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Tales of Cross
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City chronology

Twenty-seven urban milestones — and the reason Pandæmonium gets none.

Phase B. 27 milestones. Each city inherits the wound of its bloc and adds its own — what a capital has and a country does not: the street where the thing happened.

[!important] Rule of subordination No urban milestone contradicts the bloc milestone it depends on. The city shows the wound at street scale; it never corrects it, it never invents a new one.

And the rule that follows: where the bloc decides, the city pays. If an urban milestone is not the bill for a national decision, it is probably wrong.


AURUM ROMA — 5 milestones

Pontifical capital · 800,000 · the only city above the ceiling of 250,000, by theocratic exception

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