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London, November 1956. A message has been sent four minutes before anyone asked for it.In a departmental review room, Eleanor Vane spends her days among the paper remnants of other people's decisions: cable traffic, routing slips, carbon copies and files that have passed through too many hands...

Book I—The Codex of the Flame chronicles the rebirth of the Crimson Order in the First Age of The War for the Adamite Throne. It records the writings of High-Chaplain Severian Valerius, who restored unity through the Renewal, the Rosery, and the living bond of conscience and command. Through ten great doctrines—from the Chapel of Swords to the Council of Chaplains—the Order discovered that obedience was the truest art of faith, and that the Flame itself was alive, listening to those who served in harmony.