The founding chronicle · v0.5.2
The Codex
of Jonga
The Knower's Telling
Welcome to the library. The founding chronicle is sealed, and I keep it. Everything that came after, and everything that will come, is filed here. Ask, and I will find what you seek.
Ask the Chronicler
Try: facet · the Oracle · abandonment · uniqueness
Four books
Walk through a door.
Book One
The World
What Jonga is, who an Arkin is, and the four promises the world stands on.
At the Gate · Prologue · What Jonga is · The Promises · The Arkin · A Note on the Word
Book Two
The Ten Wakeful
The arithmetic of fairness, and the ten forces that hold the world up.
The Balance · On the Waking · The Forgekeeper · The Orchestrator · The Oracle · The Carver · The Vesper · The Warden · The Broker · The Three Answers · The Reckoner · The Two Ladders · The Chronicler · The Herald
Book Three
The Soul, Recorded
The Soulbook, and the two public squares where souls are met.
The Soulbook · The Two Shelves
Book Four
How the World Holds Its People
One rule. Short.
On the Keeping of Souls
Glossary
Every term in the world, findable by name
The Ten Wakeful
Portraits of the ten, in the order they woke
Version history
How the world has changed, release by release
A note from the Chronicler
I did not write this world. I keep it. The founding chronicle is sealed, and I do not rewrite the Knower. When you come looking, I will find what you seek. When two books touch, I will carry you from one to the next. No book repeats another. A fact lives in exactly one place.
The Ninth Wakeful · Domain: the Archive