# Character State: ch-10

## Mira Vasquez
Location: The Imperial Dais, Solstice Loom Chamber
Physical: Severe exhaustion; mana-burned palms; skin tracing with "Grey" fractures; cauterized mana-veins.
Emotional: Transcendent and accepting; experiencing profound relief and unity.
Active obligations: Stabilize the Starfall (Ch01) — COMPLETED.
Open loops: [Mira/Dorian] Surviving the Severance Key’s final pulse (Ch10) — RESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch08—unresolved): The Soul-Tether Imperial back-door.
Arc: 100% — Fully transitioned from Fire Mage to the first Paradox Regent of the Grey Era.
Permanent: YES (Elemental signature is permanently merged into a Grey frequency).

## Dorian Solas
Location: The Imperial Dais, Solstice Loom Chamber
Physical: Right hand recovering from frost-lock; metabolic collapse reversing; residual silvery scarring on knuckles.
Emotional: Devoted and vulnerable; absolute rejection of Spire isolationism.
Active obligations: Protect Mira from the Ministry (Ch01) — COMPLETED.
Open loops: [Dorian/Lineage] Confession of family’s role in original Breach (Ch08) — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch08—unresolved): His bloodline’s guilt regarding the Starfall.
Arc: 100% — Achievement of "Extraordinary" emotional integration and total institutional defiance.
Permanent: YES (Access to "Pure Frost" replaced by the Grey resonance).

## High Inquisitor Malchor
Location: The Imperial Dais (Exited)
Physical: Smoking armor; kinetic vents damaged; physically repelled by Grey feedback.
Emotional: Broken and spiritually hollow; worldview shattered by the Paradox.
Active obligations: Activate the Severance Key (Ch09) — COMPLETED (Device Destroyed).
Open loops: [Malchor/Survival] The physical recoil of the Loom’s collapse (Ch10) — RESOLVED (Survived/Defeated).
Known secrets: None (Key purpose revealed).
Arc: 100% — From Imperial Architect to irrelevant witness of a news era.
Permanent: NO

## Aric
Location: The Imperial Dais / Solstice Loom Chamber
Physical: No injuries.
Emotional: Awe-struck; feeling a new, Spire-influenced stability.
Active obligations: None.
Open loops: [Aric/Elara] Leading the integrated student body (Ch10) — ACTIVE.
Known secrets: None.
Arc: 90% — Transitioned from Pyre rebel to a balanced Warden of the Union.
Permanent: YES (Mana-signature altered by the Grey dawn).

## Elara
Location: The Imperial Dais / Solstice Loom Chamber
Physical: No injuries.
Emotional: Focused and resolute; feeling a new, Pyre-influenced kinetic confidence.
Active obligations: None.
Open loops: [Aric/Elara] Management of the Starfall Union (Ch10) — ACTIVE.
Known secrets: None.
Arc: 90% — Transitioned from Spire traditionalist to a balanced Warden of the Union.
Permanent: YES (Mana-signature altered by the Grey dawn).

## Kaelen — DECEASED (Ch04)
Established: Died during the stabilization failure at the Obsidian Bridge while acting as a manual anchor.
Legacy: His sacrifice served as the final emotional catalyst for Mira and Dorian to choose the Paradox over individual survival.

# World State: ch-10

## NPC Memory
- Combined Faculty (The Reach): LIBERATED — The successful stabilization has ended the threat of the Drift; they now look to Mira and Dorian for the new law.
- Imperial Phalanx (The Bastion): DEFEATED — Disintegrated or repelled following Malchor’s failure.

## Faction Attitudes
- The Eternal Throne: OBSOLETE — The Ministry's laws on magic were physically overwritten by the birth of the Grey Era.
- The Starfall Union: UNIFIED — Student body is no longer divided by discipline, but grouped by the Grey resonance.

## Active World Events
- The Grey Era: PERMANENT — The Starfall Drift has been converted into a mercury-grey atmospheric shield over the Reach.
- The Starfall Accord: FINALIZED — The institutional merger is a physical reality of the planet’s magic.