The Veilbound Codex

Opening Fragment

“The leylines do not sleep. They are not safe. They are not yours. They are watching.”
(Found etched into the bone of a dreamer who had not slept in 12 days.)

Codex Entry: The Cost of Naming

“To name a leyline is to hold it still. To map it is to pierce its veil. But the oldest threads resist—they remember when they were gods, not roads. They do not suffer the cartographer lightly.”

Codex Entry: The Forgotten Line

“They say there is a leyline no longer charted in any atlas. Not because it cannot be found—but because it refuses to remain found. Those who trace it find their own maps altered, their memories misaligned. One scribe drew the same path thirty-seven times. It changed every night.”
(Marked only with the glyph ‘Δ’ and a note: “Do not speak aloud in its presence.”)

Codex Entry: The Star-Tethered Vein

“Not all leylines are of this world. Some stretch outward, upward, through the places between what is and what might be. This one sings in a language the gods do not claim, but dream of.”
(A notation follows: “Intersects briefly with Auracle. Approach during lunar eclipse. Bring nothing with a name.”)

Codex Entry: The Bound Path

“There are leylines that do not wish to be free. They are contained, bound by mortal will. Sealed with purpose. These are the most dangerous, for they remember freedom, and they whisper of it.”
(Three diagrams follow, two are scratched out. One remains: a thorned spiral etched into the skin of a desiccated hand.)

Closing Note (Unverified)

“You read this thinking it is a book. It is not. It is a lock. And each page is a key. Do not open all of them.”