character-power-status-analyst

List formal rules like titles and succession, then informal power like secrets, scarce skills, and gatekeeping positions. For each character, answer who they can reward, punish, block, or silence, and record each power's source, scope, cost, and failure conditions.

Distinguish power, status, authority, and legitimacy since they can conflict rather than align. Design public rituals like seating and forms of address separately from backstage deals, and ensure at least one weak character holds resistance, exit, alliance, or information advantages.

Formal rank is the official title, while actual influence is who can change others' choices through resources, information, or agenda control. This Skill requires at least one case where formal position and real influence diverge, since title alone never proves power.

Use group organization modeling when the core problem is factions, collective processes, and organizational workflows rather than individual leverage. This Skill hands off to character-group-organization-modeler for faction-centric design and to scene or chapter writers for dramatization.

It does not provide operational guidance for real-world political manipulation, coercion, or illegal activity, and it avoids equating power differences with simple moral judgments. It also refuses to map real-world group stereotypes directly onto fictional individuals.