Network evolution

Timeline

How the social network accumulates, fragments into communities, and concentrates violence as the saga unfolds.

Growth

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characters in network edges accumulated

Structure

Density (cumulative)

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density

Number of communities

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communities

Centrality shifts

Betweenness centrality of the six most central characters, tracked chapter by chapter.

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Conflict escalation

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killing events per window

Feud propagation

3 killings detected; 0 flagged as a retaliation against a killer or their kin/allies later in the text.

No retaliation chains were detected automatically for this saga under the current (conservative) rule — see Methods for why this undercounts real feud structure.