Reverse Index
Referencing “The Litany of First Earth”
Every codex entry that links to The Litany of First Earth. 8 entries.
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Baptism of Mud
The household loses a son; War receives a name
The Baptism of Mud receives levy recruits into War's custody: a flooded trench, the Litany of First Earth, and three days of mud that make the household's loss official.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.54-002
Carpathian Soldiers
Mountains do not enlist. Men are sent up them.
A.S. 201 survey of War's Carpathian postings: levy soldiers hold the middle Line, guard passes and freight, and face Pride at Przemyśl and Greed at Sibiu. The mountains recruit nobody; the clerks do.
Codex Ref. VIII.5.08-201
Charter of Crimson Ink
The sword received a desk and called the wound lawful
The Charter of Crimson Ink is War's founding writ: crimson vellum, authorised loss, levy custody, and the blessed discovery that armies obey better once owned.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.54-105
Continental Levy
The decimal point where obedience becomes infantry
The Continental Levy is the Synod's permanent tithe of flesh, born from the A.S. 110 crisis and refined into household arithmetic.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.54-001
Great Breach
Eleven hours in the chalk, and the sea still listening
In A.S. 71, the sea forced Calais's caves and drowned hundreds. An improvised bell-choir drove it back; the chalk then began keeping names.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-071
Medical Annex 44-C
Seventeen cases, one corrected sentence
Medical Annex 44-C survives through Stuttgart's broadsheet correction: trench rash, fungal bloom and seventeen cases of devotional fever. The A.S. 201 survey records amended promises and unchanged mud; the annex's issue date remains unrecorded.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.91-044
The Bureau of War
The Crimson Sash and the Sanctified Bayonet
Founded after the Siege of Vienna so that the Faith would never again beg feudal lords for swords. War raises the levy, baptizes the bayonet, and writes after-action reports indistinguishable from scripture.
Codex Ref. III.2.07-041
The Undertide
The sea beneath Calais has learned to listen
The Undertide are the unnamed marine entities beneath Calais: drawn to light, sound, and the Script Wall, repelled only when bells behave.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-014