# Character State: ch-01

## Mira
- **Location:** Spire Academy Main Gates (Entryway to the Merger).
- **Physical:** Adrenaline-spiked; skin radiating a low-level heat that shimmers the air; fingers twitching with unspent kinetic energy.
- **Emotional:** Defiant and fiercely protective of Pyre's legacy; masking a deep-seated fear of obsolescence with a veneer of fireborne arrogance.
- **Active Obligations:** Bound by the Starfall Accord to co-manage the integrated campus with Dorian Solas—UNFULFILLED.
- **Open Loops:** Mira/Ministry "Insubordination Clause" (Ch01)—ACTIVE; Mira/Dorian "Sovereignty Conflict" (Ch01)—ACTIVE.
- **Known Secrets:** She intentionally scorched the Spire’s welcome banner as a display of power—Dorian suspects but cannot prove it.
- **Arc:** 5% — Has entered the enemy’s territory but refuses to lower her internal wards.
- **Permanent:** NO.

## Dorian Solas
- **Location:** Spire Academy Main Gates.
- **Physical:** Impeccably composed; breath visible in the air even in summer; right hand noticeably gloved in mercury-glass thread to dampen his frost-output.
- **Emotional:** Calculated and surgical; views Mira as a chaotic variable that must be contained for the sake of the Accord’s success.
- **Active Obligations:** Must provide "Equal Sanctum" to Pyre students within Spire walls—UNFULFILLED.
- **Open Loops:** Dorian/Mira "The Thermal Threshold" (Ch01)—ACTIVE.
- **Known Secrets:** He finds the scent of Mira’s ozone and woodsmoke magic intoxicatingly distracting—Mira does not know.
- **Arc:** 5% — Abandoned his isolationist policy to permit the merger, viewing it as a logical necessity rather than a choice.
- **Permanent:** NO.

## Kaelen
- **Location:** Trailing Mira at the Gate.
- **Physical:** Wearing heavy leather, insulated robes; sweating from the proximity to Mira’s heat.
- **Emotional:** Anxious and watchful; acting as Mira's "anchor" while anticipating a brawl.
- **Arc:** 2% — Realizing the cultural gulf between the two schools is wider than anticipated.

## Lyra
- **Location:** Standing three paces behind Dorian.
- **Physical:** Holding a crystalline ledger; spectacles shimmering with a blue anti-glare tint.
- **Emotional:** Clinical and dismissive of Pyre’s "lack of discipline."
- **Arc:** 2% — Documenting every breach of Spire protocol committed by the incoming students.

# World State: ch-01

## NPC Memory
- **Spire Students:** Coldly curious; viewing the Pyre arrivals as "unrefined" and "combustible."
- **Pyre Students:** Belligerent; feeling like refugees in a high-society prison.
- **The Ministry Observers:** Ghostly figures in the periphery, recording the first handshake between the Chancellors for the High Council.

## Faction Attitudes
- **The Spire:** Elitist and rigid; believe the merger is a "civilizing mission."
- **The Pyre:** Proud and volatile; believe the merger is a "suffocation tactic."

## Active World Events
- **The Great Convergence:** The two academies have officially opened their joint gates; magical signatures are beginning to "bleed" across the campus ley lines.
- **The Ward Strain:** The Spire’s frost-wards are vibrating at a high frequency to compensate for the influx of Pyre heat-signatures.