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Every codex entry that links to The Sisters of the Martyrdom. 13 entries.
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Angers
Five words, no bridge, and a city trying to found an order
Angers is a Zone One city whose claim on the Sisters of the Martyrdom rests on five psalter-margin words: I shall be the lock.
Codex Ref. II.1.09-015

Bérénice
The fire has a name; the year has no entry
Bérénice is credited with firing the Châlons bridge from beneath its arch. The Ledger retains her deed, the masonry dispute, and an empty space where the year should be.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-245

Cardinal-Marshal Severin of Avignon
The tourniquet of Montreval, ugly enough to save a front
Severin of Avignon held Montreval through the Atheist Wars: severe, loud, bloodstained, and too useful for the Bureau to canonise cleanly.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-007

Châlons
One crossing, one attributed fire, no year
Châlons survives in the Ledger as one unnamed crossing and an undated fire attributed to Bérénice. The river is missing; the masonry has three explanations.
Codex Ref. II.1.04-565

Clémence of Saint-Riquier
The wick was wet; the Ledger keeps the name
The A.S. 201 survey retains Clémence beside Ysabeau at Saint-Riquier: a wet wick, an open crossing, and two unburned bodies. A sacristan's bread account kept the names that embarrassed the devotional cycle.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-644

Liège
Where the bell was broken and the horn learned obedience
Liège, soot-black industrial city of the Meuse, lost its shift-bells in A.S. 108 after miners rang survival without licence; the horns remain ugly, lawful, and obeyed.
Codex Ref. II.2.03-108

Maud of Saint-Riquier
The bridge fell; the query is still standing
In A.S. 16, Maud used axle grease after a chaplain refused to bless it. The bridge fell. His doctrinal query remains unanswered; her fate remains unrecorded.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-016

Meuse corridor
The bridge fell; the query remains unanswered
The Meuse corridor gathered armies and refugees at its crossings. Maud's bridge fell in A.S. 16; the chaplain's query about axle grease remains unanswered.
Codex Ref. II.1.08-016

Miserere
The psalm Severin finished while the northern front collapsed
Severin finished the Miserere at Montreval after reading of Aachen's betrayal in A.S. 25. Mercy was requested; the bridges were burned anyway.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.96-025

Montreval
The pass-town that taught Reason the road was closed
Montreval held three winters against Lucien Artois's clockwork guns, hunger, pamphlets, fever, and arithmetic; a southern pass-town where Severin bought time with walls, bells, broth, and burned bridges.
Codex Ref. II.1.09-015

Picardy
One woman, one plank, and no recorded fire
Picardy enters the Ledger through one unnamed woman who saw Margaux's image and hid powder beneath a bridge plank. The record supplies neither a burning bridge nor a martyr.
Codex Ref. II.1.12-015

Seal Obsidian
The classification that denies the hand while sharpening the knife
Seal Obsidian is the Synod's blackest administrative mercy: knowledge retained because it is needed, denied because it is fatal.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.09-001

The Forbidden Stacks
Where heresy is shelved close enough to hate efficiently
The Forbidden Stacks beneath Strasbourg preserve Rationalist paper, contraband symbols, and other knives the Bureau prefers labelled rather than lost.
Codex Ref. II.2.06-001

