Volume III

Astral Maps

Someone drew the sky as a room, and then furnished it.

Celestial diagrams, harmonic charts, planetary tables and the enormous cosmological drawings made by people who were certain the universe had a floor plan. Volume III collects the Entities who live in that geometry rather than in bodies: figures assembled from orbits, from concentric rings, from the labelled arrows of a hand-coloured plate. They are the cartographers of the archive, and most of them classify as Firmament.

Records 0203 to 0303. The astronomical sources in this volume are largely accurate; the cosmological ones are largely not. Each record says which it is.