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Worlds and the outer rim

The Rim and its worlds · 5 sections
  1. The governing geography
  2. Keep the scales distinct
  3. What an imperial core means
  4. An edge inhabited for generations
  5. Reading the atlas
Stars, worlds and competing clocks · 6 sections
  1. Three systems, several kinds of home
  2. The stellar register
  3. The planetary register
  4. Moons, tides and eclipses
  5. Civil time and the argument over a day
  6. What a chart can honestly show
The Serev system · 5 sections
  1. An inhabited system
  2. Political geography
  3. The route to Tarsenne
  4. The three-system reference register
  5. Ossar and the service approaches
Caelune · 10 sections
  1. Land and settlement
  2. Three different ways of belonging
  3. Comfort and cost
  4. The estuary belt and the Ashnar interior
  5. Rain that brings more than water
  6. An economy spread across the ground
  7. Settlements, law and the travelling household
  8. Knowledge, care and ordinary faith
  9. What grows between the duties
  10. Physical and orbital register
Damar · 10 sections
  1. A landscape maintained
  2. Home and public space
  3. Regional differences
  4. The inhabited basins
  5. The living ground and its hazards
  6. Water as an operating system of government
  7. Movement, energy and work
  8. Schools, illness and the district bargain
  9. Public pleasure and contested memory
  10. Physical and orbital register
The Kingdom of Nereth · 11 sections
  1. A place in the outer system
  2. The crown and the yards
  3. Economic independence
  4. Culture inside the pressure boundary
  5. A lunar kingdom within maintained walls
  6. Keld Anchorage from the civic court to the yard
  7. Crown, Commons and the right to stop work
  8. Air, water, food and the industrial bargain
  9. Defence, illness and unequal exposure
  10. Culture within the boundary
  11. Physical and orbital register
Pelaset · 7 sections
  1. A world larger than its imperial province
  2. Weather, ecology and exposed work
  3. A charter with a long shadow
  4. Glass, pressure vessels and the journey out
  5. Care, teaching and the cost of passage
  6. Food, faith and the long conversation
  7. Physical and orbital register
Tarsenne · 4 sections
  1. The world and the coastal petition
  2. A planetary brief
  3. Claims and obligations
  4. Distance as a lived condition
Tarsenne: planetary almanac · 11 sections
  1. 1. Planetary identity and quick reference
  2. 2. Land, sea and the weather between them
  3. 3. Histories older than the current borders
  4. 4. Countries, communities and contested reach
  5. 5. Trade and the cost of reaching another place
  6. 6. Households, languages, learning and care
  7. 7. Belief, art and news on the rim
  8. 8. Technology, arcane practice and public force
  9. 9. Rest days, games and journeys made for pleasure
  10. 10. Reference epoch, register and reading routes
  11. Physical and orbital register

Realms, provinces and power

The Orinthian Empire · 14 sections
  1. An empire across worlds
  2. The crown at home
  3. A short history of the empire
  4. House Orinth and succession
  5. Who can actually decide
  6. Court, influence and rivalry
  7. Work, law and everyday belonging
  8. Neighbours and the frontier
  9. The people behind the imperial total
  10. Law, custody and the price of being believed
  11. Orders that become engines, uniforms and rations
  12. Defence, service and the people left behind
  13. Public belief and imperial ceremony
  14. A country made of departures
House Orinth · 10 sections
  1. The established family
  2. Mereth and Alven · the earlier generation
  3. Ysabet · attention and control
  4. Temren · the consort’s work
  5. Odran · the younger child
  6. Terenne and the wider house
  7. Aveline among them
  8. A household maintained by other households
  9. Property, patronage and the heir
  10. Illness, absence and continuity
An Orinthian chronology · 10 sections
  1. Reading the dates
  2. The historical spine
  3. A compact that did useful work
  4. The first crown and the inland wars
  5. Offworld obligations
  6. A later settlement, a different charter
  7. History in the present tense
  8. The archive beneath the monument
  9. Reading the consolidation campaigns locally
  10. The uneven afterlife of reform
Provinces of an uneven empire · 9 sections
  1. Reading the territorial register
  2. The Estuary Province · Caelune
  3. The Valed uplands · Caelune
  4. The Pelaset charter province · beyond Serev
  5. The comparison
  6. What this register does not annex
  7. The county and the service catchment
  8. Pelaset and the terms of belonging
  9. The regional supply register
At the Orinthian court · 9 sections
  1. Two calendars
  2. A route through the offices
  3. A morning at the counter
  4. Influence that leaves no order
  5. Authority at a distance
  6. Where the system falls short
  7. When there is no time to wait
  8. Witnesses who still have to go home
  9. The decision after the seal dries
The things a household keeps · 9 sections
  1. A shared state, many households
  2. Keeping the names
  3. The Low-Water Fair · Velisar
  4. Channel-opening · Valed
  5. Passage letters · Pelaset
  6. What persists between visits
  7. The bill after a funeral
  8. Hosting across class and distance
  9. Games, songs and public embarrassment
The Sarthene Empire · 10 sections
  1. Crown and civic chambers
  2. How the empire grew
  3. Learning, work and status
  4. Relations with Orinth
  5. Serrat and the unequal map of representation
  6. Designation and the machinery of consent
  7. Justice, examinations and the social accent
  8. Industry and the procurement chain
  9. Health, learning and civic religion
  10. Arts, sport and the limits of rivalry
The Sedge Coast charter communities · 16 sections
  1. 1. Identity and reference
  2. 2. Coast, river and inhabited ground
  3. 3. Charter history
  4. 4. Government, law and practical authority
  5. 5. Work, money and exchange
  6. 6. People, teaching and care
  7. 7. Culture, belief and communication
  8. 8. Works, skills and security
  9. 9. Play and rest
  10. 10. Opening-year register and directory
  11. Landings, debts and the shape of belonging
  12. A household without a deed
  13. The catch between the water and the buyer
  14. What lives at the wet edge
  15. Care, teaching and protection in small places
  16. The lamps after the argument
The Crown of Halvyr · 16 sections
  1. 1. Identity and quick reference
  2. 2. Geography, climate and living environment
  3. 3. History and the documents people remember
  4. 4. Government, law and current politics
  5. 5. Economy, labour, finance and trade
  6. 6. Population, education, health and welfare
  7. 7. Culture, arts, faith and communication
  8. 8. Knowledge, infrastructure, powers and defence
  9. 9. Sport, recreation and the uses of free time
  10. 10. SR 683 review, references and directory
  11. The shelter bill after the traveller has gone
  12. People whom a fixed address fails
  13. Good glass, bad air
  14. The living mountains are not scenery
  15. Who carries the reserve
  16. The second verse at a warm table
The Republic of Selnic · 16 sections
  1. 1. Identity and quick reference
  2. 2. Geography, climate and living environment
  3. 3. History and founding documents
  4. 4. Government, law and politics
  5. 5. Economy, labour, finance and trade
  6. 6. Population, education, health and welfare
  7. 7. Culture, arts, faith and communications
  8. 8. Science, services, powers and defence
  9. 9. Sport and recreation
  10. 10. SR 683 review, sources and directory
  11. The old share beneath the new vote
  12. The contract that follows the crop
  13. Clean tolerances in a dirty district
  14. Dry places with teeth and roots
  15. People who maintain the republic
  16. An evening that belongs to its participants
The Veydan Concord · 16 sections
  1. 1. Identity and quick reference
  2. 2. Geography, climate and living environment
  3. 3. History and its documents
  4. 4. Government, law and the seven states
  5. 5. Economy, labour, money and trade
  6. 6. Population, education, health and support
  7. 7. Culture, art, belief and communication
  8. 8. Science, infrastructure, powers and defence
  9. 9. Sport, leisure and the pleasure of place
  10. 10. SR 683 review, reference limits and directory
  11. What the seven harbours inherited
  12. Common citizenship and an inconvenient island address
  13. Salt is a manufacturing cost
  14. The green edge can close around a person
  15. Care and defence across real distances
  16. A chorus need not settle the argument
The Kingdom of Orsala · 16 sections
  1. 1. Identity and quick reference
  2. 2. Geography, climate and living environment
  3. 3. History, memory and the principal instruments
  4. 4. Crown, courts, councils and politics
  5. 5. Economy, labour, finance and trade
  6. 6. People, learning, care and support
  7. 7. Culture, belief, arts and public speech
  8. 8. Knowledge, public works, arcane practice and defence
  9. 9. Games, sport, recreation and time away
  10. 10. SR 683 review, tables and directory
  11. An account older than the crop
  12. The advance with a pleasant name
  13. A sterile dressing begins far from the wound
  14. Rain enters the house by several doors
  15. Institutions between the district and the Crown
  16. The season people try to keep

Cities and settlements

Velisar · 10 sections
  1. Reading the city
  2. Places people use
  3. A day across several households
  4. Capital privilege
  5. The capital beyond the ceremonial approach
  6. Twelve places in the working city
  7. Who keeps the city running
  8. Employment, injuries and municipal care
  9. Smoke, floodwater and older ground
  10. The city after its shift
Asterfall · 11 sections
  1. The city in its valley
  2. The municipal glasshouses
  3. A city of arrivals and old shares
  4. Living there
  5. Water and memory
  6. The terraces and the people on them
  7. A street directory above the confluence
  8. Councils, shares and daily government
  9. Glass, seeds and specialist work
  10. Care, learning and the exposed season
  11. The city when the channel opens
Serrat · 6 sections
  1. A capital above stored water
  2. Streets, courts and places to stop
  3. The city and the bodies meeting inside it
  4. Making accurate things under imperfect conditions
  5. Care, classrooms and public belief
  6. A city worth the argument
Tavren Reach · 6 sections
  1. The harbour and its inhabited ground
  2. Twelve anchors for a walk through the city
  3. A city with several public masters
  4. A working chain from furnace to customer
  5. The waiting city
  6. The sound of people remaining
North Quay: city and harbour · 12 sections
  1. The shape of the port
  2. Streets and districts
  3. Eight places to find
  4. Water, waste and a route uphill
  5. A lunch carried carefully
  6. Access and departure
  7. The port built around its receipts
  8. Power on Quay Road
  9. Rooms by the shift bell
  10. Industrial weather and the useful machine
  11. A ward is more than a bed
  12. After clearance at the Net Loft
Reedbank · 10 sections
  1. A place already inhabited
  2. Work and maintenance
  3. Care, teaching and mutual obligation
  4. The coastal petition
  5. The bank remembers before the register
  6. Who can speak for a landing
  7. The cost of keeping a boat earning
  8. Brown water, sound boards
  9. Small means of staying alive
  10. What residents keep for themselves
Rauth Crossing: a valley town · 10 sections
  1. A town across two banks
  2. Streets made by the town's growth
  3. Civil life between the yards
  4. Reading this map
  5. Three layers of the town
  6. Crossing House and the household ledger
  7. The plank is not the finished product
  8. The valley keeps what the chimney releases
  9. A shelter has to remain reachable
  10. Behind the long windows
Rimefold · 11 sections
  1. The city above the gorge
  2. Eight places on the plan
  3. A walk through the working city
  4. Water, warmth and access
  5. The third bell
  6. A capital assembled on difficult ground
  7. Lamp Court and the price of waiting
  8. Rope Hall's necessary tolerances
  9. Air below the roofs
  10. Learning with something at stake
  11. Meals, puppets and the household after the hearing
Tessovar · 11 sections
  1. Where the city stands
  2. Eight places on the plan
  3. From a delivery to the evening shore
  4. Keeping the household supplied
  5. The bowl with the uneven birds
  6. A city built around access to water
  7. The name accepted at the counter
  8. West Exchange in the morning
  9. A clean-looking canal
  10. Treatment, trials and time off work
  11. The court after the sun drops
Nacre Sound · 11 sections
  1. The city and its ground
  2. Eight places on the plan
  3. Two streets and an ordinary walk
  4. What keeps the capital usable
  5. A late crossing
  6. The bay before the assembly
  7. Two offices behind a national name
  8. The yard beyond the public path
  9. The water above and below
  10. Learning, medicine and the night watch
  11. The passage someone chooses to prolong
Miravel · 11 sections
  1. The river beside the city
  2. Eight places on the plan
  3. Bell Road and Rain Street
  4. Water, waste and the cost of access
  5. The blue cloth
  6. A western-bank capital
  7. Who owns a dry room
  8. From Bell Road to Namar
  9. Flood ground is already occupied by life
  10. The sound measure and the unhelpful crest
  11. A colour kept through the rain

People and continuing lives

Aveline before the voyage · 7 sections
  1. The crown princess
  2. A household before a dynasty
  3. Learning to be heard
  4. A room of her own
  5. The procession · a remembered event
  6. The petition she thought she had solved
  7. Why Tarsenne mattered
Edris Ro: The Good Tablecloth · 5 sections
  1. His household and his work
  2. The promise
  3. What he brought home
  4. Where we leave him
  5. The notice at the tram stop
Edris Ro: The Wrong Song · 5 sections
  1. An evening left empty
  2. A substitution
  3. What remained in the music
  4. The way home
  5. The programme in his pocket
Kesra Dey: A Seam of Her Own · 5 sections
  1. A place in the yard
  2. The mark beneath the seal
  3. The next inspection
  4. Where we leave her
  5. The extra place at supper
Istra Harn: Room on the Bench · 5 sections
  1. The house above the river
  2. A hand offered
  3. The boat goes back
  4. Where we leave her
  5. The boat she would not release
Sevren Hal: Lessons After Lunch · 5 sections
  1. A quieter household
  2. The form on the table
  3. An exchange of skills
  4. Where we leave him
  5. The rail beside the bath
Lethra Cerin: Beyond the Garden Wall · 5 sections
  1. What she wanted to grow
  2. The book returned
  3. A practical morning
  4. Before leaving Velisar
  5. The room above the market

Living systems and knowledge

A civilisation at household scale · 7 sections
  1. Several ordinary lives
  2. Money, care and time
  3. Pleasure belongs in the record
  4. Lives beyond these households
  5. The cost that arrives out of order
  6. The body in the account
  7. Rooms that people can actually use
The household ledger · 5 sections
  1. The household as infrastructure
  2. Food and the reliable ordinary
  3. Wages, rents and protected time
  4. A comparative household register
  5. Pleasure is also a material fact
Passage, freight and news · 6 sections
  1. A route is a maintained agreement
  2. Transit and the cost of being awake
  3. Ports, customs and the final kilometre
  4. Communications and delayed authority
  5. Roads, rivers and scheduled failure
  6. The carriage register
Tarsenne: industries, dependencies and imperial demand · 6 sections
  1. Production gives geography political weight
  2. The regional production register
  3. A purchased pump is a journey
  4. Industrial cities are homes
  5. Supply, diplomacy and conflict
  6. A reference for changing conditions
Biomes, weather and bad air · 6 sections
  1. A world has more than one weather
  2. The environmental register
  3. Corrosive rain
  4. Water has a memory
  5. Fire, ice and abandoned maintenance
  6. Living with warnings
Teeth, wings and working animals · 6 sections
  1. Animals are not waiting for travellers
  2. The creature register
  3. Ridge-jaws and the shape of a forest
  4. The small things that enter a house
  5. Working animals and the people who know them
  6. Hunting, scarcity and protection
Roots, spores and creeping growth · 6 sections
  1. The green edge of an abandoned room
  2. A practical botanical register
  3. Widow lace
  4. Black seam and sealed habitation
  5. Crops, seed ownership and failed harvests
  6. Gathering and arcane materials
Care, injury and the repairable body · 6 sections
  1. A person and a reading
  2. Institutions of care
  3. Disease follows an arrangement
  4. Prostheses and replacement organs
  5. Biological variation and inherited alteration
  6. Healing and power
Knowledge and power · 6 sections
  1. What must be learnt
  2. Psionic discipline
  3. Spellcraft
  4. What a training record can prove
  5. Psionic practice, consent and testimony
  6. Spellcraft and the custody of materials
Psionic Aether and the learned arts · 7 sections
  1. Two traditions that sometimes meet
  2. The working disciplines
  3. Learning that cannot be bought intact
  4. Fatigue, recovery and failure
  5. Materials and journeys
  6. Consent, policing and war
  7. Aveline’s designation
War, garrisons and their invoices · 6 sections
  1. Forces with different owners
  2. The supply chain of a weapon
  3. The defended place
  4. Occupation and the aftermath
  5. Contracts, raiding and the grey frontier
  6. The price paid at home
Law, debt and captivity · 6 sections
  1. Several laws at one door
  2. The court as a place people must reach
  3. Debt and the sale of tomorrow
  4. Bondage and penal labour
  5. Identification, sanctuary and the missing record
  6. Power visible in ordinary procedure
Old works and unquiet ground · 5 sections
  1. The past remains in service
  2. Rights above and below the ground
  3. Ordinary hazards before extraordinary ones
  4. The anomalous register
  5. Recovered knowledge and changed power
Reading the location almanacs · 6 sections
  1. Major places, at their own scale
  2. Finding a subject
  3. Maps and images as part of the reference
  4. From the sky to a household
  5. Statistics and dates
  6. Lives that keep the reference honest