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	- '''cadaverous monks of the House of Hard Angles''' - The living residents of the House who would use corpselight lamps to navigate corridors where the undead tenants dwell; the lamps' ordinary utility is framed in terms of the daily practical needs of those inhabiting the building alongside its spectral occupants - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.		* '''cadaverous monks of the House of Hard Angles''' - The living residents of the House who would use corpselight lamps to navigate corridors where the undead tenants dwell; the lamps' ordinary utility is framed in terms of the daily practical needs of those inhabiting the building alongside its spectral occupants - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.
	- '''The Warden of the House of Hard Angles''' - As the senior officer responsible for the House, the Warden's purview extends to the building's physical infrastructure, including its illumination; no direct interaction with the lamps is described - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.		* '''The Warden of the House of Hard Angles''' - As the senior officer responsible for the House, the Warden's purview extends to the building's physical infrastructure, including its illumination; no direct interaction with the lamps is described - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.

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Corpselight lamps are a form of illumination in use within the House of Hard Angles, where they draw their light by feeding off the ghosts bound to or lingering in the building's grounds; the spectral residue sustains a steady glow in place of flame or oil - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20. They are described plainly as functional fixtures of the House rather than as objects of particular ritual significance, serving the ordinary need to see in corridors and rooms where the House's undead tenants dwell - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.

Their narrative function in the series is small but pointed: they belong to the infrastructure of a haunted building, and their very ordinariness is the point. That a house full of the dead requires lamps powered by the dead to let the living navigate its halls frames the supernatural not as spectacle but as municipal fact, something maintained rather than feared. Corpselight lamps appear in only one book of the series, referenced in a single passage, and no further detail is given regarding their construction, maintenance, or the exact mechanism by which a ghost's presence is converted into visible light - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20. They do not recur, are not wielded by any named character, and are not tied to any plot event beyond establishing the texture of the House's daily life.

== The Object ==
=== Description ===
Corpselight lamps are installed fixtures within the House of Hard Angles, located in corridors and rooms where the building's undead tenants dwell - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20. No physical specifications - material, size, shape, markings, or method of mounting - are provided in the text. They are described as functional fixtures rather than portable objects, suggesting they are built into the architecture of the House rather than carried or worn - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.

=== What It Does ===
A corpselight lamp draws its illumination by feeding off the ghosts bound to or lingering in the House's grounds; the spectral residue sustains a steady glow in place of flame or oil - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20. The lamps produce a constant light rather than a flickering one, replacing conventional fuel entirely - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20. No cost of operation, maintenance procedure, or degradation limit is described. Their apparent limitation is that they require the presence of spectral residue to function; the text does not address what occurs to a corpselight lamp in a room the ghosts have abandoned or been removed from - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.

=== Provenance ===
No maker, installation date, or chain of custody is recorded in the text. The lamps are presented as existing infrastructure of the House of Hard Angles, integral to its present use as a dwelling and workplace, with no origin story or history of ownership - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.

== History ==
=== Days of Shattered Faith ===
Corpselight lamps are a form of illumination in use within the [[House of Hard Angles]], drawing their light by feeding off the ghosts bound to or lingering in the building's grounds; the spectral residue sustains a steady glow in place of flame or oil - ch 20. They are described plainly as functional fixtures of the House rather than as objects of particular ritual significance, serving the ordinary need to see in corridors and rooms where the House's undead tenants dwell - ch 20. No further detail is given in this book regarding their construction, maintenance, or the exact mechanism by which a ghost's presence is converted into visible light - ch 20.

== Relationships ==
- '''cadaverous monks of the House of Hard Angles''' - The living residents of the House who would use corpselight lamps to navigate corridors where the undead tenants dwell; the lamps' ordinary utility is framed in terms of the daily practical needs of those inhabiting the building alongside its spectral occupants - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.
- '''The Warden of the House of Hard Angles''' - As the senior officer responsible for the House, the Warden's purview extends to the building's physical infrastructure, including its illumination; no direct interaction with the lamps is described - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20.

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