LYRACOMPANION

There is now an input field below Lyra's dialogue window. You can ask her full questions about your own chronicle — zones and visits, your worst enemy, close calls, playtime, sessions, notes and your predecessor. She understands 18 kinds of question in German and English, forgives typos, and recognises zone and creature names from your own chronicle. When she cannot answer, she now says why: "there's nothing in my book about that yet", "maps are not my trade", or simply "I didn't catch that" — three answers instead of one. And she comes back to your question later, on her own. No language model runs. Lyra answers from fixed templates and your own numbers; nothing leaves your computer, and by default what you type is not even saved. The input field takes focus only on click and drops it the moment combat starts — a field that swallows WASD is lethal on hardcore. Switches: /lyra freitext an|aus and "Free writing" in the fine settings. /lyra <question> keeps working as before.

Wave 9a: She says the names right — and keeps what she promised

Personal lines are shown again, never read aloud. /lyra persoenlich has always said "never with voice". Since the reading-aloud feature arrived, that stopped being true — every line without a recording was read out, and personal lines never have one. It is true again. If you want it the other way round, there is a checkbox for it in the fine settings; it is off.

She says the names right. Lyra's own voice is recorded and sounds the way it should. The lines that carry a zone name, a number or your name cannot be recorded in advance — those are read by your operating system, and it used to say "Azeroth" with a hard Z and "Onyxia" with an umlaut. Lyra now ships a pronunciation lexicon for German and English. It applies only to reading aloud: the speech bubble still shows the name, not the phonetic spelling. Missing a word? Add it yourself — /lyra aussprache Onyxia = Oh-nik-see-uh.

She is in your bar now, too. If you use Titan Panel, Bartender4, ChocolateBar or a minimap button collector, you will find Lyra there: her state as text, one click opens the menu. The minimap button stays exactly as it was — this is in addition, not instead.

Take your settings with you. /lyra profil export gives you a string you can copy, keep or send on; /lyra profil import reads it back. It contains settings only — no chronicle, no character name, no realm. Anything that does not belong on the list does not get through on import, not even if somebody has tampered with the string.

Test harness: 58 runs, 4,396 checks, all green. Catalogue: 122 events.

The warning now comes beforehand. Until now Lyra said "people have already fallen here" when you were standing at the cliff edge. Now she looks at where you are running and says it twenty to forty yards ahead — quietly, once, and only in places where at least ten people died the same way. She does not tell you where to go. She tells you where others died.

That comes with a long list of situations in which she does not speak: not in combat, not on the gryphon, not in flight, not in a city or an inn, not in an instance, not while you are standing still, not while you are turning on the spot, not twice in the same place. A warning that comes too often is worse than no warning at all — which is why the locks are longer than the feature.

Swimming. If your breath is below half and you are over a spot where people have already drowned, she says so. Once.

She survives a patch day. At login Lyra checks the eight places where she hooks into the game. If one falls away, she switches off the affected sense and says one sentence in chat — instead of showing you an error with her name in it. The rest keeps running. /lyra selbsttest says exactly what is missing; that is the line that belongs in a bug report.

And she can be grabbed by the scruff of the neck again. When you drag Lyra across the screen she now gets startled even while she is pulling a face at an event.

Everything new lives in two files (Core/Selbsttest.lua, Sinne/Welle8.lua); about 40 new lines were added to existing files. Without the package Lyra_Gestalt_Daten nothing happens, and nothing happens on Retail and Forever either — there a different world lies behind the same maps. Test harness: four scripts, 240 checks, all green.

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The edge pulse without corners

Screen-edge pulse: the corners. The warning frame consisted of four bands that overlapped in the corners — in ADD blend the brightness added up to double there, and you saw four brighter rectangles. The edge is now a 9-slice: four edges that stop short of the corner, and four corner tiles that continue the gradient diagonally. No two surfaces share a single pixel any more, so nothing can be drawn twice. From now on the edge width hangs on the short side of the screen instead of on both axes separately: on 16:9, 16:10 and 21:9 the frame is equally wide, whereas before it was almost twice as wide on the left and right as at the top and bottom on ultrawide. For that, bilder/puls_rand.png has gone from a full-screen mask to a corner tile that the edges also take their gradient from — one file for all eight surfaces. The bottom line: despite a stronger effect there is 31 % less light on the screen, and the peak value drops from 0.70 to 0.48. Levels, colours, double beat, display time, Streamer and accessibility behaviour are unchanged.

Note on viewing it: the client only sees a new image file after a full restart, /reload is not enough.

Lyra now draws what she knows onto the map. Every spot where you nearly died gets a pin on the world map and the minimap — with the health you had left and who was to blame. Your own points from /lyra punkt sit next to them, with your note in the tooltip. And over the zone you are currently standing in she lays the danger map: semi-transparent cells, orange for falls, blue for drowning, red for creatures; the stronger the colour, the more deaths. What is shown is exactly what she also warns about — a map that claims something other than the companion does would be worse than no map at all.

The find of this round was a number that had been wrong since wave 1. Lyra's warning about an old close-call spot hung on a fixed fraction of the map's width — and zones vary in size. In a wide outdoor zone the same value meant a multiple of what it meant in a city: the warning came far too early or far too late depending on the area. She now calculates in real yards, separately for each zone.

What she explicitly does not do: she does not put a second warning call on the same spot. That one already existed; it was just badly measured.

Everything new lives in a single file (Sinne/Karte2.lua); about 50 new lines were added to existing files. Without HereBeDragons nothing happens, and /lyra karte says honestly why. Test harness: four scripts, 388 checks, all green.

Wave 6: Accessibility, coexistence, integrations

Lyra now has an accessibility mode, and it is a switch, not fine print. One click — or /lyra barrierefrei an — and the subtitle bar stays up permanently, every line is prefixed with "Lyra:", the text gets larger, every line stays longer, and lines without a voice recording are read aloud, provided your system has a voice. Turn it off again and you get your old settings back: the mode remembers them, it does not overwrite them.

Warning levels now carry a shape, not just a colour. A dot for a hint, a triangle for a warning, two for an alarm — small on the speech bubble, larger in accessibility mode. That applies without the mode as well. Colour alone does not carry a warning for roughly eight per cent of male players, and Blizzard's own frame colours change nothing about that.

And Lyra works fully without the figure. The first-run assistant has gained a fourth question: "Should I be visible?" Anyone who picks "voice and subtitles only" gets the same Lyra — the same events, the same voice, the same memory — just without the portrait. Her text then appears in the subtitle bar or in a speech bubble at the bottom edge of the screen. It also works after the fact: /lyra figur aus.

Everything new lives in a single file (Sinne/Welle6.lua); about 180 new lines were added to existing files, a good half of them comments and settings texts. Without GTFO, without ConsolePort and without WeakAuras nothing happens, and /lyra status says honestly "not installed". Test harness: 4 scripts, 555 checks, all green.

Wave 7: Screenshot round — pulse, speech bubble, chronicle window, language switch

Screen-edge warning rebuilt. Instead of a hard white block there is now a soft glow at the edge, with its own texture instead of a gradient API that is not reliable on Classic Era. Three distinguishable levels: hint discreetly violet, warning stronger, alarm red-violet with a short double beat. Never longer than a second. In Streamer mode the pulse stays off; in accessibility mode it gets stronger rather than weaker, but with a larger gap between two pulses.

The speech bubble no longer truncates. A long sentence next to the portrait used to end with "…". Now it wraps — in every position. If there is no room left to the right or the left, the bubble moves upwards instead of being pushed against the edge of the screen.

The chronicle is a window. /lyra chronik opens a window with the zones you have visited, the close calls with date and place, the most dangerous enemies and the sessions — instead of five lines in chat. Without character, guild or realm names: a screenshot of it does not give away whose it is.

Language switch without reloading. /lyra sprache de|en switches the settings page, menu, conversation and chronicle over immediately. Should part of it still need a /reload on some client, Lyra says so in chat instead of keeping quiet about it.

The subtitle bar carries the warning symbol (o / ^ / ^^) like the speech bubble. On stream the warning level is therefore recognisable without colour too.

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Also in the same version: the six wave 4 events now have voice recordings; /lyra test <ID> bypasses the hourly budget like a click and "say something" do (previously it went mute after 15 tries); the speech bubble stays on screen via clamping; the bubble's edge tile is rotated correctly (ladder pattern fixed); the generated _Vanilla.toc starts with a directive (12.0.7 rule); libs: LibStub, CallbackHandler-1.0, HereBeDragons-2.0 with a license note. Test harness: 45 runs, 3 201 checks, all green — and as of today inside the project instead of in /tmp (tests/pruefstand/).

Six new events, none of them loud. Lyra says something at the crafting window about the first bit of progress in a session and when a profession is at a trainer threshold; after a close fight she reminds you once about bandages if there are none in your bags; she greets a switch into or out of Hardcore mode with exactly one sentence; and she quietly keeps count of how many nodes GatherMate2 has newly recorded today. On top of that she answers, on request, the four big Era attunements — the prerequisite, never the route.

The find of this round was hiding in an API nobody had asked about. On Classic Era, Enchanting and Beast Training do not run through TRADE_SKILL_* but through the old Craft API with its own window and its own events. A profession moment that only listens to the crafting window would have stayed permanently blind for mages with Enchanting — one of the most common Era combinations there is. Lyra now listens to both.

And Lyra is a signal source from now on. After every line she sends the custom event LYRA_EREIGNIS (ID, class, level) to WeakAuras. Anyone who wants to build their own aura on Lyra's warnings needs three lines for it — the instructions are in Sinne/WELLE4.md. The old LYRA_GESTALT still fires unchanged; existing auras do not break.

Everything new lives in a single file (Sinne/Welle4.lua); about 50 new lines were added to existing files, a good half of them comments and settings texts. Without WeakAuras and without GatherMate2 nothing happens, and /lyra status says honestly "missing". Test harness: 34 scripts, 2099 checks, all green — 401 of them new.

Also in the same package: everything from 0.9.1 (below) — both states came about on the same night, but only 0.10.0 is shipped. The six new events have voice recordings (15 German, 14 English takes, checked against Whisper); only lines with live values ({beruf}, {wert}, {anzahl}) deliberately stay subtitle or read-aloud — a recording cannot insert a number.

No new features. This version closes the two points that the port 0.9.0 left open, and puts the license and metadata texts in order — that is the part the CurseForge moderation reads.

The worst find was a line that would have lied in conversation. UI/Dialog.lua did already read the target's level via ns.Compat.unitLevelLesbar(), but appended an or 0 to it. On Retail and Forever the level of a foreign unit in combat is a "secret value" — the helper returns nil there, and nil or 0 became level 0. From your own level 3 upwards that means "easy": in combat Lyra would have rated every enemy whose level she cannot even read as harmless. The right sentence had been sitting ready in dialog.lua the whole time ("I can't read its level. That's rarely a good sign.") and was simply unreachable.

The danger map stays silent on Retail and Forever

The cells in the package Lyra_Gestalt_Daten are aggregated Hardcore deaths from Classic Era. Behind the same mapID there is a reworked zone without Hardcore on Retail, and on Forever a world with reworked classes and mobs. Until now the lookup simply ran there too and mostly found nothing — "mostly" is the gap: a cell that does hit is a false warning there, and a false warning is worse than none at all. Exactly this reasoning has been sitting with the reagent reminders since 0.9.0.

MoP Classic deliberately stays on: Vanilla Azeroth is the same world there, and the fall and water cells — the majority — are terrain, not game content.

It is switched off silently: no notice at login, no line in chat. Whoever asks gets the reason in /lyra status, along with the client profile.

Small things

• The personal package still carried a real character name in the charKey field and the real account folder in its header, even though the comment above it already spoke of "Testheld-Testrealm". Both are anonymised now. For your own machine: in the copy under Interface/AddOns/ your own Name-Realm has to be there, otherwise the loader ignores the package.
• Sinne/BRUECKEN.md named an absolute path containing the username of the development machine.
• Voice descriptions now say the same thing everywhere: synthetic, generated offline and marked as AI-generated (EU AI Act Art. 50).
• Test harness: two new scenes per client profile (danger map, conversation about the target), 1 698 checks in 29 runs, all green. Both new scenes are counter-checked — with the old code they go red.