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The fronts

Limes Orientalis, the Tenebrum Sea and the Limbus Mundi. No capital, no people — and where nearly every story lives.

10 milestones. Three territories that are not blocs: they have no diet, no coin, no reliable census. They have a garrison, a doctrine and a number of dead per year.

[!important] The wound of the fronts They belong to nobody and everybody depends on them. A front has nobody to represent it in a negotiation, and so it is always the first thing to be traded away and the last to be financed.

Canonical corollary: each of the three is managed by an institution that does not govern it — the Limes by a Marshal who answers to Aurum Roma, the Tenebrum by two admirals who have been arguing for seventy years, and the Limbo by nobody.


LIMES ORIENTALIS — 4 milestones

The land front. Castrum Limentis. 45,000 knights of House VII and most of the army of the line.

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