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 # Character State: ch-10
 
-## Lyra Vance
-Location: A jagged cliffside overlooking the Western Reach, outside the City of Parchment.
-Physical: Indigo ink staining her left palm is fading to a dull scar; forearms covered in healing lacerations; exhaustion present but stable.
-Emotional: Serene and resolute; she has traded the burden of perfection for the peace of the unknown.
-Active obligations: owes the world a new history (Ch10) -- UNPAID.
-Open loops: [Lyra/The Fragment] The stolen map is destroyed, its whispers silenced (Ch10) -- RESOLVED.
-Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch09—unresolved): knows the location of the Heart of the First Fae—Dorian does not know she intends to never use it.
-Arc: 100% -- She destroyed her tools of control and accepted a finite, messy reality.
+## Liora Voss
+Location: The Heart of the Loom (The Blind Weave)
+Physical: Severe frayback stabilized; fingers trembling; dual-bound Violet Tether actively distributing resonance burden.
+Emotional: Transcendent acceptance; resolved surrender to partnership.
+Active obligations: Binds Thorne via Violet Tether (mutual, voluntary) (Ch-09) -- PAID; Confront Elowen on Dirty Circuit sabotage (Ch-09) -- UNPAID.
+Open loops: Reconciliation with Rennar (Ch-09) -- UNRESOLVED; Confronting Elowen on sabotage (Ch-09) -- UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-09--unresolved): Loom hunts her as architectural blueprint; CARRIED (Ch-09--unresolved): Elowen engineered collapse.
+Arc: 85% -- Solidified the shift from absolute control to harmonic partnership; the "snag" is now the anchor.
 Permanent: YES
 
-## Dorian Thorne
-Location: A cliffside overlooking the Western Reach, standing beside Lyra.
-Physical: Form is fully opaque and stabilized; Thread-Burn on fingernails has receded to faint bruising; breathing is heavy but natural.
-Emotional: Guarded wonder; he is experiencing the terrifying weight of a future he cannot calculate.
-Active obligations: owes Lyra his life and a future without the Guild (Ch10) -- UNPAID.
-Open loops: [Dorian/The Loom] His connection to the Guild's order is severed by the map's destruction (Ch10) -- RESOLVED.
-Known secrets: knows his "void-silk" core was stabilized by Lyra's choice—Lyra does not know he felt her almost choose the reset.
-Arc: 100% -- He survived his own unraveling and accepted the imperfection of a life without a predetermined pattern.
+## Thorne Quill
+Location: The Heart of the Loom (The Blind Weave)
+Physical: Corporeal form stabilized; violet resonance flowing bidirectionally; grounding weight for Liora.
+Emotional: Fiercely protective; secure in voluntary bond.
+Active obligations: Grounds Liora through Liquefied Reality (Ch-09) -- SUSTAINED.
+Open loops: None.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-09--unresolved): Loom views Liora as prize.
+Arc: 75% -- Fully embraced role as chaotic counterweight and equal partner.
 Permanent: YES
 
-## Valerius
-Location: The High Balcony, Glass Spire (Last known).
-Physical: Unharmed, but magically stagnant.
-Emotional: Catastrophic shock; he is a weaver with no thread and an architect with no blueprint.
-Active obligations: owes the Guild a restoration that is no longer possible (Ch09) -- UNPAID.
-Open loops: [Valerius/The Archive] His authority is broken by the loss of the Master Map (Ch10) -- UNRESOLVED.
-Known secrets: none.
-Arc: 90% -- He remains a relic of the old world, waiting for an order that will not return.
+## Elowen Shade
+Location: The Perimeter of the Breach
+Physical: Intact; observing the stabilization.
+Emotional: Frustrated but adaptive; predatorily observant.
+Active obligations: None.
+Open loops: Orchestrate final Spindle collapse (Ch-09) -- UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-09--unresolved): Architected Dirty Circuit sabotage.
+Arc: 55% -- Forced into reactive observation after plan derailment.
 Permanent: NO
 
 # World State: ch-10
 
 ## NPC Memory
-- The Inquisitor Stays (The Periphery): DISORIENTED -- The map's destruction severed their tracking resonance -- They are wandering the static rain without a target.
-- The Archivist (The Glass Spire): SILENT -- Witnessed the pulse of the map's end -- Has ceased all official communications.
+- The Stained (The Blind Weave): REVERENT -- Witnessed the Dual-Resonance Circuit -- Perceive the dual-tether as a holy transformation of the weave.
+- Conclave Remnants (The Spindle): TERRIFIED -- Observed the stabilization of the Indigo Rot -- View the new harmonic stasis as a violation of traditional binding law.
 
 ## Faction Attitudes
-- The Weaver’s Guild: COLLAPSING -- The loss of the Master Map has rendered their "Perfect Pattern" obsolete; panic is spreading through the ranks.
-- The Unbound: ASCENDANT -- They see the jagged, natural return of the landscape as a sign of liberation.
+- The Stained: Devout -- Believe Liora and Thorne are heralds of a "New Weave."
+- Threadbinders' Conclave: Hostile/Fearful -- See the dual-tether as a dangerous anomaly that threatens their control.
 
 ## Active World Events
-- The Great Re-threading: ACTIVE -- The erased portions of the world are filling in with natural, albeit scarred, geography rather than Guild-mandated history.
-- Atmospheric Thinning: STABILIZED -- The Static Rain has stopped, replaced by a cold, natural mist.
+- The Great Stabilization: Holding at harmonic threshold; reality is suspended in equilibrium.
+- Indigo Rot Substrate: Halted at the core perimeter; currently serving as a foundational layer rather than a deconstructive force.
 
-## Vital Continuity
-- The Master Map: DESTROYED -- Lyra shattered the fragment and the pen at the cliff’s edge.
-- The Chrono-Weave: DISCONTINUED -- Magic no longer pulls from the future or past; it is anchored solely in the present.
-- The Blind Stitch: DISSOLVED -- The magical tether between Lyra and Dorian has been replaced by a mundane, choice-based bond.
+## Tensions Carrying Forward
+- Liora's inevitable confrontation with Elowen regarding the sabotage.
+- The Conclave’s likely Retribution for the "New Weave" heresy.
+- The Loom's continued internal "instinct" to reclaim Liora as its blueprint.
+- Rennar’s response to the stabilization.