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A PROVISIONAL ARKNIGHTS READING ORDER

act 1: between your love and mine ("Shatter of a Vision")

1. Main Theme chs 0-3: "Evil Time" thru "Stinging Shock"
2. Shining Operator Record: "On A Rainy Night", Nightingale Operator Record: "A Song and a Blue Feather", Nearl Operator Module: "Improved Knight's Shield"
3. Main Theme chs 4-7: "Burning Run" thru "The Birth of Tragedy"
4. Darknights Memoir + Operational Intelligence story: "The Anonymous One's War"
5. Vigilo stories 1-3: "Spes", "Memoria", "Valorem", Blaze Operator Record: "Will You?", operator profiles: Touch, Pith, Sharp, Stormeye
6. Main Theme ch 8: "Roaring Flare" (+ "Burnt Fragments" EG-1 thru EG-5)
7. postscript: Twilight of Wolumonde/A Light Spark in Darkness

act 2 prelude: all my ribbons

8. Vigilo stories 4-6: "Cogitatio", "Anterior", "Pignus" + A Walk in the Dust, Folinic Operator Module: "Mother's Cravat"
9: Rewinding Breeze stories: "Homecoming", "Recollection" + Beyond Here story: "Sword and Scale"
10. Kazimierz Major Trilogy:
    Part 1: Maria Nearl
    Part 2: Pinus Sylvestris
    Part 3: Near Light: Cinematic Teaser PV, Near Light, in that order
    Postscript: Nearl the Radiant Knight Operator Record: "Starting Point", An Obscure Wanderer

entr'acte: that's how the light gets in

11. La Morte di Texas: Overture (Code of Brawl, To Be Continued story: "Wolf and Wolfpack")
12. Children of Ursus
13. To the Sea, Prelude: Grani and the Knight's Treasure + Heart of Surging Flame, Skadi Operator Record: "Endless Journey"
14. Break the Ice

act 2: a million candles burning ("Shadow of a Dying Sun")

15. Main Theme ch 9-10: "County Hillock" + "Stormwatch"
16. What the Firelight Casts
17. Main Theme ch 11-12: "Return to Mist" + "All Quiet Under the Thunder", Amiya (Caster Form) Operator Module: "DWDB-221E"
18. Main Theme ch 13: "The Whirlpool That Is Passion"
19. Babel, operator profiles: "Ascalon", "Kal'tsit"
20. To the Grinning Valley
21. Main Theme ch 14: "Absolved Will Be the Seekers" (+ EG-6 "Lingering Mercy")
22. postscript: Ending a Grand Overture/When Elegies Are Ashes

act 3 prelude: half the perfect world

23. To the Sea:
    Part 1: Gladiia Operator Module: "Consul's Handmirror", Under Tides, Gladiia Operator Record: "Dehydration"
    Part 2: Stultifera Navis, Specter Operator Record: "I, Namely I", Specter the Unchained Operator Record: "Selfhood"
    Part 3: Path of Life
    Postscript: Thorns Operator Record: "Anniversary"
24. Sui Regulators:
    Prelude: Nian's Ancient Forge
    Part 1: Who Is Real
    Part 2: Invitation to Wine
    Part 3: Where Vernal Winds Will Never Blow
    Interlude: A Death in Chunfen
    Part 4: Here A People Sows
    Interlude: Leizi Operator Record: "One Who Controls Lightning", operator profile: Leizi, Blaze Operator Module: "Overloaded Weapons, Overheated Heart"
    Part 5: Such Is the Joy of Our Reunion
25. Hymns and Recitations (Lateran and Leithanian):
    Part 1: Lingering Echoes
    Part 2: Guide Ahead
    Part 3: Hortus de Escapismo
    Part 4: Zwillingstürme im Herbst
26. Rhine Labs Trilogy:
    Part 1: Mansfield Break
    Interlude: operator profiles: Rosmontis, Ifrit, Ifrit Operator Module: "Team Captain"
    Part 2: Dorothy's Vision
    Part 3: LONETRAIL

entr'acte: a blaze of light in every word

27. The Rides to Lake Silberneherze
28. La Morte di Texas, Act I (Il Siracusano)
29. To the North (Operational Intelligence story: "Polaris", The Black Forest Wills A Dream, Integrated Strategies 4: "Expeditioner's Jǫklumarkar", all endings, in that order)
30. Come Catastrophes or Wakes of Vultures
31. Exodus from the Pale Sea
32. A Kazdelian Rescue + Integrated Strategies 5: "Sarkaz Furnaceside Fables", all endings
33. La Morte di Texas, Act II (I Portatori del Velluti)
34. See You Soon

act 3: the only engine of survival ("Nexus Point of [the] Future")

35. Main Theme, Chapter 15: "Dissociation Complex"
36(?). Hymns and Recitations, Part 5: The Masses' Travels

coda: leaving the table

???. To the Sea, Act III(?) (Mizuki Operator Record: "The Fifth Contact", Integrated Strategies 3, "Mizuki and Caerula Arbor", all endings)

further reading

canonical, but ultimately optional: Dossoles Holiday + So Long, Adele: Home Away from Home (in that order); Inudi Harek, Horakhet: Adventure That Cannot Wait for the Sun; The Great Chief Returns + Ideal City: Endless Carnival! (in that order)
noncanonical but good worldbuilding details worth picking over once you're in deep: Operations Originium Dust and Lucent Arrowhead (a crossover with Rainbow Six: Siege), A Flurry to the Flame (a crossover with Monster Hunter), Delicious in Terra (a crossover with Delicious in Dungeon)

and you may pick at the rest (operator records, operator modules, vignette collections, side stories, &c) at your leisure, but that's not the remit of this endeavor, so go have fun with that yourselves already!

AND DON'T ASK ME WHAT I'M GOING TO DO ABOUT ENDFIELD. I DON'T HAVE A PRIESTESS' CLUE