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Milestones — Age of the Forge

The wound starts paying — and a wound that pays stops being a wound and becomes a business.

19 milestones — the densest age of the internal canon. Industrialisation, rail, telegraph, proletariat.

The rule of the age: every wound begins to produce wealth, and a wound that yields stops being a wound in the eyes of whoever has it.

Macro reference: Hashmalian I elected 1837 · the Mineralogical Canons 1842 · the Iron Line Massacre 1848 · the Forty Days of Ferrumkar 1852 · Cherniwicz 1859.


CLERICAL ORDER — 3 milestones

1842 · The Mineralogical Canons

Publication of the first official treatise on the classes of consecrated mineral. It standardises everything — and, in standardising, fixes the procedure of purification in a form that does not scale.

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