Characters get their own page

The homepage hero used to double as an account widget — a sign-in form, a character picker, and the creator all crammed into one column depending on who was looking at it. That's gone now: sign-in lives on its own page, and character creation and management moved to /characters, reachable from a real account menu in the header.

That header menu also fixed a real bug along the way: signing in wasn't updating the nav until a full page reload. Our custom sign-in call was skipping the session refresh our auth library normally fires automatically for its own built-in flows, so now it fires that refresh manually — the header updates the moment you're actually signed in.

The homepage hero, in turn, gets to just be the hero again.