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Voice / voice homogenization

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Plain English: A character's voice is their distinctive way of speaking and thinking — word choice, rhythm, register. Voice homogenization is the failure where everyone sounds the same (and usually like an articulate narrator). The test: swap a name on a line of dialogue — if you can't tell who said it, the voices have collapsed.

In this project: Priya's voice (clipped, dry, engineering nouns) is "the spine." The craft audit runs the noun-swap test.

See: books/relic/canon/STYLE_GUIDE.md (voice laws) · craft/../doctrine.html · .claude/skills/de-llm-loop/SKILL.md

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