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Tales of Cross
Hell and the Heptarchy
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The pact body

Four centimetres taller than the Christians who fight them — and an entire generation younger.

The opposite pole to the Order. Everything defined here inherits the structure of the mother brand and inverts its value, never its grammar.

The pact-bound are not barbarians. They are what was left of Veheran — the greatest civilisation of the pre-Cataclysm world, left on the wrong side of the line in 1786 and never rescued.

They dress, eat, build and bury with the manners of a court that used to receive pilgrims from the whole continent. What changed is who they pay.

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