What the Codex treats as established
Actions leave paths behind them. Power, violence, promises, exile, and even memory can send consequences back toward the one who caused them.
Prime Laws · Dedicated entry
Law of Return
Actions leave paths behind them. Power, violence, promises, exile, and even memory can send consequences back toward the one who caused them.
Prime LawThe image uses five interacting cosmic structures instead of written laws because Prime Laws are rules built into reality.
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Five rules of reality
The image uses five interacting cosmic structures instead of written laws because Prime Laws are rules built into reality.
- Record type
- Prime Law
- Knowledge shelf
- Prime Laws
- Reading rule
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Plain-language record
The short version.
Actions leave paths behind them. Power, violence, promises, exile, and even memory can send consequences back toward the one who caused them.
What is still argued or uncertain
No major disputed account is listed for this entry in the current public Codex. That does not mean every detail of its history is known.
Prime Law
Rule of reality. This tells you what kind of thing the entry is before similar names or nearby ideas cause confusion.
Rule of reality
A Prime Law is not a law written by a government. It is a rule built into reality itself, and even great powers must deal with its consequences.
Place in the larger story
This record connects to the people, powers, places, and events around it. The related entries show those links without treating different things as the same thing.
Deeper record · Four useful facts
Go deeper without losing the thread.
These notes explain what Law of Return is, what it affects, what connects to it, and what readers should not confuse it with.
Prime Law
Actions leave paths behind them. Power, violence, promises, exile, and even memory can send consequences back toward the one who caused them.
Law means a rule of reality
Prime Laws are not government statutes. They matter when power, memory, oaths, creation, or broken bonds meet a rule reality itself will not ignore.
Why the distinction matters
What this name means depends on what kind of thing it describes. Keeping that clear stops a nearby power, people, event, or idea from becoming a false synonym.
The Prime Laws and Seven Aeonics
The closest connected records are The Prime Laws and Seven Aeonics. Each has its own entry so the link stays clear without turning separate things into one.