Referencing Wound-Site Prospector — The Sacred Ledger

Budapest
The city the Danube cut in half, and the half that watches back
The largest city in the forward heartlands and the principal staging hub of the Central Corridor. 850,000 souls on the western bank, and something unaccounted for on the eastern. The Danube runs between them like a sentence the Bureau started and declined to finish.
Codex Ref. II.4.09-009
Budapest-Irongate Corridor
The road that pays in fuel and settles its accounts in men
The southern feeder route from Budapest to Bastion-Irongate carries blessed freight past nineteen confirmed wound-sites and four probable. Charter houses draw the fuel; their crews settle the human account.
Codex Ref. II.4.09-369
Bureau of Engines & Furnaces
The furnace burns because it must, and someone must invoice the flame
The Bureau of Engines & Furnaces governs the Synod's hot machinery: fuel allowances, furnace discipline, wound-site yield, pressure systems, and every boiler too useful to condemn.
Codex Ref. VIII.2.02-001
Central Corridor Command
Where a yellow pin decides who eats
The Bureau of War's logistics authority in Budapest's former Royal Palace, directing Central Corridor convoys to the forward bastions. Green moves, red is lost, and yellow requires decisions.
Codex Ref. VIII.7.04-201
Charter Baron Gruhl
The man who made forty-one deaths balance
Charter Baron Gruhl held seven Budapest-Irongate wound-sites, lost forty-one workers in one season, filed them as fuel-adjacent assets, and retired with a pension.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-149
Charter Wars
The houses settled; the crews kept paying
Licensed extraction houses bribed Judges, burned rival pits and killed survey scribes over wound-site rights. The A.S. 167 amendment settled the Charter Wars; the houses continued by filing complaints.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-167
Extraction Chapel
The plug rests under glass; its age remains an argument
Budapest's Extraction Chapel holds Saint Orren's provisionally authenticated iron plug in a sealed case. Prospectors come for a patron who bought nine hours; Relics keeps the dating dispute open.
Codex Ref. II.3.12-112
Fuel Allowance Tables
The pen decides which fires survive the winter
The Fuel Allowance Tables let Engines & Furnaces decide which boilers, trains and wards receive heat. War requests, Tithes counts, and Engines keeps the pen warm.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.92-201
Fuel Monopoly Acts
The statute by which heat learned to kneel before a tariff table
A.S. 112 legal doctrine placing wound-site fuel, drums, charters, workers, accidents, and heat itself beneath Synodal licence and tariff.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.92-112
Furrow of Pest
A ditch with paperwork, until the ground corrected the song
The wound-site rupture of A.S. 152 that killed thirty-seven workers, sent wrong flame through the southern fuel line, and forced the Gasket Hymn Reform into law.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-153
Gasket Hymn Reform
The seal must be sung, because the wound has learned to answer
The A.S. 152 reform that turned wound-site sealing into mandatory sung procedure after the Furrow of Pest killed thirty-seven workers and sent wrong flame through the southern corridor.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-152
Hospices of Departure
Where Mercy warms the cup and counts the breath
The Hospices of Departure are Mercy's immaculate terminal rooms: clean linen, black elixir, family chalk-lines, final slips, and the doctrine by which the Synod makes death kind, lawful, useful, and recorded.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.88-112
Injured Laborers' Provision
The law stops at the edge of the payroll
The A.S. 160 Provision gives injured direct Bureau employees recognised standing before the Synod. Charter-house prospectors fall outside it. Seven requests to close the gap have been received; seven have been filed.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.93-160
Injured Laborers’ Provision of A.S. 160
The wound is Synodal; the wages belong to someone else
The A.S. 160 provision covers injured Bureau employees and excludes charter-house prospectors. Seven petitions bearing Saint Orren's name sought correction; all seven were filed. The payroll decides whose wounds count.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.93-160
Iron Plug
The iron survives; its pedigree is a petition
R-0447-BP, the iron plug attributed to Saint Orren, rests under glass in Budapest. Nine hours are doctrine; the relic's identity remains provisional.
Codex Ref. III.2.04-447
Quiet Basin Incident
The drums returned warm; the men did not
Basin-7 took seventeen extraction personnel in A.S. 178 and returned sealed warm drums, clean tools, intact warding, record yield, and a pitch pipe the Bells refused to name.
Codex Ref. VII.8.10-178
Saint Orren of the Iron Plug
Nine hours is a miracle when Hell keeps the clock
Patron saint of Wound-Site Prospectors, remembered for driving an iron plug into a demon-seep rupture, holding the wound nine hours, and vanishing when it reopened.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-148
The Saint-Bone Melter
The wall is the only sermon the Enemy has ever been forced to hear
The artisan who feeds the bones of saints to the kiln and receives in return the mortar that holds the Sagittal Line together. The arithmetic is simple and brutal: a femur in a reliquary inspires; a femur in a wall holds.
Codex Ref. XII.40.01-001
Wound-Sites
Where Creation filed an exception and the Bureau charged admission
Wound-Sites are Creation's open injuries: measured, taxed, exploited, prayed over, and officially caused by the Lie unless useful evidence says otherwise.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.29-001