.82, 0.18}
-        (damaged; the engine's threshold is INTERIM &lt; 20% pending the wow-re dispatch on the
-        0x4c94b0 binding's delegate), 4 = red {0.93, 0.07, 0.07} (broken). Statuses 1/2 are the
-        ref's own DISABLED enchant-expiry alerts (its color rows are commented out; its enchantTimer
-        arm too) — transcribed as-is, so they color nothing here either.
-
-        The XML anchor below is the ref's authored seat, and like every managed HUD frame it is
-        DEAD ON ARRIVAL: UIParent_ManageFramePositions re-seats the frame on every pass (ref
-        UIParent.lua:1758-1768 — -CONTAINER_OFFSET_X, minus 20 more when a side glyph shows; the
-        raw +40 hangs the sword/shield glyphs off-screen, director-caught). The loader's
-        post-load manage call seats it at startup; the OnShow/OnHide below (ref verbatim) re-seat
-        it on every alert transition.
-
-        OMITTED, named: the ref's OnUpdate — its whole body is the enchantTimer countdown, and
-        the timer is dead even in the ref (SetAlerts nils it; the only line setting it is
-        commented out) — a per-frame handler for provably dead state stays out.
-        SetFrameLevel(-1) in OnLoad is kept — the guy tucks under sibling HUD.
-    -->
-    <Script>
-        <![CDATA[
-        -- The alert regions, in the engine's own order: the array index IS the index
-        -- GetInventoryAlertStatus answers for, and `slot` names the texture that draws it. The
-        -- last three are the ones that speak for themselves; the eight above are one figure.
-        INVENTORY_ALERT_STATUS_SLOTS = {
-            [1] = {slot = "Head"},
-            [2] = {slot = "Shoulders"},
-            [3] = {slot = "Chest"},
-            [4] = {slot = "Waist"},
-            [5] = {slot = "Legs"},
-            [6] = {slot = "Feet"},
-            [7] = {slot = "Wrists"},
-            [8] = {slot = "Hands"},
-            [9] = {slot = "Weapon", showSeparate = 1},
-            [10] = {slot = "Shield", showSeparate = 1},
-            [11] = {slot = "Ranged", showSeparate = 1},
-        }
-
-        INVENTORY_ALERT_COLORS = {
-            -- [1]/[2]: the ref's commented-out enchant-alert colors (green/blue) — disabled there,
-            -- disabled here. [0] = no alert.
-            [3] = {r = 1, g = 0.82, b = 0.18},
-            [4] = {r = 0.93, g = 0.07, b = 0.07},
-        }
-
-        -- Which texture draws a slot. Every slot but the off hand has exactly one glyph named
-        -- after it; the off hand has TWO — a shield and a second sword — and only one of them is
-        -- ever on screen, so picking one is also hiding the other. That is the whole reason this
-        -- is a lookup with a branch in it rather than a name concatenation.
-        local function DurabilityGlyph(slot)
-            if slot ~= "Shield" then
-                return getglobal("Durability" .. slot)
-            end
-            if OffhandHasWeapon() then
-                DurabilityShield:Hide()
-                return DurabilityOffWeapon
-            end
-            DurabilityOffWeapon:Hide()
-            return DurabilityShield
-        end
-
-        -- Repaint the armour figure from the engine's per-region verdicts. Two passes, because the
-        -- eight body pieces are ONE alert between them: any of them alerting shows all eight, and
-        -- that is not known until the walk is over. (The enchantTimer nil is the reference's own
-        -- disabled residue — statuses 1/2 are its switched-off enchant-expiry alerts, so nothing
-        -- ever arms the timer and this only ever clears a field that was already nil.)
-        function DurabilityFrame_SetAlerts()
-            DurabilityFrame.enchantTimer = nil
-            local numAlerts = 0
-            local showDurability
-            local body, numBody = {}, 0
-
-            for index, value in pairs(INVENTORY_ALERT_STATUS_SLOTS) do
-                local texture = DurabilityGlyph(value.slot)
-                local color = INVENTORY_ALERT_COLORS[GetInventoryAlertStatus(index)]
-                -- Alerted pieces wear their status colour at full strength; the rest sit in the
-                -- faded white the art is authored against, which is what the body figure's
-                -- un-alerted pieces read as when one of their neighbours has lit up.
-                if color then
-                    numAlerts = numAlerts + 1
-                    texture:SetVertexColor(color.r, color.g, color.b, 1.0)
-                else
-                    texture:SetVertexColor(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5)
-                end
-                if value.showSeparate then
-                    -- Weapon, off hand, ranged: each is its own alert and its own decision.
-                    if color then
-                        texture:Show()
-                    else
-                        texture:Hide()
-                    end
-                else
-                    numBody = numBody + 1
-                    body[numBody] = texture
-                    if color then
-                        showDurability = 1
-                    end
-                end
-            end
-
-            for i = 1, numBody do
-                if showDurability then
-                    body[i]:Show()
-                else
-                    body[i]:Hide()
-                end
-            end
-
-            -- Nothing to warn about at all means no armour guy.
-            if numAlerts > 0 then
-                DurabilityFrame:Show()
-            else
-                DurabilityFrame:Hide()
-            end
-        end
-        ]]>
-    </Script>
-    <Frame name="DurabilityFrame" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="LOW" hidden="false">
-        <Size>
-            <AbsDimension x="60" y="65"/>
-        </Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="MinimapCluster" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT">
-                <Offset>
-                    <AbsDimension x="40" y="15"/>
-                </Offset>
-            </Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                <Texture name="DurabilityHead" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="18" y="22"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP"/>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="0.140625" top="0" bottom="0.171875"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityShoulders" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="48" y="22"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityHead" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="16"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.140625" right="0.515625" top="0" bottom="0.171875"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityChest" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="20" y="22"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityShoulders" relativePoint="TOP">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="-7"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.515625" right="0.6640625" top="0" bottom="0.171875"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityWrists" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="44" y="22"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityShoulders" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="7"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.6640625" right="1.0" top="0" bottom="0.171875"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityHands" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="42" y="18"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityWrists" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="15"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="0.328125" top="0.171875" bottom="0.3046875"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityWaist" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="16" y="5"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityChest" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="6"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.328125" right="0.46875" top="0.171875" bottom="0.203125"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityLegs" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="29" y="20"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityWaist" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="2"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.46875" right="0.6875" top="0.171875" bottom="0.3203125"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityFeet" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="41" y="32"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityLegs" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="8"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.6875" right="1.0" top="0.171875" bottom="0.4140625"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityWeapon" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="20" y="45"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="RIGHT" relativeTo="DurabilityWrists" relativePoint="LEFT">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="0.140625" top="0.3203125" bottom="0.6640625"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityShield" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="25" y="31"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="DurabilityWrists" relativePoint="RIGHT">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="10"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.1875" right="0.375" top="0.3203125" bottom="0.5546875"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityOffWeapon" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons" hidden="true">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="20" y="45"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="DurabilityWrists" relativePoint="RIGHT">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="-6"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0" right="0.140625" top="0.3203125" bottom="0.6640625"/>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="DurabilityRanged" file="Interface\Durability\UI-Durability-Icons">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="28" y="38"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="DurabilityShield" relativePoint="BOTTOM">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="5"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <TexCoords left="0.1875" right="0.3984375" top="0.5546875" bottom="0.84375"/>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>
-                this:SetFrameLevel(this:GetFrameLevel() - 1)
-                this:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_INVENTORY_ALERTS")
-                this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-            </OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>
-                DurabilityFrame_SetAlerts()
-                -- benilla re-manages the HUD right-stack on every alert recompute. The ref keeps
-                -- the durability seat (and the quest tracker stacked under it) fresh because it
-                -- fires UIParent_ManageFramePositions from dozens of OnShow/OnHide sites; benilla
-                -- fires it from only a handful, so a showSeparate glyph that arrives AFTER the
-                -- frame is already shown — equipment streams in per-slot at login, the weapon
-                -- often breaking before the shield's slot lands — would otherwise leave
-                -- durabilityOffset stale and hang the shield off the screen's right edge
-                -- (director-caught). SetAlerts's own Show()/Hide() only re-manages on a
-                -- shown-state transition, which a mere glyph-set change is not.
-                UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
-            </OnEvent>
-            <OnShow>
-                UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
-            </OnShow>
-            <OnHide>
-                UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
-            </OnHide>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/Fonts.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/Fonts.xml
index cbacae2e..83894284 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/Fonts.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/Fonts.xml
@@ -135,10 +135,31 @@
         -- iterates it). Still zero corpus addons, so the demand here is ours, not theirs.
         CHAT_FONT_HEIGHTS = { 12, 14, 16, 18 }
 
-        -- The two OTHER tables the reference's Fonts.xml `<Script>` block carries —
-        -- MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE and MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE — are deliberately not
-        -- here: **zero corpus addons name either**, and nothing benilla ships reads them. They
-        -- cost nine lines each the day something does.
+        -- The page ink and the title ink per readable-material, ref Fonts.xml l.27-42 verbatim.
+        --
+        -- These were deliberately absent for a long time — "zero corpus addons name either, and
+        -- nothing benilla ships reads them; they cost nine lines each the day something does".
+        -- 1751's ninth window is that day: the reference's own `GetMaterialTextColors`
+        -- (UIParent.lua l.1880-1888) reads them by these names, and it is what the sourced
+        -- `ItemTextFrame.xml` calls. Our ItemTextFrame carried a private
+        -- `BENILLA_MATERIAL_*_COLOR_TABLE` pair; both are deleted, and this is where 1.12 keeps
+        -- the one that remains.
+        MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE = {
+            ["Default"] = {0.18, 0.12, 0.06},
+            ["Stone"] = {1.0, 1.0, 1.0},
+            ["Parchment"] = {0.18, 0.12, 0.06},
+            ["Marble"] = {0, 0, 0},
+            ["Silver"] = {0.12, 0.12, 0.12},
+            ["Bronze"] = {0.18, 0.12, 0.06},
+        }
+        MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE = {
+            ["Default"] = {0, 0, 0},
+            ["Stone"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0},
+            ["Parchment"] = {0, 0, 0},
+            ["Marble"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0},
+            ["Silver"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0},
+            ["Bronze"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0},
+        }
     ]]></Script>
 
     <!-- MasterFont: the shadow-only root the GameFont* families chain through (ref l.56). -->
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/FriendsFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/FriendsFrame.xml
index e9baaa03..155a1b8a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/FriendsFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/FriendsFrame.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
             GuildRegistrar / PetitionFrame / TabardFrame, no charter or emblem path. Nothing in it
             is reachable until you are IN a guild, which is what this file now covers.
           · The row right-click menu IS the shared UnitPopup "FRIEND" menu, addressed by name
-            (see `BenillaFriendsFrame_ShowDropdown`). Its TARGET row stays hidden by UnitPopup's
+            (see `FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown`). Its TARGET row stays hidden by UnitPopup's
             own deferred set; its GUILD_PROMOTE/GUILD_LEAVE rows are live but gate themselves on
             `GuildFrame:IsVisible()`, so a friends-list or /who row still opens
             Whisper / Invite / Cancel and a guild roster row opens more.
@@ -274,6 +274,16 @@
         end
 
         -- ── The row right-click menu (ref FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown l.35-47) ───────────────────
+        -- **The reference's own names, in the reference's own file, since 1751 window 6.** These
+        -- three carried a `Benilla` prefix for one reason: our ItemRef.xml declared a second
+        -- private copy of the same pair under the plain names, loaded 262 entries earlier, and
+        -- two definitions of one name is the collision this manifest's order exists to settle.
+        -- That window is the reference's own file now and its `SetItemRef` calls
+        -- `FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown` by name — so the duplicate is deleted, the one body answers
+        -- to the name its home file publishes in 1.12, and `FriendsDropDown` is seated where the
+        -- reference seats it (which retired a `frame_flag_gate` KNOWN entry whose whole reasoning
+        -- was that forward-parent problem).
+
         -- A row's right-click opens the shared UnitPopup "FRIEND" menu addressed by NAME rather
         -- than by a unit token — which is the whole reason that menu exists: a friend or a /who
         -- hit is a name with no unit behind it (they need not even be in the world). The kit
@@ -282,22 +292,23 @@
         --
         -- `connected` gates the whole menu, ref-verbatim: there is nothing to offer an offline
         -- player. A /who hit is by definition online, so that call passes 1.
-        function BenillaFriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, connected)
+        function FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, connected)
             HideDropDownMenu(1)
             if not connected or not name or name == "" then
                 return
             end
-            BenillaFriendsDropDown.initialize = BenillaFriendsFrameDropDown_Initialize
-            BenillaFriendsDropDown.displayMode = "MENU"
-            BenillaFriendsDropDown.name = name
-            ToggleDropDownMenu(1, nil, BenillaFriendsDropDown, "cursor")
+            FriendsDropDown.initialize = FriendsFrameDropDown_Initialize
+            FriendsDropDown.displayMode = "MENU"
+            FriendsDropDown.name = name
+            ToggleDropDownMenu(1, nil, FriendsDropDown, "cursor")
         end
 
-        function BenillaFriendsFrameDropDown_Initialize()
+        function FriendsFrameDropDown_Initialize()
             UnitPopup_ShowMenu(getglobal(UIDROPDOWNMENU_OPEN_MENU), "FRIEND", nil,
-                BenillaFriendsDropDown.name)
+                FriendsDropDown.name)
         end
 
+
         -- ── The window's repaint (ref FriendsFrame_Update l.81-126) ────────────────────────────
         -- Each tab swaps the four corner art textures as well as the sub-frame: the ref reuses one
         -- 384x512 window shell for lists that want different bottom art.
@@ -820,7 +831,7 @@
                 local guildIndex = this.guildIndex
                 local name, rank, rankIndex, level, class, zone, note, officernote, online =
                     GetGuildRosterInfo(guildIndex)
-                BenillaFriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, online)
+                FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, online)
                 return
             end
             GuildFrame.previousSelectedGuildMember = GuildFrame.selectedGuildMember
@@ -1308,7 +1319,7 @@
         function FriendsFrameFriendButton_OnClick(button)
             if button == "RightButton" then
                 local name, _, _, _, connected = GetFriendInfo(this:GetID())
-                BenillaFriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, connected)
+                FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, connected)
                 return
             end
             SetSelectedFriend(this:GetID())
@@ -1324,7 +1335,7 @@
             local name = getglobal(this:GetName() .. "Name"):GetText()
             if button == "RightButton" then
                 -- A /who hit is online by construction, so the menu is never gated shut here.
-                BenillaFriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, 1)
+                FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, 1)
                 return
             end
             WhoFrame.selectedWho = this.whoIndex
@@ -2081,7 +2092,7 @@
             <!-- The row right-click menu's host (ref `<Frame name="FriendsDropDown"
                  inherits="UIDropDownMenuTemplate"/>`): invisible until ToggleDropDownMenu opens
                  it at the cursor. -->
-            <Frame name="BenillaFriendsDropDown" inherits="UIDropDownMenuTemplate"/>
+            <Frame name="FriendsDropDown" inherits="UIDropDownMenuTemplate"/>
 
             <!-- Close: the ref's own UIPanelCloseButton seat (TOPRIGHT -30,-8) on the
                  minimize-button art every close button in this house uses — no UIPanelCloseButton
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GameTime.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GameTime.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 61d57a56..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/GameTime.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-    The minimap's time-of-day indicator (GameTimeFrame) — our implementation of the behaviour the
-    1.12 FrameXML GameTime.xml + GameTime.lua specify, in their own file split (the reference TOC
-    loads GameTime.xml right after Minimap.xml, and the manifest mirrors that beside
-    MinimapCluster.xml). The Lua below is ours; the published names (GameTimeFrame_Update,
-    GameTime_GetTime, GAMETIME_DAWN/DUSK, GameTimeTexture) and every number are the reference's,
-    because addons call the first by name and the second are measurements of the real interface.
-    This closes the "day/night indicator" line in MinimapCluster.xml's OUT list.
-
-    The 50×50 frame overhanging the cluster's top-right corner shows
-    Interface\Minimap\UI-TOD-Indicator (128×64: the sun disc on the left half, the moon on the
-    right — verified by extraction); GameTimeFrame_Update re-reads GetGameTime() every OnUpdate,
-    and when the game minute changed it re-seats the 50-px texcoord window — +0.5 across the
-    dawn/dusk thresholds (before 5:30 AM / from 9:00 PM game time = night) — and refreshes the
-    tooltip if it is showing. Hover formats the same clock into the tooltip. GetGameTime() is the
-    app's SMSG_LOGIN_SETTIMESPEED clock, pushed on the minute (`crate::minimap::feed_game_time`).
-
-    The frame declares no enableMouse yet its tooltip hovers: the real XML `<Scripts>` walker
-    auto-enables the mouse kind when it attaches a mouse handler (wow-re
-    `ui/scratch/scripts-auto-enable.md`, resolved 2026-08-07) — benilla's loader models the same
-    law (`loader/scripts.rs`), so this file stays attribute-free like the reference.
-
-    Deltas from the reference's behaviour, each deliberate:
-    - No TEXT() wrapper around the format strings (this file set's convention: the ref's
-      build-time no-op localization 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. 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 path below is implemented and
-      kept live for the day a locale/CVar drives it.
--->
-<Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/">
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        -- Set here rather than by Localization.lua's LocalizeFrames — see the header.
-        TwentyFourHourTime = 1;
-
-        -- The reference's own thresholds, in minutes since midnight (game time), and its own
-        -- global names: an addon that wants to know when night falls reads exactly these.
-        GAMETIME_DAWN = ( 5 * 60) + 30;		-- 5:30 AM
-        GAMETIME_DUSK = (21 * 60) +  0;		-- 9:00 PM
-
-        -- UI-TOD-Indicator is one 128x64 sheet carrying two 50-px icons side by side: the sun at
-        -- u=0, the moon exactly half a sheet to its right. So the whole day/night decision is
-        -- which of the two u origins the 50-px window sits on.
-        local TOD_ICON_WIDTH = 50/128;
-        local TOD_ICON_HEIGHT = 50/64;
-        local TOD_NIGHT_ORIGIN = 0.5;
-
-        function GameTimeFrame_Update()
-            local hour, minute = GetGameTime();
-            local minuteOfDay = (hour * 60) + minute;
-            -- OnUpdate calls this every frame; only a changed game MINUTE is worth any work.
-            if minuteOfDay == this.timeOfDay then
-                return;
-            end
-            this.timeOfDay = minuteOfDay;
-
-            local origin = 0;
-            if minuteOfDay < GAMETIME_DAWN or minuteOfDay >= GAMETIME_DUSK then
-                origin = TOD_NIGHT_ORIGIN;
-            end
-            GameTimeTexture:SetTexCoord(origin, origin + TOD_ICON_WIDTH, 0, TOD_ICON_HEIGHT);
-
-            -- A tooltip we still own is showing last minute's clock; re-word it in place.
-            if GameTooltip:IsOwned(this) then
-                GameTimeFrame_UpdateTooltip(hour, minute);
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- The one clock formatter, since the tooltip and the getter below want the same string in
-        -- two different wrappers. TwentyFourHourTime picks the plain HH:MM form; otherwise the
-        -- hour folds into 1..12 (midnight and noon both being 12) and the AM/PM half is carried by
-        -- which format string is used, not by any text this file spells out.
-        local function clockText(hour, minute)
-            if TwentyFourHourTime then
-                return format(TIME_TWENTYFOURHOURS, hour, minute);
-            end
-            local afternoon = (hour >= 12);
-            if hour > 12 then
-                hour = hour - 12;
-            elseif hour == 0 then
-                hour = 12;
-            end
-            if afternoon then
-                return format(TIME_TWELVEHOURPM, hour, minute);
-            end
-            return format(TIME_TWELVEHOURAM, hour, minute);
-        end
-
-        function GameTimeFrame_UpdateTooltip(hours, minutes)
-            GameTooltip:SetText(clockText(hours, minutes));
-        end
-
-        function GameTime_GetTime()
-            return clockText(GetGameTime());
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-    <Frame name="GameTimeFrame" parent="MinimapCluster">
-        <Size>
-            <AbsDimension x="50" y="50"/>
-        </Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT">
-                <Offset>
-                    <AbsDimension x="4" y="-19"/>
-                </Offset>
-            </Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <HitRectInsets>
-            <AbsInset left="6" right="0" top="5" bottom="10"/>
-        </HitRectInsets>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <Texture name="GameTimeTexture" file="Interface\Minimap\UI-TOD-Indicator"/>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>
-                this.timeOfDay = 0;
-                this:SetFrameLevel(this:GetFrameLevel() + 2);
-                GameTimeFrame_Update();
-            </OnLoad>
-            <OnEnter>
-                GameTooltip:SetOwner(this, "ANCHOR_BOTTOMLEFT");
-                GameTimeFrame_UpdateTooltip(GetGameTime());
-            </OnEnter>
-            <OnLeave>
-                GameTooltip:Hide();
-            </OnLeave>
-            <OnUpdate>
-                GameTimeFrame_Update();
-            </OnUpdate>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ItemRef.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ItemRef.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ba279778..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ItemRef.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        The chat-link tooltip (decision 0274 P4) - ref ItemRef.xml/ItemRef.lua, quoted: a
-        standalone GameTooltip instance parked above the bottom center that SetItemRef fills via
-        SetHyperlink when a chat item link is clicked, plus its corner close button. The plate,
-        the status bar and the OnHide come from GameTooltipTemplate — the same inheritance the ref
-        uses (ref ItemRef.xml l.4) — declared in GameTooltip.xml, which the manifest loads first.
-
-        Departures, each named:
-        - No coin row (ref: the template's $parentMoneyFrame): our money row is the coin trio the
-          GameTooltip instance declares, and its OnTooltipAddMoney/OnTooltipCleared pair stays
-          there with it, so a chat-link tooltip renders no price line. The reasoning is on
-          GameTooltipTemplate.
-        - No drag (ref: movable + RegisterForDrag + StartMoving/StopMovingOrSizing +
-          ValidateFramePosition): benilla has no user-moved-frame affordance yet - the window
-          sits on its declared anchor.
-        - SetItemRef's player-link branch lands here (ref l.3-46): left-click whispers,
-          right-click opens the name-only FRIEND dropdown (FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown, the
-          minimal FriendsFrame stand-in below), shift-click inserts into the chat editbox. The
-          ref's shift-click friends/ignore popup fills + SendWho("n-"..name) wait on the
-          friends/who arc (both guarded). The ITEM branch's Ctrl-DressUp landed with the dressing
-          room itself (decision 1060).
-        - No UIPanelWindows row (the ref has none either): ShowUIPanel's unregistered branch is
-          a plain Show, and SetHyperlink's own empty-gate shows/hides the plate.
-    -->
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        -- ref ItemRef.lua SetItemRef (l.2-63): the chat-link click router. `link` is the payload
-        -- inside |H...|h ("item:2947:0:0:0" / "player:Name"), `text` the full escaped link,
-        -- `button` the mouse button.
-        function SetItemRef(link, text, button)
-            if strsub(link, 1, 6) == "player" then
-                local name = strsub(link, 8)
-                if name and strlen(name) > 0 then
-                    -- ref l.6-7: collapse a space-separated name to its last token (a no-op for
-                    -- the single-token names 1.12 uses).
-                    name = gsub(name, "([^%s]*)%s+([^%s]*)%s+([^%s]*)", "%3")
-                    name = gsub(name, "([^%s]*)%s+([^%s]*)", "%2")
-                    if IsShiftKeyDown() then
-                        -- ref fills a visible ADD_IGNORE/ADD_FRIEND/… popup editbox first (those
-                        -- dialogs are the friends/ignore arc, deferred), else the chat editbox,
-                        -- else SendWho (the /who arc, deferred) — we take the ref's editbox tail,
-                        -- both branches guarded.
-                        if ChatFrameEditBox and ChatFrameEditBox:IsVisible() then
-                            ChatFrameEditBox:Insert(name)
-                        elseif SendWho then
-                            SendWho("n-"..name)
-                        end
-                    elseif button == "RightButton" then
-                        FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, 1)
-                    else
-                        ChatFrame_SendTell(name)
-                    end
-                end
-                return
-            end
-            if IsControlKeyDown() then
-                -- ref l.50: ctrl-clicking an item link in chat previews it on your own character
-                -- (decision 1060). `text` is the FULL escaped link, not the bare payload —
-                -- DressUpItemLink pulls the id out of it itself.
-                DressUpItemLink(text)
-                return
-            end
-            if IsShiftKeyDown() then
-                if ChatFrameEditBox and ChatFrameEditBox:IsVisible() then
-                    ChatFrameEditBox:Insert(text)
-                end
-                return
-            end
-            ShowUIPanel(ItemRefTooltip)
-            if not ItemRefTooltip:IsVisible() then
-                ItemRefTooltip:SetOwner(UIParent, "ANCHOR_PRESERVE")
-            end
-            ItemRefTooltip:SetHyperlink(link)
-        end
-
-        -- Minimal FriendsFrame stand-in for the chat-name right-click menu (ref FriendsFrame.lua
-        -- l.35-47). The full social window (friends/ignore/who tabs) is a later arc; this hosts
-        -- only the name-only FRIEND dropdown the chat links share with the unit popups.
-        function FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(name, connected)
-            HideDropDownMenu(1)
-            if connected then
-                FriendsDropDown.initialize = FriendsFrameDropDown_Initialize
-                FriendsDropDown.displayMode = "MENU"
-                FriendsDropDown.name = name
-                ToggleDropDownMenu(1, nil, FriendsDropDown, "cursor")
-            end
-        end
-
-        function FriendsFrameDropDown_Initialize()
-            UnitPopup_ShowMenu(getglobal(UIDROPDOWNMENU_OPEN_MENU), "FRIEND", nil, FriendsDropDown.name)
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-
-    <!-- `toplevel` is the ref's (ItemRef.xml l.3) — a linked-item tooltip is a window that must
-         land above the HIGH-strata frames it is opened over (decision 1318). -->
-    <GameTooltip name="ItemRefTooltip" inherits="GameTooltipTemplate" enableMouse="true" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="HIGH" toplevel="true" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="128" y="64"/></Size>
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="80"/></Offset></Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Frames>
-            <!-- ref ItemRefCloseButton (ItemRef.xml l.17-36, quoted): the corner minimize-style
-                 close; OnLoad's SetPadding(16) keeps it off the text. -->
-            <Button name="ItemRefCloseButton">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="32" y="32"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="1" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnClick>HideUIPanel(ItemRefTooltip)</OnClick>
-                </Scripts>
-                <NormalTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Panel-MinimizeButton-Up"/>
-                <PushedTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Panel-MinimizeButton-Down"/>
-                <HighlightTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Panel-MinimizeButton-Highlight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-            </Button>
-        </Frames>
-        <Scripts>
-            <!-- The template's own OnLoad, re-declared to add the padding (ref ItemRef.xml
-                 l.38-42's shape, minus its drag arming — see the no-drag departure above); the
-                 loader's later SetScript wins, so GameTooltip_OnLoad has to be called here too.
-                 OnHide is the template's unchanged, so it is not re-declared — ref ItemRef.xml
-                 declares none either. -->
-            <OnLoad>
-                GameTooltip_OnLoad(self)
-                self:SetPadding(16)
-            </OnLoad>
-        </Scripts>
-    </GameTooltip>
-
-    <!-- The chat-name dropdown host (ref FriendsFrame's FriendsDropDown): a bare UIDropDownMenu
-         the SetItemRef player branch toggles at the cursor. UIDropDownMenuTemplate + UnitPopup
-         both load before this file (the ui_script load order). -->
-    <Frame name="FriendsDropDown" parent="UIParent" inherits="UIDropDownMenuTemplate" hidden="true"/>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ItemTextFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ItemTextFrame.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6906cca7..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ItemTextFrame.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,416 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        The item-text reader — letters, books, plaques (the mail arc's "permanent copy" lands
-        here). The Lua below is OURS; the reference ItemTextFrame.xml (354 l) + ItemTextFrame.lua
-        (104 l) are the SPECIFICATION it satisfies — frame/region names, the event flow, the
-        material art paths and the geometry/art are the reference's and are quoted as such.
-        Driven by the engine's item-text seam (benilla-ui/src/script/item_text.rs) +
-        crate::ui_item_text's feed/drain: the app fires the reference event flow
-        ITEM_TEXT_BEGIN → ITEM_TEXT_READY → ITEM_TEXT_CLOSED.
-
-        ADAPTATIONS (the MailFrame.xml precedents):
-          · The body scroll and the page are the REFERENCE's own structure since decisions
-            1337/1338 (B240): a real ScrollFrame over a 10x10 scroll child holding a real
-            SimpleHTML. Before those, the scroll was a plain Frame with an inert bar and the page a
-            FontString — so an HTML body drew as its own markup and a long one was cut off with
-            "...", both of which Goudy reported.
-          · The two material colour TABLES are the reference's data (its Fonts.xml), quoted
-            verbatim — the numbers ARE the look. They live here Benilla-scoped (the MoneyInput-shim
-            precedent) because our own Fonts.xml deliberately doesn't ship the reference's two
-            globals; the lookup around them is ours, under the reference's published name.
-          · GlobalStrings inlined: PREV "Prev", NEXT "Next", ITEM_TEXT_FROM "From," (the reference
-            string really is comma'd).
-          · ITEM_TEXT_TRANSLATION (the foreign-language progress bar) is implemented but never
-            fires — no translation mechanic on our letters; the StatusBar stays hidden.
-          · <HitRectInsets> quoted verbatim for fidelity but currently inert (the loader ignores
-            the element).
-    -->
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        -- ── The material palette ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- The six materials a page can be printed on, and the ink each one takes. The COLOURS are
-        -- the reference's own data (its Fonts.xml l.27-42) and are quoted verbatim: a different
-        -- number is a different look. Benilla-scoped names — see the header.
-        BENILLA_MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE = {
-            ["Default"] = {0.18, 0.12, 0.06},
-            ["Stone"] = {1.0, 1.0, 1.0},
-            ["Parchment"] = {0.18, 0.12, 0.06},
-            ["Marble"] = {0, 0, 0},
-            ["Silver"] = {0.12, 0.12, 0.12},
-            ["Bronze"] = {0.18, 0.12, 0.06}
-        }
-        BENILLA_MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE = {
-            ["Default"] = {0, 0, 0},
-            ["Stone"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0},
-            ["Parchment"] = {0, 0, 0},
-            ["Marble"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0},
-            ["Silver"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0},
-            ["Bronze"] = {0.93, 0.82, 0}
-        }
-        -- The page ink and the title ink for a material, under the reference's published name
-        -- (its UIParent.lua l.1880-1888). Falls back to "Default" unless BOTH halves are known, so
-        -- an unrecognised material never gets one table's colour and the other's default.
-        function GetMaterialTextColors(material)
-            local textColor = BENILLA_MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE[material]
-            local titleColor = BENILLA_MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE[material]
-            if not (textColor and titleColor) then
-                textColor = BENILLA_MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE["Default"]
-                titleColor = BENILLA_MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE["Default"]
-            end
-            return textColor, titleColor
-        end
-
-        -- ── The reader's regions, by role ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- The four material corners are one SET: a page is either bare parchment (all four off)
-        -- or dressed in a material, in which case each corner wears that material's own art.
-        -- Naming the suffixes once is also what makes the art path a single expression.
-        local MATERIAL_CORNERS = { "TopLeft", "TopRight", "BotLeft", "BotRight" }
-
-        -- Everything a fresh ITEM_TEXT_BEGIN clears away. At that point only the title is known,
-        -- so only the title stays on screen — the page and all of its paging chrome go.
-        local PAGE_CHROME = {
-            "ItemTextScrollFrame", "ItemTextCurrentPage", "ItemTextStatusBar",
-            "ItemTextPrevPageButton", "ItemTextNextPageButton",
-        }
-
-        local function ShowOrHide(region, wanted)
-            if wanted then
-                region:Show()
-            else
-                region:Hide()
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- A page always HAS a material: the server may name none, and the frame's own art is
-        -- already parchment, so that is what "none" means.
-        local function PageMaterial()
-            return ItemTextGetMaterial() or "Parchment"
-        end
-
-        -- Dress the page's four corners in its material. Parchment IS the frame's own art, so
-        -- parchment leaves the corners off and lets the bare frame show through; anything else
-        -- lights all four and points each at its own slice of that material's art set.
-        local function DressPage(material)
-            if material == "Parchment" then
-                for _, corner in ipairs(MATERIAL_CORNERS) do
-                    getglobal("ItemTextMaterial" .. corner):Hide()
-                end
-                return
-            end
-            local art = "Interface\\ItemTextFrame\\ItemText-" .. material .. "-"
-            for _, corner in ipairs(MATERIAL_CORNERS) do
-                local layer = getglobal("ItemTextMaterial" .. corner)
-                layer:Show()
-                layer:SetTexture(art .. corner)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Put the reader on screen. The panel manager is allowed to refuse (something
-        -- native-center is holding the screen) — and then we are not reading after all, so the
-        -- server has to be told, or the session stays open behind a window that never appeared.
-        -- The reference makes the same check, on both of the paths that open this window.
-        local function OpenReader(frame)
-            ShowUIPanel(frame)
-            if not frame:IsVisible() then
-                CloseItemText()
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- ── The event flow ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- One function per event of the reference's flow: ItemTextFrame_OnLoad registers FLOW in
-        -- order and ItemTextFrame_OnEvent dispatches into Handlers by name. (The reference states
-        -- the same pairing twice — four RegisterEvent calls, then a four-arm `if event == …`
-        -- chain — which is how a fifth event gets added to one of them and not the other.)
-        local FLOW = {
-            "ITEM_TEXT_BEGIN", "ITEM_TEXT_TRANSLATION", "ITEM_TEXT_READY", "ITEM_TEXT_CLOSED",
-        }
-        local Handlers = {}
-
-        -- A text has been opened. Only its title is known yet, so the page is cleared away and
-        -- the ink is set for the material the pages are going to arrive on.
-        function Handlers.ITEM_TEXT_BEGIN(frame)
-            ItemTextTitleText:SetText(ItemTextGetItem())
-            for _, name in ipairs(PAGE_CHROME) do
-                getglobal(name):Hide()
-            end
-            local ink = GetMaterialTextColors(PageMaterial())
-            ItemTextPageText:SetTextColor(ink[1], ink[2], ink[3])
-        end
-
-        -- A foreign-language page is being translated: the turn buttons stand down and the
-        -- progress bar takes over, ranged across the arg1 seconds the server quoted (OnUpdate
-        -- fills it). Never fires on our letters — see the header.
-        function Handlers.ITEM_TEXT_TRANSLATION(frame)
-            ItemTextPrevPageButton:Hide()
-            ItemTextNextPageButton:Hide()
-            frame.translationElapsed = 0
-            ItemTextStatusBar:SetMinMaxValues(0, arg1)
-            ItemTextStatusBar:Show()
-            OpenReader(frame)
-        end
-
-        -- A page has arrived. A letter signs off with its sender (ITEM_TEXT_FROM — the reference
-        -- string really is comma'd); anything else just gets its trailing blank line. The paging
-        -- row appears only when there is another page to be on, and then each button shows only
-        -- if there is something in its direction.
-        function Handlers.ITEM_TEXT_READY(frame)
-            local creator = ItemTextGetCreator()
-            local body = "\n" .. ItemTextGetText()
-            if creator then
-                body = body .. "\n\n" .. "From," .. "\n" .. creator .. "\n\n"
-            else
-                body = body .. "\n"
-            end
-            ItemTextPageText:SetText(body)
-            ItemTextScrollFrame:Show()
-            -- A page is content the reader has never seen: re-measure what there is to scroll and
-            -- start at the top, or page two opens halfway down page one.
-            ItemTextScrollFrame:UpdateScrollChildRect()
-            ItemTextScrollFrameScrollBar:SetValue(0)
-
-            local pageNumber = ItemTextGetPage()
-            local hasNext = ItemTextHasNextPage()
-            DressPage(PageMaterial())
-            if pageNumber > 1 or hasNext then
-                ItemTextCurrentPage:SetText(pageNumber)
-                ItemTextCurrentPage:Show()
-                ShowOrHide(ItemTextPrevPageButton, pageNumber > 1)
-                ShowOrHide(ItemTextNextPageButton, hasNext)
-            end
-            ItemTextStatusBar:Hide()
-            OpenReader(frame)
-        end
-
-        function Handlers.ITEM_TEXT_CLOSED(frame)
-            HideUIPanel(frame)
-        end
-
-        function ItemTextFrame_OnLoad()
-            for _, event in ipairs(FLOW) do
-                this:RegisterEvent(event)
-            end
-        end
-
-        function ItemTextFrame_OnEvent(event)
-            local handler = Handlers[event]
-            if handler then
-                handler(this)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- The translation bar's clock: while the bar is up it fills with the seconds spent so far.
-        function ItemTextFrame_OnUpdate(elapsed)
-            if not ItemTextStatusBar:IsVisible() then
-                return
-            end
-            local spent = this.translationElapsed + elapsed
-            ItemTextStatusBar:SetValue(spent)
-            this.translationElapsed = spent
-        end
-
-        -- Both page buttons are one gesture in two directions: the paging click, then the
-        -- engine's own page request. `turnPage` is ItemTextPrevPage or ItemTextNextPage.
-        function ItemTextFrame_TurnPage(turnPage)
-            PlaySound("igMainMenuOptionCheckBoxOn")
-            turnPage()
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-    <Frame name="ItemTextFrame" toplevel="true" movable="true" enableMouse="true" hidden="true" parent="UIParent">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="384" y="512"/></Size>
-        <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-104"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-        <HitRectInsets><AbsInset left="0" right="30" top="0" bottom="70"/></HitRectInsets>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                <Texture file="Interface\Spellbook\Spellbook-Icon">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="58" y="58"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="10" y="-8"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-            <Layer level="BORDER">
-                <Texture file="Interface\ItemTextFrame\UI-ItemText-TopLeft">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="256"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"/></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture file="Interface\Spellbook\UI-SpellbookPanel-TopRight">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="128" y="256"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="256" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture file="Interface\ItemTextFrame\UI-ItemText-BotLeft">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="256"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-256"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture file="Interface\Spellbook\UI-SpellbookPanel-BotRight">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="128" y="256"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="256" y="-256"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <!-- The non-parchment material corners (stone/marble/…): textures swapped in by
-                     ITEM_TEXT_READY; hidden entirely for parchment (ref l.56-70). -->
-                <Texture name="ItemTextMaterialTopLeft" hidden="true">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="256"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="21" y="-75"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="ItemTextMaterialTopRight" hidden="true">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="64" y="256"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="ItemTextMaterialTopLeft" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"/></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="ItemTextMaterialBotLeft" hidden="true">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="128"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="ItemTextMaterialTopLeft" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"/></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-                <Texture name="ItemTextMaterialBotRight" hidden="true">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="64" y="128"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="ItemTextMaterialTopLeft" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"/></Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-            <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                <FontString name="ItemTextTitleText" inherits="GameFontNormal">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="224" y="14"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER"><Offset><AbsDimension x="6" y="230"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-                <FontString name="ItemTextCurrentPage" inherits="GameFontNormal">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="192" y="0"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP"><Offset><AbsDimension x="10" y="-50"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Frames>
-            <!-- ref ItemTextScrollFrame l.145-219 — the REAL one now (decisions 1337/1338): an
-                 engine ScrollFrame that pans and clips its scroll child, with the ref's own
-                 flanking art quoted verbatim as the bar's track. `scrollBarHideable` keeps the bar
-                 off a page that fits, which is most of them. -->
-            <ScrollFrame name="ItemTextScrollFrame" inherits="UIPanelScrollFrameTemplate" hidden="true">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="280" y="355"/></Size>
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-66" y="-76"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <!-- The ref declares ARTWORK before BACKGROUND here, and the order is
-                         load-bearing: Middle anchors to Top by name, and anchors resolve at
-                         SetPoint time — a target declared later falls back to the parent (and
-                         the black track lands on the parchment). -->
-                    <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                        <Texture name="ItemTextScrollFrameTop" file="Interface\PaperDollInfoFrame\UI-Character-ScrollBar">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="28" y="256"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="5"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="0.484375" top="0" bottom="1.0"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                        <Texture name="ItemTextScrollFrameBottom" file="Interface\PaperDollInfoFrame\UI-Character-ScrollBar">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="28" y="107"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-3"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0.515625" right="1.0" top="0" bottom="0.4140625"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                    <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                        <Texture name="ItemTextScrollFrameMiddle">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="25" y="365"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="ItemTextScrollFrameTop"/></Anchors>
-                            <Color r="0" g="0" b="0" a="0.8"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <!-- The template's own OnLoad still has to run — a handler declared on an
-                         instance REPLACES the template's, it does not chain. -->
-                    <OnLoad>
-                        ScrollFrame_OnLoad()
-                        this.scrollBarHideable = 1
-                    </OnLoad>
-                </Scripts>
-                <ScrollChild>
-                    <!-- ref ItemTextPageScrollChild l.198-217, 10x10 and deliberately so: the
-                         scroll range is the child's whole SUBTREE box (decision 1338), so the page
-                         inside it is what gives the reader something to scroll. -->
-                    <Frame name="ItemTextPageScrollChild">
-                        <Size><AbsDimension x="10" y="10"/></Size>
-                        <Frames>
-                            <!-- ref ItemTextPageText l.203-215. A SimpleHTML for real now (1337):
-                                 an HTML body renders as blocks, and a plain one as a single block
-                                 through the engine's raw-text fallback. Its height is its content,
-                                 so a long page SCROLLS where it used to be cut off with "...". -->
-                            <SimpleHTML name="ItemTextPageText">
-                                <Size><AbsDimension x="270" y="304"/></Size>
-                                <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-15"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                                <FontString inherits="ItemTextFontNormal"/>
-                            </SimpleHTML>
-                        </Frames>
-                    </Frame>
-                </ScrollChild>
-            </ScrollFrame>
-            <!-- ref ItemTextStatusBar l.220-251 — the ITEM_TEXT_TRANSLATION progress bar; never
-                 fires on our letters, kept for fidelity. -->
-            <StatusBar name="ItemTextStatusBar" hidden="true">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="250" y="21"/></Size>
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOM" relativeTo="ItemTextFrame"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-5" y="128"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                        <Texture file="Interface\PaperDollInfoFrame\UI-Character-Skills-BarBorder">
-                            <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="23"/></Size>
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER"/></Anchors>
-                            <TexCoords left="0" right="1.0" top="0.0625" bottom="0.75"/>
-                        </Texture>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnLoad>this:SetFrameLevel(this:GetFrameLevel()+1)</OnLoad>
-                </Scripts>
-                <BarTexture file="Interface\TargetingFrame\UI-TargetingFrame-BarFill"/>
-                <BarColor r="0.25" g="0.75" b="0.25"/>
-            </StatusBar>
-            <Button name="ItemTextPrevPageButton" hidden="true">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="32" y="32"/></Size>
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="90" y="-56"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                        <FontString inherits="GameFontNormal" justifyH="LEFT" text="Prev"><!-- PREV -->
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativePoint="RIGHT"/></Anchors>
-                        </FontString>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnClick>ItemTextFrame_TurnPage(ItemTextPrevPage)</OnClick>
-                </Scripts>
-                <NormalTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-SpellbookIcon-PrevPage-Up"/>
-                <PushedTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-SpellbookIcon-PrevPage-Down"/>
-                <DisabledTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-SpellbookIcon-PrevPage-Disabled"/>
-                <HighlightTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Common-MouseHilight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-            </Button>
-            <Button name="ItemTextNextPageButton" hidden="true">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="32" y="32"/></Size>
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-55" y="-56"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Layers>
-                    <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                        <FontString inherits="GameFontNormal" justifyH="RIGHT" text="Next"><!-- NEXT -->
-                            <Anchors><Anchor point="RIGHT" relativePoint="LEFT"/></Anchors>
-                        </FontString>
-                    </Layer>
-                </Layers>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnClick>ItemTextFrame_TurnPage(ItemTextNextPage)</OnClick>
-                </Scripts>
-                <NormalTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-SpellbookIcon-NextPage-Up"/>
-                <PushedTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-SpellbookIcon-NextPage-Down"/>
-                <DisabledTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-SpellbookIcon-NextPage-Disabled"/>
-                <HighlightTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Common-MouseHilight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-            </Button>
-            <Button name="ItemTextCloseButton">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="32" y="32"/></Size>
-                <Anchors><Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-45" y="-26"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnClick>HideUIPanel(ItemTextFrame)</OnClick>
-                </Scripts>
-                <NormalTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Panel-MinimizeButton-Up"/>
-                <PushedTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Panel-MinimizeButton-Down"/>
-                <HighlightTexture file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Panel-MinimizeButton-Highlight" alphaMode="ADD"/>
-            </Button>
-        </Frames>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>ItemTextFrame_OnLoad()</OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>ItemTextFrame_OnEvent(event)</OnEvent>
-            <OnUpdate>ItemTextFrame_OnUpdate(arg1)</OnUpdate>
-            <OnShow>PlaySound("igMainMenuOpen")</OnShow>
-            <OnHide>
-                CloseItemText()
-                PlaySound("igMainMenuClose")
-            </OnHide>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MirrorTimer.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MirrorTimer.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3dc1fd37..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/MirrorTimer.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,232 +0,0 @@
-<Ui>
-    <!--
-        The mirror timers - our MirrorTimer1/2/3. The extracted reference
-        (Interface\FrameXML\MirrorTimer.xml/.lua, mpqx; decision 0874) is the SPECIFICATION here,
-        not the source: it fixes the frame and function names addons bind to, the geometry, the
-        textures and the four colours, and this file is our own implementation of that contract.
-
-        "Mirror" is the client's word for a timer whose authority is the SERVER: the client never
-        computes breath or fatigue. The server ships a value + a signed rate and the frame
-        integrates `value + scale * elapsed` between packets - that OnUpdate line IS the whole of
-        the client-side motion. crate::ui_mirror fires the three events off the wire:
-        MIRROR_TIMER_START (name, remaining_ms, duration_ms, scale, paused, label) /
-        MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE (name, paused) / MIRROR_TIMER_STOP (name).
-
-        arg1 is always the timer's NAME - "EXHAUSTION" / "BREATH" / "FEIGNDEATH" - the same key
-        MirrorTimerColors is indexed by, and the same key the client builds `<NAME>_LABEL` from to
-        look up the bar's caption ("Fatigue" / "Breath"; there is no FEIGNDEATH_LABEL in the 1.12
-        GlobalStrings, so that one shows an empty caption, exactly as the reference does).
-
-        Where our behaviour departs from the reference's, all three deliberate:
-
-        1. THE START DRIVER. The reference registers MIRROR_TIMER_START on UIParent itself and
-           calls MirrorTimer_Show from UIParent_OnEvent (ref UIParent.lua l.97 + l.374-375). Our
-           UIParent.xml is script-only - it has no frame of its own to register events on - so the
-           hidden MirrorTimerDriver below hosts that one registration and makes the identical call.
-
-        2. ONE WALK OVER THE POOL, NOT TWO. The reference asks its two questions - "is this timer
-           already on a bar?" then "is any bar idle?" - in two separate loops, and bounds the
-           second by STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS, a copy-paste from StaticPopup.lua that would index a
-           nil MirrorTimer4 the day the two constants diverge. A bar already carrying the timer
-           wins over an idle one wherever either sits, so one pass answers both questions and
-           cannot run off the end of the pool.
-
-        3. THE PAUSE ARG. The reference's MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE branch reads the same arg1 as both a
-           timer name (`arg1 ~= this.timer`, above) and a number (`arg1 > 0`), so a real pause
-           packet errors out in the reference UI - which is why vmangos refuses to send one and
-           substitutes a full START instead (Player::SendMirrorTimers says so in the source). We
-           read the flag from arg2, which is what both branches plainly intend.
-
-        POSITION: TOP, y=-96 - the reference's own anchor, under the top-center of the screen, with
-        timers 2 and 3 stacking downward from it.
-    -->
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        MIRRORTIMER_NUMTIMERS = 3
-
-        -- The bar colour per timer type, keyed by the name that arrives on the wire. DEATH is in
-        -- the published set even though nothing in 1.12 ever raises a timer of that type - the
-        -- table is the contract, so it carries the whole set and not just the three we see.
-        MirrorTimerColors = {
-            EXHAUSTION = { r = 1.00, g = 0.90, b = 0.00 },
-            BREATH     = { r = 0.00, g = 0.50, b = 1.00 },
-            DEATH      = { r = 1.00, g = 0.70, b = 0.00 },
-            FEIGNDEATH = { r = 1.00, g = 0.70, b = 0.00 },
-        }
-
-        -- Which bar `timer` belongs on. A bar already carrying it wins wherever it sits - the
-        -- server re-sends a whole START on every change, and a re-STATE must land back in place
-        -- instead of eating another bar; failing that the first idle bar takes it, and if all
-        -- three are busy the timer simply goes unshown (see departure 2).
-        local function claim_bar(timer)
-            local idle
-            for index = 1, MIRRORTIMER_NUMTIMERS do
-                local bar = getglobal("MirrorTimer" .. index)
-                if bar:IsVisible() then
-                    if bar.timer == timer then
-                        return bar
-                    end
-                elseif not idle then
-                    idle = bar
-                end
-            end
-            return idle
-        end
-
-        -- Hand a bar back to the pool: off screen, holding nothing.
-        local function release_bar(bar)
-            bar:Hide()
-            bar.timer = nil
-        end
-
-        -- Raise or re-seat one timer. Milliseconds on the wire, seconds on the bar; `scale` is
-        -- the server's signed rate, which OnUpdate integrates from here.
-        function MirrorTimer_Show(timer, value, maxvalue, scale, paused, label)
-            local bar = claim_bar(timer)
-            if not bar then
-                return nil
-            end
-
-            bar.timer = timer
-            bar.value = value / 1000
-            bar.scale = scale
-            bar.paused = paused > 0 and 1 or nil
-
-            local name = bar:GetName()
-            getglobal(name .. "Text"):SetText(label)
-
-            local fill = getglobal(name .. "StatusBar")
-            local color = MirrorTimerColors[timer]
-            fill:SetMinMaxValues(0, maxvalue / 1000)
-            fill:SetValue(bar.value)
-            fill:SetStatusBarColor(color.r, color.g, color.b)
-
-            bar:Show()
-            return bar
-        end
-
-        function MirrorTimerFrame_OnLoad()
-            -- The two events that address a timer already running...
-            this:RegisterEvent("MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE")
-            this:RegisterEvent("MIRROR_TIMER_STOP")
-            -- ...and the one that ends whatever this bar was holding.
-            this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
-            this.timer = nil
-        end
-
-        function MirrorTimerFrame_OnEvent()
-            if event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" then
-                -- A worldport ends every timer the old world was running; a stale breath bar must
-                -- not survive the loading screen.
-                release_bar(this)
-                return
-            end
-            -- Everything below names one running timer. Anything else is another bar's business.
-            if not this:IsShown() or arg1 ~= this.timer then
-                return
-            end
-            if event == "MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE" then
-                -- The flag rides in arg2 (departure 3), and absent means running.
-                this.paused = (arg2 and arg2 > 0) and 1 or nil
-            elseif event == "MIRROR_TIMER_STOP" then
-                release_bar(this)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- The whole of the client-side motion: between packets the bar walks itself along the
-        -- rate the server named. Nothing here decides anything - drowning is the server's call.
-        function MirrorTimerFrame_OnUpdate(frame, elapsed)
-            if not frame.paused then
-                frame.value = frame.value + frame.scale * elapsed
-                getglobal(frame:GetName() .. "StatusBar"):SetValue(frame.value)
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- The ref's UIParent_OnEvent MIRROR_TIMER_START arm, rehosted (see departure 1).
-        function MirrorTimerDriver_OnLoad()
-            this:RegisterEvent("MIRROR_TIMER_START")
-        end
-
-        function MirrorTimerDriver_OnEvent()
-            MirrorTimer_Show(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6)
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-
-    <Frame name="MirrorTimerTemplate" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" hidden="true" virtual="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="206" y="26"/></Size>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
-                <Texture>
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="195" y="13"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP">
-                            <Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-2"/></Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <Color r="0" g="0" b="0" a="0.5"/>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-            <Layer level="OVERLAY">
-                <FontString name="$parentText" inherits="GameFontHighlight">
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP">
-                            <Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/></Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-                <Texture name="$parentBorder" file="Interface\CastingBar\UI-CastingBar-Border">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="256" y="64"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP">
-                            <Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="25"/></Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                </Texture>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Frames>
-            <StatusBar name="$parentStatusBar">
-                <Size><AbsDimension x="195" y="13"/></Size>
-                <Anchors>
-                    <Anchor point="TOP">
-                        <Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-2"/></Offset>
-                    </Anchor>
-                </Anchors>
-                <Scripts>
-                    <OnLoad>this:SetFrameLevel(this:GetFrameLevel() - 1)</OnLoad>
-                </Scripts>
-                <BarTexture file="Interface\TargetingFrame\UI-StatusBar"/>
-            </StatusBar>
-        </Frames>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>MirrorTimerFrame_OnLoad()</OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>MirrorTimerFrame_OnEvent()</OnEvent>
-            <OnUpdate>MirrorTimerFrame_OnUpdate(this, arg1)</OnUpdate>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <Frame name="MirrorTimer1" inherits="MirrorTimerTemplate">
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOP">
-                <Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-96"/></Offset>
-            </Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-    </Frame>
-    <Frame name="MirrorTimer2" inherits="MirrorTimerTemplate">
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MirrorTimer1" relativePoint="BOTTOM"/>
-        </Anchors>
-    </Frame>
-    <Frame name="MirrorTimer3" inherits="MirrorTimerTemplate">
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="MirrorTimer2" relativePoint="BOTTOM"/>
-        </Anchors>
-    </Frame>
-
-    <!-- The START driver (departure 1): no art, no size - one event registration. -->
-    <Frame name="MirrorTimerDriver" parent="UIParent">
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>MirrorTimerDriver_OnLoad()</OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>MirrorTimerDriver_OnEvent()</OnEvent>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/RaidFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/RaidFrame.xml
index f7553390..ff5a2adb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/RaidFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/RaidFrame.xml
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@
             </Layer>
         </Layers>
         <Frames>
-            <!-- The row menu's host, the FriendsFrame's own pattern (`BenillaFriendsDropDown`). The
+            <!-- The row menu's host, the FriendsFrame's own pattern (`FriendsDropDown`). The
                  reference reuses `FriendsDropDown` for this; ours is its own frame so the raid
                  menu's userData cannot collide with a friends-row menu left half-open. -->
             <Frame name="BenillaRaidDropDown" inherits="UIDropDownMenuTemplate"/>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml
index 54a5e7dd..a9e2c22e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
     <Frame name="UIParent" setAllPoints="true" frameStrata="MEDIUM">
         <Scripts>
             <OnLoad>
+                this:RegisterEvent("VARIABLES_LOADED")
+                this:RegisterEvent("MIRROR_TIMER_START")
                 this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
                 this:RegisterEvent("READY_CHECK")
             </OnLoad>
@@ -205,6 +207,32 @@
         -- ~25 per-window harnesses that load this file load no bars; the binding itself is engine
         -- level and always installed. Decision 1500.
         function UIParent_OnEvent(event)
+            -- The reference's own first arm (UIParent.lua l.230-235). `LocalizeFrames` comes from
+            -- the sourced `Interface\FrameXML\Localization.xml` (1751 window 5) and is the file
+            -- that sets `TwentyFourHourTime` and the locale's frame adjustments; nothing called it
+            -- here before, which is why GameTime.xml used to set that global itself and why
+            -- HelpFrame.xml's header records a family of strings that never arrived. Guarded like
+            -- every other cross-file reach in this function: the per-window harnesses load
+            -- UIParent.xml with no chain behind it. `UpdateNameplates` is the ref's other call in
+            -- this arm and is not bound here — left absent rather than stubbed (1203).
+            if ( event == "VARIABLES_LOADED" ) then
+                if ( LocalizeFrames ) then
+                    LocalizeFrames()
+                end
+                return
+            end
+            -- The mirror bars' START driver (ref UIParent.lua l.97 + l.374-377). It lived on a
+            -- hidden `MirrorTimerDriver` frame in our own MirrorTimer.xml until 1751 window 7,
+            -- on the reasoning that "our UIParent.xml is script-only — it has no frame of its own
+            -- to register events on". That stopped being true when this file grew a real UIParent
+            -- frame with a Scripts block, so the driver came home and the extra frame is gone.
+            -- `MirrorTimer_Show` is the sourced `Interface\FrameXML\MirrorTimer.lua`'s.
+            if ( event == "MIRROR_TIMER_START" ) then
+                if ( MirrorTimer_Show ) then
+                    MirrorTimer_Show(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6)
+                end
+                return
+            end
             if ( event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" ) then
                 SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_2, SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_3,
                     SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_4 = GetActionBarToggles()
@@ -292,6 +320,88 @@
             table.insert(UIPARENT_MANAGED_POSITION_LISTENERS, fn)
         end
 
+        -- ── GetMaterialTextColors (ref UIParent.lua l.1880-1888) ─────────────────────────────
+        --
+        -- The page ink and the title ink for a readable's material. Transcribed here rather than
+        -- left absent because the sourced `Interface\FrameXML\ItemTextFrame.xml` (1751 window 9)
+        -- calls it, and it belongs in this file because it belongs in `UIParent.lua`. The two
+        -- tables it reads are the reference's own, in the reference's own home — our Fonts.xml,
+        -- which grew them with the same window.
+        --
+        -- The fallback is BOTH-or-neither on purpose (the reference's own `not(a and b)`), so an
+        -- unrecognised material never gets one table's colour and the other's default.
+        function GetMaterialTextColors(material)
+            local textColor = MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE[material]
+            local titleColor = MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE[material]
+            if ( not (textColor and titleColor) ) then
+                textColor = MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE["Default"]
+                titleColor = MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE["Default"]
+            end
+            return textColor, titleColor
+        end
+
+        -- ── ValidateFramePosition (ref UIParent.lua l.1513-1557) ─────────────────────────────
+        --
+        -- Shove a frame the player has dragged mostly off the screen back on. Transcribed here
+        -- rather than left absent because its one caller in 1.12 is the sourced
+        -- `Interface\FrameXML\ItemRef.xml`'s OnDragStop (l.48) — so with that window migrated
+        -- (1751, window 6) a player dragging a chat-link tooltip would otherwise hit a nil global,
+        -- which is a raise on an ordinary gesture rather than a loud missing feature. It belongs
+        -- in this file because it belongs in `UIParent.lua`, which this file is our copy of.
+        --
+        -- Verbatim, quirks included. Two are worth naming so nobody "fixes" them later:
+        --   · the two axes are exclusive, not additive — a frame off BOTH corners takes the
+        --     `not newAnchorX` branch and re-derives x from `left`, so only one axis moves per
+        --     drop. That is the reference's own control flow (l.1544-1548), not a transcription
+        --     slip.
+        --   · the bottom test is against `MainMenuBar:GetHeight()`, so this raises with no action
+        --     bar loaded. The reference has the same dependency; the harnesses that drive
+        --     ItemRefTooltip load ActionBar.xml for it.
+        function ValidateFramePosition(frame, offscreenPadding, returnOffscreen)
+            if ( not frame ) then
+                return
+            end
+            local left = frame:GetLeft()
+            local right = frame:GetRight()
+            local top = frame:GetTop()
+            local bottom = frame:GetBottom()
+            local newAnchorX, newAnchorY
+            if ( not offscreenPadding ) then
+                offscreenPadding = 15
+            end
+            if ( top < (0 + MainMenuBar:GetHeight() + offscreenPadding) ) then
+                -- Off the bottom of the screen
+                newAnchorY = MainMenuBar:GetHeight() + frame:GetHeight() - GetScreenHeight()
+            elseif ( bottom > GetScreenHeight() ) then
+                -- Off the top of the screen
+                newAnchorY = 0
+            end
+            if ( right < 0 ) then
+                -- Off the left of the screen
+                newAnchorX = 0
+            elseif ( left > GetScreenWidth() ) then
+                -- Off the right of the screen
+                newAnchorX = GetScreenWidth() - frame:GetWidth()
+            end
+            if ( newAnchorX or newAnchorY ) then
+                if ( returnOffscreen ) then
+                    return 1
+                else
+                    if ( not newAnchorX ) then
+                        newAnchorX = left
+                    elseif ( not newAnchorY ) then
+                        newAnchorY = top - GetScreenHeight()
+                    end
+                    frame:ClearAllPoints()
+                    frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", nil, "TOPLEFT", newAnchorX, newAnchorY)
+                end
+            else
+                if ( returnOffscreen ) then
+                    return nil
+                end
+            end
+        end
+
         function UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
             -- Frames that affect offsets in y axis
             local yOffsetFrames = {}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml
index 13835054..0b99154c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml
@@ -972,9 +972,15 @@
         -- the StaticPopupDialogs registry + StaticPopup_Show(which, arg1, arg2) + the OnUpdate
         -- countdown/StartDelay machinery — the death arc's dialogs exercise nearly all of it, and
         -- StaticPopup_Show/StaticPopupDialogs are 1.14 addon-API surface (0068). v1 scope:
-        --   · TWO dialog instances (STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS = 2; the ref runs 4) — the deepest
-        --     nesting exercised so far is decline-res re-showing DEATH (Show precedes the click's
-        --     hide, so a free second instance is required). Grow toward 4 when a third coexists.
+        --   · FOUR dialog instances, the reference's own count. It was 2 for a long time, on the
+        --     reasoning that the deepest nesting exercised was decline-res re-showing DEATH (Show
+        --     precedes the click's hide, so a free second instance is required) and that it should
+        --     "grow toward 4 when a third coexists". 1751 window 7 supplied that third caller from
+        --     an unexpected direction: the reference's own `MirrorTimer_Show` bounds its free-bar
+        --     search by this constant rather than by `MIRRORTIMER_NUMTIMERS` (MirrorTimer.lua
+        --     l.32, a copy-paste from StaticPopup.lua), so at 2 the third mirror bar was
+        --     unreachable for a new timer. The coupling is the reference's bug and this is not the
+        --     file to fix it in; matching its count is.
         --   · info fields honored: text, button1, button2, DisplayButton2, OnShow(data),
         --     OnHide(data), OnAccept(data, data2) (truthy return = keep open — RECOVER_CORPSE
         --     waits for the server, XP_LOSS's first Accept re-asks), OnCancel(data, reason)
@@ -1007,7 +1013,7 @@
         --   · Resize runs per tick while shown, not only on text swaps: GetHeight's measure has a
         --     frame of latency (the measured-width convention below), so the height self-corrects
         --     the frame after any text change.
-        STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS = 2
+        STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS = 4
         StaticPopupDialogs = {}
 
         local function StaticPopupTimeUnit(n, minutes)
@@ -2448,6 +2454,19 @@
     <Frame name="StaticPopup2" inherits="StaticPopupTemplate" parent="UIParent">
         <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="StaticPopup1" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-8"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
     </Frame>
+    <!-- The ref's four (StaticPopup.xml l.245-254), each stacked under the last. Instances 3 and 4
+         joined with 1751's seventh window and the reason is a cross-file coupling worth naming:
+         `STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS` is not only this engine's pool size — the reference's own
+         `MirrorTimer_Show` bounds its free-bar search by it (MirrorTimer.lua l.32, a copy-paste
+         from StaticPopup.lua). At 2 against MIRRORTIMER_NUMTIMERS = 3 the third mirror bar could
+         never be claimed by a new timer, silently. The v1 note above said "grow toward 4 when a
+         third coexists"; the reference's own body is that third caller. -->
+    <Frame name="StaticPopup3" inherits="StaticPopupTemplate" parent="UIParent">
+        <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="StaticPopup2" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-8"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+    </Frame>
+    <Frame name="StaticPopup4" inherits="StaticPopupTemplate" parent="UIParent">
+        <Anchors><Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="StaticPopup3" relativePoint="BOTTOM"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-8"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+    </Frame>
 
     <!-- The delete-item confirm driver (decision 0216 §3): DELETE_ITEM_CONFIRM names no frame of
          its own (the ref handles it in UIParent.lua's OnEvent), so this is a dedicated hidden
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml
index 0c079e9f..093d4691 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UnitFrames.xml
@@ -130,6 +130,15 @@
     </Button>
 
     <Script><![CDATA[
+        -- **`MAX_COMBO_POINTS` belongs to the TARGET frame in 1.12** — `TargetFrame.lua:1`, the
+        -- very first line of the file this one is our counterpart to — and this is where it lives
+        -- now (1751 window 10). It was declared in our ComboFrame.xml, whose own note said "it
+        -- lives in the ref's TargetFrame.lua; we have no such file", and that was the honest place
+        -- for it while both files were ours. The combo window is the reference's own file now and
+        -- reads this global without defining it, so it had to come home; `CombatText.xml`'s
+        -- five-point flash reads it too, and this file loads above both.
+        MAX_COMBO_POINTS = 5
+
         -- The right-click-menu explanations the detailed-tooltip fork shows in place of the unit
         -- lines (BenillaUnitFrame_OnEnter below) — ref GlobalStrings.lua l.2993/3081/2754/2755
         -- (enUS), fallback form: the real localized GlobalStrings.lua runs before this file at
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ZoneText.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ZoneText.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b13aef4..00000000
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/ZoneText.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,425 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-ZoneText.xml — the zone-entry splash (decision 0287): ZoneTextFrame (the THICK-outline zone
-name — nominal FontHeight 102, DRAWN at the 32px one-to-one raster cap like the real client
-(wow-re fontstring-overflow.md), which is why it fits its 512-wide box on one line — + the PvP
-territory line) and SubZoneTextFrame (the 26px subzone line + the FFA "PvP Area" line), faded
-by the FadingFrame kit when the app fires the ZONE_CHANGED family off the player's area
-(`area.rs`).
-
-The Lua below is OURS: our own implementation of the behaviour ref-ZoneText.xml specifies, as
-the live 5875 patch chain ships that file (patch.MPQ overrides the interface.MPQ copy — decision
-0246). What is quoted from it, deliberately, is the published surface and the measurements — the
-global names addons call (SetZoneText, the three Zone*Duration constants, every frame and
-fontstring name), the event names, the colours, and the frame geometry — because those are facts
-about how the real interface looks and behaves rather than choices of ours. All THREE of the
-reference file's frames are here, the third being AutoFollowStatus (the /follow status text, and
-the only thing ref-ZoneText.lua actually contains), which waited here until follow support
-existed and no longer does. The FadingFrame kit (ref-FadingFrame.lua, its own TOC line right
-before ZoneText.xml) is implemented below too — our own code behind that file's published API,
-since ZoneTextFrame/SubZoneTextFrame are its only consumers in the whole 1.12 FrameXML
-(grep-verified over the extraction), so it rides with them. AutoFollowStatus is NOT one of them —
-it rolls its own fade, which is why the kit stays a two-frame affair.
-
-The subtle law worth naming (it looks like a bug and is not): SubZoneTextString — a child of
-SubZoneTextFrame — anchors to regions of the *other* frame (ZoneTextString / PVPInfoTextString),
-which is usually hidden when only the subzone changes. The resolver computes hidden frames'
-rects all the same, so a subzone-only splash seats where it would sit *under the invisible zone
-name* — the authentic lower position. ZoneTextFrame's OnEvent caches GetZoneText() silently on
-plain ZONE_CHANGED and splashes only when an INDOORS/NEW_AREA event finds the zone text changed;
-the territory line is asked for on NEW_AREA alone.
--->
-<Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/
-..\FrameXML\UI.xsd">
-    <Script><![CDATA[
-        -- ref-GlobalStrings.lua values this file formats (the CastingBar.xml guarded idiom):
-        CONTESTED_TERRITORY = CONTESTED_TERRITORY or "Contested Territory";
-        FACTION_CONTROLLED_TERRITORY = FACTION_CONTROLLED_TERRITORY or "%s Territory"; -- Faction name
-        FREE_FOR_ALL_TERRITORY = FREE_FOR_ALL_TERRITORY or "PvP Area";
-        AUTOFOLLOWSTART = AUTOFOLLOWSTART or "Following %s.";
-        AUTOFOLLOWSTOP = AUTOFOLLOWSTOP or "You stop following %s.";
-
-        -- The ref's localization identity (UIParent.lua), which the AutoFollowStatus body below
-        -- puts its message through as the reference does. Guarded like everything else here rather
-        -- than leaning on UnitPopup.xml happening to load first — a one-line helper is no place to
-        -- acquire a load-order edge.
-        if ( not TEXT ) then
-            TEXT = function(s) return s end
-        end
-
-        -- ── The FadingFrame kit ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- Our implementation of the helper ref-FadingFrame.lua specifies. The global names and the
-        -- `this.*` fields ARE that file's published API — addons and the frames below reach for them
-        -- by name — so those are fixed; the code behind them is ours.
-        --
-        -- The contract: FadingFrame_Show() starts one timeline on the frame — ramp alpha up over
-        -- fadeInTime, hold at full for holdTime, ramp back down over fadeOutTime, then hide. A leg
-        -- configured to zero is simply skipped, and a frame that has never been configured (all
-        -- three zero, per OnLoad) hides on its very first update.
-        function FadingFrame_SetFadeInTime(this, time)
-            this.fadeInTime = time;
-        end
-        function FadingFrame_SetHoldTime(this, time)
-            this.holdTime = time;
-        end
-        function FadingFrame_SetFadeOutTime(this, time)
-            this.fadeOutTime = time;
-        end
-        function FadingFrame_OnLoad()
-            -- Through the setters, so the field names are written down in exactly one place.
-            FadingFrame_SetFadeInTime(this, 0);
-            FadingFrame_SetHoldTime(this, 0);
-            FadingFrame_SetFadeOutTime(this, 0);
-            this:Hide();
-        end
-        function FadingFrame_Show()
-            this.startTime = GetTime();
-            this:Show();
-        end
-        function FadingFrame_OnUpdate()
-            -- One timeline, one alpha: which leg `elapsed` has reached decides the value, and
-            -- running off the end of the last leg is the only way the frame stops.
-            local elapsed = GetTime() - this.startTime;
-            local fadeIn = this.fadeInTime;
-            local holdEnds = fadeIn + this.holdTime;
-            local alpha;
-            if ( elapsed < fadeIn ) then
-                alpha = elapsed / fadeIn;
-            elseif ( elapsed < holdEnds ) then
-                alpha = 1.0;
-            elseif ( elapsed < (holdEnds + this.fadeOutTime) ) then
-                alpha = 1.0 - ((elapsed - holdEnds) / this.fadeOutTime);
-            else
-                this:Hide();
-                return;
-            end
-            this:SetAlpha(alpha);
-        end
-
-        -- ── The zone splash ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- Our implementation of what ref-ZoneText.xml's own <Script> block and its two splash
-        -- frames' handlers specify. The names below are that file's published API — addons re-render
-        -- the splash through SetZoneText and retune it by writing the three durations — so the
-        -- names and the numbers are fixed; the code between them is ours.
-        ZoneFadeInDuration = 0.5;
-        ZoneHoldDuration = 1.0;
-        ZoneFadeOutDuration = 2.0;
-
-        -- How a HELD zone is tinted, keyed by who holds it. Three cases differing only in three
-        -- floats want to be data — the same shape MinimapCluster.xml keeps for the minimap's zone
-        -- label, which reads the same GetZonePVPInfo; duplicated there and here rather than
-        -- published as a global the reference does not have. A pvpType that is not in the table is
-        -- unheld (sanctuary, or a type we do not know), and gets no territory line and the zone
-        -- font's own parchment colour back — ZoneTextFont's <Color> in Fonts.xml is this triple.
-        local ZONE_PVP_TINT = {
-            friendly  = { r = 0.1, g = 1.0, b = 0.1 },
-            hostile   = { r = 1.0, g = 0.1, b = 0.1 },
-            contested = { r = 1.0, g = 0.7, b = 0 },
-        };
-        local UNHELD_ZONE_TINT = { r = 1.0, g = 0.9294, b = 0.7607 };
-
-        -- The line under the zone name saying who holds the place. The localisation globals are
-        -- read here, at call time, rather than folded into the table above: something later in the
-        -- load order is allowed to replace them.
-        local function ZoneTerritoryLine(pvpType, factionName)
-            if ( pvpType == "contested" ) then
-                return CONTESTED_TERRITORY;
-            end
-            return format(FACTION_CONTROLLED_TERRITORY, factionName);
-        end
-
-        -- Re-render the whole splash from the host's idea of where the player is: the zone name,
-        -- its tint, the territory line under it, the free-for-all call-out, and where the subzone
-        -- line hangs. `showPVPInfo` is the caller's answer to "is this a NEW zone?" — a hop between
-        -- subzones of one zone re-renders without it and gets the same tint with no territory line.
-        function SetZoneText(showPVPInfo)
-            ZoneTextString:SetText(GetZoneText());
-
-            local pvpType, factionName, isArena = GetZonePVPInfo();
-            local held = ZONE_PVP_TINT[pvpType];
-            local tint = held or UNHELD_ZONE_TINT;
-            ZoneTextString:SetTextColor(tint.r, tint.g, tint.b);
-            SubZoneTextString:SetTextColor(tint.r, tint.g, tint.b);
-            if ( held ) then
-                -- The territory line wears the tint too — including when the branch below finds it
-                -- has nothing to say. Nothing on screen can tell (a blank string has no colour to
-                -- show), but an addon that reads the tint off the blank line reads this zone's.
-                -- Guarded, because the unheld tint is the zone FONT's parchment and this line, a
-                -- SubZoneTextFont string, is never given it.
-                PVPInfoTextString:SetTextColor(tint.r, tint.g, tint.b);
-            end
-
-            -- The territory line and the subzone line's seat are one decision, not two: the line
-            -- is there only when somebody holds this zone AND the caller asked for it, and the
-            -- subzone line drops to hang off the line exactly when there is one to hang off.
-            if ( held and showPVPInfo ) then
-                PVPInfoTextString:SetText(ZoneTerritoryLine(pvpType, factionName));
-                SubZoneTextString:SetPoint("TOP", "PVPInfoTextString", "BOTTOM", 0, 0);
-            else
-                PVPInfoTextString:SetText("");
-                SubZoneTextString:SetPoint("TOP", "ZoneTextString", "BOTTOM", 0, 0);
-            end
-
-            -- A free-for-all pit is called out under the subzone line and drags that line to the
-            -- hostile red whatever the zone around it is — inside the pit, everyone is hostile.
-            if ( isArena ) then
-                local ffa = ZONE_PVP_TINT.hostile;
-                PVPArenaTextString:SetText(FREE_FOR_ALL_TERRITORY);
-                SubZoneTextString:SetTextColor(ffa.r, ffa.g, ffa.b);
-            else
-                PVPArenaTextString:SetText("");
-            end
-        end
-
-        -- Both splash frames are the same kind of thing — one fade timeline, and all three of the
-        -- events the client splits an area change into (a move within the current zone, an interior
-        -- threshold crossed, a genuinely new zone) — so the arming is written once and neither can
-        -- drift from the other. Each decides for itself, in its OnEvent, whether the line it owns
-        -- actually changed.
-        function ZoneSplashFrame_OnLoad()
-            FadingFrame_OnLoad();
-            FadingFrame_SetFadeInTime(this, ZoneFadeInDuration);
-            FadingFrame_SetHoldTime(this, ZoneHoldDuration);
-            FadingFrame_SetFadeOutTime(this, ZoneFadeOutDuration);
-            this:RegisterEvent("ZONE_CHANGED");
-            this:RegisterEvent("ZONE_CHANGED_INDOORS");
-            this:RegisterEvent("ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA");
-        end
-
-        -- The big zone name. A plain ZONE_CHANGED never splashes it: that event fires whenever the
-        -- player crosses a subzone boundary inside one zone, so all it may do is keep the cached
-        -- name honest. That silent cache write IS the subtle law in the header — it is what makes a
-        -- later INDOORS/NEW_AREA that lands on the same name find nothing left to say.
-        function ZoneTextFrame_OnEvent(event)
-            local zoneText = GetZoneText();
-            local changed = zoneText ~= this.zoneText;
-            this.zoneText = zoneText;
-            if ( event == "ZONE_CHANGED" or not changed ) then
-                return;
-            end
-            -- Only a genuinely new zone earns the territory line under the name.
-            SetZoneText(event == "ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA");
-            FadingFrame_Show();
-        end
-
-        function SubZoneTextFrame_OnLoad()
-            ZoneSplashFrame_OnLoad();
-            -- The free-for-all call-out is red for good, so it is tinted once here rather than on
-            -- every splash.
-            local ffa = ZONE_PVP_TINT.hostile;
-            PVPArenaTextString:SetTextColor(ffa.r, ffa.g, ffa.b);
-            -- Prime both lines from wherever the player already is: this runs at load, and the next
-            -- area event may not arrive until they walk somewhere.
-            SetZoneText(true);
-            SubZoneTextString:SetText(GetSubZoneText());
-        end
-
-        -- The small subzone line. Any of the three events can splash it, and the text it is already
-        -- showing IS its cache — it has no silent path to keep a separate one honest.
-        function SubZoneTextFrame_OnEvent()
-            local subZoneText = GetSubZoneText();
-            if ( subZoneText == SubZoneTextString:GetText() ) then
-                return;
-            end
-            SubZoneTextString:SetText(subZoneText);
-            -- Re-render the zone half too, territory line and all. Registered second, this frame is
-            -- dispatched last of the two (FIFO — wow-re `event-dispatch-order.md`), so on a new zone
-            -- it is this call that leaves the territory line standing under the name.
-            SetZoneText(true);
-            FadingFrame_Show();
-        end
-
-        -- ── The auto-follow status line ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-        -- Our implementation of what ref-ZoneText.lua specifies — the only thing that .lua actually
-        -- contains, and the reason it exists at all. Note it does NOT use the FadingFrame kit
-        -- above: it rolls a plain linear alpha fade with no fade-in and no hold, armed only by
-        -- AUTOFOLLOW_END. BEGIN is a full reset (fade cancelled, alpha restored, shown), which is
-        -- why a follow that switches subject needs no END first. The 4s is the reference's.
-        AUTOFOLLOW_STATUS_FADETIME = 4.0;
-
-        function AutoFollowStatus_OnLoad()
-            this:RegisterEvent("AUTOFOLLOW_BEGIN");
-            this:RegisterEvent("AUTOFOLLOW_END");
-            this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD");
-        end
-
-        function AutoFollowStatus_OnEvent(event)
-            if ( event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" ) then
-                -- A world load clears the line outright: nothing to say, and nothing to fade.
-                this:Hide();
-                return;
-            end
-
-            -- Both follow events land the same way — put up a line naming this.unit and show it —
-            -- so all they differ in is the message and what they do to the fade.
-            local message;
-            if ( event == "AUTOFOLLOW_BEGIN" ) then
-                this.unit = arg1;
-                this.fadeTime = nil;
-                this:SetAlpha(1.0);
-                message = AUTOFOLLOWSTART;
-            elseif ( event == "AUTOFOLLOW_END" ) then
-                this.fadeTime = AUTOFOLLOW_STATUS_FADETIME;
-                message = AUTOFOLLOWSTOP;
-            else
-                return;
-            end
-            AutoFollowStatusText:SetText(format(TEXT(message), this.unit));
-            this:Show();
-        end
-
-        function AutoFollowStatus_OnUpdate(elapsed)
-            -- Only AUTOFOLLOW_END arms the countdown; until then the line just sits at full alpha.
-            local remaining = this.fadeTime;
-            if ( not remaining ) then
-                return;
-            end
-            -- Out of time: hide, and leave fadeTime alone. It is stale from here until the next
-            -- BEGIN clears it or the next END re-arms it, and a hidden frame gets no OnUpdate.
-            if ( elapsed >= remaining ) then
-                this:Hide();
-                return;
-            end
-            remaining = remaining - elapsed;
-            this.fadeTime = remaining;
-            this:SetAlpha(remaining / AUTOFOLLOW_STATUS_FADETIME);
-        end
-    ]]></Script>
-    <!-- The two splash frames. Same box, same seat on screen, same fade: one carries the zone name
-         and the territory line under it, the other the subzone line and the free-for-all call-out.
-         Geometry is the reference's measurement, not a choice of ours — the 512-wide strings inside
-         a 128 box anchored BOTTOM +512 are what the real splash occupies.
-         (ref carries toplevel="true" on both; still dropped here, but the reason has changed.
-         `SetToplevel` is no longer a gap — the raise law is built, `script::object::toplevel` —
-         and its real trigger is Show, not a click, so "click-raise is meaningless on mouse-less
-         splash text" was the wrong argument. What holds now: these are LOW-strata splash frames
-         that overlap nothing in LOW, so the occlusion gate declines. One word to re-add.) -->
-    <Frame name="ZoneTextFrame" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="LOW">
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="BOTTOM">
-                <Offset>
-                    <AbsDimension x="0" y="512"/>
-                </Offset>
-            </Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Size>
-            <AbsDimension x="128" y="128"/>
-        </Size>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <FontString name="ZoneTextString" inherits="ZoneTextFont">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="512" y="0"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="CENTER"/>
-                    </Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-                <FontString name="PVPInfoTextString" inherits="SubZoneTextFont">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="512" y="0"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="ZoneTextString" relativePoint="BOTTOM"/>
-                    </Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>
-                ZoneSplashFrame_OnLoad();
-            </OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>
-                ZoneTextFrame_OnEvent(event);
-            </OnEvent>
-            <OnUpdate>
-                FadingFrame_OnUpdate();
-            </OnUpdate>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-    <Frame name="SubZoneTextFrame" toplevel="true" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="LOW">
-        <Anchors>
-            <Anchor point="BOTTOM">
-                <Offset>
-                    <AbsDimension x="0" y="512"/>
-                </Offset>
-            </Anchor>
-        </Anchors>
-        <Size>
-            <AbsDimension x="128" y="128"/>
-        </Size>
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <FontString name="SubZoneTextString" inherits="SubZoneTextFont">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="512" y="0"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="ZoneTextString" relativePoint="BOTTOM"/>
-                    </Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-                <FontString name="PVPArenaTextString" inherits="SubZoneTextFont">
-                    <Size>
-                        <AbsDimension x="512" y="0"/>
-                    </Size>
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="SubZoneTextString" relativePoint="BOTTOM"/>
-                    </Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>
-                SubZoneTextFrame_OnLoad();
-            </OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>
-                SubZoneTextFrame_OnEvent();
-            </OnEvent>
-            <OnUpdate>
-                FadingFrame_OnUpdate();
-            </OnUpdate>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-    <!-- The auto-follow status line — the third frame ref-ZoneText.xml declares, laid out as that
-         file specifies it (the handlers behind it, like every other line of Lua here, are ours).
-         It is the only thing ref-ZoneText.lua actually contains, and the reason that .lua exists at
-         all; it waited here until follow support did (decisions 0890, 0893). `setAllPoints` over
-         UIParent, so the line sits dead centre of the screen. BACKGROUND strata: it is under
-         everything, which is why a full-screen panel hides it.
-
-         ONE DEVIATION, forced: the ref anchors the string CENTER to **WorldFrame**, and benilla has
-         no WorldFrame — it is the reference's 3D-scene layer frame, which our renderer does not
-         model as a frame at all. This is the ONLY `relativeTo="WorldFrame"` in the whole 1.12
-         FrameXML (grep-verified over the extraction), so it buys no convention; left verbatim it
-         merely logged an unresolved-anchor WARN every boot and fell back to the owner. UIParent is
-         the right substitute and not an approximation: both are full-screen in the reference, so
-         their CENTERs coincide, and AutoFollowStatus is setAllPoints over UIParent anyway. -->
-    <Frame name="AutoFollowStatus" parent="UIParent" setAllPoints="true" frameStrata="BACKGROUND" hidden="true">
-        <Layers>
-            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <FontString name="AutoFollowStatusText" inherits="GameFontNormal">
-                    <Anchors>
-                        <Anchor point="CENTER" relativeTo="UIParent">
-                            <Offset>
-                                <AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/>
-                            </Offset>
-                        </Anchor>
-                    </Anchors>
-                    <FontHeight>
-                        <AbsValue val="20"/>
-                    </FontHeight>
-                </FontString>
-            </Layer>
-        </Layers>
-        <Scripts>
-            <OnLoad>
-                AutoFollowStatus_OnLoad();
-            </OnLoad>
-            <OnEvent>
-                AutoFollowStatus_OnEvent(event);
-            </OnEvent>
-            <OnUpdate>
-                AutoFollowStatus_OnUpdate(arg1);
-            </OnUpdate>
-        </Scripts>
-    </Frame>
-</Ui>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
index 71bbf7e3..1ad9d32e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc
@@ -39,6 +39,22 @@
 # The named virtual Font objects (decision 0084) — must load first so any FontString's
 # `inherits="GameFontNormal"` resolves against a registered object.
 Fonts.xml
+# ══ THE LOCALE ADJUSTMENTS — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 5) ══
+# `Localize()` (which this file also CALLS at load, exactly as the reference's own two-part
+# `<Script>` does) and `LocalizeFrames()`. Nothing of ours ever shipped either, and the gap was
+# recorded in two places: `GameTime.xml` set `TwentyFourHourTime = 1` itself with a note saying the
+# reference sets it in `LocalizeFrames`, and `HelpFrame.xml` names a whole family of strings that
+# "`LocalizeFrames()`, which benilla does not ship, so it never fired here either" would have set.
+#
+# It is the reference's own slot (FrameXML.toc l.3, straight after Fonts.xml) and the order is the
+# point: `Localize` overwrites `GlobalStrings.lua` keys, and GlobalStrings is loaded ahead of this
+# whole manifest at VM setup (`ui_script/mod.rs`) — which is FrameXML.toc l.1, so the two land in
+# the reference's own order. The file it patches is the PLAYER'S, so the locale is theirs by
+# construction rather than ours to guess.
+#
+# `LocalizeFrames()` is called from `UIParent_OnEvent`'s VARIABLES_LOADED arm — the reference's own
+# caller (UIParent.lua l.230-235), added to our UIParent.xml with this window.
+Interface\FrameXML\Localization.xml
 # ── A reference file sourced ABOVE ours, so OUR bodies win every collision ─────────────────────
 # This one is not a migrated window: it is here for one family of frame-agnostic globals that
 # addons call by name, while the window that file also drives is still ours. So it loads first and
@@ -112,22 +128,52 @@ UIDropDownMenu.xml
 # — after the dropdown kit it drives, before the unit/party frames whose DropDown
 # children's OnLoad initialize into it.
 UnitPopup.xml
-# The chat-link click router (SetItemRef): item links → ItemRefTooltip:SetHyperlink; a
-# player name → left-click whisper / right-click FRIEND dropdown. After GameTooltip.xml —
-# ItemRefTooltip inherits=GameTooltipTemplate, so this order is now REQUIRED, not just legible
-# (GameTooltip_OnLoad was the old, runtime-only reason) — AND after the dropdown kit +
-# UnitPopup, since its FriendsDropDown inherits UIDropDownMenuTemplate and opens a UnitPopup
-# FRIEND menu.
-ItemRef.xml
+# ══ THE CHAT-LINK TOOLTIP — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 6) ══
+# `SetItemRef` (the chat-link click router) and `ItemRefTooltip` / `ItemRefCloseButton`.
+#
+# THE POSITION IS THE REQUIREMENT: `inherits="GameTooltipTemplate"` is resolved at LOAD, so this
+# sits below GameTooltip.xml. The dropdown kit and UnitPopup above it are a call-time need only,
+# but the reference's own TOC has the same shape and the order costs nothing.
+#
+# THREE THINGS OUR COPY CARRIED THAT THE REFERENCE'S DOES NOT, each moved to the reference's own
+# home rather than deleted:
+# · `FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown` + its initializer, and the `FriendsDropDown` frame they toggle.
+#   1.12 keeps all three in `FriendsFrame.lua`/`.xml`; ours had a second private copy here because
+#   nothing else called them. FriendsFrame.xml (far below) owns the one body now and publishes the
+#   reference's name over it — resolved at call time, so the order does not bind.
+# · `ValidateFramePosition`, which the sourced `ItemRef.xml`'s OnDragStop calls (l.48). It lives in
+#   `UIParent.lua` in 1.12, so it is transcribed into our UIParent.xml with this window.
+# · Two divergences in `SetItemRef` itself, both now the reference's own body: the shift-click arm
+#   fills a visible ADD_IGNORE/ADD_FRIEND/ADD_GUILDMEMBER/ADD_RAIDMEMBER popup's editbox before it
+#   considers the chat box, and falls through to `SendWho("n-"..name)`. Ours guarded both away as
+#   "the friends/who arc, deferred"; `StaticPopup_Visible` and `SendWho` both exist, so the guards
+#   were outliving their reason.
+#
+# AND ONE THING IT GAINS: the reference's tooltip is `movable` and drag-armed, so a chat-link
+# tooltip can be dragged off the middle of the screen. Ours declared "benilla has no
+# user-moved-frame affordance yet" — `StartMoving`/`StopMovingOrSizing` are bindings
+# (`script/object/movable.rs`), so that note was stale too.
+Interface\FrameXML\ItemRef.xml
 # The shared status-bar numerals machinery (decision 1082): TextStatusBar_* + the opt-in
 # template — before its customers (the XP bar in ActionBar.xml today; the unit-frame
 # health/mana numerals are the ref's other users, when that slice lands). The ref's own TOC
 # loads TextStatusBar right before its unit frames, same seat as here.
 TextStatusBar.xml
 UnitFrames.xml
-# The combo-point dots (decision 0869) — anchored to TargetFrame, so after
-# UnitFrames.xml; its fade chain needs UiPanels.xml's UIFrameFade above.
-ComboFrame.xml
+# ══ THE COMBO-POINT DOTS — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 10) ══
+# `ComboFrame`, `ComboPoint1..5`, `ComboPointTemplate` and the `ComboPointsFrame_OnEvent` /
+# `ComboPointShineFade*` chain with its five duration constants, out of `ComboFrame.lua`.
+#
+# THE POSITION IS THE REQUIREMENT: `relativeTo="TargetFrame"` is resolved at LOAD, so this sits
+# below UnitFrames.xml. Its fade chain needs UiPanels.xml's `UIFrameFade` family, far above, at
+# call time.
+#
+# Our copy's frames were `BenillaComboPointTemplate` and kin; the reference's are
+# `ComboPointTemplate` / `ComboPoint<N>Highlight` / `ComboPoint<N>Shine`, which is what an addon
+# skinning the dots reaches for. `MAX_COMBO_POINTS` moved to UnitFrames.xml with this window —
+# 1.12 declares it on `TargetFrame.lua:1`, and our copy's own note said so while explaining that
+# it had nowhere else to go.
+Interface\FrameXML\ComboFrame.xml
 # The center-screen scrolling combat text (decision 0578) — the Blizzard_CombatText
 # transcription; consumes COMBAT_TEXT_UPDATE + the regen/health/power events, needs
 # only Fonts.xml (CombatTextFont) + UIParent before it.
@@ -206,20 +252,51 @@ MicroMenu.xml
 # <Minimap> widget hole (`crate::minimap` fills it). After GameTooltip (its zone-text
 # hover uses the shared tooltip).
 MinimapCluster.xml
-# The minimap's time-of-day indicator (GameTimeFrame): the reference's own file split — its
-# TOC loads GameTime.xml right after Minimap.xml. After MinimapCluster (its parent) and
-# GameTooltip (the hover tooltip); driven by the app's game clock (`minimap::feed_game_time`).
-GameTime.xml
+# ══ THE TIME-OF-DAY INDICATOR — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 5) ══
+# `GameTimeFrame`, `GameTimeTexture`, and `GameTime_GetTime` / `GameTimeFrame_Update` /
+# `_UpdateTooltip` / `GAMETIME_DAWN`/`_DUSK` out of `GameTime.lua`. Ours was a re-implementation of
+# the same behaviour under the same published names, and it is deleted.
+#
+# THE POSITION IS THE REQUIREMENT: `parent="MinimapCluster"` is resolved at LOAD, so this sits
+# below MinimapCluster.xml — which is also the reference's own order (its TOC loads GameTime.xml
+# right after Minimap.xml). GameTooltip above it for the hover; the clock itself is the app's
+# `GetGameTime` (`minimap::feed_game_time`), resolved at call time.
+#
+# BOTH of our recorded divergences went away rather than being carried (1751 §2). The `TEXT()`
+# wrapper the ref puts round its format strings is real here now — `BasicControls.xml` defines it.
+# And `TwentyFourHourTime = 1`, which our file set itself with a note saying the reference sets it
+# in `LocalizeFrames`, now comes from exactly there: `Interface\FrameXML\Localization.xml` is
+# sourced at the top of this manifest and `UIParent_OnEvent`'s VARIABLES_LOADED arm calls it. The
+# value is the PLAYER's locale rather than our assumption about it.
+Interface\FrameXML\GameTime.xml
 # Print screen's UI half (decision 1487): the centred "Screen Captured"/"Screen Capture Failed"
 # line, and the `TakeScreenshot()` the SCREENSHOT binding runs. Needs Fonts.xml (SystemFont) and
 # UIParent.xml (its seat) — both far above — and nothing else; seated beside ZoneText.xml, whose
 # AutoFollowStatus is the same full-screen-frame-with-a-centred-line shape.
 ScreenshotStatus.xml
-# The zone-entry splash (decision 0287): ZoneTextFrame/SubZoneTextFrame + the inlined
-# FadingFrame kit, driven by the ZONE_CHANGED family `crate::area` fires. Needs only
-# Fonts (ZoneTextFont/SubZoneTextFont) + UIParent; kept by the minimap cluster — the
-# other consumer of the zone-text host globals.
-ZoneText.xml
+# ══ THE ZONE SPLASH — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 8) ══
+# Two files, in the reference's own order and for its own reason.
+#
+# `FadingFrame.lua`'s kit first (`FadingFrame_OnLoad`/`_Show`/`_OnUpdate` and the three
+# `_Set*Time` setters). Our copy inlined it into ZoneText.xml on the argument that
+# ZoneTextFrame/SubZoneTextFrame are its only consumers in the whole 1.12 FrameXML — true, and
+# still the wrong shape once the file could simply be sourced: an addon that wants a fading frame
+# reaches for the kit's published names, not for the splash. The reference gives it its own TOC
+# line (l.25) and so do we. It declares no frames at all — it is a `<Script file=>` and nothing
+# else — so it needs nothing above it.
+Interface\FrameXML\FadingFrame.xml
+# …then the splash itself: `ZoneTextFrame` / `SubZoneTextFrame` / `AutoFollowStatus`, `SetZoneText`
+# and the three `Zone*Duration` constants, driven by the ZONE_CHANGED family `crate::area` fires
+# and by AUTOFOLLOW_BEGIN/END. Needs Fonts (ZoneTextFont/SubZoneTextFont) + UIParent, both far
+# above; kept by the minimap cluster, the other consumer of the zone-text host globals.
+#
+# Our copy's own header called its Lua "OURS: our own implementation of the behaviour
+# ref-ZoneText.xml specifies", with the published names and the measurements quoted. The
+# reference's file is that specification, so it replaces it whole — including the
+# `CONTESTED_TERRITORY`/`FACTION_CONTROLLED_TERRITORY`/`FREE_FOR_ALL_TERRITORY`/`AUTOFOLLOW*`
+# strings, which came from ours as `X = X or "…"` fallbacks and now come from the player's own
+# GlobalStrings.lua like every other string in this interface.
+Interface\FrameXML\ZoneText.xml
 # The faux-scroll kit (decisions 0247/0250/0251): BenillaScrollBarTemplate (the draggable
 # Slider scroll bar) + FauxScrollFrameTemplate + the reference's own FauxScrollFrame_*
 # API (Update/GetOffset/SetOffset/OnVerticalScroll + ScrollFrame_OnLoad) —
@@ -265,10 +342,29 @@ WorldMapFrame.xml
 # The cast bar (decision 0137 phase 1) — the extracted 1.12 CastingBarFrame, driven by
 # the SPELLCAST_* events `crate::ui_cast` fires. Only needs Fonts before it.
 CastingBar.xml
-# The mirror timers (decision 0874): the breath/fatigue bars at top-center, driven by the
-# MIRROR_TIMER_* events `crate::ui_mirror` fires. Needs only Fonts (GameFontHighlight)
-# before it; kept beside the cast bar, whose border art it shares.
-MirrorTimer.xml
+# ══ THE MIRROR TIMERS — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 7) ══
+# `MirrorTimer1..3`, `MIRRORTIMER_NUMTIMERS`, `MirrorTimerColors` and the `MirrorTimer_Show` /
+# `MirrorTimerFrame_*` family out of `MirrorTimer.lua`. The breath/fatigue bars at top-centre,
+# driven by the `MIRROR_TIMER_*` events `crate::ui_mirror` fires off the wire. Needs only Fonts
+# (GameFontHighlight) before it; kept beside the cast bar, whose border art it shares.
+#
+# ALL THREE of our copy's recorded divergences resolved at the swap (1751 §2), and two of them had
+# already stopped being true:
+# · THE START DRIVER. Ours hosted `MIRROR_TIMER_START` on a hidden `MirrorTimerDriver` frame
+#   because "our UIParent.xml is script-only — it has no frame of its own to register events on".
+#   It has one now, so the registration and the `MirrorTimer_Show` call moved into
+#   `UIParent_OnEvent` where the reference keeps them (UIParent.lua l.97 + l.374-377), and the
+#   extra frame is gone.
+# · THE POOL WALK. The reference asks its two questions in two loops and bounds the SECOND by
+#   `STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS` — a copy-paste from StaticPopup.lua, and its own bug. Ours folded
+#   them into one walk to avoid it. Now faithful, which forced the real fix in the right place:
+#   our `STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS` was 2 against the reference's 4, so the third mirror bar could
+#   never be claimed by a new timer. UiPanels.xml grew instances 3 and 4 with this window.
+# · THE PAUSE ARG is now the reference's own bug, reproduced: `MirrorTimerFrame_OnEvent` reads
+#   `arg1` as a timer NAME and then as a number (`arg1 > 0`), so a real MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE raises.
+#   1.12 never reaches it — vmangos refuses to send that packet and substitutes a full START,
+#   saying so in `Player::SendMirrorTimers` — and `ui_mirror.rs`'s Pause edge carries the note.
+Interface\FrameXML\MirrorTimer.xml
 # The always-up world-state readout (decision 1586, report B190): the tower/flag/base counters an
 # outdoor-PvP zone or a battleground shows at top-centre, driven by the UPDATE_WORLD_STATES event
 # `crate::world_state_ui` fires. Needs Fonts (GameFontNormalSmall) and GameTooltip; sits beside the
@@ -278,10 +374,29 @@ WorldStateFrame.xml
 # aura icons under the minimap, driven by the UnitAura feed (`crate::ui_aura`). Needs Fonts
 # (its FontStrings) and ActionBar's `BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON` global (both already loaded).
 BuffFrame.xml
-# The durability alert (the "armor guy"): under the minimap beside BuffFrame, driven by
-# UPDATE_INVENTORY_ALERTS off the same inventory push the character window reads. Needs
-# MinimapCluster (its anchor) — loaded above.
-DurabilityFrame.xml
+# ══ THE DURABILITY ALERT — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 4) ══
+# The "armor guy" under the minimap: `DurabilityFrame`, its eleven glyph textures, and
+# `DurabilityFrame_SetAlerts` / `_OnUpdate` with `INVENTORY_ALERT_STATUS_SLOTS` and
+# `INVENTORY_ALERT_COLORS`, all from `DurabilityFrame.lua` through its own `<Script file=>`.
+#
+# Ours was a measurement-faithful transcription and it is deleted. The swap re-examined its one
+# recorded divergence (1751 §2) and made it faithful: our copy OMITTED the ref's `OnUpdate`,
+# because the whole body is an `enchantTimer` countdown and that timer is provably dead in 1.12
+# (`SetAlerts` nils it; the only line that sets it is commented out, and so are the two colours it
+# would have painted). The reference runs the handler anyway, so we do too — the cost is one call
+# per frame on one frame, and it is the reference's own behaviour rather than our judgment of it.
+#
+# THE POSITION: `parent="UIParent"` and `relativeTo="MinimapCluster"` are both resolved at LOAD, so
+# this sits below UIParent.xml and MinimapCluster.xml. It is far above the reference's own slot
+# (FrameXML.toc l.86) and that is fine — nothing else reaches it at load, and its seat is decided
+# at runtime regardless: like every managed HUD frame the authored anchor is dead on arrival, with
+# `UIParent_ManageFramePositions` re-seating it on the loader's post-load pass and on every
+# OnShow/OnHide (ref UIParent.lua l.1758-1768).
+#
+# `UpdateInventoryAlertStatus` is the one global the sourced file names that this client does not
+# bind. It is reachable only from the dead `enchantTimer` branch above, so it is left absent rather
+# than stubbed (1203) — the honest state is "nothing calls it", not "we answer it with a lie".
+Interface\FrameXML\DurabilityFrame.xml
 ErrorsFrame.xml
 # ══ THE BAG WINDOWS — the reference's own, off the player's chain (decision 1751, window 1) ══
 # `ContainerFrame1..12`, `ContainerFrameTemplate`, `ContainerFrameItemButtonTemplate` and the whole
@@ -440,11 +555,19 @@ MailFrame.xml
 # MerchantFrame because it REUSES that file's global BenillaMoney_Set coin helpers (the two
 # gold displays) — they must be defined first.
 TradeFrame.xml
-# The item-text reader: letters (mail-made permanent copies) and, later, books/plaques —
-# the ItemTextGet* seam (`benilla-ui/src/script/item_text.rs`) over `crate::ui_item_text`'s
-# feed/drain. Loaded right after MailFrame (the same arc; needs only Fonts/UiPanels, both
-# loaded above).
-ItemTextFrame.xml
+# ══ THE ITEM-TEXT READER — the reference's own, off the player's chain (1751, window 9) ══
+# `ItemTextFrame` and its page chrome, over the `ItemTextGet*` seam
+# (`benilla-ui/src/script/item_text.rs`) and `crate::ui_item_text`'s feed/drain. Letters (mail-made
+# permanent copies) and, later, books and plaques. Right after MailFrame, the same arc; needs
+# Fonts/UiPanels/ScrollTemplates, all above.
+#
+# ONE THING OUR COPY CARRIED THAT THE REFERENCE'S DOES NOT, moved to the reference's own home:
+# `GetMaterialTextColors` and the two colour tables it reads. 1.12 keeps the function in
+# `UIParent.lua` and the tables in `Fonts.xml`, and both of ours now do the same — under the
+# reference's published names (`MATERIAL_TEXT_COLOR_TABLE` / `MATERIAL_TITLETEXT_COLOR_TABLE`)
+# rather than the `BENILLA_`-prefixed pair this file kept privately. Fonts.xml's own note said
+# those two tables would arrive "the day something does" read them; the sourced file is that day.
+Interface\FrameXML\ItemTextFrame.xml
 # The trainer window (decision 0237 phase 3): the read-only class/profession trainer list.
 # Loaded right after MerchantFrame per the director's brief (kept adjacent even though this
 # v1 uses plain-text costs, not MerchantFrame's coin helpers) and before the other NPC
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs
index 363a52df..bc631217 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ pub(super) enum UiFixture {
     /// swings it through the four alternate dock states (see `fixtures.rs`).
     ChatTabHover,
     /// The social pane (`FriendsFrame`), opened through the live toggle — the instrument for B264
-    /// (decision 1298). Its `BenillaFriendsDropDown` host is declared with no anchors, exactly as
+    /// (decision 1298). Its `FriendsDropDown` host is declared with no anchors, exactly as
     /// the reference's own `FriendsDropDown` is; while an unpositioned owner stood in a zero rect
     /// for its regions, the dropdown template's texture chain drew a stray capsule at the screen
     /// origin every time the pane opened. Needs no server state to show it.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_mirror.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_mirror.rs
index 72158d21..dfe4a72b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_mirror.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_mirror.rs
@@ -148,6 +148,13 @@ fn feed_mirror_timers(
                     ScriptValue::Str(caption(kind, spell_name(start.spell_id).as_deref())),
                 ],
             ),
+            // **This edge reaches a reference body that raises**, and it is left that way on
+            // purpose (1751 window 7). `MirrorTimerFrame_OnEvent` reads `arg1` as the timer name
+            // and then as a number (`arg1 > 0`), comparing a string to a number — 1.12's own bug.
+            // vmangos never sends the packet: it substitutes a full START and says so in
+            // `Player::SendMirrorTimers`, which is presumably how the bug survived. If a server
+            // ever does send one, the raise is the correct loud failure (1203) and the repair
+            // belongs in an adapter over the reference's body, not in a second vocabulary here.
             MirrorTimerEdge::Pause { paused, .. } => (
                 "MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE",
                 vec![name, ScriptValue::Int(i64::from(paused))],
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
index 17361758..213e424f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/bag_tests.rs
@@ -1792,19 +1792,15 @@ fn a_key_dropped_on_the_button_files_itself() {
         "the reference's own dangling string name prints nothing — un-quirking it is a decision, \
          not a default"
     );
-    // The nil ALSO raises, out of `MessageFrame:AddMessage`. That is deliberately not asserted as
-    // correct: our binding takes its text as an mlua `String`, which raises on nil by default —
-    // not from a carved gate (`messageframe/plain.rs` reads `0x795590`'s rgb/alpha parse off the
-    // bytes and says nothing about the text argument). Whether 1.12 raises here, no-ops, or prints
-    // a blank line is out with wow-re. So this pins the keyring's own behaviour — the refusal, and
-    // the silence — and lets exactly that one error through by name, which still fails the test on
-    // any OTHER error the click produces.
-    let errs = s.errors();
-    assert!(
-        errs.iter()
-            .all(|e| e.contains("AddMessage") && e.contains("PutKeyInKeyRing")),
-        "the only error may be the reference's own nil message: {errs:?}"
-    );
+    // And it does not RAISE either, which is the half this test could not assert until the bytes
+    // came back. `AddMessage`'s text is fetched through `lua_isstring 0x6f3510` whose failure edge
+    // is a silent jump to the function's own epilogue — no line, no error (wow-5875-re
+    // `addmessage-text-gate-silent-skip.md`, 4-worker cross-check). Ours took an mlua `String` and
+    // raised, which put a script-error dialog on an ordinary player gesture; the fix is in
+    // `messageframe/mod.rs::message_text` and its own test carries the full law.
+    //
+    // So a full keyring is a DEAD CLICK on a real 1.12 client, and now here.
+    assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
 }
 
 /// The item-push drop animation (decision 0887): `ITEM_PUSH(container, icon)` runs the pushed item's
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/combo_frame_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/combo_frame_tests.rs
index ba6c145a..6ecfc7ae 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/combo_frame_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/combo_frame_tests.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-//! The combo-point dots (decisions 0869, 0875) — our `ComboFrame` implementation driven
-//! through the real loader: the show/hide edges, the per-point highlight/shine fade chain, the
+//! The combo-point dots (decisions 0869, 0875) — the reference's own `ComboFrame.xml`/`.lua`,
+//! executed off the player's chain since 1751's tenth window, driven through the real loader: the show/hide edges, the per-point highlight/shine fade chain, the
 //! "only newly-earned points flare" rule that `COMBO_FRAME_LAST_NUM_POINTS` exists to enforce, and
 //! the two gates that live in `GetComboPoints` rather than in this Lua — rogue-or-druid only, and
 //! the points must be banked on the CURRENT target.
@@ -10,22 +10,7 @@ use benilla_ui::script::{PlayerReqState, UiScript, UnitState};
 const MOB_A: u64 = 0xF130_0000_0000_0001;
 const MOB_B: u64 = 0xF130_0000_0000_0002;
 
-/// Load one shipped `assets/ui/<file>` (the panel tests' loader), panicking on any loader error.
-fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) {
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
-            .join("assets/ui")
-            .join(file),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_| None);
-    assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "{file}: loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
-}
+use super::test_ui::load_ui as load_xml;
 
 /// The manifest order this file actually ships in: `UiPanels.xml` for `UIFrameFade`,
 /// `UnitFrames.xml` for the `TargetFrame` the dots anchor to.
@@ -40,7 +25,7 @@ fn load_combo_frame() -> UiScript {
     load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "UnitFrames.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ComboFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ComboFrame.xml");
     s.resolve();
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "script errors: {:?}", s.errors());
     s
@@ -83,6 +68,7 @@ fn highlight_alpha(s: &mut UiScript, i: u32) -> f64 {
 /// completion first, since the highlight arrives via `UIFrameFade`, not a straight `SetAlpha`.
 #[test]
 fn combo_frame_follows_the_point_count() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = load_combo_frame();
     play_as(&mut s, 4, MOB_A); // rogue, mob A selected
 
@@ -135,6 +121,7 @@ fn combo_frame_follows_the_point_count() {
 /// combo event, so re-targeting mid-window fires exactly this repaint.
 #[test]
 fn a_repaint_at_the_same_count_does_not_re_flare() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = load_combo_frame();
     play_as(&mut s, 4, MOB_A);
     s.set_combo_points(2, MOB_A);
@@ -164,6 +151,7 @@ fn a_repaint_at_the_same_count_does_not_re_flare() {
 /// the rogue ladder's first rung, so only the class differs.
 #[test]
 fn a_warriors_overpower_point_lights_no_dot() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = load_combo_frame();
     play_as(&mut s, 1, MOB_A); // warrior
     s.set_combo_points(1, MOB_A);
@@ -184,6 +172,7 @@ fn a_warriors_overpower_point_lights_no_dot() {
 /// target entirely (guid 0) empties them too.
 #[test]
 fn re_targeting_empties_the_dots_without_the_count_moving() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = load_combo_frame();
     play_as(&mut s, 4, MOB_A);
     s.set_combo_points(3, MOB_A);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/dressup_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/dressup_tests.rs
index 5411c965..fe8407c3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/dressup_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/dressup_tests.rs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ const JERKY_LINK: &str = "|cffffffff|Hitem:117|h[Tough Jerky]|h|r";
 const ROOM_UI: &[&str] = &[
     "UIDropDownMenu.xml",
     "UnitPopup.xml",
-    "ItemRef.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\ItemRef.xml",
     "MerchantFrame.xml",
     "StackSplit.xml",
     "DressUpFrame.xml",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/durability_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/durability_tests.rs
index 0b503f06..a867b187 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/durability_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/durability_tests.rs
@@ -1,30 +1,16 @@
-//! The durability alert ("armor guy", `assets/ui/DurabilityFrame.xml`) against the shipped XML:
+//! The durability alert ("armor guy") against the reference's own `DurabilityFrame.xml`/`.lua`,
+//! executed off the player's chain since 1751's fourth window:
 //! the engine's `GetInventoryAlertStatus` statuses (recomputed on every inventory push, a change
 //! firing `UPDATE_INVENTORY_ALERTS`) drive the ref's own SetAlerts law — body pieces show
 //! together when any body region alerts, showSeparate pieces (Weapon/Shield/Ranged) each show
 //! only themselves, the shield glyph swaps for the off-weapon glyph when the off hand holds a
 //! WEAPON, and the whole frame hides at zero alerts.
 
+use super::test_ui::load_ui as load_xml;
 use benilla_ui::script::{
     InvSlotView, InventorySlots, ItemTemplateView, QuadContent, ScriptValue, UiScript,
 };
 
-fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) {
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
-            .join("assets/ui")
-            .join(file),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_| None);
-    assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "{file}: loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
-}
-
 fn harness() -> UiScript {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
@@ -35,10 +21,17 @@ fn harness() -> UiScript {
         "UIParent.xml",
         "GameTooltip.xml",
         "MinimapCluster.xml",
-        "DurabilityFrame.xml",
+        // The reference's own file. This module carried a private disk-only `load_xml` until the
+        // swap, which structurally could not name a chain entry — [`super::test_ui::load_ui`] is
+        // the one reader that speaks both stores, and it is why that helper exists.
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\DurabilityFrame.xml",
     ] {
         load_xml(&s, f);
     }
+    // The app installs this at the end of every real load; a test VM has to say so itself. It is
+    // benilla's stated repair of a reference bug — the seat going stale when a side glyph appears
+    // while the frame is already shown — and its whole reasoning is at the constant.
+    super::manifest::install_durability_reseat(&s).unwrap();
     s
 }
 
@@ -88,6 +81,7 @@ const YELLOW: [f32; 4] = [1.0, 0.82, 0.18, 1.0];
 /// white), then repaired (hidden again).
 #[test]
 fn armor_guy_shows_red_broken_yellow_damaged_and_hides_clean() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     // The ref's initial settle: the frame is authored shown; PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD's SetAlerts
     // hides it while everything is clean.
@@ -166,6 +160,7 @@ fn armor_guy_shows_red_broken_yellow_damaged_and_hides_clean() {
 /// 1.12 FrameXML never reads it.
 #[test]
 fn flag_bits_and_the_low_ammo_region() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![ScriptValue::Str("".into())]);
 
@@ -216,6 +211,7 @@ fn flag_bits_and_the_low_ammo_region() {
 /// broken off-hand WEAPON (template class 2) swaps it for the off-weapon glyph.
 #[test]
 fn off_hand_glyph_follows_what_the_hand_holds() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     s.set_item_template(
         2362,
@@ -269,6 +265,7 @@ fn off_hand_glyph_follows_what_the_hand_holds() {
 /// the pass on every alert transition.
 #[test]
 fn manage_pass_seats_the_frame_inside_the_cluster_edge() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     s.fire_event("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD", vec![ScriptValue::Str("".into())]);
 
@@ -313,6 +310,7 @@ fn manage_pass_seats_the_frame_inside_the_cluster_edge() {
 /// (director-caught). The OnEvent re-manage keeps it fresh on every alert recompute.
 #[test]
 fn a_late_side_glyph_refreshes_the_seat_while_the_frame_stays_shown() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     s.set_item_template(
         25,
@@ -383,6 +381,7 @@ fn a_late_side_glyph_refreshes_the_seat_while_the_frame_stays_shown() {
 /// colliding there (director-caught, over "The Captain's Chest").
 #[test]
 fn the_quest_tracker_stacks_below_the_durability_guy() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     for f in [
@@ -393,11 +392,12 @@ fn the_quest_tracker_stacks_below_the_durability_guy() {
         "GameTooltip.xml",
         "MinimapCluster.xml",
         "ScrollTemplates.xml",
-        "DurabilityFrame.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\DurabilityFrame.xml",
         "QuestLogFrame.xml",
     ] {
         load_xml(&s, f);
     }
+    super::manifest::install_durability_reseat(&s).unwrap();
 
     // A right-side glyph shows the 65-tall durability frame under the minimap.
     let mut inv: InventorySlots = Default::default();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/frame_flag_gate.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/frame_flag_gate.rs
index e935becc..42da56b0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/frame_flag_gate.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/frame_flag_gate.rs
@@ -364,16 +364,6 @@ const KNOWN: &[Known] = &[
     // question this flag exists to ask (decision 1757). A frame whose seat crosses the boundary
     // between UIParent's tree and the top level is a defect, because `SetFullScreenFrame` hides
     // `UIParent` and everything below it; a frame seated one rung along inside that tree is not.
-    Known {
-        frame: "FriendsDropDown",
-        flag: Flag::Parent,
-        why: "the reference nests this menu HOST in FriendsFrame; ours sits on UIParent in \
-              ItemRef.xml, beside the SetItemRef branch that is its only caller — and it has to, \
-              because FriendsFrame.xml loads 262 lines further down the manifest and a forward \
-              parent reference resolves to nothing. Both seats are inside UIParent's tree, and a \
-              host frame is never shown: ToggleDropDownMenu seats the visible DropDownList1, \
-              which is top-level on both sides.",
-    },
     Known {
         frame: "SendMailBodyEditBox",
         flag: Flag::Parent,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/friends_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/friends_tests.rs
index 59293d1d..0aa4b332 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/friends_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/friends_tests.rs
@@ -658,8 +658,7 @@ fn right_clicking_a_who_row_opens_the_friend_menu() {
         "the menu opens"
     );
     assert_eq!(
-        s.eval::<String>("return BenillaFriendsDropDown.name")
-            .unwrap(),
+        s.eval::<String>("return FriendsDropDown.name").unwrap(),
         "Tigole",
         "addressed by name, not by a unit token"
     );
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/guild_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/guild_tests.rs
index 52982f10..05573471 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/guild_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/guild_tests.rs
@@ -1108,8 +1108,7 @@ fn right_clicking_a_roster_row_offers_the_guild_rows() {
         "the menu opens"
     );
     assert_eq!(
-        s.eval::<String>("return BenillaFriendsDropDown.name")
-            .unwrap(),
+        s.eval::<String>("return FriendsDropDown.name").unwrap(),
         "Furor",
         "addressed by name — a roster row has no unit token behind it"
     );
@@ -1166,8 +1165,7 @@ fn the_guild_rows_stay_off_a_who_row_menu() {
     // NOT our own name: the WHISPER row hides on yourself, and with INVITE gated the same way the
     // menu would have nothing to show and never open — which would make the assertion below pass
     // for the wrong reason.
-    s.run("BenillaFriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(\"Thrall\", 1)")
-        .unwrap();
+    s.run("FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown(\"Thrall\", 1)").unwrap();
     assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return DropDownList1:IsVisible()").unwrap());
     let present = r#"
         for i = 1, UIDROPDOWNMENU_MAXBUTTONS do
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs
index 6d126627..aa0a2e52 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/manifest.rs
@@ -66,9 +66,49 @@ fn bootstrap_positions(script: &UiScript) -> Vec<String> {
         error!("ui_script: managed-positions bootstrap: {e}");
         return vec![format!("managed-positions bootstrap: {e}")];
     }
+    if let Err(e) = install_durability_reseat(script) {
+        error!("ui_script: durability re-seat hook: {e}");
+        return vec![format!("durability re-seat hook: {e}")];
+    }
     Vec::new()
 }
 
+/// **A stated divergence from the reference, installed rather than edited in** (1751 window 4).
+///
+/// The reference seats `DurabilityFrame` 20 further in when one of its three side glyphs is up
+/// (`UIParent.lua` l.1759-1768), and recomputes that only when something calls
+/// `UIParent_ManageFramePositions`. Stock `DurabilityFrame.xml` calls it from `OnShow`/`OnHide`
+/// only — so the case where the frame is **already shown** and a side glyph *then* appears leaves
+/// the seat stale, and the shield glyph's ~17-unit overhang hangs off the screen edge until some
+/// unrelated frame happens to trigger the next pass. That is the reference's own bug and the
+/// director caught it on their screen; it is not ours to reproduce faithfully.
+///
+/// So the fix rides on the frame's `OnEvent` — which is exactly the recompute the glyphs change on
+/// — and it is installed **here** rather than written into anything of Blizzard's. Two reasons for
+/// that home rather than a FrameXML one: `assets/ui` does not grow (1779), and this is the wrong
+/// side of the line for a `ContainerFrameAdapters`-class shim anyway — that clause is for a genuine
+/// engine difference (1751 §2), and this is a deliberate repair of a reference defect. Rust is also
+/// the durable home: our `UIParent.xml` is itself a transcription awaiting its own window, and a
+/// hook parked there would be homeless again the day it migrates.
+///
+/// Idempotent by its own latch, so a `ReloadUI` cannot stack wrappers. The reference's handler
+/// still runs first and unchanged: `this`, `event` and `arg1` are globals the engine has already
+/// set for the dispatch, so calling it through the captured reference is the same call.
+pub(super) fn install_durability_reseat(script: &UiScript) -> Result<(), String> {
+    script.run(DURABILITY_RESEAT).map_err(|e| e.to_string())
+}
+
+const DURABILITY_RESEAT: &str = r#"
+if DurabilityFrame and not DurabilityFrame.benillaReseat then
+    DurabilityFrame.benillaReseat = 1
+    local refOnEvent = DurabilityFrame:GetScript("OnEvent")
+    DurabilityFrame:SetScript("OnEvent", function()
+        if refOnEvent then refOnEvent() end
+        UIParent_ManageFramePositions()
+    end)
+end
+"#;
+
 /// Load benilla's own default UI — every file [`MANIFEST`] names — through the engine-free loader.
 /// This is our content (MIT/Apache), committed and **compiled into the binary**
 /// ([`super::content`], decision 1175); a dev build still prefers the copy on disk, so editing a
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/minimap_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/minimap_tests.rs
index 535b38f6..65ac0f67 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/minimap_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/minimap_tests.rs
@@ -5,23 +5,7 @@
 
 use benilla_ui::script::UiScript;
 
-/// Load one shipped `assets/ui/<file>` into `s`, panicking on any loader error (the other tests'
-/// loader, duplicated so this file is self-contained).
-fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) {
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
-            .join("assets/ui")
-            .join(file),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_| None);
-    assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "{file}: loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
-}
+use super::test_ui::load_ui as load_xml;
 
 fn enabled(s: &UiScript, button: &str) -> bool {
     s.eval::<bool>(&format!("return {button}:IsEnabled() ~= 0"))
@@ -30,6 +14,7 @@ fn enabled(s: &UiScript, button: &str) -> bool {
 
 #[test]
 fn minimap_zoom_buttons_resync_when_switching_inside_and_outside() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     // Host globals the cluster's OnLoad/clicks lean on that a bare engine doesn't install.
@@ -93,6 +78,7 @@ fn minimap_zoom_buttons_resync_when_switching_inside_and_outside() {
 /// tracking state pushed, hide when it clears.
 #[test]
 fn tracking_frame_follows_get_tracking_texture_across_player_auras_changed() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     use benilla_ui::script::TrackingState;
 
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
@@ -134,18 +120,24 @@ fn game_time_session(hour: u32, minute: u32) -> UiScript {
     s.run("function GetMinimapZoneText() return '' end")
         .unwrap();
     s.run("function PlaySound() end").unwrap();
-    // Byte-exact 1.12 GlobalStrings (l.4251-4253) — the engine-only session loads no
-    // GlobalStrings off a chain.
-    s.run("TIME_TWELVEHOURAM = \"%d:%02d AM\"; TIME_TWELVEHOURPM = \"%d:%02d PM\"; TIME_TWENTYFOURHOURS = \"%d:%02d\"")
-        .unwrap();
     s.run(&format!(
         "__benilla_game_hour = {hour}; __benilla_game_minute = {minute}"
     ))
     .unwrap();
+    // The player's own strings and locale rather than a hand-typed copy of three of them: the
+    // window is the reference's file since 1751 window 5, and `TIME_TWENTYFOURHOURS` and
+    // `TwentyFourHourTime` are exactly what it reads. `Localization.xml` only DEFINES
+    // `LocalizeFrames`; the reference calls it from `UIParent_OnEvent`'s VARIABLES_LOADED arm, and
+    // this session has no UIParent, so it calls it directly.
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\Localization.xml");
+    s.run("LocalizeFrames()").unwrap();
     load_xml(&s, "Fonts.xml");
+    // `TEXT()`, which the reference's own tooltip and label formatting passes every string through.
+    load_xml(&s, "BasicControls.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "GameTooltip.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "MinimapCluster.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "GameTime.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GameTime.xml");
     s
 }
 
@@ -161,6 +153,7 @@ fn tod_window(s: &UiScript) -> (f64, f64, f64, f64) {
 /// the ref compares (`< DAWN or >= DUSK`).
 #[test]
 fn game_time_frame_slides_the_sun_moon_window_on_the_game_clock() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = game_time_session(10, 30);
     // OnLoad seeded `timeOfDay = 0` and 10:30 ≠ 0, so the very first update already seated the
     // window — no OnUpdate tick needed for the initial state.
@@ -194,6 +187,7 @@ fn game_time_frame_slides_the_sun_moon_window_on_the_game_clock() {
 /// hit-test never captures) and the `<HitRectInsets>` hull.
 #[test]
 fn hovering_the_indicator_shows_and_live_updates_the_game_time_tooltip() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = game_time_session(21, 7);
     s.resolve();
 
@@ -239,6 +233,7 @@ fn hovering_the_indicator_shows_and_live_updates_the_game_time_tooltip() {
 /// Calling `Minimap_OnClick()` from `s.run` would prove none of it (1234 §2).
 #[test]
 fn a_click_on_the_minimap_parks_a_centre_relative_ping_request() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     s.run("function GetMinimapZoneText() return '' end")
@@ -282,6 +277,7 @@ fn a_click_on_the_minimap_parks_a_centre_relative_ping_request() {
 /// under its own feet.
 #[test]
 fn get_ping_position_is_nil_until_there_is_a_ping() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     s.run("function GetMinimapZoneText() return '' end")
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mirror_timer_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mirror_timer_tests.rs
index bf4dd794..772d31da 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mirror_timer_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/mirror_timer_tests.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-//! The breath / fatigue bars against the transcribed reference behavior (decision 0874): the
-//! extracted 1.12 `MirrorTimer.lua` is the spec — a bar per running timer, the timer's own colour
-//! and caption, the value integrating `scale * elapsed` between packets, and the frame released
-//! back to the pool on STOP.
+//! The breath / fatigue bars against the reference's own `MirrorTimer.xml`/`.lua`, executed off
+//! the player's chain since 1751's seventh window (decision 0874 is the arc): a bar per running
+//! timer, the timer's own colour and caption, the value integrating `scale * elapsed` between
+//! packets, and the frame released back to the pool on STOP.
 //!
 //! Two halves, and the second is the load-bearing one (the cast bar's lesson, `cast_tests`): the
 //! state tests read the Lua back, which is blind to what actually *paints*. The
@@ -10,28 +10,22 @@
 
 use benilla_ui::script::{ExtractedQuad, QuadContent, ScriptValue, UiScript};
 
-/// Load one shipped `assets/ui/<file>`, panicking on any loader error.
-fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) {
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
-            .join("assets/ui")
-            .join(file),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_| None);
-    assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "{file}: loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
-}
+use super::test_ui::load_ui as load_xml;
 
 fn harness() -> UiScript {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     load_xml(&s, "Fonts.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "MirrorTimer.xml");
+    // The bars' START driver: `UIParent_OnEvent`'s MIRROR_TIMER_START arm is what calls
+    // `MirrorTimer_Show`, which is where the reference keeps it (UIParent.lua l.97 + l.374-377)
+    // and where window 7 moved ours back to. Without this file the event reaches nothing.
+    load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
+    // `STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS`, which the reference's own `MirrorTimer_Show` bounds its free-bar
+    // search by (MirrorTimer.lua l.32 — a copy-paste from StaticPopup.lua, and its own bug). A
+    // session without it searches `1, nil` and finds no free bar at all, so this is not scenery.
+    load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\MirrorTimer.xml");
     s
 }
 
@@ -105,6 +99,7 @@ fn tex_quad<'a>(quads: &'a [ExtractedQuad], leaf: &str) -> Option<&'a ExtractedQ
 /// Every bar starts hidden — no timer, no chrome on screen.
 #[test]
 fn the_three_timers_load_hidden() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     for i in 1..=3 {
         assert!(!shown(&s, &format!("MirrorTimer{i}")), "MirrorTimer{i}");
@@ -119,6 +114,7 @@ fn the_three_timers_load_hidden() {
 /// seated at the value the server named.
 #[test]
 fn breath_takes_the_first_bar_in_the_reference_blue() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
 
@@ -140,6 +136,7 @@ fn breath_takes_the_first_bar_in_the_reference_blue() {
 /// client's key for it is `EXHAUSTION`, not the server's `FATIGUE`.
 #[test]
 fn fatigue_is_the_reference_yellow_under_its_own_caption() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "EXHAUSTION", 60_000, 60_000, -1, "Fatigue");
 
@@ -156,6 +153,7 @@ fn fatigue_is_the_reference_yellow_under_its_own_caption() {
 /// reference's draining rate that is one bar-second per real second.
 #[test]
 fn the_bar_drains_at_the_servers_signed_rate() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
 
@@ -184,6 +182,7 @@ fn the_bar_drains_at_the_servers_signed_rate() {
 /// A paused timer holds its value — the frozen state the server sends when it stops the clock.
 #[test]
 fn a_paused_timer_holds_its_value() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     s.fire_event(
         "MIRROR_TIMER_START",
@@ -205,8 +204,18 @@ fn a_paused_timer_holds_its_value() {
         "frozen: no integration at all"
     );
 
-    // MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE(name, 0) releases it (our arg2 reading — the reference's own branch is
-    // bugged and the packet is never sent by vmangos; see MirrorTimer.xml departure 3).
+    // **And `MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE` cannot release it, because the reference's own branch is
+    // bugged.** `MirrorTimerFrame_OnEvent` reads `arg1` as the timer NAME (`arg1 ~= this.timer`)
+    // and then, two lines later, as a number (`arg1 > 0`) — comparing a string to a number, which
+    // raises in Lua 5.0. So the handler dies before it can clear `paused` and the bar stays
+    // frozen.
+    //
+    // Ours read the flag from `arg2` until 1751's seventh window, which is what both branches
+    // plainly intend; the swap made the reference's body the live one and this pins what it
+    // actually does. It is unreachable in play: vmangos refuses to send that packet and
+    // substitutes a full START, saying so in `Player::SendMirrorTimers` — which is presumably why
+    // the bug survived 1.12 at all. Repairing it is a decision someone can make in the adapters;
+    // it is not the default, and it is not silent.
     s.fire_event(
         "MIRROR_TIMER_PAUSE",
         vec![ScriptValue::Str("BREATH".into()), ScriptValue::Int(0)],
@@ -214,9 +223,15 @@ fn a_paused_timer_holds_its_value() {
     for _ in 0..20 {
         frame(&mut s, 0.05);
     }
+    assert_eq!(
+        bar_value(&s, "MirrorTimer1"),
+        45.0,
+        "the reference's own bugged branch cannot unfreeze a bar"
+    );
+    let errs = s.errors();
     assert!(
-        bar_value(&s, "MirrorTimer1") < 44.5,
-        "unfrozen: draining again"
+        errs.iter().any(|e| e.contains("compare")),
+        "…and says so, loudly, rather than failing quietly: {errs:?}"
     );
 }
 
@@ -225,6 +240,7 @@ fn a_paused_timer_holds_its_value() {
 /// consuming a third.
 #[test]
 fn two_timers_stack_and_restate_in_place() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "EXHAUSTION", 60_000, 60_000, -1, "Fatigue");
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
@@ -244,6 +260,7 @@ fn two_timers_stack_and_restate_in_place() {
 /// STOP hides only the named timer and hands its frame back to the pool.
 #[test]
 fn stop_hides_that_timer_and_frees_its_frame() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "EXHAUSTION", 60_000, 60_000, -1, "Fatigue");
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
@@ -269,6 +286,7 @@ fn stop_hides_that_timer_and_frees_its_frame() {
 /// (the reference's `PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD` arm).
 #[test]
 fn entering_the_world_clears_every_bar() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "EXHAUSTION", 60_000, 60_000, -1, "Fatigue");
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
@@ -283,6 +301,7 @@ fn entering_the_world_clears_every_bar() {
 /// out from under a different timer.
 #[test]
 fn a_stop_for_an_idle_timer_touches_nothing() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
     s.fire_event(
@@ -297,6 +316,7 @@ fn a_stop_for_an_idle_timer_touches_nothing() {
 /// state tests above all pass on a bar that draws nothing.
 #[test]
 fn a_running_timer_paints_its_chrome_and_fill() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
     let quads = frame(&mut s, 0.016);
@@ -326,6 +346,7 @@ fn a_running_timer_paints_its_chrome_and_fill() {
 /// …and a stopped timer takes all of it off screen again.
 #[test]
 fn a_stopped_timer_paints_nothing() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
     frame(&mut s, 0.016);
@@ -346,6 +367,7 @@ fn a_stopped_timer_paints_nothing() {
 /// fill in the painter's order — i.e. strictly greater `z`.
 #[test]
 fn the_border_and_caption_draw_over_the_fill() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     start(&mut s, "BREATH", 45_000, 60_000, -1, "Breath");
     let quads = frame(&mut s, 0.016);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
index f1c55523..c09d9c84 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/tooltip_compare_tests.rs
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ fn harness() -> UiScript {
         "UiPanels.xml",
         "UIParent.xml",
         "GameTooltip.xml",
-        "ItemRef.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ItemRef.xml",
         "MerchantFrame.xml",
         "Cooldown.xml",
         "CharacterFrame.xml",
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ fn harness_with_bags() -> UiScript {
     for f in BAG_UI {
         load_xml(&s, f);
     }
-    for f in ["ItemRef.xml", "MerchantFrame.xml", "CharacterFrame.xml"] {
+    for f in [
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ItemRef.xml",
+        "MerchantFrame.xml",
+        "CharacterFrame.xml",
+    ] {
         load_xml(&s, f);
     }
     s.set_money(0);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs
index 0cabd3ae..77b077f5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/unit_popup_tests.rs
@@ -1,39 +1,35 @@
 //! The unit right-click popups reached the two ways a solo player invites someone (director
 //! report, 2026-07-17): right-clicking a **target** unit frame, and right-clicking a **chat
 //! name**. Both drive the shared UnitPopup engine (`UnitPopup.xml`); the chat path adds the
-//! `SetItemRef` player branch + its minimal `FriendsFrame` stand-in (`ItemRef.xml`). Proven
-//! serverless through the real hit/route paths.
+//! `SetItemRef` player branch — the reference's own since 1751 window 6 — and the FRIEND dropdown
+//! it opens, which lives in `FriendsFrame.xml` where 1.12 keeps it. Proven serverless through the
+//! real hit/route paths.
 
 use benilla_ui::script::{FollowRequest, PartyRequest, UiScript, UnitState};
 
-fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) {
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
-            .join("assets/ui")
-            .join(file),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_| None);
-    assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "{file}: loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
-}
+use super::test_ui::load_ui as load_xml;
 
-/// The production prefix the popups need (ui_script/mod.rs order): the dropdown kit, the unit
-/// popups, the chat-link router (`ItemRef.xml`, after UnitPopup — its `FriendsDropDown` inherits
-/// `UIDropDownMenuTemplate` and opens a UnitPopup FRIEND menu), then the unit frames.
+/// The production prefix the popups need, in `benilla.toc`'s own order: the dropdown kit, the
+/// unit popups, the reference's chat-link router, the unit frames — and `FriendsFrame.xml`, which
+/// is where `FriendsFrame_ShowDropdown` and the `FriendsDropDown` host live in 1.12 and where they
+/// live here since window 6 (our ItemRef.xml used to carry a private second copy of both).
 fn load_popup_frames(s: &UiScript) {
     for file in [
         "Fonts.xml",
         "UIParent.xml",
+        // `SmallMoneyFrame_OnLoad`, which UiPanels' own StaticPopup money rows call at load.
+        "MoneyFrame.xml",
+        // `StaticPopupDialogs` and the `PanelTemplates_*` family, both of which FriendsFrame.xml
+        // reaches at LOAD (its tab row and its confirm dialogs).
+        "UiPanels.xml",
         "GameTooltip.xml",
         "UIDropDownMenu.xml",
         "UnitPopup.xml",
-        "ItemRef.xml",
+        "Interface\\FrameXML\\ItemRef.xml",
         "UnitFrames.xml",
+        "ScrollTemplates.xml",
+        "UIPanelTemplates.xml",
+        "FriendsFrame.xml",
     ] {
         load_xml(s, file);
     }
@@ -69,6 +65,7 @@ fn bake_strings(s: &UiScript) {
 /// hit — the player branch of `SetItemRef` used to be a no-op stub.
 #[test]
 fn chat_name_right_click_opens_the_invite_menu() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_strings(&s);
@@ -137,6 +134,7 @@ fn chat_name_right_click_opens_the_invite_menu() {
 /// off for players — only NPC/self targets, whose every row needs a party, open nothing.
 #[test]
 fn solo_target_right_click_invites_a_player() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_strings(&s);
@@ -236,6 +234,7 @@ fn solo_target_right_click_invites_a_player() {
 /// so a break between `this.value == "TRADE"` and the queued initiate token shows up here.
 #[test]
 fn solo_target_trade_click_queues_an_initiate() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_strings(&s);
@@ -303,6 +302,7 @@ fn solo_target_trade_click_queues_an_initiate() {
 /// exactly the kind of break a row-label assertion cannot see.
 #[test]
 fn solo_target_follow_click_queues_an_exact_by_name_follow() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_strings(&s);
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ fn solo_target_follow_click_queues_an_exact_by_name_follow() {
 /// popup's dispatch, and `inspect_tests.rs` owns what the window then does.
 #[test]
 fn solo_target_inspect_click_reaches_inspect_unit() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_strings(&s);
@@ -536,6 +537,7 @@ fn right_click_the_pet_frame(s: &mut UiScript) {
 /// offered a row the reference never shows.
 #[test]
 fn the_pet_menu_forks_between_abandon_and_dismiss() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_pet_strings(&s);
@@ -605,6 +607,7 @@ fn the_pet_menu_forks_between_abandon_and_dismiss() {
 /// giving up a tamed pet is a server-side delete.
 #[test]
 fn dismiss_sends_immediately_and_abandon_waits_for_the_confirm() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_pet_strings(&s);
@@ -661,6 +664,7 @@ fn dismiss_sends_immediately_and_abandon_waits_for_the_confirm() {
 /// opens while the name dialog is still up, so the second one lands in instance 2.
 #[test]
 fn renaming_a_pet_reads_the_name_back_before_sending_it() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_pet_strings(&s);
@@ -712,6 +716,7 @@ fn renaming_a_pet_reads_the_name_back_before_sending_it() {
 /// was blocked on, and the only row here that opens a window rather than a wire verb.
 #[test]
 fn the_pet_details_row_opens_the_pet_paper_doll() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_pet_strings(&s);
@@ -742,6 +747,7 @@ fn the_pet_details_row_opens_the_pet_paper_doll() {
 /// unit reconnects mid-open — and closing the menu re-parks the driver.
 #[test]
 fn an_idle_unit_popup_driver_parks_itself_off_the_tick() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
     bake_strings(&s);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/zone_text_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/zone_text_tests.rs
index 31b72c26..5bbf10ab 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/zone_text_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/zone_text_tests.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-//! The shipped `ZoneText.xml` driven engine-only (decision 0287): the zone splash shows on the
+//! The reference's own `ZoneText.xml` — executed off the player's chain since 1751's eighth
+//! window — driven engine-only (decision 0287): the zone splash shows on the
 //! right events with the right strings/colors, fades on the reference 0.5/1.0/2.0 timeline, and
 //! honors the subtle law — a plain `ZONE_CHANGED` re-caches the zone name *silently*, so a later
 //! `ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA` that lands on the already-cached name never re-splashes.
@@ -8,23 +9,7 @@
 
 use benilla_ui::script::UiScript;
 
-/// Load one shipped `assets/ui/<file>` into `s`, panicking on any loader error (the sibling
-/// tests' loader, duplicated so this file is self-contained).
-fn load_xml(s: &UiScript, file: &str) {
-    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(
-        std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
-            .join("assets/ui")
-            .join(file),
-    )
-    .unwrap();
-    let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap();
-    let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(s, &doc, &|_| None);
-    assert!(
-        report.errors.is_empty(),
-        "{file}: loader errors: {:?}",
-        report.errors
-    );
-}
+use super::test_ui::load_ui as load_xml;
 
 fn visible(s: &UiScript, frame: &str) -> bool {
     s.eval::<bool>(&format!("return {frame}:IsVisible() and true or false"))
@@ -50,16 +35,26 @@ fn set_area(s: &UiScript, zone: &str, sub: &str, pvp: &str, faction: &str) {
 fn harness() -> UiScript {
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     s.set_screen_size(1024.0, 768.0);
+    // The player's own strings: the splash formats CONTESTED_TERRITORY,
+    // FACTION_CONTROLLED_TERRITORY, FREE_FOR_ALL_TERRITORY and the AUTOFOLLOW pair straight out of
+    // GlobalStrings. Our deleted copy carried `X = X or "…"` fallbacks for a harness with no
+    // chain; the reference's file has none, and it should not.
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua");
     load_xml(&s, "Fonts.xml");
+    // `TEXT()`, which AutoFollowStatus_OnEvent puts its message through.
+    load_xml(&s, "BasicControls.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "MoneyFrame.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "UiPanels.xml");
     load_xml(&s, "UIParent.xml");
-    load_xml(&s, "ZoneText.xml");
+    // The fading kit, its own manifest entry since window 8 — as it is in the reference's TOC.
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\FadingFrame.xml");
+    load_xml(&s, "Interface\\FrameXML\\ZoneText.xml");
     s
 }
 
 #[test]
 fn new_area_splashes_zone_pvp_and_subzone_then_fades_out() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
 
     // OnLoad hides both fading frames.
@@ -89,6 +84,7 @@ fn new_area_splashes_zone_pvp_and_subzone_then_fades_out() {
 
 #[test]
 fn subzone_hop_shows_only_the_small_line() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(&s, "Elwynn Forest", "", "friendly", "Alliance");
     s.fire_event("ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA", vec![]);
@@ -108,6 +104,7 @@ fn subzone_hop_shows_only_the_small_line() {
 
 #[test]
 fn plain_zone_changed_recaches_silently_so_new_area_wont_resplash() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(&s, "Elwynn Forest", "", "friendly", "Alliance");
     s.fire_event("ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA", vec![]);
@@ -143,6 +140,7 @@ fn plain_zone_changed_recaches_silently_so_new_area_wont_resplash() {
 /// SubZoneTextFrame's handler calls SetZoneText(1), which SETS the (hidden) PVP string.
 #[test]
 fn abbey_grounds_subzone_hop_shows_no_territory_line() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(
         &s,
@@ -178,6 +176,7 @@ fn abbey_grounds_subzone_hop_shows_no_territory_line() {
 /// truth, produced by the engine feed rather than by handler-order luck.
 #[test]
 fn abbey_interior_shows_the_room_in_the_small_line_alone() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(
         &s,
@@ -210,6 +209,7 @@ fn abbey_interior_shows_the_room_in_the_small_line_alone() {
 /// shows under it, exactly as on a NEW_AREA splash.
 #[test]
 fn inn_entry_splashes_the_inn_name_with_territory_line() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(&s, "Elwynn Forest", "Goldshire", "friendly", "Alliance");
     s.fire_event("ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA", vec![]);
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ fn inn_entry_splashes_the_inn_name_with_territory_line() {
 /// exactly like the entry hop.
 #[test]
 fn indoor_exit_returns_the_subzone_line_alone() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(
         &s,
@@ -265,6 +266,7 @@ fn indoor_exit_returns_the_subzone_line_alone() {
 /// the big frame never shows, so no territory line.
 #[test]
 fn room_to_room_hop_splashes_the_room_name_alone() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(&s, "Elwynn Forest", "Main Hall", "friendly", "Alliance");
     s.fire_event("ZONE_CHANGED_INDOORS", vec![]);
@@ -284,6 +286,7 @@ fn room_to_room_hop_splashes_the_room_name_alone() {
 /// the "PvP Area" arena string under it, red per the quote's PVPArenaTextString color.
 #[test]
 fn arena_pit_shows_the_ffa_line() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(&s, "Stranglethorn Vale", "", "contested", "");
     s.fire_event("ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA", vec![]);
@@ -304,6 +307,7 @@ fn arena_pit_shows_the_ffa_line() {
 /// anchors to PVPInfoTextString's BOTTOM — the three-line stack the director's screenshot shows.
 #[test]
 fn subzone_seat_hangs_under_the_territory_line_on_new_area() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     set_area(
         &s,
@@ -336,6 +340,7 @@ fn subzone_seat_hangs_under_the_territory_line_on_new_area() {
 /// name at start rather than re-reading it — by the time a follow ends, the followee is often gone.
 #[test]
 fn the_autofollow_status_line_names_the_followee_and_fades_on_end() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     assert!(
         !visible(&s, "AutoFollowStatus"),
@@ -382,6 +387,7 @@ fn the_autofollow_status_line_names_the_followee_and_fades_on_end() {
 /// than inheriting the dying one's alpha.
 #[test]
 fn a_begin_during_the_end_fade_resets_the_line() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = harness();
     s.fire_event(
         "AUTOFOLLOW_BEGIN",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/tests/item_text_frame.rs b/crates/benilla-app/tests/item_text_frame.rs
index bd19b89e..0018e8c8 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/tests/item_text_frame.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/tests/item_text_frame.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-//! Drives the REAL `assets/ui/ItemTextFrame.xml` through the engine — the reader window for bag
-//! letters (mail-made permanent copies) and, later, books. Loads the same file chain the app does
-//! (cut to the reader's dependency prefix), pushes an `ItemTextState`, fires the reference event
-//! flow `ITEM_TEXT_BEGIN` → `ITEM_TEXT_READY` → `ITEM_TEXT_CLOSED`, and asserts the transcribed
-//! Lua actually paints (title, the "From," creator tail, page-button visibility, the close intent).
+//! Drives the REAL reader window through the engine — bag letters (mail-made permanent copies)
+//! and, later, books. Loads the same file chain the app does (cut to the reader's dependency
+//! prefix), pushes an `ItemTextState`, fires the reference event flow `ITEM_TEXT_BEGIN` →
+//! `ITEM_TEXT_READY` → `ITEM_TEXT_CLOSED`, and asserts the Lua actually paints (title, the "From,"
+//! creator tail, page-button visibility, the close intent).
+//!
+//! The window itself is `Interface\FrameXML\ItemTextFrame.xml`, off the player's own patch chain
+//! since 1751's ninth window — so every test here gates on the install, as every chain-backed
+//! test does.
 
 use benilla_ui::script::{ItemTextState, UiScript};
 
@@ -11,32 +15,56 @@ const UI_DIR: &str = concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/assets/ui");
 /// The reader's dependency prefix, in the manifest's own order. `ScrollTemplates.xml` and
 /// `UIPanelTemplates.xml` joined it with decisions 1337/1338: the page sits in a real ScrollFrame
 /// now, whose template is in the second and whose `ScrollFrame_OnLoad` is in the first.
-const FILES: [&str; 6] = [
+const FILES: [&str; 8] = [
+    // `ITEM_TEXT_FROM`, which the reference's READY arm concatenates into the creator tail — and
+    // `attempt to concatenate a nil value` kills the handler before it reaches its `ShowUIPanel`,
+    // so the window simply never opens. Our deleted copy carried the string as a local fallback.
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\GlobalStrings.lua",
     "Fonts.xml",
     "MoneyFrame.xml",
     "UiPanels.xml",
+    // `GetMaterialTextColors`, which the reference's own `ItemTextFrame_OnEvent` calls to pick the
+    // page and title ink. 1.12 keeps it in UIParent.lua and ours does the same (1751 window 9).
+    "UIParent.xml",
     "ScrollTemplates.xml",
     "UIPanelTemplates.xml",
-    "ItemTextFrame.xml",
+    "Interface\\FrameXML\\ItemTextFrame.xml",
 ];
 
+/// **Both stores, told apart the manifest's own way** — a bare filename is a file we ship, a path
+/// is the reference's own off the player's install (`ui_script::reference_ui::is_chain_entry`,
+/// re-expressed here because that module is crate-private and this is an integration test).
+///
+/// The provider half matters as much as the loop: the reference's `ItemTextFrame.xml` pulls its
+/// Lua through `<Script file="ItemTextFrame.lua"/>`, which the loader resolves against the
+/// document's own directory — `Interface\FrameXML\ItemTextFrame.lua`, a chain path — so a
+/// disk-only provider would leave every one of its globals nil and every test below red for a
+/// reason that looks nothing like the cause.
 fn load_ui(script: &UiScript) {
     let dir = std::path::Path::new(UI_DIR);
-    let provider = |req: &str| -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
-        let norm = req.replace('\\', "/");
-        let base = norm.rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or(&norm);
-        std::fs::read(dir.join(&norm))
-            .or_else(|_| std::fs::read(dir.join(base)))
-            .ok()
+    let chain = benilla_formats::wow_data()
+        .and_then(|data| benilla_formats::open_chain(&data).ok())
+        .expect("client data — every test here gates on it");
+    let read = |req: &str| -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
+        if req.contains('\\') || req.contains('/') {
+            return chain.read(req).ok();
+        }
+        std::fs::read(dir.join(req)).ok()
     };
     for file in FILES {
-        let text = std::fs::read_to_string(dir.join(file)).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
-            panic!("reading {file}: {e}");
-        });
-        let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&text).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
-            panic!("parsing {file}: {e}");
-        });
-        let report = benilla_ui::loader::load(script, &doc, &provider);
+        let bytes = read(file).unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("reading {file}"));
+        // A `.lua` entry is a chunk, not a document — `GlobalStrings.lua` is one, exactly as it is
+        // in the reference's own TOC. Bytes, not text: a chunk goes to Lua as it sits in the
+        // archive and only an XML parse decodes (1193).
+        if file.to_ascii_lowercase().ends_with(".lua") {
+            script
+                .run_chunk_named(&bytes, &format!("@{file}"))
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("running {file}: {e}"));
+            continue;
+        }
+        let doc = benilla_ui::framexml::parse(&benilla_ui::source::decode(&bytes))
+            .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("parsing {file}: {e}"));
+        let report = benilla_ui::loader::load_in(script, &doc, &file.replace('\\', "/"), &read);
         assert!(
             report.errors.is_empty(),
             "{file} loaded with errors: {:#?}",
@@ -78,6 +106,7 @@ fn letter() -> ItemTextState {
 /// and shows the window; a single page shows no page number and no page-turn buttons.
 #[test]
 fn a_letter_reads_with_the_creator_tail() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     load_ui(&s);
     assert!(!s.eval::<bool>("return ItemTextFrame:IsShown()").unwrap());
@@ -118,6 +147,7 @@ fn a_letter_reads_with_the_creator_tail() {
 /// check pins the tripwire that now catches any such unresolved named anchor at load.
 #[test]
 fn the_scrollbar_track_sits_right_of_the_page() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     load_ui(&s);
     let unresolved: Vec<String> = s
@@ -149,6 +179,7 @@ fn the_scrollbar_track_sits_right_of_the_page() {
 /// buttons show per the reference visibility rules (page 1 with a next → Next only).
 #[test]
 fn a_book_page_shows_the_paging_chrome() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     load_ui(&s);
     s.set_item_text(Some(ItemTextState {
@@ -186,6 +217,7 @@ fn a_book_page_shows_the_paging_chrome() {
 /// clears the session and fires `ITEM_TEXT_CLOSED` — which hides again, harmlessly).
 #[test]
 fn closing_queues_the_close_intent() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     load_ui(&s);
     s.set_item_text(Some(letter()));
@@ -216,6 +248,7 @@ fn closing_queues_the_close_intent() {
 /// one block that still has angle brackets in it, which is exactly what was reported.
 #[test]
 fn the_reported_html_page_draws_as_blocks_not_as_its_own_markup() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
     load_ui(&s);
     s.set_item_text(Some(ItemTextState {
@@ -404,6 +437,7 @@ fn the_reported_book_crest_draws_at_the_blps_own_size() {
 /// OnHide ending its own session exactly as the merchant/gossip pair already does.
 #[test]
 fn a_quest_givers_gossip_displaces_the_open_reader() {
+    let _data = benilla_formats::wow_data_or_skip!();
     use benilla_ui::script::GossipMenu;
 
     let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/mod.rs
index 64ea0a54..bc41a717 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/mod.rs
@@ -36,6 +36,48 @@ pub(super) use plain::REG_MESSAGEFRAME_METHODS;
 pub(super) use scrolling::REG_SCROLLINGMESSAGEFRAME_METHODS;
 
 /// Install both classes' method tables (and the chat input globals the scrolling one carries).
+/// **`AddMessage`'s text argument, and the three ways it silently swallows the whole call**
+/// (wow-5875-re `system/ui/scratch/addmessage-text-gate-silent-skip.md`, 4-worker cross-check
+/// 2026-08-31). `None` means *do nothing at all* — no line, no record, no error.
+///
+/// `CSimpleMessageFrame::AddMessage 0x795590` fetches Lua index 2 through `lua_isstring 0x6f3510`
+/// and then `lua_tostring 0x6f3690`, and **three** results jump to the function's own epilogue at
+/// `0x79582b` (`pop edi / pop esi / xor eax,eax / pop ebx / leave / ret` — zero Lua values, no
+/// push, and the virtual enqueue at `0x795825 call [eax+0x90]` never reached):
+///
+/// ```text
+///   79561b  mov edx,2
+///   795625  call 0x6f3510      ; lua_isstring — tags 4 (string) and 3 (number) only
+///   79562c  je   0x79582b      ; nil / boolean / table / function  -> silent
+///   795642  je   0x79582b      ; lua_tostring returned NULL        -> silent
+///   79564b  je   0x79582b      ; cmp byte ptr [ebx],0 — EMPTY string -> silent
+/// ```
+///
+/// `ScrollingMessageFrame:AddMessage 0x792900` is the same shape (gate `0x79299c`, `je 0x792b81` =
+/// its own epilogue), so `DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(nil)` is silent too.
+///
+/// **This is not a general argument law and must not be read as one** (1717's rule: the shape is
+/// settled per binding). The *colour* arguments beside it behave the opposite way — a bad `r`/`g`/
+/// `b`/`a` jumps to `0x79581c`, which still calls the enqueue with the `0xffffffff` opaque white
+/// staged at `0x795658`. Only a bad **text** shows nothing. The three *receiver* guards
+/// (`0x847ef8` "used '.' instead of ':'", `0x847ec0`, `0x847e98`) do still raise, and they are
+/// upstream of this.
+///
+/// **Why it is load-bearing rather than pedantry.** Stock FrameXML takes this path: 1.12's
+/// `ContainerFrame.lua:753` reports a full keyring with
+/// `UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage(NO_EMPTY_KEYRING_SLOTS, 1.0, 0.1, 0.1, 1.0)` and **no such
+/// GlobalString exists** — the shipped `GlobalStrings.lua` defines only
+/// `NO_EMPTY_KEYRING_SLOTS_ERROR`, a rename that updated the definition and not the use. So a
+/// player dropping a key onto a full keyring gets a dead click on a real client. Taking a `String`
+/// here (which is what this did until 1751's fourth window swapped the bag bar in) raised instead,
+/// putting a script-error dialog on an ordinary player gesture that the reference never shows.
+///
+/// A **number** is accepted and rendered as its decimal text — `0x6f7c80` retags the slot in
+/// place — which is exactly [`super::binding_abi::optional_string`]'s coercion.
+pub(super) fn message_text(lua: &mlua::Lua, v: &mlua::Value) -> Option<String> {
+    super::binding_abi::optional_string(lua, v).filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
+}
+
 /// Install `SetJustifyH`/`GetJustifyH`/`SetJustifyV`/`GetJustifyV` on a message-frame method
 /// table. Both classes carry all four (see [`crate::widget::ScrollingMessageState::justify`] for
 /// the method-table bytes that settled it), and the law they obey is
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs
index 6f84367b..a535f3b6 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/plain.rs
@@ -70,9 +70,18 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
 
     // AddMessage(text [, r, g, b [, a]]) — binding 0x795590.
     //
+    // The TEXT is `super::message_text` — an `lua_isstring` gate whose failure is a silent jump to
+    // this function's own epilogue, not a raise, and the same for a NULL coercion and for the
+    // empty string. Its doc carries the bytes and the reason it matters; the short version is that
+    // stock `ContainerFrame.lua` really does reach `AddMessage(nil, …)` on a full keyring, and
+    // taking a `String` here (which this did until 1751's fourth window) put a script-error dialog
+    // on a gesture the reference answers with a dead click.
+    //
     // r/g/b are required **as a trio** (three presence checks ANDed at 0x7956xx); absent ⇒ hard
     // 0xFFFFFFFF white. The fourth numeric is a real alpha, `lua_isnumber`-gated with a default of
-    // 1.0 (`795752: mov [ebp-0x18],0x3f800000`).
+    // 1.0 (`795752: mov [ebp-0x18],0x3f800000`). **Deliberately NOT the same shape as the text:** a
+    // bad colour jumps to `0x79581c`, which still enqueues the line in opaque white. Only a bad
+    // text shows nothing.
     //
     // **The signature stops there, and the closure's arity is the enforcement.** The corpus's three
     // blocked callers all pass a sixth argument they believe is a hold time; mlua hands us the
@@ -82,7 +91,10 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     m.set(
         "AddMessage",
         lua.create_function(
-            |lua, (this, text, r, g, b, a): (Table, String, Value, Value, Value, Value)| {
+            |lua, (this, text, r, g, b, a): (Table, Value, Value, Value, Value, Value)| {
+                let Some(text) = super::message_text(lua, &text) else {
+                    return Ok(());
+                };
                 let has_rgb = !matches!(
                     (&r, &g, &b),
                     (Value::Nil, _, _) | (_, Value::Nil, _) | (_, _, Value::Nil)
@@ -245,6 +257,61 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// **A text `AddMessage` cannot use is swallowed whole — silently, with nothing added and
+    /// nothing raised** (`0x795590`'s three jumps to its own epilogue; see [`super::super`]'s
+    /// `message_text`).
+    ///
+    /// The defect this pins is not hypothetical and not ours to have guessed at: our binding took
+    /// its text as an mlua `String`, which raises on nil, and 1.12's own `ContainerFrame.lua:753`
+    /// reports a full keyring through `UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage(NO_EMPTY_KEYRING_SLOTS, …)` — a
+    /// GlobalString the shipped `GlobalStrings.lua` never defines. So dropping a key onto a full
+    /// keyring put a script-error dialog on screen where the reference gives a dead click. It
+    /// surfaced the moment 1751's third window made the bag bar the reference's own file.
+    ///
+    /// The three silent cases and the two that are NOT silent are pinned together, because the
+    /// pair is the finding: a bad **colour** still adds the line (opaque white), and the receiver
+    /// guards still raise. Reading the text gate as a general argument law is exactly 1717's error.
+    #[test]
+    fn addmessage_swallows_a_text_it_cannot_use_and_only_the_text() {
+        let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        s.run("CreateFrame('MessageFrame', 'MF')").unwrap();
+
+        // `lua_isstring 0x6f3510` accepts tags 4 and 3 only — everything else jumps to 0x79582b.
+        for bad in ["nil", "", "true", "{}", "print"] {
+            s.run(&format!("MF:AddMessage({bad})"))
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("AddMessage({bad}) must not raise: {e}"));
+        }
+        // …and so does the empty string, on its own `cmp byte ptr [ebx],0` at 0x79564b.
+        s.run("MF:AddMessage('')").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            num_messages(&s, "MF"),
+            0,
+            "nil, absent, boolean, table, function and \"\" each add NOTHING"
+        );
+
+        // A number IS a usable text — tag 3 passes the gate and `0x6f7c80` retags the slot in
+        // place, so it renders as its decimal form.
+        s.run("MF:AddMessage(42)").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(num_messages(&s, "MF"), 1, "a number is a text");
+
+        // The colour arguments are the OPPOSITE shape and that is the load-bearing negative: a bad
+        // r/g/b jumps to 0x79581c, which still enqueues with the 0xffffffff white staged at
+        // 0x795658. Suppressing the line here would be the same over-generalisation in reverse.
+        s.run("MF:AddMessage('kept', {}, nil, 'x')").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            num_messages(&s, "MF"),
+            2,
+            "a bad colour still adds the line"
+        );
+
+        // The receiver guards are upstream of all of it and DO raise (0x847ef8 — "used '.' instead
+        // of ':'").
+        assert!(
+            s.run("MF.AddMessage('dot')").is_err(),
+            "a '.'-instead-of-':' call still raises"
+        );
+    }
+
     /// `SetInsertMode` is a MessageFrame method and **only** a MessageFrame method — a plain Frame
     /// and a ScrollingMessageFrame both resolve it to nil, which is what a duck-typing addon reads.
     #[test]
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs
index b10baad4..9d5a2d6c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/messageframe/scrolling.rs
@@ -92,13 +92,20 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     // method-table bytes that put all four on BOTH tables.
     super::install_justify(lua, &m, "ScrollingMessageFrame")?;
 
-    // AddMessage(text [, r, g, b [, id]]) — the id (5th arg) is accepted and ignored (v1 has no
-    // per-line UpdateColorByID). rgb absent ⇒ white; the state quantizes round-half-up and forces
-    // the line opaque, then the fade drives its alpha.
+    // AddMessage(text [, r, g, b [, id]]) — binding 0x792900, the id (5th arg) accepted and
+    // ignored (v1 has no per-line UpdateColorByID). rgb absent ⇒ white; the state quantizes
+    // round-half-up and forces the line opaque, then the fade drives its alpha.
+    //
+    // The TEXT gate is the sibling class's, verbatim — gate `0x79299c`, `je 0x792b81` = this
+    // function's own epilogue — so `DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(nil)` is silent too. See
+    // `super::message_text`.
     m.set(
         "AddMessage",
         lua.create_function(
-            |lua, (this, text, r, g, b): (Table, String, Value, Value, Value)| {
+            |lua, (this, text, r, g, b): (Table, Value, Value, Value, Value)| {
+                let Some(text) = super::message_text(lua, &text) else {
+                    return Ok(());
+                };
                 let has_rgb = !matches!(
                     (&r, &g, &b),
                     (Value::Nil, _, _) | (_, Value::Nil, _) | (_, _, Value::Nil)
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/anchors.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/anchors.rs
index 33d8d94a..22abe68a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/anchors.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/anchors.rs
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ fn a_region_resolves_even_when_its_owner_frame_has_no_rect() {
 /// visible geometry a few links down.
 ///
 /// Reported as B264 (carni, 2026-08-13): opening the social pane drew a stray dropdown capsule at
-/// the bottom of the screen next to the action bar. `BenillaFriendsDropDown` carries no anchors —
+/// the bottom of the screen next to the action bar. `FriendsDropDown` carries no anchors —
 /// *exactly* as the reference's own `FriendsDropDown` does (`FriendsFrame.xml` l.598), and the
 /// reference draws nothing — so every texture of `UIDropDownMenuTemplate` hung off a phantom rect
 /// at (0,0). The shape below is that template's first two textures verbatim.