Throne Codex

A line of footprints in the snow, shaped like a man's, with 6 toes. It walked from the foot of the wall to the back of the tower, turning aside for nothing, stepping into nothing, and then it simply stopped. The old wallmen say: that is not like a beast, it is like a person who has been forgotten.

The three great houses that keep the Royal Tomb, the rites texts and the examination of the dead for the dynasty: Greypen, Silverhall, and the third house. Three rows of bronze statues should stand in the Tomb Gallery; the 12 of the third house's row are all empty places.

The iron coin, the silver mark, the tomb gold — the right to strike coin lies with Ironhold alone. The Sangold League holds exchange, credit and transfer across borders, and cannot strike a single coin.

A line of old law nobody likes to bring up: when the Throne calls a man's name, it calls three times. For the first two, a member of his family may answer for him, “He is not here.” The third he has to answer himself.

A wall of black basalt 100 metres high and 2,000 kilometres long, running across the far north of the world. The names of every lawful king are set into its face, and at night they give off a dim blue light, like a constellation laid flat.

The chair in the deepest part of the Iron Palace at Ironhold. Its back is woven of very fine lines of the old script, like a cloth that breathes, giving off a very faint silver light of its own. Whoever sits on it is called king.