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記憶 · Gei Yik
Memory House
records, archives, what is collectively remembered
Sigil motif
a spiral or scroll motif, sometimes a stylized eye in profile
Drone form
slow, observational, owl-shaped surveillance drones
Uniform
deep purple with ivory accents, oxidized silver pins
Atmosphere
archives, libraries, old paper, dust in low light, the smell of records
Standing
senior of the Eight; allied informally with the SAR Authority's archival functions
Public doctrine
Memory holds the records of the city — not all of them, but the ones that matter. Memory's archives sit physically in Kowloon City, where state records are kept, but its informal archive is much larger. Memory is the House that knows. It is also the House that decides what is worth remembering.
Private disposition
Memory is a slow patron. It rarely pushes. It rarely punishes. It does, however, remember everything — including the things its contractors would prefer it forget. Memory contracts include clauses about memory-buffer implants and other forms of artificial recall, which Memory officially discourages and unofficially tolerates within its own brokerage.
Min was apprenticed to the Memory pipeline at fourteen. She was good. She washed out at nineteen, formally, after a disagreement with her board mentor about a contract she would not co-sign. She kept her junior broker license — Memory does not revoke licenses, only standing — and went freelance. Her mother, a Memory-contracted archivist of thirty years’ standing, has not spoken to her since.
What Memory remembers
Everything that crosses its archives. Including the things on which the Houses have agreed not to act. Including, in some cases, things that Threshold would prefer the Authority did not have on record. The relationship between Memory and Threshold is one of the central tensions of the Eight.