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The Raven's Beak

Read more about Hugin

• The Raven's Claws Detective of The Raven's Claws
• Munin The male and female builds of the same Detective
• Lorin Called the Detective back to Silvernia for the Nameless Ashes case
• Lorin Offered a partnership, believing the world needs a system rather than heroes
• Alf Refused to leave after being rejected and appointed herself guardian of the office
• Grimm Ghost-wrote the newspaper reports that made the Detective's cases famous
• Argos Greeted him like a returning legend and poured the city wanderer on the house
• Ashley Engineered her own hiring so he would chase the truth she could not chase alone
• Red Rose Shadows his case, cutting alarms and finishing off assassins to keep him safe
• Rex Named him prime suspect in the Williams grave-robbing, then came to respect him
• The Fairytale Sources Hugin and Munin are Odin's two ravens, thought and memory
• Firtho Childhood friend who brews the stabilizer holding his nightmares at bay
• Cynthia II His landlady and his client, who waives his rent forever if he keeps making time to play
• Gratia The Queen's Herald asks him to keep guiding her from the shadows as her lucky four-leaf clover
• Bentham Offers to buy his findings on the factory, along with her friendship
• The Cinderellas The case Lorin pulls him into, first filed as the Nameless Ashes
• The Marked Bullet Tracing the round that killed his sibling is why he came back at all
• The Evermore Airship Incident Branded the queen slayer after the airship went down
• Queen Auguria Awarded the Detective a Reactor and the Silver Merit Order shortly before her death
• The Mind Palace Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist

The crystalline element found beneath Silvernia that catalysed the city's industrialisation. Extremely high energy density, unstable in raw form, and the thing every faction is fighting over.

Read more about Silverium

• United Vermentum Works The site of the Silverium extraction that made the Cinderellas
• The Purists Exploit its powers to gain influence and carry out assassinations
• Silvernia Found beneath the city and turned a minor trading post into the Hub of Miracles
• Spinotrodes Spinotrodes stabilise the raw element and convert it into the city's electricity
• Personal Reactors Personal Reactors are how a character turns the element into ability
• The Argent Strand Spent Silverium is conducted back into the Strand, and Silverium beings return to it
• Werewolves High-purity Silverium is what exposes a Metal-Blooded beast hiding as a citizen
• The Great Disaster The explosions began near Silverium facilities, and survivors report living light before the blast
• Harpies Named alongside the werewolves as Silverium's spawn in the Conspiracy essay
• The Silverium Fount The founts are where Silverium is drawn from, and the crown holds the key to them
• Silverillia A named Silverium lifeform, sold in terrariums where buyers watch them fade into inactivity
• Mermaidomorphosis Credited with revealing Silverium's inherent properties, and with asking whether it is alive

An iconic enclave of High Peers and a thoroughfare linking several districts. A hornet's nest of rival factions held in fragile equilibrium, and the starting point for most cases.

Read more about Morgue Street

• Cynthia II Owns the whole street through a trustee
• Silvernia An enclave of High Peers and the thoroughfare linking several districts
• S.T.A.T.S. Part cluttered headquarters, part modest flat, the agency anchors the street
• Memoir Bar A landmark of the street
• Voicepipe Café A landmark of the street
• Stonefall Syndicate One of the rival powers holding the street in fragile equilibrium
• Werewolves Hidden in plain sight among the street's ordinary citizens
• The Twelve Shops Jon's Pizza is exempted from the district's racketeering, and a factory worker saves up to take his family there

The Scales of Black and White

Read more about Rex

• River Constabulary Superintendent of River Constabulary
• Grimm Rex seized his body and barred the Detective from it, before the death proved staged
• Red Rose Engineered a werewolf disturbance to pull the Detective clear of the superintendent
• Hugin Named him prime suspect in the Williams grave-robbing, then came to respect him
• Lorin Sent by the Navy to oversee Lorin's constabulary
• Daniel Boulden Arrested him once the Detective exposed the smuggling scheme
• The Fairytale Sources Tied by fairytale curse to the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland
• Mechanical Life Keeps two mechanical dogs, Chalky and Centimeter-wave Radar, and talks to them like dogs

Surveillance, Tracking and Troubleshooting Services. The detective agency on Morgue Street where the Detective lives and works, and the agency the whole story runs through.

Read more about S.T.A.T.S.

• Grimm Journalist of S.T.A.T.S.
• The Evermore Airship Incident The S.T.A.T.S. duo disappeared at the same time the queen died
• Morgue Street Part cluttered headquarters, part modest flat, the agency anchors the street
• The Raven's Claws The agency the detective duo's banner flies over
• Firtho Agency coroner as well as her own clinic's surgeon
• Alf Agency staff, trained through the maid institute
• Ashley Listed as agency staff under her civilian name
• River Constabulary Conducts its own arrests and investigations, sometimes stepping on the agency's work

The cycle Silverium returns through. Circuitways conduct spent Silverium back into it, Silverium beings fade into inactivity and return to it, and in-game text calls its end a destination none can escape.

Read more about The Argent Strand

• Silverium Spent Silverium is conducted back into the Strand, and Silverium beings return to it
• Spinotrodes Spinotrodes convert the element, Circuitways return what is left of it
• Rustium The corrupting counterpart: Rustium takes root in living things instead of returning
• The Silverium Conspiracy The Marian Era raising of the palace put the Silverium founts out of reach
• The Silverium Fount The founts are where the cycle starts, and the Strand is where it ends
• The Mind Palace theory Two cycles running opposite ways: the Strand dissolves matter, the Palace accumulates mind into a tower
• The Cognito Sea theory The Illusion of Life set reads the sea and the Strand as one thing seen from two sides
• Silverillia Terrarium text has them returning to the Argent Strand when they fade

The corporation that took the reactor trade through mass-produced Reactors, run by people outside the old aristocracy. Its rise enrages nobles who fear capitalists will uproot their status.

Read more about United Mining Industry

• Captain Kaboom Technician of United Mining Industry
• Bentham Secretary of United Mining Industry
• United Vermentum Works So autonomous that its own headquarters cannot see inside it
• The Purists At odds with the corporation whose collaboration with the crown threatens their power
• Personal Reactors Took the trade through mass-produced Reactors and enraged the old aristocracy
• Royalty and Aristocracy Its rise has aristocrats fearing the capitalists will uproot their wealth and status
• Black Knights theory Black Knights tied to UMI appear as open-world enemies in trailers and CBT1
• The Twelve Shops The bitterest coffee in the game is sold as a favourite among United Mining Industry workers

The Goldbud

Read more about Cynthia II

• House Luna Luna's Scion of House Luna
• The Fairytale Sources Her bread-kitty entourage and marketing lean hard on Hansel and Gretel
• Hugin His landlady and his client, who waives his rent forever if he keeps making time to play
• Morgue Street Owns the whole street through a trustee
• Moira Her governess, who chaperones her everywhere
• Queen Feliana Confirmed as the queen's cousin, which puts House Luna inside the extended royal family
• Werewolves Spent a month's allowance on stabilizers for the werewolf girl she rescued

Her Majesty's Protégé

Read more about Gratia

• Royalty and Aristocracy Knight of Royalty and Aristocracy
• Queen Feliana Handpicked by the queen and sworn to her service
• Order of the Tide An Argent Knight of the order
• Top Hat Lost the queen's prototype Silverium steed, then named him after the Detective's hat
• Hugin The Queen's Herald asks him to keep guiding her from the shadows as her lucky four-leaf clover
• The Queen's Herald Staged the harpy attack to show the public a knight fighting for her people
• Harpies Took to the air on Top Hat to bring the tournament harpy down, and was disqualified for it

The Indispensable

Read more about Lorin

• River Constabulary Chief Inspector of River Constabulary
• Hugin Called the Detective back to Silvernia for the Nameless Ashes case
• Hugin Offered a partnership, believing the world needs a system rather than heroes
• Alf Brought Alf in as the first assistant candidate, and she failed every test
• Argos Told the Detective that Lorin had been waiting for his return
• Rex Sent by the Navy to oversee Lorin's constabulary
• Silver Fist He is the street legend, and poses as the still-living Silver Fist to steer the gang straight

The phrase two in-universe textbooks argue over. Cybernetics treats control as the whole problem; Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation forbids automatons imitating human conduct in Chapter II and concedes the sentient machine in its Final Chapter. Both are quoted on UMI hardware.

Read more about Mechanical Life

• Mermaidomorphosis theory Both chains ask the same question from opposite ends, one about built minds and one about the substance
• Personal Reactors Every Reactor Crystal is described as both a rock and an ecological vessel
• Silver Creatures Consumer implements that hunt, track and self-detonate, filed by the database as creatures
• Firtho The mechanical heart that now beats within her allows her a new lease of life
• Rex Keeps two mechanical dogs, Chalky and Centimeter-wave Radar, and talks to them like dogs
• Gucia theory The line asking whether Silverium is alive is credited to a certain unpublished thesis; Gucia's thesis is unpublished
• Pierre's Food for Thought The third book quoted by chapter, sibling to Cybernetics and Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation

Reigned roughly twelve years before being assassinated. She awarded the Detective a Reactor and the Silver Merit Order shortly before her death.

Read more about Queen Auguria

• Bentham theory Read by the community as tied to the Augurian Reactor thread
• The Evermore Airship Incident The crash where the queen was ultimately killed
• The Purists Tied to several attempts on her life and to the crash that killed her
• Queen Feliana theory Succeeded her three years ago, but the precise family tie is unconfirmed
• Isabella II, The Conqueror theory Possibly reigned after Isabella II on the same royal line
• Hugin Awarded the Detective a Reactor and the Silver Merit Order shortly before her death
• The Silverium Conspiracy The Classical Curations essay threads the crown's handling of Silverium through her reign

The Rose as an Engine of War

Read more about Red Rose

• Royalty and Aristocracy Dancer of Royalty and Aristocracy
• Ashley Quietly pays the assassin to keep the Detective alive, again and again
• Hugin Shadows his case, cutting alarms and finishing off assassins to keep him safe
• Midsummer Night's Ballroom Proprietress of the ballroom, where she finally tells Ashley's whole story
• House Flora theory Likely an agent of the house whose members carry flower titles
• Rex Engineered a werewolf disturbance to pull the Detective clear of the superintendent
• The Fairytale Sources Her name nods to Rose-Red from Snow-White and Rose-Red

The wealthy top echelon: nobility closest to the crown, and aristocrat landowners and capitalists who dabble in court politics and conspiracies.

Read more about Royalty and Aristocracy

• Red Rose Dancer of Royalty and Aristocracy
• Gratia Knight of Royalty and Aristocracy
• United Mining Industry Its rise has aristocrats fearing the capitalists will uproot their wealth and status
• House Luna A noble house branching off the royal line
• House Flora theory A noble house read from the flower titles its agents carry
• The Silverium Fount The key's second clause excludes them by name: "The Queen; not the Queen and the nobles"
• Silvernia's Food Economy Top-tier dishes are written for nobles flaunting wealth, and one drink has the last of the aristocrats denying the loss of their fortunes

Metal-Blooded beasts who pass for ordinary citizens until high-purity Silverium exposes them, which grants monstrous strength and a feral lust for violence.

Read more about Werewolves

• Cynthia II Spent a month's allowance on stabilizers for the werewolf girl she rescued
• Baron Barton His collapsing Crescent Guild sits behind the framing of the werewolf family
• Silverium High-purity Silverium is what exposes a Metal-Blooded beast hiding as a citizen
• Morgue Street Hidden in plain sight among the street's ordinary citizens
• The Wolf King Cunning predators who present themselves as prey, the same passing-for-a-citizen idea
• Baron Edgar Loosed his werewolf companions on the cathedral to drive Firtho off the body
• Head Chef Alex Killed in the werewolf attack his hat shielded a child from

The civilian behind the Cinderella persona. She talks her way into the Detective's employ posing as a Royal Academy graduate who asks for no wages, offering only the mystery of the stolen silver.

Read more about Ashley

• "Cinderella" Ashley is the civilian behind the Cinderella persona
• Hugin Engineered her own hiring so he would chase the truth she could not chase alone
• Red Rose Quietly pays the assassin to keep the Detective alive, again and again
• United Vermentum Works A survivor of the Silverium extraction carried out at the factory
• Bridgehead Thanks the Detective at the company docks, calls him her prince, and leaves alone
• S.T.A.T.S. Listed as agency staff under her civilian name

The Medical Lancet

Read more about Firtho

• The Corner Clinic Doctor of The Corner Clinic
• Hugin Childhood friend who brews the stabilizer holding his nightmares at bay
• Williams Manor Counterfeited her own death overnight to expose the locked-room trick
• Irwin Her late father, a Royal Academy man
• S.T.A.T.S. Agency coroner as well as her own clinic's surgeon
• Mechanical Life The mechanical heart that now beats within her allows her a new lease of life

The source Silverium is drawn from. The key to it is engraved "Heaven Granteth the Queen Power to Give, and to Take", and the same inscription adds "The Queen; not the Queen and the nobles", writing the aristocracy out of the arrangement.

Read more about The Silverium Fount

• Silverium The founts are where Silverium is drawn from, and the crown holds the key to them
• Queen Feliana The reigning queen holds the key the inscription grants power through
• Royalty and Aristocracy The key's second clause excludes them by name: "The Queen; not the Queen and the nobles"
• The Marian Era The palace rose in this era, opening chasms that put the founts out of reach
• The Castle Act The crown's power to take, delegated downward and bounded by a doorstep
• The Argent Strand The founts are where the cycle starts, and the Strand is where it ends

Named retail premises that stock the city, six of them food: Gelato & Chill, Wheaty Baker & Deli, Milk Punch, Burgerstack Masters, Honey and Milk, Chipmunk Grocery, plus Perfumes & Vanity, two Solferino stores, McBarley, Wisdom Books and Hearts and Arrows. The game accounts for roughly twenty premises, so around eight shopfronts are standing empty. Each food shop sells raw ingredients alongside its own products.

Read more about The Twelve Shops

• Silvernia's Food Economy The shops stock the ingredients and sell the tiers the menu prices
• Morgue Street Jon's Pizza is exempted from the district's racketeering, and a factory worker saves up to take his family there
• Voicepipe Café theory The lab-glassware coffee menu matches the cafe's own pamphlet, which advertises beakers and slender-necked flasks
• United Mining Industry The bitterest coffee in the game is sold as a favourite among United Mining Industry workers
• Pierre's Food for Thought Attributed to Pierre, whose kitchen carries two of the four named restaurant menus
• Head Chef Alex The Gourmet Market traders arranged his memorial bouquets themselves

A Story Truly Yours

Read more about Alf

• M.I.S.S. Maid of M.I.S.S.
• Lorin Brought Alf in as the first assistant candidate, and she failed every test
• Hugin Refused to leave after being rejected and appointed herself guardian of the office
• Grimm Thrashed him for breaking in, unknowingly protecting the notebook he came to hide
• S.T.A.T.S. Agency staff, trained through the maid institute

Silver-tongued Headliner

Read more about Grimm

• S.T.A.T.S. Journalist of S.T.A.T.S.
• Alf Thrashed him for breaking in, unknowingly protecting the notebook he came to hide
• The Cinderellas His hidden notebook renames the Nameless Ashes the Cinderellas
• Hugin Ghost-wrote the newspaper reports that made the Detective's cases famous
• Rex Rex seized his body and barred the Detective from it, before the death proved staged

The current queen, described by many inhabitants as very young. She took the throne three years ago after Auguria's death, ruled by a regent until the former Prime Minister resigned.

Read more about Queen Feliana

• Cynthia II Confirmed as the queen's cousin, which puts House Luna inside the extended royal family
• Gratia Handpicked by the queen and sworn to her service
• Queen Auguria theory Succeeded her three years ago, but the precise family tie is unconfirmed
• The Great Disaster theory Gained power from the chaos and blocks investigation, though she may be a victim too
• The Silverium Fount The reigning queen holds the key the inscription grants power through

The city the whole game takes place in. A minor trading post until Silverium was found beneath it, then the Hub of Miracles, and now a place where conspiracies fester beneath a facade of peace.

Read more about Silvernia

• Silverium Found beneath the city and turned a minor trading post into the Hub of Miracles
• Morgue Street An enclave of High Peers and the thoroughfare linking several districts
• Captain Kaboom The Kaboom Team are children without a home who keep the city's fuse boxes and stoves running
• The Marian Era The era that lifted the Silver Palace above the city and reshaped its topography
• The Castle Act A 200-year-old statute letting every householder use force on their own doorstep

The storybook layer under the cast. Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts, Hansel and Gretel, Snow-White and Rose-Red. Every one of them is reworked darker than the original.

Read more about The Fairytale Sources

• Rex Tied by fairytale curse to the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland
• "Cinderella" The flagship Fableborne, reworked from the Cinderella tale
• Cynthia II Her bread-kitty entourage and marketing lean hard on Hansel and Gretel
• Red Rose Her name nods to Rose-Red from Snow-White and Rose-Red
• Hugin Hugin and Munin are Odin's two ravens, thought and memory

The factory at the centre of the Cinderellas case. So autonomous that even UMI headquarters cannot see inside it, and the site of the Silverium extraction Ashley survived.

Read more about United Vermentum Works

• Ashley A survivor of the Silverium extraction carried out at the factory
• Bentham Plainly hunting the factory's secrets herself, and warns even UMI cannot see inside it
• The Cinderellas Grimm's notebook points the trail at the factory
• United Mining Industry So autonomous that its own headquarters cannot see inside it
• Silverium The site of the Silverium extraction that made the Cinderellas

The Eye of Argos

Read more about Argos

• M.I.S.S. Bartender of M.I.S.S.
• Memoir Bar Tends the bar where the returning Detective's journey begins
• Hugin Greeted him like a returning legend and poured the city wanderer on the house
• Lorin Told the Detective that Lorin had been waiting for his return

The Quartz Net

Read more about Bentham

• United Mining Industry Secretary of United Mining Industry
• Hugin Offers to buy his findings on the factory, along with her friendship
• United Vermentum Works Plainly hunting the factory's secrets herself, and warns even UMI cannot see inside it
• Queen Auguria theory Read by the community as tied to the Augurian Reactor thread

The devices characters carry that turn Silverium into supernatural ability. The seven Reactor Attributes, from Ignis to Gravitas, all run off them.

Read more about Personal Reactors

• Silverium Personal Reactors are how a character turns the element into ability
• United Mining Industry Took the trade through mass-produced Reactors and enraged the old aristocracy
• Mechanical Life Every Reactor Crystal is described as both a rock and an ecological vessel
• Silvernia's Food Economy Glacies Reactors created the ice cream trade and their scarcity keeps ice cubes expensive, which a home recipe complains about

The police and military of Silvernia, cobbled together by the military in the knights' absence. Handles arrests and investigations, sometimes stepping on the agency's work.

Read more about River Constabulary

• Lorin Chief Inspector of River Constabulary
• Rex Superintendent of River Constabulary
• S.T.A.T.S. Conducts its own arrests and investigations, sometimes stepping on the agency's work
• Order of the Tide Cobbled together by the military in the knights' absence

Jellyfish-like Silverium lifeforms. A Detective photograph records countless of them drifting inside a working street-side Spinotrode, so they live inside the city's power grid. Gucia is the only character who claims expertise in them.

Read more about Silverillia

• Spinotrodes A Detective photograph shows countless Silverillia drifting inside a working Spinotrode
• Silverium A named Silverium lifeform, sold in terrariums where buyers watch them fade into inactivity
• The Argent Strand Terrarium text has them returning to the Argent Strand when they fade
• Gucia Her one specialism: ask her about Silverillia and she is fairly familiar with them

Cone-tipped reactors that stabilise raw Silverium and convert it into electricity for the city grid. The Kaboom Team buzz around them keeping the city lit.

Read more about Spinotrodes

• Captain Kaboom The Kaboom Team buzz around Silvernia's Spinotrodes keeping the city lit
• Silverium Spinotrodes stabilise the raw element and convert it into the city's electricity
• The Argent Strand Spinotrodes convert the element, Circuitways return what is left of it
• Silverillia A Detective photograph shows countless Silverillia drifting inside a working Spinotrode

The catastrophe three years before the present timeline that killed thousands and reshaped the city's politics. Officially an isolated refinery accident, which does not survive contact with survivor testimony.

Read more about The Great Disaster

• The Marked Bullet The death it caused happened in the catastrophe three years ago
• Queen Feliana theory Gained power from the chaos and blocks investigation, though she may be a victim too
• Silverium The explosions began near Silverium facilities, and survivors report living light before the blast
• Fableborne theory The Fableborne emerged after the event, which reads as more than coincidence

The mental space the Detective reasons inside. In-game text treats it as real geography: a map whose surface is endless white sand, each grain a possibility, crossed with a bookmark described as a ball of yarn for the labyrinth. The four Shots exist only within it.

Read more about The Mind Palace

• The Cognito Sea Both described in the same white-sand vocabulary, one holding possibilities and one holding thought
• The Argent Strand theory Two cycles running opposite ways: the Strand dissolves matter, the Palace accumulates mind into a tower
• Hugin Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist
• Munin Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist

The Vengeful Ant

Read more about "Cinderella"

• Fableborne Cinderella of Fableborne
• Ashley Ashley is the civilian behind the Cinderella persona
• The Fairytale Sources The flagship Fableborne, reworked from the Cinderella tale

The culprit behind the Williams Manor faked death, and a former colleague of Firtho's late father Irwin at the Royal Academy.

Read more about Baron Edgar

• Williams Manor The culprit behind the faked death at the manor
• Irwin A colleague of Firtho's father at the Royal Academy, which is what makes the case cut deep
• Werewolves Loosed his werewolf companions on the cathedral to drive Firtho off the body

Of Tinkers and Tunes

Read more about Captain Kaboom

• United Mining Industry Technician of United Mining Industry
• Spinotrodes The Kaboom Team buzz around Silvernia's Spinotrodes keeping the city lit
• Silvernia The Kaboom Team are children without a home who keep the city's fuse boxes and stoves running

From the Ivory Tower

Read more about Gucia

• Hunters' Guild Apprentice of Hunters' Guild
• Silverillia Her one specialism: ask her about Silverillia and she is fairly familiar with them
• Mechanical Life theory The line asking whether Silverium is alive is credited to a certain unpublished thesis; Gucia's thesis is unpublished

Named alongside the werewolves as Silverium's spawn in the Classical Curations essay on the Silverium Conspiracy, which quotes the claim in order to reject it. They turn up as a bounty enemy type, and one attacked the Royal Equestrian Tournament.

Read more about Harpies

• Silverium Named alongside the werewolves as Silverium's spawn in the Conspiracy essay
• Gratia Took to the air on Top Hat to bring the tournament harpy down, and was disqualified for it
• The Queen's Herald Staged and controlled the tournament harpy to show the public a knight protecting people

Honoured on a monument beside the North Church for a naval victory led with the royal navy. The inscription closes with Lest We Forget.

Read more about Isabella II, The Conqueror

• Queen Auguria theory Possibly reigned after Isabella II on the same royal line
• Isabella I theory The earliest crown on the line, though the exact link is not spelled out
• The Silverium Conspiracy Named in the same essay as part of the royal line behind the conspiracy

The Raven's Claws

Read more about Munin

• The Raven's Claws Detective of The Raven's Claws
• Hugin The male and female builds of the same Detective
• The Mind Palace Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist

Fifty-four restaurant dishes in eighteen exact sets of three, every dish in a green, a blue and a purple version. The tier is the price and the flavour text treats it as the customer's class: students, then homemakers on a snatched break, then noble ladies flaunting wealth. Served through the Purchasing Food system, one item per category, same-category effects replacing rather than stacking.

Read more about Silvernia's Food Economy

• The Twelve Shops The shops stock the ingredients and sell the tiers the menu prices
• Royalty and Aristocracy Top-tier dishes are written for nobles flaunting wealth, and one drink has the last of the aristocrats denying the loss of their fortunes
• Personal Reactors Glacies Reactors created the ice cream trade and their scarcity keeps ice cubes expensive, which a home recipe complains about

The constabulary case first filed as the Nameless Ashes: victims burned beyond identification. Grimm's hidden notebook is what renames it and points the Detective at the factory.

Read more about The Cinderellas

• Grimm His hidden notebook renames the Nameless Ashes the Cinderellas
• Hugin The case Lorin pulls him into, first filed as the Nameless Ashes
• United Vermentum Works Grimm's notebook points the trail at the factory

The airship crash that killed Queen Auguria and coincided with the S.T.A.T.S. duo's disappearance. It is what got the Detective branded the queen slayer.

Read more about The Evermore Airship Incident

• Hugin Branded the queen slayer after the airship went down
• Queen Auguria The crash where the queen was ultimately killed
• S.T.A.T.S. The S.T.A.T.S. duo disappeared at the same time the queen died

A secret society, also called Vita et Mors, that exploits Silverium to gain power and carry out assassinations. Tied to several attempts on Queen Auguria. No named playable member is confirmed.

Read more about The Purists

• Queen Auguria Tied to several attempts on her life and to the crash that killed her
• Silverium Exploit its powers to gain influence and carry out assassinations
• United Mining Industry At odds with the corporation whose collaboration with the crown threatens their power

The banner the detective duo fights under. Munin carries The Raven's Claws, Hugin carries The Raven's Beak.

Read more about The Raven's Claws

• Hugin Detective of The Raven's Claws
• Munin Detective of The Raven's Claws
• S.T.A.T.S. The agency the detective duo's banner flies over

The essay in the Classical Curations collection that threads Queen Mary, Isabella II and Auguria III together through the crown's handling of Silverium.

Read more about The Silverium Conspiracy

• Queen Auguria The Classical Curations essay threads the crown's handling of Silverium through her reign
• Isabella II, The Conqueror Named in the same essay as part of the royal line behind the conspiracy
• The Argent Strand The Marian Era raising of the palace put the Silverium founts out of reach

Creatures and humans born from myths, legends and fairytales, carrying non-human traits from their storybook counterparts. Extremely powerful and flagship-tier.

Read more about Fableborne

• "Cinderella" Cinderella of Fableborne
• The Great Disaster theory The Fableborne emerged after the event, which reads as more than coincidence

A Gourmet Market chef, killed by werewolves. His hat was held over a six-year-old's eyes during the attack and the child will not sleep without it. The market's shop owners jointly prepared memorial bouquets, arranged by the florist Hypnos Garden and given to every visitor.

Read more about Head Chef Alex

• The Twelve Shops The Gourmet Market traders arranged his memorial bouquets themselves
• Werewolves Killed in the werewolf attack his hat shielded a child from

A noble house whose members carry flower titles. The Red Rose is likely one of its agents, though this is a reading rather than a stated fact.

Read more about House Flora

• Red Rose theory Likely an agent of the house whose members carry flower titles
• Royalty and Aristocracy theory A noble house read from the flower titles its agents carry

A noble house branching off the royal line, marked by the rising crescent. Cynthia II is its scion.

Read more about House Luna

• Cynthia II Luna's Scion of House Luna
• Royalty and Aristocracy A noble house branching off the royal line

Firtho's late father, a Royal Academy man. His old circle is what makes the Williams Manor case cut so deep for her.

Read more about Irwin

• Firtho Her late father, a Royal Academy man
• Baron Edgar A colleague of Firtho's father at the Royal Academy, which is what makes the case cut deep

Maid Institute, Society and Services. Trains and hires maids and servicepeople, who can also be hired as bodyguards and mercenaries. Its people are trained in firearms and combat.

Read more about M.I.S.S.

• Argos Bartender of M.I.S.S.
• Alf Maid of M.I.S.S.

A rowdy establishment that becomes the beating heart of High Peers after dusk. Amid the drunken whispers and gossip, vital clues sit waiting to be found.

Read more about Memoir Bar

• Argos Tends the bar where the returning Detective's journey begins
• Morgue Street A landmark of the street

A public manifestation named twice and never explained. The research notes credit it with revealing Silverium's inherent properties, then reduce those properties to two open questions: is it alive, and does it hold memory.

Read more about Mermaidomorphosis

• Silverium Credited with revealing Silverium's inherent properties, and with asking whether it is alive
• Mechanical Life theory Both chains ask the same question from opposite ends, one about built minds and one about the substance

The knightly order Gratia serves in as an Argent Knight, handpicked by the queen.

Read more about Order of the Tide

• Gratia An Argent Knight of the order
• River Constabulary Cobbled together by the military in the knights' absence

A third in-universe textbook quoted by chapter, alongside Cybernetics and Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation. Chapter 2 tells a reader who cannot afford marbled beef to brush honey over the steak instead. The other two books are issued to security captains and UMI stewards; this is the only one written downward.

Read more about Pierre's Food for Thought

• Mechanical Life The third book quoted by chapter, sibling to Cybernetics and Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation
• The Twelve Shops Attributed to Pierre, whose kitchen carries two of the four named restaurant menus

A notorious criminal syndicate haunting High Peers. One banner over a loose, chaotic coalition of smaller street gangs, dangerous through sheer numbers.

Read more about Stonefall Syndicate

• Morgue Street One of the rival powers holding the street in fragile equilibrium
• The Corner Clinic Known as a place of no return among the local punks and gangs

Passed 200 years ago, granting every citizen the right to protect their own residences and estates. Cited on three Silvercraft Buzzers whose top tier is openly lethal and whose disclaimer admits the Act's protection is limited.

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• Silvernia A 200-year-old statute letting every householder use force on their own doorstep
• The Silverium Fount The crown's power to take, delegated downward and bounded by a doorstep

Where the twenty-four Identity crystals are born, six lines by four ranks. Its lowest rank reuses the Mind Palace sand image. Nothing released says where it is or whether anyone has reached it.

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• The Mind Palace Both described in the same white-sand vocabulary, one holding possibilities and one holding thought
• The Argent Strand theory The Illusion of Life set reads the sea and the Strand as one thing seen from two sides

Firtho's clinic, lab and workplace in a quiet, forgotten district. Known as a place of no return among local punks and gangs.

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• Firtho Doctor of The Corner Clinic
• Stonefall Syndicate Known as a place of no return among the local punks and gangs

The only named historical period in the released text. The Silver Palace rose above the ground during it, opening chasms that kept intruders away from the founts, done through Silverium's gravitational properties.

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• The Silverium Fount The palace rose in this era, opening chasms that put the founts out of reach
• Silvernia The era that lifted the Silver Palace above the city and reshaped its topography

The round that killed the Detective's sibling. Tracing it is the reason the Detective came back to Silvernia at all.

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• Hugin Tracing the round that killed his sibling is why he came back at all
• The Great Disaster The death it caused happened in the catastrophe three years ago

Revealed the harpy attack at the Royal Equestrian Tournament as a staged, controlled event meant to show the public a knight fighting for her people.

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• Gratia Staged the harpy attack to show the public a knight fighting for her people
• Harpies Staged and controlled the tournament harpy to show the public a knight protecting people

Where intellectuals, clerks and merchants gather between shifts. A conduit for the city's endless chatter, exactly as the name suggests.

Read more about Voicepipe Café

• Morgue Street A landmark of the street
• The Twelve Shops theory The lab-glassware coffee menu matches the cafe's own pamphlet, which advertises beakers and slender-necked flasks

The locked-room vampire case Firtho takes on. To prove a death was faked she injects herself with a nerve agent and counterfeits death through the night.

Read more about Williams Manor

• Firtho Counterfeited her own death overnight to expose the locked-room trick
• Baron Edgar The culprit behind the faked death at the manor

Head of the collapsing Crescent Guild, whose troubles sit behind the framed werewolf family in Cynthia's case.

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• Werewolves His collapsing Crescent Guild sits behind the framing of the werewolf family

Likely a mercenary company or organised crime group. Black Knights tied to UMI appear as open-world enemies in trailers and CBT1.

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• United Mining Industry theory Black Knights tied to UMI appear as open-world enemies in trailers and CBT1

The company docks where Ashley thanks the Detective, calls him her prince, and leaves to take her revenge alone. Also the site of the Red Rose's first kill on a rainy night.

Read more about Bridgehead

• Ashley Thanks the Detective at the company docks, calls him her prince, and leaves alone

The investor whose smuggling scheme the Detective exposes. His arrest is what finally earns the Detective Rex's respect.

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• Rex Arrested him once the Detective exposed the smuggling scheme

The badge on Gucia's title page. Confirmed as her faction, with little else published about it yet.

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• Gucia Apprentice of Hunters' Guild

Named as the earliest crown on the line. Her exact link to Isabella II has not been spelled out.

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• Isabella II, The Conqueror theory The earliest crown on the line, though the exact link is not spelled out

The Red Rose's venue and the room where the powerful gather. Where the Detective finally draws her out and hears Ashley's whole story.

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• Red Rose Proprietress of the ballroom, where she finally tells Ashley's whole story

Cynthia II's governess, who chaperones her everywhere and whose distrust of commoners Cynthia learns to set aside.

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• Cynthia II Her governess, who chaperones her everywhere

Silverium's corrupting counterpart, attested on four items. It mutates plants through four stages, from unnatural colouration to a fruit nourished by blood, and unlike Silverium it never returns to the Argent Strand.

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• The Argent Strand The corrupting counterpart: Rustium takes root in living things instead of returning

The class the household Silvercraft implements belong to: buzzers, tungsten lamps and a quillon dagger, in three tiers each. A lamp launches itself at a target and self-detonates, and its notes praise an in-built tracking feature.

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• Mechanical Life Consumer implements that hunt, track and self-detonate, filed by the database as creatures

The street legend a teenage gang still worships. Rather than beat them, the man behind the tag poses as the still-living Silver Fist to steer them back to school.

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• Lorin He is the street legend, and poses as the still-living Silver Fist to steer the gang straight

A named wolf whose hunting ground sits at Felix, Morgue Street, High Peers as a repeatable map encounter. His card warns that the law of the jungle rules there, and of cunning predators who present themselves as prey. No story role is confirmed.

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• Werewolves Cunning predators who present themselves as prey, the same passing-for-a-citizen idea

The queen's prototype Silverium steed Gratia lost and then reconciled with. She named him after the Detective's distinctive headwear, and he turns out to be able to fly.

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• Gratia Lost the queen's prototype Silverium steed, then named him after the Detective's hat