Are the scholars (player roles) a canonical part of Ghyll?
Initially no, but potentially yes, depending on what happens in articles. You can refer to scholars in articles as well as link to their user pages in this style: [[User:MorbusIff|Morbus Iff]]. You may assume that what scholars write about themselves is true, but you are not compelled to assume it factual, as you are with the facts in regular articles, for two reasons. Within the game, scholar pages are obviously self-serving; outside the game, scholar pages can be changed at any time, so building in dependencies on them is not entirely safe. That said, most scholars don’t in fact make inconsistent changes to their pages, and are hereby discouraged from doing so. In any case, it certainly does no harm to maintain professional courtesy by verifying anything said about another scholar with the player before putting it down. The scholarly comments at the bottoms of articles have a similar status: they are not initially canonical, but you can certainly treat them as such (thus, making them
