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 # Character State: ch-01
 
 ## Lyra Vance
-**Location:** The Weaver’s Guild, Examination Hall / The South Rim.
-**Physical:** Ink-stained fingertips; left palm scorched from the loom’s backlash; tremors in her hands she attempts to mask by counting.
-**Emotional:** Fractured but defiant; reeling from the realization that her "perfect" map coincided with the erasure of her home; deep, simmering guilt.
-**Active obligations:** Owes herself the truth of Oakhaven’s disappearance — UNPAID.
-**Open loops:** [Lyra/The Guild] her status after the failed examination and the loom’s destruction — UNRESOLVED; [Lyra/Silas] the weight of his shadowed legacy — UNRESOLVED.
-**Known secrets:** CARRIED: knows she finished the map that coincided with Oakhaven's erasure; CARRIED: knows her physical form is beginning to show signs of "overwriting" by indigo ink.
-**Arc:** 5% — She has moved from a hopeful apprentice to a desperate fugitive of her own making.
-**Permanent:** YES
+Location: The Weaver’s Guild, Great Loom Chamber.
+Physical: Kneeling on flagstones; fingertips raw and stained with indigo ink; lungs burning from the ozone of the collapse.
+Emotional: Shell-shocked and hollow; experiencing the acute grief of a severed bond.
+Active obligations: owes herself the truth of Oakhaven’s disappearance — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Lyra/The Guild] the blame for the Great Severing being placed solely on her shoulders — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED: knows she completed the map of Oakhaven just as the village vanished from the horizon.
+Arc: 5% — She has fallen from the grace of apprenticeship into the role of a scapegoat, her belief in the Guild’s infallibility shattered.
+Permanent: YES
 
-## Master Elian
-**Location:** The Weaver’s Guild, Examination Hall.
-**Physical:** DECEASED. Unraveled into raw silk and light during the localized time-collapse.
-**Emotional:** N/A.
-**Legacy:** His death serves as the "cut thread" that forces Lyra out of the Guild’s protection.
+## Master Elian — DECEASED
+Location: The Great Loom (remains).
+Physical: Unraveled; physical form reduced to a pile of grey, non-reactive silk.
+Emotional: N/A.
+Active obligations: N/A.
+Open loops: [Elian/Lyra] the final unspoken warning he attempted to give her — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: died knowing the Guild’s "Great Pattern" was intentionally flawed.
+Arc: 100% — His death serves as the inciting trauma that ejects Lyra from her structured life.
+Permanent: NO (Legacy/Memory only).
 
 ## High Weaver Malakor
-**Location:** The High Dais, The Weaver’s Guild.
-**Physical:** Impeccable indigo robes; eyes like cold glass; hands perfectly steady despite the chaos.
-**Emotional:** Calculating and detached; views Lyra’s "error" as a systemic threat to be purged.
-**Active obligations:** Owes the Guild the restoration of the Local Loom — UNPAID.
-**Open loops:** [Malakor/Lyra] his pursuit of the "Frayed Thread" she left behind — UNRESOLVED.
-**Known secrets:** Knows that the "accident" wasn't an accident, but a pre-calculation of the Guild's Grand Design.
-**Arc:** 10% — Established as the architect of the rigid order Lyra must break.
-**Permanent:** YES
+Location: The High Dais, Great Loom Chamber.
+Physical: Untouched; robes perfectly pressed; eyes like cold flint; holding the Obsidian Shears.
+Emotional: Calculated and predatory; using the chaos to consolidate theological power.
+Active obligations: owes the Guild a "sacrifice" to justify the loom’s failure — PENDING.
+Open loops: [Malakor/Silas Vane] his role in the exile of Lyra’s father — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: knows the Loom didn't break by accident, but reached a limit he refused to acknowledge.
+Arc: 10% — Established as the architect of the status quo and the primary obstacle to Lyra’s survival.
+Permanent: YES
 
 # World State: ch-01
 
 ## NPC Memory
-- **The Weaver’s Guild:** HERESY — They witness Lyra "breaking" a Loom and associate her with the disappearance of Oakhaven.
-- **The Acolytes:** TERROR — Witnessed the physical unraveling of a Master Weaver.
+- The Weaver’s Guild: RETRIBUTION — The apprentices and masters witness Lyra standing over the ruined Loom; she is instantly branded as the "Unraveler."
 
 ## Faction Attitudes
-- **The Weaver’s Guild:** HOSTILE — The Spire is in lockdown; Lyra Vance is declared a "Snag" to be removed from the tapestry.
+- The Weaver’s Guild: FRAGILE — The loss of a Master and the damage to the Great Loom has created a power vacuum and a desperate need for a scapegoat.
 
 ## Active World Events
-- **The Oakhaven Erasure:** ACTIVE — A mid-sized village has been physically scrubbed from the Master Map; in reality, only a crater of indigo ash remains.
-- **The Loom Backlash:** ACTIVE — The Guild’s central resonance is vibrating with a "Thinning" caused by Lyra’s final stitch.
+- The Great Severing: ACTIVE — A localized reality-tear at the Guild’s heart. The threads connecting Oakhaven to the mainland have been physically and magically cut.
+- The Displacement: ACTIVE — People and places are beginning to "blur" at the edges where the threads have thinned.
 
-## Technical Rules
-- **The Law of Tension:** For every thread pulled from the past, the present must lose an equivalent weight. Lyra’s survival cost Elian’s life and Oakhaven’s existence.
-- **Indigo Bleed:** The physical manifestation of Chrono-Weaving failure; it stains the skin and eventually overwrites the soul.
+## Technical Stats
+- Loom Integrity: 14% (Critical Failure).
+- Thread Tension: Zero (The resonance has gone silent).
+- Casualties: 1 (Master Elian), 400+ (Estimated population of Oakhaven).