# Character State: ch-07

## Liora Voss
Location: Core Drive-Spindle, Maintenance Shafts (Descending)
Physical: Failing; violet shards in left palm have grown jagged; ocular hemorrhaging causing tunnel vision; rhythmic "frayback" tremors.
Emotional: Vengeful, desperate, and survivalist.
Active obligations: Binds Thorne to life via the violet tether (Physical Anchor) (ch-07) -- UNPAID.
Open loops: Liora/Elowen seeking "Dirty Circuit" origin (ch-07) -- UNRESOLVED; Liora/Conclave Escaping "Threshold Purge" (ch-07) -- UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (ch-01--unresolved): Witnessed her parents' souls unbound in a ritual failure.
Arc: 45% -- Has fully abandoned Conclave law to protect a heretical bond.
Permanent: YES

## Thorne Quill
Location: Core Drive-Spindle, Maintenance Shafts (Descending)
Physical: Emitting low-frequency violet hum; severe muscle spasms; manifesting "Loom-sight" to perceive structural weaknesses.
Emotional: Eerily detached; views his life as secondary to Liora’s.
Active obligations: Binds Liora's survival to his navigational Loom-sight (ch-07) -- UNPAID.
Open loops: Thorne/The Loom surviving the hunting call (ch-07) -- UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: knows the Loom is specifically hunting Liora -- Liora does NOT know.
Arc: 40% -- Transitioned from passive victim to active navigational guide using his corruption.
Permanent: YES

## Elder Maros
Location: High Observation Gallery (Isolated)
Physical: Collapsed; choking on indigo phlegm (spiritual rot).
Emotional: Total nihilism.
Active obligations: Owes the Conclave containment of the Stained (ch-07) -- UNPAID.
Open loops: Maros/Elowen the "Dirty Circuit" trap (ch-07) -- UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: knows the Dirty Circuit was a trap set by Elowen -- The Conclave does NOT know.
Arc: 30% -- Accepted personal and systemic failure as the Conclave's end begins.
Permanent: YES

# World State: ch-07

## NPC Memory
- Archival Guards (Archive Corridor): AGGRESSIVE -- Hunting the protagonists with harmonic scanners -- Forcing Liora into the Blind Weave.
- The Stained (Lower Tiers): PROTECTIVE -- Refusing to hunt the protagonists -- Viewing the violet light as a "New Weave."

## Faction Attitudes
- Conclave Purists: FANATICAL -- Authorized "Great Unbinding" (scorched-earth protocol) -- Threatens total erasure of lower sectors.
- The Stained: DEVOUT -- See Protagonists as icons -- Creating a schism within the Binder ranks.

## Active World Events
- The Threshold Purge: Maintenance shafts flooded with Null-Gas to sever threads; active and lethal.
- Harmonic Decay: Spindle gravity warping; architecture becoming brittle and translucent.

## Item/Lore Status
- The Violet Tether: Frequency is now audible; acting as a conduit for the Loom's power.
- The Dirty Circuit: Identified as a "Soul-Siphon" utilizing Elowen Shade’s forbidden techniques.
- The Loom: Actively reaching through the Spindle; "purr" has become a rhythmic hunting call.