diff --git a/docs/ISSUES.md b/docs/ISSUES.md
index 307ebde0..c405ab0e 100644
--- a/docs/ISSUES.md
+++ b/docs/ISSUES.md
@@ -1791,29 +1791,25 @@ controllers read instead of the main window's private field.
 
 ## #366 — Chat window's new-unseen-text indicator (0x1000048C) imports but is never independently wired
 
-**Status:** OPEN — filed 2026-08-10, Campaign CH slice CH6a. The retail main
-chat window authors a 16×16 "new unseen text" indicator button
-(`0x1000048C`, base `0x10000527`/`0x21000040`) as a CHILD of the transcript
-text element `0x10000011` (position `(0,57)` relative to the transcript,
-i.e. bottom-left of the transcript pane), confirmed in the `0x2100006F`
-LayoutDesc dump. `UiText.ConsumesDatChildren` is `true` (Type-12 behavioral
-widgets reproduce their dat sub-elements procedurally per
-`DatWidgetFactory`'s own doc comment), so `LayoutImporter.BuildWidget`
-never builds `0x1000048C` as a separate widget — it is silently swallowed,
-same as under the wrong `0x21000006` layout before it (not a CH6a
-regression). No controller anywhere binds or drives its visible state.
-**Not in CH6a's scope** (transcript/input/scrollbar/1-4-buttons only) and
-not obviously CH6b/CH6c's either — files here as a standalone gap. Fix
-shape: either give `UiText` an opt-in mechanism to keep specific named
-non-Type-3 children (mirroring `UiMeter`'s existing text-overlay carve-out
-in `DatWidgetFactory.BuildWidget`), or handle `0x1000048C` as a special
-case the same way. Needs research first: what triggers retail's "new text"
-indicator (unread-since-scroll-position?) and what it visually does on
-click — not decoded by CH6a.
+**Status:** OPEN, NARROWED 2026-08-16 at Campaign CC gate round 1 Batch C
+Commit 2 — the BUILD half of this issue's own "fix shape" recommendation is
+now DONE. `LayoutImporter.BuildWidget` gained a `UiText`/`UiField`
+media-bearing-child carve-out (mirroring `UiMeter`'s own text-overlay
+carve-out, EXACTLY the shape this issue proposed) as part of a chargen
+description-box fix; the client-wide blast-radius sweep that fix's own
+tests run
+(`LayoutImporterMediaBearingChildSweepTests.MediaBearingChildSweep_EnumeratesEveryAffectedType12Element`)
+independently re-confirmed `0x1000048C` under `0x10000011` in layout
+`0x2100006F` as one of the affected elements — it now builds as a real
+widget instead of being silently swallowed. **Still open:** no controller
+binds or drives its visible state (STILL the original ask — what triggers
+retail's "new text" indicator, and what it does on click, remains
+un-researched); this issue stays open for that behavioral half.
 
-**Where:** `src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/ChatWindowController.cs`;
-`src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/LayoutImporter.cs`
-(`BuildWidget`/`ConsumesDatChildren` handling); `src/AcDream.App/UI/UiText.cs`.
+**Where:** `src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/ChatWindowController.cs` (behavior,
+still missing); `src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/LayoutImporter.cs`
+(`BuildWidget`'s new `UiText or UiField` carve-out — CLOSED the build half);
+`src/AcDream.App/UI/UiText.cs`.
 
 ## #367 — ChatCommandRouter's local-presentation fallbacks type-0x1A text still lands in the chat scroll, never the SpewBox
 
diff --git a/docs/research/2026-08-16-campaign-cc-gate-round1-findings.md b/docs/research/2026-08-16-campaign-cc-gate-round1-findings.md
index 73f0bd66..ddd591b8 100644
--- a/docs/research/2026-08-16-campaign-cc-gate-round1-findings.md
+++ b/docs/research/2026-08-16-campaign-cc-gate-round1-findings.md
@@ -15,6 +15,32 @@ Fixture + live-DAT tests only this round (no graphical client launch);
 App suite 5282/3 (was 5266/3), Runtime 1735/0 unchanged. Register:
 AP-222 RETIRED, AP-215 NARROWED (item 1 retired, item 2 stays open).
 
+**Batch C (text/frame/label fidelity, the largest visual batch) is
+CODE-COMPLETE 2026-08-16, pending the user's visual gate.** GF-2, GF-3,
+GF-4, GF-6, GF-11a, GF-12, and GF-14's text half are fixed — see each
+entry's own FIXED note below. Three commits: (1) chargen-scoped rich
+text + labels + backdrops (new shared `DatRichText` composer; `UiButton`
+gains a coexisting `ValueLabel` slot; Heritage/Profession backdrop
+`SetState` cascades; AP-216/AP-217 partially closed — the "beyond count"/
+"Eyes-blank" halves ship, the palette-to-RGB "actual color"/"gradient
+tint" halves stay open, judged disproportionate to add alongside this
+batch's ~10 other fixes), (2) a CLIENT-WIDE `LayoutImporter` fix
+un-consuming media-bearing dat children on `UiText`/`UiField` (37 distinct
+(layout, element) pairs across 15 layouts, independently re-derived —
+includes MAIN GAME UI and CHAT INPUT, closing the build half of pre-filed
+issue #366), (3) the Summary how-to text
+(`gmCGSummaryPage::SetHowToText`) plus the scrollbar-to-text-scroll
+linkage Commit 2 left unbound. Fixture + live-DAT tests only (no
+graphical client launch); App suite 5307/3 (was 5282/3, +25 tests, one
+pre-existing full-suite-only allocation flake unrelated to this batch —
+passes in isolation and in the full Release run), Runtime 1735/0
+unchanged. Register: AP-215/AP-216/AP-217 rewritten, AP-218 retired,
+AD-103 retired. **FLAG FOR THE LEAD: chat and the main game UI both
+render new dat children (gold frames, an unseen-text indicator) for the
+first time this batch — the user's own visual check of both is owed
+before considering Commit 2 closed; automated coverage cannot catch a
+purely visual placement regression.**
+
 User ran the six-page chargen flow live (build `1.0.2-cc.e`, RDP session,
 windowed). Screenshots: retail Heritage, acdream Heritage, retail
 Profession. The user's side-by-side retail reports are AXIOMS
@@ -86,7 +112,17 @@ ISSUES.md; this doc is the six-page batch.
   exactly one overlay visible per part, tracking the current part's
   selected color index; retires AP-215's swatch-selection substitution
   (item 1 — the icon-vs-ordinal item 2 stays open).
-- **GF-11a Town description text does not change** when switching towns.
+- **GF-11a Town description text does not change when switching towns —
+  FIXED (Batch C, Commit 1).** The composed string
+  (`gmCGTownPage::SetTownString @0x0047c1f0`'s `howTo + "\n\n" + townText +
+  "\n"` — this ONE composition site is where retail's OWN code, not the
+  authored DAT string content, inserts the separator, confirmed via the
+  compiled format literal's raw bytes `u"\n\n%s\n"`) was already
+  byte-correct; the real gap was rendering it as a single un-wrapped line,
+  so the town-specific SUFFIX rendered past the clipped viewport —
+  switching towns changed the underlying string but not what was visibly
+  on screen. Fixed by routing through `DatRichText.Compose` (same fix
+  family as GF-2).
 - **GF-13 Summary shows "-Non-admin or Non-envoy" below the name — FIXED
   (Campaign CC gate round 1, Batch A) — this commit.** Root cause: dat
   property `0x3B` (Invisible — `UIElement::OnSetAttribute @0x00462d80`
@@ -151,20 +187,55 @@ ISSUES.md; this doc is the six-page batch.
 
 ## Presentation families (retail parity)
 
-- **GF-2 Description textboxes broken everywhere.** acdream renders the
-  raw string with LITERAL `\n` escapes, one truncated line, no wrap, no
-  scroll, no frame. Retail: framed scrollable textbox, multi-paragraph,
-  colored section headers (green "Trained Starting Skills:" etc.),
-  scrollbar + arrows (screenshot 1 right panel).
-- **GF-3 Profession template description textbox missing** (retail bottom-
-  left panel, "LIFE CASTERS are experts…" — screenshot 3).
-- **GF-4 Profession labels missing:** "Attribute Credits" caption + value,
-  per-attribute name labels (Strength…Self), Health/Stamina/Mana labels +
-  values. Sliders and template selection themselves WORK.
-- **GF-6 Appearance spin captions are numbers,** not part names
-  ("Hair Style", "Eyes", …). Known rows AP-215 (item 2 — item 1, the
-  swatch-selection substitution, RETIRED at Batch B/GF-9)/AP-218 — the
-  gate promotes them to must-port.
+- **GF-2 Description textboxes broken everywhere — FIXED (Campaign CC gate
+  round 1, Batch C, Commit 1 + Commit 2).** Root cause was TWO stacked
+  gaps, both closed: (1) the Heritage/Town/Profession description pages
+  bypassed escape-normalize + word-wrap entirely, assigning a raw
+  unwrapped single-`Line` `LinesProvider` — fixed by routing every
+  description box through the new shared `DatRichText.Compose` helper
+  (ports `UIElement_Text::SetStringInfoWithFont`/`AppendStringInfoWithFont`'s
+  composition model: escape-normalize, per-segment word-wrap, per-segment
+  palette color — Heritage's own header/body segments now render in
+  retail's own green/white, matching `AppendStringInfoWithFont`'s font-index
+  argument). (2) The authored gold frame (8 pieces) and linked scrollbar
+  were silently dropped by `UiText.ConsumesDatChildren` — fixed by
+  Commit 2's client-wide `LayoutImporter` carve-out (see GF-12). Both
+  halves are pinned by live-DAT tests (`CharacterCreationLiveDatTests`,
+  `LayoutImporterMediaBearingChildSweepTests`) and unit tests
+  (`DatRichTextTests`).
+- **GF-3 Profession template description textbox missing — FIXED (Batch C,
+  Commit 1).** `gmCGProfessionPage::InitializePage @0x00483068`'s
+  `m_pTextBox` (`0x100003e0`) was never bound. Fixed:
+  `CharacterCreationProfessionPage` now binds it and composes the
+  per-template string (`ID_CharGen_CustomText`/`BowText`/`SwashText`/
+  `LifeText`/`WarText`/`WayText`/`SoldierText`, `UpdateProfession
+  @0x004821b0`'s per-case literal, plain `SetStringInfo` — one color, no
+  palette) through the same `DatRichText` helper.
+- **GF-4 Profession labels missing — FIXED (Batch C, Commit 1).** Two
+  distinct mechanisms, both closed: (a) the four display buttons
+  (avail/health/stamina/mana credits) author their caption directly as
+  their own P0x17 AND carry a separate media-less Type-12 value child that
+  `UiButton.ConsumesDatChildren` used to drop entirely — pages substituted
+  the button's own `.Label`, destroying the caption. Fixed by giving
+  `UiButton` a coexisting `ValueLabel`/`ValueBox`/`ValueFont`/`ValueColor`
+  slot (`DatWidgetFactory.BuildButton`, gated on the button's own P0x17
+  caption existing), so the caption and the live value now render
+  independently — the same fix also closes the Skills page's credits
+  badge. (b) The six slider name labels (`0x100002ed`, live-DAT-measured
+  as `UIElement_Button` — retail's `UIElement_Button` is DynamicCast(0xc)-
+  compatible with `UIElement_Text`) are now written once at construction
+  with `CharGenState::GetAttributeName @0x005C3A20`'s six hardcoded
+  literals, matching retail's own single `InitializePage`-time write
+  (never re-written on refresh, same as retail).
+- **GF-6 Appearance spin captions are numbers — FIXED (Batch C, Commit 1),
+  retiring AP-218.** `gmCGAppearancePage::Update @0x0047e8f0` writes a
+  heritage-flavored STATIC caption to the Hair/Eyes/Skin spins only
+  (normal / `GearText_*` / `OlthoiText_*` variants) — never an index, and
+  never touches the other six spins' own DAT-authored caption at all.
+  Removed the prior 1-based-ordinal/gear-name substitution outright.
+  AP-215's own icon-thumbnail item (the four icon-only spins still show no
+  per-choice icon art — a DIFFERENT, still-open gap) is rewritten, not
+  retired — see that row.
 - **GF-7 Preview backdrop black** on Appearance (and Summary, GF-14);
   retail's chargen 3D view shows a scenic backdrop. (The Heritage-page
   preview area shows terrain in BOTH clients — establish from the decomp
@@ -218,19 +289,53 @@ ISSUES.md; this doc is the six-page batch.
   caption carries its own rect, the label draws within THAT box using
   its own authored justify instead of the face-relative offset; every
   other button (`LabelBox` null) keeps the EXACT prior draw math.
-- **GF-12 Missing authored gold frames** around boxes on every page
-  (Skills/Appearance/Town/Summary called out explicitly).
-- **GF-14 Summary paperdoll backdrop black** (same family as GF-7);
-  Summary textbox wrapper + scrollbar missing (GF-2 family).
+- **GF-12 Missing authored gold frames around boxes — FIXED (Batch C,
+  Commit 2).** Root cause: `UiText.ConsumesDatChildren` (true unless a
+  state authors PassToChildren) and `UiField.ConsumesDatChildren`
+  (unconditionally true) dropped EVERY dat child at import time,
+  including the eight gold-frame pieces (`0x100002DE..E3`,
+  `0x100000E8/EA`) every description/report box authors. Fixed by a new
+  `LayoutImporter.BuildWidget` carve-out (mirroring the existing `UiMeter`
+  text-overlay carve-out): build any child with its OWN non-empty
+  `StateMedia`, leaving purely structural/property-only children dropped
+  as before. Independently re-derived blast radius: **37 distinct
+  (layout, element) pairs across 15 layouts** (see the commit message for
+  the full enumeration), including MAIN GAME UI (`0x21000005/0x1000059A`)
+  and CHAT INPUT (`0x2100006F/0x10000011` — closing the BUILD half of
+  pre-filed issue #366's own "fix shape" recommendation, which proposed
+  this EXACT carve-out). Full App suite (5304 tests): zero regressions.
+  **The user's own visual check of chat + the main game UI is still owed**
+  — automated coverage cannot catch a purely visual placement regression.
+- **GF-14 Summary paperdoll backdrop black** (same family as GF-7,
+  UNCHANGED, out of this batch's scope — the 3-D preview backdrop, not a
+  text-widget gap). **Summary textbox wrapper + scrollbar — FIXED (Batch
+  C, Commit 2 for the frame/build half, Commit 3 for the scrollbar LINK
+  and the how-to text's own content — see the Suspected-shared-roots
+  entry and Commit 3's own composition of `gmCGSummaryPage::SetHowToText`
+  into `0x10000404`).**
 - **GF-16 Hover tooltips missing on all pages** (retail pops tooltips).
 
 ## Suspected shared roots (to be CONFIRMED by the investigation, not assumed)
 
-1. Missing frames/labels/statics across every page (GF-3, GF-4 labels,
+1. ~~Missing frames/labels/statics across every page (GF-3, GF-4 labels,
    GF-12) — one importer/mount-level gap OR retail writes them at runtime;
-   decide per element from the authored DAT + decomp.
-2. Rich text (escape decoding, wrap, scroll, frame) — one text-widget gap
-   feeding GF-2/GF-3/GF-11a/GF-14.
+   decide per element from the authored DAT + decomp.~~ CONFIRMED, CLOSED
+   at Batch C: TWO distinct mechanisms, both a single shared fix each. (a)
+   GF-3/GF-4's labels were runtime-composition gaps (unbound description
+   textbox; a value-write clobbering a caption) — fixed per-page, Commit 1.
+   (b) GF-12's frames were the importer-level gap the investigation
+   suspected: `LayoutImporter.BuildWidget`'s `ConsumesDatChildren` handling
+   dropped every dat child of a `UiText`/`UiField`, client-wide — fixed by
+   the new media-bearing-child carve-out, Commit 2.
+2. ~~Rich text (escape decoding, wrap, scroll, frame) — one text-widget gap
+   feeding GF-2/GF-3/GF-11a/GF-14.~~ CONFIRMED, CLOSED at Batch C: the new
+   shared `DatRichText.Compose` helper (escape-normalize + per-segment
+   word-wrap + per-segment palette color, Commit 1) plus the Commit-2 frame/
+   scrollbar un-consume plus Commit-3's scrollbar-to-text-scroll linkage
+   (`UiScrollbar.Model = text.Scroll`, the same pattern
+   `ChatWindowController` already used) together close the WHOLE family —
+   GF-2/GF-3/GF-11a/GF-14's text half are all FIXED; GF-14's backdrop half
+   (GF-7 family) is unrelated and stays open.
 3. ~~Selection state media (GF-1 dot, GF-8 sub-tabs, GF-11b white marker,
    GF-10 zoom art) — the AP-222 measured mechanism (state media authored
    vs applied) across widget kinds.~~ CLOSED, split into TWO distinct
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationHeritagePage.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationHeritagePage.cs
index 7a79b465..0a2a03cb 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationHeritagePage.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationHeritagePage.cs
@@ -135,6 +135,19 @@ internal sealed class CharacterCreationHeritagePage : IDisposable
 
         _description = UiElement.FindDescendant(pageRoot, 0x100003C4u) as UiText;
         _backdrop = UiElement.FindDescendant(pageRoot, 0x100003BEu);
+
+        // Commit 2/3 follow-up (Campaign CC gate round 1 Batch C): the
+        // description box's own linked scrollbar — live-DAT-measured
+        // present here (unlike Profession/Town's shorter description
+        // boxes, which author no scrollbar child at all) at the SAME
+        // relative id CharacterCreationSummaryPage's how-to box carries.
+        // ChatWindowController's own scrollbar.Model = transcript.Scroll
+        // pattern, scoped to this box's own descendant.
+        if (_description is not null
+            && UiElement.FindDescendant(_description, 0x100002E7u) is UiScrollbar descriptionScroll)
+        {
+            descriptionScroll.Model = _description.Scroll;
+        }
     }
 
     internal void Refresh(
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationSummaryPage.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationSummaryPage.cs
index 94545683..c90a3943 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationSummaryPage.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationSummaryPage.cs
@@ -76,11 +76,48 @@ internal sealed class CharacterCreationSummaryPage : IDisposable
     /// </summary>
     private const int MaxNameLength = 32;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Commit 3 (Campaign CC gate round 1 Batch C): the how-to box's own
+    /// linked scrollbar, relative id — live-DAT-measured as the SAME
+    /// template child id the Heritage description box also carries
+    /// (<c>0x100002e7</c>), distinct from <see cref="ScrollId"/> (the
+    /// listbox's own scrollbar). Profession/Town's description boxes do
+    /// NOT author this child at all (shorter authored text, live-DAT-
+    /// confirmed) — only Heritage and Summary's how-to box do.
+    /// </summary>
+    private const uint HowToScrollRelativeId = 0x100002E7u;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Heritage id -&gt; (male name-list key, female name-list key) per
+    /// <c>gmCGSummaryPage::SetHowToText @0x0047ae20</c>'s switch
+    /// (@0x0047aeb2-0x0047afda). ONLY heritages 1-4 (Aluvian/Gharundim/
+    /// Sho/Viamontian) resolve to real string literals
+    /// (<c>"ID_CharGen_&lt;Abbrev&gt;{Male,Female}Names"</c>, confirmed
+    /// present in the compiled string-constant table); every other
+    /// heritage's case in that same switch (5/0xa Shadowbound+Penumbraen
+    /// share one body, 6 Gearknight, 7 Tumerok, 8 Lugian, 9 Empyrean, 0xb
+    /// Undead, 0xc/0xd Olthoi/OlthoiAcid) decompiles to a vtable-slot
+    /// artifact instead of a string constant — the same decompiler-
+    /// mangled-symbol class the Heritage page's own
+    /// <c>BonusSkillsKeyByHeritage</c> table already documents — meaning
+    /// no real name-suggestion string exists for those heritages; this
+    /// port does not invent one.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static readonly IReadOnlyDictionary<uint, (string Male, string Female)> NameSuggestionKeysByHeritage =
+        new Dictionary<uint, (string, string)>
+        {
+            [(uint)ChargenHeritageGroup.Aluvian] = ("ID_CharGen_AluMaleNames", "ID_CharGen_AluFemaleNames"),
+            [(uint)ChargenHeritageGroup.Gharundim] = ("ID_CharGen_GharuMaleNames", "ID_CharGen_GharuFemaleNames"),
+            [(uint)ChargenHeritageGroup.Sho] = ("ID_CharGen_ShoMaleNames", "ID_CharGen_ShoFemaleNames"),
+            [(uint)ChargenHeritageGroup.Viamontian] = ("ID_CharGen_ViaMaleNames", "ID_CharGen_ViaFemaleNames"),
+        };
+
     private readonly CharacterCreationRuntimeBindings _bindings;
     private readonly RetailDialogFactory _dialogs;
     private readonly string _nameTooLongMessage;
     private readonly UiTemplateListBox? _list;
     private readonly UiField? _nameField;
+    private readonly UiText? _howToText;
     private string _lastCommittedName = string.Empty;
     private uint _nameTooLongDialogContext;
     private bool _disposed;
@@ -145,6 +182,19 @@ internal sealed class CharacterCreationSummaryPage : IDisposable
         }
 
         Viewport = UiElement.FindDescendant(pageRoot, ViewportId) as UiViewport;
+
+        // Commit 2/3 follow-up: the how-to box's linked scrollbar (Commit
+        // 2 made it BUILD as a real UiScrollbar; this wires it to actual
+        // scrolling) — ChatWindowController's own scrollbar.Model =
+        // transcript.Scroll pattern, scoped to THIS box's own descendant
+        // (the relative id recurs on Heritage's description box too, so a
+        // flat screen-wide lookup would be ambiguous).
+        _howToText = UiElement.FindDescendant(pageRoot, HowToTextId) as UiText;
+        if (_howToText is not null
+            && UiElement.FindDescendant(_howToText, HowToScrollRelativeId) is UiScrollbar howToScroll)
+        {
+            howToScroll.Model = _howToText.Scroll;
+        }
     }
 
     internal void Refresh(
@@ -176,6 +226,51 @@ internal sealed class CharacterCreationSummaryPage : IDisposable
 
         RebuildListbox(view, snapshot);
         RebuildPreview(view, snapshot);
+        RefreshHowToText(snapshot);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Commit 3 (Campaign CC gate round 1 Batch C): ports
+    /// <c>gmCGSummaryPage::SetHowToText @0x0047ae20</c>. Retail
+    /// concatenates <c>ID_CharGen_SummaryHowTo</c> +
+    /// (heritage/gender-specific name-suggestion list, heritages 1-4
+    /// only) + <c>ID_CharGen_SummaryHowToEnd</c> directly
+    /// (<c>append_n_chars</c>, no separator literal) into ONE plain
+    /// <c>UIElement_Text::SetText</c> — no per-run font/color argument,
+    /// unlike Heritage's <c>...WithFont</c> calls, so this is a single
+    /// <see cref="UiText.DefaultColor"/> segment.
+    /// </summary>
+    private void RefreshHowToText(RuntimeCharacterCreationSnapshot snapshot)
+    {
+        if (_howToText is null)
+            return;
+
+        Func<string, string?>? resolveText = _bindings.ResolveText;
+        if (resolveText is null)
+            return;
+
+        var builder = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
+        if (resolveText("ID_CharGen_SummaryHowTo") is { } howTo)
+            builder.Append(howTo);
+        if (NameSuggestionKeysByHeritage.TryGetValue(snapshot.HeritageId, out (string Male, string Female) keys))
+        {
+            // gmCGSummaryPage::SetHowToText @0x0047af3f et al.: the raw
+            // "!= 2" comparison, no gender-unset special case — an unset
+            // gender (0) takes the male-key branch, matching retail's own
+            // literal comparison.
+            string key = snapshot.GenderKey == 2u ? keys.Female : keys.Male;
+            if (resolveText(key) is { } nameTokens)
+                builder.Append(nameTokens);
+        }
+        if (resolveText("ID_CharGen_SummaryHowToEnd") is { } howToEnd)
+            builder.Append(howToEnd);
+
+        if (builder.Length == 0)
+            return;
+
+        string composed = builder.ToString();
+        var segments = new[] { new DatRichText.Segment(composed, _howToText.DefaultColor) };
+        _howToText.LinesProvider = () => DatRichText.Compose(_howToText, segments);
     }
 
     // ── Name field (ListenToElementMessage @ 0x0047bf40) ────────────────
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationLiveDatTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationLiveDatTests.cs
index e8fc405e..892439fe 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationLiveDatTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationLiveDatTests.cs
@@ -542,6 +542,35 @@ public sealed class CharacterCreationLiveDatTests
             "ID_CharGen_ShoushiText",
             "ID_CharGen_YaraqText",
             "ID_CharGen_SanamarText",
+            // GF-3: Profession template description keys.
+            "ID_CharGen_CustomText",
+            "ID_CharGen_BowText",
+            "ID_CharGen_SwashText",
+            "ID_CharGen_LifeText",
+            "ID_CharGen_WarText",
+            "ID_CharGen_WayText",
+            "ID_CharGen_SoldierText",
+            // GF-6/AP-218: Appearance spin caption keys.
+            "ID_CharGen_HairStyle",
+            "ID_CharGen_Eyes",
+            "ID_CharGen_Skin",
+            "ID_CharGen_GearText_HairButton",
+            "ID_CharGen_GearText_EyesButton",
+            "ID_CharGen_GearText_SkinButton",
+            "ID_CharGen_OlthoiText_HairButton",
+            "ID_CharGen_OlthoiText_EyesButton",
+            "ID_CharGen_OlthoiText_SkinButton",
+            // Commit 3: Summary how-to text keys.
+            "ID_CharGen_SummaryHowTo",
+            "ID_CharGen_SummaryHowToEnd",
+            "ID_CharGen_AluMaleNames",
+            "ID_CharGen_AluFemaleNames",
+            "ID_CharGen_GharuMaleNames",
+            "ID_CharGen_GharuFemaleNames",
+            "ID_CharGen_ShoMaleNames",
+            "ID_CharGen_ShoFemaleNames",
+            "ID_CharGen_ViaMaleNames",
+            "ID_CharGen_ViaFemaleNames",
         ];
         foreach (string key in keys)
         {
@@ -1239,6 +1268,53 @@ public sealed class CharacterCreationLiveDatTests
         Assert.IsType<UiScrollbar>(UiElement.FindDescendant(summaryHowTo, 0x100002E7u));
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Commit 3: the Heritage description box (which ALSO carries the
+    /// linked scrollbar — live-DAT-measured, unlike Profession/Town's
+    /// shorter description boxes) resolves it as a real widget too, and
+    /// the mount wires <see cref="UiScrollbar.Model"/> to the box's own
+    /// <see cref="UiText.Scroll"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    [InstalledDatFact]
+    public void HeritageDescription_ScrollbarBuildsAndLinksToTextScroll()
+    {
+        using var dats = new DatCollection(DatDirectory, DatAccessType.Read);
+        uint layoutId = RetailDataIdResolver.Resolve(
+            dats, CharacterCreationUiController.RootEnum, 5u);
+        ImportedLayout screen = BuildSelected(
+            dats, layoutId, CharacterCreationUiController.RootElementId);
+
+        UiElement heritageRoot = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<UiElement>(
+            screen.FindElement(CharacterCreationUiController.HeritagePageElementId));
+        UiText description = Assert.IsType<UiText>(
+            UiElement.FindDescendant(heritageRoot, 0x100003C4u));
+        UiScrollbar scroll = Assert.IsType<UiScrollbar>(
+            UiElement.FindDescendant(description, 0x100002E7u));
+
+        var host = new UiRoot();
+        var dialogs = MakeDialogFactory(dats, host);
+        var bindings = new CharacterCreationRuntimeBindings(
+            () => null,
+            _ => default, _ => default, _ => default, (_, _) => default, (_, _) => default,
+            _ => default, _ => default, _ => default, _ => default, _ => default, () => { });
+        UiElement? ResolveTemplate(uint templateLayoutId, uint templateElementId) =>
+            LayoutImporter.Import(
+                dats, templateLayoutId, templateElementId, _ => (0u, 0, 0), null)?.Root;
+
+        CharacterCreationUiController? controller =
+            CharacterCreationUiController.CreateDetached(
+                host, screen, ResolveTemplate, dialogs, bindings,
+                new CharacterCreationUiController.DialogStrings(
+                    "Are you sure?", "No name", "Unspent credits", "Randomize?", "Name too long"));
+        Assert.NotNull(controller);
+        controller!.AttachAndTick();
+
+        Assert.Same(description.Scroll, scroll.Model);
+
+        controller.Dispose();
+        dialogs.Dispose();
+    }
+
     private static void AssertButton(ImportedLayout layout, uint elementId) =>
         Assert.IsType<UiButton>(layout.FindElement(elementId));
 
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationUiControllerTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationUiControllerTests.cs
index 91b98caf..8790f9bb 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationUiControllerTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/CharacterCreationUiControllerTests.cs
@@ -1663,6 +1663,66 @@ public sealed class CharacterCreationUiControllerTests
         Assert.Equal(0x1000002Cu, professionBackdrop.ActiveRetailStateId);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>Commit 3: the Summary how-to text concatenates HowTo +
+    /// the heritage/gender name-suggestion list (heritages 1-4 only) +
+    /// HowToEnd, in that order, no separator inserted by code.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void SummaryHowToText_ComposesHowToPlusNameSuggestionsPlusHowToEnd_ForNamedHeritages()
+    {
+        using var environment = new EnvironmentHarness();
+        environment.Runtime.ResolvedStrings["ID_CharGen_SummaryHowTo"] = "HOWTO.";
+        environment.Runtime.ResolvedStrings["ID_CharGen_SummaryHowToEnd"] = "HOWTOEND.";
+        environment.Runtime.ResolvedStrings["ID_CharGen_AluMaleNames"] = "Alucard, Aldric";
+        environment.Runtime.ResolvedStrings["ID_CharGen_AluFemaleNames"] = "Alura, Aldyth";
+        environment.Controller.Open();
+
+        environment.Runtime.SelectHeritageDirect(AluvianId);
+        environment.Runtime.SelectGenderDirect(1u); // male
+        environment.TabButton(CharacterCreationUiController.SummaryTabElementId).OnClick!();
+        BumpRevisionAndTick(environment);
+
+        UiText howTo = Assert.IsType<UiText>(
+            environment.Screen.FindElement(CharacterCreationSummaryPage.HowToTextId));
+        string composed = JoinedText(howTo);
+        Assert.Contains("HOWTO.", composed);
+        Assert.Contains("Alucard, Aldric", composed);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("Alura, Aldyth", composed);
+        Assert.Contains("HOWTOEND.", composed);
+        // No code-inserted separator: HowTo's own tail must be immediately
+        // followed by the name-list segment's own head, character for
+        // character (only whichever whitespace the AUTHORED strings
+        // themselves carry — none, in this test's fixture strings).
+        Assert.Contains("HOWTO.Alucard, Aldric", composed.Replace("\n", string.Empty));
+
+        environment.Runtime.SelectGenderDirect(2u); // female
+        BumpRevisionAndTick(environment);
+        string femaleComposed = JoinedText(howTo);
+        Assert.Contains("Alura, Aldyth", femaleComposed);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("Alucard, Aldric", femaleComposed);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Heritages without a real retail name-suggestion string
+    /// (5-13, the decompiler-artifact cases) compose HowTo directly
+    /// against HowToEnd — no invented text, no crash.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void SummaryHowToText_SkipsNameSuggestions_ForHeritagesWithNoRealString()
+    {
+        using var environment = new EnvironmentHarness();
+        environment.Runtime.ResolvedStrings["ID_CharGen_SummaryHowTo"] = "HOWTO.";
+        environment.Runtime.ResolvedStrings["ID_CharGen_SummaryHowToEnd"] = "HOWTOEND.";
+        environment.Controller.Open();
+
+        environment.Runtime.SelectHeritageDirect((uint)ChargenHeritageGroup.Undead);
+        environment.TabButton(CharacterCreationUiController.SummaryTabElementId).OnClick!();
+        BumpRevisionAndTick(environment);
+
+        UiText howTo = Assert.IsType<UiText>(
+            environment.Screen.FindElement(CharacterCreationSummaryPage.HowToTextId));
+        string composed = JoinedText(howTo);
+        Assert.Contains("HOWTO.", composed);
+        Assert.Contains("HOWTOEND.", composed);
+    }
+
     private static void BumpRevisionAndTick(EnvironmentHarness environment)
     {
         RuntimeCharacterCreationSnapshot snapshot = environment.Runtime.View.Snapshot;
@@ -1897,6 +1957,7 @@ public sealed class CharacterCreationUiControllerTests
         public Dictionary<string, string> ResolvedStrings { get; } = [];
 
         public void SelectHeritageDirect(uint heritageId) => SelectHeritage(heritageId);
+        public void SelectGenderDirect(uint genderKey) => SelectGender(genderKey);
 
         public ChargenSkillAdvancementClass GetSkillLevel(uint skillId) =>
             View.GetSkillLevel(skillId);