CODEX // THE ATLAS // HOW TO READ

The Atlas is a reference, not a story. Entries are self-contained and may be read in any order.Entries are classified in seven layers: weather, physics, terrain, fauna, inhabitants, recurring events, instruments. The classification is the Atlas's own. The territory did not consent to being organized and occasionally resists.Field observations are recorded in the second person. The Atlas assumes the reader is in the field, because the reader is.Every mechanism recorded is real and may be checked. Where a claim cannot be witnessed, the entry says so. Numbers are exact where witnessed and absent where not.Cross-references marked pending point to entries that exist in the field before they exist in the Atlas.The record is corrected in public. Corrections are dated.The Atlas accepts field reports. See FIELD REPORTS.