The KeyworkUnofficial fan creation

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An unofficial fan creation

The Amory Wars, told album by album.

A fan’s guide to Coheed and Cambria’s saga. Read what happens on each album, meet the people and places, hear the song behind every scene, and keep spoilers hidden until you get there.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Coheed and Cambria or Evil Ink Comics.

Background: The Afterman: Ascension, cover painting by Heidi Taillefer. Album by Coheed and Cambria.

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Heaven’s Fence

Heaven’s Fence is 78 worlds and seven stars, all held together by a beam of energy called the Keywork.

Hub Sector 1 Sector 6 Sector 11 Sector 12 Stars of Sirius Keywork connections Current story location

Fan-made schematic, not a canonical chart. Drag to move. Click, then scroll to zoom. Shift + arrows pan.

The Dark Sentencer and the ship approaching it are details from Chase Stone’s Vaxis I illustrations Detention Zone and Dark Sentencer. Story by Claudio Sanchez, written by Chondra Echert. Characters and story © Evil Ink Comics, LLC. The artwork is cropped, not altered.

About this site

The Keywork is an unofficial fan project. It has no affiliation with Coheed and Cambria, Claudio Sanchez, Evil Ink Comics, BOOM! Studios, or Roadrunner Records. It’s here to help new fans and old ones follow a saga that’s easier to love than to summarize.

I’ve been listening to Coheed and Cambria for more than twenty years, starting with The Second Stage Turbine Blade. Hearing In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 played front to back on the Neverender tour in Riverside in 2014 made me want to follow the story the same way, one album at a time, so I built this. It’s a personal project with no ads and no money in it.

Every image here comes from the comics, novellas and albums, with the credit Evil Ink Comics asked for: the work, its copyright, and who wrote, drew, colored and lettered it. The full list is under Artwork credits. Character art follows your spoiler setting. Album covers always show.

This is a companion to the comics and books, not a replacement for them, and it doesn’t reproduce any lyrics. Music plays through Spotify’s official player. Every chapter credits the comics, novels and novellas that tell it in full, with links to buy them from Evil Ink or BOOM! Studios.

The summaries are written fresh, from notes gathered from the Coheed and Cambria Wiki (CC BY-SA), Wikipedia, and a 2022 guide from ComicBook.com None of it is copied from them.

Two chapters are marked partial: No World for Tomorrow and Vaxis III. Their summaries still need checking against the full books. “Complete” means a summary covers the whole chapter, not that anyone official has signed off on it.

Artwork credits

Comic pages and illustrations © Evil Ink Comics, LLC. Album art © its artists and labels. Evil Ink Comics asked that every image carry its credit, so each one is listed here in full.

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