Following connections

The Companion has its own idea of what it’s looking at, separate from the page you’re on. That’s what lets you explore without losing your place.

Re-focusing

Click a connection row. The Companion switches to that thing and shows its connections. The page behind it doesn’t move.
Keep going. Each step adds a crumb to the trail along the top, labelled with the relationship that got you there.
Come back. Click a crumb to jump back to it, the ‹ to step back one, or the home icon to return to the page you’re actually on.

If you walk in a circle — back to something already in the trail — the trail collapses to that point rather than growing forever.

The neighbourhood

Under the groups there’s a small graph labelled Nearby. It shows the thing in focus and what’s immediately around it — not your whole world, which at that size would be an unreadable knot.

Clicking a node re-focuses the Companion, exactly like clicking a row. To study the whole world graph instead, use the expand icon beside the heading, which opens the full Links view in the world hub.

The graph is collapsed by default on a phone, and only appears for things that are actually in the link graph — pages, entities and actors.

How are these two connected?

From the ⋯ menu on any entity, page or actor, choose How is this connected to… and pick a second thing. The Companion works out the shortest chain between them and shows it as a sequence you can read:

Marra Vane → sworn to → House Ferrow → rivals → The Drowned King

Recorded relationships are shown plainly. Steps that rest only on a passing mention are shown dimmed and in italics, because “this page happens to mention that one” is weaker evidence than a relationship you actually wrote down.

If there’s genuinely nothing joining them — not even a mention — it says so.