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Tales of Cross
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Medicine and education

A medicine held back by a hundred and ten years of war, and a monopoly on knowledge nobody will let go of.

Two central systems of everyday civilisation in Cross, and both display the same paradox: enormous knowledge, concentrated, and distributed on purpose to some and not to others. The war absorbs the resources that in another world would go to health and teaching.


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