Peoples, Bestiary and Character Sources
Last updated: August 21, 2026
- Choosing the right category
- The bestiary is a viewpoint
- Characters beyond the Codex
- Official source
- Related reading
Living things are documented across a dozen categories with different jobs. Lineages, ancestrals and bloodlines of the celestials handle descent. Species, creature species and the bestiary handle form. Classes, traits and abilities handle capability. The Wall of Echoes, the Chamber of Echoes, the Hall of the Fallen and the Cosmic Hub handle named individuals — the Wall alone carrying over a hundred and seventy canonical character pages. The Tome of Echoes and the Scroll of the Eternals are the volumes that read across them.
Choosing the right category
The practical test is what your question is really about. What are they? — species or creature species. Where do they come from? — lineage or ancestral. What can they do? — class, trait or ability. Who is this specific person? — Wall of Echoes. A record frequently exists in several of these, and the versions do not compete; each answers its own question about the same subject.
The bestiary is a viewpoint
Bestiary records describe creatures as encountered rather than as classified. They carry practical detail a taxonomic record omits, and they carry the perspective of whoever compiled them. Both facts matter when quoting one as evidence.
Characters beyond the Codex
Named characters appear in the Grand Library's narrative works and in the Multimedia Archives. Those appearances are uses of the record; the Codex page remains the canonical statement of who someone is.
Similar names are common and usually intentional. Confirm the route before assuming two mentions refer to the same person.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: Tome of Echoes — Codex tome. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Peoples, Lineages and Species — Navigating lineages, ancestrals, species, classes, traits and the bestiary.
- Characters and the Wall of Echoes — Exploring character profiles through the Wall of Echoes without duplicating their records.
- Culture and Institutions Sources — Society, traditions, rituals, processes, memory and the arts as Codex records.