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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
+
+## 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.
+
+## 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
+
+# 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.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- **The Weaver’s Guild:** HOSTILE — The Spire is in lockdown; Lyra Vance is declared a "Snag" to be removed from the tapestry.
+
+## 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.
+
+## 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.
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