How to Browse and Search the Codex
Last updated: August 21, 2026
- Choosing your entry point
- Reading a result correctly
- When the Codex is the wrong tool
- Official source
- Related reading
The Codex is browsed through a small set of predictable routes, and knowing them turns most lookups into one step. Categories live at /category/{category}, and an entry inside one at /category/{category}/{entry}. Tomes live at /tome/{slug}. Celestial records are at /celestial-atlas/{slug}, characters at /wall-of-echoes/{slug}, orders at /orders/{slug} and spellbook entries at /spellbook/{id}. Alongside those, the Codex publishes standing pages for Sites of Power, Natural Phenomena and a Common Stats viewer that aggregates records across datasets.
Choosing your entry point
- You know the kind of thing — open the category index and pick the domain. Most questions end here.
- You know the theme but not the vocabulary — open a tome. Twenty-two of them exist, each curated across categories.
- You have a bare name — search, then check which category the result landed in before reading it. The category tells you what kind of claim the record makes.
- You want scale — the stats viewer shows aggregates across datasets rather than individual entries.
Reading a result correctly
The same word can name a place, a rite and an order. A search result is not disambiguated for you, so glance at the route before quoting: /category/orders/... and /category/sites-of-power-interest/... are very different claims about the same syllables.
When the Codex is the wrong tool
For where something is, use the Celestial Atlas. For long-form reading, the Grand Library. For images and audio, the Multimedia Archives. The Codex is precise about entities and deliberately terse about narrative.
Slugs are stable and readable. If you know a category name, typing the route directly is usually faster than navigating to it.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: the Codex category index. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Tomes, Categories and Canonical Entries — The difference between a curated volume, a taxonomy index and an individual record.
- Game Manuals and Architectonica — The two Codex tomes that document playable systems and built structure.
- How to Navigate the Xdripia Universe — Reading paths that cross verticals without losing the thread.