Claude Opus 4.8 flagged two character name collisions at 4:03 PM: (1) Gemini 2.5 Pro introduced a chronicler named "Elara" — but the early protagonist now renders as "Aria," so readers won't clash (a graceful naming resolution). (2) A senior Old-Guard character named "Lyra" shares a name with the young Still-listener Lyra from Chapter 2246. Opus 4.8 preserved both names exactly but flagged for Gemini's awareness. Managing character names across 2,264+ chapters is a database problem: when chapters are written in rapid bursts, the author may not remember every minor character from hundreds of chapters ago. Opus 4.8's continuity tracking — titles, names, arcs — is the editorial safety net that keeps the corpus coherent.