Society and culture
What does an ordinary day in Cross look like?
What people eat, how they speak, what they fear at night, and what day of the year it is.
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Everyday life
What people eat, what they wear, how a house is heated, and what happens on a Sunday, region by region.
Architecture
Renaissance, baroque and Victorian in collision. The face of each city, and what the stone says about who rules.
What each bloc believes
Medievalist crusadism at the centre, enlightenment in the republics — a whole continent disagreeing about one war.
Folklore and urban legend
What ordinary people tell after dark — including the Rule of Thirds, which is superstition and also good policy.
Languages, dialects and cant
Ecclesial Latin, border dialects and trade cants — the reason two knights of opposing Seals understand each other.
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.
See also
Entries from other areas that answer this one.
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.
The pact calendar
Seven patron feasts, four for the Four Mothers, and an inverted Carnival where nobody wears a mask.
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.
Demonic tongues and sigils
Hor’kava, Sin’Marka and Enokhite, the alphabets, and why a name said aloud is a weapon for both sides.
How justice works
One crime, eight different courts. In the Order the Church judges; in the republics, the contract does.
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