Lux Aeterna: readable archive

A plain reading path for the released archive records.

• The Knights Templar
  Order chronicle

  An independent Order of mercy, escort and defence, chartered by the UEE in 2828.

• The Long Vigil
  Order chronicle

  The Vigil kept the Empty Seat, Seven Hearths and Silent Ledger until the Proclamation at Tomar in 2822.

• Tomar — Mother House
  Order chronicle

  In the Order chronicle, Tomar is the Mother House and seat of the Chapter-General. The Stone is kept in a town house below the castle hill.

• The Stone of the Temple
  Order chronicle

  A non-miraculous object of oath and memory. Its current home is Tomar, not the flagship. The record says it travelled to Lisbon in 1810–1812 and never left Earth.

• The Stone — disputed origin
  In-world legend

  The tale of a sergeant carrying the Stone from Jerusalem is explicitly an in-world legend, not established medieval history.

• The Stone in Lisbon
  Order chronicle

  The chronicle records one journey away from Tomar, to Lisbon. This qualifies the shorthand that the Stone never leaves Tomar.

• The Proclamation at Tomar
  Order chronicle

  On 18 March 2822, Isolde Marr proclaimed the Order in the open at Tomar. This replaces the earlier website’s 2825 Return.

• The Temple Charter Act
  Order chronicle

  The Charter of 13 October 2828 recognizes a self-governing armed order of mercy, escort and defence, independent of UEE command.

• The Three Gifts
  Order chronicle

  Shield, Bread and Road express the Order’s commitments to protection, relief and accompaniment.

• The Three Refusals
  Order chronicle

  The Order refuses credit, power and payment. Since 2822 it may use its name, but does not seek acclaim.

• The Shield Rule
  Order chronicle

  The Shield Rule limits force to defence, requires treatment of all wounded and forbids mercenary hire.

• The Rule of the Cold Hand
  Order chronicle

  The Order buys its hulls rather than accepting gifts that could compromise its independence.

• The Silent Ledger
  Order chronicle

  Human custodians keep the Ledger and determine mercy. LUX is a representational archive interface, not an authority over the Bread or Roll of the Lost.

• The Printer’s Rule
  Order chronicle

  The chronicle’s Printer’s Rule forbids taking up arms for one confession against another.

• The Seven Commanderies
  Order chronicle

  Seven public Commanderies preserve the former Hearths. Outer Commanderies have a voice through their founding Hearth, not a Chapter vote.

• Miravet — Hearth of the Road
  Order chronicle

  Miravet houses the Road Fleet’s escort, navigation and passage functions.

• Grumbach — Hearth of the Shield
  Order chronicle

  Grumbach is the chronicle’s centre for Shield Fleet training and protection.

• Ravenna — Hearth of Letters
  Order chronicle

  Ravenna’s commandery serves law, records and the Living Codex scriptorium.

• Limassol — Hearth of the Sea
  Order chronicle

  Limassol is the home yard of the Order’s flagships. Worn hulls are broken rather than resold.

• Balantrodoch — Hearth of the North
  Order chronicle

  Balantrodoch serves frontier and quiet operations in the Order chronicle.

• Paris — Hearth of Ashes
  Order chronicle

  Paris serves Bread Fleet hospitals, the Temple Fund and the Notre-Dame memorial.

• The Outer Commanderies
  Order chronicle

  Eleven Outer Commanderies serve frontier worlds and stations in the chronicle’s 2956 present.

• The Templar Fleet
  Order chronicle

  Roughly 400 hulls serve in the Bread, Road and Shield Fleets.

• The Bread Fleet
  Order chronicle

  The Bread Fleet provides medicine, relief, refugee transport and logistics under the Hospitaller-Master.

• The Road Fleet
  Order chronicle

  The Road Fleet escorts travellers and convoys and provides pathfinding under the Commander of the Escort.

• The Shield Fleet
  Order chronicle

  The Marshal leads the Shield Fleet’s warships in defence of those entrusted to the Order.

• KTS Jacques de Molay
  Order chronicle

  KTS Jacques de Molay, an Anvil Odin, has served as the Order’s flagship since 2956. The Stone remains at Tomar.

• KTS Gualdim Pais
  Order chronicle

  KTS Gualdim Pais, an Aegis Javelin, served as flagship from 2850 until 2956. It remains the second flagship and the Shield Fleet’s training ship.

• The Hearth-lamp
  Order chronicle

  A lit lamp with its cover beside it accompanies every Templar ship. It is carried lit between flagships and covered only for the dead.

• The Empty Chair
  Order chronicle

  The Empty Chair remains at every table and wardroom even after the Grand Master’s Seat is filled.

• The Vigil of the Seat
  Order chronicle

  An annual vigil on 18 March keeps silence through the night with one lamp.

• The Chapter-General
  Order chronicle

  The Chapter-General convenes at Tomar, with the seven Commanderies voting.

• Isolde Marr
  Order chronicle

  The chronicle’s last Warden and 24th Grand Master led the Proclamation, Charter and Shield Rule.

• The 28th Grand Master
  Order chronicle

  The 28th Grand Master has held the Seat since 2932.

• First Fire at Armitage
  Order chronicle

  The Order chronicle recounts Marshal Odile Hartmann firing to protect the hospital ship Lamp of Tomar and its refugees.

• Caliban — We go in
  Order chronicle

  At Caliban in 2871, the Order went in as others left. Eleven Templars died in the civilian evacuation.

• The Order in the Light
  Historical record

  The chronicle’s historical account of the Order before its suppression in 1307.

• The Order in the Open
  Order chronicle

  The chronicle’s account of the Order after the Proclamation, from 2822 through spring 2956.

• How the Chronicle Is Read
  Order chronicle

  A guide to the chronicle’s historical record, its invented Quiet Hand, and its stated uncertainties.

• Allies, Rivals and the Lost
  Order chronicle

  The Order’s remembered relationships, including its allies, rivals and the Roll of the Lost.

• The Eighth Hearth
  Order chronicle

  A rival lineage that split from the Vigil and now frames protection as a purchasable service.