# Character State: ch-01

## Mira
**Location:** The Obsidian Bridge (Center Span), Great Crevasse boundary.
**Physical:** Severe magical exhaustion; bleeding right palm from the ritual cut; experiencing violent cold-shocks and thermal-regulation failure; heart rate forced into a synched rhythm with Dorian’s.
**Emotional:** Primal fury masked by chancellor-level composure; feeling a "binary star" pull toward Dorian that she rejects; terrified by the loss of sensory bodily autonomy.
**Active Obligations:** Legally and magically bound to Dorian Solas; must steer Pyre Academy through a forced surrender disguised as a merger.
**Open Loops:** A secret realization of the "burnt sugar" corruption within the Emperor’s decree; the specific frequency of the soul-tether’s resonance.
**Arc:** 15% — Sovereignty lost. Transitioning from an independent flame to an "anchor" tethered to her antithesis.
**Permanent:** YES (Soul-tethered; physical proximity required to prevent mana-collapse).

## Dorian Solas
**Location:** The Obsidian Bridge (Center Span), Great Crevasse boundary.
**Physical:** Right palm bleeding; hands trembling with Mira’s internal heat; mana-pool experiencing a "sublimation" effect; face deathly pale against his blue robes.
**Emotional:** Analytical fortress shattered; experiencing a sensory intrusion of Mira’s rage and passion that threatens his "absolute zero" mental discipline.
**Active Obligations:** Must integrate the Crystalline Spire’s resources with Pyre; legally merged with Mira as a single administrative and biological unit.
**Open Loops:** His suspicion regarding the Progenitor-based technology used in the tether; the "cold-void" he feels when Mira pulls away.
**Arc:** 20% — Stoicism compromised. Moving from detached observation to forced biological intimacy.
**Permanent:** YES (Integrated into the "Starfall Union" nexus).

## Kaelen (Senior Proctor)
**Location:** The Obsidian Bridge (Rear Guard).
**Physical:** Singed embroidery on formal robes; jaw clamped shut.
**Emotional:** Resentful and protective; views the Spire’s presence as a colonial invasion.
**Active Obligations:** Mobilizing Pyre faculty to accept the "Accord" without rioting.
**Arc:** 05% — The loyalist administrator sensing a betrayal of the bloodlines.
**Permanent:** NO.

# World State: ch-01

## NPC Memory
- **Kaelen (Pyre):** ADVERSARIAL — Convinced Dorian is a puppet of the Eternal Throne.
- **Spire Guard:** SUPERIOR — Treating Pyre students as volatile assets rather than peers.

## Faction Attitudes
- **The Eternal Throne:** PREDATORY — Exploiting the Starfall Drift to neutralize the two strongest mages by fusing them.
- **Pyre Academy (Fire):** MOURNING — The atmosphere is one of a funeral for their independence.
- **Crystalline Spire (Ice):** CLINICAL — Viewing the Pyre’s "chaos" as something to be "solved" through structure.

## Active World Events
- **The Starfall Drift:** Atmospheric ether is tearing; reality is visually "thinning" over the Volcanic Reach, necessitating the tether.
- **The Starfall Accord:** Signed and magically sealed. The two academies are legally a single entity.
- **Sensory Bleed:** ACTIVE — Mira and Dorian share pain, temperature, and raw emotional spikes across the tether.

## Mechanical Constants
- **Tether Feedback:** Separation of more than 100 yards causes cardiac distress.
- **Mana-Sharing:** Mirroring occurs; an ether-spike in one causes a sympathetic surge in the other.