What the Codex treats as established
No faction can solve the crisis alone. Alliances become necessary, but no one power can be trusted with complete control of the future.
First Flare warfront · Dedicated entry
Oaths of Seven Powers
No faction can solve the crisis alone. Alliances become necessary, but no one power can be trusted with complete control of the future.
Act II · Campaign recordThe image shows the broken relay network and the routes whose failure turns travel, duty, and political control into open war.
Campaign · Warfront image
War along the Lightlines
The image shows the broken relay network and the routes whose failure turns travel, duty, and political control into open war.
- Record type
- Act II · Campaign record
- Knowledge shelf
- First Flare warfront
- Reading rule
- Image supports the record; it does not replace its distinctions.
Plain-language record
The short version.
No faction can solve the crisis alone. Alliances become necessary, but no one power can be trusted with complete control of the future.
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.
Act II · Campaign record
Campaign record. This tells you what kind of thing the entry is before similar names or nearby ideas cause confusion.
Campaign record
These entries belong to a much later war. The campaign uses names and powers from ancient history, but the First Flare itself still belongs at the creation of the universe.
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 Oaths of Seven Powers is, what it affects, what connects to it, and what readers should not confuse it with.
Act II · Campaign record
No faction can solve the crisis alone. Alliances become necessary, but no one power can be trusted with complete control of the future.
Ancient names, later war
The later campaign can use the First Flare, Prime forces, and old routes without moving the creation event out of its true place at the beginning of history.
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.
Auric Rail
The closest connected records are Auric Rail. Each has its own entry so the link stays clear without turning separate things into one.