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The first law of Entropy's Code is known as the Windflower Law or the Lostheart Law. It forbids to the Powers the most basic of the human needs—the ability to give one's heart to another. Of course, not even Powers can "turn off" their capacity for love; to abide by this law, they would need to avoid all opportunities for love to grow. Life would become a cold and functional thing.

The Windflower Law is nearly impossible to enforce. The thoughts and feelings of Powers are unreadable by all miracles save, perhaps, their Imperator's. Still, there are obvious signs. Some Powers have been caught "red-handed" in an avowal of their love; others have used an "unacceptable" amount of magic to preserve the life of a mere mortal. (It is possible to frame a Power, by the way. Divinations cannot tell which Powers were actually present at any given event.) Most Powers allow themselves love but never admit their feelings to their loved ones. Loyalty to one's Imperator, Familia, and Affiliation is not considered to be "love" for the purposes of the Lostheart Law.

The Windflower Law does not permit Powers to love their Anchors, but neither does it make any assumptions regarding their doing so. In a crucial decision, Meon ruled that a "loved one's" status as an Anchor cannot be entered into evidence in the Locust Court, stating:

"This Court does not recognize the common and erroneous belief that the creation of Anchors, intimately tied to the nature of the Nobilis, is in some manner connected to the obscene and igNoble crime of love."

As a practical matter, a Noble's enemies know to look first to that Noble's Anchors when searching for evidence of a Windflower Law violation. Overt, obvious love for an Anchor is thus terribly dangerous even though the act of Anchoring itself is safe.