# Character State: ch-01

## Mira
**Location:** The Obsidian Bridge (Center Span), Great Crevasse boundary.
**Physical:** Severe magical exhaustion; bleeding right palm (ritual cut); persistent cold-shock from Dorian's proximity; thermal regulation failing.
**Emotional:** Violently compromised; experiencing intense sensory intrusion through the soul-tether; desperate for Pyre sovereignty.
**Active Obligations:** Legally and magically bound to Dorian Solas; must integrate Pyre Academy into the Starfall Accord.
**Open Loops:** Mira/The Emperor’s "burnt sugar" corruption (secret insight); Mira/Dorian "Binary Star" stability.
**Arc:** 15% — From independent sovereign to an "anchor" physically and spiritually fused to her rival.
**Permanent:** YES (Soul-tethered; cannot separate from Dorian without physical/magical agony).

## Dorian Solas
**Location:** The Obsidian Bridge (Center Span), Great Crevasse boundary.
**Physical:** Thermal shock; bleeding right palm (ritual cut); hands trembling from Mira’s internal heat; mana-pool fluctuates wildly.
**Emotional:** Stoic facade masking absolute terror; experiencing the collapse of his "absolute zero" mental fortress.
**Active Obligations:** Must share the Spire’s stabilization resources; legally merged with Mira as a single administrative unit.
**Open Loops:** Dorian’s insight into the "Progenitor-based" tether technology (secret insight); sensory bleed thresholds.
**Arc:** 20% — From detached academic observer to biological participant in a forced union.
**Permanent:** YES (Integrated into "Starfall Union" nexus; heartbeats syncing with Mira’s).

## Kaelen (Senior Proctor)
**Location:** Chancellor’s Sanctum, Pyre Academy.
**Physical:** Singed robes; eyes stinging from Mira’s aura spike.
**Emotional:** Apprehensive; fiercely protective of Mira; views the Spire with deep-seated resentment.
**Active Obligations:** Must manage faculty reaction to the Decree.
**Arc:** 05% — Wartime administrator for a merging institution.
**Permanent:** NO.

# World State: ch-01

## NPC Memory
- **Kaelen (Pyre):** ADVERSARIAL — Believes the Spire is "colonizing" Pyre Academy; will subtly sabotage Dorian's integration efforts.

## Faction Attitudes
- **The Eternal Throne:** TYRANNICAL — Used the Starfall Drift as a pretext for the Accord to control the two most powerful mages.
- **Pyre Academy (Fire):** INSURGENT — View the merger as a spiritual "extinguishing."
- **Crystalline Spire (Ice):** IMPERIALISTIC — View the Pyre as unrefined and dangerous; intend to dictate the terms of the merger.

## Active World Events
- **The Starfall Drift:** Environmental collapse accelerating; the ether is visually "tearing" the sky over the Volcanic Reach.
- **The Starfall Accord:** Officially binding; the two academies are now a single legal entity under joint Chancellorship.
- **The Sensory Bleed:** ACTIVE — Mira and Dorian now feel each other’s physical pain, temperature shifts, and raw emotional spikes across the tether.