What was missing was the history of each kingdom with itself — and without it one cannot write a tale about a strike, a succession, a famine, a bankruptcy or a trial, because none of those had a date.
[!important] The principle of composition Each bloc has a wound that does not heal, and each age shows that wound at a different stage. The internal timeline of a kingdom is the biography of its wound.
And the key: the wound is older than Hell and independent of it. That is why the bloc behaves as it behaves in the war — not the other way round.
The anchor battles have the rule "every victory creates the problem of the following age". Here the rule is another: every internal milestone aggravates the wound or tries to hide it, and never closes it.
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