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Tales of Cross
Nations and powers
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The state of the world

The whole topology: seven clerical States, two republics, four kingdoms, the Heptarchy and the Limbus.

The universe operates in three simultaneous layers:

  1. Earth (a single, parallel continent, inspired by Central Europe + southern Italy + Eastern Europe).
  2. Heaven — an angelic hierarchy of 9 choirs (Pseudo-Dionysius adapted).

I. Earth — political topology

A single continent. Eight recognised human powers + two anomalous zones.

The Clerical Order (a theocratic empire of 7 States)

A theocratic institutional alliance holding the monopoly of the revelation of the Angels of the Hashmal. Internal structure analogous to the Holy Roman Empire — several confessional States under a single pontifical authority. Canonical name: the Clerical Order. Detail in People — Clerical Order.

Capital: Aurum Roma (the Plain of Aurum, centre-south of the continent of Cross).

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