Scifi Orthogonal
character

Yskandr Aghavn

Mahit's dead predecessor, preserved incompletely in the memory device she carries.

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Story function

Dead predecessor and incomplete memory partner

From Chapter 1

Yskandr Aghavn

character

Ideas illuminated

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Role in the story

A Memory Called Empire

Encountered by Chapter 1

Dead predecessor and incomplete memory partner

Yskandr survives as an outdated imago whose gaps make Mahit's inherited expertise useful, intimate, unreliable, and politically dangerous.

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