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Codex Ref. XII.31.01-001

On the Procession Marshal

The boot behind the beat; or, why orderly grief is the Synod's last public prayer

The boot behind the beat. The Procession Marshal controls pilgrim columns, funeral trains, and levy marches — setting cadence by baton, marking routes in chalk, and cutting lane ropes when the crowd folds. Born of three hundred dead at Bastion-Brest, A.S. 112.

Codex Ref
XII.31.01-001
Category
doctrine
Anno Synodi
112
Submitted By
Hieromnemon Valerius Drax
Sealed By
Bureau of Doctrine
A grey-coated Procession Marshal stands at the choke point of a grain depot yard with baton raised and rope-knife in hand, splitting a surging ration crowd, chalk route-marks on the cobblestones, pressed bodies receding into fog
Sergeant-Marshal at the Bastion-Irongate depot. The lane marks are still visible in the chalk. The lane ropes were not cut.