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Beloved
The familiar face is bait; the person you love is elsewhere
Morwen's Beloved wear the faces of those you love. Accept their comfort at Irongate and surrender a little of yourself; the familiar face is bait.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-015
Bone-Lines
What only you remember, until the copy remembers too
Bone-lines are the small, private memories Irongate files against Morwen's copies. Records calls them copy-resistant; I advise the reader to remember the distinction.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.01-004
Clerk Voss
Permission to stop reading: denied
Clerk Voss asked to stop reading when a Ledger amended itself during Irongate's A.S. 199 Twinning hearing. Permission was denied. The archive preserves the request; it does not preserve the clerk's fate.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-199
Echo-Kin
The copy is easily caught; the doubt remains.
Morwen's lesser imitators copy gait, gesture and speech badly enough to be caught. At Irongate, the copy dies; the soldier's doubt outlives it.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-016
Face-Thieves
The face is only the credential.
Morwen's precision demons study a chosen person for weeks or months, then take his place. At Irongate, even the evidence may learn to agree with the thief.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-017
Heaven
Perfect recognition, beyond the reach of any clerk
Heaven knows every soul, Doctrine assures us. Strasbourg stamps acceptance until contradicted; I record the death registers and the silence no bureau can countersign.
Codex Ref. VI.1.02-201
Hollow Ones
It learns your life while you forget it.
Morwen's Hollow Ones learn your phrases while you forget them. At Irongate, the Ledger may recognise the thief more readily than the man.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-018
Incident at Sector Nineteen
Count to three, then stop being available
Sector Nineteen taught Irongate that a face is evidence only until Envy wears it better: thirty-one dead men returned to post, and mirrors became contraband.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-193
Mimetic Theft
The voice is yours. The sermon may not be.
Morwen's school of sorcery steals voices, faces, and the evidence of a life. The Bureau can certify a broadcast. It remains less certain which corporal is entitled to answer his own name.
Codex Ref. VI.3.07-001
Mirror Discipline
Count to three before your face becomes negotiable
Mirror Discipline forbids the Irongate garrison from lingering over its own face, because Morwen enters where vanity counts past three.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.01-003
The Ledgers of Self
Identity, accepted provisionally until the next contradiction
At Bastion-Irongate the self is filed in triplicate, because Morwen steals what is unfastened and Strasbourg fastens with ink.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.01-002