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Tales of Cross
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What each bloc believes

Medievalist crusadism at the centre, enlightenment in the republics — a whole continent disagreeing about one war.

Cross is an intellectually fractured continent. Every political bloc cultivates a dominant philosophical current of its own, and that current decides how its elite thinks, what it values, and who it considers an ally of the mind rather than of the treaty.

"In Aurum Roma, thought begins with God. In Velinia, it begins with oneself. In Königsburg, it begins with the grandfather. In Brithon, it begins with the price." — Aureline proverb

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