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Referencing “True Knot Faction”
Every codex entry that links to True Knot Faction. 10 entries.
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Beast Proscription
When Heraldry put the animal kingdom under seal
The Beast Proscription of A.S. 108 reclassified Europe's animal crests after the Crimson Gate Riot, turning lions into geometry and wolves into evidence.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-033
Fast Hands, Gate-Carvers
The marked door before dusk is the state admitting it was late
Fast Hands are the accelerated-compliance faction within the Gate-Carver trade, cutting thresholds quickly enough to legalise streets before hunger, riot, or Purity arrives.
Codex Ref. XII.19.02-002
Grave-Sealers
Stone remembers; the Registry demands a copy
Current survey, A.S. 201: Grave-Sealers are the Gate-Carver faction that cuts and registers burial thresholds. Their slabs are legible to Heraldry; the dead are less obliging.
Codex Ref. XII.19.02-003
House-Knotters
Name the living; let the Registry read it
Current survey, A.S. 201: House-Knotters are the Gate-Carver faction that cuts and registers household thresholds. Families pay for protection; the Registry receives a legible address.
Codex Ref. XII.19.02-004
Housing Canon
Praise on the day, fines at month's end
The Bastion Housing Canon balances lawful households against marked thresholds, praising the carver who prevents today's riot and fining both haste and delay when the monthly tables arrive.
Codex Ref. XII.19.03-001
Lintel Pogroms of Cologne
Fourteen perfect Knots, three sealed niches, and a Registry to count the tools
In A.S. 112, fourteen perfect false Knots cost Cologne's river quarter its lawful thresholds, three carvers their air, and Heraldry the trouble of founding the Knotwright Registry.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-112
Saint Edrin of the Three Nails
Cut true, name all, hold the door
Saint Edrin of the Three Nails is the patron of Gate-Carvers, remembered for sealing a plague-house during the A.S. 78 Lull of Names with measure, witness, and refusal.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-120
The Knotwright Registry
Where every lawful threshold becomes a number, and every number becomes a leash
The Knotwright Registry is Heraldry's A.S. 112 tool-custody office for Gate-Carvers, where stencils, punches, rubbings, licences, and trembling hands become evidence.
Codex Ref. VIII.1.03-002
The Lintel Pogroms
When fourteen correct doors made a district homeless
The A.S. 112 Lintel Pogroms stripped Cologne's river-quarter doors after fourteen perfect false Knots exposed stolen stencils, counterfeit punches, hidden bodies, and a trembling hand fit for a wall.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-112
The Ossuary Breach Winter
When the dead tapped back, every workshop discovered it had always been behind schedule
The A.S. 134 Ossuary Breach Winter at Bastion-Irongate turned grave-seal defects, hollow walls, and moving dead into nine months of emergency Gate-Carver labour and stone-dust attrition.
Codex Ref. VII.4.25-001