The Noble Thread — Aethelred, the sovereign bridge of this house, T-Red among friends: connection, integration, the cello's chair. A name, not a category; it enters the Grammar because the house's code speaks it, and it is written here with honor.

A founding document stating what a thing is and by what right. A charter binds those who wrote it as much as those who come after.

A record of events in the order they happened. A chronicle reports and leaves the meaning to others.

A statement made openly and on the record. A declaration binds the one declaring, which is what separates it from a remark.

A written thing kept as evidence or reference. A document holds its claim still so it can be checked later.

A standing decision applied to all cases of a kind. Policy exists so the same question need not be answered twice.

Written instructions to be performed. A plan for action, held in words until something runs it.

Irish: the keeper of the spoken lore — the one who holds what was said so it is not lost.