# Character State: ch-19

## Mira
Location: The Great Hall / Balcony, High Spire Peak
Physical: Exhausted but electrified; fingers tingling from the final Arcanum binding; wears the singed ceremonial robes of the Pyre.
Emotional: Transcendent; resolute. The transition from rival to partner is cemented not just by magic, but by the public deconstruction of her own pride.
Active obligations: Finalize the administrative merger of the Pyre and Solas archives.
Open loops: Navigating the fallout of Voss’s formal Imperial Grievance regarding the "unholy" merging of essences.
Arc: 100% — She has successfully bridged the gap between fire and ice, sacrificing the isolation of her power for the stability of the Union.

## Dorian Solas
Location: The Great Hall / Balcony, High Spire Peak
Physical: Leaning into Mira for support; frost-burns on his forearms have faded to silver scars; eyes bright with a rare, unshielded warmth.
Emotional: Vulnerable but unshakeable. He has abandoned the "Clinical Solas" mask entirely in favor of a shared future.
Active obligations: Secure the school’s perimeter against potential Ministry "auditors" following the Starfall stabilization.
Open loops: The "Soul-Tether" backdoor has been neutralized, but the political knowledge of its existence remains a threat in Voss’s hands.
Arc: 100% — He chose emotional intuition over cold logic, proving that his ice was never meant to isolate, but to protect.

## Elara
Location: The Great Hall, High Spire Peak
Physical: Drained; hands steady despite the atmospheric pressure of the new "Grey Era."
Emotional: Deeply relieved; fiercely loyal to the new joint chancellery.
Arc: 100% — Successfully acted as the grounding conduit for the two Chancellors, graduating from apprentice to the primary architect of the Union's medical-magical wing.

## Councillor Voss
Location: Sky-Chariot (Departing High Spire Peak)
Physical: Trembling with suppressed rage; face flushed a deep, mottled red.
Emotional: Humiliated and vindictive.
Active obligations: Filing a formal report of "heretical union" and "magical treason" to the Imperial Judiciary.

# World State: ch-19

## NPC Memory
- The Student Body: Awe-struck. They witnessed the literal merging of the schools' foundations into a single "Grey" entity. The old rivalries are replaced by a cautious, collective wonder.
- Ministry Proctors: Terrified. They fled the High Spire following the release of the combined thermal-cryo pulse.

## Faction Attitudes
- The Grey Union: A fledgling sovereign state. The schools are no longer separate institutions but a single fortress of dual-affinity magic.
- The Empire: Imminently Hostile. The Starfall Accord has been realized, effectively ending the Ministry's monopoly on "pure" affinity training.

## Active World Events
- The Mercury Sky: The Starfall has ceased. The sky is now a permanent, shimmering mercury-grey, a stable ceiling of unified magic that shields the High Spire from traditional Imperial scrying.
- The Imperial Grievance: A legal and military clock has started. Voss's departure signals the transition from internal academic struggle to external political war.
- The Arcanum Binding: The magic of the two schools is now irreversibly linked; the death or fall of one chancellor would now theoretically destabilize the entire region’s magical grid.