diff --git a/crates/weksa/src/lib.rs b/crates/weksa/src/lib.rs
index 0bfdb8c..8595226 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/src/lib.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pub use inventory::{
     Change, Family, InvId, Inventory, InventoryEntry, InventoryRevision, OptionLabel, OptionSet,
     Slot, ValueKind,
 };
-pub use lower::{LowerError, lower};
+pub use lower::{EntityForms, LowerError, TARGET_LANGUAGE, lower};
 pub use packet::{
     EncoderId, EntityId, Grade, NodeId, Packet, PacketId, PacketKind, SCHEMA_VERSION, Stance,
 };
diff --git a/crates/weksa/src/lower.rs b/crates/weksa/src/lower.rs
index d6fcdfb..93f0074 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/src/lower.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/src/lower.rs
@@ -8,16 +8,44 @@
 //! constraints steer delivery and are not rendered; the concept of a predication
 //! must resolve but the frame owns the verb.
 //!
+//! A referent that cites an entity renders as that entity's own form, read
+//! through the [`EntityForms`] port: the first (citation) form stored for
+//! [`TARGET_LANGUAGE`], verbatim. The choice is a table lookup on the language
+//! tag and the form's position, not a reading of the form. Forms after the
+//! first are inflected or particle-bound shapes; no English frame asks for one,
+//! so none is selected. An entity the port does not hold, or one with no form in
+//! the target language, is refused: the concept word would say a different
+//! thing than the name the packet cites.
+//!
 //! The table is a temporary owner. Each row speaks for an inventory entry and
 //! names the gloss it speaks for, so a row cannot outlive a change of what its id
 //! means. `language-ontology` moves the rows into ontology documents.
 
 use std::fmt;
 
+use crate::entity::Entity;
 use crate::inventory::{Family, InvId, Inventory};
-use crate::packet::{NodeId, Predication};
+use crate::packet::{EntityId, NodeId, Predication};
+use crate::store::EntityStore;
 use crate::validate::LoweringInput;
 
+/// The language tag this lowerer's entity forms are read under, spelled as an
+/// entity's `LanguageForms::language` and a corpus item's language are.
+pub const TARGET_LANGUAGE: &str = "en-US";
+
+/// The lowerer's whole view of the entity store: one entity by id. Narrow so a
+/// test or a loop can hand it a map and the lowerer cannot write, list or
+/// search.
+pub trait EntityForms {
+    fn entity(&self, id: &EntityId) -> anyhow::Result<Option<Entity>>;
+}
+
+impl EntityForms for EntityStore {
+    fn entity(&self, id: &EntityId) -> anyhow::Result<Option<Entity>> {
+        self.get(id)
+    }
+}
+
 /// `(inventory id, the gloss the row speaks for, surface)`.
 type Row = (&'static str, &'static str, &'static str);
 
@@ -36,11 +64,7 @@ const FRAMES: &[Row] = &[
         "hazard_warning",
         "{agent} may endanger {patient} by touching {instrument}",
     ),
-    (
-        "frame:2",
-        "intervention",
-        "{agent} will prevent {patient} to protect {beneficiary}",
-    ),
+    ("frame:2", "intervention", "{agent} will stop {patient}"),
 ];
 
 /// Speech acts: the opener of the first sentence.
@@ -62,6 +86,12 @@ pub enum LowerError {
     UnknownRole { frame: InvId, role: String },
     /// The predication fills no role its frame's template needs.
     MissingRole { predication: NodeId, role: String },
+    /// A referent cites an entity the entity port does not hold.
+    UnknownEntity { entity: EntityId },
+    /// The entity has no form in [`TARGET_LANGUAGE`].
+    NoForm { entity: EntityId },
+    /// The entity port failed to read.
+    EntityRead { entity: EntityId, why: String },
 }
 
 impl fmt::Display for LowerError {
@@ -88,7 +118,11 @@ fn row(
     }
 }
 
-pub fn lower(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory) -> Result<String, LowerError> {
+pub fn lower(
+    input: &LoweringInput,
+    inv: &Inventory,
+    entities: &dyn EntityForms,
+) -> Result<String, LowerError> {
     let rev = input.inventory_rev();
     let unrendered = |what| Err(LowerError::Unrendered { what });
     if input.predications().is_empty() {
@@ -112,7 +146,7 @@ pub fn lower(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory) -> Result<String, LowerErro
     };
     let mut sentences = Vec::new();
     for p in input.predications() {
-        sentences.push(clause(input, inv, p)?);
+        sentences.push(clause(input, inv, entities, p)?);
     }
     let mentioned = |r: &NodeId| {
         input
@@ -124,7 +158,7 @@ pub fn lower(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory) -> Result<String, LowerErro
         return unrendered("a referent no role mentions");
     }
     let mut out = String::new();
-    for (i, clause) in sentences.iter().enumerate() {
+    for (i, (clause, name_first)) in sentences.iter().enumerate() {
         if i > 0 {
             out.push(' ');
         }
@@ -133,7 +167,8 @@ pub fn lower(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory) -> Result<String, LowerErro
         }
         let mut chars = clause.chars();
         if let Some(first) = chars.next() {
-            if i == 0 && !opener.is_empty() {
+            // A name opens its clause as written; only template words are cased.
+            if (i == 0 && !opener.is_empty()) || *name_first {
                 out.push(first);
             } else {
                 out.extend(first.to_uppercase());
@@ -145,11 +180,17 @@ pub fn lower(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory) -> Result<String, LowerErro
     Ok(out)
 }
 
-fn clause(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory, p: &Predication) -> Result<String, LowerError> {
+fn clause(
+    input: &LoweringInput,
+    inv: &Inventory,
+    entities: &dyn EntityForms,
+    p: &Predication,
+) -> Result<(String, bool), LowerError> {
     let rev = input.inventory_rev();
     let template = row(FRAMES, p.frame, inv, rev)?;
     let mut said: Vec<&NodeId> = Vec::new();
     let mut out = String::new();
+    let mut name_first = false;
     let mut rest = template;
     while let Some(open) = rest.find('{') {
         out.push_str(&rest[..open]);
@@ -171,7 +212,9 @@ fn clause(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory, p: &Predication) -> Result<Str
                     predication: p.id.clone(),
                     role: name.to_string(),
                 })?;
-        out.push_str(&filler(input, inv, &fill.filler, &said)?);
+        let (phrase, is_name) = filler(input, inv, entities, &fill.filler, &said)?;
+        name_first |= is_name && out.is_empty();
+        out.push_str(&phrase);
         said.push(&fill.filler);
     }
     out.push_str(rest);
@@ -180,26 +223,47 @@ fn clause(input: &LoweringInput, inv: &Inventory, p: &Predication) -> Result<Str
             what: "a role the frame does not name",
         });
     }
-    Ok(out)
+    Ok((out, name_first))
 }
 
 /// A role filler as a phrase: the addressee is "you", a predication is "that",
-/// another referent is "the" and its concept word. The addressee said twice in
+/// another referent is its entity's citation form when it cites one, else "the"
+/// and its concept word. The addressee said twice in
 /// one predication is reflexive; no other referent is, because the packet has no
 /// animacy to choose "themself" or "itself" by.
 fn filler(
     input: &LoweringInput,
     inv: &Inventory,
+    entities: &dyn EntityForms,
     node: &NodeId,
     said: &[&NodeId],
-) -> Result<String, LowerError> {
+) -> Result<(String, bool), LowerError> {
     let again = said.contains(&node);
     if let Some(r) = input.referents().iter().find(|r| &r.id == node) {
         if input.discourse().addressee.as_ref() == Some(node) {
-            return Ok(if again { "yourself" } else { "you" }.to_string());
+            return Ok((if again { "yourself" } else { "you" }.to_string(), false));
+        }
+        if let Some(id) = &r.entity {
+            return Ok((name(entities, id)?, true));
         }
         let word = row(CONCEPTS, r.concept, inv, input.inventory_rev())?;
-        return Ok(format!("the {word}"));
+        return Ok((format!("the {word}"), false));
     }
-    Ok("that".to_string())
+    Ok(("that".to_string(), false))
+}
+
+/// The entity's citation form in [`TARGET_LANGUAGE`].
+fn name(entities: &dyn EntityForms, id: &EntityId) -> Result<String, LowerError> {
+    let entity = entities
+        .entity(id)
+        .map_err(|e| LowerError::EntityRead {
+            entity: id.clone(),
+            why: e.to_string(),
+        })?
+        .ok_or_else(|| LowerError::UnknownEntity { entity: id.clone() })?;
+    entity
+        .forms_in(TARGET_LANGUAGE)
+        .and_then(<[String]>::first)
+        .cloned()
+        .ok_or_else(|| LowerError::NoForm { entity: id.clone() })
 }
diff --git a/crates/weksa/src/main.rs b/crates/weksa/src/main.rs
index f36ba27..0b52bb3 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/src/main.rs
@@ -502,7 +502,10 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
                     &EntityStore::open(&cli.entities)?,
                 )
                 .map_err(refused)?;
-            println!("{}", lower(&view, &inventory)?);
+            println!(
+                "{}",
+                lower(&view, &inventory, &EntityStore::open(&cli.entities)?)?
+            );
         }
         Command::Score(args) => {
             let output = match &args.output {
diff --git a/crates/weksa/src/packet.rs b/crates/weksa/src/packet.rs
index cae001b..f2f06de 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/src/packet.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/src/packet.rs
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ pub struct Trace {
 }
 
 /// The `nibu-proof-001` packet: the meaning of `examples/english-lowering/nibu-proof-001/interlingua.yaml`
-/// (warn the player off the damaged control; Nibu prevents it for them) as typed
+/// (warn the player off the damaged control; Nibu will stop it) as typed
 /// ids of inventory revision 2, for the corpus item `item:nibu:1`. No features:
 /// nothing here is style.
 pub fn proof_packet() -> Packet {
@@ -408,11 +408,7 @@ pub fn proof_packet() -> Packet {
                 id: node("n5"),
                 concept: id("concept:2"),
                 frame: id("frame:2"),
-                roles: vec![
-                    fill("role:1", "n3"),
-                    fill("role:2", "n4"),
-                    fill("role:8", "n1"),
-                ],
+                roles: vec![fill("role:1", "n3"), fill("role:2", "n4")],
                 features: vec![],
             },
         ],
diff --git a/crates/weksa/tests/cli.rs b/crates/weksa/tests/cli.rs
index e05b24a..29d8a4b 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/tests/cli.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/tests/cli.rs
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ fn proof_packet_lowers_and_the_lowering_scores_against_items() {
             "--slug",
             "nibu",
             "--text",
-            "Warning: you may endanger yourself by touching the control. The ship mind will prevent that to protect you.",
+            "Warning: you may endanger yourself by touching the control. NIBU will stop that.",
             "--speaker",
             "entity:nibu",
             "--group",
@@ -832,6 +832,8 @@ fn proof_packet_lowers_and_the_lowering_scores_against_items() {
         text.starts_with("Warning: you may endanger yourself"),
         "{text}"
     );
+    // The referent cites entity:nibu: its stored en-US form (NIBU here) reaches the text as stored.
+    assert!(text.contains("NIBU will stop"), "{text}");
 
     let missing = weksa(d.path(), &["lower", "./p.cc", "packet:0000000000000000"]);
     assert!(!missing.status.success() && out(&missing).contains("no packet"));
diff --git a/crates/weksa/tests/lower.rs b/crates/weksa/tests/lower.rs
index f50f096..ff90fd7 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/tests/lower.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/tests/lower.rs
@@ -6,15 +6,16 @@ mod common;
 use std::path::Path;
 
 use common::{iv, nd};
+use weksa::entity::{Entity, EntityOrigin, LanguageForms};
 use weksa::inventory::proof_revision;
-use weksa::packet::{FeatValue, FeatureValue, Packet, proof_packet};
+use weksa::packet::{EntityId, FeatValue, FeatureValue, Packet, proof_packet};
 use weksa::{
-    CorpusStore, EntityStore, Inventory, InventoryStore, LowerError, LoweringInput, PacketStore,
-    lower, validate,
+    CorpusStore, EntityForms, EntityStore, Inventory, InventoryStore, LowerError, LoweringInput,
+    PacketStore, lower, validate,
 };
 
 const PROOF: &str = "Warning: you may endanger yourself by touching the control. \
-                     The ship mind will prevent that to protect you.";
+                     Nibu will stop that.";
 
 fn committed() -> (Inventory, tempfile::TempDir) {
     let root = Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../..");
@@ -42,8 +43,13 @@ fn admitted(packet: &Packet, inventory: &InventoryStore) -> LoweringInput {
         .unwrap()
 }
 
+fn committed_entities() -> EntityStore {
+    let root = Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../..");
+    EntityStore::open(&root.join("data/entity/entity.cc")).unwrap()
+}
+
 fn lowered(packet: &Packet, inv: &Inventory) -> Result<String, LowerError> {
-    lower(&view(packet, inv), inv)
+    lower(&view(packet, inv), inv, &committed_entities())
 }
 
 #[test]
@@ -69,7 +75,7 @@ fn only_the_addressee_is_you_and_is_reflexive() {
     assert_eq!(
         lowered(&p, &inv).unwrap(),
         "Warning: the player may endanger the player by touching the control. \
-         The ship mind will prevent that to protect the player."
+         Nibu will stop that."
     );
 }
 
@@ -153,7 +159,7 @@ fn a_packet_carrying_what_the_lowerer_does_not_render_is_refused() {
         let mut p = proof_packet();
         edit(&mut p);
         assert_eq!(
-            lower(&admitted(&p, &store), &inv),
+            lower(&admitted(&p, &store), &inv, &committed_entities()),
             Err(LowerError::Unrendered { what }),
             "{what}"
         );
@@ -203,10 +209,150 @@ fn a_row_cannot_speak_for_an_id_whose_gloss_differs() {
     store.admit_revision(rev2, entries).unwrap();
     let inv = store.inventory().unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
-        lower(&admitted(&proof_packet(), &store), &inv),
+        lower(
+            &admitted(&proof_packet(), &store),
+            &inv,
+            &committed_entities()
+        ),
         Err(LowerError::GlossMismatch {
             id: iv("concept:4"),
             row: "control"
         })
     );
 }
+
+/// An entity port a test controls: ids to entities, and an optional read fault.
+#[derive(Default)]
+struct Entities {
+    held: Vec<Entity>,
+    fault: bool,
+}
+
+impl EntityForms for Entities {
+    fn entity(&self, id: &EntityId) -> anyhow::Result<Option<Entity>> {
+        if self.fault {
+            anyhow::bail!("store unreadable");
+        }
+        Ok(self.held.iter().find(|e| &e.id == id).cloned())
+    }
+}
+
+fn nibu(forms: &[(&str, &[&str])]) -> Entity {
+    Entity {
+        id: EntityId::parse("entity:nibu").unwrap(),
+        forms: forms
+            .iter()
+            .map(|(language, forms)| LanguageForms {
+                language: (*language).into(),
+                forms: forms.iter().map(|f| (*f).into()).collect(),
+            })
+            .collect(),
+        origin: EntityOrigin::Cast {
+            persona: "nibu".into(),
+            fixture: "f.yaml".into(),
+        },
+    }
+}
+
+fn through(entities: &Entities) -> Result<String, LowerError> {
+    let (inv, _dir) = committed();
+    lower(&view(&proof_packet(), &inv), &inv, entities)
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_name_survives_lowering_verbatim_where_the_concept_word_was() {
+    // The entity's own form, not "the ship mind", and not re-cased or inflected:
+    // the form is lowercase and stays so mid-sentence.
+    let mut e = Entities::default();
+    let n = nibu(&[("en-US", &["nibu-of-the-deep"])]);
+    e.held.push(n);
+    // It opens the second sentence, where a template word would be capitalised.
+    assert_eq!(
+        through(&e).unwrap(),
+        "Warning: you may endanger yourself by touching the control. \
+         nibu-of-the-deep will stop that."
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn only_the_target_languages_citation_form_is_chosen() {
+    // Forms after the first are inflected shapes no English frame asks for; a
+    // form under another language tag is never read, whatever order it is in.
+    let mut e = Entities::default();
+    let n = nibu(&[
+        ("sa-Latn", &["Nibuwa"]),
+        ("en-US", &["Nibu", "Nibu's", "Nibus"]),
+    ]);
+    e.held.push(n);
+    assert_eq!(through(&e).unwrap(), PROOF);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn an_entity_the_port_does_not_hold_is_refused_not_replaced_by_its_concept_word() {
+    let id = EntityId::parse("entity:nibu").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        through(&Entities::default()),
+        Err(LowerError::UnknownEntity { entity: id })
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn an_entity_with_no_target_language_form_is_refused() {
+    let mut e = Entities::default();
+    let n = nibu(&[("sa-Latn", &["Nibuwa"])]);
+    let id = n.id.clone();
+    e.held.push(n);
+    assert_eq!(through(&e), Err(LowerError::NoForm { entity: id }));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_failing_entity_port_is_refused_by_name() {
+    let e = Entities {
+        fault: true,
+        ..Entities::default()
+    };
+    assert_eq!(
+        through(&e),
+        Err(LowerError::EntityRead {
+            entity: EntityId::parse("entity:nibu").unwrap(),
+            why: "store unreadable".into()
+        })
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn an_addressee_entity_still_lowers_to_you_and_is_never_looked_up() {
+    // Naming the addressee would break "you"/"yourself": the port is not asked,
+    // so a port that faults on every read changes nothing.
+    let (inv, _dir) = committed();
+    let mut p = proof_packet();
+    p.referents[0].entity = Some(EntityId::parse("entity:nibu").unwrap());
+    p.referents[2].entity = None;
+    let faulting = Entities {
+        fault: true,
+        ..Entities::default()
+    };
+    assert_eq!(
+        lower(&view(&p, &inv), &inv, &faulting).unwrap(),
+        "Warning: you may endanger yourself by touching the control. \
+         The ship mind will stop that."
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_purpose_the_frame_does_not_say_is_refused_not_dropped() {
+    // The intervention row says "will stop"; a packet that also fills the
+    // beneficiary role would assert a purpose the text does not carry.
+    let (inv, _dir) = committed();
+    let mut p = proof_packet();
+    p.predications[1].roles.push(weksa::packet::RoleFill {
+        role: iv("role:8"),
+        filler: nd("n1"),
+    });
+    assert_eq!(
+        lowered(&p, &inv),
+        Err(LowerError::Unrendered {
+            what: "a role the frame does not name"
+        })
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/weksa/tests/scene.rs b/crates/weksa/tests/scene.rs
index 896a4e9..0fc4168 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/tests/scene.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/tests/scene.rs
@@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ fn a_scene_relation_reaches_the_lowering_view_and_changes_no_english() {
     ];
     let with = plain.clone().with_scene(&inv, scene.clone()).unwrap();
     assert_eq!(with.scene(), scene.as_slice());
-    assert_eq!(lower(&with, &inv).unwrap(), lower(&plain, &inv).unwrap());
+    let root = Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../..");
+    let entities = EntityStore::open(&root.join("data/entity/entity.cc")).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        lower(&with, &inv, &entities).unwrap(),
+        lower(&plain, &inv, &entities).unwrap()
+    );
 }
 
 #[test]