The warp veil painted over a wizard standing before the mouth — the overlay passes ran after the sprites with no knowledge of their depth. Each column now remembers its nearest sprite, and every overlay family (veils, ghost walls, doorway lintels, rising conjurations) skips the columns where a body stands closer, while still washing translucently over anything beyond. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>