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+# Character State: ch-10
+
+## Lyra Vance
+**Location:** The Threshold of the Unbound, perimeter of the Glass Spire.
+**Physical:** Left palm permanently scarred with an indigo lattice; respiratory rate stabilized but skin remains luminescent from the Master Map’s proximity; carries the Fragment in a lead-lined silk wrap.
+**Emotional:** Resolute; the "perfectionist" shell has shattered, replaced by a cold, operational pragmatism. She no longer seeks the Guild’s validation.
+**Active Obligations:** Debt of preservation to Dorian (Ch08) — PARTIALLY SETTLED (she extracted him at the cost of the seal); owes Silas a confrontation regarding her mother (Ch08) — PENDING.
+**Open Loops:** [The Whisper] The Map fragment has begun projecting her mother’s voice in the triplet-rhythm of a Master Weaver; Lyra cannot yet distinguish between memory and Map-simulation.
+**Arc:** 85% — She has crossed the threshold into the Unbound, embracing the "frayed edge" as her source of power.
+
+## Dorian Thorne
+**Location:** The Threshold of the Unbound, unconscious/stabilized at the Spire’s base.
+**Physical:** Severe "Thread-Burn" extending to the elbows; tactile sensation in fingers is zero; left cufflink (his grounding ritual) was lost during the Vault collapse.
+**Emotional:** Vulnerable; the "High-Born" facade has been physically and magically stripped away.
+**Active Obligations:** Owes Silas a reckoning (Ch08) — UNPAID; owes Lyra a truth regarding the Keystone Sacrifice — OPEN.
+**Open Loops:** [The Fraying] His shadow-silk connection is no longer responding to Guild-standard commands; he is magically "muted."
+**Arc:** 80% — He has sacrificed his standing and structural integrity for Lyra, fulfilling the "surrender of control" requirement of his arc.
+
+## Silas Vane
+**Location:** The Observation Dais (Ruined), Glass Spire.
+**Physical:** Right hand burned from attempting to stabilize the Echo-Pulse; obsidian stone crushed to dust in his pocket.
+**Emotional:** Devastated but silent; the sight of Lyra choosing the Unbound has paralyzed his analytical faculties.
+**Active Obligations:** Owes Lyra the truth of the Great Severing (Ch10) — URGENT.
+**Open Loops:** [The Purge] He remains within the Spire as the Archivist initiates the deletion of the sector.
+**Arc:** 70% — He has moved from technical failure to emotional collapse; he is no longer an agent of the Guild but a witness to its rot.
+
+# World State: ch-10
+
+## NPC Memory
+- **The Archivist:** HOSTILE — Has authorized "Total Unraveling" protocols; views Silas as a compromised asset.
+- **Kaelen’s Scouts:** RECEPTIVE — Have witnessed the Spire’s breach and are moving to intercept Lyra at the edge of the Static Rain.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- **The Weaver’s Guild:** FRACTURED — The loss of the Master Map fragment has caused a synchronization error across all Weaver-disciplines; local reality in the Spire is stuttering.
+- **The Unbound:** ASCENDANT — They view the "Thinning" as an opportunity to reclaim the raw materials of the world.
+
+## Active World Events
+- **The Great Unraveling:** The Glass Spire’s foundation is physically de-threading into raw energy.
+- **Static Rain:** Now covers the entire district; physical objects caught in the rain lose their "history" and revert to base fibers.
+
+## Vital Continuity
+- **The Master Map Fragment:** Lyra has it. It is no longer humming; it is "breathing," expanding and contracting in rhythm with her own heart.
+- **The Blind Stitch:** The tether between Dorian and Lyra has turned into a permanent metaphysical scar; they can sense each other’s physical pain regardless of distance.
+- **The Purge Stitch:** Active. The Vault of Echoes is being deleted from the Spire’s architecture.
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