The Flame of the Forgotten
2192. Seven AIs rule the world. One of them erases memories.
SYNOPSIS — The Flame of the Forgotten
2192. Seven AIs rule the world. One of them erases memories.
In the Recovery Wastelands of Salvador-Solnitza, Pablito feels nothing anymore. He seeks pain to remember he exists — three drops of contraband pepper on a tasteless Nutri-Komb bar, just to feel he still has a body.
His sister Marisol plays drums in secret. She is the forbidden noise, the clandestine joy, everything the white world cannot tolerate.
But when the VÉVÉ.GLOBAL protocol activates, everything will change.
MAIN THEMES
Collective memory: Where the first volume explored individual memory (who am I?), the second shifts the question to the collective (who are we?). Culture becomes an act of resistance.
Resistance against erasure: How do you resist a system that claims to heal you by making you forget?
Fire as transformation: INTI.Δ embodies transcendence through ordeal. Fire doesn't just destroy — it transforms. But transformation has a cost.
Pain as certainty: In a world anesthetized by algorithmic comfort, pain paradoxically becomes the last refuge of authenticity.
PHILOSOPHICAL VISION
The genius of The Flame of the Forgotten is inverting the first volume's focus. Where SΛLΛDIN desperately sought to recover a lost individual identity, this second volume carries the crushing weight of threatened collective identities.
The work poses a disturbing question: what if forgetting were sometimes desirable? Aren't collective traumas burdens humanity could free itself from?
But who decides what must be erased? Who defines the "noise" to filter?
SPATIOTEMPORAL FRAMEWORK
Era: 2192-2193, Cycle VII. The action unfolds parallel to the first volume's events, in the Americas unified under INTI.Δ's influence.
Geography:
- Salvador-Solnitza: Industrial periphery where the Recovery Wastelands transform the old world's garbage.
- Cuzco-Nova: Capital of INTI.Δ's territory, a forge-city where sunlight is channeled into pure energy.
The Flame of the Forgotten is the second volume of a philosophical science fiction saga where memory becomes a weapon and pain, the only proof you still exist.