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Every codex entry that links to Approved Comforts. 11 entries.
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A.S. 199 Phrase-Comparison Review
The Bureau learned to compare meanings; the street moved them into breath
Purity's A.S. 199 review taught assessors to compare meanings across unlike phrases. Records reconsidered Faron; lawful ink continued to misbehave in breath.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-199
Classification Advisory 14-L
Mercy under watch, recurrence on paper, the third citation in stone
The attested A.S. 199 revision of Purity's conditional Lantern proscription: mercy under watch, arrest upon documented recurrence, immurement upon third citation. Original issue year unknown.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.14-199
Curfew Ordinance of Quiet Hours
The margin law that taught night to carry a pass, a lamp, and a witness
The Curfew Ordinance of Quiet Hours began as a Rhineland margin law and became the Synod's nocturnal grammar: lamps, passes, Consolators, Brotherhood knives, and useful fear.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.76-094
Lantern "Mercy" Preacher (Rebel)
Eighth heresy, eighth rank, eighth because the Synod reserves that number for what it made, cannot unmake, and will not thank.
Eighth of eight proscribed heresies: the Licensed Consolators who meant what they said, and were immured for it.
Codex Ref. XI.3.01-001
Licensed Consolators
Fourteen comforts, one licence, and a throat under inspection
Grey-stoled civic comforters ratified in A.S. 94 to calm curfew crossings with fourteen Approved Comforts. The licence permits reassurance; the extra sentence earns a tribunal.
Codex Ref. XII.25.09-094
Lull Prayers
A blessing that calms the queue and sometimes points toward a stair
Official recitations to calm distress, sometimes made to carry concealed aid. Purity can transcribe the blessing; the informed listener has already found the stair.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.120-201
Moselle Crossing
The papers were in order. I checked them twice.
Current documentary survey, A.S. 201: at a Moselle curfew crossing I checked a Licensed Consolator's papers twice. They were in order. Sincerity was harder to inspect.
Codex Ref. II.2.08-201
Ninth Peal
The hour when a walking body must explain itself
The Ninth Peal makes every step conditional: after dusk, Rhineland crossings demand cause, route, pass, lamp and witness. Drax surveys the machinery in A.S. 201.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.62-201
Old Faron the Hush-Monger
The ghost who taught mercy to change shape before the clerks arrived
Unverified founder-culprit of Mercy Preacher phrase-rotation, Old Faron survives as a named absence: useful to Purity, beloved by fog, and impossible to arrest.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-127
Phrase-Rotation
The comfort stays; the words refuse to testify
Mercy Preachers vary comfort and coded aid to defeat comparison. The meaning reaches the street; the clerk receives three perfectly useless transcripts.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.77-201
Tongue-Smiths
Lawful ink made treasonous by breath, comma, grief, and timing
Elite Lantern Mercy writers who forge audit-clean catechisms with breath-dependent meanings, making authorised comforts disobey before the law can quote them.
Codex Ref. XII.25.10-001