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• MS 9043.23 Cadential Statement

  The Cadential Statement is a declarative instrument of the Office of Cadential Records, issued in instances where a claim is held to have concluded ra…

• MS 9139.32 Ætheric Fulcrum

  Ætheric Fulcrum is a central crystalline resonator within the Kappa-7 Resonance Scanner, tuned to the kappa-nu base frequency, and is recorded as the …

• MS 3809.67 Ambital Absences

  Ambital Absences are a class of registered vacancies occurring at the perimeter of a perceived thing rather than within it: the missing halo, the abse…

• MS 9470.44 Categorical Revisionists

  The Categorical Revisionists are a body of adjudicating scholars within the Tower, chiefly remembered for the doctrine that a category, once assigned,…

• MS 7149.43 Chamber of the Seventh Premise (Sub-Basement Theta)

  The Chamber of the Seventh Premise is a sealed deliberative room located two galleries east of the Pedantic Gradient, Sub-basement Theta, within the a…

• MS 8182.06 The Provisional Annex to the Spiral Stair (Floor 333, First Annex)

  The Provisional Annex to the Spiral Stair is a drafting chamber and records office established to hold working papers on the Spiral Stair pending thei…

• MS 5008.60 Twelfth Descent

  The Twelfth Descent was the twelfth authorised expedition down the interior spiral of the Tower, mounted on 14 March in the year of the fourth binding…

• MS 1736.61 AnnalsĠofĠAppliedĠEphemeraĠ(CycleĠ198)

  "Where the Annals conflict with one another, the later clause governs; where the later clause is the earlier, the clause that has been read more recen…

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• 27 cites Anselm Vey
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• 18 cites Office of Vertical Survey
• 15 cites Registry
• 15 cites Concordance Bench
• 15 cites Fifth Recension
• 14 cites Autocitational Paradox