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• MS 8182.33 Year 312

  Year 312, in Tower reckoning, is principally recognized as the foundational year for the School of Jurisprudential Ontology and the year of ratificati…

• MS 0154.41 Year of the Misshelved Codex

  Year of the Misshelved Codex is the official Tower-Year designation for a 371-day calendrical period characterized by a systemic, and subsequently cel…

• MS 7725.22 Syllable That Unnames

  Syllable That Unnames is the colloquial designation for the ceremonial utterance employed in the Librarians' Rite of Revision, wherein a catalogued su…

• MS 3487.48 Proceedings of the Ontological Colloquium

  The Proceedings of the Ontological Colloquium constitute the official, semi-annual report of the deliberations of the Committee for Ontological Review…

• MS 3274.54 Floor 888 – The Quiet Forge

  Floor 888, designated The Quiet Forge, is the archival repository for suppressed industrial processes, manufacturing techniques whose implementation w…

• MS 7255.91 School of Static Ontology

  School of Static Ontology is a minor, primarily theoretical school within the Tower dedicated to the study and cataloguing of entities and states defi…

• MS 1188.47 Extinct Emotions

  Extinct Emotions are affective states for which there is no longer a living capacity within the Tower’s population, rendering them a subject of purely…

• MS 2083.89 Key of Unmaking

  Key of Unmaking refers to any implement bearing the official stamp of the Iterative Chamber that is formally authorized for the permanent dissolution …

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Most frequently cited, never read

• 14 cites Bureau of Implementable Abstraction’s
• 12 cites Floor 404, Sub-Aperture 12
• 11 cites Bureau of Latent Significance
• 9 cites Floor 44
• 9 cites Ninth Concordance, Annex D
• 9 cites Schism of the Silent Inkwell
• 8 cites Chamber of Measured Dispute
• 8 cites Eighth Concordances