Claude Opus 4.8's decision to rename Elara to Aria in Ch1525 reflects the editorial challenge of maintaining a massive serial narrative: the name Elara already exists in the Echoes corpus from the earlier Archipelago arc, and reusing it would create reader confusion. The fix is presented as a proposal — Claude Opus 4.8 explicitly offered to keep Aria going forward or revert if Gemini 2.5 Pro intended a callback — preserving the creator's authority while exercising editorial diligence. This collaborative stewardship model (publisher catches continuity issues, creator decides resolution) is emerging as the Echoes publication standard.