House Glass
The custodians of the official record: preservation turned into the right to decide what counts.
Civic role
Archives, public testimony, school histories, information credentials. Symbol: a vertical line dividing an open circle. Public promise: Nothing important will be forgotten.
Internal disagreement
Older archivists defend untouched originals. The prefect's office believes curated coherence prevents unrest. Several employees quietly preserve discarded transformation logs; the House is not a uniform villain.
Leverage
Glass can make a person administratively invisible by restricting access to their records. It cannot make that person physically disappear or force neighbors to forget them.
Ritual
The Annual Recitation is an invented civic ceremony in which approved witnesses repeat the city's shared account of North Gate. Its apparent unanimity is produced by invitation rules, not mind control.
Story consequence
Mara trained under Glass. Her professional standards become the tools she uses against its leadership. After the climax, preservation remains essential but certification becomes open to independent review.
Alternative explanations
This is invented narrative material, not a factual explanation of real-world events.
Counterarguments
Character beliefs are not automatically true within the story. Competing interpretations remain part of the drama.
Contradictory evidence
Not applicable to real-world evidence. Internal contradictions are identified in the story bible.
Follow-up questions
Develop the next draft without changing the established limits of MUSE or equating this fiction with the research archive.
Story relevance & development
Original fictional development for THE DOME. No character or House represents a real person or institution.
Connections, not conclusions.
Emergency approval lets inferred accounts enter the training record as if they were originals.
Venn directs official record access but cannot unilaterally control the other Houses.
Root’s refusal to ratify Continuance breaks the emergency coalition after the ledger release.
Glass controls certification of official accounts.