History and eras
What happened in Cross, year by year, and why has none of it been resolved?
From before the Cataclysm to 1890. Five eras, and the wound each bloc has carried ever since.
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Why it is called Cross
Three canonical explanations that refuse to reconcile. Which one you invoke says who you are.
The Cataclysm of Ivandir
17 October 1780. The mountain splits, Seal VII breaks, and six hundred thousand people die in one night.
The Cataclysm of the Seals
One Seal a year, east to west, for seven years. The cascade’s order is the argument of those who deny it was chance.
Before the Cataclysm
The century of apostasy, the near-total collapse, and the 1786 Archangel Intervention — which saved by killing.
The fronts
Limes Orientalis, the Tenebrum Sea and the Limbus Mundi. No capital, no people — and where nearly every story lives.
Milestones — Age of Ash
Seventeen milestones across thirty-five years of collapse. The era in which every wound is born.
Milestones — Age of Stagnation
The canonical present. The era in which every wound stops hurting and becomes the structure holding it all up.
Milestones — Age of the Forge
The wound starts paying — and a wound that pays stops being a wound and becomes a business.
Milestones — Black Crusades
The refounding. Each bloc builds the institution that carries its wound — none designed to heal it.
Milestones — Age of Empire
Eight bills presented, eight answers of repression, zero reforms. This is the era that makes Stagnation inevitable.
The nine wounds
Every bloc carries a wound that will not heal, and it predates Hell. Its internal history is that wound’s biography.
Infernal territory, era by era
What Hell took and what it lost — and why the border has not moved since 1859.
See also
Entries from other areas that answer this one.
Climate, era by era
The High Ash, the years without summer, fissure heat and smog — each with the famine it produced.
The economy, era by era
Who grew rich, at whose cost, and the four decisions that converted the economy — none of them economic.
City chronology
Twenty-seven urban milestones — and the reason Pandæmonium gets none.
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