Reverse Index
Referencing “Beaconchain”
Every codex entry that links to Beaconchain. 8 entries.
Return to Beaconchain
Beacon Tower Three
Six cycles of light, and one answer too many
The fifty-foot signal tower at Third Light, where a relic-lantern, a restricted bell and six daily cycles govern convoy passage. The fog answers in the tower's own protocol; the logs accept what the ridges deny.
Codex Ref. II.4.08-006
Beaconmaster Jorren Quill
Clean gloves, complete logs, seven false answers
Jorren Quill commands Third Light's Signal Office, with eleven years of unbroken logs. Seven false acknowledgments now bear his office's stamp; no finding ties the Beaconmaster to their making.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-201
Gate Provost Harn
Permission and passage are sold separately
Harn, called Nail, holds Third Light's Switchback Gate and collects the second half of its double-tithe. He has heard the fog's third answer twice and filed no report.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-201
Grounding Field
Iron for the storm, folklore for the interrogator
Forty-seven iron chains guard Third Light against lightning. The Provosts hear oaths beside them; Doctrine calls their judgment folklore and conducts its interrogations there all the same.
Codex Ref. II.4.08-047
Lanternwright Knot
The hands that keep the beacon true can sell its blindness
At Third Light, the Lanternwright Knot keeps the beacon's lenses obedient and sells selective blindness for oil. Twelve voices steady the glass; the guild's own numbers remain unrecorded.
Codex Ref. XII.26.02-001
Lanternwright mechanics
The clerk certifies the light; the mechanic keeps it burning
Third Light's Lanternwright mechanics keep salvaged lenses clean, true and obedient. The clerks certify the signal; the mechanics climb into the lightning, while the fog answers and replacement glass remains a memorandum.
Codex Ref. XII.26.02-002
Loghouse of Slate Pages
The procedure was followed; the signal never arrived
Third Light's cliffside record house certifies every convoy clearance by bell-signet and timing wheel. Seven impeccable acknowledgments now sit beside Fourth Light's denial; the pages remain unbroken.
Codex Ref. II.4.08-585
Lowvale Tallytown
The ridge's dependence, entered against the valley
Lowvale Tallytown sends lamp oil, salvaged glass and conscripts up to Third Light. The ridge calls it dependent, then charges its porters twice for keeping the beacon lit.
Codex Ref. II.4.08-1681