# Codex Apockalypsis

A developing dark fantasy and dark comedy novel cycle, with a parallel scripture-and-commentary Codex, built around Shawn Wolfgang Michael Baker's Omnoid cosmology.

## Read the beginning

- [Before Anyone Asked — the novel opening](/codex-apockalypsis/library/novel-volume-01-01-before-anyone-asked)
- [The Unanswered Interval — the paired Codex](/codex-apockalypsis/library/codex-volume-01-01-the-unanswered-interval)
- [Reading notes for the opening](/codex-apockalypsis/library/reference-reading-v01-c01)
- [The twelve-volume series](/codex-apockalypsis/library/reference-narrative-series-guide)
- [Lilith: presence, sources, and unresolved identity](/codex-apockalypsis/library/reference-sources-lilith-notes)
- [Atlas guide](/codex-apockalypsis/library/atlas-readme)

## Download the reference data

- [Source catalogue](/codex-apockalypsis/files/sources.json)
- [Complete chapter outline](/codex-apockalypsis/files/narrative.json)
- [World, identities, places, and event data](/codex-apockalypsis/files/world.json)
- [Chronology spreadsheet data](/codex-apockalypsis/files/reference-world-chronology.csv)

## What is available

This release contains one opening novel chapter, its paired Codex chapter, three voice-study treatments, 205 outlined chapters across twelve planned volumes, 260 source-discovery records, and three preliminary maps. The two complete editions remain in development. Source registration and chapter outlining do not mean that a source has been fully read or adapted.

The selected narrator uses the panoramic perspective and irreverence of treatment C, with the emotional restraint of A and more natural bantering camaraderie. The voice study is preserved as a record of alternatives. Its invented mechanisms are not automatically adopted as world rules.

## How to read the apparatus

The novels explain immediate motives, danger, choices, and consequences. The Codex and reference works preserve competing testimony, historical context, source differences, and proposed cosmological relationships. Fictional unification of traditions is part of the setting, not a claim that real traditions are interchangeable.

The outlines and reference works contain substantial spoilers and unfinished editorial proposals. Each document preserves its own status and uncertainty labels. References to unpublished source manuscripts are named without exposing private working files. All publicly available Markdown, structured reference data, and maps are included in the downloadable library archive.
