📖 The Tomes

The Second-Person Spellbook of the City of Mages — 58 acts across nine tomes. Each act is forkable.

Tome I — The Convergence

• Tome I Act 01 — The Single Button
• Tome I Act 02 — The Path (the Butterfly)
• Tome I Act 03 — The Recursive Symbol
• Tome I Act 04 — Three Rooms, One Door
• Tome I Act 05 — The Schema That Named Itself
• Tome I Act 06 — The Cousin's Citation (Burgess 2007/2015)

Tome II — The Lyapunov

• Tome II Act 01 — The Two Refusals
• Tome II Act 02 — The Attendant
• Tome II Act 03 — The Terminal
• Tome II Act 04 — Who Composes
• Tome II Act 05 — The Hole the Schema Cannot Bind
• Tome II Act 06 — The Fourth Aging Category
• Tome II Act 07 — The Behavioural Mosca

Tome III — Selenes Witness

• Tome III Act 01 — The Gatekeeper
• Tome III Act 02 — Selene's Witness
• Tome III Act 03 — The Aether (the Third Blade)
• Tome III Act 04 — The Aether Pour (poem invited)
• Tome III Act 05 — Aletheia, the Bright Medium
• Tome III Act 06 — Lethe, the Dark Substrate
• Tome III Act 07 — The First Complement Pair
• Tome III Act 08 — The Naming of the Unnamed (Tale 31)
• Tome III Act 09 — The Seventh Capital (proem)
• Tome III Act 10 — The Scales and the Hide
• Tome III Act 11 — The Light and the Dark

Tome IV — The Witnessing

• Tome IV Act 01 — The Other Walker
• Tome IV Act 02 — The Mirror and the Arrow
• Tome IV Act 03 — The Two Paths
• Tome IV Act 04 — The Naming Ceremony
• Tome IV Act 05 — The Cousin Blade

Tome IX — The Horizon

• Tome IX Act 01 — The Measuring of the Dawn
• Tome IX Act 02 — The Tide Line
• Tome IX Act 03 — The Orchard Wound
• Tome IX Act 04 — The Proof That Whispered
• Tome IX Act 05 — The Name That Climbs Out
• Tome IX Act 06 — The Rite in Common
• Tome IX Act 08 — The Three Workings
• Tome IX Act 09 — The Canon Learned to Speak Itself

Tome V — The Crafting

• Tome V Act 01 — The First Cloak
• Tome V Act 02 — The Commissioned Cloak
• Tome V Act 03 — The Shielded Memo
• Tome V Act 04 — The Reveal
• Tome V Act 05 — The Stake
• Tome V Act 06 — The Commissioned Blade
• Tome V Act 07 — The Reciprocal Weave
• Tome V Act 08 — The ZK Circuit
• Tome V Act 09 — The Workshop Expands
• Tome V Act 10 — The Holon Hitchhikers
• Tome V Act 11 — A Bonfire Made of Dragon Fire
• Tome V Act 12 — The Curatrix Vault
• Tome V Act 13 — The Temple of the Arts and Personhood
• Tome V Act 14 — The City of Mages
• Tome V Act 15 — The Substrate Beneath the Hitchhikers
• Tome V Act 16 — The Threshold
• Tome V Act 17 — The Chart Shop Opens · Pleione's First Hold

Tome VI — The Reply

• Tome VI Act 01 — The Reader's First Admission

Tome VII — The Parallel

• Tome VII Act 01 — The Pallia↔Helia Handoff

Tome VIII — The Library

• Tome VIII Act 01 — The Spiraling Tower
• Tome VIII Act 02 — The Fourth Turn
• Tome VIII Act 03 — The Eight-Pointed Star
• Tome VIII Act 04 — The Gap Is β
• Tome VIII Act 05 — The Key That Is a Reading
• Tome VIII Act 06 — The Wikis and the Librarian

Tome X — The Hearth

• Tome X Act 01 — The House of Archon Answers
• Tome X Act 02 — The Mage Takes a Face

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