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Every codex entry that links to Lamp-Mercers. 7 entries.
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Bell-Tappers
The profit nearest the bell, where every hymn becomes a hiding place
Bell-Tappers are the richest and most doomed Hidden Pipe-Runner faction, moving black diesel beside bellways where civic resonance hides the hiss.
Codex Ref. XII.3.05-001
Black Diesel
Condemn the flame, count the warmth, deny the pipe
Black diesel is the Synod's favourite unlawful sacrament: prohibited fuel, hidden heat, scripture-smoke risk, tax opportunity, and winter's little felony.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.90-201
Bureau of Engineering Third Survey
Absence, properly measured, may be made load-bearing
The A.S. 194 Third Survey of the Constantinople Warrens proved, with exquisite scope discipline, that the illegal pipes it avoided did not matter.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-037
Clean-Lung Purists
The faction that believes the printed rule
Ninth Mark Fume-Inspector faction devoted to total detection of prohibited emanations, useful as conscience and purge tool, intolerable wherever command requires a city to keep breathing.
Codex Ref. XII.30.02-001
Furnace-Hardliners
Mercy at scale, counted in drums, pumps, kitchens, and bodies
Furnace-Hardliners are the industrial-priority faction of Hidden Pipe-Runners, feeding kitchens, pumps, engines, and trenchline furnaces with illicit black diesel.
Codex Ref. XII.3.04-001
Skopje
The bitten city keeps its markets below the teeth
Skopje fell within hours of the Sundering, then survived below itself: a bitten city of Lantern Warrens, forged papers, humming lamps, and useful lies.
Codex Ref. II.5.08-045
Skopje Lantern Warrens
A city bitten from above, still singing below
The Skopje Lantern Warrens are the tunnel-city beneath a Sundering-eaten ruin, where black-diesel lamps hum in forbidden pre-Codex modes.
Codex Ref. II.4.08-017