Thanks so much for reaching out, leftwordmovement!! I'm so glad you're digging into the game and thanks for flagging this, I 100% see where the confusion's coming from! If you look at the last paragraph on page 144, it's talking about letting players zoom in on the day-to-day life of a mage in one of the districts. The district table on the following page is there to help people randomly choose a district if they want. Then we progress to the prompts asking questions about the NPC we're getting attached to right before we kill them brutally at the beginning of the end!
Please let me know if you have any other questions!