Locations and Their Canonical Sources
Last updated: August 21, 2026
A place in this Universe is rarely documented in only one category, and finding everything about it means knowing which categories to check. The Atlas gives you a name and a position; the rest is spread across the Codex according to what kind of claim it is. This page is the checklist for that traversal — the four or five routes that, between them, tend to exhaust what is recorded about somewhere.
The traversal
- The celestial record — the place itself, under the Codex's Celestial Atlas records.
- Sites of power and interest — whether something extraordinary is permanently present there.
- Natural phenomena, telluric events and anomalies — whether something happens there.
- Architectural structures and styles — whether something has been built there, and in whose idiom.
- Institutions, factions and orders — whether anyone is seated there or claims it.
Beyond the Codex
Two further surfaces are worth checking for places that matter culturally. The Multimedia Archives hold venues and cultural spaces, which is where a location's artistic life lives. The Grand Library holds narrative treatment, where a place is described from inside a story rather than from above it.
Citing a place
Cite the Codex celestial record. It is stable, addressable and canonical. The Atlas cannot be cited to a location, and a venue page is a claim about culture rather than about geography.
Region and location records frequently name the materials that occur there. That is the usual bridge from geography into mining, alchemy and trade.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: the Celestial Atlas. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Geography, Sites of Power and Celestial Sources — Codex records for spheres, systems, planets, cities and the places where power concentrates.
- Nature, Biomes and Natural Phenomena — Flora, materials, biomes, crystals, phenomena and the sites where they concentrate.
- Venues and Cultural Spaces — How the archive treats the places where Xdripian culture happens.