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Milestones — Age of Ash

Seventeen milestones across thirty-five years of collapse. The era in which every wound is born.

17 milestones. The age in which all nine wounds open. Not one of them is caused by Hell: Hell only exposes them.

Macro reference: the cascade of the Seals (VII 1780 → VI 1786) · Strazhka 1783 · the Intervention of the Archangels 1786 · the Siege of Vehr Major 1798 · Castrum Limentis 1812-13 · Aurelianus I elected 1813 · the Surrender of Vehr 1815.


CLERICAL ORDER — 4 milestones

1781 · The Edict of the Closed Mouth

The Curia forbids, by internal circular and never by bull, preaching on the cause of the Cataclysm. Seven months after Ivandir, the explanation of Veheranic apostasy was already circulating on its own — and the problem was not that it was false: it was that it was applicable to Rome.

Aggravates: it founds the method the Order will use for a hundred and ten years — not to deny, but to withdraw from circulation. It is the same mechanism that will erase Vehrannon in 1815 and the names of two Ones in 1882. → A village canon who preached the right sermon three days before the circular arrived, and spends forty years being transferred.

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