# Character State: ch-04

## Mira
Location: The Chancellor’s Residence, Solas Academy Grounds.
Physical: Hands steady but stained with the soot of a defensive fire-ward; her pulse is erratic, thrumming with the secondary heartbeat of Dorian’s frost-magic.
Emotional: Violated yet intrigued; she is reeling from the "sensory bleed" experienced during the accidental resonance. Her initial fury has shifted into a defensive intellectualism—she is trying to categorize the bond to avoid feeling it.
Active obligations: To draft the "Joint Safety Protocol" before dawn; to maintain the facade of a merger while secretly looking for a way to untether her mana from Dorian’s.
Arc: 40% — Transitioning from pure external resistance to an internal conflict between her duty to Pyre House and her undeniable magical compatibility with Dorian.

## Dorian Solas
Location: The Chancellor’s Residence, Solas Academy Grounds.
Physical: Frost-rimed fingertips; his chest feels an unnatural warmth that radiates from the center outward, marking Mira’s influence on his core.
Emotional: Calculating and uncharacteristically shaken; he prides himself on glacial control, but the resonance stripped his mental shields bare. He feels a reluctant sense of prowling protection over Mira.
Active obligations: Subduing the Solatran Board of Regents who view the resonance as a dereliction of his bloodline’s purity.
Arc: 35% — The "perfect prince" of frost is showing cracks; he is beginning to value the heat Mira provides over the crystalline perfection of his own solitude.

## Kaelen
Location: The Training Grounds (Solas Academy).
Physical: Exhausted; soot-streaked face.
Emotional: Protective and suspicious; he views the magical bleed between the Chancellors as a dangerous corruption and watches Dorian with a soldier’s predatory focus.

## Elara
Location: The Med-Ward / Dormitories.
Physical: Uninjured, but her hair is perpetually frizzed from the static of the merging mana-fields.
Emotional: Inspired; she is the first to voice that the "Violet Sparks" (the blended magic) felt safer than the individual elements.

# World State: ch-04

## NPC Memory
- The Faculty: Divided and terrified; rumors are spreading that the Chancellors are no longer magically distinct, leading to fears of a "Mana Collapse."
- The Students: Morale is fractured but curious; the "Grey-resonance" observed during the duel has become the primary topic of forbidden conversation.

## Faction Attitudes
- Pyre House: Feeling colonized; they view the move to the Solas grounds as a strategic retreat rather than a merger.
- Solas House: Elitist and defensive; many believe Mira is "draining" Dorian’s superior frost-core.

## Key Environment Changes
- The Residence: Now a neutral zone where fire-wards and ice-lattices overlap, creating an atmosphere of permanent, shimmering mist.
- The Mana-Well: Showing signs of "harmonic distortion"—it no longer responds to single-element commands but requires a balanced input, forcing cooperation.
- The Resonance Bond: Canonically established as a sensory bridge; when one feels pain or extreme heat/cold, the other experiences a phantom echo.