# Character State: ch-04

## Lyra Vance
Location: The Hidden Scriptorium, beneath the City of Parchment.
Physical: Hands trembling; fingertips stained with iridescent indigo ink; eyes bloodshot from prolonged exposure to High-Weaver manuscripts.
Emotional: Oscillating between clinical obsession and raw terror; haunted by the realization that her father’s exile was a calculated Guild excision.
Active obligations: owes herself the truth of the village’s disappearance (ch-01) — UNPAID.
Open loops: [Lyra/The Guild] the discovery of the "Null-Thread" schematics (ch-04) — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-04—new): knows Silas Vane didn't fail the Great Loom, he was sabotaged by the Archivist.
Arc: 35% -- She is beginning to weaponize her perfectionism against the Guild's established history.

## Dorian Thorne
Location: The Hidden Scriptorium / Threshold of the Spire.
Physical: Impeccably dressed but adjusting his left cufflink incessantly; a faint silver "flicker" at his pulse point indicating the first signs of Thread-Burn.
Emotional: Calculatingly protective; experiencing a destabilizing cognitive dissonance between his Guild loyalty and his fascination with Lyra’s "heretical" precision.
Active obligations: owes Lyra a route to the Heart of the First Fae (ch-03) — UNPAID.
Open loops: [Dorian/Malakor] the report he withheld regarding Lyra’s progress (ch-04) — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-04—new): knows the Guild is actively erasing the "Shadow-Stitcher" records to hide the origin of Dorian’s own power.
Arc: 20% -- The "seam" of his loyalty has been identified; he is choosing silence over reporting Lyra’s location.

## Silas Vane (Lyra’s Father)
Location: Unknown (Reference point: The Great Severing).
Physical: N/A (Presumed active in exile).
Emotional: N/A.
Open loops: [Silas/The Archivist] the true nature of the "Perfect Knot" (ch-04) — UNRESOLVED.

# World State: ch-04

## NPC Memory
- The Archivist (The Guild): VIGILANT -- Aware of a breach in the Restricted Scriptorium; suspects a "ghost" thread is active in the city.

## Faction Attitudes
- The Weaver's Guild: PARANOID -- The internal whispers of a "Perfect Knot" resurfacing have triggered a lockdown of historical manifests.

## Active World Events
- The Scriptorium Breach: ACTIVE -- Lyra and Dorian have successfully extracted the true account of the Great Severing, leaving a "void-scent" in the archives.
- The Thinning: GRADUAL -- The magical atmosphere in the City of Parchment is becoming brittle as Lyra pulls threads from the past to reconstruct the Scriptorium’s hidden door.

## Voice Signature State
- Dorian: High-Born filter remains intact. Even under the pressure of the Scriptorium's collapsing wards, he maintained: "The structural integrity of this vault is... underwhelming."
- Lyra: Sensory focus tightened. She navigated the darkness by feeling the "vibration" of the ink on the shelves rather than using light.