The Folded Pantheon
The history, law and folklore of Kessel Street's folds: the riots that made them persons, the fire that made the Guildhall Book, the rhymes every child learns about waking, and a register of the street, house by house. Kept by people who notice when a crease is out of place.
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Entry 1
The Ink Riots
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In 1173 the city tried to tax Kessel Street's folds as property, and the street barricaded itself for nine days. A history of the riots, the Charter that made folds persons, and the young messenger who ran between the barricades.
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Entry 2
A short history of the Unfolding
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Two hundred years ago a winter fire took the paper mills at Kessel Bend, and hundreds of folds with them. The pamphlet sold at the guildhall door tells how the survivors became the Guildhall Book, and why nobody agrees how the fire began.
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Entry 3
The Binders' Guild
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The guild that keeps Kessel Street's register of folds, settles its disputes and guards the Guildhall Book, explained in an extract from its own handbook for new members, roll of masters included.
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Entry 4
Kessel Street, house by house
4 min read
The guild's survey of Kessel Street, every shop, bindery, mill and resident fold, with corrections pencilled in the margin by a retired archivist who has never let an error pass.
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Entry 5
Gods of the fold
4 min read
A pocket field guide to the small gods of Kessel Street, from cranes and paper boats to ledgers and letters: what each one is for, how to address it, and what never to do with your hands.
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Entry 6
The rules of waking
4 min read
The five rules that govern every fold on Kessel Street, as the street's children chant them for skipping, with a schoolmistress's notes on everything the rhymes leave out.
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Entry 7
Odile Varga
3 min read
A portrait of Kessel Street's retired archivist and unofficial detective, dictated by her companion fold Quire, a nervous paper fox who cannot lie, to an apprentice who would rather be printing.
