A patronizing level-35 high-elf footman briefs Carl and Britney on castle screening, attendant access, ballroom restrictions, and Queen Imogen's protections.
Theobold rides in Carl and Britney's covered wagon and explains that attendants enter through a separate door, undergo security screening, and wait in a servant ballroom. Performers may access a stage anteroom and use limited necessary magic or weapons only during their act.
Guests receive a boudoir to change before entering the main ballroom. Inventory access, ordinary magic, and brandished weapons are forbidden. Imogen does not attend the pet or talent shows but later occupies a third center ballroom with her personal guard.
Theobold treats Carl's missing shoes and pants, Britney's jacket, the dinosaurs, and Sir Ferdinand with contempt. His correction that Ferdinand is merely a pet rather than royalty gives Carl a contradiction to exploit against the familiar's inflated self-conception.
An impeccably dressed, nasally high-elf footman seated rigidly in a covered caravan wagon.
Theobold exposes castle rules, staging access, protection hierarchy, and a psychological seam in Ferdinand's identity.