Other Literature lists excerpts from various books, letters, interviews, scrolls, and miscellaneous writings that do not have more than 3 available cortex entries. These works, however, are popular among the people of Coda.
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A total of 19 cortex entries make reference to other popular writings.
Menioned here are some of the excerpts obtained randomly.
Amplifiers (2)
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Lord Brall: Milord, the visitors from Antium are missing. As is Brexis.
Cadmius: Missing? What say you?
Lord Brall: He has stolen blueprints to our grand secret, oh great one.
Cadmius: Our precious amplification! Stolen from under our nose. Find him. At once! As for the so-called diplomats from Antium… let them sit in the bellies of the mantikars.
Lord Brall: As you say, my lord.
Lady Cadmius: Dearest sir. Your flesh has turned ripe, and your body is about to fall from the tree.
Cadmius: Tree? What tree? Do not spin metaphors while I’m in the throes of anger!
— From Corvus in Fortuo, a performance play by Braceweld
Tassyn (3)
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The corvus is a bird of remarkable intelligence, famed for its problem-solving skills and its ruthlessness in defending nesting sites. But less well-known is how long their memories are. Those who have raided nests find themselves chased by angry birds even decades later. Corvus remember, and they pass information along forever.
— From Birds of Bastion: A Field Guide by Declan Sumner
Arcanists (6)
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Look beyond what you see, for the truth hides behind it. For those who hold power through lies count those who pursue truth as the enemy. At its center, the Arcanist movement is about truth. Often, truth does not serve those who hold sway over society, or those elements that sought that control. The truth then becomes an inconvenience at best, a threat at worst. Arcanists have often hid their truth and developed many ways to obscure their discoveries from prying and sometimes undeserving eyes.
— From Searching for Reality: An Overview of Arcanist History by Arcanist Bach Jamoon
Shaper Relics (5)
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One commodity remains valuable to certain black market brokers, despite political strife, geographical upheaval, and even Cataclysms—stable Shaper fragments. While most—with the dubious exception of Freelancers—would leave well enough alone, there are those fringe elements of society that would risk annihilation for the promise of power.
— From Ancient Goods, the Shapers' Role in the Economics of Modern Trade by Arcanist Bach Jamoon
Fort Tarsis (5)
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"The monstrous Scar war machines smashed the white walls of Fort Tarsis for ten days and ten nights. With every attack, the walls shook, but never fell. Atop those same walls, the Sentinels' deafening gunfire barrage never ceased. Beyond the wall, Freelancers harassed and diverted the vast swarm, often disappearing into their uncountable numbers like stones dropping into water, only to reemerge from the canopy battered—but victorious."
—From "Warhive: The Siege of Fort Tarsis" by Madam Chronicler
Fort Tarsis (7)
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"We don't know what caused it. Seems things in this world just happen, y'know? But I was the one who spotted them first: Titans on the march and coming right for us. My heart nearly jumped out of my chest, I don't mind saying. Rang the alarm and got everybody going. Fort Tarsis was in for a fight."
—From "Fire Walkers: March of the Titans" by Commander Rann
Fort Tarsis (11)
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"Hail! Ye from the fort named for the savior of mankind? It was foretold that a man from that edge of the civilized world would be mine end. Tell me stranger! Did you take the High Road whence you left your home's gates? Did you leave behind the towering white walls and the Sentinels' watchful gaze?"
—From "Sythiss, the Outlaw King", a play by Micon Davall
The Bane Engine (2)
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Becoming an Arcanist means gaining a wealth of skills. An Arcanist must be a researcher, a historian, a survival guide, and an explosives expert. I'm not kidding. Knowing how to create explosives out of common camp supplies has saved many Arcanists from cave-ins, relic abnormalities, wildlife, outlaws, and Scars.
—From "Dialogues: Interview with an Arcanist"
The Haven (3)
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Another tomb searched, and still no sign of General Tarsis. This is the 117th burial chamber my team has located that matches the texts and descriptions. I'm beginning to question this task. Still a few other tombs in the area to check out before we move on.
—From "Search for the General: The Diaries of Cartographer Christopher Tan"
The Hollow (1)
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Though never found, the Hollow was the assumed resting place of the infamous Vatellian Communication. This letter—written by an unknown traitor during humanity's uprising against the urgoth—reportedly contains the location of hidden Arcanist forges developing weapons to aid in the war effort.
—From "The Birth of Resistance", an article in "The Antium Journal of Archaeology"
The Hollow (2)
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Find here a cave, traveler. When the hot dagger of day, snake-slow steals cool comfort of forest night, your shadow-friends shall retreat into the hollows of the world to bide. Find then, the sky reversed, and the cold blackness of the stars laid out under your feet.
—From "Careless Journey Into Sunset", a play by Tillaca Ben
The Mandible (3)
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They dumped us in a pit and threw down crude weapons. There was no cheering. No glory. They were seeing what we would do. No one did anything. Eventually, they hung a half-cooked grabbit over the pit. We understood. Not everyone gets to be a hero out here. Some of us just have to survive.
—From "Confessions from Bastion" by Jarek Arnel
The Shrine (1)
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You will often find Regulator camps in natural cave systems. They set up quickly and tear down just as fast. This system allows them to move incredible amounts of contraband in a single day. The difficulty is knowing if any given cave is a storehouse of Shaper relics or a gambling den. Often, the line between them is blurred.
—From "The Sentinel's Survival Guide to Bastion"
The Shrine (2)
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Were the urgoth the only Anzu? Many books and philosophers have debated this point, though it seems undeniable. For example, that big shrine out there. It doesn't show any recognizable symbols or patterns we know were formed in the Anzu Era. What races came before the urgoth or during their lifespan?
—From "The Moment After Sunrise" by Sab Hendt
Saurian (3)
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"They glided along the dirt path like a brightly colored river. Moving in shifting directions, but with unmistakable purpose. I held the arm of my child to keep him from running down to greet these colorful creatures. He did not see the bloody footprints they left."
—From "The Easy Toil: Breaking Ground in Bastion" by Ingal Bass
Wolven (3)
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"I checked my rifle constantly. Cleaned as best as could be managed in the wet jungle. The pack had ambushed us—five, perhaps six, springing from the dense jungle in ruthless coordination. We lost two, Arcanist Reeve and Engineer Dahr, that first night. After that, it became a race to the fortified Sentinel base three days march from our position. The attacks continued through that first night and into the days ahead. We started the expedition with fourteen, but only three of us arrived at the gates."
—From "Lost Sun and Rain" by Lox Bergol
The Necropolis (3)
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Those who study Anzu artwork and architecture can only be amazed by its brilliance. What sad fate buried these marvels and cultural secrets, leaving behind the foolishness and barbaric reflections that humans try to pass off as art?
—From "The Moment After Sunrise" by Sab Hendt
Tesilar (2)
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"Humanity's struggles against the urgoth included a limited harnessing of the tesilars' inherent power generation for their basic needs. So reliant were they upon the animal's gifts that a certain fondness developed, despite the danger the creature posed. If the uprising against our oppressors had occurred a few generations later, I wager that tesilars would have been wholly domesticated."
—From "Early Days: A Reckoning of War" by Fionna Nomeri
The Foundry (5)
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Our absent guides have indeed lent their crooked hand to shaping the sinews of our world. There is no better example than what lies ahead in that foundry of mystery. I record my final moments of assured peace before venturing into that iron void.
—From "An Expedition of the Blue and Baleful" by Arcanist Jasper Wyre