# Character State: ch-10

## Queen Seraphine
- **Location:** The Hearth of the World, Crimson Cathedral.
- **Physical:** Fully restored. The "Silvering" and stone-graft necrosis have been purged by the solar alignment; her skin is warm, and her eyes have lost the predatory hemomantic glow, replaced by a clear, natural hue.
- **Emotional:** Transcendent Peace. The architectural burden of the crown has dissolved into a shared vitality. She experiences a profound sense of liberation and a newfound capacity for genuine intimacy.
- **Active Obligations:** Owes Aldric a lifetime of partnership and shared rule — **UNPAID**.
- **Open Loops:** Seraphine/Vespera psychic struggle — **RESOLVED** (Vespera’s shadow was incinerated by the dawn).
- **Known Secrets:** None; the soul-merge with Aldric has rendered her internal state completely transparent to him.
- **Arc:** 100% — She has transitioned from the "Architect of Order" to a co-creator of a living era.

## King Aldric
- **Location:** The Hearth of the World, Crimson Cathedral.
- **Physical:** Fully healed. The crystallization of his leg has vanished; the death-like pallor of the blood-bind is replaced by healthy color and rhythmic breathing.
- **Emotional:** Sovereign Contentment. His "martyrdom complex" has been broken by the realization that the burden is shared; he no longer feels the pressure of the "Gilded Cage."
- **Active Obligations:** Owes the Archivists and the people a new era — **PAID** (The Rites of Dissolution were subverted to end the Eclipse).
- **Open Loops:** Aldric/Malcorra theological confrontation — **RESOLVED**.
- **Known Secrets:** Location of the true Valerius Seal — **REVEALED** to Seraphine via the soul-merge.
- **Arc:** 100% — He has traded isolated sacrifice for the strength of a shared throne.

## High Priestess Malcorra
- **Status:** **DECEASED**.
- **Cause:** Consumed by the solar flare within the Cathedral when the Rites of Dissolution were inverted. Her "vessel" was reduced to ash.
- **Legacy:** Her death signals the absolute end of the Sanguine Vow’s theological tyranny.

# World State: ch-10

## NPC Memory
- **The Inquisitorial Hounds:** **EXTERMINATED**. Dissolved into ash by the first true sunrise.
- **The Lowen-Court Nobility:** **STUNNED/SUBMISSIVE**. Their leverage—the hoarding of blood-tithes—is gone now that the sun has returned. They look toward the Cathedral in terror and awe.

## Faction Attitudes
- **The Crimson Cathedral:** **COLLAPSED**. Physically intact but spiritually vacant; leadership is dead, and the dogmatic blood-logic has been rewritten by light.
- **The Lowen-Court:** **VULNERABLE**. Forced to adapt to a world where "Blood Sovereignty" no longer dictates survival.

## Active World Events
- **The Eternal Eclipse:** **ENDED**. The sun has returned to a natural, healthy cycle for the first time in centuries.
- **The Necrotic Drift:** **PURGED**. The obsidian spores and blight-mists have been incinerated by the solar alignment.
- **The First Dawn:** **ACTIVE**. A permanent biological shift has occurred in the Thorne and Valerius bloodlines; the "parasitic" nature of their magic has been neutralized.
- **The New Covenant:** **INITIATED**. A governance based on shared vitality rather than extracted blood-tithes.