# Character State: ch-05

## Liora Voss
- **Location:** Core Drive-Spindle, Weaving Chamber (Lockdown).
- **Physical:** Ocular hemorrhaging; purple bruising along veins; left palm aperture pulsing violet; indigo staining reaching mid-bicep; severe physical exhaustion.
- **Emotional:** Defiant; fatalistic; hyper-focused on circuit stabilization; "bind or break" mindset.
- **Active Obligations:** Owes Loom maintenance of the "Dirty Circuit"—UNPAID; owes Thorne biological stability via shared link—UNPAID.
- **Open Loops:** Escaping the Core Spindle lockdown—UNRESOLVED; Thirteenth Strand consequences—UNRESOLVED; Conclave Purists' coup—UNRESOLVED.
- **Arc:** 30% — Accepted a permanent biological/metaphysical tether with Thorne to prevent total Loom collapse.

## Thorne Quill
- **Location:** Weaving Chamber, restraint chair.
- **Physical:** Internal organs vibrating; skin etched with indigo ink-blood; physically bound to Liora by a pulsing violet tether.
- **Emotional:** Protective; resolute; secretively attuned to Loom sentience.
- **Active Obligations:** Owes Liora biological stabilization/anchor-weight—UNPAID.
- **Open Loops:** Interpreting the Loom's sentient intent—UNRESOLVED.
- **Known Secrets:** Communicating with the Loom's sentient intent (Liora unaware).
- **Arc:** 30% — Transitioned from sacrifice to a necessary, sentient anchor for the machine.

## Elder Maros
- **Location:** High Observation Gallery.
- **Physical:** Leaning on bone-white cane; eyes clouded by indigo cataracts.
- **Emotional:** Politically panicked; desperate for his own survival.
- **Active Obligations:** Owes Liora political protection from Purists—UNPAID.
- **Open Loops:** Survival against imminent Purist mobilization—UNRESOLVED.
- **Arc:** 20% — Forced to defend heresy to maintain power.

# World State: ch-05

## NPC Memory
- **Junior Binders:** TRAUMATIZED — Witnessed the forbidden Thirteenth Strand binding; high risk of radicalization.
- **Archival Guards:** HOSTILE — Enforcing lockdown with lethal intent; loyal to the Purist doctrine.

## Faction Attitudes
- **Conclave Purists:** MILITANT — Preparing to purge "stained" heretics; view violet light as spiritual corruption.
- **The Stained (Nascent):** EMERGENT — Underground faction viewing Liora as a prophet of the new weave.

## Active World Events
- **The Dirty Circuit:** Stabilized by the Liora-Thorne link; requires resonance to prevent catastrophic feedback.
- **Indigo Contagion:** Gravity fluctuations and violet light spreading to upper galleries; physical corruption of the Spindle architecture.
- **Lockdown Protocol:** Core Spindle sealed; internal automated defenses armed and hostile.
- **Loom Frequency:** Low-level sentience active; perceptible only to Thorne.

## Item/Lore Status
- **The Thirteenth Strand:** Forbidden/chaotic frequency integrated into the Core; cause of systemic instability and the "Stained" effect.
- **The Violet Tether:** Permanent metaphysical bond linking Liora and Thorne’s life-forces; the first of its kind.
- **Soul-Link:** Liora’s signature move; now permanently manifest via the Tether.
- **Frayback:** The risk of soul-severance; currently looming due to the integration of the Thirteenth Strand.