Oak

Oak is a secondary character whose name appears in several chapters of the work. Detailed information about his appearance, personality, and role in the plot is not revealed in the available fragments of the text: the mentions are episodic in nature and are concentrated mainly in two stretches of the narrative - around chapter 333 and, later, in a denser cluster of chapters from 459 to 487. This distribution of the mentions indicates that the character appears in specific storylines tied to particular events and settings, and does not accompany the protagonists throughout the entire story. Without additional context about Oak's affiliation with any organization, faction, or group of characters, it is difficult to judge his significance; nevertheless, the fact that he is mentioned repeatedly across nearly one hundred and fifty chapters attests that he is not an anonymous, incidental participant in a single scene, but rather fulfills a definite, if secondary, function in the plot.