The Chase Ryder Series: Complete Series: 1-3

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Dead Person Impersonation: The Big Bad is revealed not to be Trigg, but someone assuming his appearance and starting the war in the Slums. The group doesn't realize this until after they've identified the real Trigg's rotting corpse in Inztyl.

Downplayed. Discrimination against the beast-born boils down to them being unable to achieve high-ranking positions in Sector Ryst, and any beast-born not legally recognized in Sector Ryst is dragged to the Factory. If there's any verbal or physical abuse aimed at them, it's never brought up or shown in the story proper. At the very least, it's bad enough that Arlan was fighting for beast-born to have the same rights as human-born.Not Using the "Z" Word: The animal-hybrid characters in the series are not referred to as "beastmen", "hybrids", or even "demi-humans" as they would in other fantasy settings. Instead, they're called "beast-born", though their apparent actual name is "Animan", a play on the words 'human' and 'animal'. Chase Ryder and the City of Lost Memories is a self-published novel series written by T.J. Howard, also known as by his online handle Sky Rig on FanFiction.Net and Sufficient Velocity.com.

And the Adventure Continues: The end of the first book has Chase leave for the Quarters, hoping to use the pendant to activate an elevator that will take him to Uptown Sector Ryst and hunt down Trigg before he can start a war against the City.Amnesiac Hero: Like most of the residents in the City, Chase has no memories past the last two years of his life, having already undergone his Day of Age. Whyte also underwent hers a year before the start of the story, though unlike most, she managed to retain some of her memories. Yud was a former member of the Snake Eyez, widely regarded in Sector Ryst as the worst gang in Downtown, having joined for protection after his brother was apprehended by the Guard. It did not take him long to realize exactly why they earned such a negative reputation and cut all ties with them, leaving for the Slums.