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 # Character State: ch-05
 
 ## Liora Voss
-- **Location:** Core Drive-Spindle, Weaving Chamber (Lockdown).
-- **Physical:** Ocular hemorrhaging; purple bruising along veins; left palm aperture pulsing violet; indigo staining reaching mid-bicep; severe physical exhaustion.
-- **Emotional:** Defiant; fatalistic; hyper-focused on circuit stabilization; "bind or break" mindset.
-- **Active Obligations:** Owes Loom maintenance of the "Dirty Circuit"—UNPAID; owes Thorne biological stability via shared link—UNPAID.
-- **Open Loops:** Escaping the Core Spindle lockdown—UNRESOLVED; Thirteenth Strand consequences—UNRESOLVED; Conclave Purists' coup—UNRESOLVED.
-- **Arc:** 30% — Accepted a permanent biological/metaphysical tether with Thorne to prevent total Loom collapse.
+Location: Core Drive-Spindle, Weaving Chamber (Lockdown)
+Physical: Ocular hemorrhaging; purple bruising along veins; left palm aperture pulsing violet; indigo staining reaching mid-bicep; severe physical exhaustion.
+Emotional: Defiant; fatalistic; hyper-focused on circuit stabilization.
+Active obligations: Owes Loom maintenance of the "Dirty Circuit" — UNPAID; owes Thorne biological stability via shared link — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Escaping the Core Spindle lockdown; Thirteenth Strand consequences; Conclave Purists' coup.
+Known secrets: Witnessed her parents' souls unbound in a ritual failure (unresolved).
+Arc: 30% — Accepted a permanent biological/metaphysical tether with Thorne to prevent total Loom collapse.
+Permanent: YES
 
 ## Thorne Quill
-- **Location:** Weaving Chamber, restraint chair.
-- **Physical:** Internal organs vibrating; skin etched with indigo ink-blood; physically bound to Liora by a pulsing violet tether.
-- **Emotional:** Protective; resolute; secretively attuned to Loom sentience.
-- **Active Obligations:** Owes Liora biological stabilization/anchor-weight—UNPAID.
-- **Open Loops:** Interpreting the Loom's sentient intent—UNRESOLVED.
-- **Known Secrets:** Communicating with the Loom's sentient intent (Liora unaware).
-- **Arc:** 30% — Transitioned from sacrifice to a necessary, sentient anchor for the machine.
+Location: Core Drive-Spindle, Weaving Chamber, restraint chair
+Physical: Internal organs vibrating; skin etched with indigo ink-blood; physically bound to Liora by a pulsing violet tether.
+Emotional: Protective; resolute; secretively attuned to Loom sentience.
+Active obligations: Owes Liora biological stabilization/anchor-weight — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Interpreting the Loom's sentient intent.
+Known secrets: Communicating with the Loom's sentient intent — Liora unaware.
+Arc: 30% — Transitioned from sacrifice to a necessary, sentient anchor for the machine.
+Permanent: YES
 
 ## Elder Maros
-- **Location:** High Observation Gallery.
-- **Physical:** Leaning on bone-white cane; eyes clouded by indigo cataracts.
-- **Emotional:** Politically panicked; desperate for his own survival.
-- **Active Obligations:** Owes Liora political protection from Purists—UNPAID.
-- **Open Loops:** Survival against imminent Purist mobilization—UNRESOLVED.
-- **Arc:** 20% — Forced to defend heresy to maintain power.
+Location: High Observation Gallery, Core Spindle
+Physical: Leaning on bone-white cane; eyes clouded by indigo cataracts.
+Emotional: Politically panicked; desperate for his own survival.
+Active obligations: Owes Liora political protection from Purists — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Survival against imminent Purist mobilization.
+Arc: 20% — Forced to defend heresy to maintain power.
+Permanent: NO
 
 # World State: ch-05
 
 ## NPC Memory
-- **Junior Binders:** TRAUMATIZED — Witnessed the forbidden Thirteenth Strand binding; high risk of radicalization.
-- **Archival Guards:** HOSTILE — Enforcing lockdown with lethal intent; loyal to the Purist doctrine.
+- Junior Binders: TRAUMATIZED — Witnessed the forbidden Thirteenth Strand binding; high risk of radicalization.
+- Archival Guards: HOSTILE — Enforcing lockdown with lethal intent; loyal to Purist doctrine.
 
 ## Faction Attitudes
-- **Conclave Purists:** MILITANT — Preparing to purge "stained" heretics; view violet light as spiritual corruption.
-- **The Stained (Nascent):** EMERGENT — Underground faction viewing Liora as a prophet of the new weave.
+- Conclave Purists: MILITANT — Preparing to purge "stained" heretics; view violet light as spiritual corruption.
+- The Stained (Nascent): EMERGENT — Underground faction viewing Liora as a prophet of the new weave.
 
 ## Active World Events
-- **The Dirty Circuit:** Stabilized by the Liora-Thorne link; requires resonance to prevent catastrophic feedback.
-- **Indigo Contagion:** Gravity fluctuations and violet light spreading to upper galleries; physical corruption of the Spindle architecture.
-- **Lockdown Protocol:** Core Spindle sealed; internal automated defenses armed and hostile.
-- **Loom Frequency:** Low-level sentience active; perceptible only to Thorne.
+- The Dirty Circuit: Stabilized by the Liora-Thorne link; requires resonance to prevent catastrophic feedback.
+- Indigo Contagion: Gravity fluctuations and violet light spreading to upper galleries; physical corruption of the Spindle architecture.
+- Lockdown Protocol: Core Spindle sealed; internal automated defenses armed and hostile.
+- Loom Frequency: Low-level sentience active; perceptible only to Thorne.
 
 ## Item/Lore Status
-- **The Thirteenth Strand:** Forbidden/chaotic frequency integrated into the Core; cause of systemic instability and the "Stained" effect.
-- **The Violet Tether:** Permanent metaphysical bond linking Liora and Thorne’s life-forces; the first of its kind.
-- **Soul-Link:** Liora’s signature move; now permanently manifest via the Tether.
-- **Frayback:** The risk of soul-severance; currently looming due to the integration of the Thirteenth Strand.
+- The Thirteenth Strand: Forbidden/chaotic frequency integrated into the Core; cause of systemic instability and the "Stained" effect.
+- The Violet Tether: Permanent metaphysical bond linking Liora and Thorne’s life-forces.
+- Frayback: Risk of soul-severance; looming due to Thirteenth Strand integration.
+- Binding Thread: The fundamental metaphysical fabric connecting all souls; now irrevocably altered by Liora’s "Dirty Circuit."