The Struck Name
A city that has already voted to forget her.
A drowned archive, a compact of names, and the archivist who came back to write herself into it. The city keeps its records below the waterline and its grudges above it.
2 characters · 3 world facts
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Elara Vance
The last archivist — struck from the rolls at nineteen. Ink to the second knuckle and a signet she is not entitled to wear, turned inward so the crest sits against her palm.
ElaraVancethe archivist - character
Sorrel
Keeps the lower gate. A porter's shoulders and a pair of spectacles worn out of habit rather than use, since he cannot read a word through them.
Sorrelthe gate keeper
World facts
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The Archive
Lower stacks flooded in the '41 rains and were never pumped out. No lamps are permitted below the waterline, so everything down there is read by touch or not at all.
the Archivelower stacks - rule
The Compact
Not a treaty — a list of names. Anyone on it may hold office, hold land and be remembered; a struck name stays struck, and the striking is never explained in writing.
the Compactstruck through - faction
House Vane
Holds the Compact and the pen that amends it. Elara's mother married out of the house, which is the polite version of what happened.
House VaneVanethe Vanes
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