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+# Character State: ch-06
+
+## Queen Seraphine
+Location: Oakhaven, Western Gatehouse
+Physical: Severe hemomantic exhaustion; tremors in hands; vision blurring at the edges.
+Emotional: Violated and defiant; simmering resentment toward Aldric’s "shared" burden.
+Active obligations: Owes Aldric Thorne a formal response to the Bilateral Seal (ch-01) — PAID.
+Open loops: [Seraphine & Aldric] The shared sensory intrusion of the blood-bond (ch-05) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (ch-03—unresolved): The Blight has breached the inner glass-line; the Lowen-Court is already compromised.
+Arc: 35% — She accepts that personal privacy is a luxury the bond has permanently stripped away.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## King Aldric
+Location: Oakhaven, Western Gatehouse
+Physical: Pallid and shivering; massive caloric drain from stabilizing the perimeter.
+Emotional: Coldly protective; masking his physical collapse with architectural focus.
+Active obligations: Owes Seraphine the protection of the Thorne-Valerius borders (ch-03) — PAID.
+Open loops: [Aldric & Seraphine] The revelation of the execution of his brother (ch-03) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows he cannot sustain another seal stabilization without cardiac failure — Seraphine.
+Arc: 30% — Moves from using the bond as a tether to using it as a shared reservoir of survival.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Captain Kaelen
+Location: Oakhaven, The Ash-Fields
+Physical: Minor soot burns; no major injuries.
+Emotional: Stoic but unnerved by the sight of the Sovereigns' physical synchronization.
+Active obligations: Absolute silence regarding the Queen’s flagging physical stamina (ch-03) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: [Kaelen & Seraphine] The cost of his intervention against the High Priestess (ch-03) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (ch-03—unresolved): Knows the Queen nearly collapsed during the walk to the cellar.
+Arc: 20% — Recognizes the military chain of command is secondary to the Sovereigns' biological link.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## High Provost Vane
+Location: Oakhaven, Lower District
+Physical: Uninjured but covered in glass-dust.
+Emotional: Devoutly grateful; bordering on fanatical.
+Active obligations: Owes the Crown the restoration of Oakhaven’s records (ch-06) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: None.
+Known secrets: None.
+Arc: 10% — Re-establishes faith in the Sovereigns after witnessing the ritual.
+Permanent: NO
+
+# World State: ch-06
+
+## NPC Memory
+- High Provost Vane (Oakhaven): ZEALOUS — Witnessed the Sovereigns merge their blood to save the gate — Will spread word of their "unified divinity."
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The Lowen-Court: SUSPICIOUS — Fearing the Queen is becoming a puppet of Thorne's vitality.
+- The Oakhaven Refugees: REVERENT — Direct witnesses to the intervention.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Oakhaven Breach: TEMPORARILY SEALED — The glass-line is stabilized but brittle; requires constant hemomantic maintenance.
+- The Sanguine Marriage: BIOLOGICAL SYNC — The couple now shares physical exhaustion and caloric drain in real-time.