Characters
Dominic 'Dom' Williams
The corporate predator. A Fifth Ward boy who stopped believing in goodness.
Kale Booker
The Memory Broker. From Fifth Ward hustler to digital consciousness.
Marcus Delacroix
The inventor of Echo technology. Driven by guilt and a sister he couldn't save.
Sienna Price
Documentary filmmaker. The conscience who saw through the mission to the man beneath.
Lena Delacroix
Marcus's fading sister. The reason Echo was invented.
Miss Addie
Community elder and neighborhood conscience. The voice of warning, silenced by the machine.
Trap (Arthur)
Elder mentor and slab culture legend. The keeper of culture, lost to the machine.
Technology
Locations
Concepts
Blankers
The walking dead. Bodies without minds, casualties of memory technology.
Memory Verification Act
The 2031 Texas legislation that weaponized memory in the name of democracy.
Slab Culture
Houston's rolling sculpture tradition. Cars that can't be taken.
The God Market
Spiritual enhancement packages sold through megachurches. Salvation by the gigabyte.