Everwhen — The Illuminated Codex

Twelve of 88 captured pairs · before = the game as it shipped (main) · after = PR #351 · code-level reading

The climax — history bends · phone, night

From an admin split-pane to one proclamation: kicker, drop-cap headline, the sealed-at stamp, the engraved swing gauge with its rubric needle, the ledger ruler, and the equation as a dagger footnote.

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

The dispatch — ready to send · desktop, day

From a web form to a letter: rubricated addressee with dagger ties, writing on ruled feints, a true margin of glosses, and the matte pressed-wax seal on its ring.

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

The dispatch · phone, night

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

The climax · desktop, day

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

The dice of fate · desktop

The engraved icosahedron over the Table of Fates — the struck band lights in its outcome ink with a marginal manicule.

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

The record · phone, night

An inserted quire: the Spine as an inked timeline with wax nodes, the Chronicle, the Thread — one run state, no scrim ghost.

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

Choosing a crusade · desktop

An illuminated table of contents: rubric numerals, engraved roundels, a drawn bracket on the chosen entry.

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

Victory — the colophon · phone, night

The seal strikes in gold-warmed wax between laurels; the epilogue reads with its illuminated initial; the run's figures print in serif.

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

Defeat · phone, night

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

The sending — the magic act · phone, night

A sealed paper letter sinking into the page through tonal ink ripples — the one honest wait.

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

A fresh dispatch · desktop, night

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex

The threshold · desktop

before — before — the game as it shipped

after — after — the illuminated codex