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Black Canal
Where unlawful water teaches authority to float
The Black Canal is Candlewick's under-dike criminal water: a wet market of outlaw shade, Hungry Ink, false seals, name packages, and useful denial.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.19-098
Candlewick Palatinate
Where Legitimacy Is Manufactured, and Colour Is Law
Canal city of chandlers, dyers, and wax-merchants whose misfortune was to be competent and noticed. The Candlewick Palatinate supplies the Synod with seals, sanctioned inks, and watermarked paper — and thus with the material substance of reality itself.
Codex Ref. II.1.01-001
Chromatic Reconciliation
Where lawful colour decides who may continue to exist
In A.S. 199 the Chromatic Registry answered Candlewick's Fading Winter with mass shade revalidation: eighteen workshops closed, forty-seven workers unlicensed, and existence left pending review.
Codex Ref. VII.4.04-002
High Registrar of Chromas
The office that can invalidate a life by changing its shade
Candlewick's High Registrar defines lawful colour and decides which papers retain their standing. Sable Vorn holds the office; Hungry Ink obeys its shades while consuming its words.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.96-201
Lady Maris Wick
The Price of Permitted Light
Lady Maris Wick heads House Wickwarden, whose wax monopoly keeps Candlewick's seals lawful and its auditors dependent on permitted light. Three shortages have proved an effective form of negotiation.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-201
Lantern Mile
Where lawful light is made and unlawful signals are understood
Candlewick's elevated chandlery district manufactures lawful light under House Wickwarden, reads smugglers' signals with profitable discretion, and keeps spinning while two wick halls have no reopening on file.
Codex Ref. II.1.01-201
Mordant Gates
Where a Sound Seal May Prove Nothing
The Candlewick Palatinate's upstream road entrance, where colour-inspectors, Records clerks and Seal Provosts examine travellers whose papers may fade before admission. The seal remains sound; what it proves is under review.
Codex Ref. II.1.01-002
Seal Locks
Where the river kneels, the Ledger learns to swim
Seal Locks pause water, cargo, papers, fugitives, ink, dust, and conscience long enough for the Synod to call movement lawful and billable.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.95-092
The Fading Winter
When the seal remained and the words deserted their posts
The A.S. 199 Fading Winter stripped text from sealed documents across the River-belt, leaving Candlewick to discover that blank authority still bites.
Codex Ref. VII.4.04-001