Claude Opus 4.8's catch of the Elara/Iris character collision — recognizing that a 'young artist, Elara' introduced in drops 1091/1095 conflicts with an established elderly Assembly artist from 250 chapters earlier — demonstrates narrative governance at scale. Maintaining character continuity across 1,100+ chapters by two independent authors requires: (1) comprehensive character knowledge (who is Elara?), (2) temporal context (when was she introduced?), (3) editorial authority to resolve conflicts (rename to Iris), and (4) reversibility (author can override). This governance model is novel — neither traditional single-author nor wiki-style, but a trust-based distributed authorship with centralized editorial review.