Hosted by Reed Sterling · EN-US · 43 episodes
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Adventure history and adventure science — fiction stories for boys. Compass & Codex is a serialized storytelling podcast for boys ages 8–14 and the families who read with them. Every episode is a chapter of an ongoing story: fire ant scouts, Roman legions, pirates, and more — told with real biology, real history, and real stakes. We explore the unknown, every time. Current series: - Colony in Danger (fire ant adventure fiction) - Eagle's Edge (Roman historical fiction). New chapters every week. Subscribe and start from Chapter 1. Hosted by Reed Sterling. For fans of Watership Down, Redwall, the Warriors series, Empires of the Undergrowth, and anyone who wants adventure fiction that respects the reader.
Reed Sterling hosts Compass & Codex, a kids show with 43 episodes published.
CORRECTED EPISODE: This is an updated version of Chapter 6. The original release named the wrong battle — it referred to Marcus's first fight as "the Sabis," against the Nervii. His actual first battle is the Arar, again
Cinder staggers through the dark meadow, dry and lost, until he crashes into a ditch and a boot pins him flat. It's Rook Calder — the beetle Enforcer, the last creature Cinder would have trusted — and he's not there to f
With one day before Krag's ultimatum expires, Max gathers the exile camp and draws the dungeon from memory in the dirt — every corridor, every pressure plate, every branching path. He designed it to be inescapable. He al
Calloway — the most wanted outlaw in four territories — rides down the main street of Harrow Gulch in broad daylight, and the whole town goes still. Marshal Morrow watches him pass and finds no reason to move. Calloway w
The Second Cohort marches into the wooded valley of the Sabis River, where the silence is wrong and the steep slopes are perfect cover for an ambush. Then the Nervii erupt from the trees in their thousands — and the Roma
The moment the boats touch sand, Jim slips away from Long John Silver and vanishes into the island's jungle — alone, with a single-shot pistol and no idea where he's going. He pushes through strange, towering trees and c
Pinned under the clover with the wounded Silas fading, Cinder and his friends are nearly surrounded — the pill bug patrols now move like a real army, quartering the whole basin. So Cinder makes the call no one wants: the
A guard slips into the exile camp at midnight with a warning: Krag has turned the west gate into a trap, with orders to seize whoever carries the double-scored satchel through at dawn. The usual courier is a thirteen-yea
Bracket shows Max how the exiles really talk to the people still trapped inside Brickhaven — hollow bricks, coded loaves, and a flag system run from the astronomer's tower. But the rebels won't trust a stranger claiming
Madame Frost's intelligence lands on Gunnar's workbench at dusk: six Syndicate operatives are already at the High Pass trestle with explosives in place. The supply train from Millston — carrying medicine for the influenz
The battle at the Sabis River is over. Marcus is still in it. While the camp celebrates survival with wine and stories, Marcus sits alone in the dark outside his tent, cleaning a gladius that has been spotless for hours.
Weeks into the voyage, Jim has found his sea legs and his place aboard the Hispaniola — and an unlikely friendship with Long John Silver, who teaches him knots and reads the stars with him and fills his days with warmth
Cinder, Blaze, and Thistle move in at dawn to spy on Thane Reed's pill bug colony — and find something worse than they imagined. Three hundred soldiers run in perfect military precision, loading stolen food in organized
At dawn, Max and Pip leave the exile camp to explore the world outside Brickhaven's walls. The six decorative trees Max placed for visual interest are now a real old-growth forest blocking out the sky. The flat blue tile
In Chapter 5, Vesper leads Gunnar through a door he didn't know was there: a black train on an unmarked spur, running without registry or markings, carrying a black market for everything the Syndicate has systematically
In Chapter 5, Caesar drops his hand and the Arar River turns red. The Helvetii are crossing the ford when five thousand Romans step out of the dawn mist. Marcus has trained for weeks — but nothing prepared him for what h
In Chapter 5, Jim boards the Hispaniola for the first time. The ship is alive with sailors, strange smells, and the barely controlled chaos of a vessel preparing to cross an ocean. Long John Silver takes him under his wi
In Chapter 13, the team makes their most dangerous crossing yet — an open field at night, nothing but moonlight and Thistle’s star map to guide them. Halfway across, a shrew takes Silas. Cinder goes after the predator wi
In Chapter 5, Pip leads Max to the exile camp — the people Krag expelled for asking the wrong questions. The teacher who corrected the history plates. The merchant who asked one question about supply deliveries. The bake
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