In a family, a pedigree is checked when it matters: each new entry must agree with the entries above it, or the record is wrong somewhere. A generated character has a pedigree too — the chain of frames behind her — and this room checks it the same way. Every new frame is read against the card, and through the card against every frame that already carries her name.
The working rules
The card is the root entry
Age, hair, build, face, signature — written once. Everything in the series descends from these five lines and must agree with them.
Judge each generation as it arrives
Frames are read against the card at the sitting, not in a batch at the season’s end, when disagreement has compounded.
A break is culled, not explained
A frame that disagrees with the root entry does not join the line, however beautiful. The line’s agreement is the product.
Kept this way, a series acquires something rare in generated work: ancestry. A viewer meeting the newest frame can trust it the way they trust the oldest, because the record between them was never allowed to fork. That trust, not any single frame, is what a pedigree is for.
Questions
Can the root entry ever change?
Between series, deliberately, as a new written card — an announced new chapter, not a quiet edit to the root.
What breaks a line most often?
Paraphrase. A card rewritten from memory is a root entry quietly replaced, and every descendant inherits the change.
How far back should I check?
Against the card, always; against the last sitting’s keepers, at each new sitting. The card carries the deep record.