The history of Cross
The encyclopaedia of the work. Everything that exists in Cross — the land, the powers, the mineral, the faith, Hell and the people — explained at length, entry by entry.
The almanac gives you the figure. Here is the reason behind it — contradictions included, and everything the Curia would rather not explain.
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88 entries across 12 areas · 16 free and complete
Where to start
How to read the continent
An oblong pear 2,500 km long, three strokes that organise everything, and a map that changes each era.
Ecclesiastical politics
The five factions of the Conclave of 77, the election of the One, and the three seats that decide everything.
The eight powers
One page: location, capital, regime, population and army of every power in Cross in 1890.
Aurum Roma
The heart-city. Seat of the One, of the Cathedral of the Choir and of the Perpetual Vigil — and the only exception to the 250,000 cap.
The Cataclysm of Ivandir
17 October 1780. The mountain splits, Seal VII breaks, and six hundred thousand people die in one night.
The nine wounds
Every bloc carries a wound that will not heal, and it predates Hell. Its internal history is that wound’s biography.
The fifteen battles
Three per era: two defeats and one closing victory. And every victory creates the next era’s problem.
Demonic field manual
What a legion is worth, how many there really are, the seven field classes — and why expelling is not killing.
The Perpetual Vigil and the Whites
The flame is not the channel: it is the visible half of a channel whose other half is a woman standing before it.
The seven Seals
Four on clerical or allied ground, two on schismatic, one lost. All continental politics flows from that fact.
The seven Princes of Vice
One per Seal, no overlap. Name, domain, patron city — and why the seven have never shared a battlefield.
The consecrated minerals
Seven minerals, seven functions. Lay mining yields dead ore: only a purifying cleric wakes the stone.
Pact and exorcism
No demon possesses by force: the rule of three yeses. And practical exorcism means eliminating the carrier.
The economy in figures
The Order mines three times more ore than it can purify. That single figure explains the entire war.
Everyday life
What people eat, what they wear, how a house is heated, and what happens on a Sunday, region by region.
People — Clerical Order
A hundred and twenty million across nine climates, and three different bodies under the same bone-white uniform.
The cast of 1890
The world with a face: heads of state, military command, money, press and the seven courts, with names and ages.
The twelve areas
The continent
The land, the climate, and what every stretch of soil forces the people on it to do.
15 entries · 3 free here IINations and powers
Eight human powers, who actually rules each one, and what binds them together.
15 entries · 2 free here IIICities
Seventeen canonical cities on both sides of the line, at street level.
13 entries · 2 free here IVHistory and eras
From before the Cataclysm to 1890. Five eras, and the wound each bloc has carried ever since.
15 entries · 2 free here VWar and orders
Fifteen battles, three military orders, and eight million people under arms who gain no ground.
6 entries · 1 free here VIFaith, heaven and angels
The seven Seals, the nine choirs, the Perpetual Vigil, and the exact price of keeping a channel open.
11 entries · 2 free here VIIHell and the Heptarchy
Seven Princes, seven courts, and forty million people paying taxes on the other side of the line.
16 entries · 2 free here VIIIMinerals and pact
The only two models of power there are: the gift that costs years, and the shortcut that charges everything.
3 entries · 1 free here IXEconomy and figures
Population, deaths, gold, ore, and the purification bottleneck that explains the entire war.
9 entries · 1 free here XSociety and culture
What people eat, how they speak, what they fear at night, and what day of the year it is.
11 entries · 1 free here XIPeoples and bodies
The body reads class and history, never blood. Dress, uniform, heraldry and sensory signature of each bloc.
9 entries · 1 free here XIIPeople
Who rules, who fights, who funds and who writes the history — with names and dates.
4 entries · 1 free here