# Character State: ch-18 [CANONICAL]

## Lena Duval
Location: The Heart Tree (Siphon Hub Core)
Physical: Body transfigured into bioluminescent sap and silver-veined wood; human substrate dissolved.
Emotional: Transcendent, serene; individual ego merged with the Hum.
Active obligations: None — all blood-oaths fulfilled by integration.
Open loops: None — return to "normal life" (Ch-01) permanently abandoned. 
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-02--unresolved): Knows her mother's death was a deliberate sacrifice orchestrated by the swamp, not an accident.
Arc: 100% — Transformed from a fugitive seeking escape into the eternal, sentient foundation of the Bend.
Permanent: YES

## Jax Harlan
Location: The Sovereign Veil (Perimeter)
Physical: Enhanced ocular reflex (silver-green); total immunity to swamp toxins.
Emotional: Absolute devotion; human identity restructured as the Bayou Sentinel.
Active obligations: None — no longer bound by human contracts or debts.
Open loops: Jax/Lena romance (Ch-08) — RESOLVED via spiritual/biological union.
Known secrets: None.
Arc: 100% — From cynical outsider to the apex protector of the sovereign swamp.
Permanent: YES

## Aunt Maribelle Duval
Location: Subterranean Siphon Hub
Physical: Immobile; integrated as a filtration organ within the root lattice.
Emotional: Absolute peace; fulfillment through functional selflessness.
Active obligations: None.
Open loops: Duval Power Struggle (Ch-01) — RESOLVED via total integration.
Known secrets: None.
Arc: 100% — Power-hungry antagonist redeemed by becoming a vital, identity-less component of the ecosystem.
Permanent: YES

## Remy LeBlanc
Location: Interior Grove / Root Memory Network
Physical: Biologically suspended; integrated into cypress memory-strands.
Emotional: Contented; focused on archival preservation.
Active obligations: None.
Open loops: None.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-05--unresolved): Knows the specific location of the 1920s coven ledgers.
Arc: 100% — Small-town gossip transformed into the eternal historian of the Bend.
Permanent: YES

# World State: ch-18

## NPC Memory
- The Great Hum (Cypress Bend): AWAKENED — The collective consciousness of all integrated Duval witches; views the world as a unified sensory grid.
- Outsiders (Louisiana): TERRIFIED — View the Bend as a "Lethal Zone" or divine entity; avoid the Sovereign Veil.

## Faction Attitudes
- The Coven: DISSOLVED — Individual wills have been subsumed into the Great Hum.
- Humanity: REPELLED — No longer permitted entry; external relations ceased.

## Active World Events
- The Apotheosis: CONCLUDED — The Great Siphon is stabilized; the Bend has achieved biological and spiritual equilibrium.
- The Sovereign Veil: PERMANENT — A sentient fog barrier now surrounds the territory, lethal to any unauthorized incursion.

## Unresolved Threads
- Secret (Ch-02): Lena’s knowledge of her mother’s orchestrating drowning remains sealed within the Hum.
- Secret (Ch-05): Remy’s knowledge of the 1920s coven ledgers remains buried in the root network.