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When the earth shook and the forgotten prisons beneath the mountains opened, Hell came up — and the world learned, inside a single generation, that salvation had a fixed price and a single supplier.
The Cataclysm was not divine engineering. It was the metaphysical consequence of human apostasy: over the preceding century, from 1680 to 1780, the people of Cross progressively abandoned liturgical practice. The metaphysical barrier of the Seals — fed by collective prayer, mass, sacrament, faith in operation — weakened across generations until it stopped holding.
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