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Referencing “Corpse-Light”
Every codex entry that links to Corpse-Light. 7 entries.
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Do Not Answer
When the water answers, put out the light.
At the Ash-Glyph Marshworks, the Lantern Guild meets counterfeit corpse-light with hooded lamps, blindfolded oarsmen and bell-click cadence. The code is withheld; its origin is unrecorded.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.24-003
False Shore
The recovery is recorded. The shore will not stay filed.
An uncharted bank off Ash-Glyph Marshworks, reported to shift with the tides. Relics surface fresh, divers report warmth, and an A.S. 199 casket bore a tag dated three days ahead. No chart position is on file.
Codex Ref. II.4.08-007
Glow Choir
Seven investigations, no arrests, and three informants singing.
At the Ash-Glyph Marshworks, a mourning sect sings to corpse-light and calls its false channels invitations. Seven Purity investigations have yielded no arrests; three choristers are Purity's own informants.
Codex Ref. XI.1.09-001
Lantern Guild of the Third Brine
The right to come home after dusk is issued at a fee.
The Lantern Guild controls night passage through the Ash-Glyph Marshworks, selling routes by coded lamp while the corpse-light copies its credentials.
Codex Ref. XII.7.02-003
Lantern Rackway
The water has learned the route codes.
Tallow lamps guide night traffic through the Ash-Glyph Marshworks, under Orren Pike's Lantern Guild. The water sometimes returns their signals. Passage requires a brine-mark; survival requires knowing when to extinguish the light.
Codex Ref. II.4.08-008
Mortuary Cartography Office
The maps are authoritative. The marsh revises them nightly.
The joint War and Records office at Ash-Glyph Marshworks converts the war-dead into sealed burial grids and salvage into tagged provenance. Its authority rests on maps the ground declines to obey.
Codex Ref. XII.7.02-004
Orren Pike
After dusk, jurisdiction hangs from an iron bracket.
Guildmaster Orren Pike controls night passage through the Ash-Glyph Marshworks. The Bureau of War denies his authority and follows his lamps. The corpse-light copies their signals.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-2046