Nations and powers
Who governs Cross, and why can none of them walk away?
Eight human powers, who actually rules each one, and what binds them together.
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The elites of each bloc
Who counts as somebody in each power — and what it takes to stop counting.
The state of the world
The whole topology: seven clerical States, two republics, four kingdoms, the Heptarchy and the Limbus.
The One
Eight pontiffs in seventy-seven years, an average survival of nine, and a curve nobody discusses aloud.
Ecclesiastical politics
The five factions of the Conclave of 77, the election of the One, and the three seats that decide everything.
How justice works
One crime, eight different courts. In the Order the Church judges; in the republics, the contract does.
The eight powers
One page: location, capital, regime, population and army of every power in Cross in 1890.
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The eight houses
Seat, motto, arms, income, historic crime and living members in 1890. The lineages that cross all five eras.
File — Brytonia
The archipelago. Coal at the surface, no consecrated mineral, and the richest bloc on the continent.
File — Kantonal Confederation
No resources, a 105-day season — and every mountain pass on the continent.
File — Königsmark
Latitude 56-63°, an eight-month winter, and 30% of the world’s Hashmalite under the ice.
File — Meridia
The volcanic south. Soil renewed by eruption, a 250-day season, and a monopoly on explosives.
File — Clerical Order
The centre. Every mineral, seven States, and no leverage over anyone.
File — Serenissima Velinia
Five metres above sea level, no land and no mineral — and 70% of the continent’s freight.
File — Vykhradia
Black soil, 450 mm of rain, no navigable river and no port. The granary that cannot sell.
The nine wounds
Every bloc carries a wound that will not heal, and it predates Hell. Its internal history is that wound’s biography.
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