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+# Character State: ch-07
+
+## Lyra Vance
+Location: The Plaza of Inked Tears, City of Parchment (Deep Weave).
+Physical: Nauseous and spiritually cold; ink-rot spreading toward her throat; trembling hands.
+Emotional: Violated and desperate; mourning the loss of her father’s memory as a "accident."
+Active obligations: owes herself the truth of the village’s disappearance (ch-01) — UNPAID; owes Dorian protection during his vulnerability (ch-07) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Lyra/Valerius] the manipulation of her ink since her apprenticeship (ch-07) — UNRESOLVED; [Lyra/Dorian] how to halt the erasure of a Shadow-Stitcher (ch-07) — 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: 70% — She has transitioned from a victim of the Guild’s narrative to an active combatant willing to seize Dorian’s chronological weight to keep him anchored.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Dorian Thorne
+Location: The Plaza of Inked Tears, City of Parchment (Deep Weave).
+Physical: Severely wounded; a "blank" puncture in his side that bleeds grey light; fading at the extremities.
+Emotional: Paradoxically calm; focused entirely on Lyra's safety; experiencing "Existential Thinning."
+Active obligations: owes Lyra protection from "Correction" squads (ch-02) — PAID (ch-07); owes Lyra a route to the Heart of the First Fae (ch-03) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Dorian/The Guild] his unauthorized presence in the Silent Library (ch-02) — UNRESOLVED; [Dorian/Home] the location of his lost origin point (ch-02) — 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: 75% — He has sacrificed his own "permanence" to shield Lyra, moving from an analytical guide to a sacrificial anchor.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Valerius
+Location: The Plaza of Inked Tears (High Tier).
+Physical: Pristine; wearing ceremonial Guild silks that repel the falling ink.
+Emotional: Triumphant and clinical; views Lyra and Dorian as failed experiments.
+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: 10% — Introduced as a direct antagonist who reveals the Guild’s systemic corruption.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Master Elian — DECEASED (ch-01)
+Established: Unraveled during the Great Severing when the local loom collapsed.
+Legacy: His presence as a shade in the Plaza provided the distraction Valerius used to strike.
+
+# World State: ch-07
+
+## NPC Memory
+- Valerius (The Guild): HOSTILE — Claimed responsibility for Silas Vane's exile — Attempted to "reclaim" Lyra by force.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The Weaver’s Guild: AGGRESSIVE — They have moved from monitoring to active extraction and elimination.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Chronos-Freeze: ACTIVE — A temporary rupture in the Deep Weave where Dorian has suspended the environment to stall his own erasure.
+- The Blank Infection: ACTIVE — A Guild weapon effect that un-writes the target from the tapestry.