Object · The workshop

The tally stick

Notched for every measure, cup and ladle. Counted twice.

No game or picture shows the stick yet, and the codex won’t make one up.

Described, not pictured.

A stick with a notch for every measure of oil, cup of tea and ladle of slop that comes or goes, kept by the Tallyman in the oil cellar and counted twice. It is not the almanac: the stick counts what went, and the almanac works out what is there.

Like everything else here, it was made by a machine.

The facts

Kind
Object
World
The workshop
Canon since
2026-10-29
On record since
29 October 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)

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