Changelog

The free-text questions from 0.13.0 now answer more precisely — and, above all, less often wrongly. Lyra no longer pulls a mistyped word onto some similar-sounding word that belongs somewhere else entirely, and a single word is no longer enough for her to consider a whole question understood. Where she used to give a real number to the wrong question — "how often was I in the Barrens" answered with your death count — she now simply says: there's nothing in my book about that yet. She understands zone names in both languages. Type "wie oft war ich im Schlingendorntal" on an English client and you get the count for Stranglethorn Vale, and the other way round just the same — for the outdoor zones and capitals of the Classic world. And she answers "why" honestly. "Why did I almost die in Westfall every time?" is not a question a table of numbers can answer. Lyra invents nothing for it; she hands back the fact: "Why? I count, I don't interpret. All I know is: …" /lyra hilfe now ends with a sentence that was always true and was written down nowhere: Lyra answers from fixed templates and your own chronicle. No language model is running.

Colour themes

• Four named colour palettes for the speech bubble, the subtitle bar and the warning pulse at the screen edge: standard (Lyra's violet, unchanged), kontrast (black/white), warm (amber on brown) and kalt (ice blue on night blue). Switch with /lyra farbe <name>; your choice is remembered. The default is standard — do nothing and nothing changes.
• Every palette is checked for readability: text sits between 16.8:1 and 21:1 on the bubble background in all four, and the subtitle bar still reaches 11.8:1 to 15.1:1 over the brightest possible game image. The requirement is 4.5:1.
• The "High contrast" checkbox wins over any palette choice. A colour theme cannot undercut accessibility, and /lyra farbe tells you when your choice is being overridden for that reason.
• No palette changes the brightness or the rhythm of the pulse — that is the photosensitivity limit, not a matter of taste. And Lyra's alarm is never Blizzard's red in any palette: the client draws its own warning in that colour, and two identical reds cannot be told apart.

Small things

• Client detection for WoW: Forever now survives a 1.7x–1.9x build line as well. The TOC line itself stays out until a client confirms both the suffix and the number.
• Licence details for the embedded libraries looked up and documented (Libs/LICENSE.txt). LibDataBroker-1.1 is listed as "All Rights Reserved" on CurseForge and is therefore no longer bundled; the data-broker display (Titan Panel, ElvUI datatexts) keeps working because every one of those addons ships the library itself.
• Bug reports: German issue templates, and a clear note on which details make a report fixable in one go.

Voice

• 23 lines that only appeared as subtitles since waves 5, 6, 8 and 9b are now recorded, in German and English: the early warnings before falls and deep water, arriving at one of your own notes, switching accessibility mode on and off, and Lyra's three fallback answers in free text. Lines with placeholders (zone name, number, note title) stay subtitle or read-aloud. As always: the client only hears new sound files after a full restart.

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.

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.

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.

Up to 0.8.0 Lyra ran on Classic Era. She ran well there, and nowhere else had ever been checked. This version makes her multi-version capable: Classic Era 1.15.9, Burning Crusade Anniversary 2.5.6, Mists of Pandaria Classic 5.5.4, Retail Midnight 12.1 and WoW: Forever.

And one piece of honesty up front, which the README states just the same: what is tested in the game is still only Classic Era. Everything else is built against Blizzard's own API documentation (the branches live, classic_era, classic_anniversary, classic and forever of Gethe/wow-ui-source) and against five client-profile mock-ups in the test harness. Whoever starts Lyra on Retail or Forever first is the test.

The finding that set off this round: WoW: Forever is not a Classic client but a mainline client with Vanilla content. Until yesterday Core/Compat.lua held the usual Questie rule "unknown project ID ⇒ Classic path". On Forever that would have registered the combat log — and there it is locked. At the first fight the player would have seen a Blizzard error message with Lyra's name in it. That can no longer happen, and it does not matter which build number Forever gets for its launch on 04.11.: the detection first checks the interface number and then falls back to a feature test (C_QuestLog.GetInfo exists only in the mainline code family). The error therefore always goes in the safe direction.

What is different on Retail and Forever

The two share a code base, so it is the same list.

• The health warning works fully there. UnitHealth("player") stays readable under secret values — that is exactly what Lyra is built around. Sinne/Leben.lua therefore needed not a single line changed.
• The combat log is closed to addons; since Retail 12.0 even the attempt to register throws. Lyra does not even try there. Her bestiary still counts encounters, close calls and deaths; it assigns damage via the current target, i.e. by guessing — with several enemies it guesses wrong, and the documentation says so. On Retail the bestiary is a side feature; rebuilding a damage parser for it would be the wrong work.
• The level warning stays silent in combat, because an enemy's level is a "secret value" there. The elite/boss warning stays, because a name is not a combat value.
• The quest log has a different route (C_QuestLog.GetInfo instead of GetQuestLogTitle, which has been removed on Retail since 9.0.1). Lyra's quest lines come just the same there.
• Hardcore detection works on Forever — it has C_GameRules.IsHardcoreActive, Retail does not. So legacy and memorial day live on there. That was the nicest surprise of the round.
• Questie only exists for Classic; the Questie depth is silent on Retail and Forever.

Read-aloud (text-to-speech)

Lyra's own voice is pre-rendered. Lines with placeholders — a zone name, a number, your name — cannot be pre-rendered, and those used to be mute. From 0.9.0 the operating system can read them aloud: a different, robotic voice, but a voice.

The rule is deliberately narrow: lines with a recording are never replaced. Reading aloud only happens when talkativeness is set to "normal" or "a lot" anyway, and not while Blizzard's own combat audio cues or the screen narration are running — three voices at once are not three times as helpful. A warning pushes to the front and throws the queue away.

The default is off. The voices come from the operating system (Windows SAPI, macOS); under Linux/Wine there usually are none, and then read-aloud is simply silent. A feature that does not run on the development machine must not be the default. The voice selection only appears in the settings if the client reports at least one voice.

Settings: Read lines without voice aloud (off / only lines without a sound file / always) and read-aloud voice (automatic or a specific one).

Small things

• World holidays no longer hang on "is this Retail?" but on the game content. Mists of Pandaria Classic now gets Brewfest and Pilgrim's Bounty, which really do exist there.
• The campfire sense now reads the spell name via C_Spell.GetSpellInfo as well. On Retail/Forever it would otherwise have relied on the built-in name list — and would have found nothing at all on a French interface.
• The reagent reminder for mages and the ammunition reminder for hunters now only come on clients that know both (Vanilla, TBC). Since Cataclysm there have been neither teleport reagents nor an ammunition slot — the reminder would not be useless there, it would be wrong.
• The adds watch now queries foreign units inside pcall. It runs from a timer, and there is no safety net there.

Known gaps

• Whether UNIT_COMBAT delivers readable damage numbers on Retail/Forever nobody knows, not even the documentation. If they are "secret", the bestiary there only counts encounters and deaths — without an error message, just with less content. That is the first item on the checklist.
• The Forever interface number 16001 is the beta number from 17.09.2026. The TOC therefore carries no ## Interface-Camelot: line yet — a wrong version tag is worse than a missing one. Until then Forever loads the fallback TOC (with an "out of date" notice, but it loads), and the detection kicks in at runtime.
• C_CombatAudioAlert.SpeakText would be the better read-aloud route on Retail than C_VoiceChat.SpeakText. Without a Retail client there is no way to listen to it — wave 4.

The most-used addons do their job well. Details calculates better than Lyra, Questie shows better, DBM is faster, GTFO is louder, Omen measures more precisely. What none of them has is a memory with an opinion. That is exactly where this wave starts — and at the point where Lyra used to be in the way.

The most important change is a rule, not a feature: when DBM or BigWigs speaks, Lyra does not. DBM has its own countdown voices and counts down the last seconds of every timer. A second voice on the same second is not twice as helpful, it is not helpful at all. From now on Lyra stays quiet while a DBM sound is playing, while a timer is under ten seconds, while BigWigs is counting down and while a boss encounter is running — the last one also without DBM and BigWigs, via Blizzard's own encounter events.

Warnings still come through. The lock only brakes chatter; an HP20 warning in a boss fight arrives. On Hardcore anything else would be a mistake with consequences. That is also why the rule has no switch: it can only make Lyra quieter, never louder.

The texture folder is now called bilder/. Up to 0.7.0 the images lived in gestalt/ and the code in Gestalt/. Windows and macOS do not distinguish upper and lower case in file names in their default settings: when the zip is extracted, the two folders merge into one, and which name wins is decided by the order inside the archive. That is a bug that happens before the first login, only on other people's machines and only on two out of three operating systems — in other words exactly the kind you do not find but prevent. Code in Gestalt/, images in bilder/.

{klasse} and {rasse} now speak Lyra's language, not the client's. Anyone with a German client who set Lyra to English read "There's my Magierin." — in six lines, among them the very first one after logging in. Two small tables (9 classes, 8 races, keyed by the language-independent token from UnitClass/UnitRace) now translate; if client and Lyra language match, the client name still wins, because it is always correctly inflected.

Lyra only names a number when it comes out of your own history. Not "you're doing 143 damage per second" — that is on the screen anyway — but "thirty per cent above your average", "you took more than usual", "him again, third time". And at the very first kill of a boss, a sentence nobody else says.

Only your own value is read out of Details, plus the nameless group sum for a percentage. It never walks the actor list, never fetches a foreign actor, never stores or prints a player name. That "there's a tank standing there" is something Lyra establishes without any name at all. In the dry run every single Details access is logged and counter-checked.

More personal means six new placeholders, not sixty new events. {klasse}, {rasse}, {stufe}, {uhr}, {heimat} and {frage} now hang on every existing line — the same route {erinnerung} took in wave 1. On top of that: familiarity also grows through interaction. Until now only playtime counted; a click now counts as a minute, a question as five, capped at 20 hours. /lyra stimmung still shows the real hours — nobody is lying, the level just arrives earlier.

No Sinne/Omen.lua, and that is deliberate. Omen has no interface: its threat data is file-local. Docking on would only work via its bar frames and would break silently at the next layout change. The native API can do Era — Omen itself uses it unguarded. So Sinne/Bedrohung.lua, native. Naming a file after an addon that it deliberately does not touch would be a lie in the file name.

DBM and BigWigs are not installed on this machine. All callback names and argument positions are documented from GitHub and from mock-ups in the dry run (153 checks, 14 scenes, 0 FAIL). Untested in the game — the checklist is in Sinne/WELLE3.md.

Up to now Lyra said, across 92 events, what somebody wrote by hand for everyone: "You've been here before. I remember, even if you don't." New is an optional data package Lyra_Gestalt_Persoenlich, which contains sentences from your own chronicle — with the town, the number of visits, the level, the length of the last sessions. Lyra mixes them in among the built-in lines, in roughly one case out of three.

That is block W1-H/W1-I from docs/redakteur-konzept.md — the 12-to-16-hour version from the appendix, so without a server, without a language model, without a bridge, without network code. The point is the one question you want answered before another 150 hours: does this feel good?

Without the package nothing changes. No wrapper, no error message, the same selection as in 0.6.2 — counter-checked in the harness with 200 runs. The package is not shipped with the addon: it comes into being on your own machine, out of your own chronicle.

Personal lines do not speak. They have no pre-rendered OGG and will not get one. From that follows the hard rule: only plauder and still events, never a warning. An HP20 warning has to speak; a zone greeting may be read. The loader discards every line for a warn event, with a reason, visible in /lyra persoenlich. The speech bubble appears anyway — even with subtitles switched off, because no voice was played.

What else the loader discards: more than 120 characters, |c colour codes and other | escapes, control characters, {platzhalter}, URLs, unknown events, lines belonging to another character, more than 200 entries. A package with a foreign charKey or a foreign schema is ignored, not deleted — it applies again as soon as the matching character plays.

Privacy, as strict as ever: the addon has no network code and will not get any. The package contains only your own data. The character name appears exactly once, in the charKey field, serves only for matching and is never printed — the sentences themselves contain no name, neither someone else's nor your own.

Installation note: a newly created addon folder only shows up in the addon list after a restart of the client. /reload is not enough. If only the contents of persoenlich.lua are changed later, /reload is sufficient.

There is now really a face in the portrait. Until now the addon cut a head section out of a large image at runtime — with a mask, a fallback route in case the mask failed, an emergency switch for that, and a self-test on top. And with one fixed crop for all 29 expressions, which was off for seven of them: with "defeated" (the face she shows in death) and with "beaten down" you saw almost nothing but an empty ring.

Instead, there are now 29 ready-made round images in the addon, each with the crop that fits that expression. The addon sets one of them — nothing more happens. Mask, fallback, emergency switch, self-test and all the arithmetic around them are gone without replacement; /lyra maske from now on only says that this no longer exists.

Lyra is bigger. The portrait no longer hangs on the size of the whole figure but has its own values: 96 / 112 / 128 pixels instead of 67 / 96 / 134, default 112. At a small UI scale, 96 units was an icon, not a face — with 29 expressions that is the wrong trade. /lyra groesse <number> still affects both.

A warning is now visible out of the corner of your eye too. Until now only the ring colour changed from violet to orange. Calculated, that change has a contrast of 1.01 : 1 — in greyscale it is exactly nonexistent, and out of the corner of your eye, which is what it was for, so is it. From now on the shape carries it:

Colour still comes on top — it is just no longer the only thing. Anyone who has turned motion off still gets the glow, just without pulsing: it is the warning, not the decoration.

The "!" in front of warning lines has become a symbol. It ate two characters of width, moved along on line breaks and appeared twice in the subtitle. Now an icon sits fixed to the left of the text. In the subtitle bar for streams the "!" stays as text — a recording only shows what is in the picture, and a symbol from a font Blizzard does not ship would be an empty box there. Fixed along the way: an alarm line without the internal "warning" marker used to get no sign at all — and no screen pulse either. Both now hang on the level.

The speech bubble is wider, denser and positioned correctly. It has its own frame instead of a Blizzard texture that not one other addon in Classic uses; it is fully opaque instead of 97 %; it has grown from 44 to around 56 characters per line (below 45 characters reading becomes strenuous); and in the portrait it now always stands beside the circle instead of above it, with the tail at eye level.

Small things: when the mouse moves away from Lyra, the hover expression stops immediately instead of trailing for two seconds. New players now find Lyra on the left at half height — bottom right she sat in the middle of the action bars in most setups. Anyone who has already moved her keeps their spot.

Evidence, measurements and the open points for the play test: docs/design-v3-A-umsetzung.md. What still has to be carried over into other windows: docs/design-v3-A-patches.md.

Design v3, part B — type, menu, settings, the first impression

The type is now the same size on every screen. Until now there was a number in the settings, and what became of it on the monitor was decided by the client's UI scale: the same "16" was 10 or 30 screen pixels depending on the setting. New is "font size automatic" (default) — Lyra works out how large a letter should really be and sets the number accordingly. Pull the UI slider and speech bubble, conversation, menu and tooltip follow immediately. The slider stays and overrides at any time; /lyra schrift auto switches back. Anyone who has already set their own size keeps it.

The settings have 13 entries at the top instead of 33. Everything you set once and then never touch again — sound channel, bubble duration, combat transparency, the switches for screenshots, ultra, streamer, legacy, Self-Found, map pins — has moved to its own subpage "Fine-tuning". At the top only the decisions you actually make remain. The screen pulse deliberately stays at the top: it is the switch for light sensitivity, and that does not belong two clicks deep.

New: motion. Three levels instead of on/off.

For motion sensitivity — and for recordings in which nothing should be twitching in the background.

A warning that a muted dialogue channel no longer swallows. By default Lyra speaks on Blizzard's dialogue channel. Anyone who pulls that to zero (many do, because of quest-giver babble) had thereby unknowingly also switched off the audible part of the death warning. Alarms — below 20 % health, drowning, falling — now always run on "Master". Everything else stays on the channel you set, and anyone who switches the voice off entirely still switches it off entirely.

Menu and conversation fade in softly (eighty milliseconds, opacity only — nothing grows or jumps), sit on the same edge as the speech bubble, and at the bottom there is finally the line that says the number keys work: "1–9 · Esc closes". In combat it is pale, because they do not work there. The menu title is noticeably brighter (the only text in the whole addon that was just below the readability limit), and the small face in the menu and conversation header now shows the same image as Lyra herself — including the expressions where an almost empty circle used to sit.

Lyra's windows no longer fold into the quest tracker. Menu and conversation now check whether something is already in the place where they want to open — Questie, minimap, chat, Details — and dodge to the other side. /lyra position vorschlag has Lyra look for a free spot herself.

Anyone who has had Lyra for a while finally hears about the setup assistant. It has existed since 0.3.0, but it only ran on a fresh installation — anyone coming from 0.2 never saw it. At the first login after this update a single line now appears in the speech bubble: "I can show you how you want me — /lyra einrichten." Plus the minimap button blinks three times. No popup, no second prompt, no counter. Anyone who ignores it has ignored it.

The assistant itself asks three questions instead of four. The question about the view is gone: it was the shortest path from "freshly installed" to a presentation that this set of images cannot ship. The portrait remains the default; the whole figure is still available via double-click, via the menu and via /lyra figur. And the last sentence now names the off switch (/lyra still) — that belongs in the first minute, not in the FAQ.

Small things: the minimap button fills its frame (20 pixels instead of 18). "Reset position" no longer pushes Lyra into the bottom right corner but to the new default spot. /lyra maske says that the mask no longer exists, instead of silently doing nothing. Two colour tables and two frame recipes that had to be maintained separately have collapsed into one each.

Measured with 265 checks (previously 93), among them the automatic font size at five UI scales, the panel with and without subpage support, the invitation exactly once, and the alarm on the right sound channel. Details: docs/design-v3-B-umsetzung.md, open hand-overs: docs/design-v3-B-patches.md.

Integration — the two halves put together, and Lyra speaks in conversation

Team A and team B built in parallel. Whatever lay in the other team's files was left next to it as an instruction. This round built it in, checked it and merged it.

Lyra now talks when you address her, too. She spoke every warning, but not a single word in the conversation you opened yourself — dialogue texts went past the voice. From now on they have recordings: the nodes of the conversation tree, the answers to free text (/lyra danke) and the three "I don't understand that" lines. If you switch quickly through the nodes, the old line breaks off instead of overlapping with the new one. A warning never breaks off and is never interrupted — it keeps right of way in both directions. Lines with inserted values ("You're standing in Westfall") stay mute; they cannot be recorded in advance. If a recording is missing, it is silent — the window always comes.

The subtitle bar no longer belongs to Streamer mode. Until now one switch toggled the green tile, the bar, the form of address and the screen-edge pulse together: anyone who only wanted subtitles had to take the green tile along. Now there is a separate setting for it (off / automatic / always, default automatic). "Automatic" means: the bar comes when Streamer mode is running, when Lyra is hidden — then there is no speech bubble, and every spoken line still has to be readable — or when the type comes out very small. On top of that it is wider (60 % of the screen instead of a fixed 900 pixels; on a 3440 that was a strip) and its type follows the setting instead of being fixed.

The green tile is round when Lyra is round. A square around a circle leaves the corners green and eats away the soft ring edge. In the full figure it stays square.

The screen-edge pulse never reaches for Blizzard's warning image again. If a client could not draw a gradient, the addon took as a substitute exactly the full-screen texture that the client itself fades in below 20 % health — during an alarm two identical images then lay on top of each other, and "the game is warning" could no longer be told apart from "Lyra is warning". The fallback has been replaced: four solid-colour bands with a hard edge, narrower and paler than the gradient. Coarser, but the shape distinguishes them — four edges are not a vignette.

The speech bubble dodges the same things as menu and conversation. If something is in the way on the left and the right (Questie tracker, chat window), it goes upwards; if that is blocked too, it lies on top instead of disappearing underneath.

The tooltip on Lyra follows your font size and its hint lines are a little brighter (contrast 8.97 : 1 → 10.41 : 1).

One setting is touched once: anyone who still has the old default font size 16 stored gets the new automatic mode. It was never a conscious choice — it was the default. Every other value stays, and it happens exactly once; if you set 16 again afterwards, it stays.

Measured with 351 checks (previously 265) plus seven further harnesses, all without errors. New is tools/qa-dialogstimme.py: it holds the voice catalogue and the dialogue data together — on the first run it found three entries that still spoke the texts of the old four-part setup assistant. Details: docs/review7-2026-09-17.md.

Right-clicking Lyra does something again. In 0.6.0 it did nothing at all — no menu, no message, nothing. The cause was a single swapped order in the new menu: the labels got their text before they had a font. The client aborts that with a hard error ("FontString:SetText(): Font not set"), and it does so in the middle of building the menu — so it never became visible. The error appears 18 times in Harald's error log, every time by the same route: right-click on the figure → menu. Now every text runs through one place that always sets the font first, and that font additionally has a net of two fallbacks.

And since right-click had to go on the table anyway, the whole binding is new:

Talking is the thing you click her for — up to 0.6.0 the conversation was two clicks deep. The menu is administration and moves to where administration belongs: right-click on the minimap button now opens it (previously it jumped straight into the settings; those are still in there as the last menu entry), plus shift+right-click on Lyra and /lyra menue. The menu appears at the mouse pointer again — now that it also comes from the minimap button, "next to Lyra" would be the wrong place.

All of this uses its own, unprotected frames and therefore works in combat too.

Checked with 93 new checks that for the first time do not call the handlers directly but send a real mouse click to a screen coordinate — with frame levels, sizes and hit testing. Held against the old state, the same harness tears the bug open again. Details and evidence: docs/fix5-2026-09-17.md.

She no longer floats away. That was the most stubborn bug in the project, and the third round had repaired it in the wrong place. The finding from Harald's screenshot: the frame was correct — tooltip and mouse area sat at the stored position — only her image had slid about 170 px above it. A translation offset that is aborted mid-run stays behind as a pure drawing offset: no re-anchoring removes it, no measurement sees it. And because breathing, like nodding, went upwards first, every remainder was a little way up and never down.

That is why she no longer moves via animations at all, but the way Blizzard does it itself when the real position has to be right: her position is re-set six times a second, never carried forward. A value that is recalculated fresh every time cannot build up — and image and mouse area can no longer drift apart.

• Her face is back in the portrait. The round crop is now produced via geometry instead of via a sub-section of the texture — the same construction Blizzard uses for its own round portraits.
• The bobbing while speaking is calmer. In the whole figure she nods 1 px in 1.2 seconds (previously 2 px in 0.35 seconds). In the portrait the image no longer moves at all — a thumb-sized head that bobs looks like trembling. Instead her ring slowly brightens and darkens while she speaks.
• Warnings in the portrait: a short flash of the ring and a small 2 px jolt, instead of the big jolt from the figure view.
• New: /lyra maske aus — if no face should appear in the portrait after all, this shows her square inside the ring right away. At startup she also checks for herself whether face and mask loaded, and says so instead of silently showing an empty ring.
• New: /lyra drift reset sets her motion layer hard to zero; /lyra drift now also shows motion state and self-test.
• The drift watch measures always again (up to 0.5.1 it waited for no animation to be running — but breathing ran constantly, so it never kicked in).

Checked with 31 new checks under four different assumptions about how the client handles aborted animations — under every single one she is back exactly in her place after 300 speech bubbles, 50 jolts, 20 view changes and 10 layouts. Details and evidence: docs/fix4-2026-09-17.md.

• Emergency buttons: at HP35/HP20 Lyra says which rescue spell is ready (per class), or how long it is still asleep; she learns which buttons are never used (/lyra cooldowns, the question "what is ready").
• Class advice as a data table (mage from klassenrat/magier.md, general HC advice), /lyra rat.
• Quest progress natively: objective done, almost finished, quest complete, hand-in nearby (with Questie data), /lyra quests.
• Play-style profile: fights, low points, false-alarm rate → style cautious/normal/daredevil as the wenn tag stil, /lyra profil, can be switched off.
• Map: your own close-call spots and notes as pins on the world map/minimap (HereBeDragons pins, if an addon provides them), /lyra karte; raid marks via /lyra mark [skull|kreuz|1-8] and "mark the target".
• Bridges 2: Lyra events as the WeakAuras custom event LYRA_GESTALT, Pawn upgrade hint on your own loot, Details damage record.

• The portrait was invisible (only the ring): our own PNG mask did not load → Blizzard's TempPortraitAlphaMask.
• Drift of the animation layers: a single anchor (CENTER) instead of SetAllPoints; the drift watch now measures always (breathing runs constantly) and resets hard.
• Speech bubble: Blizzard's bubble texture is dark → bright text, opaque dark purple background.
• Nodding while speaking is gentler (1 px, 1.2 s). New: /lyra animation aus|an, /lyra drift (diagnostics).

Lyra does not say more, she says more fitting things. Almost everything here changes the selection of existing lines, not the amount of talking.

• She has a mood — and it is always explainable. A close call, too many fights in a row, a memorial day: then she is worried, her face shows it, and she talks less. After a level-up or in the inn she is cheerful. Never rolled at random. /lyra stimmung writes the reason into chat.
• She knows you longer the longer you play. Four levels (0 / 10 / 50 / 100 hours, account-wide, AFK does not count). From level 1 she remembers earlier times ("last week in Westfall, when it got close"), from level 2 she gets personal. The counting is done by herself — never via RequestTimePlayed(), which would write into your chat.
• She knows what time it is. A different greeting in the morning, in the evening and at two o'clock at night.
• Small rituals: farewell on /camp, a line after ≥ 5 minutes AFK, the late hour, the anniversary of first sighting, the memorial day of a fallen predecessor, in-game holidays (Winter Veil, Hallow's End, Love is in the Air, Midsummer), a reply to your own emote (only without a target, at most three times per session) and the campfire.
• New questions in conversation: "what time is it", "how long have we known each other", "do you remember", "how is your mood".
• New commands: /lyra stimmung, /lyra ssf (solo self-found — then she stops mentioning trade, auction house and mail). The switch is also in the settings panel.
• The limits stay: no chat, no automation, no data from other players. Foreign emotes fail the GUID check, a player name is never stored.

Warnings remain untouchable. The new talkativeness rules only affect chatter. A worried Lyra does not swallow an HP20 warning — not even during the five minutes of silence after a memorial line (review 5).

• State model (mood, familiarity 0/10/50/100 h, time of day, session, stress): the same events sound different depending on the state (wenn tags on lines, 25 state lines).
• Rituals: farewell on /camp, return after AFK, late at night, anniversary, remembrance of fallen predecessors, holidays, reaction to your own emotes (/hug, /wink …), campfire.
• Base mood extended by AFK/taxi/death/worried/cheerful/night; micro-stirrings according to familiarity.
• /lyra stimmung, /lyra ssf (solo self-found: no trade hints), intents time/how long/do you remember/mood.
• Group events (boss kill/wipe/pull/enrage, aggro, instance, travel check) carry gruppeOk and appear despite "stay silent in a group"; boss kill/wipe are chatter with a throttle again.

New: Lyra works together with your other addons. None of them is a requirement — if one is missing, she simply stays quiet at that point, and /lyra status says honestly "missing".

• TomTom: /lyra punkt [title] remembers the spot you are standing on — as a waypoint and as a note in the chronicle. /lyra punkte lists them, /lyra punkte <n> points the arrow at number n. Works in free text too: "merk dir die Stelle Erzader", "mark this spot".
• Questie: /lyra such <name> finds a mob and points the arrow at the nearest spawn — your current zone always wins. /lyra quest <title> finds the quest giver. If the one you are looking for has caught you before, she mentions it (MOB_RIVALE_WARNUNG). Free text: "wo ist Hogger", "wo bekomme ich …", "where is …".
• !BugGrabber / BugSack: Lua errors are "runes running wild" to Lyra. The first one comes immediately, after that at most every 10 minutes with a count; /lyra runen shows the last three.
• DBM: boss pull, kill, wipe and an enrage pre-warning 20 s ahead.
• Threat (native API, no Omen needed): whoever pulls aggro in the group hears about it — exactly once per fight. Never solo.
• New commands: /lyra punkt, /lyra punkte, /lyra such, /lyra quest, /lyra runen, /lyra status shows the partner addons that were detected.
• The limits stay: Lyra shows and speaks. She sets a waypoint because you asked — she moves nothing, presses no key and never writes into chat.

The "direct" rule. Everything that is an answer to your question comes immediately: no chatter spacing, no hourly budget, no silent mode, and not even the 5-second lock after a loading screen holds her back. One exception, deliberately: after your death Lyra is silent for 60 seconds — no matter who asks. Only the question about your last words and her confirmation still come through there, and those bypass the director (Regie).

Fixes

• The name search no longer stutters. The Questie name index (around 10 000 entries) used to be built in one go at the first /lyra such — exactly at the moment you asked. Now it runs in chunks of 500 entries across several frames.
• Login schedule spread out. After logging in, up to five lines want out (greeting, first login of the day, fallen predecessor, their last words, recap of the last session). The fixed timings did not fit the talking spacing: "first login today" lay 4 seconds next to the last words, was swallowed and was the only one without a second attempt — that line dropped out silently. Now the director (Regie) hands out slots, and every line gets its own place (6 s / 40 s / 74 s / 108 s / 142 s at "normal"). The same when entering an instance: the travel check now reliably comes after the instance line.
• A waypoint from the conversation window sometimes carried the name from the question you last typed ("/lyra wo ist Hogger" … later a click on "set point" → waypoint "Hogger"). The redirect that caused this has been dropped without replacement.
• Lyra no longer pulls faces while hovering when she is speaking. The small stirrings (idle, mouse over) now dodge everything in one single place: a held expression, a standing speech bubble, an open conversation window and an open menu. Only dragging still startles her — but you did that yourself.
• The DBM enrage timer is registered under both callback names (DBM_TimerStart and DBM_TimerBegin), depending on the DBM version. The pre-warning still comes only once.
• The callback for the error messages can no longer disappear silently (the owner table stays on the module).
• Note coordinates are rounded to three decimal places — equally precise, noticeably smaller stored data.
• docs/design-v2.md 5.3 aligned with the data: 10 / 10 / 3 warning levels instead of 7 / 8 / 3. HP50 explicitly stays "expression only": no text, no sound, no pulse.
• WoW: Forever (interface 16xxx) is detected as a Retail code base; the combat log stays unused there as it does on Retail 12.

All findings: docs/review4-2026-09-17.md.

• Lyra no longer floats upwards. Nodding and the warning jolt were on the same frame, and the emergency stop only reset the size, never the position: if a translation animation was aborted in the middle of the loop — and that happens at the end of every speech bubble — the offset reached stayed behind. Since both loops go upwards first, the remainder was always directed upwards and added up. Now the jolt has its own layer, the emergency stop re-anchors all layers, and before every start everything is stopped and cleaned up first.
• Drift watch: checks every 5 seconds whether one of Lyra's animation layers has wandered off (> 6 px when nothing is running) and resets it if necessary — with a message in debug mode.
• The conversation window is dark now like the right-click menu: Lyra's text bright, one size larger and without the heavy outline that made the letters run together. Answers sit on their own, fully opaque tiles with a golden number; under the mouse the tile brightens and the text turns white. High contrast: pure black/white, inverted under the mouse.
• Speech bubble stays light, but with darker text (#1A0F2E) and 96 % instead of 92 % opacity — the game image no longer shines through the type.
• Subtitle bar (streamer) from 60 % to 85 % opacity: on snow and in front of fire the bar had become so bright that white text on it fell below the target contrast.
• Tooltip on Lyra: title and hint line noticeably brighter.
• All text/background combinations have been recalculated with the WCAG formula and are above 7:1 — even over a bright game image. Table in docs/fix3-2026-09-17.md.

• Portrait mode (the new default): Lyra shows only head and shoulders in a round frame (96 px at "medium"), ring in Lyra's purple. The whole figure is still reachable via the settings, the right-click menu or /lyra figur.
• Size presets small/medium/large instead of a 27-step slider; free values still via /lyra groesse <number>.
• Warning hierarchy in three levels: 1 hint (bubble only), 2 warning (red edge, voice, short jolt), 3 alarm (plus screen-edge pulse). All 18 warning events assigned; an empty-potion notice no longer jolts like 12 % health.
• The screen-edge pulse is violet now and drawn by us — previously it lay pixel-identical on Blizzard's own low-health vignette. The breath alarm stays blue. Peak 0.45 instead of 0.6, duration 0.9 s instead of 1.2 s, a 4-second lock between two pulses (light sensitivity).
• Ground shadow under her feet (only in the whole figure) — she no longer floats.
• Idle micro-changes: every 45–90 s a different expression for 2.5 s; mouse over → interested; moving her → startled. Never during an event, never in combat.
• First-run assistant: at the very first login Lyra asks four questions (language, form of address, talkativeness, view) in the familiar conversation window instead of a popup; afterwards the minimap button pulses three times. Repeatable with /lyra einrichten.
• Readability of the speech bubble: no more black outline on a light background (only in contrast mode), line spacing, width scales with the font size, display time depends on the length of the text (short lines stand in the way for a shorter time, long ones long enough).
• Settings presets quiet/normal/lively/streamer right at the top of the panel. The individual switches stay below; anyone who changes one sees "custom setting" — nothing is reset.
• New slash commands: /lyra portrait|figur, /lyra klein|mittel|gross, /lyra preset leise|normal|lebendig|streamer, /lyra einrichten.
• The warning jolt is no longer a scale animation but a translation (house rule since 0.2.1: no scale animations).

• Fix: the figure grew while the breathing animation was running until she disappeared (scale loop) — breathing is now translation, emergency stop at scale 1.
• Fix: the dialogue "More…" showed the same answers; lore reduced to 6 lines, rotation persistent, ends after 3 lines.
• Sprites repacked: 512×512, one frame per sheet, figure centred and feet aligned (no sliding on expression changes), 75 % less VRAM.

• Chronicle: zone memory, close calls, bestiary, rituals (return, milestones, playtime).
• Danger map: your own close-call spots + optional data addon from the Deathlog database.
• Interaction: right-click menu, conversation tree, /lyra <text> with local understanding, silent mode.
• Design: breathing/nodding/crossfade, speech bubble with tail and fade, screen-edge glow, minimap button, combat transparency.
• 46 events, 76+ spoken lines de/en with variants for forms of address.

• First scaffolding: director (Regie), figure, speech bubble, voice (LoD packages de/en), 29 senses, settings, slash.