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A
- Angelic bestiary Nine choirs, seven Archangels, and the reason only the choir of Angels has spoken since 1787. Faith, heaven and angels Plus
- Architecture Renaissance, baroque and Victorian in collision. The face of each city, and what the stone says about who rules. Society and culture Plus
- 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. Cities Free
B
- Before the Cataclysm The century of apostasy, the near-total collapse, and the 1786 Archangel Intervention — which saved by killing. History and eras Plus
- Bernkanton Forty-five thousand people, a deliberately weak capital — and the vaults holding everyone’s money. Cities Plus
- Brithon Estuary, fog and holy coal. The only great capital the war has never touched. Cities Plus
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- Deaths and losses Forty-eight million in a hundred and ten years. And famine and plague kill more than demons do. Economy and figures Plus
- Demonic bestiary From swarm to Prince. The deeper the evil, the more beautiful the shape — and no Prince has ever been killed. Hell and the Heptarchy Plus
- Demonic field manual What a legion is worth, how many there really are, the seven field classes — and why expelling is not killing. War and orders Plus
- Demonic tongues and sigils Hor’kava, Sin’Marka and Enokhite, the alphabets, and why a name said aloud is a weapon for both sides. Hell and the Heptarchy Plus
E
- Ecclesiastical politics The five factions of the Conclave of 77, the election of the One, and the three seats that decide everything. Nations and powers Free
- Everyday life What people eat, what they wear, how a house is heated, and what happens on a Sunday, region by region. Society and culture Free
- Everyday life under pact How people eat, live, marry, are born and die on the other side. Marriage without a ring, with a burn. White mourning. Hell and the Heptarchy Plus
F
- Fauna and flora Biome by biome: what grows, what grazes, what hunts — and what stopped existing after 1780. The continent Plus
- File — Brytonia The archipelago. Coal at the surface, no consecrated mineral, and the richest bloc on the continent. The continent Plus
- File — Clerical Order The centre. Every mineral, seven States, and no leverage over anyone. The continent Plus
- File — Kantonal Confederation No resources, a 105-day season — and every mountain pass on the continent. The continent Plus
- File — Königsmark Latitude 56-63°, an eight-month winter, and 30% of the world’s Hashmalite under the ice. The continent Plus
- File — Meridia The volcanic south. Soil renewed by eruption, a 250-day season, and a monopoly on explosives. The continent Plus
- File — Pact Heptarchy Steppe drying under fissure heat, and a meat economy built on the ruins of Vehrannon. The continent Plus
- File — Serenissima Velinia Five metres above sea level, no land and no mineral — and 70% of the continent’s freight. The continent Plus
- File — Vykhradia Black soil, 450 mm of rain, no navigable river and no port. The granary that cannot sell. The continent Plus
- Folklore and urban legend What ordinary people tell after dark — including the Rule of Thirds, which is superstition and also good policy. Society and culture Plus
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H
- Heaven and Hell The two complete hierarchies, side by side, with the names each side uses for the same thing. Faith, heaven and angels Plus
- How justice works One crime, eight different courts. In the Order the Church judges; in the republics, the contract does. Nations and powers Plus
- How money moves A gold standard, with the Order holding 65% of the gold and Kantonal vaults keeping 40%. That distinction is all of politics. Economy and figures Plus
- How to read the continent An oblong pear 2,500 km long, three strokes that organise everything, and a map that changes each era. The continent Free
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- Medicine and education A medicine held back by a hundred and ten years of war, and a monopoly on knowledge nobody will let go of. Society and culture Plus
- Milestones — Age of Ash Seventeen milestones across thirty-five years of collapse. The era in which every wound is born. History and eras Plus
- Milestones — Age of Empire Eight bills presented, eight answers of repression, zero reforms. This is the era that makes Stagnation inevitable. History and eras Plus
- Milestones — Age of Stagnation The canonical present. The era in which every wound stops hurting and becomes the structure holding it all up. History and eras Plus
- Milestones — Age of the Forge The wound starts paying — and a wound that pays stops being a wound and becomes a business. History and eras Plus
- Milestones — Black Crusades The refounding. Each bloc builds the institution that carries its wound — none designed to heal it. History and eras Plus
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- Pact and exorcism No demon possesses by force: the rule of three yeses. And practical exorcism means eliminating the carrier. Minerals and pact Plus
- Pandæmonium The terrestrial capital of Hell, described only by sources that contradict each other. None is reliable. Cities Plus
- People — Brytonia Fifteen centimetres of spread between classes — the widest on the continent. The officer literally looks down. Peoples and bodies Plus
- People — Clerical Order A hundred and twenty million across nine climates, and three different bodies under the same bone-white uniform. Peoples and bodies Free
- People — Kantonal Confederation Four centimetres of spread: the only physical equality in the world — and precisely what unsettles the continent about them. Peoples and bodies Plus
- People — Königsmark The tallest bloc on the continent, and the only one whose entire nobility is a military order. Peoples and bodies Plus
- People — Meridia The shortest bloc on the continent, and the only one where heat is lawful. Peoples and bodies Plus
- People — Velinia The smallest bloc with the longest reach, and the only people who dress not to be seen. Peoples and bodies Plus
- People — Vykhradia The bloc that stagnated by design, where eleven families have never lost the Diet in a century. Peoples and bodies Plus
- Population It falls for 35 years, recovers for 45, surges for 20, then stops. The east is the only bloc smaller today than in 1780. Economy and figures Plus
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- The armies in figures Eight million under arms, 2.7% of the continent, permanently. And half the line guards empty rail. War and orders Plus
- The cast of 1890 The world with a face: heads of state, military command, money, press and the seven courts, with names and ages. People Free
- The Cataclysm of Ivandir 17 October 1780. The mountain splits, Seal VII breaks, and six hundred thousand people die in one night. History and eras Free
- 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. History and eras Plus
- The clergy in figures Eleven thousand purifiers, three thousand Whites, fewer than four hundred illuminates, one One. And the number is shrinking. Economy and figures Plus
- The consecrated minerals Seven minerals, seven functions. Lay mining yields dead ore: only a purifying cleric wakes the stone. Minerals and pact Free
- The economy in figures The Order mines three times more ore than it can purify. That single figure explains the entire war. Economy and figures Free
- The economy, era by era Who grew rich, at whose cost, and the four decisions that converted the economy — none of them economic. Economy and figures Plus
- The eight houses Seat, motto, arms, income, historic crime and living members in 1890. The lineages that cross all five eras. People Plus
- The eight powers One page: location, capital, regime, population and army of every power in Cross in 1890. Nations and powers Free
- The elites of each bloc Who counts as somebody in each power — and what it takes to stop counting. Nations and powers Plus
- The fifteen battles Three per era: two defeats and one closing victory. And every victory creates the next era’s problem. War and orders Free
- The forty icons Four human figures and four infernal presences per era. The names a reader knows without looking them up. People Plus
- The fronts Limes Orientalis, the Tenebrum Sea and the Limbus Mundi. No capital, no people — and where nearly every story lives. History and eras Plus
- The Hashmal system Angelic revelation arrives as measure and procedure, never as consolation — and it moves the whole economy. Minerals and pact Plus
- The liturgical calendar Feasts, vigils and fasts that set the rhythm of the year — and say when attacking is lawful and when it is not. Faith, heaven and angels Plus
- The middle cities The mesh between capitals: industrial clusters, satellite towns, and the squares that hold the line. The continent Plus
- The military orders Knights of the Seal, Reformed Inquisition and Hospitallers. The Knights fight, the Inquisition watches, the Hospitallers count. War and orders Plus
- The military system Hierarchy, weapons and doctrine. The continent still pictures in white an army that has been grey since 1848. War and orders Plus
- The nine wounds Every bloc carries a wound that will not heal, and it predates Hell. Its internal history is that wound’s biography. History and eras Plus
- The One Eight pontiffs in seventy-seven years, an average survival of nine, and a curve nobody discusses aloud. Nations and powers Plus
- The pact body Four centimetres taller than the Christians who fight them — and an entire generation younger. Hell and the Heptarchy Plus
- The pact calendar Seven patron feasts, four for the Four Mothers, and an inverted Carnival where nobody wears a mask. Hell and the Heptarchy Plus
- 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. Faith, heaven and angels Plus
- The seven courts Seven constitutions that tolerate and never coerce one another. Belkar feeds the other six and wants the warehouse, not the throne. Hell and the Heptarchy Plus
- The seven pact cities Karzhar, Sathkar, Belkar, Leviakol, Mammon-Ur, Asmotheri and Belikatra, at the level of human capitals. Cities Plus
- The seven Princes of Vice One per Seal, no overlap. Name, domain, patron city — and why the seven have never shared a battlefield. Hell and the Heptarchy Free
- The seven Seals Four on clerical or allied ground, two on schismatic, one lost. All continental politics flows from that fact. Faith, heaven and angels Free
- The seven standards Seven objects incompatible in colour, shape and material. Hell has no flag, and that is not an accident. Hell and the Heptarchy Plus
- The state of the world The whole topology: seven clerical States, two republics, four kingdoms, the Heptarchy and the Limbus. Nations and powers Plus
- The sub-regions Every terrain with altitude, climate, produce, who rules — and what that land can afford to refuse. The continent Plus
- The Theomachy The primordial war, and the four high Seraphim who died turning into light-stone inside the mountains of Cross. Faith, heaven and angels Plus
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- What each bloc believes Medievalist crusadism at the centre, enlightenment in the republics — a whole continent disagreeing about one war. Society and culture Plus
- Why it is called Cross Three canonical explanations that refuse to reconcile. Which one you invoke says who you are. History and eras Free
- Why there are no metropolises The Ivandir Doctrine: the world’s largest city died in one night, and the continent learned that density is a target. Cities Plus