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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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+
+## 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.
+
+## 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.
+
+## 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.
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