# Character State: ch-01

## Liora Voss
*   **Location:** The Weaving Chamber, Threadbinders' Conclave.
*   **Physical:** Left palm sliced open by silver shards; blood mixing with indigo residue; peripheral "frayback" (static/blurring) intensifying; hand trembling.
*   **Emotional:** Frantic and fatalistic; obsessive need to "fix" the connection; traumatized by the echo of her parents' unbinding.
*   **Active obligations:** Owes the Conclave a successful binding of Thorne Quill — UNPAID.
*   **Open loops:** The failure of silver against Thorne’s "thirteenth strand"; the mechanical nature of the Loom’s failure.
*   **Known secrets:** Witnessed her parents' souls unbound in a ritual failure.
*   **Arc:** 05% — Shifted from rigid confidence to frantic improvisation; internal mantra "bind-bind-bind" triggered by panic.

## Thorne Quill
*   **Location:** Lead-lined restraint chair, Weaving Chamber.
*   **Physical:** Skin humming with resonance; vibrating with enough power to shatter silver-etched tools; branded by the collar.
*   **Emotional:** Defiant and observant; mocking Liora’s dogma.
*   **Active obligations:** Subject to the Conclave's mandatory screening — UNPAID.
*   **Open loops:** The physical weight of the weave; origin of his silver-repelling internal resonance.
*   **Known secrets:** Perceives the physical weight and visual reality of the weave.
*   **Arc:** 05% — Realized his internal power can physically destroy Conclave holy instruments.

## Elder Maros
*   **Location:** Observation Gallery.
*   **Physical:** Frail; leaning on a bone-white cane; shark-like stillness.
*   **Emotional:** Predatory satisfaction.
*   **Open loops:** Intent behind the "stress test" of Liora — UNRESOLVED.
*   **Known secrets:** Knows Thorne’s true lineage and why the Loom is failing.
*   **Arc:** 01% — Confirmed the destruction of the needles was the necessary catalyst for his agenda.

# World State: ch-01

## NPC Memory
*   **Elder Maros:** Observed the needle's destruction; views Liora’s failure as a "purification" of her methods.

## Faction Attitudes
*   **Threadbinders' Conclave:** Dogmatic/Paranoid — Treat the Fray as a moral failing of the common people rather than a systemic collapse.

## Active World Events
*   **The Great Binding Assessment:** Ongoing ritual screening of citizens; currently experiencing catastrophic tool failure.
*   **The Looming Fray:** Increasing metaphysical decay causing "frayback" (sensory static) in Binders.

## Key Terminology & Mechanics
*   **Frayback:** Sensory blurring and soul-thinning caused by ritual backlash.
*   **The Thirteenth Strand:** Thorne's unique, silver-repelling thread.
*   **Bind or Break:** Liora’s mantra for decisive, often forceful, action.

## Canon Objects/Artifacts
*   **Silver Needle Shards:** Contaminated by Thorne’s essence; scattered on the floor.
*   **Lead-Lined Restraint Chair:** Designed to dampen high-resonance soul-vibes.
*   **The Great Loom:** Central mechanism of the Conclave; currently malfunctioning.