# Character State: ch-11

## Isabella Voss
**Location:** Great Hall balcony, Blackthorn Keep
**Physical:** Hemomantic exhaustion; faint tremors in scarred hands; blood-stained finery
**Emotional:** Resolute, defiant, weary
**Active Obligations:** 
- Protection of Nightbloom survivors (Ch-10) -- ACTIVE
- Life-debt to Damien Blackthorn (Ch-10) -- UNPAID
**Open Loops:** 
- Isabella and Malphas [The Heresy Declaration] (Ch-10) -- UNRESOLVED
- The resonance of the Song on the surrounding lands (Ch-11) -- UNRESOLVED
**Known Secrets:** 
- CARRIED (Ch-10--unresolved): Carries the Nightbloom collective consciousness within her marrow -- [Damien/Malphas do not know]
**Arc:** 95% -- Publicly rejected the High Dais and transitioned from escaped slave to sovereign leader.
**Permanent:** YES

## Damien Blackthorn
**Location:** Standing beside Isabella, Great Hall balcony
**Physical:** Healed facial lacerations (scarred); magical depletion; hand remains clasped with Isabella's
**Emotional:** Fiercely protective, liberated
**Active Obligations:** 
- Isabella's physical and magical protection (Ch-10) -- ACTIVE
**Open Loops:** 
- Damien and Lord Malphas [Patricide/Succession] (Ch-10) -- UNRESOLVED
- Blackthorn Council's retaliation for the "Stained Glass Defiance" (Ch-11) -- UNRESOLVED
**Known Secrets:** 
- CARRIED (Ch-10--unresolved): Prepared to commit patricide to ensure Isabella's survival -- [Malphas/Council do not know]
**Arc:** 90% -- Explicitly renounced his father’s authority before the remaining household.
**Permanent:** YES

## Lord Malphas Blackthorn
**Location:** The High Dais, Great Hall
**Physical:** Feverish; rapid breathing; magically impotent due to the broken siphoning bond
**Emotional:** Humiliated, vengeful, frantic
**Active Obligations:** 
- Enforcement of the Heresy Declaration (Ch-10) -- ACTIVE (Stalled)
**Open Loops:** 
- Blackthorn Council [External intervention] (Ch-11) -- UNRESOLVED
**Known Secrets:** 
- CARRIED (Ch-10--unresolved): Loss of the Nightbloom bond renders the Blackthorn lineage magically sterile -- [The Council does not know]
**Arc:** 85% -- Reduced from a master manipulator to a shouting figurehead ignored by his own son.
**Permanent:** YES

## High Priest Malakor
**Location:** Shadow of the High Dais, Great Hall
**Physical:** Shaking; kneeling
**Emotional:** Devoutly terrified, nihilistic
**Arc:** 60% -- Reinterpreted the Sovereign Breach as a divine cleansing rather than mere rebellion.
**Status:** NO (Likely exit)

# World State: ch-11

## NPC Memory
- **The Remaining Guard (Great Hall):** HESITANT -- Witnessed Damien's refusal to strike; they are unwilling to engage the merged signature.
- **Nightbloom Refugees (Keep Gates):** HOPEFUL -- Heard the echo of the Song; beginning the physical retreat into the mists.

## Faction Attitudes
- **Blackthorn Household:** FRACTURED -- Loyalty is split between the fear of Malphas and the rising charisma of the "Unbound" pair.
- **The Nightbloom Coven:** TRANSCENDENT -- Feeling the first wave of magic not filtered through a master's bond.

## Active World Events
- **The Stained Glass Defiance:** COMPLETE -- The formal rejection of the Blackthorn bloodline by both heirs (blood and bond).
- **The Muted Dawn:** ACTIVE -- The magical fallout has turned the sky a bruised purple; mundane physics are warping around the Keep.