Every person who registers as an adventurer enters the Guardians' Registry at that moment. They do not leave it. The registry is a living document, updated as ranks change and guild affiliations shift, maintained by the administrative staff of all four Checkpoints and accessible across them.

For those who have not registered as adventurers, the Versa Identification Card serves the same civic function: a press-printed document stamped with a registration number and handwritten details, cross-referenced in the same civil registry. It carries no mana, no soul-link, and no self-updating properties. It is paper with an official mark on it, and it can in principle be forged, though the forgery only holds until someone contacts the Guardians to verify it.

That verification happens through a Communication Mana Stone, and any guild or institution with one can make the check. A person who walks into a guild hall claiming they are not yet a registered adventurer will be asked for their identification. If the guild has reason to doubt what they are holding, a brief message to the nearest Checkpoint confirms or denies it against the registry. The system is not instant and it is not foolproof, but it is thorough enough that institutions protect themselves against fraud.

What the Registry is not is a record of everyone in Versa. Entry to the city requires no documentation and no registration. A person can arrive, live, and work in Versa's informal economy for months without ever appearing in the Registry. The Guardians are aware of this and have made a deliberate institutional decision not to address it, on the grounds that the cost of tracking undocumented residents exceeds any practical benefit. The Tower economy depends on a constant supply of people willing to descend. Erecting barriers to that supply serves no one the Guild Union cares about serving.

The Registry records who has formally identified themselves. It makes no claims about who has not.