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+# Character State: ch-09
+
+## Lyra Vance
+Location: The Glass Spire, Sanctum of the Master Map, City of Parchment.
+Physical: Ink-stained fingertips; heavy breathing; minor cuts from glass shards; stabilizing from the strain of high-level weaving.
+Emotional: Triumphant and unified; experiencing a profound sense of shared purpose with Dorian.
+Active obligations: owes herself the truth of the village’s disappearance (ch-01) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Lyra/The Guild] the consequences of pulling the Deep Weave into reality (ch-08) — UNRESOLVED; [Lyra/Valerius] the aftermath of the Spire confrontation (ch-09) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): knows she finished the map that coincided with Oakhaven's erasure — the Guild; CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): knows her physical form is being overwritten by the world’s ink — High Weaver Malakor.
+Arc: 90% -- She has transitioned from a defiant survivor to a master architect, reclaiming the Guild's tools to rewrite the world’s history.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Dorian Thorne
+Location: The Glass Spire, Sanctum of the Master Map, City of Parchment.
+Physical: Fading immortality; visible "flicker" in his physical presence; extreme fatigue; hand tremors controlled by sheer will.
+Emotional: Introspective and resolute; accepting his mortality as the price for his partnership with Lyra.
+Active obligations: owes Lyra a route to the Heart of the First Fae (ch-03) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Dorian/The Guild] his survival as a "re-stitched" entity (ch-08) — UNRESOLVED; [Dorian/Valerius] the fallout of preventing the World-Erasure (ch-09) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-02—unresolved): knows he is defying High Weaver Malakor by seeking his lost home — The Guild; CARRIED (Ch-02—unresolved): knows the exact frequency of the Guild's tracking threads — Lyra.
+Arc: 95% -- He has fully traded his detached invulnerability for a finite, meaningful existence defined by his choice to protect Lyra.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Valerius
+Location: The Glass Spire, The Void-Edge (outer terrace).
+Physical: Severely weakened by the backlash of his own erasure-ink; eyes clouded with indigo residue.
+Emotional: Desperate and broken; fueled by a nihilistic desire to unmake what he cannot control.
+Active obligations: owes the Guild the retrieval of the Deep Weave map (ch-07) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Valerius/Silas Vane] their true history during the Great Severing (ch-07) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: knows that he purposefully unraveled Silas Vane's work to cause the Severing — Lyra.
+Arc: 40% -- His failure to erase the empire has driven him into a corner where his only remaining power is spite.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Master Elian — DECEASED (ch-01)
+Established: Unraveled during the Great Severing when the local loom collapsed.
+Legacy: His memory served as the final catalyst for Lyra to choose creation over the Guild's rigid destruction.
+
+# World State: ch-09
+
+## NPC Memory
+- Valerius (The Guild): VESTED HATRED -- Attempted to erase the Master Map and was rebuffed by the Lyra/Dorian partnership -- Faces internal Guild trial or exile.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The Weaver's Guild: TERROR -- The storming of the Glass Spire and the reclamation of the Master Map represents a total loss of their monopoly on history.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Master Map Reclamation: ACTIVE -- Lyra and Dorian have seized control of the primary navigational and historical record of the world.
+- The Fading: ACTIVE -- Dorian's immortality is rapidly depleting following the events at the Mortal Verge and the Spire.
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