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 # Character State: ch-07
 
 ## Liora Voss
-- **Location:** The Blind Weave (Initial Entry), transitioning from the Core Drive-Spindle.
-- **Physical:** Profound exhaustion; palm shards vibrating with violent intensity; "frayback" shadows have narrowed her vision into a permanent, flickering tunnel.
-- **Emotional:** Resolved through terror; she has functionally abandoned her "bind or break" dogma, accepting the chaos of the Weave to survive.
-- **Active obligations:** Binds Thorne to the physical plane via the Violet Tether—unpaid and straining.
-- **Open loops:** Investigating the "Dirty Circuit" origin (Unresolved); resolving the trauma of her parents' unbinding (Unresolved).
-- **Arc:** 45% — Has successfully chosen the "Unknown" (The Weave) over the "Law" (The Conclave).
+- **Location:** The Blind Weave / Threshold of the Spindle.
+- **Physical:** Profound exhaustion; palm shards vibrating violently; vision narrowed into a flickering "frayback" tunnel (shadowy distortion).
+- **Emotional:** Resolved through terror; fatalistic acceptance of the Weave’s chaos over the Conclave’s law.
+- **Active Obligations:** Binds Thorne via the Violet Tether (UNPAID); investigating the "Dirty Circuit."
+- **Open Loops:** Quest for the Dirty Circuit’s origin; the trauma of her parents' unbinding ritual. 
+- **Arc:** 45% — Chose the unknown/chaos over the Law to ensure survival.
+- **Permanent:** YES.
 
 ## Thorne Quill
-- **Location:** The Blind Weave (Entry Aperture).
-- **Physical:** Skin emitting high-frequency violet luminescence; motor functions are no longer fully autonomous, now slaved to "Loom-sight" navigation.
-- **Emotional:** Potent mix of fatalism and protective instinct; feeling a magnetic, predatory pull from the Loom’s core.
-- **Active obligations:** Guiding Liora through the non-Euclidean geometry of the Weave—unpaid.
-- **Known secrets:** Confirmed that the Loom is specifically hunting Liora, not just the Spindle.
-- **Arc:** 40% — Shifted from victim to a corrupted, essential guide.
+- **Location:** The Blind Weave / Entry Aperture.
+- **Physical:** Emitting high-frequency violet luminescence; motor functions slaved to Loom-sight navigation; losing autonomous agency to the Loom’s magnetism.
+- **Emotional:** Protective of Liora; fatalistic; experiencing a predatory pull from the Loom’s core.
+- **Active Obligations:** Guiding Liora through the navigation of the Weave (UNPAID).
+- **Open Loops:** Resistance against the Loom's hunger.
+- **Known Secrets:** Confirmed the Loom is hunting Liora specifically, not just the Spindle.
+- **Arc:** 40% — Shifted from corruption victim to essential (albeit tainted) guide.
+- **Permanent:** YES.
 
 ## Elder Maros
-- **Location:** High Observation Gallery (Isolated).
-- **Physical:** Near-death; lungs filled with spiritual indigo rot.
-- **Emotional:** Profoundly nihilistic; witnessing the literal unraveling of his life's work.
-- **Known secrets:** Aware that Elowen Shade designed the "Dirty Circuit" as a deliberate sabotage.
-- **Arc:** 30% — Abandoned all hope of restoration; now a terminal observer.
+- **Location:** High Observation Gallery.
+- **Physical:** Near-death; lungs saturated with "spiritual indigo rot"; immobile.
+- **Emotional:** Detached and nihilistic; observing the Conclave’s final hours.
+- **Open Loops:** Historical legacy vs. current failure.
+- **Known Secrets:** Aware that Elowen Shade designed the "Dirty Circuit" as deliberate sabotage.
+- **Arc:** 30% — Terminal observer; has abandoned restoration.
+- **Permanent:** YES.
 
 # World State: ch-07
 
 ## NPC Memory
-- **Archival Guards:** Lost pursuit at the gravity-warp threshold; sensors neutralized by harmonic interference.
-- **The Stained:** Occupying lower levels; they have transitioned from a localized cult to a fanatical blockade force, viewing the collapse as holy.
+- **Archival Guards:** HOSTILE. Pursuit lost at the gravity-warp threshold due to harmonic interference.
+- **The Stained:** EXULTANT. Occupying lower sectors as a blockade force to ensure the collapse succeeds.
 
 ## Faction Attitudes
-- **Conclave Purists:** PANICKED; executing "Threshold Purge" protocols, sacrificing entire sectors to vent the violet resonance into the void.
-- **The Stained:** EXULTANT; martyring themselves to prevent the Conclave from stabilizing the Spindle.
+- **Conclave Purists:** PANICKED. Executing "Threshold Purge" protocols; sacrificing outer sectors to vent resonance.
+- **The Stained:** ZEALOUS. Implementing a martyr-blockade; viewing the unraveling as a holy evolution.
 
 ## Active World Events
-- **The Threshold Purge:** Mid-tiers are saturated with lethal null-gas; secondary spindles are undergoing structural failure.
-- **Harmonic Decay:** Localized reality around the protagonistas has liquified; the distinction between matter and light has failed.
+- **The Threshold Purge:** Mid-tiers being flooded with lethal null-gas; secondary spindles failing.
+- **Harmonic Decay:** Localized reality has liquified; the boundary between matter and light has collapsed in proximity to the protagonista.
+- **The Dirty Circuit:** Revealed as the engineered catalyst for the Spindle’s failure, authored by Elowen Shade.
 
 ## Item/Lore Status
-- **The Violet Tether:** Currently the only anchor preventing Liora and Thorne's souls from scattering in the vacuum of the Weave.
-- **The Blind Weave:** Revealed as a turbulent sea of unanchored, "wild" threads rather than a void.
-- **The Loom:** The "purr" is now a physical pounding, suggesting it is no longer distant, but actively manifesting behind the duo.
-- **Dirty Circuit:** Confirmed as the catalyst for the Spindle's collapse, engineered by Elowen Shade.
+- **The Violet Tether:** Active; the primary soul-anchor keeping Liora and Thorne from scattering into the non-Euclidean void.
+- **The Blind Weave:** A sea of wild, unanchored threads; the non-Euclidean space beyond the Spindle's control.
+- **Loom-Sight:** The corrupted navigation ability Thorne is using to track a path through the decay.