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14th Garrison
The wall survives by learning when to look away
The 14th Garrison holds Bastion-Constantinople's hunger-facing wall by counting Kargath's horrors briefly, coldly, and under orders to look away.
Codex Ref. VIII.5.14-201

22nd Line Company
The hand is servant, and therefore watched
The 22nd Line Company gave Doctrine one bitten logbook, one hungry corporal, and the ninety-second rule by which men now survive looking.
Codex Ref. VIII.5.22-191

Fourteenth Doctrinal Congress
Matter protested; the seal prevailed
The A.S. 147 Congress that made authenticated contradiction obedient, ratifying the Femur Principle and Kargath's consumption taxonomy in the same week.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.90-147

Memorandum on Artillery Bombardment
Nine thousand shells, four hundred twelve names, and one unsigned appetite for arithmetic
An unsigned Bureau of War memorandum proposes shelling the Hollow Court. Doctrine finds nine thousand shells, no absolution, and a table that may be an organ.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.23-001

The Blightbearers
Famine with feet, and no mercy in the pantry
Kargath's Blightbearers are famine-carriers: thin demons whose passage makes full granaries fraudulent, clear wells treacherous, and supper an accusation.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-013

The Hierarchy of Need
Hunger is the sermon Kargath learned to serve hot
Kargath's cults do not begin with horns, but with bread. The Bureau calls their five stations a hierarchy. The hungry call them provision.
Codex Ref. IX.2.01-001

The Hollow-Walkers
The beggar at the wire is hunger wearing grammar
Kargath's Hollow-Walkers are human-shaped hunger: walking deprivation vessels that remember enough language to make mercy tactically dangerous.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-012

The Maw-Born
Hunger granted weight, gums, and field classification
Kargath's Maw-Born are appetite given meat: primary physical demons whose doctrine is a mouth, a pit, and the range at which artillery remains useful.
Codex Ref. IV.1.07-011
