The economy of this world is an economy of consecrated mineral. Every piece of the puzzle — trade, war, politics, technology, religion — orbits a crossed monopoly: the Order holds the interpretation, and other nations hold part of the deposits.
Neither half is worth anything alone. Ore without a purifier is dead stone; a purifier without ore is a cleric with nothing in his hands. That single split is why no bloc on this continent can walk away from any other.
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